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Family's compound that was struck by u.s. bombers 25 years ago today. a human rights group is urging haitian authorities to prosecute former dictator baby doc duvalier. he returned to haiti in january after a 25-year exile. a haitian judge launched an investigation into his brutal regime but so far it's gone nowhere. yesterday human rights watch released a report that they say shows baby doc knew of the killing and the abuse during his watch. now to washington, where that hard-fought budget bill is on its way to the president's desk. the white house is cheering the compromise it took. >> b...

When you want to look at a central piece of legislation that will have a deep impact on how the nation moves forward, this budget fight will be it. when we talk about 2012, we can't believe that the 2011 budget fight is still not completely over. a final passage of the fiscal budget compromise that we saw on friday night to avert a government shutdown. i spoke to senate republicans today who feel that speaker boehner can lose up to 40 to 50 republican votes on that fiscal year 2011 budget, the one that almost brought us a shutdown. what does that mean? a lot of upset conservative republicans a...

Obama had already written off on, right? >>guest: i didn't like the process. it is crazy to brief that here we are, passing two week budgets for the largest economy in the world, and that is no way to operate the largest economy or the smallest business in america, and i don't think this is the way you do things two weeks from now we could be in the same situation. the cuts were not targeted and as conservative columnist said they seem to have been made without any policy thinking behind them and what we doing is it is ad hoc budgeting at its worst. >>neil: there must be something to them if d...

Bill which now is sent off to the senate and you mentioned a tough battle. the senate is expected to start looking at this thing, the first week of march. but keep in mind it they have a deadline because the federal government runs out of money on march 4th, if they can't pass something of their own, some other version of this. their own versions there's a chance of a shutdown and harry reid thinks this bill is draconian, kelly. >> kelly: all right. peter, we'll continue to follow the developments and especially closer to march and see the bill. peter doocy live at capitol hill. thanks. >> jam...

Outline of a possible bill that senator reid and others signed off on. it is beginning to circulate. it would set security benchmarks for operations along the border before getting to a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants already in the country. now on other side you have republican senator from texas john cornyn. he has also introduced a bill that would increase manpower and resources on the border. also increase resources on the prosecution side of the event as well for people who are apprehended. democrats in the senate say they're not getting to right away. maybe quote, later thi...