jim. >> axelrod: thank you, bill. if there is one area of possible agreement in the senate it's the need for improvements in the treatment of the mentally ill with a focus on identifying troubled youths before they take a deadly turn. cbs news correspondent dawn dailier has that part of the story. >> reporter: that adam lanza had serious issues before he massre26 adultes and children was obvious to many, including, apparently, his own mother. aurora movie theater shooter james holmes' psychiatrist was so concerned she report him to campus police. yet, near lanza nor holmes would have been flagged nay background check, not lanza because it was his mother who bought the weapons, and not holmes, because he had never been institutionalized for mental illness. criminalinologist james fox of northeastern university says mass killers are impossible to spot until after the fact. >> the irony is that these mass killings are the very kind of crimes that are least preventable bilet kind of gun legislation we're seeing today. >>

i'm jim axelrod. the federallationave administration is ordering all its air traffic controllers back to work. the f.a.a. says control towers will be fully staffed again by tomorrow night. this follows a rough week on runways across the country. more than 5,000 delays and hundreds of cancellations. 15,000 air traffic controllers had been furloughed after mandatory federal budget cuts known as the sequester, and there simply weren't enough of them to handle the volume. as carter evans reports, congress' solution to this problem may create plenty of others. >> reporter: it seems members of congress couldn't eave washington fast enough for their week-long recess, even after a rare show of unity. both sides agreed to quickly end the air traffic controller furloughs, whic which caused thousands of flight delays. is what we saw congress at its best or congress at its worst? >> i don't think it's congress at its best. >> democratic congresswoman karen bass arrived home friday night on time but with plenty of

i'm jim axelrod.we are boston, we are strong, we are boston strong"-- that was the message of an emotional ceremony at fenway park before the boston red sox game this afternoon and the feeling throughout the city after the capture of dzhokar tsarnaev, suspect number two, in the boston marathon bombing. here's the latest. tsarnaev is in serious condition in the hospital, under heavy tard. he is unable to talk to investigators, we are told. no charges have been filed yet. s bombing victims are still in hospitals, six are critical. 12 victims are at beth israel, where tsarnaev is also being treated. we have team coverage tonight, beginning with dean reynolds. >> reporter: when a watertown neighbor saw someone bleeding in his backyard boat last night, he called the cops. and when a state police helicopter with special heat- sensing technology spotted the contours of a body in that boat, law enforcement moved in. ( gunfire ) >> reporter: after an hour or more of sporadic gunfire, the suspect, dzhokar tsarn

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for example, tabled axelrod -- david axelrod now works for msnbc, which is a nice change of pace, sincebc used to work for david axelrod. [laughter] the history channel is not here. i guess they were embarrassed about the whole obama is a devil thing. [laughter] of course, that never cap fox news -- kept fox news from showing up. they actually thought the comparison was not fair to satan. [laughter] the problem is is that the media landscape is changing so rapidly. you cannot keep up with it. i remember when was -- when buzzfeed was just something i did in college around 2:00 a.m. host: here are some tweets coming into us. we are asking you about the relationship between media and dc insiders. what do you think? jim writes in -- dana milbank writes about this in his column today in the "washington post." what do you think? peggy, tampa, florida, democrats line. thatr: i just want to say it is good at times that we have this sort of thing going on for the simple reason that we've got to have a simple sense of humor to keep the american spirit. going to go around criticizing each other an

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which is a nice change of pace since msnbc used to work for david axelrod.tory channel is not here. i guess they were embarrassed about the whole obama is a devil thing. of course, that never kept fox news from showing up. they actually thought the comparison was not fair -- to satan. but the problem is, is that the media landscape is changing so rapidly. you can't keep up with it. i mean i remember when buzz feed was just something i did in college around 2:00 a.m. it's true. recently, though, i found a new favorite source for political news. these guys are great. i think everybody here should check it out. they tell it like it is. it's called whitehouse.gov. i cannot get enough of it. fact is, i really do respect the press. i recognize that the press and i have different jobs to do. my job is to be president, your job is to keep me humble. frankly i think i'm doing my job better. part of the problem is, everybody is so cynical. i mean, we're constantly feeding cynicism, suspicion, conspiracies. you remember a few months ago my administration put out a phot

