it is budget day on capitol hill. defense secretary panetta and the leadership the defense department both military and civilian saying they remained unified behind a revised strategy that would shift the focus from the long wars to future challenges in asia, the middle east, cyberspace and the proposed budget for the fiscal year na begins october 1st. we'll have more on the budget later on in the program. tim geithner is telling skeptical republican senators that it's not possible to correct the problems without raising taxes. the debate we had last year is ensuing again this year. the treasury secretary depending the 2013 budget proposal before the senate finance committee and saying the plan is the only option he sees for helping the economy as well as addressing the deficit without hurting the middle class. peter is writing about this from the hill newspaper. we'll have more with him after a few minutes. here's senator jon kyl questioning secretary geithner. >> let me ask you a couple other questions to get to the

>> it's rhetoric you hear a lot on capitol hill. there's a handful of republicans that were repeatedly sighting greece whether talking about the president's bulgt saying this is a road map to that sort of situation. right now it doesn't look like we're in the same sort of situation. i don't think you'll find anybody in washington in either party who will say the nation's fiscal trajectory is perfectly fine and sustainable. even geithner was agreeing with reps with the fiscal situation. that's about whether it comes down from via increase taxes or down by cutting more spending. >> peter schroeder is live on capitol hill tonight and writes for "the hill" newspaper. appreciate your time tonight. >> anytime. >> we'll continue your discussion on the budget, the debt and deficit and one area where there are spending cuts but also sparking debate on capitol hill. the defense budget. secretary leon panetta and army general martin dempsey testifying on capitol hill before the senate armed services committee and he is essentially defending th

. >> coming up next, a look at the news of the day from capitol hill. a live simultaneous cast of c-span radio's washington today. live now on c-span3. p. >>> i asked a simple question. you're the director of the omb. does your budget call for spending more money. >> our budget is a more honest budget that looks at what's happening in a business as usual basis. each year we pass the amt. >> will the witness answer the simple question? i just asked a simple question. >> it's a more accurate reflection of what we're going to spend. >> will it spend more or less? >> just some of the exchanges earlier today on capitol hill as members of the president's administration provide details to members of congress on the 2013 spending blueprint. that exchange with senator jeff sessions, republican of alabama, and the acting director of the office of management and budget, jeffrey zions before the senate budget committee. welcome to hour one of "washington today" on c-span radio. thanks for being with us. a new poll out showing that rick santorum and mitt romney esse

acting white house budget director will be back on capitol hill testifying about the white house budget plan. live coverage from the house budget committee begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern time here on c-span3. later in the day homeland security secretary janet napolitano will be asked about her committee's budget. >>> we'll talk to massachusetts attorney general martha coakley later tonight on c-span3. then a hearing on the use of presidential recess appointments. next c-span radio's "washington today" with news and events of the day from the nation's capital, including reaction to president obama's 2013 budget request. p. >>> i asked a simple question. you're the director of the >> i ask a simple question. you're the director of the omb, does your budget -- >> our budget is a more honest budget. it looks at what's happening. >> will the witness not answer this simple question? i just asked a simple question. >> it's a more accurate reflection of what we're going to spend. >> will it spend more or less? >> just some of the exchanges earlier today on capitol hill as members of the president

republicans now e-mail from trish turner, producer up there on capitol hill. g.o.p.e telling her that the negotiations are still -- negotiations still trying to work out structure of the unemployment benefit. formula for working out how much someone will receive. you are creating a tiered system, that takes in account recipient's home state unemployment rate. the cost of living and the number of other factors. it sounds complex. but the president wants 79 weeks, the g.o.p. offered 59 weeks. they are now in the 60 or 70s according to the source. but they are not going to go to the president's numbers. that is where we are. as it stands right now at this second on capitol hill. >> perfect example of what all the fight is about. this is a free lunch presidency. he can add dinner and breakfast. republicans are trying to act in some ways responsibly. they try to on the debt ceiling and tried to in december on the payroll tax. it wasn't that they posed the cut. it was they said if we are going to have $100 billion added to the debt, it's something to do nothing that will s

