which are also serious charges yet there's been no truth and reconciliation for the entire bush cabinet obama keeps saying let's look forward not backward yet he continues to dredge up these are k. pieces of legislation from world war one to prosecute those who expose the work and so if you're talking every gaining trust and accountability where does that away i mean if you want to talk about mistakes made during the. war in iraq i'm happy to have that conversation that is a different conversation. a a private first class in a war zone compromising and the united states' national interest and vital information that is important to the conduct of u.s. foreign policy around the world sure it's one soldier versus an entire ministration who institutionalized a war mentality based on rule no one lies and no one was held accountable for that i i just don't know what to say about obama's refusal to even investigate those of those people but let's move on to something else that you've been outspoken about which is drones that you've said that the drone use in pakistan is unsustainable why is it that

bush become a candidate for change? chuck todd, nbc news, new york. >>> president obama continues rounding out his cabinet tonight. nominees for three high-profile jobs announced today. two of them are women. one is a nuclear physicist. that would be m.i.t. professor ernest moniz. getting the nod for the energy department. gina mccarthy nominated to run the e.p.a. inside the agency. and sylvia burwell is the president's pick for budget director. she is currently the head of walmart's charitable foundation. >>> and a quick weather note. the calendar may have flipped to march, but the snow just keeps on coming. another huge winter storm hitting the northern plains. upper mississippi valley tonight. it will spread across the midwest and ohio valley tomorrow. they're expecting accumulations of 8 to 10 inches in the chicago area tomorrow with major delays at chicago o'hare likely. >>> still ahead for us on a monday night, we go inside what's been called the most dangerous place on earth. the target of so many of those american drone strikes. no american correspondent has seen it up close until now. >>> and later, total

obama made that a cabinet position so she has a seat at that table. the other part of this job is congressional relations. condi rice was president bush'sr and steve had ley. i remember he would tell me what i needed to know. the questions in the briefing room at the time were 90% foreign policy related. one of the most important roles was congressional relations, calling up congress and keeping them informed even things that weren't supposed to be public yet. she had had some of the worst congressional relations of anyone that i have seen. she has some repair work. i have no doubt the president has full confidence in her because he had to say saw because when she was up important secretary of state. >> do you feel she would be a good choice, a good fit for this position what you have told us. >> dana: i think the president needs somebody he can trust and he trusts her. that is his judgment call. >> bob: let me make one other pointed why this is so important. under the law that was passed 20 some years ago the hill created the intelligence act to committees both the senate and house. every day, i used to have the job, you had to carry t

cabinet. he should take credit for this and we got stronger economic growth. during the first bush years, first president bush, second president bush and during obama we got moreovernment spending and those have not been very good years for the economy much less just look at the evidence from europe where heavy burdensome government is associated with a fiscal crisis. >> let me agree with dan, pushing on a string that's what the fed has been doing. if you don't have an expansive fiscal policy, if your consumers are actually finding themselves in dire straits because the median wage is dropping fed monetary policy will not have much effect whatsoever. i disagree with everything else dan just said, though. but let me just underscore one point and that is we are really at the beginning of a series of showdowns and those showdowns also include that, you know, we will have for the next four, five, six months that goes all the way up to raising the debt ceiling. if we have paralysis with regard to fiscal policy and where, whatever baseline you're using larry i don't care. the fact of the matter is if government is pulling back from what it otherwise would be spendin