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msnbc contributor and political editor for grio.com, norah dunn, former communications director and john wardtical reporter for the "huffington post." welcome all. anita, let me start with you. all budgets are political documents are they not? >> i was shocked that the republicans were accuse the president of a political document. >> shock shocked? >> severely shocked. >> severely shocked. >> this is one of those cases were november will decide the fate of the bush tax cuts, pure and simple. >> november will decide the pry orities of this country, a basic direction, which is what a budget is. it is priority and a direction that you set for the country. the president set a direction where the nation's middle class is restored or revitalized, invest in education, clean energy and those things we need for building an economy that will last as opposed to being a bubble economy that is the budget he set out. what we will see soon from congressional republicans is one where the middle class is asked to shoulder more of the burned, hard work is not rewarded as much as of investments and return to po

. >>> the sex tape featuring john east side wards and -- john edwards and one-time mistress will be settle soon. hunter sued young to get possession of the tape. john edwards still faces trial on conspiracy charges. >>> new e-mails showing frustration from former vice presidential candidate sarah palin in her last month as alaska's governor. she resigned as governor. now e-mails show sarah complaining about the lawsuits and suits she faced. in one e-mail she wrote quote i can't take it anymore. >>> we have a follow up to the nine-year-old boy in washington state that brought a loaded gun to school and accidentally shot one of his classmates. that boy appeared in court yesterday wearing an orange jump suit crying as the judge read the charges against him and his father rubbed his back. students say the gun went off when the boy slammed his backpack down on his desk. a girl was hit by the bullet. he got the gun while a visit to his mothers house and told friends he was going to run away. >>> here in the bay area people that live in oakland say young people have easy access to guns. ktvu talk

house republican leader as he spoke to reporters joined by the speaker of the house john boehner and lau laura who is from ward williston oil company taking place on capitol hill. >> we're here joined by many entrepreneurs from across the country who have come here today with success, because their success was earned by running businesses and succeeding in the very tough economy that we're in. as has been noted, these entrepreneurs made it through the crash years of '06 and '08, and there's plenty of entrepreneurs who have not. it is for them that we're here. we are here to make sure that we can jump start this economy. we are here all behind what's called the jobs act that will be votes on in the house the next week. this is the jobs act, jump start or business startups act. it is a compilation of bills that some of which have been voted on the floor of the house with heavy bipartisan support. these are bills which also reflect the work of the president's job council. as has been shown today, the white house has said we need to get started jump starting our business startups, and that's exactly what the bill

. >> and a former ward white house intern claims she was the teenage mistress of john f. kennedy. [ kate ] most women may not be properly absorbing the calcium they take because 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. president obama says it is possible and important to resolve the conflict in syria without outside military action even though the united states embassy in syria has closed. the state department shut down the embassy in damascus today citing grave concerns for security. the fighting between the syrian forces and civilians has led to at least 46 deaths. president obama saidn b bashar al assad should step down. >> 43 people including 19 americans face prosecution in egypt criminal court on charges of of legal foreign funding. this is part of an ongoing crackdown on organized agents targeted in an investigation of foreign influence in the chips politics. >> the two boys were killed along w

current financial crisis mike is widely recognized for his work has been a ward of the george polk award for magazine reporting that john hancock award for business journalism has received multiple accolades from the national press club an american bar association among others currently mike is a business and finance writer with the institute for public accuracy and is the author of the book the monster gang of predatory lenders and wall street bankers fleeced america and spawned a global crisis mike welcome. but thanks for having me tom i just want to correct you upfront it's an easy mistake to make actually work for the center for public integrity center for public integrity thank you very much mike where does your interest in exposing corporate corruption and greed come from and what attracts you to this field of reporting. right you know as a reporter i try not to come into things with sort of big picture ideas or with an ideology of what's happening. you know i was just reporting on. what was going on at individual lenders individual mortgage companies individual financial institutions and you know as i was doing t