earlier this week there was a story in the capitol hill newspaper with the headline, "mcconnell stayingt arm's length from boehner." just today there was a story about how the senate republicans are angry at their house counterparts for hurting their chances of gaining control of the senate. well, this agreement that helps middle class families, senior citizens, and those who have been looking for work is too important to be jeopardized by political rivalries between republicans in the house and republicans in the senate. >> that was earlier today. as you heard, the new york senator saying that speaker boehner announcing an agreement that was worked out over the last four or five days. now speaker boehner 78 days ago said that lawmakers could take it to the bank the fact that the payroll tax extension would be paid for. that resolve of course fizzled yesterday when he agreed to support a deal that would add about $100 billion to the budget deficit, in the time between those statements speaker boehner and republicans faced attacks from the president as well as congressional democrats abo

chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is following the story today from capitol hill.d evening. >> good evening. critical meeting is taking place this hour. house republican leader sell their members on extending the payroll tax holiday for the rest of the year without paying for it. this is congressional negotiators appear close to a broader deal including extending unemployment benefit and also the medicare reimbursement to doctors known as the doc fix. and paying for them by potentially selling off wireless band width, making some adjustments to federal worker retirement plans. and a few tweaks to the president's healthcare law affecting providers. earlier the president message to congress was get it done. >> just pass middle class tax cut. pass extension of unemployment insurance. do it before it's too late. i will sign it right away. [ applause ] >> g.o.p. sources suggested removing the fight on the payroll tax should help negotiators resolve remaining issues. house democrat leader nancy pelosi said if they don't reach a deal by friday, recess next week should be

this is "washington today" on c-span radio on capitol hill. a former girl scout, senator barbara mikulski, along with other members of the senate delegation who served in the girl scouts over the years, as the girl scouts celebrated a centennial. there's also troop capitol hill which makes up former girl scouts serving in the house and the senate. here are some of the comments of senator barbara mikulski here in washington earlier today. >> we have a troop that's honorary troop 1. i wore my uniform today and i've got my girl scout badge on. i wear that badge not only on my jacket, but in my heart, in my day-to-day activity. because what did girl scouts mean? from all of us across generations. one, girl scouts taught us about character, about honesty, about integrity, about neighbor helping neighbor. we also learned competency and working on our badges. and then third, we also learned about the camaraderie of being with other girls and working on projects together. we learned about education, we learned about empowerment. through working on our

they were, in a sense, tolerated but not embraced on capitol hill.d a couple of things to point that out. none of these figures really held influential committee positions. no power committees, appropriations or ways and means or later rules. they didn't serve in the leadership. and nor did they serve in sufficiently large numbers to really drive a legislative ayen da. in fact, the large itself group of african-americans who served in the 19th century in one congress was eight. seven representatives and senator blanche bruce from mississippi. and that was in the 44th congress, 1875-1877. these were all republicans, and they at that point were serve anything a congress that was under -- serving in a congress that was under democratic control. lacking any qualitative institutional power, these african-americans were, for the most part, on the floor relegated to passive roles to support legislation that was being introduced and shaped their colleagues. by their colleagues. but they provided firsthand accounts of civil rights abuses against their constit

here's how some of it unfolded on capitol hill. again you're going to hear from governor rick snyder. he is a republican from michigan. and governor dan malloy in connecticut as he testified on capitol hill on taxes and job creation and the u.s. economy. >> thank you both for being here. i realize, we all realize, this is a difficult time for you. budget season coming up. you're going to be called upon to make very difficult decisions, as we are here in this committee and in this congress. i wanted to revisit a difficult decision that we had to make, governor snyder, which you've addressed a couple of times now. you mentioned in response about the need for best practices in deploying taxpayer dollars and how critically important it is, to make sure it's a wise use of taxpayer dollars. in answering the question earlier you emphasized you support for paying attention to the deficit, making sure we're reducing the deficit. i supported the balanced budget. i voted for it when it was on the house floor and i think that was the right dec

we'll begin with the comments of harry reid as he spoke to reporters on capitol hill. >> the payroll tax is important to keep the money in the hands of the middle class. that's why we should be getting serious how to extend that still the end of the year. so far republicans as we just got a report of what they've been saying here, are talking about the payroll tax but not willing to do anything about it. at the conference committee today, all they did is talk about ways to cut. we know that there's going to have to be cuts with some of the man dapper to programs. we understand that. but there's going to having to also be something done with tax incentives enhancements reven s revenues. they're unwilling to talk about that. we're right back where we were last december. instead of finding common sense solutions, the republicans are talking about things that have nothing to do with middle income taxes. like the keystone pipeline. rolling back regulations to keep our air safe, and our water clean and pure. these tactics are stalling, more evidence that republicans don't want to extend th

