congressional expert norm ornstein. >> they've got many more of their own members up in 2014 in republican and if the senate turns worse and people start to blame incumbents, are they going to blame the republicans for obstruction or are they going to say a pox on both of your houses. >> reporter: monday all 100 senators have been summoned to a rare closed door meeting in hopes of defusing the sense. jeff pegues, cbs news, capitol hill. >>> the prosecution in the bradley manning trial is going back to work. the pfc is accused of stealing military secrets and giving them to wikileaks. they rested last week. prosecutors say rebuttal witnesses will testify this morning. >>> one of edward snowden's contacts says the former national security agency analyst has documents that shows exactly how the nsa works, but the contact says snowden is not going to reveal that information. snowden said on friday he's asking russia for temporary asylum while he searches for a permanent home. deputy secretary of state william byrnes is in egypt. to meet with the country's new leaders. he's the highest ranking

congressional expert norm ornstein. >> they've got many more of their own members up in 200-- 2014 than republicans. and if the senate turns worse, and people start to blame incumbents, are they going to blame the republicans for obstruction or are they going to say a pox on both your houses. >> reporter: tomorrow all 100 senators have been summoned to a rare closed door meeting with the hopes of diffusing the tension. >> jeff: jeff, thank you. we learned today a number of world-class sprinters have tested positive for banned substances. the first tyson gay is the american 100 meter record holderment and was a triple world champion in 2007. he now says will not compete at incomes month's world championships in moscow, following this result. two jamaican runners including former world record holzer powell and sherone simpson also tested positive. later older pieces of art brought to life in new ways. the "glee" star corey monteith found dead at age 31, and the growing number of deadly didn'ts on american farms. those stories when the "cbs evening news" continues. it was very painful situ

ornstein. guest: i do think there is a jewel problem on a lot of filibusters.here are a number of issues in which the majority leader has cut off their ability to offer amendments by filling the majority tree which the leader can do. they are embarrassing amendments that would perhaps be difficult for democrats who are up for reelection. what we have seen is filibusters on everything. nominations do not have amendment trees. there's no excuse of that sort. when you see filibusters that passed 98 to 2, the only reason to doing that is to use up a lot of the senate precious time. that is the difference in the past. when it comes to numbers, i would say we have projected $5.6 trillion and surpluses at the end of the clinton administration. there were two that were unpaid for. the drug benefit for medicare was unpaid for. we moved radically into deep debt territory. been much more about cutting taxes than it is about reducing deficits. harry reid andr, democrats are guilty of plenty of obstructionism. it doesn't the house -- dozens of the house bills are ignored, n

and so i think of that, what we've seen going to the norm ornstein point is that the entire -- while the republican party has moved right and where it matters for us is the conversation on deficit reduction has moved farther and farther right as measured by both advocates of simpson-bowles as well as the president himself. >> even with the year end stuff? in the great fight over high-end tax rates, right, in the great bill clinton versus george w. bush fight be, bill clinton has con, right? hasn't he? >> what do you mean? >> 82% -- this is what i want to say, 82% of the bush tax cuts were locked in by the fiscal cliff deal. >> right. so i'm talking about high-end rates. >> yeah. so that, that -- i don't know if you were suggesting this, maya, i'd be interested in your thoughts. i mean, i don't think we're anywhere near done on the revenue side. >> right. >> and, for example, i've been stressing that we've cut $2.8 trillion over ten already, that includes interest savings, but if you actually look at the policy part of that, 70% has been spending cuts, 30% has been revenue. i'm not su

