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Government policy. >> intelligence officials say iran wants nuclear program for security and regional influenced ing that they just don't know whether a final decision will ultimately be made to build a nuclear weapon, shep. >> shepard: and al qaeda came up as well, right, cat? >> that's right. al qaeda's core leadership in pakistan is on the decline. lawmakers we're told ability to strike inside the u.s. in doubt. al qaeda ideology is finding new followers in north and west africa. with failed plots al qaeda printer bombs, yemen ukap remains the most able. >> the threat have aqap, particularl...

Elections do have cobs sequences. >> while repealing obama care fires up conservatives, so does a balanced budget. paul ryan says he thinks he can do it by 2023. shep? >> shepard: i mentioned two plans. the other one comes from the democrats who are blasting congressman ryan's plan while showing their own, right? >> that's right. three years in a row, they do not like the paul ryan budget plan, senator patty murray is due to unveil her blueprint tomorrow. she would cut spending by $975 billion. she would increase tax revenue by $975 billion. it does not balance ever. meanwhile the top senate d...

Compromise candidate. somebody who wasn't strong in the beginning but came out winning. shep? >> shepard: amy kellogg off saint peter's square for us this early wednesday morning in rome. archdiocese agreed to pay $10 million to settle four cases of sex clergy abuse. cases that happened under the watch of the former l.a. bishop mahoney who is now at the vatican to elect a new pope. timing is interesting it revolves around michael baker. is he right now in prison for molesting a little boy in 2007. two more cases of abuse that date back to 1986 were expected soon to go to trial. recently releas...

Saying 105 terror related arrests vitter actually all tried in criminal courts. >> shepard: catherine herridge in washington tonight. thank you. it's now day two of the conclave here in rome. voting for the new pope is set to begin in just a few hours. while the cardinals may not know who will become the next leader of the church there are plenty of folks making decisions. book makers in great britain say people have spent a little less than a billion dollars betting on the outcome of the conclave. the cardinal from millan is the current favorite. but that the long shots are making things inte...

System. its voyage of 100,000 years comes to a close tonight when we can see it and it will be visible with the naked eye for just about 15 minutes, shepard. >> steve harrigan in south florida tonight. steve, thanks. mars once had it all for life. that's what the folks at nasa are saying now. scientists reporting the mars recovery curiosity collected a ancient rock sample a month ago. new analysis support preemptive life. answers one of the mission's fundamental missions the habitat planet flourished about billion years ago roughly the same time life started on earth. meantime engineers are re...