sar janltergeant bowe bergdahl who spent five years in tag s ins in taliban custody, the obama administration him back last may. trading five taliban detainees held in gitmo, some say, was too high. now cnn is learning it might be a matter of just days before bergdahl finds out if he could face even more years as a prisoner of sorts, this time in a u.s. military jail. today a senior defense official told cnn that a decision on whether to charge bergdahl with desertion or any other crime will come down very soon. as of this morning, the commander officer in charge of the case has not signed or forwarded a charge sheet we're told. let's bring in lieutenant carnal jeffrey corn a former attorney in the jag corps, now a law professor. sir thank you for being here thank you for your service. other news services have reported that the army is ready to charge bergdahl. here's how john kirby addressed that just a few hours ago. >> let me just put a fork in this right now, if i can. no decision has been made with respect to the case of sergeant bergdahl. none. >> kirby also said there's no timetable fo

he spoke to the democratic caucus about the strides the obama administration has made and the republicans that would try to claim ownership. nbc10's matt delucia live in old city. as we approach next year's presidential campaign does the democrats say anything today about hosting the convention in philadelphia? >> reporter: well, renee, not much about that. we do know members fortunate dnc were here this week taking another look. the house members today for the most part were focused on what they want to accomplish or at least what they hope to accomplish with a republican majority. after three days of speeches in closed-door meetings, house democrats are leaving philadelphia on a positive note. >> what a wonderful city for many purposes. and this meeting certainly went off very well. >> reporter: house leader nancy pelosi would not say if one of those purposes would be the democratic national convention next year. right now finalists also include columbus, ohio, and new york city. the vice chair of the house democratic caucus from new york took a jab. >> i look forward to welcoming the mayor and the entire pennsylvania delegation

s figures. which i take with a grain of salt. since the obama administrationw process in 2009 even if you believe the figures, that's only 6.8% confirmed to reengage. almost all of them have been recaptured or killed. so it's not a rate to justify keeping all of these men in prison forever with no cause. >> it's important to see the face of someone who has been through that. always good to see you both. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> thanks, alex. >> we have more details on the counter trough raid in belgium a major imminent attack was foiled. we'll have more details next. this is the equivalent of the sugar in one regular can of soda. and this is a soda a day for a year. over an average adult lifetime that's 221,314 cubes of sugar. but you can help change that with a simple choice. drink more water. filtered by brita. ♪ and introducing our new advanced filter, now better than ever. [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality for over 19 million people. [ mom ] with life insurance, we're not just insuring our lives... we'r

. >>> today a member of the obama administration came to our area to sign up people for health care coverage nbc10's randy gyllenhaal reports, there's no time to wait. >> reporter: at the berks community health center, the clock is ticking to enroll thousands of residents into year two of obamacare. kim helps families navigate the law. the question she gets the most is, what's the deadline? >> the cutoff date is 15th of february. >> reporter: that's a month earlier than last year. also new this time around a new program for low-income pennsylvanians. it's a medicaid expansion called healthy pa that could help poor families who didn't qualify in 2014. >> it's helped a lot. the majority that i've done this year have been healthy pa. >> reporter: many of the people enrolling in berks county come from hispanic backgrounds. that's why the white house sent a top white house official to reading, the first latina director of personnel, came here to get the hispanic community enrolled. >> to engage and enroll as many of the latino community eligible. >> one of the top five poorest cities in america. >> repor

s -- slated for early march. benjamin netanyahu will address congress -- as it considers more sanctions against iran. the obama administrationnuclear talks are going on. here's what mr. netanyahu told his cabinet today. >>:"as prime minister of israel i am obligated to make every effort in order to prevent iran from achieving nuclear weapons that would be aimed at the state of israel. this effort is worldwide and i will go anywhere i am invited in order to enunciate the state of israel's position and in order to defend its future and its existence." >>vicki liviakis:the obama administration had another reason to be rattled by the trip. netanyahu was invited by the republican house speaker john boehner-- apparently without any consultation with the president. a new twist in the ongoing debate over the health effects of coffee linking it to skin cancer >>brian van aken: after a weekend of sunshine in record high temperatures will have a storm coming your way on tuesday >>vicki liviakis:a giant asteroid will be flying by earth monday. nasa says the asteroid, about a third of a mile in size. will miss us by more than 740- thousa

