the beltway media is focused on the wrong threat. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> it makes me very uncomfortable to have the white house telling reporters you're going to regret doing something that you believe in. >> a legendary reporter whines about the white house, only to be exposed by his own e-mail. but the facts don't matter to the right-wing media. >> he's continued on saying, you know, ronald reagan wouldn't have done these kind of threats and creating armageddon like president obama has. >> tonight, former congressman barney frank, david corn of "mother jones," and michael thomasky on why bob woodward's embarrassment is a symptom of a much larger problem. >>> a vote on women's rights forces a republican civil war. >> you're a coward, eric cantor. it's time to step down. >> the big panel weighs in. >>> plus, why justice scalia's racial entitlement remarks are worse than they sound. >>> pat robertson says the devil wears goodwill. the ceo of subway is ading anti-obama baloney about small business. and advocates for victims of sexual ab

the beltway is saying they're losing steam. it is now a low simmer and heat is dropping every day.works, right?

the beltway to be over newtown now, the issue should return to the quiet stays is of the nra getting everything it wants, even though it represents only a rump, minority view. the beltway in washington is trying to follow that same script but the politics are not necessarily following along. you can say because you expected it to happen that the momentum is stopping, but if you look at the news, the day by day, here, there, everywhere, unrelenting, unpredictable pressure for gun reform is off script. within the last 24 hours, a conservative democratic senator with a rating from the nra came out in favor of universal background checks, senator joe donnelly, saying he is now supportive of universal background checks. not only are people not for getting but things are moving. now factor in a new round of action by the white house. we're told in the next few weeks, president obama will hit the road to pressure specific senators to vote for gun reform. and not exactly separately, you have the organiza

the beltway is saying they're losing steam. it is nolo

this is how it looks in washington right now, where so far the areas outside of the capitol beltway are seeing the worst of it. weather channel's jim cantore joins me live now from washington. looks like capitol hill there, jim, what's the latest? >> it's hard to believe. there's 20 inches of snow 100 miles to my west on the ground. we've got 100,000 people in the state of virginia alone without power. that's because of the heavy wet snow and the wind, which you can see here pretty well. it's just kind of swaying these big trees around. that's really been the biggest issue. we've had bouts of rain, bouts of snow right here at the hill, but nothing that has at least hung around long enough to stick. you know, believe it or not, even in march, even on a cloudy, rainy, miserable day like this is when you're soaked to the bone like yours truly, we are getting absorption by this asphalt. we looked with a laser thermometer, 60 degrees. 60 in the asphalt, takes a heavy period of snow to cool that down. we just haven't had that here. go 25 miles to my west, five inches of snow. another 25 miles

ball to a lot of folks. >> it is inside the beltway ball. there was this great question by paul that was about how this is like the weirdest washington inside the beltway naval gazing story ever because it really, really is. this is washington crystalized. >> because it involves a couple well-known personalities in this feud, but in your view, perhaps overplaying it a tad? >> yes, absolutely. >> at the same time, the access issue is important. >> the larger issue and, you know, frankly sharing private e-mails is a little bit, as a reporter, is a little bit unsavory. >> who actually put out the e-mails? >> that's the thing? >> i'm going to go on a limb and say probably it was the white house. >> but i am saying that as a reporter you think about the private e-mails you're sending back and forth to sources, no, the larger issue, of course, we're talking about access. we're talking about bob woodward, i think it's a little over -- >> let me get to the substance in the remaining time. how television is covering and has been covering up until the

back inside the beltway, president obama will return to the capitol for a third straight day of meetings. yesterday the president ventured into hostile territory, grilled by house republicans looking for an upper hand in the budget battles. >> i thought that we had a very frank and candid exchange of ideas. the president understands we've got long-term spending that we need to deal with. but he's going to hold hostage the fact that he wants to raise taxes on the american people. >> again, if the president wants to let our unwillingness to raise taxes get in the way, then we're not going to be able to set differences aside and focus on what we agree on. >> so with -- obama himself down played the outreach during remarks last night to his policy armoring for ak action. >> the press in washington has been reporting about obama's charm offensive. all i've been doing is calling up folks and trying to see if we can breakthrough some of the gobbledygook of our politics here. >> joining me this morning is tennessee republican congresswoman diane black who is scheduled to speak tomorrow at cpac a

