of one of the branchs of government. it will have been a painful process to get to that point. the whole thing has been a painful process and i think you deserve a little treat dana bash so a little bird told me this evening that your first ever concert was would you like to confirm what it was? i would love to, i m proud of it. donnie marie. well, i m delighted to tell you that as a reward for your long service to the shutdown story over 11 days, and 11 nights, i m interviewing marie ossmann tonight i can t wait. thank you. thank you. that is an honor. i thought something should bring a smile to your face. that s a big one. talk to you again on monday. i want to bring in two congressmen on the budget committee. scott of virginia and davis of rhode island. welcome to you gentlemen. last night i went to bed feeling quite hopeful and woke up less
andigatorrade. reporter: that s why cameron and his mother were stunned when they got the letter saying his body mass index puts himself in the obese category. why do you care? it s not your body. half of us how they do it with the numbers, tom brady s obese and he s the skinniest quarterback in the nfl. reporter: both girls and boys at school were upset. ure either ankerexic, too small or you get the obese letter that means you are too big, you can t be just right. there are a number of children that went to bed feeling not so great about themselves that night. that bothered me. reporter: cameron s mother says the state s fixating on a number, rather than looking at overall health and says that the screening costs school districts money that would be better spent. why aren t we having a nutritionist speaking to our children and hiring more gym
in a battle with the white house over birth control. health care lawman dates employers provide it. catholics, some say it s against their fundamental beliefs. all that and much more ahead as starting point gets under way right now. can you come in and fix russell s audio? welcome, everybody. unbelievable, that s kathy s play list. she s a contributing editor for the washington post and founding publisher which i have been in a time or two. nice to have you. co-author of grand new party and russell simmons, mogul, founder of def jam and ceo of communications is with us. good morning. welcome. let s get under way. talking about the new investigation coming to us from the washington post. nearly 50 lawmakers who helped direct earmarks to projects that potentially helped their own property or immediate family members. they say it benefits the public, not private interests. one of those who is on that list is the republican congressman joe barton, he is a republican f
carolina, glen. how do you think that that impacts the whole question of bringing down mr. romney? you see that santorum is out there. he needs to try and coalesce the field, but perry sends out this tweet in the next leg of the marathon is the palmetto state. no, i think that rick perry had to go to bed feeling defeated, but wake up saying what am i doing? rick santorum in this national stage is pretty untested right now. rick perry has had some of the worst moments any politician could have so far, yet he was basically about to cede the field to rick son tomorrow heading into the south, where he should be strong. so i think, you know, this morning perry woke up and said i should not do i m thinking of what i m going to do.
impacts the whole question of bringing down mr. romney? you see that santorum is out there. he needs to try and coalesce the field, but perry sends out this tweet in the next leg of the marathon is the palmetto state. no, i think that rick perry had to go to bed feeling defeated, but wake up saying what am i doing? rick santorum in this national stage is pretty untested right now. rick perry has had some of the worst moments any politician could have so far, yet he was basically about to cede the field to rick son tomorrow heading into the south, where he should be strong. so i think, you know, this morning perry woke up and said i should not do i m thinking of what i m going to do. so he did the 180.