less safe when politicians like you cry foul for political gain. i'll leave you with this, the next time you feel sorry for terrorists, here's a little reminder of why we interrogate them. thanks for joining us. have a great weekend, everybody. and we begin with a fox news alert. the senate taking part in a rare weekend session on capitol hill trying to hammer out a deal to avoid a government shutdown. hello, everybody, welcome to america's news headquarters. i'm uma pemmaraju. it's all about the politics with republicans and democrats arguing more within their own ranks rather than debating key issues like the funding, the department of homeland security, pork spending, and battling into the night to work it all out. >> before the senate today is a $1.1 trillion bill. full of christmas presents.

for the lobbyists and special interests here in washington. >> i will not be voting for the bill. i am frustrated we've gone through, now, eight years of domination by the majority leader in the senate, denying even simple amendments to be allowed to be voted on. >> i certainly don't see any reason why we should agree to move forward then and not have any assurance that we would at least have an opportunity to vote. on an amendment that would impose a spending limitation on the president's ability to implement his executive amnesty action. >> i'm sorry, that's -- we're in the senate and we're going to have to rearrange our schedules for the weekend. >> so here they are, back in action today. but can they make a deal?

joining us now, mike emmanuel standing by on capitol hill with how today's senate session is playing out. >> we'll watch very closely as the top senate leaders go back into session momentarily. let's take a live look at the floor. all indications are this hour they'll go through a bunch of presidential nominations today. unless of course the top senate leaders have struck a deal. at that point, they could pass the trillion dollar plus omnibus spending bill. you heard some complaints from conservatives. they don't like the idea they're not fighting the president on his immigration executive action. they would like to do that now. gop leaders in the house and senate have said they will do that in the new year when they have majorities in both the house and senate. but it is the right of any individual senator to hold up the process. and so what we've got is, it appears, the omnibus spending bill. the idea to keep the government up and running through september will come up for a final vote some time on monday. between now and then, harry

reareid is likely to introduce a number of nominees he would like to get confirmed before the senate leaves for christmas. all eyes are on the senate floor to hear if they've passed some sort of deal, passing the senate deal today or perhaps tomorrow. otherwise, all indications are it will happen on monday. nobody is talking government shutdown at this point. bottom line, the house has passed this omnibus spending bill. we just need the senate to do it as well. it is believed to have plenty of votes. so we're waiting and seeing for any guidance from the senate leaders. uma. >> all right, mike. thanks for bringing us up to date on what's taking place right now at the senate. >> this issue or that issue, nobody did this unilaterally. we've done this in a bipartisan fashion. frankly, it's a good bill. >> well that from house speaker john boehner, trying to get enough votes to pass the $1.1 trillion budget bill in the house. on thursday, he managed to

barely get enough votes to make that happen. that said, 67 republicans voting against that bill along with 139 democrats. many of the republicans voting no are upset over the bill's provisions to fund the president's executive orders to protect thousands of undocumented immigrants from deportation. some are saying this early rift within the gop may be a sign of what may lie ahead when the majority takes control in january. joining us now, a republican who actually backed the deal in the house with a yes vote. welcome. >> great to be with you, thanks very much. >> tell us why you voted to go ahead with the spending bill when many of your colleagues are crying foul and this bill does nothing to stop the funding on immigration. many polls, including one from fox news, clearly indicates a majority of american voters disapprove of the president

bypassing congress to change how the government deals with illegal immigration. a whopping 60% don't like it. >> so the question is those voters want to win. those voters want to stop president obama. so the smart move here is to set up this fight when you've got more conservatives and they're coming over the hilltop in january. this sets it up nicely to have the fight then. we're not going to win this fight now with harry reid still having the gavel as the majority leader. it cuts over 300 million dollars from the internal revenue service, which my constituency really wants to see us go after the irs. it also requires president obama in a new way to report to congress whatever progress he's claiming on iran sanctions, something he hasn't done in the past. there are some things in there

