it was the first shoe that jay carney brought up at the daily briefing earlier today. last week the senate passed a bipartisan transportation bill that will keep construction workers on the job and keep our economy growing. an economy built to last depends on a world class infrastructure system that allows us to transport our people and goods as quickly and effectively as possible. that's why we need to continue to make investments to create jobs by rellg and modernizing roads, bridges and railways. that's why my administration will continue to fight for the long-term investments needed to ensure that america continues to compete and succeed in a global economy. he is calling on -- we commended the senate last -- we are calling on the house to follow the senate's lead and pass bipartisan transportation legislation. well, we commended the senate for passing the bill. i'm not going to write the legislation for them. we are saying the house, like the senate, should act in a bipartisan way and pass a bill. the% looks forward to signing into a law a transportation bill beca

it was the first issue that jay carney brought up at the daily briefing earlier today. >> before i take your questions, i wanted to start with a statement by the president. "last week, the senate passed a bipartisan transportation bill that will keep construction workers on the job and keep our economy growing. now the house of representatives needs to take bipartisan action so i can sign this into law. an economy built to last depends on a world class infrastructure system that allows us to transport goods as quickly as possible. that's why we need to continue to make investments that will create jobs by rebuilding and modernizing our roads, bridges, and railways. that's why my administration will continue to fight for the long-term investments needed to ensure that america continues to compete and succeed in a global economy." we commended the senate. we are calling on the house to pass bipartisan transportation legislation. the items in the bill will let congress figure out we commended the senate for acting in a bipartisan way on this important bill. the house, like the senate, shou

question if this is all a preparation to go to war with iraq here is white house press secretary jay carney is answer to that question at a press conference. with the it's. not exactly a reaction to it i think it was a fairly. standard in which. piece of business. so is this just business as usual or does it give the executive branch and i'm president amount of power on joined now by trying to grab the founder of the white awake news dot com so look deeper into this welcome to the show charlie so you just heard the white house press secretary jay carney there he's kind of downplaying this saying it's no big deal but should americans be alarmed at how this executive order. yes i mean absolutely i think we should be alarmed about this executive order as well as you know legislation that has been rammed through congress and or and or executive orders that we've seen in the last several years you know just truly goes all the way back to nine eleven and a patriot act ever since then we've seen one piece of. liberty destroying legislation or another the latest of course being this executive order

karen bohan, who covers the white house for writer's news with questions to press secretary jay carney. >> jay, can you talk about the timing of the meeting with congressional leaders why this came about now? and, also, although both sides are up, isn't it kind of a sign of the partisanship and the fighting between the two parties that there has not been a meeting of this kind since july? >> well, i say two things about that. one is that there has certainly been communication between the president and the leaders of the house and the senate in the last -- in the time since they last sat down together. i think last summer and spring were notable for the high number of hours that the leaders spent together with the president as they tried to work out -- avoid overt to government shut down in the spring and work out an agreement on deficit and debt reduction in the summer. >>> as for this meeting, it was an opportunity as the president saw it to meet with the leadership at the beginning of this year. it was useful to do it after congress acted on the president's highest priority for the b

which i did today. >> jay carney responding to some of the details of the paul ryan bug plan. joining us live on the phone is jennifer ruben. it's titled right turn. thanks as always for being with us on c-span. >> my pleasure. >> let's dig into some of the details of the ryan plan. where are the disparity? where are the differences between what ryan and the republicans are looking at and what the presidents have proposed. >> one of the starkest differences between the two budgets and frankly between this budget and ryan's budget last time. first of all, remember the budget control act last year put into place a mechanism that would enact automatic cuts unless this committee could come up with $1.2 trillion in debt reduction. they dependent do that. and the sequester ax would fall and would fall half on discretionary domestic spending and half on discretionary defense spending. what the ryan budget does is come up with a substitute set of cuts so that the defense side does not go forward. the rationale for that is several fold. first of all, secretary of defense panetta and ot