joining us live on capitol hill is jeremy herb following this story for "the hill" newspaper availablenline at thehill.com. what was your takeaway from secretary panetta, this is the second day he was on the hill trying to roll out this budget proposal that does include some rather sharp cutbacks for the military and found it interesting on your website how k street lobbyists are lining up to obviously help the defense industry dealing with some of these potential cuts. >> yeah, i mean this site is going to play out over the next year in addition to the 4$487 billion cuts there's also the 500 billion additional cuts that could come through sequestration and in some ways that's going to be the bigger fight over defense spending this year. >> what's going to happen next in terms of this political battle? does he have the support he needs from some democrats and republicans or could ceecee it looming through before the october 1st deadline of trying to get it in place. >> congressm maeman mccain and have tried to undo it but they've all been quickly criticized by democrats and basically a

we have video of the garage on capitol hill where this arrest took place. now al khalifl came to this garage, under the pretents of meeting al-qaeda operatives. what he did not know is the people he was dealing with for nearly a year were in fact under cover agents from the fbi's washington field office. the part of this investigation we are told, el khalifl accepted an explosive vest which was rigged to not operate. also, he took possession of a fake automatic weapon. again, provided to him by under cover fbi agents, which again, was not operational. fbi agents we observed in their time here were very matter of fact, very business-like. he was put into one of the official federal department vans and sped away in front of a group of waiting journalists as we observed him take off up constitution avenue, out of the district. one of the other things that we learned here today was that many in congress said that they were not briefed or aware of this investigation has been going on and that sits with a lot of the work that has been going on, especially in rega

back live now, this is the parking garage on capitol hill. the arrest took place today. this investigation bears many of the same traces as some of the recent arrests the fbi made next with the so-called loan wolf attacks. you'll remember there was a plot uncovered by the fbi against the metro system two years ago and most recently in september when a man in boston was charged with trying to use a large model airplane to crash explosives into the pentagon. we'll send it back to you. >> we're getting video into the newsroom of police raiding the suspect's condo. what do you know about this? what have you been hearing? >> well, being here on capitol hill and not being in alexandria, i would be a little bit reluctant to what that may or may not be, shawn, as you may imagine. one of the things many people are taking notice here is the being was just arrest. yesterday, mohammad, many know as the underwear bomber was sentenced to life in prison. he was one of the premier examples of the so-called lone wolf terror suspects. many law enforcement officials that while the united s

lots of activity on capitol hill from last night. we'll get the update on that coming up in just a moment. >>> good morning. i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm wisdom martin. welcome to fox 5 morning news. it has been nice so far, a very mild winter. ened is it going to keep going? that is the question we want to know. >> let's get the answer from tucker barnes. >> yes, the bottom line is yes, should be a comfortable afternoon for you. there is your radar. nothing to show you. we've got low pressure. got rain out to the west and that rain will be in our neighborhood by tomorrow so things will change later tonight and tomorrow. for today, bright sunshine for much of the day. got a few clouds to start the day. temperatures about 10 degrees above normal. 41 at reagan national. humidity, 70%. winds are out of the north at five miles per hour. your pressure is on its way up. nice high pressure looking forecast. sunshine, mild conditions. it will be breezy at times. more details on the forecast in just a minute. back over to you. >> thank you. >>>

. >>> this was the scene on capitol hill this afternoon. house republicans had documentary film maker josh fox arrested on capitol hill. i don't know, does this guy look disruptive to you, he joins us for an interview tonight. this is "the ed show," let's get to work. >>> i'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there. >> mitt romney says he's not concerned about the poor and he's getting hammered for it. except this was not a mistake. we have the proof and we'll talk about with it bob shrum and eugene robinson. >> americans deserve a straight deal right now they are not getting one from our tax system. >> the buffet rule gets its day in the senate. bernie sanders has the details. >>> the fight for workers rights is exploding in arizona. police, firefighters and teachers are under fire in the desert, and we're going there for the latest. >>> on capitol hill the arrest everyone is talking about. >> this is a public hearing. i'm within my first amendment rights. i'm being taken out. >> josh fox was arrested for filming a ho

