leland vittert live for us in washington. have a great weekend. >> as the president addresses iran there is word he plans to bypass congress and go directly through the security council to get the nuclear deal done. that has some congressional leaders making threats of their own. >> we are going to over ride the veto. mr. president you negotiate the deal, you are the commander-in-chief, you are the president. when it comes to lifting congressional with a vote you will have a say where you lift the congressional sanctions. i am not going to let the united nations to be used as a way to get around congress for a deal that effects israel and national security. i would fund the united nations. i don't think your money should go toward something that irresponsible. >> it goes the first day of spring. we are trying to prepare for it. millions of americans are bracing for winter's last blast. >> it's the long sleeves. >> some areas could see up to five inches of snow. maria molina is tracking it all. it is march 20th. what in the wo

. >> and thanks for spending your saturday with us i'm leland vittert vittert. >> and i'm uma pemmaraju. live from "america's news headquarters" in d.c. >> we begin this hour in iowa where some of the nation's biggest names in the gone are trying to play lay the ground work for a presidential run in 2016. names like christy, huckabee and bush have already gone before eyewitness this morning taking their questions and try to straight themselves from the rest of the pack. mike' manual is joining us live from des moines. >> reporter: the first ever iowa agriculture summit is obviously focused on a critical issue for people in iowa being agriculture but a lot of the people who would like to be perhaps the next president of the united states on the republican side are also taking this opportunity to weigh in on some other major issues. let's take a live look around the iowa ag summit, the first ever iowa ag summit it is a packed house on the iowa state fairgrounds people are applauding and attentively listening to each of the potential presidential contenders, jeb busch, chris christie, ted

leland vittert in washington. thank you. >> dozens of democrats skipped out on the speech some who did attend combined even calling the prime minister condescending. >> this speech was great out of the dick cheney play book. it was fear mongering at the ultimate. like the child who says i want to go to disney land every day eat ice cream and drink coca-cola every day and not go to stool. as they gave him a standing ovation cans knee pelosi turned her back to talk to someone else. >> she insulted u.s. intelligence. >> republican congresswoman slamming pelosi's behavior during the address. >> her response, her written response, the conference, everything about the reaction of so many on the other side of the aisle to the leader chof our greatest ally, this democratic state of israel, this is an oasis of freedom and democracy in a desert of teern knee and -- tyranny and repression. it is not about personalities, it should be about policy. i thought his speech was common sense. it was straight forward. a >> spring is

. >>> i'm leland vittert. nice to be with you. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> i'm shannon bream. >>> diplomats in switzerland continue to burn the midnight oil hoping to get a nuclear deal with iran before tuesday. in jerusalem today, a fiery israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu addressed his cabinet saying, quote, this deal, as it appears to be emerging, bears out all of our fears and even more than that. never mind though secretary of state john kerry is undeterred. as we speak he's in and out of meetings with foreign ministers throughout the world trying to hammer out details with the iranians. and this morning lawmakers in washington and the white house were out in full force to put their spin on the negotiations and a potential deal. doug mcelway has been watching the talks unfold and joins us live. doug? >> hi leland. administrative and domestic pressure is leaning on them to reach negotiations in the talks. as you said, benjamin netanyahu said, quote, corroborate all our concerns and then some. those concer

we will go to leland vittert. no one is claiming responsibility, but a lot of people are praising, am i right? >> exactly. social media accounts linked to isis reportedly issued threats against tunisia in the days leading up to this attack. isis twitter accounts praised the attack. there has not been one formal claim of responsibility from a single group. take a look at some of the video that's coming out of those moments just after the attack. in terms of how the rescue services responded. also, exactly the terror in the eyes of these tourists who were running away from the gunman. we're learning more about the attack and how it happened. it killed about 20 people. many of them foreign tourists, including italians and japanese. the gun men acted with military precision. they gunned down anyone in their path and trying to take hostages. they attacked coincided with two cruise ships in port. tunisia itself is the single largest exporter of foreign fighters from syria and iraq. many of them return back home to tunis

leland vittert is in washington with more tonight. >> reporter: ominous new warning from the intelligencemunity raising new concerns about an up tick in isis recruit many efforts aimed at young americans and other westerners. >> obviously the terrorist groups and organizations are using 21st century communication techniques for what are really medieval tactics. >> reporter: authorities say they're not able to find a clear pattern for why americans are being inspired to join the terrorist group. but experts say groups like isis prey on young people, struggling to find an identity like the 17-year-old virginia teen charged last week with recruiting for isis. >> he tried to make connections. he tried to find societal connections for him. and he failed. >> reporter: the us isn't alone. isis recruiters are targeting young people in europe and north of a forty three casm new report shows tunisia the biggest exporter of foreign fighters to isis. with thousands leaving every month to join the fight in iraq and syria. >> the group structure was very strong. everything was calculateed. when one gro