obama administration said that. and they are negotiating with a guy who walked off his post it. sth the caveat of given what we know which is not as much as the army investigators know, they got to charge him, either with desertion or they could charge him with simply be being awol, if they don't have proof or don't want to get into the fact he left with no intention of coming back. that gets into intentionality. first of all, if he did desert or go awol, he should be charged. second of all, if they don't charge him, it sends the wrong message to fellow soldiers. if they don't charge him, a reaction from a lot of soldiers and veterans is something they don't want. kennedy: morale is already bad in the army to begin with. can't wait to see you back here at the oval table. >>> up next, i'm going to tell you my true feelings about the lying, cheating, horrible person known as lance armstrong. he's done it again. find out how in moments. works in just 3 minutes, killing 99.99% of odor causing bacteria. for a cleaner, fresher, brighter denture everyday. welcoi'm jerry rice,down! here d

obama administration on is going to be huge for her. and i think she's going to talk about the sort of nitty-gritty stuff she's done in the a.g.'sto make it -- bring it into the century on a technology level, to improve the crime labs, to assist in investigations. but i think that's a good question. she has a fairly narrow scope. >> and just quickly, what do you think -- what should california be looking for in a u.s. senator? barbara boxer's been there since 1993. you know, what does it take? >> well i think what you've seen with our two senators is very different approaches. right? finestein i think has been a little more middle of the road. boxer's been more about talking about things. she's been a progressive voice. >> she's an advocate. >> she's an advocate. and i think likely if someone like kamala harris wins that seat we'll see that continue. but yeah, the scope of experience is important. i think their ability to connect with other people within both their party and across the aisle is going to be important. so those sorts of, you know, abilities to really navigate what's going to be a very different world in d.c. than

s steve handelsman is live on capitol hill with the details. what are you hearing? >> reporter: chris, thanks. obama administration officials criticized fir their prisoner exchanged that freed bowe bergdahl have mostly steered clear of commenting on this attack. no sign of to a prisoner swap on the syrian border. convicted terrorist sajida al rishawi remains in jordan. isis claims it holds a jordanian pilot shot down. but they won't take the word of isis. >> we want to see proof of life of the jordanian pilot. then we can talk about the exchange. >> reporter: with bowe bergdahl in mind and his exchange for taliban prisoner one iraq war veteran urged no more swaps with terrorists. >> we are handing them a huge propaganda victory in terms of legitimizeing them and in terms of recruitment. >> reporter: many in japan want this exchange. >> i'm kenji goto. >> reporter: japanese journalist kenji goto could get freed along with the jordanian pilot. back in the u.s. where an isis scare has forced airliners to divert while security looks for bombs, the fbi is looking for who's tweeting threats in the name of isis. secretar

s during rush hour. he managed if he got off that swerving bus shot in the leg and erected him. he called it brave and heroic. >> the obama administrationn admitted al qaeda operative released from a federal prison and sent back to qatar because of time served. once held as an enemy combatant he was sentenced to 8 years in prison in 2009. he admitted to training in al qaeda camps and had contact with khaled sheikh mohammed. >> a muslim inmate is allowed to grow a beard. he is allowed to grow a half inch long beard instead of the department of corrections quarter inch rule. a ban on beards violates religious freedom. corrections officials argued the ban is to keep inmates from sprug smuggling in contra ban. what happened to the homeless woman who helped him after he was kidnapped now contradicting his story. she says she found allenby on a street corner steps from a wine bar not six-miles away in a park like he told reporters. he said he wasn't dumped from a car instead he was sitting on a plantar arguing with two men. she said she is getting paid for the false information. >> the snow is making a comeback in the plains and in the east.

s. >>mark:you're just limited to 100-dollars worth of alcohol and tobacco products. including cuban cigars. >>mark:the obama administrationtries. but critics are worried it will put more power in the hands of the castro family dictatorship. >>mark:time is running short for the supreme court to get same-sex marriage on its calendar if the justices want to tackle the issue before their current term ends. >>mark:they might have to decide to jump in at their closed-door conference friday if they want to resolve the legal debate over gay marriage in the next few months. >>mark:if they take the case the justices would hear it in april, the last month for oral arguments before october. >>darya:good news this morning for residents in contra costa county. the clayton fire station. which was shut down because of budget problems. will re- open tomorrow. >>darya:the station has been closed since 2012. as the fire district reduced the number of stations in the county from 30 to 23. >>darya:no one was fired. but officials say many firefighters decided to retire out. >>darya:it wasn't until this past june when the district started hirin