for david axelrod. >>> the history channel is not here.hey were embarrassed about the whole obama is the devil thing. of course, that never kept fox news fromwing up. they actually thought the comparison was not fair -- to satan. >>> the problem is the media landscape is changing. i remember when buzzfeed was something i did in college around 2:00 a.m. it's true. recently, though, i found a new favorite source for political news. these guys are great. i think everybody here should check it out. they tell it like it is. it's called whitehouse.gov. i cannot get enough of it. the fact is i really do respect the press. i recognize that the press and i have different jobs to do. my job is to be president, your job is to keep me humble. frankly i think i'm doing my job better. but part of the problem is everybody is so cynical. i mean, we're constantly feeding cynicism, suspicion, conspiracies. you remember a few months ago my administration put out a photograph of me going skeet shooting at camp david? do you remember that? and quite a number o

former white house adviser, david axelrod will be played by higm from magnum pi.ntative paul ryan will be played by mr. bean. senator chuck schumer will be played by grandpa munster. senator harry reid will be played by the old man from the american gothic painting. fox news aoger will be played by, speaker of the house john boehner will be played by tan mom. janet napolitano will be played by paul. former white house chief of staff and chicago mayor rahm emanuel will be play ed by "family guy." secretary of state john kerry will be played by an easter island head. i cannot tell those two apart. chief justice john roberts will be played by buzz lightyear. senator mitch mcconnell will be played by dame edna. cnn anchor wolf blitzer will be played by a furby. wayne lapierre will be played by raiders of the lost ark. jay carney will be played by ralphy from "a christmas story." ladies and gentlemen, this is a huge honor. thank you very much. >> one of the best, conan o'brien. i will see you back here at the top of the hour at 8:00 eastern. "dr. sanjay gupta md" will

." >> good evening, i'm jim axelrod with a west coast edition of the broadcast. for the last month they've been looking for kor killers of three people including two prosecutors in kaufman, texas. about 30 miles southeast of dallas. in the last 72 hours the search for clues has narrowed it to two locations and apparently one man. we have two reports tonight beginning with manual bojorquez. >> investigators search the storage facility saturday about 10 miles from where the murders happened. they pulled a white crown victoria from one unit. also multiple guns, ballistic tests are being done on the weapons to see if they are connected to the murders. just a day before the search focused on the kaufman, texas, home of a man who knew the victims. eric williams. williams is a former kaufman county justice of the peace. he was fired last year after being convicted of stealing computer equipment from the county. >> there's three monitors missing. one's on your desk. >> uh-huh. >> right now. where are the others. >> reporter: assistant district attorney and district attor

. ♪ the one and only, cheerios ♪ >> axelrod: tonight, a mother's plea. >> please help us do somethings your tragedy. >> axelrod: the president asked the parent of a newtown shooting victim to deliver the weekly white house address. we have the latest on the gun control debate. splashdown in bali. a passenger plane crash landses in indonesia. we'll have the amazing survival story. >> arrests in the case of a california teenager who killed herself after her sexual assault was posted online. carter evans has the latest. and the youngest master. they've never seen anything like this 14-year-old in augusta but terrell brown tells us how slow play almost derailed him from his fast track. captioning sponsored by cbs

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for david axelrod.he history channel is not here. i guess they were embarrassed about the whole obama is a devil thi thing. of course, that never kept fox news from showing up. they actually thought the comparison was not fair to satan. but the problem is that the media landscape is changing so rapidly. you can't keep up with it. i remember when buzz feed was something i did in college around 2:00 a.m. it's true. recently though i found a new favorite source for political news, these guys are great, everybody should check it out. it's called white house.gov. i cannot get enough of it. the fact is i really do respect the press. i recognize that the press and i have different jobs to do. my job is to be president, your job is to keep me humble. i think i'm doing my job better frankly. but part of the problem is everybody is so cynical, we're constantly feeding cynicism, suspicion, conspiracies. you remember a few months ago my administration put out a photograph of me going skeet shooting at camp david? d

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as jim axelrod reports, patients are getting caught in the middle. >> how are you?porter: 72-year-old george rossis is in the fight of his life, battling lung cancer. he and his wife, linda, are very happy with the care he's receiving at this clinic near their long island home. that may soon change. and linda may have to start taking time off from work to drive george to a hospital for chemotherapy. >> i am upset because to think if this is what's going to happen, you know, my concern is for george, too, and i want nothing but the best for him. >> reporter: most medications for seniors are covered by medicare part "d," which is exempt from the automatic budget cuts. but cancer drugs must be given by a doctor. so chemotherapy falls under care part "b." which is being cut by 2%. >> it strikes me as being insane. >> reporter: dr. jeff is the chief executive of north shore hematology/oncology associates where george rossis is a patient. >> we can't go to the point where we're actually losing money when we are giving chemotherapy drugs. that's not going to, in the end, d

