nawer and elijah cummings and scott reigle. welcome, everybody. our starting point, a potentially seismic shift for the boy scouts. the national council could announce whether it s long-standing ban on gay scouts and leaders will be lifted. national leaders weighing in on both sides of the issue, including the president and governor of texas. scouting is about teaching a substantial amount of life lessons. sexuality isn t one of them. doesn t have to be, doesn t need to be. scouting is a great institution that are promoting young people and exposing them to, you know, opportunities and leadership that, you know, will serve people for the rest of their lives and i think nobody should be barred for that. and cnn s casey wian live in irving, texas, where the scouts are headquarters. good morning, casey. good morning, soledad. a potentially historic vote that could be taken by the leadership of the boy scouts of america on the issue of gays in scouting. the boy scouts
we begin this hour with president obama s very public attempt to pressure congress into putting off billions of dollars in automatic spending cuts, cuts he fears will wreck the u.s. economic recovery. basically he wants lawmakers to kick the can down the road one more time. let s go to our white house correspondent dan lothian. dan is joining us. dan, the president made a little bit of a surprise appearance over in the white house briefing room. reporter: that s right. very surprising because the president in the past has criticized these short-term deals saying that this is not what the american people sent their elected officials to washington to do. you have this march 1st deadline quickly approaching. while congress is trying to work on a bigger budget, 1 pine point $2 trillion package, the president says they need more time in order to continue tipping away at the problem. the big concern is that everyone believes that the economy is moving in the right direction. the
morning. we begin with new allegations of drug use against alex rodriguez. it s not the first time that he s been accused of using performance enhancing drugs. the first time was actually several years ago. the current chatter is that it happened again last year. our national correspondent, susan candiotti, is in new york. what is behind the new allegations? reporter: good morning. it looks like a-rod s ped controversy wga won t go away. now there s another report alleging alex rodriguez got home visits to his waterfront miami mansion from a man who ran a clinic. espn quoting unidentified sources says that man, anthony bosh, injected a-rod with performance enhancing drugs. once bosh was reportedly kicked out of a-rod s home after bosh allegedly had trouble finding a vein. similar drug claims were leveled earlier this week. in the miami times newspaper, it says it has a diary containing notes from bosh detailing drugs including human growth hormone given to several athlete
you are five and a half weeks away from delivering? yes. take her advice. she is drinking iced coffee in the morning. i m eating corn and drinking iced coffee. thank for coming in. you can check out eating well magazine for the tips. the boy scouts ban on open by gay members and leaders is going to stand. this is a disappointing blow to the lgbt for equality. the declaration comes among the stepped up campaign for people to have the ban abolished after the ouster of ohio den mom jennifer tyrell. she is a mom of four and an out lesbian. we have zack wells. he is the author of my two moms. he was working to have the ban thrown out. i want to get straight to the
your tax records? if that is the tradition, i m not opposed to doing that. most likely, i ll get asked to do that in the april time period. i ll keep that open. let s say good morning to the political power panel. joy reed, david goodfren and alice stort. it is great to have you here. alice, i want to start with you, romney did an interview yesterday. he was asked about the tax returns. people in my party say release the returns and it will go away. my experience is the democratic party has approached taxes in a different way than in the past. opposition people look for anything they can find to distort and twist and try to make negative. alice, you were the national press secretary for rick santorum. to release his tax returns during the primary season. romney says it is a non issue, but ron paul and george will are all calling on romney to release his taxes. does it look like romney has something to hide by being so obstantant? he released over the last two years