obama, his administration and his administration, our foreign has become a disgrace. america is far less secure and far less respected around the world since obama took office. barack obama and hillary clinton 'sd of national security have been abysmal failure. whether it is fighting islamic terrorism, iran, syria libya, the russian resets, or our relationship with israel, obama and clinton have damaged america's national security and our standing with our allies around the world. restoring freedom, no matter how hard we fight for it, will be meaningless if we cannot defend it. during the obama administration, america has seemed weak, living from one international crisis to another, while our enemies grow bolder. america must provide the moral clarity for the rest of the world to follow. [applause] the tyrants of the world today are no different than the tyrants of the past. they are all at heart cap words to feel -- fear the -- cowards who fear the cleansing of liberty. america must project strength and be a fearless champion around the world. there is nothing stopping us from being great once again. we can and must restore our economic, social, and religious liberties. let that fight begin h

then later in its administration, because of abuse is s with travel to cuba, they went back and reversed it. now president obama is reversing it again. my point is that when folks want to focus on everything that we want to do down there, cuba also has to make some changes. cuba hasn't had to make a lot of changes because there have been countries that have been willing to support it. currently venezuela. so i would argue that right now the u.s. relationship with cuba is far less meaningful to cuba than is cuba's relationship with venezuela. venezuela has issues, and they've already decreased slightly, their subsidized oil exports to cuba. that's going to create an impetus for cuba to make some changes that it doesn't want to make. it could result in a second what we call special period in cuba which took place after the ussr changed its relationship. so there's a lot going on that you need to review. financing is one of them. we've heard some discussions about that. cuba didn't stop buying from the united states because it couldn't get financing in tisra. as a matter of fact, u.s. companies, when tisra was bei

lerner and her e-mails and the suppression of 501-c-3's, tax-exempt entities that were favoring ideological views against the obama administrationan voters. >> no one likes paying their taxes but we don't know if -- we know that paying taxes is part of keeping the system going. >> he has two alternatives. one is the flat tax where your income tax return would be the size of this pink card. it would say what you earn from all sources time the tax rate equals what you owe. there is no deductions, no complicated math, no 80,000 regulations no human can read. the other is what's called the fair tax. it's basically a federal sales tax that will be collected by the vendor so when you buy a hot dog or you buy a house, you get to pay -- >> the president was talking about maybe we'll do something with congress regarding tax reform but then he said we want to make sure everybody pays their fair share. if half the country doesn't pay any federal income tax, what is their fair share? >> i would like to be able to ask the president that. the president is in love with the progressive tax system put in place by woodrow wilson 100 years ago whe

s. citizenship and immigration services is the sponsor of it. it is 100 civics >> the washington post reports that the obama administration has posted new sanctions against north korea after determining that they were behind the attack on sony entertainment. the targets include the country's main intelligence agency, believed to have orchestrated cyber operations, as well as agencies responsible for weapons deals and research and development. the newly sanctioned officials include those operating out of zambia, iran, syria and china. >> the one hundred 14th congress gavels in this tuesday at noon eastern. watch live coverage of the house on c-span, the senate on c-span two, and track the gop led congress and have your say as events unfold on c-span networks, c-span radio and c-span online. >> up next, conversations with astronauts and private citizens who have flown into space. we begin with walter cunningham, the lunar module pilot on apollo in 1978. he talked about the space race with the russians and the future of nasa at a conversation at the explorers club in new york city in october. >> thank you, well, and thank you guys for coming out so

obama administration is making a push in any case, and we'll see how far they get. >> john harwood reporting. thanks very much. >>> meantime, let's hit the markets and show you what the dow and the s&p, and the russell are doing right now. there you see the dow industrials down 37. the s&p off two. nasdaq, though moving up by about a quarter of a percent at $47.63, and small caps up about, oh, .003%. euro weakening down 10% versus the dollar in the past two months. that is, of course a big story. big news from the big caps today, though. jane is working on mcdonald's, but first let's go to dominik who has been working on ups and ge. as you say, the big cap rap is on the lunch menu. >> the big cap wrap. these are a couple of hefty things to put inside of a wrap. ge for sure today. the shares are rising in this kind of a market right now. the company did beat on its earnings. came in a little bit light on sales here. here's the storyline that's driving the g e-trade. the industrial length was good for them. think jet engines, power turbines, that sort of thing, but the oil and gas out of their business is to be expected given oil prices. its pe ratio is 3.9%. rather, that's their di