there's more work to be done. >> white house press secretary jay carney earlier in the day. one key part of getting a good job is getting a good education. wisconsin and vermont have a high school graduation rate of 90%. nationwide it is 75.5%. that's an increase of about 3.5% from 2001 to 2009. improving in states like tennessee and in new york. today at&t announcing that it is providing money to make sure that kids stay in school. chairman and chief executive officer randall stevenson announcing today that at&t will provide $250 million to reduce the high school drop-out rate over the next five years. that is on top of the $100 million the company had spent since 2008 to fund similar initiatives through an effort called at&t aspire. today arne duncan, education secretary, announcing new details to make sure that these grants can improve the high school graduation rate and improve schools overall. part of the america's promise alliance, a forum that took place here in washington, d.c. >> what are the ingredients? what are the secrets to this success? in the program we're se

thanks very much. >> nas the white house press secretary jay carney taking questions from cbs's peter mayer. you can find the full white house briefing and all the events at the c-span network covers on our website, c-span.org. back in a minute with more "washington today." >> on march 26th, 27th and 28th the u.s. supreme court will hear oral arguments and challenges to the health care law. you'll hear an argument cited in several of the pending health care cases saturday on c-span radio's historic supreme court oral argument. from 1997, county sheriffs jay prince and richard mack, petitioners versus the united states, respondent. >> in the federal state context, this court has upheld laws passed under the spending power, the commerce power including the power to preempt state legislation and the article 6 duty of state judges to hear federal causes of action. the interim provisions the of the brady acts is not an exercise of any of those powers. the court of appeals for the 9th circuit held that in essence, congress may commandeer the sheriff's departments of our country as long as t

at the briefing today, ben feller with questions to jay carney. >> talk of the speaker being encouraged about what the president had to say about the jobs act and speaker boehner would be happy to work with the president on a true energy policy. your read out there, pretty upbeat too. was there a specific agenda that came out of the agenda that the american people can say that will likely be done? >> well, i don't want a specific piece of legislation or itemize the topics. as we talked about yesterday, i said and we put out a statement from amy brunledge, that the republicans jobs act was put out with elements in it that overlap considerably with the president's priorities and, in fact, echo the very things the president brought up first in his speech in september when he put forward his american jobs act. he repeated those very same areas in terms of the small business and assistance to small business in the state of the union address and again last week when he signed the payroll tax extension. so, certainly, there is reason to hope that if congress can focus on resolving some differe

the white house briefing, jay carney asked about all this. >> i want to ask about karzai's comments today. he wants a pullout of the forces from the villages and pulling back to bases. he wants to take the lead in 2013. i wonder if either of those are consistent with where the president stands right now in afghanistan and on the taliban and its declaration that they stop. is that a major step back? >> let me deal with the segments of the question. first of all, as you know, the president's policy, strategy in afghanistan, is to drawdown the forces that were surged into afghanistan. that is happening now. 33,000 forces will be withdrawn. 33,000 troops will be withdrawn by the end of the summer. as he said yesterday in his comments in the rose garden, our strategy is to shift to a support role in 2013 and to complete the transition to full afghan security lead in 2014. so -- without getting into the specifics of what you do in certain parts of the country and the nature of different deployments, it is consistent to say as we saw in iraq that that kind of transition involves a change in the

i think i have answered this, again, chinese tires, to start. >> white house press secretary jay carney made his comments today. joining us on the phone is doug palmer. >> you're welcome, glad to be here. >> in looking at this wto dispute, it's not only the u.s. but japan and the european union so is there significance that we're not alone in making this claim against the chinese government? >> well, yeah, i think so. i mean, i think it gives force to the argument when you have three major economies like the european union, japan and the united states all saying that china is not abiding by its commitments and they have shared interest in a successful outcome of this case since their industries are dependent on access to these rare earth and currently the biggest source of supply is in china. >> so what the core issue, where is the dispute? >> the dispute is over export restrictions that china has impose on these rare earth minerals that are used in variety of products. clean-energy products. advanced technology products. like iphones and solar panels and electric cars. advanced batteri