it's not going to happen in the beltway. the beltway is broken and stuck.s taking his message out to the people. people are incredibly frustrated that they voted for barack obama and now a few republicans in the senate and the republicans in congress will not let him have his way. they lost the election. give us a shot. let's try something. let's move forward. and this is the way for the people to have their say. and i think that the other thing that organizing for america can do, for action, can do, which is to the governor's point, they can call their friends and family. they may live in very democratic areas but they can e-mail and call friends and family and co-workers in other areas and say, enough is enough. let's move forward. who in this country thinks that profitable corporations don't pay enough in taxes? not the voters. >> so they can be the breakthrough to get through this whole resill dance that's been blocking the president from getting all of the things through that he wants to get through, in your opinion? >> i do. and i think also, if you g

very harsh on the beltway press and the industrial media complex. >> we've been terrible.ou know, you want authority and want somebody to adjudicate. many people went with their political prejudices. they have just went -- >> people say you do that. every conservative i read is like you're just a hatchet man for the left. >> read what i write, read the blog because i lay out the case. it's not the "a" team liberal, and i have been on the other side of things in different circumstances, but, no, the economics profession, just generally, people threw away a lot of knowledge. shocking in 2009 how many people didn't know, you know, they were reinventing 1930s vintage fallacies thinking it was fresh thinking because they didn't even know the history their own profession. >> i want to talk to you about one. great mysteries of this recovery, one of the greatest mysteries is this divergence between profits and wages, the continued soaring profits and what the heck is going on and whether this is the new normal right after we take this break. i've got something for you too. (announ

the beltway press set up a brand new rule when it cames to obama republicans, and bipartisanship and very simple rule was if the two sides don't agree it's obama's fault. now if obama had stiff-armed republicans or refuseed to budge if he had just told them take a hike i'm the president. that's one thing. but he has made a balanced pitch for the deficit reduction plan, and he's trying to meet them in the middle, and what is the republican response? no, we will not take revenue increases. they will not change their radical position so she blame obama. >> john: this all goes back to the debt ceiling crisis which they raised for reagan and bush, but not for this guy. one thing that i learned in this business is that it's the liberal media. it's not liberal but people terrified of being called liberal. that's the root of so much of this no, it's obama's fault as well. not that he's blameless but do you think that's why the media is bending over backwards to say that both sides are to blame. >> this media worships republican hard ball. they did it during the clinton years, the bush years

part of the beltway common wisdom that nothing is going to happen, there is a connecticut effect and it's wearing off and people don't care anymore and the nra will win again because nobody cares to insist on popular policies the nra opposes. one of the constituent parts of that common wisdom is that presidents cannot stay focused on issues like this for very long. presidents don't stay focused on this stuff after the immediate impact wears off. a president will not stick with it to fight the inertia the nra is counting on. this president has not been like that. this president has been pretty much relentless on this issue 100 straight days. today, president obama hosted families from newtown at the white house. he took on, head on that common wisdom if you just wait long enough, we will all stop caring. >> i read an article in the news just the other day wondering is washington -- has washington missed its opportunity because as time goes on after newtown, somehow people start moving on and forgetting? let me tell you the people here, they don't forget. grace's dad is not forgetting.

david: rich edson talking money inside the beltway.aul ryan's budget plan getting slammed for democrats to say it cuts too much but average of $4.1 trillion per year in federal spending. that is the ryan's budget, which is a big increase. a woman who is biased many presidents. on whether the ryan budget doesn't go far enough. liz: we have a money manager with the stock to grab right now if you think like he does inflation isn't going to be an issue for a while. stay tuned. you need the list. david: house budget committee chairman paul ryan unveiling his budget proposal today aiming to balance the budget in 10 years without tax hikes but does the ryan budget make president obama's increasing the size size and scope of government permanent? joining us, senior fellow and former u.s. department of labor chief economist. great to see you again, diana. democrats don't like the ryan budget because it cuts too much, but in point it doesn't cut, it just cuts the rate of increase. he says it is laughable ryan's tenure, $41 trillion budget will r