s book tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 on "american history tv" on c-span3. >> coming up next former white house press secretaries from the ford reagan george h.w. bush, clinton and obama administrations. they talk about how the position has changed overtime and some of the difficulties they faced while trying to work for the white housen an be the press. the panelists include ron nesn, marlin fitzwater mike mccurry and robert gibbs. it was hosted by the national archives. >> in the words of young jeezy, let's go to work. you know i thought we would start this the way we usually end these things. by saying thank you. this is the week when we recognize the service of people who have served our country in uniform. our country in uniform. and all of you served in public service so i'm going to start by saying thank you. is that okaying? >> yo

the obama administration's executive amnesty like s. 744 that he unsuccessfully lobbied for would legalize visa overstays and cause millions additionally to overstay, raising the threat level to america even higher." it goes on with many other points. madam president, i thank the chair for the opportunity to speak. i'm very, very worried that our democratic colleagues are making a mistake. i think the right thing in this new senate, where majority leader mcconnell has allowed more votes in one day than the republicans got from senator reid the entire year last year. would he probably doubled the number of votes this year than we had all of last year. the democrats are saying we're not even going to go to this bill that would fund homeland security? and if 2003 don't go to it, then homeland security is not funded. they're going to block going into a bill that would fund homeland security. and senator mcconnell is saying you can have your relevant amendments and if you don't like the language the house put in in that says the money can only go to loft activities, you can offer an amendment t

then later in its administration, because of abuse is s with travel to cuba, they went back and reversed it. now president obamant to focus on everything that we want to do down there, cuba also has to make some changes. cuba hasn't had to make a lot of changes because there have been countries that have been willing to support it. currently venezuela. so i would argue that right now the u.s. relationship with cuba is far less meaningful to cuba than is cuba's relationship with venezuela. venezuela has issues and they've already decreased slightly, their subsidized oil exports to cuba. that's going to create an impetus for cuba to make some changes that it doesn't want to make. it could result in a second what we call special period in cuba which took place after the ussr changed its relationship. so there's a lot going on that you need to review. we've heard some discussions about that. cuba didn't stop buying from the united states because it couldn't get financing in tisra. as a matter of fact, u.s. companies, when tisra was being negotiated the cuban government pushed some of the ag groups to push it and th

and suggest that obama has proved to be a consistent social liberal who operates within the faith based framework that he inherits from the bush administration. for example, he kept bush. 's faith-based office, it has been noted, and started a similar initiative in the state department. in conclusion, nearly four decades after 1976, the year when george gallop pronounced the year of the evangelical and when jimmy carter won office, the relevance of evangelicalism no longer was taken for granted. among the chattering classes, it all pointed to decline. markers ranged from the sale of the cathedral, mega church in southern california to the increasing number of americans who considered themselves spiritual but not religious. on the political side u decleared one official quote, the understanding that the evangelical vote is a king-making vote is now dead. few then dared naz o 2008 to imagine that the evangelical left would ever become the democratic's version of the christian right. the obama presidency promised a new twist on the old story of american faith in politics. obama spoke of a nation of christians and muslims, jews and hin hindus and nonbelievers. so it had a spe

obama administration. senator mcconnell has said that this is one area where potentially the white house and congress can work together well. republicans are strong components __ proponents for free trade. a major redefinition of u. s. china relations __ there are some stabilizing elements that we think the administration needs to follow through on. in particular, the confidence building measures. we're disagreeing with china on new institutions in asia. at the end of the day, china will be in the game of development, and the recommendation from our report is to find a way to align ourselves. make sure the institution is aligned with pre_existing banks, like the world bank. the other aspect is __ the importance of maintaining clear lines with beijing. we do have problems, and they must be managed skillfully. one problem is in the domestic economy. china, in the last few years, has seen the investors in the chinese economy as the dealers, and china holds the cards. that is not necessarily the case. they need to be some disciplining. the report argues putting more energy __ on the policy that i took the lead on, we have three basic recommendations. first, we have argued for some time for the administration to produce

s authority, it is important to note that congress passed on several opportunities to amend the clean water act to expand federal jurisdiction. nevertheless, in april 2011, the obama administration proposed to replace the existing guidance with revised guidance that provided a very expansive reading of federal authority leaving very little land under state and local control. this unilateral reassertion of expansive authority in defiance of two -- of the other two branches of government was made even more egregious by being proposed through guidance outside of the formal rule-making process. unfortunately the outcry from the public and congress against this power grab caused the administration to scrap guidance and pursue formal rule with public comment. i do believe that we need clarity about what is and is not covered by the clean water act and particularly its permitting process, and that a formal rule with public comment is the best route. however, the proposed rule that was formerly published in april of 2014 once again asserted that extremely expansive view of federal authority. this would increase the federal government's jurisdiction to regulate waters that had previously