the growing controversy. a lot more to this story we need to tell gliew plus the president is looking to eliminate tax deductions for the oil industry, the subsidies, and give more to manufacturing. he says the manufacturing sector creates more jobs. does it? we re going take a closer look. and the possibility of military action to take out iran s nuclear facilities, it s been all over the news, but how is the media really doing covering this story? jon has a great news watch panel coming up. jon: the obama administration defend the targeted killings of u.s. citizens overseas, those who are determined to be serious terror threats to america. attorney general eric holder is expected to deliver a major speech tomorrow, outlining the legal justification for these attacks, five months after the cia sought out and killed anwar awlaki in yemen. the american-born cleric and al qaeda leader. cath catherine herridge is live for us in washington. catherine. reporter: thank you jon and good m
some of the civil liberties groups such as the aclu who have been extremely critical of the white house. they are waiting for that speech later today before they comment and i would emphasize the timing, this is billed with the national security speech on the targeting of certain citizens by their own government, yet it s timed to coincide with supertuesday, where the coverage of this issue will probably be overshadowed. jon: interesting. catherine herridge, thank you. jenna: timing is everything, isn t it, in so many stories. we have this crucial meeting at the white house over what to do with iran, the president and israeli prime minister racing to prevent iran to build nuclear weapons. diplomacy is one option. war is another. but is there a third option we should all consider and talk about? we have a live report straight ahead on that. and to sit or not to sit? we just got these brand new chair, jon, we don t want to give them up up. jenna: one doctor is saying sitting on the job
head koerb curt budke, one of four people who did not survive last night s disaster in arkansas. on board with budke were assistant coach miranda cerna and two other people, including the pilot, not affiliated with the school. we are following this developing story for you. we ll bring you more updates as they come into our newsroom. bill: about six minutes past the hour. now we re looking at a possible showdown between congress and the white house. nothing with the supercommittee here. at odds a major defense bill under consideration in the senate, president obama threatening to veto that bill if it passes. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge, live on this. good morning! what are they digging in on over this one, catherine? reporter: good morning. senior republicans say the white house promised to close gitmo, tried to bring the 9/11 suspects to came and to court and failed. they say there s no questioning policy for the detention of terrorists. the administratio
this policy statement late yesterday saying it objects to the detainee provisions because of, quote, serious legal and policy concerns. the senior democrat on senate intelligence is siding with the administration, defending terror suspects to military custody in every virtually every case is outside the scope of congressional authority. i view the detention provisions of this bill as really pernicious, as an attack on the executive power of the president and contrary to the be interests of this nation. and so i rise to express my strong opposition to these three detention provisions in the defense authorization bill. reporter: there s no question, bill, this may all come to a head very quickly because we re talking about the defense department s entire budget being held up because of this one issue. bill: and that would be significant. we ll see. catherine, thank you the cath catherine herridge in washington. what s coming up heather?
authorities this is not the person who signed the manifest and the official position of the yemeni government is that she was a victim of identity theft, or fraud. bill: we have to be right every time. and, we ll keep trying, catherine herridge, thank you, in washington. reporter: you re welcome. martha: this report, just crossing, out of iran. there was supposed to be a trial on november 6th. for the three american hikers who have been charged with espionage there and it has been postponed, we are hearing and sarah shourd came only and she had a medical condition and they allowed her to be freed and josh fattal and shane bauer are still in custody in iran, in a prison and now we are learning they will not get to see any trial situation that might exonerate them any time soon, will not happen november 6th. we ll keep you posted as we get new developments. bill: republican house leaders not planning on mincing words later tonight, a rally planned in his home state of ohio we ll