>>beltway politics from inside the loop.>>we tackle the big issues here in our nation's capital, around the country and around the globe. >>dc columnist and four time emmy winner bill press opens current's morning news block. >>we'll do our best to carry the flag from 6 to 9 every morning. >> john: it's time for our thing of the da day. it is gun reform dropout. i'm talking about senator tom coburn. the oklahoma republican had been working with three other senators on a bipartisan bill to expand background checks for gun sales. that's something everybody wants. the majority of nra members favor that. but senator coburn, the man with an "a" rating from the nra could not accept one simple part of this very simple, very popular plan requiring gun sellers to keep sales records of the guns they sell. car dealers keep records. amazon.com keeps records. even some responsible drug dealers keep records but it is just too much to ask from somebody at a gun show. so new york senator chuck schumer who leads the group of senators is walk

>> the media swallows deficit hawkry all the time here in the beltway whether it comes from republicanscrats. while bush was president the republicans weren't talking much about deficit hawkry. they were running up the big deficits. but then the big crisis came, the meltdown came in 2008 and we did spend, of course, we spent the stimulus and the auto bailout and other things. the deficit did go up very high, and the usual deficit hawks inside the beltway who are always complaining about the deficit started really ratcheting it up, and the republicans saw that. they said, aah this is our opportunity. what they want, of course, is to cut government spending cut domestic discretionary programs, and reform--i can't believe that word came out of my mind, but to drastically cut change, cut programs. that's what they really want to do, but they now they can couch it in the we must reduce the deficit terms and that a lot of people will fall for it. you're correct in the premise of your question, it's correct. the deficit has gone down to $845 billion. that's still a high def sit but its falling

democrats and republicans who opposed the war ten years ago, they are still not taken seriously in the beltway on national security issues, even though they were right and all the supposedly serious people were wrong about iraq. today the congress did hold a hearing on the outrageous and worsening backlog at the veteran's administration. veterans home from iraq and other wars waiting months and even years to hear back from the va. the va suggested that they have a rock solid plan to fix the problem. buff the republican chairman of the veteran's committee in the house is calling for the resignation of the va official who is in charge of the claims backlog. so there is a lot going on in politics right now. and in news about politics right now, despite the president's overseas trip. but in our news we begin in colorado. we begin at the scene of a rather stunning crime. it may have been a random act. it may have been an act of revenge of some kind. it may have been something personal. it may have been an assassination of sorts and we may not know for a long time. until the police are able to tell

. >> john, just at a time when some people inhe beltway are trying to cut spending. bypass the way, the debt clock keeps on ticking. 16 trillion yesterday and now why are closer to 1 trillion than this is it nopt the time for a spending tour if that is it what you call it. >> it's not but this is it the obama administration playing politicings. they believe that government spending enhances our well being. it is the job of the republican party to point out that government spending is demore jobs than it crets. it is it time for republicans to back up the rhetoric and block it emac is it a spending tour? >> iment the debt taclock that democrats say embarrassing them. theyment it removed. i stay put in the front grill . bus on the sphinding tour. what is going on, is that essentially, by the way if any ceo told the company and said two percent in cuts was budget and we'll have to lay you off. thraceo will be showed the door and we have had 17 percent inrowth and increases . talking about a two percent cut and it is it tiny. we are in the year . we have 1.4 percent anem

i think people have to get out of the beltway. i think yelling at each other from podiums and sound bites, not doing the job. you know how i got to establish a line of communications? i got out of manhattan and met with sportsmen, went shooting with them and listened to their problems and we've now been able to close the loophole in new york state. i hope the feds are listening to this and i think the sportsmen support honest, fair, background checks. >> so let me get this right. you are perceived in some states as a liberal new yorker. you went up there shooting with them? >> yeah. the nra put out this warning, warning, antigun senator takes over key committee. so to deal with that, i established a clear communication. the overwhelming sportsmen, they are decent people and don't want to see kids shot down. i think background checks are something that washington can accomplish. gun trafficking legislation can still get done. >> now, when you look at new york state's laws, some of the toughest in the country, outlaws of broader arr

