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quorum call: reid: mr. president i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be vitiated. i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to executive session to consider nominations 597, 598, 601, 602, 603 with the exception of colonel mark baird and colonel robert stanley ii, and 604, 605 with the exception of colonel andrew e.salas. 606 with the exception of brigadier general john k. kelk. and then 607, 608, 609, 610, 611 and all nominations on the secretary s desk in the air force and army. that the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, there be to intervening action or debate, that no further nominations be in order to any of the nominations and that any related statements be printed in the record, that president obama be immediately notified ....
galleries that are watching their behavior adequately, they stay on even long after they ve become ineffective and not noteworthy to the court anymore. there are all these dangers of how you keep that focus and how you keep that task properly done. make the case for why you all should be the oversight in the context of those dangers. i think we have not suggested that we should be the oversight for the because i know some have suggested that we be the body to appoint the members, a pool of special advocates or appoint a special advocate. we intentionally did not recommend that in part because we have an oversight function of the i m sorry, i misunderstood. i thought that was your suggestion. no. we recommend that the court choose from private attorneys to act as special advocate and then there be reporting as to when the court exercised its jurisdiction to bring those parties in. how do you avoid the pet lawyer or the synicure effects in that circumstance? ....
neighboring of tax-afornia. a judge councilman wants to start taxes e-mails. the ugly. c.s.a. employees received security badges by mistakes. the t.s.a. says there may be some criminal records working in airports. it is time for your brew on this question of the day responses. earlier in the show we showed you viral videos we ve been showing you all week long. first the chuckie horror doll at the drive-through. next the jaw-dropping half court buzzer beating and finally batman capturing a criminal in england. we asked your favorites. linda writes it has to be the buzzer beating shot. according to our on-line poll, 62.5% think chucki. 37.5% picked the buzzer beater. none of you liked the batman video. have a great weekend. gretchen: tgif everyone. good morning. it is march 8, 2013. i m gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your friday with us. a top al qaeda spokesperson and the son-in-law of osama bin laden has been captured but guess what? he won t be going ....
alisyn: good morning, everybody. thanks so much for joining us bright and early on this very important news weekend. so much is happening now that investigators have left syria, anything could happen at any moment. let s get to a fox news alert and the latest on syria for you. the u.n. team investigating the chemical attack has left the country as the obama administration the syria carried out a chemical attack. elizabeth prann is live for us in washington. completed four day investigation. the team collecting and carrying various samples for lab analysis to determine if chemical weapons were used to kill syrian people this while secretary of state john kerry made it clear yesterday u.s. officials already have the answer to that question and there will be action against the rogue regime after telling the american public the administration has classified intelligence which is both clear and compelling and shows the regime forces are behind the latest chemical attack ....
this is tikrit, iraq. saddam hussein s hometown but fighting like this is raging now in a lot of cities and towns between baghdad and the syrian border. so far in iraq, not much is stopping the group isis. the u.s. watching carefully but, so far no involvement. this aircraft carrier group is moving into the persian orders with orders to get close to iraq and wait. president obama says he is considering options but he promises the u.s. won t be dragged back in. nic robertson, cnn senior international correspondent is there in baghdad. al maliki says this is the end for the extremist group isis. confident words when the extremists seem to be on the outskirts of baghdad. reporter: i think is that is why he is using language like that. he really wants to get people to come out and support the fight against isis. he is one of those leaders right now who is telling young iraqis that it s time to get their houses and pick up a weapon and come join the fight. north of bag ....