republican aide told fox recently that they felt the work of the three committees would be sufficient and would hold the white house and administration responsible. that was before we went over the 100 mark in terms of support in the house. we ll reach out later today to see if their position is the same, rick. rick: catherine herridge live in washington. thank you, catherine. reporter: you re welcome. jenna: new questions about north korea s motives as a nuclear armed state. they come as that country continues a two-day celebration of its first leader s birthday. just this weekend secretary of state hillary clinton said the united states is open to talk with north korea, as long as it begins to abandon its you can into clear program. there are growing concerns whether or not kim jong-un s regime has reached a point of no return. a recent report in the new york times says this. quote, other officials said in background interviews that mr. kim is trying to get north korea into the s
kerry winding up a series of high profile, high stakes meeting in asia trying to diffuse what some say could become a big crisis on the korean peninsula. the threat taking on new urgency today as people celebrate the birth dave the founder of the come admonition nation in north korea and with the celebration there are for fears that north korea has its finger on the button to launch a missile. secretary kerry is urging china to putn north korea saying the stakes are huge. i believe that china by making clear its policy will join with others in an effort to try to make that policy real and implement it. and i think if we don t then all of our nonproliferation efforts on a global basis begin to suffer. if we don t give meaning to that policy it will have certainly less meaning to iran, or less meaning anywhere else, and i think everybody understands that. jenna: is china doing enough to
actually still in a lot of pain and still dealing with the traupl after this disas trauma of this disaster. 32 people died, hundreds of people rescued from the ship when it ran aground as you remember in january of last year. jon eaves, a mississippi lawyer representing 150 of the victims said the company had sacrificed passenger safety for prove it and he said profit. he said it too had to share the blame for what happened on the night the ship capsized. what he called poor emergency procedures, training and equipment. so there is still a lot of ill feeling and there is still a long way to go. we ve still got quite a few hearings to go in this preliminary case even before it s sent for trial. it will take a few months before we even see the trial yet. rick: josephine mckenna joining us on the phone from grn joining us from rome, thank you very much. thanks, rick. jenna: world-wide tension really hitting a fever pitch with north korea poised to launch a missile any minute.
reporter: senator rubio goes to great pains tosy this is not amnesty for illegals. there will be penalties involved, fines involved for people in the country illegally. they also have to pay taxes which is something they presently do not do. there will also be e-verify think biwhich employers hire nibble legal or with a green card or granted citizenship has to verify their citizenship through the database. jenna: a lot to do on this bill. doug, thanks very much. reporter: sure. rick: it comes exactly on one day a year, tax day. most of us do not look forward to it. in fact this year is the 100th anniversary of the federal income tax. it takes the average american 13 hours to comply with the tax code each year including filling out those forms, gathering up all the receipts and the paperwork this year the irs is expected to deal with more
that is not what the gang of eight is dealing with, as rubio describes it and others describe it. that s one thing. the other thing is the cost, and the questions about cost, that has been coming up. i think rubio and others have talked about how they are trying to dol deal with the cost and how they have a system in place where folks in this process do not get the federal assistance, obama care, et cetera, until they get to the end of the process. rick: thank you, brett. bret baier, be sure to watch brett with all the day s political news every week night 6:00 eastern time. special report right here on fnc. good to see you my friend. jenna: fox extreme weather alert. the calendar may say it s spring but a big storm is making it look a whole lot more like winter. lots of folks in north dakota are getting a day off. a record 18 inches of snow falling in the western and central parts of that state. we wish you well out there in north dakota. in the meantime folks in detroit