planning another attack on fort hood is in custody in texas, and it appears local law enforcement may have averted a second disaster on the base. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. private first class naser abdo had gone awol, applied for and received conscientious objector status, but that status was put on hold when the army found child pornography on his government computer. he was arrested after trying to buy guns and gunpowder from guns galore. according to army sources, abdo bought three boxes of 12-gauge ammunition, a magazine for a springfield nine-millimeter gun, and six canisters of smokeless gunpowder. the gun store owner who tipped the police said he became suspicion when abdo asked how to use smokeless gunpowder. the first red flag was the
mr. president, don t cave anymore. they think he s been giving in too much to speaker boehner, including last week on the spending cuts. they re going to have to thread the political needle. it s talked about in politics a lot. sort of a balancing act. because today jay carney said there s a vision. because they frankly are trying to navigate some tricky political waters. you have people, as you noted last week saying the president s been out of this, he s been awol, not being specific enough. then all of a sudden the white house announced sunday he s going to give this big speech. chambliss said this was a curve ball. we didn t know the president was going to give a speech. whichever way they go is fraught with political danger. dana, as the president steps in to debate and not only the republicans debating the house republican budget, but there are a group of senators trying to come up with a plan. do they welcome the president in saying, great, he s helping us,
texas, and washington. the governor s meeting comes as budget battles are raging in a number of states. the fight between pro union supporters in wisconsin and governor scott walker has spurred protests in almost every other state. several high profile republican governors who have gone up against labor unions took the airways today including walker. peter doocy is following the latest. hi, peter. scott walker says he doesn t want to lay off any state workers and if those wisconsin state senators who have gone awol feel the same way, then they need to get back to work immediately. speaking from the governor s mansion in madison today, governor walker stood his ground and said he will not give up until the union workers in his state agree to pay some of their benefits and give up their collective bargaining rights. because, if that doesn t happen, he says, the badger state is in trouble this is our moment in wisconsin history. year after year after year. not just the last governor but
speaking out against governor walker s crack down on unions and with walker landing some shots of his own, peter doocy has the star in washington. reporter: scott walker will not back down. that is what he said from the governor s mansion in madison where he stayed this weekend instead of attending the national governor s association meeting in d.c. governor walker said that he doesn t wants to lay off any state workers, and, if those senators who have gone awol feel the same way, they should come back to work, asap and he said he doesn t plan on agreeing to any deal unless it includes the labor unions giving up their collective bargaining rights, because he says that is what is best for the badger state. this is our moment in wisconsin s history and one of those where, for year after year of the year, not just the last governor but governors before, legislatures before have kicked the can and taken one-time fixes to push the budget problems into the future and we can t do that. we
another government official now blamed for the man s termination. indiana deputy attorney general jeffrey cox sent out a message about riot police being sent to the wisconsin state capital. his message wrote that megyn: he was officially fired yesterday. in the indiana statehouse, we re hearing that the democrats that fled the state over budget bills say they will not come back. the awol democrats there in indiana are boycotting cost-cutting measures there that they say amount to an assault on the middle class. indiana governor mitch daniels says the bills are intended to reign in costly public employee unions that he calls privileged elite. now democrats in two states, indiana and wisconsin, awol, not showing up, and saying they will stay that way to prevent votes on the bills. we ll be joined by one of the