to give us card launch -- carte blanche is an incredible gift. >> i am not making any comparisons. i want to get your thoughts on this. we know the whistle-blowers' get treated a certain way. i think the country is going to come to terms with having another conversation about this. my name was written in this manifesto, so i am part of this. i think the country is a bit skittish about whistle-blowers. i wonder if you will share some of your thoughts. he said, and i was a whistle- blower. somewhere they went off in the direction. i suspect they reopen the case not to appease him, but so the process is transparent to the public. apparently they were getting pressure to reopen the case, and they want to make sure the public does not think this guy was not treated because of that. i suspect we are going to come back to another conversation about what it means to be a whistle-blower. tell me about why whistleblowing is a thing. >> i think we have turned an odd corner, and there is such a misunderstanding. corporations would love the word whistleblower to be of feared name, because it is

. >> senator carte blanche says he does not believe a deal will happen by the deadline but he is confidentawmakers will receive -- will reach a compromise before the citizens of maryland ever feel the effect of sequestration. and if a compromise cannot be released -- cannot bereached. -- cannot be reached, he met with the security officials. the next time you go to an orioles are ravens game you may not see smoking areas. the policy of a complete ban on smoking goes into effect next week. officials of both teams say they will announce policies to accommodate smokers who wish to do so. the vatican is getting ready for pope benedict's final public audience on wednesday. and thompson reports from the vatican. >> we have new details about pope benedict 16's life after he stepped down. he will be called pope emeritus. he will continue to wear white. those red pradesh is he loves so much, they are gone. he will wear brown shoes. >> the city of leon is noted for beautiful shoes and very comfortable shoes. when the pope was asked what he wanted to where he said he wanted the shoes from a on in mex

really, here, they have given me carte blanche to do this. i think it is nice for me, in the sense of coming back 25 years later and seeing personally my own evolution as an artist and thinker. the whole effort to put the chicano or indigenous woman's experience on center stage is, in itself, for euro-american theaters, a radical position. because of the state of theater, it is a hard roll to hold up in institution. it is a hard road. i am looking at where we are 25 years later in the bay area, looking at how hard it is for us to strive to keep our theater is going, etc. i like to think that i'm not struggling quite as hard, personally, but what i mean by that, the intention, the commitment. particularly, to produce works that would not be produced in other places, and also to really nurture women of color artists. i think that is something that has not shifted for me in those 25 years, and it is good to see that brava remains committed to that kind of work. ♪ >> when people talk about the reflection of the community, we can only go from what

the cpuc ruling is then seen as a carte blanche, and uber has launched a new phony car search thing and two other companies out there including one called instant cab, i regret i helped them grow [speaker not understood]. it was supposed to be for taxicabs. what does this have to do with you? iest mate there will be over 2000 of these cabs on the street within six months. director heinicke, all of you, director heinicke in particular, spent 7 years of his life trying to, trying to turn the cab business into an income stream for the public good and succeeded. we were expected to get a lot of medallion dollars out of. thisiest mate in one year you won't be able to sell a taxicab if this is allowed to continue. sheriff brinkman, late november you were very gun hoe about putting funds into the taxi services [speaker not understood] new investigators. somebody [speaker not understood] that process. somebody in the mta is making sure that does not happen. [speaker not understood] is hardly adequate. it's not happening. and i wish you would look into it. i also think if you have influence with

captured a radiant reena steenkamp's final moments, the video was aired on south africa's mnet "carte blanchehow." where reena steenkamp's parents also reacted to their daughter's violent death for the first time since she was shot by pistorius four times through a locked bathroom door. the news was devastating. >> he was with the police and he said, i'm sorlry to have to tell you, but i don't want you to go out and read it in the paper, but she's dead. >> reporter: as for the pistorius family, a dark coincidence. oscar's brother carl is now facing culpable homicide charges for taking a woman's life, killed in a 2008 traffic accident. the charges were initially dropped but reinstated this month. the pistorius family is now in the position of defending both of their sons, saying carl is innocent of all charges and they are confident he will be cleared. eerily similar to what they're publicly saying about oscar. >> amy robach in south africa tonight. amy, thank you. >>> back here at home, to the economy now and it was a dark day for the dow, dropping 216 points at the close. it is the worst day

i mean does he have carte blanche to rip her to shreds or does he have to watch it?you always have to watch it because you never as a prosecutor want to offend your jury. this has been going on for quite some time. she's been on the stand for as lodge acan think i remember a degree being on the stand. and this prosecutor has been taking quite a hit. i mean there are many that believe that he's being a bit too difficult, that his cross-examination is sort of all over the place. i think there certainly is a method to his mad ps because his enti entire examination is about the fact he cannot be trusted. her version of developments cannot be trusted and he's testing each and every bit of it. i've about got to tell you, i think at this point he's been given so much to work with, there tends to be diminishing returns at a point and she has been on the witness stand for a long time. i'm not sure that she -- he needs do much more to prove his point. >> and, beth. i also enjoy seeing videotape of people who do television interviews before they actually end up in trial. it nev