that brought some quick questions today to press secretary jay carney who refuted this reuters story.> reports today that the president and prime minister cameron discussed tapping strategic oil reserves. what's the status of the white house's attempt at that, the spr and are you having those kinds of discussions with other foreign leaders because obviously you want to do this with international concurrence. >> jim, the suggestion that energy issues were among the topics discussed by the british prime minister and the president should not be surprising. energy issues were among the topics discussed in the meetings that they had. it is inaccurate as was reported today that any kind of agreement was reached on a course of action, or that any kind of timetable associated with the course of action was agreed to. those reports are wrong. they are false. >> jay carney responding to that reuters story that seemed to indicate that the u.s. and great britain were about to release some of the oil from the strategic reserves. by the way the daily briefing is available on our website as well as a

press secretary jay carney's briefing started moments ago, he'll likely be asked what this, these new claims say about iran's claim that its nuclear program is peaceful. megyn? megyn: wendell, thank you. again, reports about this weapons offer began inside of israel. we will go live to jerusalem at the top of the hour, our next hour, and we'll continue monitoring the white house briefing and bring you the news as it breaks from the white house. >>> turning now to the president's re-election bid. his campaign is now blaming republicans for recent fundraising challenges. the obama campaign is warning donors that if they want to keep barack obama in the white house, they'd better show him the money asap. team obama argues the prolonged republican primary is hurting president obama's ability to build up his campaign coffers, saying it's easier to raise money when you only have one opponent, one identified opponent. at last check the obama campaign has raised over $100 million, that is far short of the three-quarters of a billion dollars it collected in the 2008 race. but it's not for lack

newt gingrich is here live to respond to jay carney. @?se they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption. check out the latest collection of snacks from lean cuisine. creamy spinach artichoke dip, crispy garlic chicken spring rolls. they're this season's must-have accessory. lean cuisine. be culinary chic. that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. >> this month's jobs report showed an upswing in people heading back into the work force and today, we're looking to help you get a job as well. here with the top three companies today hiring right now, the fox business network's cheryl casone. cheryl, sorry, we have newt coming up. >> let's start with sterling jewellers. this is a retail chain. they own jerod and they owe kay jewellers. they're hiring. they need sales people, managers. here's the thing. a the lot of the

you heard we said earlier we heard that we heard the president terry white house press secretary jay carney kind of laughed at the fact that. in fact that this could be used in preparation for war with iran do you think that this could be part of the picture that i could be the motivation behind the order. that that's a great question liz and that is what we should be asking why why do we need things like this executive order why we need things like national defense authorization act two thousand and twelve why do we need legislation that prevents people from protesting or making a federal crime you know does the government understand realize that we're heading into a lot harder more difficult times then they're already there we are hearing right now so do you think this legislation in place so they can put the boot heel of a tyrannical government on the people were pushing back so i mean it's a good question and i guess time will bear out what all these puzzle pieces are put into place for well another thing that is raising eyebrows is the timing of this order it was signed late friday nig

jay carney did say it was a local law enforcement matter, they didn't want to interfere witness. when the president got the question today he walked back to the podium and clearly wanted to weigh in on this as this case has got even more and more attention. take a quick listen. >> thank you. >> you're going to do great. >> thank you. >> all right. >> controversial allegations of lingering racism within our society. the stand your ground law. can you comment on the trayvon martin, sir. >> i'm head of the executive branch, and the attorney general reports to me, so i've got to be careful about my statements to make sure that we are not impairing any investigation that is taking place right now. but obviously this is a tragedy. i can only imagine what these parents are going through. and when i think about this boy, i think about my own kids. if i had a son he'd look like trayvon. and, you know, i think they are right to expect that all of us as americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves, and that we are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. >>

