to do because the intelligence community is presenting the same judgments to members of congress members of congress can ask do you agree with what. and the answer would be i don't know specifically with no that's not the judgment of the intelligence community. so that i back to your original question and i worried overly about politicisation about deliberate distortion i'm not i think that. the number of instances of political distortion of intelligence intelligence community caving into political pressure from people who have done this work recent books by paul poloi and by. joshua roven are both look at it at this and summers there's not very many examples in their decade sweep they've got basically the same examples and if my memory of both books is correct all of the examples are of the director of central intelligence not lower level. it's at that level a position that straddles the boundary of the divide between analysts intelligence and policy makers the members of the national security they're supposed to be policy guides as well one of the last fourteen years we have seen to a large extent

congress is not getting work done. no break for members of congress. members of congress say they need to take care of their constituent business back home. george lettis, wbal-tv 11 news. >> thank you. time to get to your answers to our water cooler question of the day. >> this morning we asked, do you think congress should be able to break for holidays before major problems are resolved? >> all the way from kandahar, afghanistan -- >> now weather and traffic together on the 1's. >> good morning. kim dacey checking on your morning commute. a couple of accidents around the city and county have cleared. we still have the report of a truck fire at conowingo road. major roadways checking out fine. 795 in the grain in both directions at owings mills boulevard -- in the green. 55 on the topside of the beltway. no delays or problems. same story on the west side. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> good morning. beautiful sunrise in progress. temperatures in the upper teens and low 20's. sunshine will stay with us through the day. the travel forecast. most of the east coa

to be held in check because when i was in tennessee and it was so we could shoot members of congress of congress no wonder you're asking why do we go more of those just say i don't like that i think there's a larger point to this too there or seeing all these clips of people trying to defend the second amendment that somehow you have to justify the right the right exists as i've said it's in the nailing right i believe it's and get up to defend yourself to bear arms in the constitution we keep seeing these clips of everyone who thinks they need to come forward and defend the second amendment the second amendment to write it you don't have to justify why you get to have the second amendment it's a right it's codified the constitution this idea we keep seeing all these clips of people that somehow i don't think you have to defend i think you defend second amendment rights but i don't think you have to defend the fact that there was a little bit of a lot of people think i do need to indeed last question quickfire listening to this guy interested listen is interesting conversation between fox so-cal

of congress. working once again with the princeton photographs division i would like everyone to see a book that has come from the collection of the library of congress that you will learn about in today's program. today or program is being filmed not only by the library of congress also c-span and we're very pleased to share this program with the entire country through c-span and the library of congress website, which no host more than 250 of the books and beyond programs so please turn off of things electronic. we will progress from a panel discussion to question and answer if we have time. and conclude with a book signing in the foyer. you'll have a chance now for a question and answer you certainly have the opportunity at the end. there will be a special display in the photos of between 1:00 and 2:00 so we have to move along to get to all the features and get us started what i want to introduce the mastermind of today's event, i've learned today one of four curators of photography and i am sure they're all here. it is my pleasure to turn the program over to verna curtis. [applause] >> thank you very much, we're all in this together. i am not the

just about a minute left but you had mentioned that you have to go to the library of congress while i have heard of congress of all places how they construct the law and i had no idea the library of congress has the final word right there it kind of very interesting conversation something we are going to be following up on in the coming days and hopefully we'll have you back on the program there for us thank you so much for joining us. an update now on two men whose lives are forever intertwined but whose fates could be completely different from one another i'm talking of course about julius onj and private first class bradley manning on saturday bradley manning marked his one thousandth day behind bars without trial over the weekend protesters had protests internationally and honor of the accused wiki leaks are now as for the case itself pretrial hearings are expected to continue tomorrow and manning could enter a plea he faces twenty two charges including aiding the enemy which could result with a life sentence the trial is slated to begin june now in ocean away wiki leaks founder julian assange has been