that are not positive. but on balance, i weighed it out and said it deserved my vote. >> well, even if the speaker and others like you want to wait to confront the funding of the president's executive orders on immigration until the new republican majority comes in to place come january and tackles immigration through, for example, the homeland security funding deadline in march, lots of conservatives are saying it will be difficult to do that because lots of money will already have been spent to move ahead with the president's amnesty program. what are your thoughts about this? >> i don't think that's necessarily persuasive. i think you're going to be in a much stronger position with more united states senators who are li like-minded. with a larger house republican majority similarly like-minded. go back just a year ago to the discussions about repealing obamacare by shutting the government down. that was the strategy that didn't work and basically the proponents of that had to limp off the stage and admit that it was a failure. so now we've got a situation

where we contactically be smarter in the long run and actually do everything that we can to push back on the president. it's wait. it's being strategic. but it's the smarter move. >> many conservatives are saying they are ending this year frustrated at their own party's leaders who they feel cut them out of the funding process. what do you say about this? if that's true, isn't that counterproductive, leaving them out? >> look, party leadership has to be very careful right now. and if members are feeling isolated and not included, that doesn't portend well for trying to bring people together. and there's an expectation some of these roll calls were actually going to be fairly easy. they're not easy. it's a difficult thing to put together. i think party leaders all the way around need to listen carefully to what their members are saying, being communicated to them through their constituents. >> does this signal there are going to be heated tug-of-wars

between the parties next year? >> there's always going to be heated tugs-of-wars. that's the nature of a democracy. you have nancy pelosi in a split with a number of her members. she was working against president obama and working against this bill, for example. elizabeth warren was actually staking out new ground. which is i think a foreshadowing of some of the difficulties hillary clinton may be beginning to experience. when everybody thought her pathway to the nomination on the democratic side for president was just a walk in the park. we're reflecting a country that's deeply divided on core issues. and also divided on tactics and strategy. here's the good news. we as americans manage to sort this out. and we manage to move ever so slightly in the right direction. and the country has responded by electing more conservatives to the house and the senate. i think you're going to see more conservative solutions end up on

president obama's desk in the next congress. >> we shall see what lies ahead. certainly, the public has let it be known how it feels about the issues right now. and the problems that congress has been facing, passing some of these bills. we wish you all the best. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> so now i would like to hear what you have to say about the spending bill that's currently being debated in the senate. i want to hear from you because a lot of democrats and republicans are upset with this bill over issues like immigration and other appointments. what would you do to fix it? tweet me your thoughts to -- @um to -- @uma pemmaraju or @anhqdc. now, the senate report detailing enhanced interrogation techniques by the cia. i spoke with senator graham, who tells me why he's concerned the information released will hurt .

>> let's look at it this way. i'm all for killing and capturing terrorists. now, when we capture a terrorist, it's about getting good information and living within our values. i've been a military lawyer for 32 years. they no longer hold terrorists as enemy combatants. they treat them as common criminals. from the time we capture a terrorist to the time they're giving a lawyer is a matter of days. under the law of war, you can hold an enemy -- a terror suspect as an enemy combatant indefinitely. that's how you gather good information. obama is criminalizing the war. we've gone from one extreme to the other. waterboarding and treating people -- terrorists as if they robbed a liquor store. >> those against the cia methods act as though they have the moral high ground but innocents

get killed in drone strikes. >> collateral damage is part of it. we try very hard to limit civilian casualties. terrorists live among populated areas. i'm very familiar with the rules of engagement when it comes to drone strikes. there have been occasion, where civilians have been killed. that is part of war. the goal is to minimize civilian casualties. that's a completely different exercise than what you do with somebody once you capture them. they're not even the same concept. >> how do you feel about lawmakers like senator feinstein and pelosi who say they were lied to by the cia? even though program directors say those lawmakers were briefed on the methods? >> i think there's a lot of covering. i support looking into the abuse allegations. but we've already changed the law. the act gives guidance to the military, the cia, the fbi about what's lawful and what's not. to those who were defending this

nation after 9/11, they were afraid another attack was imminent. when they caught a terrorist, they used these techniques. out of fear of another attack. so there's not going to be any prosecution of those who were employing these techniques because they were given legal guidance. the law at the time was very confusing. but it is very clear now. >> what about countries that cooperated with the cia post-september 11th detention and interrogation program? like poland expressing concerns that details of the interrogation methods were made public? who will want to cooperate with us in the future against terrorism in this domain if they feel like they're up against potential leaks? >> great question. you know, when we leaked information about the bin laden raid to make president obama, you know -- i applaud president obama. that was a tough call to go after bin ladladen. when we leaked the details, remember the pakistani doctor who helped us, he wound up being in a pakistani jail. the british were working some