bush didn't have virtual carte blanche from the establishment in the media when he was watching. a very long time. >> including all the years when iraq was deteriorating. >> for a very long time. certainly in the beginning getting in. >> paul farhi, what about this notion that it is easy or more comfortable for those of us in the news business to jump on a story when, you know, the republicans and democrats are fighting about it, as was the case in waterboarding. important event for us to cover and all too easy and all too convenient for us not to pop up our heads and make it an issue ourselves when in the case of drones not a robust political debate going on. >> that's a great point. what people don't realize about the news media it often follows, in fact, almost always follows and does not lead in terms of debate. it waits for debate to break out and then it follows that debate. and that's exactly what's happening here. until you get a john mccain. until you get people on the left to really stand up and give those, you know, robust kinds of criticisms of the drone policy. we wi

i will say that president bush after 9-11 sort of had cart blanch he controlled the house and the senate and the democrats were much more given to supporting his agenda following that crisis and attack on our nation. so is it really that unprecedented or does seem like over the last three administrations, it is okay as long as you give us, the republicans, what we want? >> it's not totally unprecedented. what's pretty clear is this particular congress, particularly coming after the last round of redistricting and with the rise of the tea party and the conservative branch of the republican party this is conservative with republicans pretty far to the right. democrats who frankly in many cases, particularly in the house are pretty far to the left. >> john: well, rick, it is true. it is nice to remember we do have democrats who are liberal in the house. is this another taste of the republican party doubling down on obstructionism? the policy that does not work for them in 2012? >> i don't think they know what else to do. look, we have such a weird dynamic now. elections today in the house a

i think republicans feel they have got carte blanche to obstruct here. >> let me bring in senator mccainnix. welcome back to the program. always good to have you. >> thank you. >> so at a time when congress is in such low esteem, you seem to candidly offer the reason whying ahaguele is facing such trouble, you folk spoke to fox news on thursday around this is what you said u >> as far as secretary of defense is concerned, to be honest with you, neil, it goes took there's a lot of ill will toward senator hagel because when he was a republican, he attacked president bush mercilessly. at one point, said he was the worst president since herbert hoover, said that the surge was the worst blunder since the vietnam war, which is nonsense. and was very anti- his own party and people. people don't forget that you can disagree, but if you're disagreeable, then people don't forget that. >> so is that to say senator, that it's pay back time for chuck haigle? >> that's what this process has amounted to? >> of course not. most of those senators who will be voting weren't in the senate when mr. hagel di

>> again, it's not just carte blanche, security and background checks, go to the back of the line behind folks who are here legally. >> and you've got to learn to speak english. >> exactly. >> not a bad idea. >> miles to go, as always. >>> speaking of politics, more political maneuvering over the nomination of chuck hagel as defense secretary. the nomination should go forward. the very earliest the nomination could go before the senate is a week from today when they return from their president's day vacation. >>> fuel prices have hit a record high for february and it may be months before drivers get a break. the average price for a gallon of gas is $3.71. prices have jumped 13% over the past week. the increase in costs are blamed on refinery and supply issues. price also go up even more this spring. >> next week it they'll be at a 400 year low. any way, from the gas we go to the tires, but not in the pra tigsal sense. we're talking about the tires that won a runner war yesterday in austin, texas. >> he's 23-year-old michael ball of tulsa, oklahoma. after demonstrating how he was going to

there's concerns about giving carte blanche transfer authority. chairman "forbes" and myself have been part of a discussion to say let's identify priorities of the service branches to determine where money is needed to really address the most severe and timely need and let's put together acr that allows that. we understand how we meet those needs as part of the discussion going forward. chairman has been an integral part of that. >> remember sequestration team that you had to put your dictionaries? pull them out for the word anomaly because next week that is what you're looking on as we start working on crs and putting anomalies and that will help allocate those budget items into the lions the service chiefs need so they won't have to do quite to her stories were hearing today. i think will mitigate an awful lot of that in that process. good, thank you, everybody. ..

had not done as great a job as they had done i still think there are certain people who have a cart blanchyou do, you know that said they were fantastic, but i wouldn't know if they weren't from reading the press because of those reasons so i'm kind of the opposite. i go in about minus ten with the press so it's like i got to get myself to at least the level where they can tolerate me and then maybe from there i have a shot at actually getting a positive review. >> do you reach out to those people who you know have killed at the oscars who have done it right? >> i talked to billy crystal and he was super nice guy, and genuinely helpful, took a lot of time out of his schedule to sit down with me and i came out of it with some practical, practical stuff and it was, you know, i'm very grateful to him for taking the time to do that. >> you can tell me one thing he told you? >> get comfortable with your shoes before you get on stage. >> i like that. that's a girl thing. we got to walk in our heels before we get on the big stage. >> sure. >> because you never know, good point. >> my strappies wi

every a ministration after that gave me carte blanche to do that. they knew, somehow, i would produce a dessert that they could be proud of. also at the time we were already doing some diplomacy with the desert, by introducing the desert with design that reflected the inviting head of state. that is why they let me do all the way to transition of food. if you remember, the food way back, every course was served on a big platter, like a desert. but then that went away. it went more to the restaurant service. but the desert for never touched. -- was never touched. during the clinton that change. mrs. clinton [indiscernible] there is a reason for that. she must have liked that, or she would have said no more of that. [laughter] i assumed. in -- i am very proud of that. it remained so until my last day. we made many desserts for the first family that touched them. i remember when george w. came to the white house, the first governors dinner that we were going to have, i wanted something texan. i wanted the governor to know who the president was, a texan