of you there. then you went and ran for congress. served in congress for over a decade. bill clinton's first budget director. his chief of staff. you left for a while. they almost got you to run for governor i think of california. then cia director and then secretary of defense. it is you, jim baker, donald rumsfeld, dick cheney, you're on this mount rushmore of guys that have held every office other than the president. >> it's been a hell of a ride. i really enjoyed it. in many ways. you know, it's kind of the son of italian immigrants i've kind of lived the american dream, which is i've gotten a lot of opportunities to serve the country. and i've been able to do some great things. i really, you know, in the end i used to ask my father why as an immigrant he came to the united states. he said because we wanted to make sure our children had a better life. i hope that that's my legacy that in some way in all those jobs i gave our children a better life. >> i want to ask you a little about all of it, but i want to start with we've now had back-to-back secretary of defense t

be held in check and it was only when it was suggested it was so we could shoot members of congress of congress and no one really drastic modulating we go over all those just so i don't think there's a larger point to this too there or seeing all these clips of people trying to defend the second amendment that somehow you have to justify the right the right exists as i've said it's in the mail in right i believe it's an oath to defend yourself to bear arms in the constitution we keep seeing these clips of everyone who think. they need to come forward and defend the second amendment the second amendment to write it you don't have to justify why you get to have the second amendment it's a right it's codified in the constitution this idea we keep seeing all these clips of people who are somehow i don't think you have to defend i think you defend second member rights but i don't think you have to defend the fact we know little there are a lot of people think i do need to indeed last question quickfire listening to this guy interested listeners interesting conversation between fox so-called news tal

of congress. members of congress i think want to know that what they're voting for has the support of their constituents so constituents can make a big difference in just communicating how they really feel. i think talking about personal stories, loss of loved ones. you know, i have invited to the state of the union a young man named sammy, whose father was killed in an incident of gun violence in minneapolis. this young man, 17 years old, has stood up to talk about the scourge of gun violence and he is extremely effective as a spokesperson. i'm looking for the president to meet him today as well as other people in my community. >> representative, you heard harry reid very noncommittal over the assault weapons ban, saying at least in the "wall street journal" article that he was going to push that off to after the senate and judiciary committee pushes out its bill. do you think that's a good way to approach this here? the assault weapons ban not being part of it? >> i think if enough nevadans tell harry reid they want something done about assault weapons, harry reid will do something about assault weapo

most of you know that a provision has passed the senator today, we don't expect a sped i didn't passing through congress not because of the congress but because of the funding for legal services and services to indoctrinated immigrant and issues around american woman's receiving those services. so indeed the federal funding is an issue so we've happy to have received some of the $118,000 since it wasn't going to be moved from the district attorney's office. currently when we come back >> i was just reminded that members of public aren't allowed to commit on issues we've voted on today but you can also make general commits not on issues in front of us. >> i'm sorry. and now that i want to commit on a family as they mourn the passing of they've over turning of a guilty verdict in their case >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello my name is paul let brown. i'm here again, it's coming up open another year my son was murdered. 30s rounds of built left that gun and went into my son. i'm here and whatever i can be to bring awareness to members of homicide. my son is still gone. a lot of parents - i stand for a lot of parents who can't even

congress can turn them off any time with just a little bit of congress. >> reporter: congress is back at work today after a week-long break but unless lawmakers act soon, $85 billion in cuts will go into effect on friday. >>> for the complete list released by the house, including the possible impact on california, just go to ktvu.com and click on the hot topics tab. >>> governor brown was among the governors meeting at the white house. brown has indicated he will keep a low profile during the meetings, he has one speech scheduled and he's not going to appear on any of the networks or cable news. >>> the former archbishop of san francisco, cardinal, levada, will be leaving tomorrow. he will be voting on the new pope. in a news conference at st. patrick's seminary in menlo park, he outlined the qualities he will be looking for among the candidates. >> a man of peace, a man of prayer, a person who has shown qualities of leadership either through his work in the nature of an archdiocese in the world or possibly heading a department or perhaps ideally a combination of the things. >> levada

