liberal supporters had wanted and he promised him which was to fully integrate gays into the u.s. military. three would be the foreign policy victory. that is the start treaty which he negotiated with the president of russian. this would be putting the reset on his presidency. the first two years are over, now easy khaoefd three victories and he s ready to go into the next phase. jenna: that s the policy diskug, let s bring in the census as well. they are showing us new numbers, new distributions of our population across our land. what are the political implications of that and how does the president confront something that really has nothing to do with policy and everything to do with just numbers? reporter: well there are a lot of challenges that president obama faces as he runs for re-election. obviously the incumbent president has tremendous advantages. any incumbent president has tremendous advantages. for president obama he s got not only problems with his popularity and the po
or not but tackle tactical? the process is bad. a lot of us would like to add amendments to it. i have concerns about missile defense and some of the other agreements we are may going with the russians. we ve asked for negotiating records and they won t give them us to. we think agreements have been made we don t know about. we need an open process and you can t do that on christmas eve with no debate. if they bring it up we ll do everything we can to delay it and make it hard for them to pass it. it is too important to treat it like one of their political check the book things. i know obama wants a foreign policy victory. i think this treaty would be bad for our country. greta: another topic, things get voted on that don t get read. first of all what is that? this is the omnibus spending bill. greta: when did you get it? yesterday afternoon, sometime yesterday.
or not but tackle tactical? the process is bad. a lot of us would like to add amendments to it. i have concerns about missile defense and some of the other agreements we are may going with the russians. we ve asked for negotiating records and they won t give them us to. we think agreements have been made we don t know about. we need an open process and you can t do that on christmas eve with no debate. if they bring it up we ll do everything we can to delay it and make it hard for them to pass it. it is too important to treat it like one of their political check the book things. i know obama wants a foreign policy victory. i think this treaty would be bad for our country. greta: another topic, things get voted on that don t get read. first of all what is that? this is the omnibus spending bill. greta: when did you get it? yesterday afternoon, sometime yesterday.
violence. that is where they are now with the investigation, was it an act of random violence or a preplanned assassination of some sort? the clues seem to be dribbling in rather slowly. whatever leads the police are pursuing right now, they are not talking about, as this investigation does go into its third week. i know is keeping you busy, george lewis up early for us in los angeles this morning. thank you, george. back in washington, so many things to do, so little time. with the number of items left to tackle before the senate adjourns for the recess earthquake the white house is looking for a foreign policy victory. that is ratifying s.t.a.r.t., a new arms control treaty that the president signed back in april. in order for it to get approved it needs 67 votes in the senate and so far, senator luke certificate the only republican to publicly support the president on s.t.a.r.t., while arizona senator jon kyl is leaked the charge against it at least debating it the end of this
is coming home from a second secret trip to north korea with a major foreign policy victory. a dramatic day in diplomacy. these images that you mention, the three previously imprisoned americans landing for that refueling stop. they are on separate planes because the larger point has medical facilities for these three americans to make sure they are okay. they will be at joint base andrews as you mention just a few hours from now landing in the middle of the night after days of ups and downs. in some uncertainty about whether this was really happening after secretary of state spent 90 minutes meeting with kim jong un and then returned to his hotel. reporters at the hotel asked pompeo if the americans were coming home. he crossed his fingers because it was still not a done deal until the north korean officials soon arrived to say these americans were indeed free. the three of them, you can see them there, tony kim, kim hak song and kim dong chul appear to be in good health because of th