sources that were compromised. so yes, when you release this report and you point out, you know, poland was involved, i can only imagine the problems that creates in poland. i don't mind looking into our abuses. i don't mind airing our dirty laundry. but we're still in the war. this is not a report about how world war ii ended. this is a report in the middle of a war. this president in my view, barack obama, has changed the war to a crime. not one person has been put in guantanamo bay. as soon as we capture somebody like bin laden's son-in-law, we hold them for a few days and read them their miranda rights and that's going to come back to bite us. that's going to hurt us as much, if not more, than the old techniques. >> what about the timing of this report and the threats we're facing right now that you pointed out? have you been able to figure out why the report is coming out now? >> yeah, i think it was released because democrats are going to be out of power. it has nothing to do with any

other issue as far as i'm concerned. i think the timing couldn't be worse. isil is on the rise. the middle east is on fire. iran, we're in the middle of negotiations with the iranians. it's going to make it harder to deal with our allies. so i think the timing of this report could not have been worse. again, we have looked at this stuff in detail. we have fixed it by statute. i don't mind airing our dirty laundry but this is not the time, nor the place, to do it. i do fear we've compromised our national security and put our people at risk. at the end of the day, i'm for aggressive war on terror against a vicious enemy who knows no bounds. i want to fight this war as an american within our values going after the enemies of this nation, using drones, using aggressive interrogation techniques but limiting civilian casualties and not going down the road that will bring our values.

>> our thanks to senator graham. coming up later, you will hear from former cia director james woolsey with his thoughts on how the cia can move ahead at a time when it's under the microscope in light of this recent report. emergency workers digging through wreckage after a massive landslide wiping out dozens of homes. the latest on a big rescue effort under way in indonesia. back at hope, thousands marching down pennsylvania avenue at this hour, protesting for justice. rich essen is standing by. rich. >> uma, this march just happened, from near the white house on pennsylvania avenue, to capitol hill. we'll have more coming up. a bit later on, a story so inspiring with a command performance that truly touched britain's prince william who is now stepping in to help out. you'll meet brooklyn performance artist steven press scott whose story prompted the future king

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welcome back. as a frantic search is under way for survivors at this hour in indonesia after heavy rains created a massive landslide. nearly 100 people are missing. at least 17 confirmed dead. after tons of mud wiping out over 100 homes on eindonesia's main island. tractors and bulldozers are helping hundreds of rescuers search through that debris. thousands of protesters rallying here in the capital for what's being called a justice for all march. the demonstrators calling attention to a series of police confrontationings that resulted in the deaths of unarmed black men. al sharpton leading that march along with the families of eric garner and michael brown. rich edson is joining us live from d.c. >> good morning. righted in middle of this march. we're here with a local who's

here from washington, d.c. tell us why you're marching today. >> i'm marching for the injustice that been going on for since my father was living, since my father was my age. and enough is enough. if you be quiet, nothing will happen. so we here to try to make noise, for we can get some justice for our people. >> what do you want to see congress do? >> pay attention, pay attention. it's obvious. it's something you, like you throwing on a back burner but it's serious. sit there and imagine if that's your son. sit there imagine if that's your father. sit there imagine it's your brother. then take it serious. it's serious. it's serious. >> thank you for your time. this march continues all the way through. if you can picture what's going on when typically you have the president walk from the white house. this is the reverse. what they're demanding is a policy change for congress to pass to require the department of justice to examine any type

of situation where police officer shoots someone as opposed to or killed somebody as opposed to having the local authorities. they say there's a conflict of interest inherrant there. thousands behind me from across the country making the walk up pennsylvania avenue. >> thank you very much. live from pennsylvania avenue right here in d.c. the taliban stepping up attacks in afghanistan. killing two american soldiers. a live report from our middle east bureau on this developing story. plus, new discoveries from space. we're going to tell you what curiosity has now discovered on mars. and stunning new photos of saturns moons. bill nye the science guy is here. if yand you're talking toevere rheumyour rheumatologiste me, about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage.

