what i want to do to practice this conversation, is carol johnson here somewhere? is that they pretty much relate to the breakout groups that we will put you in later. last year i tried a different thing, to apply location, and it did not work at all. we are going back to the way that we did it at all. i am notorious, and bought it -- and will try not to swear up here. obviously, we will be asking you again about your job and what you do daily. i will be asking you to go on to a breakout room. but we want to focus on is what audrey mentioned earlier, the creative content, the experience. we did not call this a safety summit for a reason. we are now moving on. well, patrons' safety is super important. we will be talking about that in the breakout session for security. in that break out section we will hopefully have -- hello. talking about guard cards, we are running around the city telling people they need one and we want you all to know why. we brought the authority on that, and a few other folks, to talk to you about that. i imagine there will be a lot of uniform

i'm carol lane johnson. >> i'm dan ashley. the b of a branch could have been a pile of rubble. that's because agents said when he sent the signal to trigger the bomb he triggered a massive explosion. we go now live to a home in san jose where the plot was put together. sergio? >> the suspect, 28-year-old matthew aaron lanaza used to live this an rv he parked outside his father's home in san jose. tonight he is in federal custody and it is gone. >> his plan to bomb this bank of america went like clockwork as he tried to set it off with a cell phone. john burgess saw the early morning action. >> at 2:00 in the morning when i came by and the fbi agents were around here. >> an under cover fbi agent kept close tabs by posing as a taliban operative. as part of his plan, the fbi says he first wanted to bomb the san francisco federal reserve. then he decided it was too secure, so he chose the oakland bank of america site. according to the fbi, five-gallon buckets like this one filled with chemicals would have been the basic pieces of the bomb. agents say he purchased cell phones and ot

i'm carol lane johnson. >> i'm dan ashley. the b of a branch could have been a pile of rubble. that's because agents said when he sent the signal to trigger the bomb triggered he td a massive explosion. we go now live to a home in san jose where the plot was put together. sergio? >> the suspect, 28-year-old matthew aaron lanaza used to live this an rv he parked outside his father's home in san jose. tonight he is in federal custody and it is gone. went like clockworkthis bank as he tried to set it off with a cell phone. john burgess saw the early morning action. >> at 2:00 in the morning when i came by and the fbi agents were around here. >> an under cover fbi agent kept close tabs by posing as a taliban operative. as part of his plan, the fbi says he first wanted to bfrancil the san francisco federal reserve. then he decided it was too secure, so he chose the oakland bank of america site. according to the fbi, five-gallon buckets like this one filled with chemicals would have been the basic pieces of the bomb. agents say he purchased cell phones and other items to be used in a

carol cnn. jason johnson. >> it makes perfect sense for us to respond to gun violence by highly militarized responsesit's not how you clean up bad neighborhoods. what you do is hire more police. you hire police from those particular communities and you have the police walk the streets. you have things like what rudy jewel any did in new york which is take care of quality of life crime, take graffiti off the walls and clean up garbage. these are the ways you stop gun violence. it's not about bringing in troops and scaring everybody in the street. >> just the sight of the general saying to some stupid gang member prone to violence saying put that gun down or i'm going to get you, that sounds good to me, actually. >> it sounds good to me, too. i love the general. i think he would do a great favor to chicago if he would move there. i don't think militaryizing chicago or any of the other urban areas facing huge amounts of gun violence is the way to do it. carol, i was born in nicaragua. i lived through a civil war. i think what it's like to have armed men all over your countries and parks and schools. we

johnson. 50 years older than bryce harper. yet some how they get along great. that will do it from here. carol, becoack to you. >> thank you, dan. what its great, nats and jordan

johnson. welcome to you both. >> hi, carol. >> welcome, hi carol. >> first question, social security and medicarerails of washington's attempts to tame the deficit. touch them and you get burned! former senator alan simpson one half of the dynamic debt duo simpson bowls, he says if president obama doesn't deal with entitlements his legacy is on the line. >> he knows what to do and if he doesn't get a handle on the entitlements and the solvency of social security, he will have a failed presidency. >> so quit asking for tax increases and do something about entitlements. question, is there an appetite though for cuts to social security and medicare? john? >> it's not even a question of appetite, carol. it's a question of need. the reality is that to keep these programs solvent, keep them strong there needs to be reform and you can do it without painful cuts but adjusting the cost curve. both parties involved in the poll tingz of mediscare to demagogue the issue and president obama needs to lead more effectively if he's going to leave the country in better shape than he found it with regard to long-t

carol cnn or tweet me @carolcnn. also here to talk about rubio, pete dominic, jason johnson and amy kremer.first question to you, jason, marco rubio will speak spanish, but it seems kind of patronizing. >> doing the response to the state of the union, it's like the career kiss of death. it's like being on the cover of madden, being an extra member of destiny's child, it will never get you anywhere. i don't think that's going to help him be the leader of the party. it's treating latino voters like they are stupid. they remember how the republican party behaved with immigration. just because he gives a speech in spanish will not magically change things. >> amy, conservatives, do they like marco rubio. >> yes. it's a tremendous opportunity for us. he beat who is now a democrat, charlie crist in 2010. and so he's a conservative -- i mean, haes tea party. he can reach those voters, to explain why the republican vision is good. why we need to shrink government. and grow our economy and create a pro growth environment. it's an opportunity for all americans to be in the middle class. so yes, i thin

maria and jason johnson, rounding things out nicely, republican strategist rich galen. welcome to all of. you. >> morning. >> thank you, carolstion one, why the historic filibustering of chuck hagel? history of the u.s. senate. not the lincoln and the 13th amendment history but the partisan kind. republicans have successfully blocked the nomination of chuck hagel in part because of hagel's controversial remarks on gays and jews and terrible remarks. and five months ago because terrorists attacked the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. >> we will continue pushing and asking questions about benghazi, not because it's personal. not because we're republicans and he's a democrat. but because america needs to learn what happened. and we need to learn from our mistakes. >> this, despite, testimony about benghazi from general petraeus, hillary clinton, admiral mike mullen, defense secretary leon panetta and general mark dempsey, nevertheless, they want more answers from the president, even though the president sent them a letter overnight with more details. first "talk back" question, why the filibuster of hagel, rich? >> i don't th

carol, what an historic weekend here at the daytona 500. we saw history in the making for danica patrick and jimmie johnson crowned quite the champion. >> you'reuch. >>> next hour of "cnn newsroom" begins right now. happening now in the "newsroom," congress returns after a week off and facing a friday deadline. their mission? compromise. if they fail, forced spending cuts impacting everything from unemployment checks to pre-k, even airports. >> flights to major cities could experience delays of up to 90 minutes. >>> blizzard warnings are in effect throughout the plains as another powerful winter storm is already causing headaches as it moves east. >>> yahoo!'s new ceo taking a bold step. she tells workers no more working from home. you've got to come to work. ♪ yahoo! >>> you're live in the "cnn newsroom." and go aheod monday morning to . i'm carol costello. congress returns to session today, but hopes of avoiding forced spending cuts or sequestration fading fast as the friday deadline looms. the blame game ratchets up. the white house says blame the republicans. and it's showing how the cuts will affect millions of americans in a breakdown. a