attack on free speech. free britney! the free britney movement one step closer to getting their wish britney spears conservatorship battle back in front of a judge today. the ruling and what was said in court. the afghanistan hearings more testimony about what went wrong, plus the mayor of kabul joins us to talk the state of his city under taliban rule. all of a sudden we are where we were 20 years ago a teenage surfer saves three lives. reports of mass animal extinctions. and macy s heads to court to keep amazon at bay announcer: live from cnbc, the facts, the truth, the news with shepard smith. good evening president biden s agenda is in peril tonight. he is scrambling to save it on this eve of a make-or-break vote tomorrow the house is set to decide on a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill infighting among democrats is threatening to tank it progressives say they will not vote yes unless they re also guaranteed to get a massive $3.5 trillion social
elements in terms of being involved with foreign fighters. i do not. who in the state does any of that? obviously fsa is part of counter-isis if that s our strategy, would obviously have to be involved in the foreign fighter and they would be on the front line of why are these people being recruited. where does that connection happen. if you re the foreign fighter gi my task, my responsibility is the things i have been asked to do are to pursue a diplomatic strategy with our foreign partners, our foreign countries on foreign fighters. i do not engage directly with the syrian opposition. ambassador rubenstein is our envoy for that. certainly others in the state department are dealing with this issue, others in the pentagon in terms of the military, intelligence agencies. why is it that isis is attracting foreign fighters versus foreign fighters coming to fsa, you know, al nusra front. is it the jihadism? what is it? that you have seen. i think it s partly the discu
leaving his country on edge. our officers on scene felt as if capitol was a contributing factor. a dallas cowboy dead, his teammate under arrest after late night drinking and driving leads to a fatal car crash. is the mormon church easing their stance on gays? see their online outreach that s turning some heads. good sunday morning to you, i m susan heindricks. thank you for starting your morning with us. we start with supports, a devastating story here. more details of a second nfl tragedy. jerry brown has been killed in a car accident. he was riding in a car driven by josh brent. police think alcohol was involved, and he says after hitting a curb at a high speed, their car travelled nearly 900 feet. take a listen. our officers on scene felt as if alcohol was a contributing factor in the accident, so he was asked to perform some field sobriety tests. based on performance in those tests, along with our officers observations, and the conversations they had with him, he
that speaker john boehner met with the president to discuss the officials of the fiscal cliff. we re just days before the congress and the white house has to hammer out a deal or everyone s going to suffer the consequences. emily, what have you learned about today s meeting? allison we know that today s meeting was not on the schedule today. so that means we have to rely on the word from the white house deputy press secretary and a congressional staffer which happens to be the exact same words. they released two separate statements, both identical and this is the statement. it says this afternoon the president and speaker boehner met at the white house to discuss efforts to resolve the fiscal cliff. we re not reading out details of the constitution, but the lines of communication remain. on wednesday, you ll remember a source familiar with the conversation said they did speak by phone, at that point it was the first time in a week they had done so. no reported breakthrough
divers search a solano water way for any signs of an elderly man who failed to return home from work. searchers are trying to decide what to do next after scouring the waterfront of mare island today. trying to find a man who disappeared while working on a historic boat. reporter: ken, his friend left philip mattingly to work on a tugboat across the water. mattingly hasn t been seen in almost 30 hours. the mare island strait s rapidly moving current forced divers out of the water by the end of today s search. the water was too rough. they couldn t stay on the bottom. just kept sweeping them back up to the surface. reporter: this man, 77-year- old phillip steven mattingly. he s just been overworking. i could see it, he looked pretty tired. reporter: he struggled with his diabetes medication. in the last year, he put all of his time and energy into restoring this world war ii tugboat, the eugene h. the elderly mattingly stayed late last night to work on it. last