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three deadly attack, in the last 48 hours have claimed at least 21 lives in afghanistan including two u.s. soldiers killed last night when taliban insurgents attacked a military convoy there. john huddy is standing by from our mideast bureau following the story with the latest developments. john. >> uma, these attacks have really escalated not only the past 48 hour also but really over the past couple weeks. as the international mission starts to wind down and it's been a particular bloody 12 hours. let me walk you through the latest numbers. two u.s. soldiers were killed yesterday near the bagram airfield outside of kabul. today, insurgents shot to death 12 workers who were clearing mines in southern afghanistan in the helmand province. one of the largest minefields in the world. in kabul, two separate attacks. a suicide bomber destroyed a bus

carrying afghan soldiers. reportedly killing six and wounding 14 others. though that number could grow. those are the initial numbers that we're getting. and in another attack, two gunman shot to death an afghans who was walking from his home to his car. that also happened in kabul as well. now, all of this as the international effort comes to an end in afghanistan. the u.s. will leave about 10,000 troops to advise and assist afghan soldiers. the taliban has warned the attacks will continue. targeting government officials. military and also foreigners including, uma, the media. back to you. >> thank you for that update from our mideast bureau. rival militants clashing today in central libya over a major oil terminal killing at least two people there.

libyan officials backed by militant factions ordering its militants over a major oil terminal. as the chaos continues to grip that nation. growing concerns over the fallout after the senate intelligence report exposing the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques. over the years following 9/11. joining us now, former cia director james woolsey. welcome. great to have you here, sir, once again. i know you are very concerned about the release of this report, particularly because it's putting so many lives at risk at this moment. >> having the report done and having it done within the confines of the secrecy would have been a very reasonable thing to do. this is the sort of thing that needs to be assessed. the practices have changed over the last years. but to turn it loose really

gives the al qaedas and the isises and other terrorist groups a major leg up, not only in terms of propaganda but in learning how we go about interpreting things, how we go about on taking information. it's just a god send for the terrorists. >> you know, a number of lawmakers on the democratic side are saying they were lied to by the cia and don't remember any type of briefings that were given to them by cia officials who were managing this program. i want you to have our audience listen to who jose rodriguez had to say about this because he says he briefed members at least 40 times, to bring them up to date about this program. take a listen. >> we briefed dianne feinstein and nancy pelosi and rockefeller

and many others all the time. and we at the outset, at the beginning, back in 2001, i remember very clearly them telling me, you know, the problem that you guys have is that you are risk averse. you need to use the authorities we have given you to go out there and destroy this organization and to kill bin laden, so we feel that we briefed them and we briefed them thoroughly and they are, you know, hypocritical. >> would you agree with that? >> well, i wasn't -- i left the agency by then six years earlier. >> of course. it's a fact that they are claiming not to have any knowledge of this and saying that they were lied to. >> we, i think it is really indicative that they were unwilling to talk to anybody who had conducted the program in the cia or from the top level all the way down. trying to do an investigation and publish something about what it's like when you're not willing to talk to the people who did it is really just kind

of amazing. and i think that says that senate -- the democrats on the committee really didn't want to have to confront ordeal with or have their staff confront and deal with the people who were conducting the interrogation. and i think it makes -- that is, the senators look very bad. >> you know, a number of changes have already been implemented since those techniques were implemented. at the same time, though, it was quite interesting to see brennan there having a news conference for the first time within the agency to defend the policies that have been taking place and to say, to sort of outline how the agency's going to move ahead. let's listen for a moment. >> in the future, there is some type of challenge that we face here. the army field manual is the established basis to use for

interrogations. this is going to be a chapter in our history. it's one they're willing to work through. i am determined to make sure as we go forward with the committee that there is a better understanding on what exactly it is that we do. >> calls for a better understanding. but from what i'm hearing, morale is quite low amongst members of the cia right now because they feel they've been this roen under the bus. >> well, they have at least been pushed in the direction of the bus. because they haven't been given credit i think by the senate democrats or by a lot of other people for the extraordinarily brave and effective work that they did. now, there were some things at the beginning of the process. the water boarding and some others. that are somewhere between questionable and a terrible idea. chaining this man up and he freezes and dies. that's awful. but waterboarding is complex. it's the only interrogation technique i know of where

