skepticism but again and again you don t see the barest skepticism in these sort of cases. thank you. we have an update on the pro professor who lost her job. we re look into that. she equated whiteness with terrorism. plus the president took a big victory this week for transforming the country. charles krauthammer is here on the prediction he made in 2012 and how that s playing out in mr. obama s second term. that s why i have the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy for my studio. and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business. that s huge for my bottom line.
how they were respondings to incident. we re going to hear more object that going forward. in other news, president obama is looking to do more business with asia. arriving in tokyo this morning it is his first stop on a scheduled four-nation tour of the region. the week long trip is designed to boost america s ties to asia, especially as alliances in the region become even more critical. other stops in addition to jo pan, south korea, malaysia, the philippines all so key right now. michelle is in tokyo with more. michelle? president obama is about to kick off his asian trip by going out for sushi reportedly a three-michelin started sushi joint with the japanese prime minister. this trip is seen as extremely significant by the u.s. and by the four countries visited. you might call it pivotal. remember, this represents that asian pivot, the rebalance of u.s. interests towards this region that the administration has wanted for obama s second
once again was optional. jon: elise veibeck who was on a the show yesterday wrote this in the hill. the administration decision to confirm another extension who predict ad public announcement would be imminent. it is unclear how long the extension believed. one source believed it could last to the end of obama s second term and perhaps beyond. so, having upended the insurance applecart all over the country, the president now wants to apparently take these 11 million or so policies, individual policies and push their cancellation or possibility of their cancellation until he is beyond, until beyond the time he is out of office. what that really does, it does two things. it kicks the can down the road but sets up a situation where in places some states choose not to accept this extension or shift the blame to those states and insurance companies, they can say, look we offered extension where they said you could keep the plan another two years,
to the country, including the majority of democrats. so for years to come now when liberal politicians step forward with a big government solution to some problem, republicans will respond by saying it is just another obama care. that will be a deadly retort. so he promised some spectacular achievements. and now he is issuing executive orders, raising the minimum wage for federal contracts. big achievement. he has a pen, but you know who else has a pen, his successor. executive orders can be repealed by the stroke of a pen by your successor. thank you i ve got one, too. and jon stewart made news with nancy pelosi last night, but it didn t end there. we ll show you why in a moment, plus? the shocking confessions of tsa screeners and what they say they re really doing when you go through the x-ray screener. plus? political activists in the president s hometown now challenging mr. obama s second
every year. going forward. at least through the end of obama s second term. because they do kid consider it be on the defense and defense sides. devastating. they want to see a path forward to reducing worst impacts. sam, do you think the democrats could have held the extension of unechl mroimemploy insurance against the defense department piece of this? that seems to me to be a very strong republican incentive here to get this deal done. to take care of the defense spending piece of it. and it seems like the unemmrimeunemplo unemployment piece could have been balanced. they felt it was a politically advantageous contrast. throughout the past two years, you have had a pairing of defense and nondefense programs. that were essentially in this together. in sequestration together. so you had the natural pairing that had come together. to throw in unemmriment insurance.