fight, another government shutdown in january, that would certainly take away from what they think is a positive hand they have in dealing with the affordable care act right now. so they weren t going to go through that again. that s why they came up with this compromise, a bipartisan deal, words you don t often hear in washington these days. it s intriguing to me as a political reporter. i m sure to you as well, just imagine if marco rubio and paul ryan are the front runners for the republican presidential nomination in 2016. that s going to be a lively republican debate that s going to unfold, in part because of this current fight they re having over this two-year spending deal as far as the government is concerned. yeah, and wolf, we ll be watching at 5:00 in the situation room. 5:00 eastern, wolf will be discussing that and much, much more. before i let you know, you know what else we have in the situation room today? do you have anchorman? yes. i knew what you were g
tea party republicans. fellow republicans, the ones who helped scuttle the budget talks last september. again, i should add, and they got blamed for the shutdown. boehner has he finally had enough of these tea party folks? i want you to listen again. they pushed us into this fight to defund obama care and to shut down the government. most of you know, my members know, that wasn t exactly the strategy i had in mind. but if you ll recall, the day before the government reopened, one of the people one of these groups stood up and said, well, we never really thought it would work. are you kidding me? wolf blitzer is here with us in washington. no further introduction necessary for wolf. wolf, he was very animated. is this his declaration of independence from the tea party really staunch conservatives on the right? i think it s a very strong, bold statement on his part that he s not going to take it anymore.
terrorism-related situation. in other words, there was no real plot. but no one was in danger. multiple charges were expected in this case, including but not limited to a charge of material support for terrorism. as of a little while ago, charges had not been filed, and one suspect who has been arrested had not been presented before the magistrate. federal authorities had been billing this as a matter of national security. and they thought enough of it that the governor of the state, sam brownback, decided to attend that news conference. back to you. all right, joe johns, stand by in washington. joe has the details on this. i want to get to the former assistant director of the fbi, tom fuentes who joins us all the time. you heard what joe johns had to say about the foiled plot. we hear about the plots at airports, but usually at much bigger airports. this appears to be a much smaller airport. what do you make of the news? it doesn t sound like an
nuance, and clearly, the white house is not happy that the associated press decided to go ahead and report extensively on this connection he had with this, what they described as this rogue element inside the cia. wolf, i want to ask you this because we re saying that this is a bombshell. and we know that the washington post held off on reporting it for a while. was this sort of in the cards, or were people thinking about this? you have covered this more as a washington correspondent and anchor, that it could be a possibility that he had some sort of involvement that most people didn t know about. everybody knew he spent nearly 30 years as a senior official in the fbi. he was an fbi agent, worked for the u.s. government, for the fbi. so that was widely publicized. that was widely known. that certainly was no secret. i don t think it was necessarily widely known that he had some sort of connection, that he was getting some sort of contract, if you will, he was getting some funding
we hope so. i remember, i was on the first person to report on the anchor desk about newtown, and about sandy hook elementary school, and at first, it was just a principal, we thought, a school official, and a lone gunman and it had been taken care of. by the time i was in washington, back to my hotel, we heard about the 20 children who had died. we don t know if this incident is as serious as that, but we are told through officials in colorado that at least two people have been shot in arapahoe high school, and the gunman is still inside the school. according to officials there, there s been a shooting at the school. believe there are two victims and the suspect is still inside the school. arapahoe high school is in centennial. this is in the same district, the littleton public school district, as columbine. we know schools have developed protocols and they train and they drill on what to do in situations like this. and teachers have been told to