rice. be interesting to watch whether it's china challenge, cyber space. whether she can prove to the republicans she has an open mind and open door. grand bargain, immigration reform, domestic items. if the environment is so polarized and they don't want to give the president an inch there's a question whether something like susan rice that's unrelated to the budget and immigration does it contribute to the lousy environment in this town right now? >> john king, thank you very much. still to come the suspected fort hood shooter. he says he was protecting the taliban in afghanistan. that's his defense. okay. he says that. but keep in mind the u.s. government said he didn't commit a terrorist attack. how does that add up? plus new details about the cleveland kidnapper ariel castro, evidence he may have been planning a fourth abduction. and then the government said that she was too young to receive is a lung transplant. her parents fought back and