you have been out on the west coast this week and you were talking to people outside the beltway in the republican party. what do you hear from them. i know you also like to listen. what did you hear? >> i mean in regard to poisonous relationships. i don't think the president has any ability to work with the republicans because he just doesn't seem willing to get the job done to bring people in, to exhibit the leadership that he needs to solve our country's worse problems. what i hear from people is that washington is broken. that this is president isn't willing to lead. i also hear from people, our party has to get bigger and broader and bring people in. we have to smile more. we have to sell more and we have to in communities. >> we have so to smile more. that is treajdz thing to suggest -- just kidding. what about the moist thousands piece of it. i worked in chilly in 1994 and 1995 during a government shutdown. at that time most members of congress said twos the worst they had ever seen congress in years. taking the "wall street journal," columnist says something has changed, a line

beltway. >> the white house is our house.us in. >> by 2:00 p.m. today, the facebook plea by the saint paul lutheran school garnered 1700 likes. the houston independent school district used a different medium. a letter to the president. we don't understand why out of a $1.6 million secret service budget the administration believe 1/20 of 1% required to fund the white house tours is one of the first things to go. the first lady got trolled over the tours. can someone volunteer to walk and groom your dog so the white house can be open for our school children's tours? the white house tour cost $74,000 a week. 37 secret service officers typically stationed along the tour route. the cancellation was chosen by the white house out of a list of options the secret service provided to comply with the sequestration. spokesman jay carney today blamed republicans for sequestration impact. >> rather than go along with a balanced approach to the deficit reduction, the choice they made was to allow sequester to be implemented. >> wi are able

. >> the forecast is calling for up to 6" of snow inside the beltway today. >> venezuela's foreign minister has declared seven days of national mourning in the wake of the death of president chavez. the 58-year-old died yesterday after a two career battle -- two year battle with cancer. hundreds of thousands are paying respects. he was the socialist president for 14 years but clashed with u.s. leaders. the people of venezuela will elect the next president in a special vote, with an official funeral on friday. >> the college of cardinals has cut off communication with the news media because there is concern private discussions might leak to the press. >> this morning, the cardinals host add public prayer service to thank the retired pope benedict. workers are preparing the cistene chapel to host the election. they are installing floorboards and a stove that burns the ballots. we are getting a look at the pope emeritus. this picture shows pope benedict walking the garden at a summer treat. >> mike nicco has been busy tracking the storm. finally catching your breath. >> all of us are, unless w

the reason the beltway media is enamored with paul ryan, he's willing to be specific. republicans say, reduce the size of government. they're vague about it. he's specific about what he wants to go after. the poor and old people. he puts numbers there. again, it's the pretensive seriousness. the last budget, he said he wants to get rid of obama care but he incorporates the savings from the $716 billion into his own budget then attacks the president for it. he does this. >> let's recap. we're talking about a period right now in march of 2013 where we're supposed to be moving into a season of negotiation for some kind of grand bargain. i'm very skeptical because now, this. how can you take this as the republican starting point? and as you said, the president didn't come off as mr. socialist at all. he's in the middle, center left slightly. >> i mean, there's an important point here. >> can you make a deal with him? >> i don't think you can. there's a sort of moral equivalency in washington that if washington's not working it's the president's fault and the republicans' f

the beltway common wisdom is people will forget about it because people will stop talking about it. people won't stop talking about it in part because there has been so much organized political pressure. at a grassroots level people are not letting this go. it struck me today following these new revelations, both from the newtown shooting but corrections police shooting, part of the reason the pressure doesn't feel like it's letting up is because everyday there's a new revelation about a new horrific piece of gun violence. seems like the mere prevalence of the amount of gun violence in the country is enough to keep this in the headlines provided we see those as having political consequences. i wonder if you see it that way. >> i think that these kinds of rampant violent acts. remember, it's 2500 more people have been killed since newtown alone. 30,000 i think a year are killed as a result of gun violence. this problem afflicts our neighborhoods and streets throughout the country in urban environments and suburban. all across the country, everybody has a stake in it. the repeated act

