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>> steve: quick headlines. nuclear powered submarine from russia coming within 200 miles of the united states in the atlantic. navy officials tell fox news of it not a provocative act and the u.s. detected the sub. that's good to know. today voters could make washington state the first state to legalize the sale and use of recreational marijuana, like alcohol. you would have to be over 21 to buy it. if it pass, the federal government would have the ability to challenge it legality. look for that. gretch, over to you. >> gretchen: back if 2008, they were all about hope and change when they vote...

We have an outmoted election system that was basically built for the horse and buggy era. in the 21st century we aught to be able to get around or a lot of the debates about whether or not dead people are voting, whether we need voter i.d. we need to take the partisanship out of the system and establish a few clear metrics and goals as a nation that we want. have the number of people who are unregistered in five years, increase our turnout rate to be comparable to canada or mexico's. these are the sort of things we can do rather than fighting about whether or not people should show voter i.d. ...

Indenting our children and grandchildren. no leadership whatsoever. no plan to save social security and no plan to save medicare. you need presidential leadership which is why we need to change presidents. >> i hear you, i get that point, senator johnson but you don't need the president to do anything for the senate. >> right. >> to -- >> you need senate leadership and you need senator harry reid to support senator conrad in bringing a budget to the floor. we are already late. we should have done this april 1. we should pass a budget for april 15. the house has already done so. >> the house pa...

To work, get cracking on the grand old spending cut plan of yours. if you say the president's plan doesn't do it follow-up on what senator rand paul introduced yesterday and wipe the deficit out in five years. if you, harry reid, stop such a vote in the senate because you fear it could pass, call republicans' bluff and vote on it and risk seeing it pass, and you can show you are a man of your word and take away the republican's biggest attack against you that you never let members decide. quit frying to score points. don't debate. do. don't put off. act. now. you will care the you know what ou...

Tonight. although the details are extremely sketchy right now, the white house is reportedly on lockdown tonight after what are described as smoking objects were found near the north portico. according to the u.s. secret service, somebody threw a smoke bomb-like device over the north fence at the white house earlier this evening. they do not know who threw the twice and no arrests have been made. now, the president and first lady were not at the white house at the time of the incident. they were out to dinner tonight in washington, celebrating mrs. obama's birthday. we will update this story a...