john steinbeck's son were together in the bay area. the two reflected how in these uncertain times, people are looking back ward to the old messages. >>means a lot to people as far as their voice being heard or they need to stand up for their politicians or they need to stand up for their house or their land. >> we're about to hit some really, really really rough times. and it's very funny that every time we do all the old music and all the old pass words sort of come out of our history. their waving steinbeck around, they must be angry about something. >> reporter: but is it comparable to what is going on today to the great depression. >> i'm fine quoting mark twain who says history doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme. and there's a lot of rhyming going on between the great depression and the crisis of the financial market. >> reporter: kathleen freedo says we are far from the markers that framed the great depression. conditions that sparked social unrest on the streets. >> i think americans are on a position now to be much more impathetic about the great depression society. >> when we find ourselves in that position where govern

. >> pelley: wyatt andrews and clarissa ward on the world's response to the continuing slaughter and growing humanitarian crisis. john miller reports iranian agents have been casing potential targets in the u.s., including the new york city subway. is this the answer to rising gas prices? anna werner on why an oklahoma oil man believes the u.s. is on its way to energy independence. and seth doane with a doctor who has a prescription for homelessness. >> i got my own keys to my apartment. it's all good. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it read like an indictment today, a new united nations report accusing syrian president bashar al-assad of crimes against humanity. assad is trying to crush a freedom movement that has risen qunicy his family's 40-year dictatorship. this is one street today in the city of homs. more than a million and a half people live in homs, but they're in hiding, amidst the distant thunder of assad's artillery. there are reports from homs tonight of hunger and of wounds sewn up with sewing thread. secretary of state hillary clint

john wall drives, gets the bucket and the foul. big time play by wall. up next for the wardinst the knicks. coach brenda frees had a message for the terps. >> right now, you're playing scared. that's how you're going to come out and play? you're going to come out and play scared? you are better than this. you've got to play tougher, meaner, stronger than what you're doing rugt now. >> the tarps respond. lauren steals it ahead to alyssa thomas. she passes, no good, but she stays with it. puts it back up and in. the tarps on a 10-nothing run of her own. this time, it's barrett with the steal. dishes to alyssa thomas. she also had 12 rebounds. great play by the terps. then, just over two minutes to play, hawkins. she's a talented young woman. the clinton, maryland native had a career-high 23 points. the terps beat the yellow jackets. finally tonight, the superbowl champs are back home in the big apple. tomorrow, new york city throwing a giant parade for the giants. but, first, hey, eli manning, you and the new york giants just won the super bowl whachlt are you going to do next

opposition rhetoric and international politics professor john young the dean says beijing wouldn't like to see the libya scenario repeated elsewhere. simply warding the possibility of these three eventually becoming part of the policy by the west i mean there is a very interesting parallel between d.c. area situation and libya situation with the british army for example the opposition there was a lot of rhetoric and that eventually became part of the official policy of regional and france do some kind of encouragement for the opposition well to accept any kind of political solution and keep fighting and this call for assad to step down we've agee's various concerns over the sea. of these kind of possibility of peaceful resolution of the syrians are changing is undermined by any such rhetoric and also causing destruction. at the bottom of the hour we'll be speaking with a former u.s. senior u.s. presidential advisor who thinks america should think twice before pushing for assad to be ousted here's a preview i. think i did states. american strategists would have to be fools not to see what al qaeda is doing online not to ask the question if it's go

ward. and kennedy is a reporter for fox news channel. now, back to johnel's special report, "illegal everything". legal everything. >>> our government adds thousands of new laws ever year. the feds added 80,000 pages of laws. and state and local laws we're drowning in rules. >> this could lead to the police locking me up. given the police have the power to lock me up, or shoot me, it's important that we be able to keep an eye on them. >> fortunately that is easier today even our phones have cameras and camera is a powerful tool, watching the watcher. >> you are going away. >> the problem is that often the watchmen don't want to be watched. >> a highway patrol told pete stop your rv. pete is an activist to that likes to videotape encounters with authorities. >> turn that camera off, please. >> how come? >> turn it off for me. >> he had broken no traffic laws but he was suspicion of his big trailer with new hampshire plates. he filmed the encounter. i would like to keep everybody accountable and the police officer didn't like that. another arrived and said