journalists were subjecting themselves to it so they could write better about it. and it's used as a training tool for our special forces in the navy s.e.a.l.s and the rest. that's a very strange kind of, quote, torture, unquote, that you use as a training device for your own troops. i think they have really taken a lot of verbal blows from the senate report and otherwise that they don't deserve. and the cia is used to taking verbal blows. but this is a particularly low one i think. >> how does this agency move ahead from your perspective? >> well, i think john brennan's doing a good job of walking a very difficult tight rope. and i think what will happen partially because we're not penetrating isis, we're not penetrating al qaeda any longer in the way that we used to. these rules make it a lot harder to interrogate people. instead, the terrorists die as a

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now to a very inspiring story that will touch your heart in such a big way. a once troubled young man has found a way to turn his life around. he's also basking in the glow of the break a lifetime this week. it all began when the duke and duchess of cambridge made a trip to new york city. steven prescott gave a beautiful performance in front of the prince and the prince gave him his phone number because he wants to help out and make a difference in this young man's plans for the future. he is joining us now. welcome, great to have you. >> thank you for having us. >> steve be, let me begin with you. i think lots of folks will be amazed to know you are something with a passion for fine arts.

just a few years ago, you couldn't imagine to be where you are today. >> not at all. never in a million years. it was just a great experience to have. >> that's because you had some challenges growing up and had to deal with some tough circumstances as a young man. >> yes. >> can you expand on that? >> yes. well, at the age of 16, i was incarcerated. and i was facing seven years upstate. but instead the judge sentenced me to a six-month case program. through that case program, they gave paid interships and they asked what is it i love to do. i told them i really love to act and dance. so they suggested that i should go to a not for profit organization called city kids. and through there, that's where i began to turn my life around. i saw it as a new opportunity to just continue to pursue what i

love to do because being in jail, i felt like that wasn't the place for me and that's not a place for any young man. for any human being. >> absolutely. and this performance that you gave really was to show what it was like for you growing up. this was a very strong performance that really got to prince william because he was so inspired by the work that you're doing. >> yes. he loved the performance so much. because the thing that he said he loved about it was that it was so real. these topics that i speak about in performance, they're hard to talk about, just to talk about it. it's different when i perform it. i feel all that energy and everything i hold on to my heart, i let it go on the stage. he said it was very in inspirational. >> what's the message in your performance you want people to come away with is this.

>> v8f'w just want to reach out show them it doesn't matter which obstacles are put in front of you, you can overcome those obstacles. i speak about very hard topics about how it was growing up without a father. how streets of brooklyn almost took over my life. how i was able to overcome that. >> as i understand, this is a program you want to take to other schools and even perhaps do a broadway show and the prince came up to you and said, i want to give you my contact information. what was that like for you? >> well, at first i didn't believe it. i told him that was just an excerpt of it. he said he would love, when i'm done working on it, he would love to see it.

he didn't hand it to me directly. his personal assistant, and moises, which is also the director and co-writer of the piece, brooklyn boy, they exchanged contact information. they've been -- i don't know what's been going on at that end. i'm just been focused on brooklyn boy and they've been keeping in touch. >> what's it like knowing you have the backing of the future king of england on your future projects that are really inspiring and making a difference with so many young people? lottery. really start the dialogue of young men in brooklyn and all parts of the united states, of how do we get their voices heard. the prince just gave us the big microphone. we're excited about this. we're really excited. >> you hope to have your programs coming out soon?

