we'll hear from two "time" magazine contributors, harvard professor graham allison, and peter bergen, author of "manhunt." plus "washington post" columnist david ignatius, and our own cbs news seniority correspondent john miller. >> if you're looking for a bumper sticker to sum up how president obama has handled what we inherited, it's pretty simple-- osama bin laden is de dead, and general motors is alive. >> schieffer: american politics and american safety in the age of terrorism on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: and good morning again. if the people on the sunday shows seem a little sleepy this morning, it is because this is the morning after the white house correspondents' dinner. washington's version of the oscars, which comes complete with its own red carpet crowded with stares of television, hollywood, both the two-legged and four-legged kind. government and journalism. the star is always whoever happens to be president, and last night was no exception. >> my fellow americans, we ga

one of the elements that's in graham allison's piece is general mcchrystal's report to the presidentgeneral mcchrystal, who was then running the theater, to prepare this report. he prepares a 66-page report. and just as it is handed to the president, it's in "the washington post" and "the new york times." >> yes. see, when the -- the day that leon panetta walked into the oval office to say, you know, mr. president, there's this compound, and the person who lives there is osama bin laden's trusted courier, and there's a tall guy who walks around the court yard every once in a while. we think it might be osama bin laden. from that moment, i mean, there were six or seven months that passed until the raid, but they kept that information to a tiny group of six people. because one of the things that wil allison says in the piece that one of the parts of the decision making process is who do you tell? because in washington, everybody you tell can potentially leak it. if this information leaked, the most vital information to national security, that would have been a disaster. in fact, when t

is totally ok this clearly was done in cooperation with the government just think about this graham allison also wrote a piece in this month's time about the raid and had what they described as quote an extraordinary behind the scenes report where he got access to top decision makers and over one hundred hours of interviews and reveals that then defense secretary robert gates and vice president joe biden both voted against the raid and then explains why obama overruled that. now most people out there are probably thinking cool we could an inside look but how about asking why is this inside look ok while others aren't let's not forget that this administration refuses to release the photos of osama bin laden after he was killed because they fear that it could damage national security and cause a reaction abroad but apparently a memo that signed off on that killing doesn't have the ability to anger anybody your brother was a fan of osama bin laden so the whole premise is silly because the government can make the argument that literally everything under the sun could possibly damage national se

new article in "time" magazine "in the room" shows the decision to take out the most -- times graham allisons the most experienced member, robert gates, opposed the raid. vice president joe biden also felt the risks of act rather than waiting outweighed the benefits. the next morning in a reception room, obama told them it's a go. an amazing story, mike duffy. ticktock undermines the granular details you get in this piece, but it's almost a year to the anniversary. do you think when it's all said and done, the president has made some momentmental accomplishments, is this a defining moment. >> certainly the defining triumph, if there's a second term of his presidency so as far as. whether the public kashs about a s.e.a.l. team mission -- we probably will hear a version of that every day somewhere, maybe not nationally, but that line will get re-told over and over. >> here is my thinking, that it worn. it doesn't fit the defining narrative of this president's campaign and leadership. if you go to the decision itself, i remember talking to a high-ranks official, who said it was an extremely tou

police arrested the manager, 35-year-old fenton graham of silver spring, his girlfriend, michelle allison, the daughter of the robbery suspect. 53-year-old michael cook. all arrested. >>> a pakistani man living in woodbridge will find out today how long he'll spend in prison for his connection to a terror plot. jaber ahmed pled guilty to aiding a terrorist group in december. the 24-year-old created this five-minute video that promoted a violent jihad against enemies of islam. federal prosecutors say ahmed conspired with an extremist group in pakistan to make the videos. he faces 15 years in prison when he is sentenced in federal court today. >>> for the first time we're hearing from the lone survivor of a fiery crash this chevy chase. 18-year-old rico richardson spoke exclusively by phone with news4. he and three friends were running from police in a stolen car when it slammed into a tree and burst into flames on chevy chase circle three weeks ago. richardson, now in a group home for violating parole that night, says his life has been changed forever. >> i thank god every day i wake up an