. >> pelley: wyatt anadriewz and clarissa ward on the world's response to the continuing slaughter and growing humanitarian crisis. johniller reports iranian agents have been casing potential targets in the u.s., including the new york city subway. is this the answer to rising gas prices? anna werner on why an oklahoma oil man believes the u.s. is on its way to energy independence. and seth doane with a doctor who has a prescription for homelessness. >> i got my own keys to my apartment. it's all good. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

john wall drives the lane. he had 9 on the night. 98-77. win number six. hurray for the walt disney wards. >>> . the caps were in the big apple with the rangers. 1-0 in the second. caps tie it up at one. didn't even have a chance. the caps tried to lay a surge but it didn't happen. >>> georgetown looking to rebound after their heartbreaking overtime loss against syracuse earlier this week. they faced st. johns. the red tomorrow were able to quiet the slam but the rest of the team filled in the blanks. >>> at the comcast center, cancer survivors getting recognition as eighth rank maryland hosts sixth rank miami. in the final minutes, the hurricanes rallied from six down to hold off the terrapins. >> if you didn't think you were paying enough at the pumps, prices are going up again. >>> and it is going to be a chilly day. howard will let us know how many layers we'll need and monika will look at how the morning commute is going. [ male announcer ] this was how my day began. a little bird told me about a band... ♪ an old man shared some fish stories... ♪ oooh, my turn. ♪ she was in paris, but we ta

ward is with the rebels dying under the onslaught. rick santorum's clean sweep. after his win in three states, what does front-runner mitt romney do? reports from dean reynolds and john dickerson. the u.s. heads toward the mildest winter since 1950, while parts of europe are frozen solid. chip reid on what's behind the winter extremes. and should women fight? david martin on a pentagon plan that only starts to catch up to the reality of women at war. >> it's not just the men getting hurt. it's the women, too. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it's a blood letting in syria. civilians facing tanks. there is every indication that th the dictatorship is moving to crush once and for all the 11-month-old rebellion. this is homs, a city of 1.7 million people, a little bit more than philadelphia. it's under siege by tanks and artillery for a fifth day in a row. scenes like this are playing out in several syrian cities and towns tonight. syria matters because of its neighborhood. it borders both israel and iraq. the assad dictatorship, 40 years old, has banned independent reporting but cbs news correspondent

john blackstone reports the battle could be headed to the supreme court. can a catholic college be forced to provide employees with birth control coverage? wyatt andrews has the latest on that. clarissa ward takes us inside syria where rebels are trying to topple a dictatorship and paying a heavy price. and mark phillips on britain's having the best of times with a dickens of a celebration. >> humbug! captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, a federal appeals court says that california's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. the ban, known as proposition 8, was narrowly approved by voters in 2008. 52% to 48%. today a three-judge panel in san francisco ruled that the ban violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment which basically says that the law must treat everyone equally. john blackstone is looking into where this case is headed next. >> reporter: outside the courthouse, supporters of same-sex marriage cheered the ninth circuit's decision overturning proposition 8. the ruling says proposition 8 serves no purpose and has no affect other than the lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians i

john blackstone reports the battle could be headed to the supreme court. can a catholic college be forced to provide employees with birth control coverage? wyatt andrews has the latest on that. clarissa ward takes us inside syria where rebels are trying to topple a dictatorship and paying a heavy price. and mark phillips on britain's having the best of times with a dickens of a celebration. >> humbug! captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, a federal appeals court says that california's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. the ban, known as proposition 8, was narrowly approved by voters in 2008. 52% to 48%.