lee, let me go to the you first about the news inside the beltway.he market is shrugging off all that bad news. sometimes what happens in the beltway does affect the markets when there was a possibility of a government shutdown, it affected the markets, the debt ceiling but this time no. seems like the market has had it with d.c. >> well i mean, fool me once, shame on you, but fool me twice. the american public right now is very well aware, a lot of people got swindled out of staying invested through december and january by falling into this lie about the fiscal cliff that the world is going to blow up. now we have this new deadline, i think people are starting to think wait a minute, the real enemy are entitlement programs going out years from now, not something right in front of us. most investors if you poll them yes, or main street usa they don't really see there is this impending doom for the sequestration that we need to start selling stock. in fact, what i hear a hot of investors ask me is, do you think we can get a little dip so i can get som

will he find any friends out there along the beltway?m what we've seen already, three months after this election, still business as usual in washington which of course means not much is getting done. back in the guest spot today is howard fineman, the editor director for the "huffington post" media group. we'll callett "huffington post." >> talk about shortening things. >> we were trying to come one a nickname for you howard fineman. >> then how fine. >> actually, al franken gave me that one but it hasn't stuck. >> we'll make it stick. >> that's because al franken was allowed to be funny. >> i'm curious about this paul ryan budget. the republican plan leading up to the election would be that the economy would cost obama his job, we'll get the senate and we'll be in place to implement the paul ryan budget. we'll have the votes and the momentum them lost the election, they lost ground in the senate and the house. and yet they are basically, they are proposing radical reduction in income taxes, voucherization of medicare, getting rid of oba

do you believe that it needs to be more part of the discourse there in the beltway? >> without a doubt. it is not part of the discourse because most folks don't have skin in the game. less than 1% of americans have served in iraq or afghanistan. it goes to your point. we should be talking about this. it is the defining political issue of the last ten years. and it is just a colossal, strategic failure of the bush administration to know that we had almost 4,500 of america's best and brightest killed in action, over 32,000 wounded in action, and over 100,000 iraqis dead for an unnecessary war. and a war that should basically never have happened and also a war that we put our troops into harm's way, basically over a religious civil war without the amount of troops that the military generals asked for. >> what do you remember when you see this piece of news that we're reporting today? what do you remember back to the time when you were serving? >> i served in south central baghdad. it was a sunni and shia neighborhood. >> just the case today, according to what we underst

if you were in d.c., inside the beltway, it was a rainy, wet, cold, miserable day and you didn't gethe snow that you were promised. baltimore didn't get much either. i-95 east, nothing, had to be out north and west. it still was a big storm, it's continuing to cink this morning. we're okay on the jersey shore, but the most concerns with the high winds and the surf up here in the boston area, this is where we are seeing some bands of snow. the wind gusts right now between 30 miles per hour and 40 miles per hour. temperatures in massachusetts are below freezing. above freezing in rhode island. most of this happening at the end of today, in worcester, 4 to 8. little less for hartford and new york city. grassy surfaces could pick up 1 to 3 inches of snow. they'll continue to do that especially out on the cape. >> all right, thanks so much, bill. >>> coming up -- the latest details on a young woman mauled by a lion. an identity thief gets caught in the act. plus, many murder trial of jodi aree yas gets even more bizarre with jurors asking her questions. back in three. [ birds chirping ] i

the problem is it's really not what is going on in the party outside the beltway.the marquee social issue of gay rights on which the republican party is supposedly having this big change of heart, right? there is definitely sufficient evidence to justify the kind of headlines we've seen recently about the republican party diversifying its previously uniformly anti-gay stance. but there ought to be a subheadline under that headline, or maybe a paragraph in the body of the story underneath that headline that acknowledges the really important detail in this shift in the republican party. and the really important detail there is that apparently applies almost exclusively to retirees. the big story of the week on republicans' turnaround on gay rights revolves on ken mehlman, the now openly gay bush aide and recruiter who recruited dozens and dozen of other republicans to sign on to a legal brief before the supreme court arguing for a constitutional right to gay marriage. he did get a mess of republicans to sign on in support of gay marriage. but out of the roughly 130 r