>> carte blanche. >> stephanie: yeah a gun dealer knowingly sold guns to a straw dealer which resoldple have a right to defend themselves. >> sure. >> stephanie: right. they don't want the terrorist watch list even that is not a good enough reason to not have a gun. >> no. >> stephanie: speaking of tea party, scott brown reportedly going to become a fox contributor, the center fold. ♪ >> stephanie: out with the dick in with the -- dick morris. >> yeah. >> stephanie: and in with the senator hole -- >> the pink pants. >> right. >> stephanie: fox news trust has fallen to a new low. again according to a ppp poll. 49% trusted fox news 37% did not. and the people that trust them still after they were wrong about everything ever. you are a little bit of dopey. john in buffalo, welcome. >> caller: hello. >> stephanie: hi. >> caller: good morning, how are you? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. >> caller: i have a problem with the due process clause of the fifth amendment being amended by a memo from the doj, that's unconscionable, and if they can do that why can't we change the second amendment t

before we do this expansion and get carte blanche on this the government should actually go in and audithe insurance companies and the hospitals because the abuse is in the system. host: let me go back to steven one of theece -- most expensive aansive stories e " magazine. initial doses of chemotherapy, $83,900. charges for blood and lab tests amounted to more than $15,000. $77 charged for each of the sterile gauze pasds. these are just a couple of examples that are part of the larger issue of health care. we are focusing on medicaid and state expansion but all that plays into this. host: i understand. let us that i am a compassionate man. my son had to have a procedure that lasted two hours. the doctor was paid -- you get an itemized bill. the doctor was paid $4,200. the toll charge was $72,000. fortunately it was picked up by my insurance, and i am afraid to retire because i will not be able to afford to retire. host: thank you for sharing your thoughts. we will go to john in just a moment. here is another headline -- the philadelphia inquirer is looking at the next pope. the conclave

it really gives the president discretion and carter -- cart blanch to kill whoever. >> bill: this is that george bush and dick cheney used to justify rendition torture and wiretapping correct? >> yeah. it has been this kind of free pass to do whatever the president at the time wants to do. in the name of national security. and now, there's a lot of hope that when the united states pulls out of afghanistan that courts will start to say no, no, that's over. that authorization whatever it meant is over. there are no more american soldiers in combat in afghanistan. that war is over. but there is a big push, including in had this administration, to keep that whole effort going. and now it started out afghanistan, pakistan, now they're in yemen. now somalia and now the same claim seems to be made about mali. >> bill: and in fact, those who cite that law are saying that that law gives them the authority to basically trash the constitution, doesn't it? unfair question because we don't have time to give you a chance to answer it. i am very proud of the aclu for being out in front of on this i

there is no protection for auto manufacturers that they have unsafe products, but we have given carte blanche protection to the manufacturers. then in 2005 the u.s. patriot act, what did we do there? then the n.r.a. decided that, you know what, that a.t.f. director shouldn't just be appointed, it should be confirmed by the senate. so in the patriot act they got an amendment that provides that the a.t.f. director must be confirmed by the senate. guess what happened? there hasn't been a a.t.f. director confirmed in seven years. because of the control that they exhibit. and then in 2005 ironically george w. bush, that's something his father didn't even do, his father, george h.w. bush, by executive order, banned the importation of guns in this country. particularly the assault weapon. when president clinton came into power he by executive order expanded that importation ban to include high capacity magazines. george w. bush comes in as president and he lifts the ban on the importation of assault weapons. between 2009 and 2012, we have had 99 gun safety laws rolled back at the state level. that's

because it would give the secretary of defense, rather than this carte blanche, every single line it seem in the budget has to be cut by 7.3%, it would give, give the secretary of the defense the ability to manage it and say, you know what? there are lower priority items in defense. we're not going to spend it here. instead we'll preserve wages there. the sequester itself, how it was done is not how you would manage anything. regarding pay for members of congress, first of all, i can't make a pledge for anything because the constitution doesn't allow to us change our pay. i could only vote to change the next congress's pay. you understand under the 27th amendment. but i want you to know that i'm, i hear exactly what you say. i have a very same concerns that you have. and i'm trying to get the fix in place before friday morning or saturday morning so that what's happening to you your family doesn't have to happen. thank you again for your family's service. >> host: this legislation you're working on, you say you have ten cosponsors off the bat. >> guest: yeah. >> host: yeah, but you n