ward is with the rebels dying under the onslaught. rick santorum's clean sweep. after his win in three states, what does front-runner mitt romney do? reports from dean reynolds and john dickerson. the u.s. heads toward the mildest winter since 1950, while parts of europe are frozen solid. chip reid on what's behind the winter extremes. and should women fight? david martin on a pentagon plan that only starts to catch up to the reality of women at war. >> it's not just the men getting hurt. it's the women, too. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it's a blood letting in syria. civilians facing

ward mcgarrigar and alex burkett. with john mica, i need to mention jim coons, holly woodruff-lions, who was his lead negotiator, and bailey edwards. simone perez. let me end simply by saying that senator reid and his people so heavily involved, particularly in this one particular aspect of the bill, but he has been driving this bill in our caucus, as the presiding officer well knows, for over a year. " where's my f.a.a. bill? where's my f.a.a. bill?" he's been driving, pushing, pushing, pushing. and his chief of staff is david crohn, who so many people don't know -- and that's their loss. darrell thompson, bob herbert, bill douster, who's sort of th the -- keeps in touch with everybody and everything -- and the floor staff. the floor staff of the majority and the minority leaders. it's -- it's just simply to be grateful to them and to make sure that you say that to them personally, that you say it publicly and you say it frequently. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that from this point forward, that any time spent in quo

john: a lot of hungry drivers out there. for more back up to the boo it th with mike joy. mike? >> mike: blaney is a contrary. in 2002 in the 500 he short pitted ward burton. stopped before he needed fuel and tires. when the checker the flag waved there was his driver in victory lane. can he and ryan pember and dave blaney do it again? >> darrell: this place is notorious for people who never won a race win a race. we had two already and here we are with four guys at the front of the field that have never won a race. we may be setting up for something really special here tonight. >> mike: and blaney is a winner. a world of outlous champion and when called on to race that way into the 500 he got it done and now finds himself in the lead. >> larry: the four drivers hope the green blob gets beggar and bigger. four drivers i'm watching. three of them won the 500 in the last four or five years. matt kenseth strong the entire speedweeks. kevin harvick our 2007 winner making a little noise. mcmurray up there now. there is always dale earnhardt, jr. i don't think he has shown his complete hand just yet. >> mike: a look at the leaderboard with dave blaney ou

john: a lot of hungry drivers out there. for more back up to the boo it th with mike joy. mike? >> mike: blaney is a contrary. in 2002 in the 500 he short pitted ward burton. stopped before he needed fuel and tires. when the checker the flag waved there was his driver in victory lane. can he and ryan pember and dave blaney do it again? >> darrell: this place is notorious for people who never won a race win a race. we had two already and here we are with four guys at the front of the field that have never won a race. we may be setting up for something really special here tonight. >> mike: and blaney is a winner. a world of outlous champion and when called on to race that way into the 500 he got it done and now finds himself in the lead. >> larry: the four drivers hope the green blob gets beggar and bigger. four drivers i'm watching. three of them won the 500 in the last four or five years. matt kenseth strong the entire speedweeks. kevin harvick our 2007 winner making a little noise. mcmurray up there now. there is always dale earnhardt, jr. i don't think he has shown his complete hand just yet. >> mike: a look at the leaderboard with dave blaney ou

john dickerson, thanks. >> thanks. >>> now to the bloodbath in syria. the government continues a relentless assault, especially in the city of homs. dozens have been killed during a week of bombardment. correspondent clarissa wardtraveling with rebels, and they show no sign of backing down. >> reporter: across syria, friday is the day for prayer, and protest. as they emerge from the mosque, the faithful called out to god to win free dom. young boys led the chant. we need a god-fearing president this one cried. they marched together in the main square, the free zone, where government forces have been pushed out. after days of fighting and mourning, today offered a rare moment of joy. the rebels have managed to carve out this small enclave so the people of this city can come out here without fear and celebrate what this uprising is really all about. freedom. >> we need freedom! >> reporter: they burned photographs of the leaders of russia and china supporters of assaad's regime and pledged support to the people of the city of homs. with our soul and our blood, they swore, we will avenge homs. she is saying that all of the people are together as one. as word spread that american journalists were present, we were s