mid terms. this came within hours, voting for the 50ths time to repeal obamacare, a measure that doesn t stand a chance. in the next hour, president obama will be taking questions about health care at a town hall aimed at encouraging hispanics to sign up. today the senate will hold longawaited votes on the handling of military sex assaults. senator jill jill brand lawm will hold up or down votes, no opportunity to amend those proposals. for the first time ever, the dalai lama delivered the opening prayer just a short time ago. right now he is meeting with house speaker john boehner and minority leader nancy pelosi, is scheduled to be with the senate foreign relations committee this afternoon. and we ll take you inside cpac. we ve heard from ted chris, paul ryan this morning, so who is the
spending cuts, some of the sequester over the course of the year of 2014 and 2015. so though anticipated, this is still a significant deal. what about the other part here, the defense bill and, of course, the crackdown on military sex assaults? reporter: our understanding is that it protects the pay of the military. and how the military handles sexual assaults within the military. the administration, the white house had specifically hail this had bill was that it would give the administration additional flexibility in the words of jay carney to be able to transfer inmates at guantanamo bay, cuba, to their to other countries. this was one of the president s desires in an effort to try to draw down that establishment, that base that exists there in cuba right now.
some of the hottest stories in a flash. rapid fire. roll it. cnn has learned the navy and marines will start publishing their version of a sex offender list. but without the names. you see the list here. instead military websites will be showing the court martial results, acquittals, convictions, rank of a person and charges. part of the crackdown on military sex assaults. a milestone today in the court martial of bradley man ing. a military judge refused to throw out two charges against him including the most egregious, most serious. aiding the enemy. if manning is found guilty, he could face life in prison. manning s defense says he wanted to inform the public when he leaked classified documents to wikileaks. texas governor rick perry signed a controversial law today banning most abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy. the bill passed the texas state legislature last week after failing, remember, failed the
schumer. also, senator kirsten gillibrand. we re going to ask her what it was like to actually hang out with ted froos and her push to crack down on military sex assaults is gaining momentum from the other side of the aisle because of people like ted cruz and rand paul. and we re going to talk to nfl star larry fitzgerald and best-selling author and friend of morning joe. i think he was the first person to watch morning joe. we ve had three more since then. look at that collar, daniel silva, he learned that from me. first, bill karins with a check of the forecast. bill, when is it going to cool down? is not until the upcoming weekend, joe. the heat wave is expanding. we already watched it moving back to chicago. now it s just gripping much of the country. look at boise. even the intermountain west was amazingly hot. this was the peak of the heat wave. from here we ll watch it slowly retreating, especially in the northern half of the country.
roberts squaring off with the bush justices? repeatedly. if you look at the next 20 years of the supreme court, it is very likely going to be an intellectual contest between john roberts and elena kagan. they are emerging as the intellectual leaders of those of those two. the only question that you need to know the answer to know who is going to win is to know who wins the next presidential elections. it s a matter of numbers. if, you know, our next two presidents are hillary clinton and andrew cuomo, we re going to have one kind of supreme court. if it s marco rubio and ted cruz, a different kind of supreme court. and that, more than the arguments, is what matters. the book is the oath. the obama white house and the supreme court, out in paperback. it s great to have you back on. great to be here. thank you, jeffery. coming up, a surprising change of course from the armed services committee on military sex assaults. why senator carl levin wants to