i'm sure the beltway will be on the slow side. you can see the rain goes all the way down through the carolinas into areas of georgia. it looks like georgia and florida, that rain will be exiting shortly. the forecast today, very warm. that's nice. that's why we're melting so much of the snow with the rain. today will probably be the barmest dbar warmest day of the week. another chilly start for you in minneapolis, chicago, st. louis, kansas city. the beautiful weather this is typical of march, the whole southern half of the country, if you get a sunny day, it will be 50s and 60s. in dallas, sunny, 70 and beautiful. we are still dealing with the winter weather in the northern half of the country, the south, looking good. >> looking warm. cold in the north. we have to wait until april. >>> sports now. several teams from men's college basketball officially punched their tickets to the ncaa tournament. gonzaga dominated st. mary's, they won 65-61. they earn an automatic bid. zags are likely number one seed in the tournament. iona cam

you get people who have been around the beltway. i respect that. it comes either from an agency or a think tank. if you do not get the kind of expertise and fresh approach that i think we are going to get from sally. if you look at her background, she has been running for almost $2 billion companies. her first job was with mobil. she is a well known leader in terms of conservation policies. i think she brings a lot of fresh ideas and the chance to really let us look at some imporant issues early one. . certainly will be asking questions with respect to balance. i am going to be asking her questions about royalty issues. it is making sure taxpayers get what is owed to them on federal lands. of course we will be as the number of questions in forestry. these are all areas where we have to get the cup. we have to put people back to work. we think we can do that in line with a sensible environmental policy. clucks on royalties, i know that you andsen. mukowski have agreed on revenue sharings for costal states that produce energy off their shores. where

. >> the forecast is calling for up to 6" of snow inside the beltway today. >> venezuela's foreign ministeras declared seven days of national mourning in the wake of the death of president chavez. the 58-year-old died yesterday after a two career battle -- two year battle with cancer. hundreds of thousands are paying respects. he was the socialist president for 14 years but clashed with u.s. leaders. the people of venezuela will elect the next president in a special vote, with an official funeral on friday. >> the college of cardinals has cut off communication with the news media because there is concern private discussions might leak to the press. >> this morning, the cardinals host add public prayer service to thank the pope benedict. workers are preparing the cistene chapel to host the election. they are installing floorboards and a stove that burns the ballots. we are getting a look at the pope emeritus. this picture shows pope benedict walking the garden at a summer treat. >> mike nicco has been busy tracking the storm. finally catching your breath. >> all of us are, unless we are in b

. >> inside the beltway there has been media spin that may be the president has overplayed his hand. there was an op-ed piece in "the new york times." they have a debate about this issue. they believe the president overplayed his hand, in part because the impact of these cuts are on a small slice of the budget. no. 2, or people are going to be impacted, but they are not going to feel the worst in front of this, at least not initially, so the president is holding these press conferences, so has the president overplayed his hand on this issue? we will come to republicans in a moment. >> there may be some truth to that. i think the impact will not be immediate. it will be over time. i do not think the president is overplaying his hand in that regard. maybe in terms of setting up expectations, there is soaring to be an immediate terrible crisis. that is not what will happen. this is going to be gradual, but it will be painful. to cut spending and to deal with a meat ax, to not make any judgment about where we are getting better efficiencies. he is right to say it is very bad, and sequest

sometimes that gridlock, that confusion in the beltway is helpful to the market and the economy. the less they do in washington, the better the economy performs? >> well, i would agree with that except i think when they leave a lot of uncertainty there, it makes it difficult for entrepreneurs to make commitment. i think that's why, as james says, most of this money that the fed is creating is being lent to the treasury, so it's not going into the real economy, except to the extent that, you know, it's forcing, as i say, investors to go into the stock market, and that is, you know, pushing up asset prices. but it's not clear to me that the lack of resolution in washington is actually good for the economic-- the economy. >> mary mentioned the word uncertainty and one thing that the federal reserve board came out with this week is that there is uncertainty in labor markets, specifically about obamacare. and businesses don't know exactly how many people they can hire, whether they have to switch people from full-time workers to part-time workers, there are a lot of questions about ob