. >> thanks for spending your saturday with us i'm leland vittert. here from washington. >> and i'm uma pemmaraju. >>> isis continues to hold its ground in saddam hussein's hometown of tikrit some 20,000 iraqi troops and eye rare yan backed militia are fighting to take the town back but they are stopped awaiting reinforcements. it's slow going as they must also clear roadside bombs along with booby trapped buildings. onhuddy is following the story from our middle east bureau. john. >> reporter: yeah, you're right, dee land in terms of those reinforcements, once they arrive they will basically start gearing up for street to street combat. at this point iraqi forces and those shooe a fighters have essentially surrounded tikrit's city center. iraqi commanders say that at this point they're preparing the next plan of attack to head in to the city center. as mentioned, those kraek forces are getting help from iranian backed shia fighters. okay. though, iran has been involved in the assisting the training and also the arming of those shia fighters and ther

i'm leland vittert welcome to america's news head quarts. >> i'm uma pemmaraju. thank you for joining us. we begin in yemen where fears are are growing that the crisis will could escalate into a regional battle. at the opening of an arab summit yemen yemen's president calling the shiite rebels stoojs of iran. mean bile, the wall street journal reporting that the u.s. is planning to boost its aid to saudi arabia in that country's ongoing air campaign against rebel forces in yemen. conor powell is joining us with the very latest snechls sister the pentagon is stepping its support up for that saudi operation in yemen against those iranian backed houthi rebels, right now it appears to be logistics and intelligence rather than any type of ground support with troops on the ground in an invasion for yemen right now. this comes as saudi jets continue to strike inside the yemen against the houthi rebels for the third straight day, air strikes appear to be targeting weapon depot and also missiles captured by rebels, but it isn't clear what type of impact these air strikes

i'm leland vittert. of welcome to hour two. >> and i'm uma pemmaraju. here is what's making news. bob menendez under fire but says he's not backing down against his critics in a justice department investigation following a two-year probe about corruption charges. they're now pending, and we're going to bring you the very latest. >> remembering kayla mueller, killed by isis and now her hometown gathers it to say a final good-bye. ♪ all the gold in california ♪ >>> well they've been singing together since they were youngsters, and they're still going strong. after nearly 60 years, you will hear from country legend larry gatlin about his amazing career and what's ahead for the amazing gatlin brothers. >>> always conducted myself appropriately and in accordance with the law. i fight for these issues and for the people of our country every single day. that's who i am. and i am not going anywhere. >> that was an emphatic and, dare i say, defiant senator bob men menendez of new jersey after reports that he's about to it's corruption charges from the department of justice. joining us now

leland vittert follow this from washington. leland? >> good morning.y well might meet with ambassador kennedy. al the information comes from japanese media reports that said there were multiple calls in english threatening not only the ambassador utbut the u.s. consults general in okinawa. that is home to a military base in japan. typically ambassadors overseas have light security, ouchb provided by the host nation. t that was the case by the ambassador in south korea. he was stabbed and required 80 stitches. he has recovered. it's unclear what will happen with ambassador kennedy we put a request in to the state department and haven't heard anything back. >> everyone is going to bolster their security around the world. >>> unlike the president, congressman paul ryan said he liked benjamin netanyahu's speech to congress. what does he think about the big news he's just been reelected as prime minister? he joins us live. >> bill hemmer is not going to be talking about that. relook. rethink. reimagine. because right here, right now it's time to take a clos

. >> if you always wanted to meet leland vittert, now is the time. >> usually he's surrounded by thongspeople surrounding him? andrew jackson with a beautiful head of hair. he's on the $20 bill. old hickory because he went to the senate floor with a cane. >> he was a tough guy, war hero. became president. >> it looks good on there. >> that's before hair gel. that's his natural look. >> there's an activist group called women on twenties and they are trying to get 100,000 signatures to get him off the $20 bill. including rosa parks, eleanor roosevelt, susan b. anthony. >> she had a coin. let's not be greedy. >> margaret sanger opened up the first birth control clinic. >> do they still have the susan b. anthony coin? >> i don't know if they're still making it. but it's out there. >> you never spend it, so it's not working. al like a $2 bill. you keep that because you don't want to spend the $2 bill. >> first it was grover cleveland, wasn't he on the 20 and andrew jackson bumped him. >> he got his hickory cane out and smacked him around. >> i thought we could agree on one thing, could we le

leland vittert joins us live. where the white house is deal ing with the fallout.over mrs. clinton's e-mails is causing not only problems for her, but for the white house. who is having to answer for a former secretary of state who's practice was at best highly unorthodox and many say illegal. >> does the white house believe that hillary clinton broke the law? yes or no? >> secretary clinton's team have said at the request of the state department they have reviewed her records. >> what does the white house believe? does the president believe his former secretary of state broke the law? >> if in fact what secretary clinton's team said they were going to do that they did. that can be verified by the state department who is responsible for maintaining these records, that would be entirely consistent with what the federal records act requires. >> the associated press reports that the e-mail server itself was housed at mrs. clinton's home in new york and sometimes used commercial backup systems like google. a series departure from using official government systems for g