>> members of congress said they need to take care of the business back home. congress is to act to keep the government operating and the have to deal with the debt ceiling by midday. george lettis , wbal-tv 11 news. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. do you think, or should be able to break for holidays before a major problems are resolved? you can share your response on wbaltv.com, on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. there is a bump in the road on immigration. >> someone leaked the white house plan and it is differed from what some lawmakers want. tracie potts has more. >> i am happy with the president. i'm optimistic we can get something done. >> other lawmakers are asking president obama to back off. allow them to become citizens within eight years. it does not guarantee border security. >> he is looking for a partisan advantage. >> this is the president torpedoing his own plan. >> the white house says it is backup plan. out, weose don't work will have an option we can put out there. >> does the president want d

congress felt that even though the decision was not ever turned the congress does not have the procure to do what they did to our citizens. when students can be pulled out of class or any group can be target we have to think about what can we do to stop that from happening again. a coalition of people have gotten together and we've decided that our freedom is not complete in this country and we can't afford to step back and allow this to happen again. we ask that you pass this resolution. next speaker >> hello i'm kevin i'm part of the 99 couldlation. i'd like to thank supervisor campos for sponsoring this resolution against military provisions against the mba. the military plan could - over the coming decades there could be effects on others works that activists engage in. that's very good that san francisco's is introducing this motion now. thank you to president chiu for introducing and i urge all spoofrz to vote yes. thank you and thank you. next speaker >> i'm a member of the 99 coalition and i thank the committee for working hard to - i'd like to first of all, thank president chiu for his clear resolution that propped to all of you. i'd like to thank all the members of the board of supervisors who are supporting it. i'm going to add a few word. i came here as a young child with my parents escaping asiatry. my father was an attorney. my parents lived in one of the most libel cities at the time and one day my father did not come home. he has arrested and sent to a concentration camp. he has a jew he has really committed to humanity. it wasn't only the jews who were arrested it was the political opposition, people when were gay, people who were at that time, mental retarded. it can happen anywhere any time. i urge you to support president chu's resolution. thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is artie live in san francisco in district 2. and i also am a member of the san francisco 99 percent coalition. i want to thank president which you for introducing this resolution. san francisco has become the 18 city around the country this is necessary. we need to introduce the coalition. this is this is an horrible law. it's easy to stand up for out constitutional rights when things are going well. this is a time for encourage. this body has expressed this kurment. we have heard some of the worse human rights de - we had a war that never seemed to end. this includes wiretapping and promissory note with his - we heard about threatening journalists who did their job. i want to oppose the providing of national defense act >> thank you. let's hear in our next speaker please and i have graft pictures here. >> you sent me those twice. may god bless you. and what did you think about the pope resigning. i can't believe it myself. he has on top of the world. believe it or not he has walking on-air he never thought he could be so free. flying away on a wing and a prayer. who will the next pope be? . and sooner or later 3 minutes of public time is going to find you. it's just a matter of time. before you make up your public comment line. sooner or latter city love is going to get you. it's just waiting for you. i told you time and again we'll find it when. when he find a dream and talking. and waiting for you two, two can shot the whole city day for you. it only takes a minute city to fall in city love. to fall in love. to fall in love. to fall in city love >> thanks. next speaker >> good afternoon, supervisors. members of the public. another beautiful day in san francisco and it's a different arrangement of supervisors welcome to the imply supervisors. it's not quite the same without the previous gentleman up front with his antics and lively character. but on a more serious note definitely still looking for the custodial permits responsible for the definite station to the western culture in san francisco. a very efficient man to western in san francisco. i wonder in there was a - when you come to san francisco did i recognize san francisco or is it just layers and layers of consumerism and complexity of what we need in life. so much complexity that if - you can't identify with it, it's unidentifiable >> when you have an unidentifiable society how do you identify with people who run that unidentifiable society. and thanks next speaker >> good afternoon, board of supervisors amendment 18 the constitution of the united states of america . after one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture of sale of transportation of intoxicating liquor store within the implementation of them from the united states and altertry for blood samples is prohibited. section 2 the united states shall have appropriate power to repeal this section. and unless this has been ratified as an amendment to the constitution. good afternoon and good year to all i have you >> next speaker. >> i'm with the domestic violence unit. i want to thank all 8 of the could shares of the legislation or the budget promise. i'm excited to address some of the funding for the domestic violence. most of you know that a provision has passed the senator today, we don't expect a sped i didn't passing through congress not because of the congress but because of the funding for legal services and services to indoctrinated immigrant and issues around american woman's receiving those services. so indeed the federal funding is an issue so we've happy to have received some of the $118,000 since it wasn't going to be moved from the district attorney's office. currently when we come back >> i was just reminded that members of public aren't allowed to commit on issues we've voted on today but you can also make general commits not on issues in front of us. >> i'm sorry. and now that i want to commit on a family as they mourn the passing of they've over turning of a guilty verdict in their case >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello my name is paul let brown. i'm here again, it's coming up open another year my son was murdered. 30s rounds of built left that gun and went into my son. i'm here and whatever i can be to bring awareness to members of homicide. my son is still gone. a lot of parents - i stand for a l