. >> i would suggest that the majority leader, the president and his cabinet, put down the beltway cool aid because they are predicting a disaster that will not occur. >> i don't think, personally, that my job is going to be one of the ones that's cut. >> reporter: parents in virginia, where services will be drastically cut. >> cuts and stuff involving young children shouldn't be made because the program for young children builds adults they will be in the future. >> reporter: congress has gone home for the weekend, even as leaders head to the white house to try and avert these cuts. john and diana, back to you. >> an important day ahead. preeti arla in washington. thank you. >>> people forced out of their homes. this fast-moving fire in riverside coming close to buildings. power lines came down, leaving thousands of residents in the dark. embers may be to blame for setting a mobile home on fire. >>> now, to what's next for the catholic church, as the former pope begins his retirement. benedict's final appearance was yesterday at the usual papal retreat. when the doors were closed and t

bridges and overpasses could be trouble and anywhere outside of the beltway could have issues too.now goes all the way back to southern pennsylvania and all of our computers are pinpointing the highest snow totals. southern jersey, philadelphia southwards, baltimore, d.c. areas back especially the mountainous areas of maryland. cleveland, wasn't expecting this much. i'm sure the ground is covered there. roads will be very slippery in ohio all the way back into areas there of indiana and indianapolis. so the forecast for today, again, we're going to call for maybe 1 to 3 inches. philadelphia, maybe 1 or 2 inches. new york city not expecting any snow so your temperatures will be too warm and most of the storm will be south of you. betty, once again, the worst travel this morning all through the ohio valley and be careful around d.c. and baltimore this morning. it's snowing pretty hard right now. >> it is hard to believe it's spring already. okay. >> oh, it is? really? are you sure. >> the calendar says it's spring although outside it may not. >>> ahead, do you have the ten most criti

. >> paul: he's being excommunicated from the beltway press corps. all right, joe. >> paul, you remember dennis rodman, former basketball star, cross-dresser, used to date celebrities and now he's taken up with little kim, a miss this week for rodman who is in north korea, amid the gulags called kim jong uchn a friend for life. i think there's a reason they called him "the worm." . >> i can't top that. and to johnny manziel and they've created what is the most popular online video among the teenagers in my neighborhood. basically a good clean fun where they're throwing footballs from the top of the a & m football stadium and going through basketball hoops. and there's so much garbage on the internet i want to applaud these guys for creating nice entertainment. >> paul: you're letting your boys watch it. >>, yeah, not a lot out there. >> paul: if you have your own hit or miss, please send to jer@foxnews.com, and on twitter. and that's it for the show, thanks to my panel and all of you watching. i'm paul gigot, we hope to see you here next week. >> jon

so that the possibility of a real discussion that is treated seriously by those inside the beltway --investment, of in the short-term, when private corporations aren't spending. when there's no demand, government must play a role. that is off the radar in fundamental ways that's dangerous for the health and security of this nation. >> mike, i want to ask you, there's a lot that is going to be read in terms of how this helps or hurts the republican party. there is an effort under way to make them a more lovable, kinder, softer, gentler party. where does paul ryan budget fit into that? there are wings of you know, the republican party who say this is needed, this is where we've got to go. this is the future. i wonder how that undermines their branding efforts, if you will? >> i know very little about the budget. whenever budget talk crops up, i have a tendency to want to light what little hair i have left on fire, okay? i'm not a budget guy. but i am sort of a student of the human condition. and having spent many, many nights writing a newspaper column out of a big city hospital emergen

so often you get people who have been around the beltway and i respect that. they come from either an agency or think tank. you don't get the kind of expertise and, sort of the fresh approach that i think we're going to get from her. i think if you look at her background she's been running a $2 billion company, she's an engine nearing by training. her first job was with mobile. she has a lot of expertise in the area and she's a leader in terms of conservation policies. i think she brings a lot of fresh ideas and the chance to really let us look at some important issues early on. certainly, we'll be asking questions about her views with respect to the balance on federal lands, with respect to energy development and environmental policy. i'm going to ask her questions about royalty issues. the question of making sure taxpayers get what is owed to them on federal lands. then, of course, because she has a broad swath of responsibilities if forestry we'll have a number of questions there as well. her responsibility goes to agencies like the bureau of land managemen