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We're standing by, by the way, local d.c. police are about to have a news conference right at the top of the hour. new information coming in. we'll have live coverage, of course, here in "the situation room." we'll also have much more on the mass shooting here at the washington navy yard, the race to learn more about the dead gunman and possibly a second suspect who may, repeat, may still be at large. [ male announcer ] campbell's angus beef & dumplings. hearty cheeseburger. creamy thai style chicken with rice. mexican-style chicken tortilla. if you think campbell's 26 new soups sound good, im...

Motives for seeking an abortion. they introduced a u.s. senate bill to make it harder for young women to get abortions. they pushed a bill in the house to limit the time during which women can get abortions in washington, d.c. and speaking of d.c., after threatening last year to shut down the entire federal government over republicans' desperate need to ban d.c. from using its own money to fund abortions for low-income women, house republicans this year have already put the local d.c. abortion funding ban into this year's budget. and a bill that would have given d.c. more control over its own ...

>> amazing. one strange question for you about this sort of resurgence about theç culture wars. one of the things that i just noticed today about that deal that the republicans and president came up with on friday night is that among these sort of policy riders that are in there, the republicans have cut off d.c.'s ability to spend its own local d.c. city funds on abortions for poor women, but they didn't insist on killing d.c.'s gay marriage law, which the republicans had also threatened to do at the same time. so the abortion thing they are pressing ahead, but the gay marriage thing they l...

Night is that among these sort of policy riders that are in there, the republicans have cut off d.c.'s ability to spend its own local d.c. city funds on abortions for poor women, but they didn't insist on killing d.c.'s gay marriage law, which the republicans had also threatened to do at the same time. so the abortion thing they are pressing ahead, but the gay marriage thing they let slide. do you think there's any sort of proposals for the new contours of the culture war there, or do you think it was just an oversight? >> i would guess oversight. if you're saying they are mellowing on the gay...

No joke, the sky could actually fall. senior congressional correspondent dana bash is covering all of the latest developments both inside and outside the capitol. dana, what is going on with the mayor? mayors don't get arrested every day even in washington. what happened here? >> reporter: in this case it was good old-fashioned civil disobedience. he did it on purpose. he was in your words, ticked off, that the congress is about to pass a bill as part of this larger deal that will allow -- actually will ban the d.c. government from using its own funds. not federal funds. local d.c. funds from ...