Corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Once again live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. Gwen good evening. Congress wasnt even in session this week. Yet the fight over spending and debt raged on. With a march 1st deadline on the horizons democrats and republicans sparred about who would be blamed if budget cuts go into effect. The white house used its superior bully pulpit to grand effect. Today we heard from the president and ray lahood, the cabinets lone republican. What im trying to do is to wake up members of the congress on the republican side to the idea that they need to come to the table, offer a proposal so that we dont have to have this kind of calamity in air service in america. Lahood said air traffic and safety would be drupted. Defense secretary le onpennetta said the nation would billion less safe. Republicans say its overblown. How much does the public really care, john . Well, its a big deal.
Americas news headquarters with Shannon Bream starts right now. Have a great day. Shannon a live report coming up from washington on president obama. The debt seal ceiling takes a new turn. Can the president make an end run around congress . Some lawmakers saying it should be an option. Well talk with former governor, haley barbour. Confirmation clash. Republican senator Lindsay Graham vows to hold up John Brennans confirmation to the cia until we get inching on the attacks in benghazi. And the National Cathedral says yes to samesex marriage, receiving cheers and jeers. We will have a fair and balanced debate. Americas news headquarters from the nations capitol starts right now. President obamas second term hasnt started officially, but the agenda and the cabinet are taking shape. So are some of the clashes over the president s nominations. Jennifer griffin has more on the fights ahead. Reporter first, there will be the confirmation battles, many of which seem like they will be bruisin
Greta were going to post information and theyll appreciate anything you can do to help. Thanks for watching. Next. Im shannon bream. Captioned by closed captioning services, inc. Chris im chris wallace. With Vice President biden about to release h his plan to prevent more massacres the battle lines in washington are already forming. Both sides in the gun debate are gearing up for a fight over tighter controls. Who will win . We will ask two people at the center of the argument. Eric from the center neeratanden and larry pratt. A showdown over the nominees to Top National Security posts. From defense to the cia the men the president want in his new cabinet are coming under heavy fire. Will the stat approve them. We will hear from two members of the Armed Services committee. Republican kelly ayotte the and democrat Richard Blumenthal. And we will ask our sunday panel if mr. Obama has the clout to win the fights he is taking on. And our power player of the week. Wife of a washington insid
U. S. Investigators say theyre treating wednesdays mass shooting in california as an act ovte of terrorism. The fbi has uncovered evidence from syed farook and his wife, Tasheen Malik that showed extreme planning. And that malik pledged allegiance to isis just before the attack on facebook. Some members of farooks mosque suspect his wife is the one who radicalized him. They say they didnt know about his wife but say they believe the man they worshipped with was a good guy. Reporter investigators are honing in on the wife of syed farook. And they say as the attack was happening, tashfeen pledged allegiance on facebook to isis. The service was in this room . Yeah. Reporter and so the women were up there . Yes. Reporter women are separated from the men in this mosque, so even the director of the Islamic Center never met malik. She is a mystery to many here, including many who knew her best. Sy syeds brothers never saw her face. The brothers have never seen her face because she did wear a
Muhammad ali and his savvy use of the media. First, Straight Talk about trump. He says you cant trust us. He attacks the media constantly. He says he wants to even loosen up laws so its easier to sue news organizations. Meanwhile, his campaign blocks news outlets from receiving press credentials. As you know, at almost every rally, every event, he attacks reporters. Hes a sleaze in my book. Youre a sleaze. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Are you ready . Do you have your pad . They do whatever they can to make you look bad. Theyre disgusting. Totally dishonest. The most dishonest people. Scum, scum. Theyre worse than lying ted cruz. Horrible press, horrible people. Some are nice. Its almost its hard for me not to laugh because, welt, truth is he loves the media. Yes, i said loves. Trump craves media attention. He courts it doggedly. He consumes coverage of himself voraciously. He pays super close attention to ratings. If i had to sum it up in one line, id say the media is his lifeline. Tr