President hamid karzai is requesting them pull out within two weeks. The reason plus how officials are responding. Stewart 33. And that fiery nascar crash leaving questions about the safety of speedways. A lot of news coming out of daytona today. We will take you there, as well. But we begin with our top political headlines. There could be a deal in the senate on guns. A Bipartisan Panel may Reach Agreement on tougher background checks for gun buyers. The Washington Post reports the talks led by two democrats and two republicans are expected to earn more gop spurt in the coming days. The nras president said the president has done nothing serious to reduce the threat of gun violence. Even in his state of the Union Address where he laid out his second term agenda, president obama made not one mention, not one word of the need to improve security for our schools. Why . Because theyre not serious about taking steps that actually work. And ann and mitt romney will sit down for their First T
Hello again. 18 months ago, the white house and congress agreed to a doomsday plan acrosstheboard spending cuts. Forcing washington to find a better fix to our budget mess. No dice. No lastminute deal no matter what. That sequester will start on friday. The battle over what it means has already begun. Well debate that on our powerhouse roundtable. But first, some facts. Pentagon will take the biggest hit from the cuts. President obama warned of dire consequences yesterday. The threat of these cuts has forced the navy to delay the deployment of an Aircraft Carrier to the persian gulf. Affecting our ability to respond to threats in an unstable part of the world. Just this week, the pentagon announced that, if these cuts go through, almost 800,000 defense employees, the equivalent of every person in miami and cleveland combined, will be forced to take an unpaid leave. And with that, lets take the debate to our first roundtable. Headlined be i the chairman of the house intelligence committ
Still debating animated shorts here. Thank you all very much for the discussion. I appreciate it. That is all for today. Well be back next week. If its sunday, its meet the press. If republicans and democrats get together this week and take a look at the president s plan which he put on the table to save 85 billion this does not have to happen. Congress returns to work with five days left before the across the board spending cuts take effect. Is that enough time to hammer out a last minute deal . And what does it mean to you. Transportation secretary ray lahood insists there is still time. Our experts break it down and talk about the on going sequester blame game. Plus, big news from afghanistan. President hamid karzai is requesting them pull out within two weeks. The reason plus how officials are responding. Stewart 33. And that fiery nascar crash leaving questions about the safety of speedways. A lot of news coming out of daytona today. We will take you there, as well. But we begin w
Former new england patriot Aaron Hernandez. Today, part of this arraignment, expected to plea, as weve heard him before, plead not guilty in the murder of his friend. We are watching and waiting for that. Also were watching this other picture in washington, d. C. Because as reaction is pouring in to president obamas News Conference from st. Petersburg, russia, earlier today, particularly his words on the next step against syria, his ambassador to the United Nations, she is new to the job. She is Samantha Power. She is speaking live. As we take it, we are guessing here this is a woman who is likely not to mince words. Already she is accusing the United Nations Security Council of letting russia hold them hostage. So shell be talking today at this liberal think tank in washington. We are expecting her, basically, to lay out americas case against the Bashar Al Assad regime. We will take that live in just a moment here. But, first, i want to continue with syria. President obama will addres
Its going to be wheels up on air force one. Hes going to address the American People on tuesday about his proposal to attack syria in response to last months chemical weapons attack. Meanwhile, syrias parliament has written a letter to the houu. S. House calling for civilized dialogue. Wrote a letter to the British Parliament. Theres a reported plot by iran directing militants to attack u. S. Interests if theres a strike against syria. This is from the wall street journal that says u. S. Intelligence and deceptive messages from the leader to militants based in iraq. The one thing that Everyone Wants to know from president obama, is he willing to go alone if Congress Says no on syria. Thats what bwas asked during a news conference. Listen to how he responded. On the resolution to authorize the use of force. One of the big challenges right now isnt just republicans, but its from some of your loyal democrats. It seems the more they hear from classified briefings that the less likely they