>> some fiery rhetoric going on on capitol hill. thanks so much, we appreciate it. >>> coming up, georgetown college student sandra fluke will join us live to talk about her testimony today. >>> maryland congressman steny hoyer joins me now live in new york. and congressman, good to see you, thanks so much for being on the show. >> good to be with you, luke. thanks very much. >> number one, this hearing, it wasn't an official capitol hill hearing per se. what are the politics behind this? are you guys having a hearing like this today in order to try to stretch the issue out during a recess week. you've had republicans on a defensive last week when issa wouldn't allow the panel. how much of this is politics? >> i think that everything we do in some sense is politics in the best sense of educating people of informing them, of giving them the different viewpoints that are being represented on capitol hill. and i think here we have a purpose example of the republican chairman of the committee wanted to shut out a particular perspective

is not krg arming opposition groups in syria amid calls on capitol hill to consider that option. we heard earnier from jay carney saying at this point u.s. efforts employ the possibility to provide humanitarian aid to the syrian people. i ran dismissed the new u.n. sanctions on saying the administration is trying to play psychological war that is so discontent among iranians and insisting the measures would not halt the country's nuclear program. we talked about the story yesterday as the obama administration ordered new penalties giving u.s. banks additional powers to freeze assets linked to the iranian government. a political note from nebraska. former senator bob kerry today rejecting his potential comeback to the u.s. senate. that dashes hopes by democrats to maintain this set held by senator ben nelson retiring. many say bob kerry, who ran for president in 1992. he's a former governor as the one chance for bob kerry to keep that seat in democratic hands. bob kerry kept plans on hold to more than a month contemplating whether to keep the seat. the lead story at this hour is h

those are the conversations that allow them to take control of capitol hill and the house in 2010. when they get on social issues, i'm not sure they're on strong footing. >> the big issue now politically, at least for mitt romney, for his campaign, is whether or not he can win michigan. listen to what he said about his confidence going into his native state. >> wh >> you understand with the polling process, you have seen just how mercurial the sentiments of voters are until they get to know the candidates a little better. >> usually mitt romney kind of laughs it off and says, oh, we'll see what happens with the voters. pretty authoritative right there. >> that will not happen. the polls show something else. could he survive a michigan loss? >> for his candidacy, it can't happen. he can't lose michigan at all and what the romney campaign has to be banking on is, look, we've seen this movie before, after losing in south carolina, newt gingrich's numbers soared head into that next florida contest and after campaigning, after some debates, mitt romney was able to easily win that contes

steve die nan writes for "the washington times" and is in capitol hill. thanks for being was. >> my pleasure. >> this campaign began with mitt romney going on the offensive against barack obama. but this back and forth and now his line of attack not only aimed at newt gingrich but a new line against rick santorum. >> that's exactly right. we've seen this play out every time another guy seems to be rising, romney durns his fire which has pretty steadily been on obama and goes after whoever that person is popping up against him. he did it to newt gingrich after south carolina and started doing a little bit to sanitorium after iowa and is back to it. the clip you just played did a pretty good job of summing up exactly what that attack will be which is he's the outsider and now the rest of us -- without governor perry in the race and governor huntsman in the race and some of those other folks, he's correct, they'll have a race full of people whose experience came in congress, and in the case of president obama in congress and then in the white house, all wash

that's the statement from the leadership on the republican side on capitol hill. house republicans are expected to discuss a proposal today and the vote could come as early as the end of the week. passage of the payroll tax cut extension could mean 160 million americans will not see an extra $20 a week taken from their paychecks. on to 2012 politics, new polls suggest the republican presidential race turning into a two-man race. voters in michigan head to the polls two weeks from today on o the 28th of february. rick santorum has the lead. he noses ahead of mitt romney. michigan, of course, the state where romney's father served as governor in the 1960s. newt gingrich is in third place, not terribly far behind at 2%. followed by ron paul at 12% in michigan. according to public policy polls, the lead over romney in michigan is bigger is 39%. santorum, 15 points ahead of romney according to this poll. ron paul and newt gingrich trail the frontrunners by double digits. the ppp tweet notes that santorum is ahead of mitt romney everywhere except michigan in oakland cou

the chair of the federal reserve testifying on capitol hill. he does so twice a year saying the fed retains modest expectations for the american economy this year. ben bernanke telling the house committee on financial services the recent rise on oil prices hasn't affected how the fed view it is economy which involves expansion of 2.2 to 2.7% this year, about the same as last year. we'll begin with how the testimony unfolded. congressman ron paul among those with tough questions. up next is nan hayworth questioning the fed chair about managing debt and economic growth. >> you have many, many times including here today pointed out how important it is to have federal policy that reflects the impending crisis that we face in terms of managing the debt and how that weighs on economic grow growth. do you ever feel as though you are talking past your administration and congress that, you know, we are talking past each other and somehow -- you know, how can we make your message resonate? people like me are sympathetic to it, obviously. >> well, these c

