interested in running for that republican presidential race. congress has two more days of left before going on a month long vacation. the truth is legislatures haven t got much to show for it. dana bash takes a closer look what the they have left to do from the farm bill to immigration reform. reporter: let s start with the positive. a cent burst of bipartisan. a deal to make sure student loan rates don t double. the senate certainly has functioned better over the last six weeks than it has in some time. reporter: perhaps but elementary school civics taught us a bill can t be law without the house and senate agreeing. this is real. i don t know who the p 9% are that thinks things are working well. reporter: still unfinished,
pep rally than a way to dig in and legislate but that probably isn t a big surprise, given as you mentioned the fact that congress s approval rate something just about at an all-time low. let s start with the positive, a recent burst of bipartisanship, a deal to make sure many student loan rates don t double, a rare meeting of all senators that led to confirmation of several obama nominees. the senate has functioned better over the last six weeks than in some time. reporter: perhaps but civics taught us the bill can t be law without the senate and house agreeing. the dysfunctionality is real. i don t know who the 9% are who thinks we re working well. reporter: the farm bill, immigration, reform, it passed the senate but the house is developing its own plans, likely with no path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and congress is way behind on its basic
of cell phones here and a lot of all kinds of stuff. i want you to send a message to congress. tell them, don t double my rate. don t double my rate. you should call them, you should e-mail them right on their facebook page, tweet them. tweet them. teach your parents how to tweet. and use the hashtag don t double my rate. don t double my rate. [ applause ] don t double it. i asked some students at the university of north carolina and university of colorado and university of iowa to do this last week and they got it trending worldwide for a while. so too that was president obama speaking to students at washington and lee high school
years ago. so don t act shocked today. i m not acting shocked. i m just saying i haven t heard a better alternative. we gave that alternative three years ago, mika, and that was don t triple the number of troops on afghanistan, don t double down on a bad idea, start phasing the troops out. and so now we are extending this a decade. good. ok. let me take your point to jack jacobs and ask jack, what would be the ramifications of what joe just said and also walking away from a partnership with hamid karzai, if anything? i think everybody thinks that hamid karzai is there for the short duration. i also believe that what richard haass just said is a better option is exactly what is going to happen. i think that s exactly what s going to happen. withdraw sooner rather than later. there are plans already on the books to not start withdrawing in 2014, starting to pull them out sooner. and by 2014 have the large
well-informed. tell us about this man. whitey bulger was known as a ruthless vicious mob boss who would whack you if you were going to rat him out. includes witnesses, associates, rivals, even a girlfriend and the stepdaughter of one of his top aides. one victim shot between the eyes in a parking lot. another strangled on a staircase. another shot dead in broad daylight on the street. he was of south boston, that close knit community that does not yield secrets. you don t double-cross him said one investigator, if you did, you were dead. shep? shepard: and he is headed back to boston now, right? yes. that, he is he and catherine were in federal court in los angeles this afternoon. they were ordered to be transferred to federal court in boston which has jurisdiction over this case. you know, shep? he knows it well. they say he had the boston fbi office in his pocket for years. he was an fbi informant. some agents allegedly tipped him off to the investigations. revealed wiretaps an