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Week. president obama is in south korea this morning for the second day of talks on nuclear security. he told foreign leaders the security of the world depends on the actions that we take. but something the president said off of the record is now making headlines. abc's jake tapper is traveling with the president. >> reporter: a hot microphone picked up a private presidential plea. president obama knows well that the russians are furious over u.s. plans to build a missile defense shield in europe. and he wanted word to be sent to vladimir putin asking for a little time to smooth things out. ...

exchange because many palestinians were serving life sentences for deadly attacks against israel. we'll be heading to shalit's hometown where fred pleitgen is. this is a very heart-wrenching moment for many israelis who are concerned about potential retaliation given how many of these soldiers have been released and with actual euphoria from many palestinians. fred pleitgen is with us now in gilad shalit's hometown. good morning, fred. >> reporter: good morning, christine. certainly the people here in shalit's hometown of mitzpe hila. there was controversy where people were saying th...

>> it strikes me that if a nominee does not have judicial experience they should have substantial litigation experience. ms. kagan has neither. >> senate republicans pouncing today on the fact that elena kagan has never served as a judge. the last time someone who wasn't a judge was nominated to be a supreme court justice was in 2005 when president bush nominated white house counsel harriet myers to fill the seat of sandra day o'connor. that nomination lasted all of 25 days, wur upon mr. bush was forced to withdraw his pick for lack of political support. the relevant comparison between harriet...

That's kind of the, that's how they get you in there and then it raises costs and takes care of every special interest in the pocket of the democratic party. the health department report says the plan will actually add coverage for 34 million americans, which by the way, if you spend more money and take care of all the special interests and don't mind torpedoing the deficit, isn't that hard to do. it will increase spending by about 1%, they say, all of these things are, who knows. but $311 billion over the next ten years. the report also warns that expected savings from medicare cuts might be ...

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