several hours into tonight include little rock, memphis, and just south of st. louis. president obama and the first lady just wrapped up an event welcoming olympic and paralympic athletes to the wlous. they all represented the u.s. delegation this year in sochi. speaking of russia, it will also be a topic of a meeting with house and senate leaders this evening. stocks are near lows for the day as stocks anticipate march job reports. economists expect something in the neighborhood of 200,000 jobs were created, decent, but below the blockbuster month. jared bernstein will be here tomorrow to help us break down the numbers. always fun. time is running out on the batteries powering the black box location signals from malaysia flight 370. today a british sub picked up a sonic transmission, but it, like all surface debris so far, has not been linked to the wreckage. air crews didn t find any clues today either, despite clear skies. those conditions could soon
our fareed zakaria, the foreign minister, they will only play into the hands of those in congress right now who want to pass new sanctions against iran even during this interim period. the wlous i m sure is sensitive to that. reporter: well, certainly. the white house has made the argument that if congress passes these new tougher sanctions on iran it s going to scuttle the deal. i want to read what the white house said in response to those comments from the foreign minister, morn minister mohamed javad zarif. they are not surprised doing just that. so both sides are needing to convince their own audiences to let this deal go forward, wolf. athena, thanks so much. thinking of ashleigh banfield in new york following another story we re watching right now. wlast going on? we ve been following the breaking news of the arrest of justin bieber, a 19-year-old sensation. and now he s appearing via video
to dra down forces there. i believe obama was right in these decisions. that s from the book. reporter: in other parts, he says he saw the president make decisions opposed with his advisors. wesley clark believes gates is just trying to get a lot off his chest. i do think it has to be taken with a certain grain of salt. when he makes comments about the president, frex. reporter: there s still no response from the commander in chief. the wlous did who you did allow photographers access, but denied it was a show of support. i don t think anybody who has covered is or knows the president and the vice president knows how this who is functions, has any doubt about the president s faith in vice president biden. reporter: reporters however were not permitted into the room, drawing questions about
all this head on. they haven t talked about it in a very public way. but the president himself hasn t add big speech on these issues. what are you hoping to hear when he does come out and talk about this? first i have to applaud the president for doing this. this is exactly what we asked him to do a couple months ago. this wasn t a blank check that i voted against as it relates it president bush. but any future presidents will have this broad authority. i hope the president will lay out the legal justification and why the wlous believes in the pentagon believes they can continue to allow our country in this state of perpetual war without coming to congress. we cannot relent as members of congress. the president is the commander-in-chief. he has to secure our country and make our country safe. we as members of congress as it relates to our system of
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