of course. but i think in a political climate when you go to congress, members of congress regardless of how libertarianare, i think it's important to have a mechanism that forces you to do the right thing every time. >> my question is canalize your upbringing shape your libertarian values? >> well, thanks for the question. my parents were both born overseas in the middle east. my dad came or here is a refugee from palestine. my mother syrian. it's had a big impact on life. be when they take to school, a drop me off to school, tel me how wonderful this country is because we have liberty year. you can come to this country with absolutely nothing and make a life yourself. in other countries a lot of times it depends on what your last name is, what your ethnic background is, what your religion is. in this country anyone can make it. and so when i got older and decided to get into politics that was one of the things that really drove me to make sure that this country stay that way, that it stayed a bastion for liberty. john: thank you, congressman. coming up, dennis kucinich and ann coulter. first, does thi

of course. but i think in a political climate when you go to congress, members of congress regardless of how libertariane, i think it's important to have a mechanism that forces you to do the right thing every time. >> my question is canalize your upbringing shape your libertarian values? >> well, thanks for the question. my parents were both born overseas in the middle east. my dad came over here is a refugee from palestine. my mother syrian. it's had a big impact on life. be when they take to school, a drop me off to school, tell me how wonderful this country is because we have lirty year. you can come to this country with absolutely nothing and make a life yourself. in other countries a lot of times it depends on what your last name is, what your ethnic background is, what your religion is. in this country anyone can make it. and so when i got older and decided to get into politics that was one of the things that really drove me to make sure that this country stay that way, that it stayed a bastion for liberty. john: thank you, congressman. coming up, dennis kucinich and ann coulter. first, does this

to do because the intelligence community is presenting the same judgments to members of congress members of congress can ask do you agree with what. the answer would be i don't know specifically with no that's not the judgment of the intelligence community. so that i back to your original question and i worried overly about politicisation about the deliberate distortion i'm not i think that. the number of instances of political distortion of intelligence intelligence community caving in to political pressure from people who have done this work recent books by paul paul or. joshua roven or both look at this in summers there's not very many examples in their decade sweep they've got basically the same examples and if my memory of both books is correct all of the examples are of the director of central intelligence not lower level it's at that level a position that straddles the boundary of the divide between analysts intelligence and policy makers the members of the national security they're supposed to be policy guides as well one of the last fourteen years we have seen to a large extent becoming an

of congress. members of congress will be downstairs. senators will be downstairs.and her guests will be upstairs in the gallery along with all the other guests. neil: their is a designated number of seats in the gallery. >> one ticket each. those folks set up in the gallery and less sure the speaker. somewhere around a dozen. neil: remain and that thank you for clarifying that. we will be going to rich tonight. that explains it. i would prohibit further be in the gallery. ♪ neil: welcome back. moments away from the president of the wettest days delivering his fifth state of the union address. the fourth -- a very star-studded gallery of guests, singers, you name it and they are all there. we have a big wig year. you know him very well. president, senator, far r-texas senator phil gramm. all things, if anyone knew where the physical bodies were buried in the house and the sausages put together in washington, the senator does. order to have you. >> well, listen. i sat there for 24 years. i never went to a state of the union address that there wasn't a base of excitem