. >> well, i think that's a good question and something from that norm ornstein quote where he said this doesn't meet the reasonable standards of governing. dou have a new classe. this applies to things like fill busters and playing chicken with the debt ceiling. they're changing the standard. >> john boehner says he wants to degovern. >> but this is -- i think your point about the kind of long-term success that these sort of small losses or momentary losses on any given policy issue still add up to a win for changing our notion -- if your argument is government can't do anything for you, government is incompetent, and then you go and in fact make government incompetent, then you have fulfilled that very prophecy. >> even in terms of the debate -- we have to go to a break but sam, we talked about this yesterday -- the humongous argument over earned benefit reform, aka entitlement reform. that's something that republicans have pushed forward and none of the progressive voices who have actually cautioned as to whether we should really be doing that, that kind of reform and pushing for that

certain to be a topic on "washington journal", i guess include norman ornstein and a scholar at the americanenterprise institute. later, bernie sanders joins us and he will be followed by jon barrasso. finally, we will talk about wiki leaks. like tomorrow and every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. later in the week ben bernanke. then he will travel across the capital to testify at a senate banking committee hearing. watch out at 10:30 a.m. eastern also on c-span3. a natural resources subcommittee on wildfires in the south and southwest. congressional members talked about their states battles with out-of-control wildfires and the need to pursue methods of prevention rather than the current model of suppression. members also expressed condolences for the 19 we firefighters who lost their lives in a central arizona wildfire last month. this is just over two hours. >> the gains may actually help us get this hearing rolling along and i hope that they continue with what they are doing. but we welcome all of you who are here. this hearing today is going to explain how we implement something that

. >> host: norm ornstein who is the co-author of "it's worse than it looks," he'll with joining us tomorrowbe joining us tomorrow. he is a washington scholar, he'll be part of tomorrow's "washington journal" program to explain what happened tonight and potentially what will happen tomorrow in the u.s. senate. and we'll check in with two senators in attendance of this closed-door meetings, they'll be here tomorrow to take your phone calls. independent senator bernie sanders will be joining us at 8:45 eastern time and senator john barrasso, republican of wyoming, at 9:00 eastern time as we focus on what happened tonight tomorrow morning on the "washington journal." mike mcclelland has this, again, the handle is c-spanchat. please keep the filibuster, it protects the minority's rights regardless of the party. it is unique to the senate. next is dallas joining us from marshall, texas. go ahead, please. >> caller: it's actually rodebuzz, texas. >> host: -- rosebud, texas. >> caller: i wanted to point out to the last person that we're not all a bunch of dumb country bumpkins down here in texas, a

we'll talk with norm ornstein and two senators join us, bernie anders of vermont and john barrasso of wyoming. wick i at the group wick leeks. "washington journal" is live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. s' role innited nation diplomacy with jeffery feldman. after his remarks, mr. feltman oins a panel discussion with pleus jones, former senior advisor to the u.s. secretary general. and norwegian ambassador to the u.s., from brookings institute, and a half.our he is the undersecretary general for political fairs at the nations. this is a post he's held for a little over a year. like i suspect it feels rather longer than that. he participated in quite a few forums over the years. today he's going to talk about very tough d some problem-ridden areas of the world that need the very best is.omacy that there both on the part of the united ations and on the part of the number of countries represented here in this room today and i'm of those ine to one particular in a moment. jeff brings to his present job years as a ce of 26 foreign service officer. tours.had many i think it's safe to say no

. >> host: senator brasso will be joining us tomorrow morning, and norm ornstein who as co-authored a number of books on congress, including broken branch, and what if anything is resolved tonight and to give us a sense of what to expect tomorrow when the senate reconvenes. jim is joining us from arizona. independent line. >> thanks for taking my call. i think i thought this through a little bit and might be a compromise they might want to consider, and that is if the nominee is a member of the treasury department, which is a financial management thing, or the department of defense, heat go with the 60 votes. all others are 51%. that's way you get the compromise, the serious guys with an opportunity to have the filibuster if necessary, and a little more due diligence, and the ones that aren't quite so important, main they can go to a 51 vote. just a suggestion. i don't know if anybody will take it. thanks for taking my call. >> host: thank you. you can see reports keeping a close gaze another whan is happening behind the doors of the old senate chamber. a handful of senators have left