graham allison talks about the gold standard i'll accept that. secured to a high standard. then get rid of it. if it's highly enriched uranium, blended down, we do that, do it more. plutonium, either burned it, my favorite option, better than nothing, better than stockpiling a. or treat as radioactive waste and dispose of it. and, finally, a bit of prescription. the prescription one has heard when you're in a hole, first stop digging. so the prescription is simple. it would be for all countries, all countries to forsake any future production of separated plutonium, or highly enriched uranium for any purpose whatsoever. that means no plutonium used in the current generation of thermal reactors, no, i commission a plutonium with separation for future fast reactors, no reprocessing of spent fuel for radioactive waste management. none. no research reactor fuel with highly enriched uranium for radioisotope production. no naval reactors fueled by highly enriched uranium or additional highly enriched uranium. and it. the proposition here is that if we are serious about this being

graham of silver spring. his girlfriend, michelle allison, the daughter of the robbery suspect, 53-year-old michael cook. >>> the first time this morning, we are hearing from the lone survivor of a fiery crash in chevy chase that killed three teenagers. 18-year-old rico richardson spoke exclusively with news4 by phone. he and three friends were running from police in a stolen car when it slammed into a tree and burst into flames on chevy chase circle three weeks ago. richardson, who is now in a group home for violating parole that night, says his life has been changed frfr. >> thank god every day i wake up and i'm still alive. that's all i was thinking about was coming home, where i should have been at. >> 16-year-old emmanuel and 14-year-old kyree nelson died after being trapped in the back seat of the car. 16-year-old driver renard osmond died two weeks ago. >>> a large tribute will take place to commemorate the 100 anniversary of the sinking of the "titanic." every year there is an annual toast at the southwest waterfront at the "titanic" memorial. the members of this group salute the men who gave up thei

graham in silver spring. his girlfriend, michelle allison, who is the daughter of the robbery suspect, 53-year-old michael cooks also arrested. >>> and we're going to check again on our forecast now. let's talk to tom kierein about just how soon we're going to see the warmup begin, tom? >> it's going to begin here in the next couple of hours. right now it is still quite cool. beautiful blue sky over washington, live view from our sky watcher camera. 300 feet above northwest washington, looking into downtown washington. all splashed with sunshine now. and all around the region, we're in the 50s. upper 50s now in washington, and areas just to our south. to the north and west, temperatures mostly in the low to mid 50s now. but by later this afternoon, we should be hitting the mid and upper 60s throughout much of the afternoon. sunset today is at 7:44 and by then we'll be back down to near 60 degrees. and then a clear night tonight. we'll be down to near 50 by midnight. near 40 by dawn on saturday. another gorgeous sunny day tomorrow, it should be warmer with a southwest breeze, we should make it into the mid 70s

graham of silver spring. also his girlfriend, michelle allison, who was the daughter of the robbery suspect, 53-year-old michael cook. >>> tributes in d.c. this weekend will mark 100 years since the sinking of the titanic. one of those events include an annual toast at the southwest waterfront. a group of men solemnly gather at the "titanic" memorial there. they salute the men who gave up -- gave their lives to save women and children as the ship sank near newfoundland on april 15, 1912. >>> also this year the southwest d.c. heritage project will mark the occasion with a large-scale projection, music, and live performances there. that event runs between -- rather it begins at 7:00 tomorrow evening at the southwest waterfront park. >>> if last night is any indication, the caps' playoff series is setting up to be a goalie duel. unfortunately, the caps' rookie was the first to crack. the bruins scored the only goal of the night, a little over a minute into overtime, to take the first game of the series-0. it was a stellar game for braden holtby in his first-ever nhl playoff game. he held the bruins scoreless throu

allison hickey, undersecretary for benefits, dr. robert petzel, undersecretary for health. we also have todd grahams, executive in charge for the office of management and chief financial officer, and roger baker, assistant secretary for information and technology. thank you all for joining us today, secretary shinseki. your remarks will of course appear in the record. but we welcome your opening statement. >> thank you, madam chairman. ranking member burr, distinguished members of the senate committee on veterans affairs, thank you again. and i look forward to these. this is an opportunity to extend the dialogue we have in other fora. but thanks for this opportunity to present, as chairwoman -- the chairman said, the president's 2013 budget and 2014 advanced appropriations requests for va. this committee has a long history of strong support for our nation's veterans, and i can speak to that firsthand, having worked personally the past three budgets with you. the president has demonstrated his own respect and sense of obligation for our 22 million veterans by saying to the congress once again another