. >> jay carney. >> i'm sorry. jay carney.d henry asked him about a and carney -- so but now it is a different situation because now every dime matters to this country. >> absolutely. >> bill: and i want corporate reform. i want to knock out a lot of these subsidies. i think we have to do it methodically. >> how about fairly? >> bill: fairly is fine. i like fairly. right now the folks are going the oil companies don't need the 5 billion. knock it out. knock it off. >> they probably don't. >> bill: no, they don't. >> and maybe a lot of other industries don't either. why in the world would you go after an industry responsible directly and indirectly for nine million jobs. >> bill: i'm trying to run the government in a more efficient way. i'm not going after them. >> that is a happy thing. >> bill: i am a happy guy. >> the problem is if you are going to spread all the joy around do it uniformly and fairly with every industry. >> bill: you got to start this way and this is crazy. another crazy situation this mega millions lotto. n

. >> jay carney insists white house is not ducking political liability.ing healthcare was featured in major campaign film. >> he knew he couldn't fix the economy if he didn't fix healthcare. >> carney charged republicans are trying to distract from the fact that if they repeal the law, they have no plan to fix the system. >> would you have it be the way it was before when insurance companies could throw you off if you got sick? they have no answer to that. this is not a debate we will shy away from. >> ahead of monday's argument, the president faces skeptical public. fox news polling shows little change in the last two years in the high percentage of the public that wants to repeat the whole law or parts of it. despite presidential promises the more people were educated the law the more they would like it. >> i'll engage a great campaign from one end of the country to the other, telling americans with insurance or without insurance what they stand to gain. >> on monday when the supreme court kicks things off, the president will be quiet again. democratic

jay carney asked about the president not talking much about health care. is the two year anniversary of the signing of obama care. his domestic achievement. arguably in this administration carney also talking about polls. what would you suggest the supreme court do with health care law? throw out the whole law 42%. throw out the mandate 25%. uphold the law 26%. take a look at our fox news poll, what should happen with the health care law? repeal entirely, repeal parts of it. expand it, leave as it. is what status of health care general election but also the primary race. bring four panel. steve haste senior writer for the "weekly standard." juan williams syndicated columnist for the hill and charles krauthammer. the president doesn't spend a lot of time touting health care. >> he doesn't at all. i don't understand it because as you suggest it is the signature accomplishment of his first term in office or only term depending on the climate in november. i think if he did he would get results from it. he shies away from it 22% say expand it. so when you go ba

. >> jay carney. >> i'm sorry. jay carney. ed henry asked him about a and carney -- so but now it is a different situation because now every dime matters to this country. >> absolutely. >> bill: and i want corporate reform. i want to knock out a lot of these subsidies. i think we have to do it methodically. >> how about fairly? >> bill: fairly is fine. i like fairly. right now the folks are going the oil companies don't need the 5 billion. knock it out. knock it off. >> they probably don't. >> bill: no, they don't. >> and maybe a lot of other industries don't either. why in the world would you go after an industry responsible directly and indirectly for nine million jobs. >> bill: i'm trying to run the government in a more efficient way. i'm not going after them. >> that is a happy thing. >> bill: i am a happy guy. >> the problem is if you are going to spread all the joy around do it uniformly and fairly with every industry. >> bill: you got to start this way and this is crazy. another crazy situation this mega millions lotto.

spokesman jay carney defended the decision to resume talks with rawb which netanyahu warned may be as not just republicans in congress but those on the campaign trail criticizing obama. mitt romney says administration policies gave the. >> ayatollah what they wanted most, time. rick santorum said mr. obama has turned his back on israel. >> this is not a game. there is nothing casual about it. and, you know, when i see some of these folks who have a lot of bluster and big talk, but when you actually ask them specifically what they would do it turns out they repeat the things that we have been doing the last three years. >> reporter: the president says there is still time for sanctions and diplomatic pressure convince iran to either stop its nuclear program or profit' not aimed at building a bomb. jay carney said those beating the drums of war should explain to the american people, why, why now and what the consequences would be. megyn: israeli fell netanyahu gave a gift to mr. obama this week. he give him a copy of the book of esther. it tells the story of the queen of persia who save