joining us now is a man who probably knows, david axelrod, former adviser to president obama, professore university of chicago and a senior political analyst for msnbc and nbc news. >> good to be here. good to be here. >> when you hear the criticism of president obama's budget from somebody like elizabeth warren, somebody so closely aligned with, does that, as somebody so close to the president, does that sting or does that sound like good cover for him winning over some people in the middle and on the right? >> look, i think that we ought to back up and look at this for what, as i think he looks at it. really, we have a choice in this country. we have a republican vision about how we move forward that would not only turn medicare into a voucher system, but would decimate investments in the future in education, in research, in social spending generally that would leave standing all the tax preferences that benefit oil companies and other special interests, allow millionaires to avoid paying a proportionate share of their income, versus a vision that the president offered, and i think hi

i wanted to say something real quickly about axelrod and the president's reaction to this.hat you were -- listen, i'm not -- this is no conspiracy thing. i don't dislike the president. but when i watch those two things back to back there are a couple interesting things there, bill. do you have one second? >> sure, absolutely. go. it reminded me of tiger woods after the fact say saying that he moved the ball back in a couple yards in the masters and therefore stepping in it on day two when the president says any time bombs are used against innocence it's terrorism at that point day one becomes important to me in a vague way i just go wow, yesterday, you didn't say that and the second thing is when he said we want to find out who did this, and why they did this. i find why to be such a is you purr superfluous. fools errand. i want to know who did it and i want them to be brought to justice. there were a couple things there. lastly when axelrod said the president didn't want to use the word terrorist because everybody knows what that means these days, i think he was saying tha

this time around you split a charred dog with david axelrod at the wiener circle. i have a question. and i think some of you also have this question. it's been several months since you were re-elected, sir. so i'm curious, why are you still sending everyone five e-mails a day asking for more money? you won. do you have a gambling problem we don't know about? did you put it all on gonzaga? you did, didn't you? he did. president obama has already made a lot of changes in his second term. sir, ug you recently appointed john kerry and chuck hagel. very smart move. you appointed the only two people in the united states who look even more tired than you. it's a great strategy. mr. president, you're going to leave office as a very young man. and yet the presidency has taken its toll. i don't want to alarm you, sir, but you're starting to look like a judge on "law and order." [ laughter ] >> just say you're on thin ice, counselor. you could have that part right away. seriously, mr. president, your hair is so white it could be a member of your cabinet. he can handle it. he

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[laughter] former white house adviser david axelrod will be played by higgins from magnum pi.his was also produced by steven spielberg, by the way. the present of paul ryan will be played by mr. bean. [laughter] senator chuck schumer will be played by grandpa munster. [laughter] senator harry reid will be played by the old man from the american gothic painting. fox news ceo roger ailes will be played by -- speaker boehner will be played by tan mom. secretary of homeland security janet napolitano will be played by paul giamatti. [laughter] former white house chief of staff and chicago mayor rahm emanuel will be played by stewie from "family guy." secretary of state john kerry will be played by any easter island head. i cannot tell those two apart. [laughter] supreme court chief justice john roberts will be played by buzz light year. senator mitch mcconnell will be played by dame edna. cnn anchor wolf blitzer will be played by a furby. lockyear will be played by the facemelt guy from "raiders of the lost ark." and white house press secretary jay carney will be played by ralphie

for example, david axelrod now works for msnbc. which is a nice change of pace since msnbc used to work for david axelrod. the history channel is not here. i guess they were embarrassed about is the whole obama is a devil thing. of course, that never kept fox news from showing up. they thought the comparison was not fair to satan. but the problem is that the media landscape is changing so rapidly. you can't keep up with it. i remember when buzz feed was just something i did in college around 2:00 a.m. it's true. recently, though, i found a new favorite source for political news. these guys are great. i think everybody here should check it out. they tell it like it is. it's called whitehouse.gov. i cannot get enough of it. the fact is, i really do respect the press. i recognize that the press and i have different jobs to do. my job is to be president. your job is to keep me humble. frankly, i think i'm doing my job better. but part of the problem is everybody is so cynical. we're constantly feeding cynicism, conspiracies. you rememb

