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a suicide attack stopped just short of the capitol steps. new details at this hour about the plot. authorities say the would be bomber had conducted a test in west virginia. chose the capital after considering an attack on a d.c. restaurant, and allegedly told investigators he wanted to kill people, quote, face-to-face with an ak-47. if the investigation had not gone well, if detectfes had not done their jobs, our lead story would in short be a calamity. instead, the fbi and the u.s. capitol police stopped it cold. he was arrested in a sting operation when undercover agents posing as...

Host, oprah's 6 million viewers are up for grabs by the networks and retooling what they're putting in place to dropping soap operas to bringing in big names like katie couric. >> this you go, all those oprah viewers. >> they had 80% already. 34 million people watch this every week? >> 32 last week. >> it's down a little bit. >> it's spring and the kids are out. >> mike, good morning. i take it "politico." yes, mike, yes. >> good morning and welcome to alex courson driving the bus this morning. >> suite. isn't he nice? alex is still there. how you feeling? >> good. training wheels are still on...

Well, to the relief of many, military families will continue receiving their paychecks now that the government has avoided a shutdown. let's go live once again to fort bragg, north carolina. nbc's ron mott standing by with reaction there. with another good saturday morning to you, ron. what are the service members and their families telling you? >> reporter: hey there, alex. good morning. i was just thinking that an appropriate headline for the local paper this morning might have been how do you spell relief, no shut down. these folks are obviously very happy that this shutdown was averted bec...

Bureau chief for comcast and senior political writer from the daily beast. thank you both for stopping by. let's address what eric cantor said. start with you, robert. >> i can't say this but npr does give them the ammunition for eric cantor to say this. in the era of austerity you have to look at everything. however, this gotcha journalism is going down a slippery slope. no question about it. >> does this give more fodder for the republicans when they take a look at npr? >> it does absolutely. they can point directly to this as eric cantor has and say as robert said the era of austerity we ar...

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