you heard press secretary jay carney say that today.ouer thatay message out of campaign headqutersin chicago. they're on t.v. saying the exact same thing. they don't want to get into the middle of the political discussion that the candidates are having and we're having on t.v. shows. >> woodruff: aside from this... the court argument, what's going on with the court. should have the president talking about health care reform in this campaign? >> well, you know, any good campaign and candidate and elected official is thinking about what the potential outcomes are of any important issue so, of course, they're talking aboutit and, of course, they'rthinkingbout what will happen the supreme court overturns it and what will happen if the supreme court upholds it. we don't know any more than vast speculation which i'm... i feel perfectly safe putting out there. we know that he's very interested in the case, he's, of course, a constitutional scholar himself. he taught constitutional law in law school and we know that he read the briefs on air fo

jay carney was asked today when does the u.s. believe enough is snuff? -- listen. >> i don't want to predict in the future at what point if certain things happen or don't happen. additional strategies might be put in place. i would say the approach we are taking working with the friends of syria. working with the international community to further isolate and pressure assad. >> in short, there will be a lot more talking before anyone kind of military action is taken, if ever, shep. >> shepard: historically speaking, murdering is part of the assad family tradition. >> absolutely. >> how we're getting insight into new emails that show us a bit of the relationship mr. assad and his wife. >> mrs. assad seems as supportive of that kind of murdering gone on in the family name as her husband appears to be. after one speech in which he vowed to crack down on the protesters she said and i quote very strong no messing around with regard to her husband. she also wrote an email directly to him which said if we are strong together, we will overcome this together. i l

we heard from jay carney who says the united states remains committed to their aim which is achieving some kind of political resolution in afghanistan. he said that there's no likely resolution to the confront in that country without some sort of political settlement. he didn't respond directly to what the taliban had said and their accusations that the u.s. has taken a fickle position. we also heard some sort of damage limitation if you'd like in response to what the afghan president hamid karzai has said in terms of u.s. troops withdrawing from remote villages and concentrating more on the larger military bases in afghanistan. so that may have taken people something by surprise but certainly the spin that officials on the pentagon was putting on that, that is the aim the u.s. forces have. it's just a question of how quickly that could be achieved. >> jonathan, the lawyer for the u.s. soldier acused of killing 16 civilians has been speaking. what does he have to say? >> we heard from john henry brown who is the wlure has been employed by the soldier accused of those killings in kanda

jay carney said the president's message was he wanted to congratulate sandra fluke for in carney's words >> the -- like a lot of people feel that the kinds of personal attacks that she -- that have been directed her way are inappropriate. the fact that our political discourse has become debased in many ways is bad enough. it is worse when it's direct at a private citizen. >> reporter: it's pretty clear from that readout of the call that the white house wants to keep this issue alive. just yesterday vice president joe biden acknowledged publicly that the initial contraception debate in his words got screwed up. you remember the white house taking a lot of heat from the catholic church in the early stages of this debate with it was about religious freedom. the white house has been able to shift this to a debate about women's health. an administration official is saying they believe the republicans are on the defensive on this issue and they are more than happy to keep it alive. megyn: we have more details coming in on these tornadoes hitting northern alabama among other places as a powerfu

meanwhile here is white house press secretary jay carney when asked about this. >> i think we've beenonally clear about what our policy is. we know there is the time and space to continue to pursue the diplomatic objection. martha: he talks a lot more about continuing to pursue the diplomatic option. we are please towed have james spider marks who served as a senior intelligence officer in iraq. welcome. good to have you here. >> thanks, martha. martha: i just looked over some of what you said on this matter. basically you believe that if israel does decide to strike as her ally we will absolutely also become involved then as well. >> oh, we will, certainly military. i think israel has probably already requested some assistance with refueling, and maybe even some additional bunker busting capabilities. they have the ability to go off some deeply buried targets where the nuclear facilities are housed in iran. the ability to get down deep and have devastation and penetrate as deeply as possible, we have that capability and i think they've asked for that as well. martha: let's imagine fo