david axelrod will be on campus tonight. >> more than six dc consillcons members will endorse bonds today. s she is running for an at large seat. bonds has been serving as an interim council member. >> 4:31 time for weather and traffic on the 1's. little drizzle out there tom. >> yeah, you will need an umbrella out there. we have scattered showers. not a lot of rain across virginia and the eastern shore. closer look here showing scattered showers here. montgomery arlington and fairfax. j just enough to make the pavement wet. temperatures in the low and mid 50s and in the mountains closer to washington in the mid and upper 50s. we are going to hold steady here in the 50s. here is your hour by hour forecast. we will be holding steady in the 50s. light rain and drizzle perhaps and then by noon time cloudy and temperatures should be into the mid 60s. look at the rest of the day the a afternoon and evening. that is coming up in ten minutes. let's look at traffic. g good morning. >> good morning, tom. good morning everyone. good mor%ing everyone. traveling the beltway both the inner and outer l

which is a mace change of pace since msnbc used to work for david axelrod. >> bill: also tonight, the factor's excellent journey to washington over the weekend with the national media remains enthralled with the president. >> rush limbaugh warned you about the second term, baby. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the excellent venture to washington, d.c. that's the subject of tonight's talking points memo. we have a lot to tell you tonight. it's all over the place i apologize in advance. every year they the white house holds a dinner for kids who don't have very much money so they can attend journalism school. this year fox news white house correspondent ed henry, a good guy, was in charge. henry did a very nice job raising about $300,000 for the students as part of the event, president obama gets to make fun of everybody, including himself. >> these days i look in the mirror and i have to admit i'm not the strapping young muslim socialist that i used to be. [ laughter

for david axelrod. >> cenk: that would hurt.s so true. the truest thing said all weekend. that was pretty harsh and pretty accurate. and then conan who was headlining. the president was so good at telling jokes. he up stages the comedians but here is conan about the media as well. >> it's an absolute joy to be mere. tom brokaw criticized this event for being too many ah list celebrities. when i told him i would be here this year, he said that's more like it. that shouldn't be funny to you. >> cenk: what tom brokaw said is very important and what i want to talk about. here comes the panel brian unger, chris moody and lauren brown jarvis, who is at nation builder which is a surprise to me. let's read the tom brokaw at the same time of 2012 2012: >> cenk: brian thoughts. >> my thoughts are no one really gives a crap what my opinion is on this, and i don't care what they do, hollywood or washington, but as i travel the country for the history channel for so many years now i got to say the one thing i heard the most from every averag

this time around you split a charred dog with david axelrod at the wiener circle.the way, i have a question. and i think some of you also have this question. it's been several months since you were re-elected, sir. so i'm curious, why are you still sending everyone five e-mails a day asking for more money? you won do you have a gambling problem we don't know about? did you pull it on on gonzaga? you didders didn't you? he did. president obama has already made a lot of changes in his second term. sir you recently appointed john kerry and chuck hagel. very smart move. you appointed the only two people in the united states who look even more tired than you. it's a great strategy. mr. president, you're going to leave office as a very young man. and yet the presidency has taken its toll. i don't want to alarm you, sir, but you're starting to look like a judge on "law and order." [ laughter ] >> just say you're on thin ice, counselor. you could have that part right away. seriously, mr. president, your hair is so white it could be a member of your cabinet. [ crowd oohs ]

for example, david axelrod now works for msnbc.which is a nice change of pace since msnbc used to work for david axelrod. the history channel is not here. i guess they were embarrassed about the whole obama is a devil thing. of course, that never kept fox news from showing up. >> let's bring back our panel michael medved. you're a film critic. what does this look like to the rest of the country? >> looks like a bunch of insiders talking inside baseball. the number of ordinary americans who immediately pick up the reference to the fact that there was some people who thought that the guy who played satan on the history channel theme on "the bible" looked like obama. this is not what the president needs right now. he's at his best when he has the feeling that i can connect with ordinary people. that's why he won the election. >> all right -- >> and the idea of at this moment hobnobbing with a lot of insiders in tuxedos. it doesn't help the president. >> i want to focus on the press corps. sarah palin tweeted this yesterday. i have to

this is so easy, david axelrod.so courageous. i never stop to tell them it's a 90% proposition. this is also about winning. >> apparently, we have to get to 95 before people feel comfortable, joe. look. the bottom line is the fundamental instincts of politicians of survival in a lot of these states and rural districts, they believe that there is greater risk in defining the nra than there is in d as steve said the will of the majority because they don't think it's a voting issue for those 90%. until people start losing their seats because they voted against common sense gun safety laws, they will continue to vote against -- they don't think there is a penalty to be paid for this. you know, we are talking about terrorists and so on. i watched that mom, that heart broken mom. but i see those scenes on television all the time in chicago. >> every night in chicago. >> all the time. and most of the time, those guns are illegally purchased from straw buyers in tandem with trafficking laws would make a big difference and s