. >> and so the debate continues on capitol hill. the comments of representative buck mckeon, he's a republican and chair of house armed services committee, as defense secretary panetta and general adam dempsey testifying on capitol hill about the president's budget that includes spending increases in many areas, including health care and transportation. and rather sharp cuts in military spending. this is hour two of "washington today." i'm steve sculley. thanks for being with us. we'll have more on this and a number of related stories about how defense lobbyists are lining up to try to protect certain areas of the pentagon budget. congressional negotiators are trying to finalize a $150 billion measure which will extend a cut in the payroll taxes through the end of this year, provide additional jobless benefits for millions of out of work americans. republicans retreating and now supporting the proposal. there is no pay for this measure which means that the proposal will go forth and likely add to the overall debt in deficit. it does

. >> bret: the president's budget as you can see arrived on capitol hill today.ons on both sides of the aisle. we can say the deficit stays above $1 trillion for the fourth straight year. depending on what happens to the budget. it sounds like it will have an interesting trek on capitol hill. bring in the panel. steve hayes for weekly standard. mara liasson and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. you heard republicans saying this isn't a budget. it's campaign document. >> i think they're right. >> bret: what about what the white house says about the budget? >> this is an expression of the president's priorities. he has made calculated bet that the big concern for a full year over the deficit dissipated and people are more interested in fairness and keeping the recovery going, which is what he says he will do. to the extent he offers the deficit reduction, he offers it by raising taxes on the wealthy. nonstarter with republicans. as far as the put having an interesting trek on capitol hill, it will have a trek to nowhere. but it's not meant to be something t

so we actually see that both somewhere and secretary of defense leon panetta was testifying on capitol hill again today well the areas that are getting come from defense spending are being publicly discussed are there other areas that are quietly being beefed up let's just say that iran might have something to do with it so here to discuss this with me is innocent foreign policy analyst at the cato institute lou thanks so much for coming on the show tonight absolut thank you let's start we're going to get into drone strikes but just really quickly i want to start with the budget because we heard a lot from secretary defense leon panetta over the summer right right after this debt deal was struck and we heard about the trigger mechanism he called it a doomsday you know what it is a. different kind of seem to calm down now they're dealing with the cuts that are coming in stride not the trigger effect yet and then we heard general martin dempsey who for the most part is somebody that i've actually respected lately in his statements because i feel like he's been calling for some cong this event

that moroccan man arrested today in the district for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack near capitol hill. >> news4 i-team has been digging through the court records. tisha? >> reporter: jim, we have the charging documents released late today about the 29-year-old moroccan man arrested near the u.s. capitol as he was trying to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest. amine el khalifi appeared in a virginia courtroom today, charged by a criminal complaint be attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against property owned by the united states. he faces life in prison if convicted. here's what we know about him. after the arrest went down, the fbi raided his alexandria apartment on windham circle. he's in the u.s. illegally because his visa has expired. the documents say amine el khalifi thought he was working with al qaeda and that his proposed targets included a building that contained u.s. military offices, as well as a synagogue, u.s. army generals, and a restaurant frequented by military officials. but in january, he decided rather than conduct an attack on a restaurant, he wa

since senators on capitol hill today, democrats, criticized that secret money, there is a group called "priorities u.s.a. action" which has a nonprofit

live on capitol hill, i'm stacy cohan. back to you. >> thank you. >>> a hit for the d.c. private school voucher program. president obama isn't adding new subsidy money in his latest budget proposal. but students already participating in the program would be allowed to continue. needy students can receive up to $12,000 a year to attend schools of their choice. >>> investigations into the untimely death of pop icon whitney houston continue. officials are now focusing on the prescription drug found in her hotel room which some say came frat same pharmacy that provided drug to the late michael jackson. the singer's funeral will be held in new jersey on saturday. it will be invitation only. so far, no public ceremony is planned and a move that is leaving fans disappointed. >> we are not happy about that. we thought they were going to go down to the rock and have the community pay their last respects for whitney. we don't know what the circumstances are but we are sure the family did want to share something to the family she gave so much to. >> houston's family is asking that a

and republican congressman buck mckeon and they're basically pushing the drone agenda on capitol hill but mccain of course the chairman of armed services and you know a and they've developed a very rigorous and massive really lobbying strategy to get the f.a.a. bill and related loss passed it to look just at their lobbying strategy and it's pretty dramatic i mean we came this point. oh ok going up you know if you go are you ten this power point yes this this power point basically shows that over the past year they've developed a pretty sophisticated plan to push through this massive expansion of domestic drones and we're going to have some estimate safe thirty thousand domestic drones flying over sized next week ok so here's the question what's what is what is not benign about this i mean we we had you know helicopters the o.j. simpson slow no trial you know and time is a big crime you've got the local t.v.

