enough to keep the promise that we ll do what we can to keep you home? i think the weinstein family understands these are complicated, complex issues. they have ee norm monormous res the people out there but they also believe they re entitled to know what happened, when it happened, what they knew and did, in fact, the government take every step they could to try to identify their loved one? so we will continue to press them on that, to press them for the truth. when you say press them for the truth, what do you feel that you don t know that you would like to? one of the things we requested is for a copy of the ig s report. i think the inspector general will take a closer look at this. when it s the appropriate time we hope the white house will share what they learned from the weinstein family, lessons learned. elaine weinstein is a remarkable woman, incredibly strong, a woman of great faith. over the last couple of years she has had to suffer a lot of bad news. she can take this
save him. we will talk to the family s attorney. hello. i m shannon bream. i m leland vittert. rick perry is out. early front-runners are falling back. political rookies are surging and then there is the trump phenomenon. the 2016 presidential race is heating up, and in case you re counting, we are still more than a year out from the 2016 election. elizabeth prann is here with the details. very exciting nonetheless. for however long it lasts, it is the scene. neurosurgeon and donald trump are topping recent polls. one cnn poll shows the two men combined are garnering about 50% of the vote. carson says he hears the voters. part of the problem is we live in a sound bite society, people take one phrase, two phrases and they try to portray the person as that who has no other ability to think about any other aspects of it. when i get in front of people and they have an opportunity to hear something in depth, it makes a difference. governor chris christie today says he
elaine weinstein. she talked about her frustration and hope. the hope was her husband would come home. the frustration was the process that was involved in getting him home. so that s what i think the government really needs to focus on in this administration. and future administrations. you mentioned to rand paul trying to be more hawkish as he runs for the republican nomination. the thing i keep thinking of this is something that s happened in the republican party and also outside the republican party. with the rise of isis there s been a change in this country in terms of the public s appetite for intervention for a more aggressive foreign policy. where a few years ago it was all about war fatigue, hownow it s are we going to sit here take this? the after math of our withdrawal in iraq made americanss more willing to see a continued commitment of troops in afghanistan. and the brutality of these
be here in person. we will be talking about the people who live and work here. elected officials on capitol hill. the journalists who cover them. chris matthews chuck todd they re going to be stopping by. also the comedians who make fun of them. tonight, is the white house correspondents dinner with saturday night live cecily strong. we will be talking yes that is ted cruz getting a trim. it is a busy weekend of news. there is a powerful earthquake striking nepal overnight. we ll have full details on that ahead. just about every one of the men and women running for the republican presidential nomination will be in iowa this weekend to court the social conservative vote. full reporting on the ground from iowa about all of that. we will be heading out to las vegas to find out about the effort there to win the support of a billionaire casino owner who likes to donate to republican presidential candidates. here in washington, fallout continues in the wake of that drone stri
offered compensation from the u.s. government. the family of warren weinstein says they never gave up hope that he was be released during his four years as al qaeda hostage. gunmen abducted him from his home in lahore pakistan. he is a development expert. those who abducted him, posed as neighbors. his family appeared on television and lobbied government officials to obtain his release. his wife released a statement saying we were so hopeful that those in the u.s. and pakistani governments with the power to secure his release would have done everything possible to do so. there are no words to the disappointment and heart break we are going through. elaine weinstein called for an independent investigation into those hostage deaths. breaking overnight, a convoy of nine iranian ships believed to be carrying weapons to