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Detonate, in large part because the man that was training in pakistan learned the recipe, but when he brought it back to the united states, ingredient are different and that's why that bomb was unsuccessful. martha: catherine herridge in washington, thank you. >> reporter: your welcome. martha: a lock-up at a highly secured military base. it started with a dangerous weapon disappearing. i will show you how it disappeared. unbelievable. new trouble along the southern border. we'll show you what authorities found in the desert that has them very concerned. is president obama channeling his inner...

Patriotic -- he said the greatest oxymoron is, i'm from the government and i'm here to help. >> i don't think that it does have anything to do with policies. putting rotc on university campuses, moving in reflection to don't ask-don't tell. he's moving the way clinton did on policy, to the center. and at the same time, reflecting reagan's optimism. you want to call it the reagan/clinton strategy. it's a hybrid. but it's clear to me, he's taken the high ground in terms of optimism, which makes it tougher for republicans to challenge him. martha: i think that they would challenge the notion that...

Meaning tomorrow or next week or next month as events unfold. martha: sometimes the pieces get put together in an unsettling way. the congressional budget office yesterday announces social security is eventively broke already, but now they're saying that paying out -- they're paying out more than they take in until the program runs out of cash. our power panel looks at how to fix this problem. and why we're suddenly seeing lots of comparisons that look like this one. president obama and president reagan. we'll talk about that. and then this. [beep]martha: that's why bailiffs are there, folks. ...

There was an editorial that talks about some notions of ronald reagan. a lot of people will see cynicism in this and say, this could not be farther from the truth. and to try to align these two with these two people in american history -- and in some ways, it's a discredit to president obama. he's liberal. he's a leader of the democrat party and believes very much in entitlements and helping the poor is the government's extension of its arms and the way to do that. >> there are some similarities, though, in terms of how they got things done. reagan and obama both stuck to their guns and said t...

Up because of a book signing in new york? >> it did seem odd. normally, you would do those things back to back here at white house. but instead, justice sotomayor has her memoirs out. the vice-president decided to accommodate her. since they are doing the ceremonial ones tomorrow, there will be four in total. >> ed, we will head back later, thank you. >> happened to see justice sotomayor last night. and there was an interesting exchange. i will tell you about it -- a little later in the broadcast. >> there is a tease for you. >> wow. >> got a little inside information for you today. the wearin...