jay carney is former reporter for "time" magazine. i seem to remember "time" magazine doing a lot anniversary stories. this is not a big deal the media making a lot out of an anniversary but maybe the white house doesn't want to talk about. jenna: we report, you decide. ed henry at the white house today. >> reporter: thank you. jenna: as you know the government is introducing the health care law in stages over the course of several years. 92 new provisions. starting in 2010, dozens of them kicked in and rollout continues through 2018. here is a quick look at a few of them and what else is on horizon. in 2010 the law allowed young adults to stay on their parents plan until they turn 26. that same year we saw new consumer protections including one preventing insurers from denying children coverage based on preexisting medical conditions. in 2011 the next year, a new provision provided discounts on brand name prescription drugs for seniors. also introduced, medicare payments for primary care. we have new provision this is year. they incl

while jay carney had charged republican presidential candidate newt gingrich was lying for claiming heould bring gas down to $2.50. today there was a clarification. >> i said yesterday that anybody who said that would be a liar and i shouldn't have gone for motivations. i should have said that anybody who says that doesn't know what he is talking about. >> leading gingrich to claim their candidate has gotten inside the president's head. >> he believes in a fantasy land where companies like solyndra are going to solve things. his we are was algae. drilling doesn't work but algae does. >> americans trust the president more than congressional republicans on how to get the price of gas down. >>> plenty of excitement these days for sports fans here in washington. coming up next, the caps with a huge win after falling behind by three goals. >>> plus, the redskins dominating the off season once again adding several new players to kick off free agency. sports is next. al? yummy. that's yours. lower cholesterol. lower cholesterol. i'm yummy. lower cholesterol. i got that wrong didn't i? [ male

white house press secretary jay carney defended the president's opposition to the pipeline and his involvement in the defeat of that bill. >> despite claims that this would somehow -- this pipeline would solve the pain families are feeling at the pump today the company itself has said it would take years before a single drop of oil would flow through that pipeline. the president makes a lot of phone calls. this one happened to be the fact that he made some calls happened to make it into a press report and i'm confirming that he did but i'm not going to get into individual names or length of conversation. 11 democrats including max baucus, claire mccaskill and bob casey broke ranks with the party to support the republican proposal that did fail. the senate defeated an amendment that would have given the white house more leeway on the issue while banning exports of oil from the pipeline. >>> a measure helping small businesses heading to the senate after cruising through the house with rare bipartisan support. aimed at helping start-up companies hire more workers and rage capital from larger pool

that, we will stand adjourned again witur you and t withho >>> in today's white house briefing, jay carney fielding questions about the killing of 16 afghan civilians by an american satisfy sergeant. you can watch the briefing on cspan.org and on our facebook page. we're asking to you weigh in on the impact of the afghanistan shootings on u.s. relations. log on and share your comments. and coming up live tonight, the alabama republican part city hosting a forum at the alabama theater in birmingham. speakers include newt gingrich and rick santorum. texas congressman ron paul and former massachusetts governor mitt romney declined to participate in the event. we'll have it live tonight at 6:30 p.m. eastern on our companion network c-span. >> at some point the federal government has to be able to say to a private business that owns critical infrastructure that we all depend on that an enemy might attack, that we have to say to them you've got to meet this standard of defending yourself and defending our country. >> in the year 2010, the estimate is that there were 3 billion cyber attacks on pr

jay carney, the president's press secretary was asked directly about that yesterday at the white house briefing and he said flat out, i'm not going to comment about the spr and you know, obviously, the white house is cognizant of the facting it could look like a desperation move and kind of risky for national security purposes and they don't want to go there, but you know, depending on what happens, obviously, traditionally gas prices rise during the summertime and everybody's concerned that gas prices are spiking so much now in february and january and march when they're usually at a low point. >> when the president said there is no silver bullet, no easy answers, how does that play among the electorate? >> well, i haven't seen any polling on it, but you know, i think everybody, you know, every time you go to the gas pumps with your suv and it costs you 50 or $60 to fill up the tank. >> that's cheap. sometimes it's $80 or $100. >> you want an immediate solution. so i don't know how it's going to turn out this year, but democrats are definitely worried that this is -- things have been