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i do understand, if i were david axelrod. if i put myself in david axelrod's shoes and we sat in the oval office and talked about politics. i would say, about all of the thousand battles you have to fight, let's just not fight this one. an amoral perspective. this could be explosive because of the nexus of this extremely provocative example. >> it is scary when you have a member of the president's cabinet that oversees the agency that is supposed to be following rules and regulations of drugs. we want to trust the fda in all decisiones. what does it mean we can't trust in decision of reproductive health. it is just important that agencies do not get involved in politics and can make these kind of healthcare decisions on the merit. >> that's an important point. there is a legal process here, which is the basis of the decision. >> i want young women to have control over their bodies because then they can control their destiny. >> yes. >> that's the core of the issue. i want you to have control over it from 11 to 87. i want you

also david axelrod, valerie jarrett and reverend al sharpton. >>> but first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? >> it was a tease yesterday, april fool's day. the warm air arrived in the northeast for one day, that's it. the cold air is back, but not for long, good things coming your way next week. let's show you what's happening out there this morning, though. a cold morning, windchills in the teens and 20s and we've got some snow out there. coming off of lake erie and lake ontario. especially from syracuse through upstate new york right around albany. could even be a little bit of accumulating snows. now, as far as the other areas of concern out there, not so much airports, we should be okay today, yesterday it was near 60 in new york city, today, 48, cooler in d.c., around 50, but at least a lot of sunshine around. now, over the next couple of days, heavy rain is going to spread from oklahoma to texas. if there's going to be airport trouble late today, the dallas airports and also san antonio, possibly oklahoma city, and then all that rain will shift through the deep s

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as jim axelrod learned today from someone who used to box with him, it seemed within the last year ortwo that tamerlan changed somehow. he became quieter and sort of more disciplined. there was a photo essay that appeared a number of years ago, the exact date is a little unclear. but it showed pictures of tamerlan training this in the boxing rinanthere were a number of captions attacd to that essay. in one of them tamerlan says "i don't have a single american friend. i don't understand them." he also described himself in those captions as a muslim. he said he didn't smoke or drink anymore. he said "there are no values anymore." and worried that people can't control themselves anymore. again, tamerlan, this is the brother, the 26-year-old who was killed in that garage of gunfire last night. as you said, scott, 200 rounds. it is his younger brother, dzhokar, who is only 19, a college sophomore, who is apparently in hiding right now in that boat in the backyard in watertown. >> pelley: if, indeed, he is the one that the police have cornered in that backyard. anthony, thank you very much.

an axelrod broke on the train and sonny did not survive the crash. >> she concluded that this was god's judgment. that the loss of her son was god's punishment. >> the house was too much for her to take care of. i don't think she was interested in house skeeping -- housekeeping particularly. she wasn't capable of taking care of a house. >> she was glad to leave the place. >> it was probably the unhappiest of all presidencies. >> evening and welcome to spee span's first lady influence and image. we learn about the final first ladies of the antebellum era. we meet jane pierce whose tenure in the white house was defined by overwhelming loss. by the time she and her husband arrive at executive mansion, they have lost all three of their young sons and she finds heifer self -- finds her self crippled by grief. we'll delve into jains pierce and to help us understand more about this first lady, meet our guest who is the author of a new biography of jane pierce pierce."ane appleton 1852. what are the issues that bring franklin pierce to the white house? >> the situation was dire at that time. ev

. >> david axelrod says mr.ma may have avoided using the word terror monday, because the fact that it was tax day suggest that a homegrown attack. arizona republican senator john mccain feels the president is generally too reluctant to use the word terrorism. >> i always thought it was just utter foolishness not to use the word terrorist when we are talking about attacks that killed innocent civilians. >> by not immediately calling it terror, mr. obama recalled the two week long dispute after the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi whether it grew out protest of anti-islam film or planned as terrorist attack from the start. and his reference to terrorism less than a day after the boston attack may suggest a lesson learned like benghazi some of the president's aid referred to the boston attack as terrorism before he did. a senior administration official privately called it an act of terror shortly --er mr. obama smoke on spoke on monday. chuck hagel had no doubts. >> any event with multiple explosive