>> yes, yes, we are definitely planning a few readings of this play. what we want to do, too, is bring in tons of brooklyn kids who see it first and get their thumbs up. we want to make sure this piece truly represents the story of all the brooklyn boys and all the brooklyn girls out there. we want to make sure the dialogue can start there. and we want to definitely make sure that steven's voice and all the voices are heard and understood. we don't want this to just become more glitz and glamour. we really want to start a dialogue. >> absolutely. steven, for you, this is a dream come true. where do you hope this will lead you? >> just hope it will help me continue to pursue acting. i just hope i'll make a change within these young people's lives. we want to get this message out. continue to pursue my account anning and my career. yes. >> we're very proud of you. i want you to know you have our support. we wish you all the best.

you're a remarkable young man. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much for having us. >> moises, thank you for your input as well. good luck with the program. >> thank you. >> if you want to find out how to help steven get his show brooklyn boy to broadway, just visit citykids.com for more information. and we hope you help out. coming up, a ground-breaking image from mars sent back to earth by the curiosity rovis it abundant water on the red planet? we're going to ask bill nye, the science guy. stand by for that. here's some news you may find surprising.

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capturing the cell phone video of the tornado. this damaged five homes, ripped the roof straight off of one. nobody was hurt, but according to u.s. tornadoes.com, this is the first tornado in los angeles since 2004. on average california, the entire state, only gets about six tornadoes a year, compare that to oklahoma which gets about 50. it was an ef-0, so it wasn't very powerful, but one resident described it as going through an earthquake in the middle of this storm. that just shows how rarely we get tornados in this area. earlier in the day heavy rainfall caused severe flooding throughout the region sending rock down hillsides have have little or no vegetation due to recent fires. in camarillo rock slides piled up to ten feet high. at least ten had to be red tagged. >> the rain was just tremendous. i've never seen a down pour like

this. soon the mud was throwing around both sides of the house. eventually the firemen came into the area, the first xprwrespond. they helped me get out to their truck, took me down to the local clubhouse. >> some parts of california got up to five inches of rain during this storm system. we're also expecting to get another storm in the next few days. that could bring three more inches. we got heavy snow throughout the mountain areas of california. add it ul up, uma and this is very good for the state because of the historic drought that's been going on for the past three years. >> news of incredible discoveries from nasa this week including new evidence of an ancient lake on mars. but first, there are some gorgeous pictures coming to us from saturn giving us a never before seen view of the ringed planet's moons. bill nye, the science guy and

the author of a new book "undeniable, evolution, science, creation" is here. great to have you here. >> so good to be here. >> let's talk about the new images we're getting from saturn, absolutely breathtaking. >> it is. so what we're discovering is these moons of saturn, which are pretty big as planetary bodies go, are changing. over the last ten years cassini, the cassini huygens mission has been out there issi, the space agency and we find that the surface has changed over the last century dramatically. and the more we learn about these other places in the solar system, the more we learn about the solar system. and we work our way to answering these deep questions. where did we come from, how did

we all get here, are we alone in the universe? and we do this out there at saturn for so little money, everybody. i mean, this thing has been flying since 1997, cost 3 billion bucks. that's less than a third of a cup of coffee per taxpayer. i mean, once. it's amazing what we're doing out there. >> the investment is so important and needed, and particularly at a time when we're also talking about mars. with the curiosity and the rover on the planet's surface. curiosity bringing back information to us about the fact that there were -- there was water on the planet's surface and even lakes. >> oh, yeah, there were lakes. but mars used to be very wet, about 3 billion years ago. that's pretty well established. but what the curiosity rover is doing right now is showing that there's been a sequence, there's been a lake that drained, a lake that drained, a lake that

drained, and creates these distinctive rock layers that geologists, if i may say, are crazy for. the thing the geologists really wanted was not only the ability to hit rocks with hammers, spiritually or in a sense, but they also wanted mobility. they wanted to be able to find a place to observe and drive there and observe it close up. and that's what curiosity has been able to do. so we found that the climate of mars has been much more complex or much more active, much more kinetic than people originally thought or thought for so many years. so it's exciting. as i say, we're doing this for a very small amount of money. the planetary science line item in the nasa budget where these extraordinary discoveries are being made. i'll tell you guys, the

cronnibus bill has provided almost $1.5 billion for planetary science. that's why we at the planetary society are excited about it. this is where the new discoveries are being made. this is why we have global positioning systems, why we have smartphones, why we have the internet. when we explore space we solve problems that have never been before. >> absolutely. it's very exciting. we're excited to have you here today, bill nye. thank you for joining us with your insights as always. >> thank you, happy saturday. >> we'll take a break and be right back.

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