of congress. there are not many restrictions on who can lobby congress at all. certainly, a lot of interest groups are concerned about the relationship between mr. norquist and members of congress who signed the no tax increase pledge. as far as falling within the legal bounds of lobbying, that's fair game. host: on twitter. guest: and that is one major reason why the restrictions came into being and with the senior members of staff. if you are a lobbyist for a small client, a city in a state like indiana. you may not be able to get the same level of access as someone who can afford to hire a former member of congress. host: what about people who are legal advisers and legislative consultants for enormous corporate salaries? guest: some of them are lobbyists and they have to disclose if they spend a fair amount of their time lobbying. unless they're spending 20% on lobbying activity, that is undisclosed information and we would have no idea, but that is certainly common. host: frederick, maryland, republican. caller: i did not like the- pejorative term of a "lobb

of congress, just like many of us have done. so lincoln meets a lot of people. most people that he has not served with the congress. thaddeus stevens, everyone can remember him. per trade by tommy lee jones in the movie. this is the first meeting, they exchanged their first letters with congressman lincoln. so after the convention, he is touring massachusetts with his family. happy to be reunited with his family. every member of congress said they have all this contrary advice. take your family with you, it is good for your family to be in washington dc. leave your family at home, you don't want them getting infected by the swamp and dealing with anything associated with congress. well, lincoln actually did vote. first, mary taught in the children go with him. he believes that they are sort of getting in his way, mary also had her expectations as well. she was the most ambitious woman in the world. mary todd lincoln, because of an accident of biology and chronology was born during a time when women couldn't vote, much less participate in the political process. she said she would marry the man who had the best chance

we've got to do this with a full partnership of the congress in both houses of the congress. >> that's the way to go out with a beep on your last press conference. >>> republican members of congress from paul ryan to roy blunt predicted the sequester will not ab voided. >>> now an update on that crippled cruise ship whose return home has been anything but triumphant. a power failure left it stranded. next came a food shortage. hundreds of nonfunctioning toilets. five days later, the nightmare is almost over. janet shandly reports. >> reporter: these are the passengers who have been toughing it out on the crippled trium triumph, living four days without power, working toilets or enough food. the photos were taken from another carnival vessel as it delivered supplies. a third tug was summoned to help tug triumph into mobile. >> your heart sinks. your stomach knots up. you just want to keel over in a fetal position and go why? why now? you know? but you get stronger. >> reporter: carnival apologized to customers and canceled 12 more triumph cruises. docked now until at least mid april. li

: number seven, members of congress frequently do not have the opportunity to read the bills they're voting on. number eight, one of the more secret anti-democratic ways congressnds is to use language only the members of the committee can photon or a mint. number nine come each year congress spends countless hours debating a budget resolution it has no intention of keeping. number 10, congress circumvents its own budget limits and avoids public scrutiny by exploiting its own arcane budget procedures >> those are all true. >> host: in the budget resolution we are about to begin that season in february, is a waste of time? >> no. it isn't if right now we have a of three point* $6 trillion spending, the big criticism of the last two years is congress is gridlock. really? how did we authorize spending three point* $6 trillion? we are gridlock to spending money we don't have on things that are not absolutely necessary. we are gridlocked so we can make ourselves look good to our constituencies. there is no gridlock with spending your kid's future in washington we would not have spent three point* 6 trillion if we had a budget last year but we did a continuing resolu

>> i found out today is that the republicans have always had somebody, a member of congress, standing member of congressuent spanish speaker do a take in spanish. it's marco rubio will be the senator and the rising star gop is going to do both in english and spanish. you don't like it? >> huge mistake. the response needs to be in the universal language, essentially a verbal global hug. that involves everybody. if i were doing it, i would speak in ubbydubby. anybody who is a fan of zoom would know what i'm talking about. >> can you give us an example? >> no, i can't. >> what's that? >> esperanto? what's that? >> one of the reasons that these guys failed following obama is they're not near will he as good a speaker as he was. >> when you're the president and you come into the chamber and everybody stands and claps and you have the big thing and it's a whole day long event, it's really hard then you're sitting by yourself in a room with a podium and you have to give a speech with no ambience, no energy. there is no crowd crowd. >> rubio -- i've seen him give speeches to small crowds. >> let's hope his back