. >> good evening, we're live from capitol hill tonight, the target of a planned terror attack. the first suicide bombing on u.s. soil. the plan came to a halt today when fbi agents arrested a 29-year-old man from morocco living in orge earn virginia. just a few minutes after, federal agents arrested him, that man came within minutes of possessing and setting off what he thought was a bomb. but it was in fact not so. the explosives were not real. the fbi was watching the whole time. nbc news has learned that president obama was told last night that the fbi's plans to make an arrest today, undercover agents were intimately familiar with the timing and details. we have team coverage on this story tonight. we're going to talk to the former landlord who is so suspicious of the man who was arrested today, he called the police more than a year ago. >> it's the question everyone wants to know about the snow, are we getting any? let's get the latest from doug kammerer? what do you think? >> ihink some areas will see snow, most likely not everybody seeing the snow tomorrow, a very nice a

agents posing as al-qaeda operatives made the arrest at capitol hill parking garage friday morning ago of he was provided with what he thought was an explosive vest. he will be in court wednesday for a preliminary hearing. >>> drivers are feeling the pinch. gas prices are soaring at a time when they are typically lower. and the news is not getting better any time soon. expected gallon in the coming weeks. melanie alnwick is live in bethesda with some answers to the winter spike. >>> right now, everybody wants to know what is going on. we are talking about about $3.89 a gallon here. even last week, it was going up as well and a lot of drivers, as can you imagine, are not doing the fulfill-up right now. just putting in exactly what they've got in their wallets. gas prices have spiked another $3 to $5 a gallon in just the

the stock act leaves out the political intelligence industry an industry that tracks action on capitol hill and sell that information to investors so members of congress pacific republicans are patting themselves on the back acting like they've done the right noble thing are they still leaving wall street's role untouched kind of like that foreclosure fraud settlement that was announced yesterday and thought alike that held by the federal reserve so that all of the same old game and discuss with me is anthony randolph though director of economic research for the reason foundation anthony thanks so much for joining us tonight sir i mean what do you think in general right suddenly we have an insider trading ban in congress coming up the president mentioned in the state of the union sixty minutes did that piece but they're acting like they're heroes they're regulating themselves it is astounding to me that we are two and a half months after this issue sort of surfaced in the mainstream news and people still think that insider trading rules never applied to congress in the first place insider t

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mike emanuel live on capitol hill tonight. mike, what should we expect? >> well, shep, the top republic negotiator said the legislating is over. we expect the negotiators to meet tonight and a vote on this package earlier the top democratic negotiator explained the final issues that needed to be worked out. there are minor things who pays for what and what the combination of payments should be. in the whole scheme of things, they are very minor. that's why i think we will get an agreement today. >> what's needed with tonight's vote is a majority of the house members set, at least seven of 13 to vote in favor of it. and the majority of the senate investigators, at least four of seven, so be counting votes, shep. >> house republic leaders, mike are taking heat this evening for not paying for. this. >> well, that's right. the payroll holiday extension adds another $100 billion to the nation's debt. house speaker john boehner earlier today said it was important to move the talks forward and jump start the negotiations. >> we were not going to allow the democr

. >>> more of president obama's cabinet secretaries will be on capitol hill testifying about president obama's 2013 budget proposal. energy secretary chu will be at the senate committee at 9:00 a.m. eastern time, and then secretary geithner at 2:00 p.m. eastern. both of the hearings are here on c-span3. >>> now, interviews and political news from c-span radio's washington today which we are joining in progress. >> caller: and the likelihood of the capitulating. >> let me ask you a message from the book "a single rolf the dice, obama's diplomacy with iran." first of all, dwoe have diplomacy with the iranian government in their eyes? >> i don't think there is, and the type of ongoing diplomatic trust that is needed to solve this issue, and the iranians have not been helpful either, and the title of the book is from a quote of a senior barack obama official who said that diplomacy had to work right away or not at all, and rarely does diplomacy work in that type of instantaneous fashion. for diplomacy to work, we need a lot of patience and political capital invested in it. and eb though i