not because of some new evidence that it isn't needed anymore. that evidence went to congress, and congress acted accordingly. no, the court signaled today, the conservative majority of the court signaled today that they may get rid of this pillar of civil rights, the most important federal civil rights law that we've got, arguably, they signaled they may get rid of it not because of evidence that it is not needed, but just because they don't like the whole idea of it. what good is it any way? civil rights leader and congressman john lewis himself joins us next. ♪ [ telephone rings ] hello. [ man ] jen, there are a lot of beauty brands that want you to represent them. really, who? no. they add too much fragrance. no, they make you wear pink. are you kidding? no. nah. [ telephone rings ] no. not my style. no. [ cellphone rings ] [ man ] you might like this one. aveeno®. aveeno®. let me think about it. [ male announcer ] the beautiful jennifer aniston now for aveeno®. >>> selma sprang overnight from an obscure southern town to the front pages of world newspapers. this church was headquarters

congress cares about. >> quickly here with the members of congress to donate their salary. there should be a challenge issued give up to head start or a program for learning. >> the salvation army should set up outside of congress ring their bells and have the cameras pointed to every congress person as they leave the chamber and show how much they put in that pot. i don't think they are going to leave very much. >> roger simon, it's great to talk with you and see you soon. coming up next on "news nation" -- >> i ask each of to you pray for me. >> asking for prayers on his final appearance as leader of the catholic church. his final days have been overshadowed by scandal. we will have the latest. the new reaction from cardinal roger mahoney of los angeles who is at the vatican to select the new pope despite calls to recuse himself. at optionsxpress we're all about options trading. we create easy-to-use, powerful trading tools for all. look at these streaming charts! they're totally customizable and they let you visualize what might happen next. that's genius! we knew you needed a platform that could really help you elevate your trading. so we built it. chances of making this? it's a lot easier to find out if a

of congress? >> what members of congress and their staff told us at the center for investigative reporting is they're very moved. here is the guy who killed the most wanted man in our modern history, and he came to them and he apparently didn't talk very much about himself. he talked about the other people in his unit and the 820,000 other veterans that like him are waiting on their disability claim. and a lot of them are in a lot worse strait than he is. and so he spoke about that. he spoke about the difficulties of finding a job after you leave special operations where all your work is classified. you can't exactly sit down at a job interview and say hey, i just killed osama bin laden, give me a job. it's all classified. all this is very, very moving, i understand, and as you mentioned, he met with senior members of congress from both parties, the chair of the house -- the chair of the veterans senate affairs committee and other leaders. >> is there anything we know that might be a concrete change that could come out of these discussions? obviously he is a guy who speaks from a very specific perspe

that that you came family is not unique unfortunately and that's how members of congress that's the story the members of congress heard today so we are leaving washington d.c. with an assurance that members of congress are real lasing that the policies that are drafting we have to keep in mind the story of libya monique that you gain the story of another student in this row has in the twenty other civilians who have been killed on the us mexico border now valentino you traveled all the way to the nation's capital to make your voice heard are you confident are you hopeful that. it's going to bring about some kind of change but i just know that today my voice in the voices of all of us who came to the they were heard now we don't want this to just to be a boys in the when we need some type of action taken and we don't have any more time to be wasting time or if it's all right gentlemen really appreciate you coming in and telling us your story and i wish you the best of luck that last valentijn touch you can the father of all area and christian ramirez the director of the southern border community is coalition. als

of assassinating the president or something. >> dana: the thing that is rude, he gave address and encouraged viewers to send letter to congress he said the address of congress in congress is u.s. congress, washington, d.c., 20515. someone in the mail room has to go through and find out the office number for each of those guys and that was really wrong. >> greg: you are looking out for little guy. >> bob: how did we know the press is not making a big deal out of this? you are saying they are all -- your monologue, in your introyou said the press not doing their job because matthews got away with saying it. >> dana: because we're busy overhyping the woodward threat. >> kimberly: he is a self-appointed protector of all things obama. he's in a guardian angel law cracking the whip on everybody. >> bob: we all know self-appointed persecutors of obama. >> eric: abc news, selected error in michelle obama's commentary about tragedy in chicago. listen. >> she was standing in out a park with her friends. in a neighbor blocks from where my kids grew up, where our house is. she was caught in the line of fire. i don't want to keep disappointing our kids in this country.