northbound lanes at pennsylvania avenue, for the ramp for pennsylvania avenue, lanes were blocked.ice are saying they should be open soon or open already. so far i'm not seeing a delay. so far it looks like at least one lane is getting by for now. to i-66, no accidents or delays outside the beltway or inside the beltway. eun? >> thank you. >>> it is ent'day, and from parks to museums to parades, plenty to see and do and much of it is free today. we'll give you the rundown of how to spend your day. >>> and it could be a bumpy ride this morning. potholes showing up, and they're potholes showing up, and they're beginning to do some damage. it's a wondrous sensation of clarity and alertness... it's owning your opponent... it's knowing beyond a doubt "you got this"... it's keeping your head down, your eye on the ball, and knocking it out of the park... it's getting in the zone... it's keeping on your toes... on target... on top... focus is staring the world in the face and saying "bring it"... focus is power... focus is life... and 5-hour energy is focus. >>> welcome back. the baltimore

this is northbound on pennsylvania avenue. it is only the left lane getting by. all southbound lanes are open at this time. everything is looking good on the beltway between the two bridges. things are looking good as you come from the wilson bridge. you are good to go. no problems on 95 in virginia. things look good from fredericksburg and to the beltway. belts are moving into the way as well. rail opens at 5 a.m. this morning and operates on a saturday schedule. >> we are following some breaking news. ethiopian airline pilot has been arrested for hijacking the pop -- airline. >> it is unbelievable. able that they were facing a terrorist act. in a press conference minutes ago, this is a copilot hijacked the jetliner seeking asylum. this was police say he is in his early 30's. the pilot went to the restroom and he took control of the plane. doorosed the protective and peered the plane off its original course from rome. he took the plane to geneva. he circled over geneva talking to air traffic controllers. grant asylum if he allow them to board the plane. the use

we knew that pennsylvania avenue would stay closed. i knew of a project he had worked on wellesley. he used native plants. i knew that is what i wanted to do on the grounds. i already started working each of those committees. the design committee for the library and the other directors and foundations members. i started to anticipate what the next part of my life would be like. i say in speeches that are now we're our living the afterlife and the state george calls the promised land. that is what texas is to us. we love it here. it is great to be back home. >> you've been very active in the library, in getting it started. what about when you are invited to speak or contribute to a political cause? >> i do speak. i am on the speaker circuit. i speak all over. i had a speech in germany last year. a lot of people from all parts of the world as well. i choose which groups to speak to. ones that are doing a really great job in speaking to a lot of foundations of various types. this week i spoke in fort worth to a group that does work with abused and neglected children that work with the

. >>> on the northbound side of 295 for about an hour now near pennsylvania avenue, we're -- work continues on an accident blocking all lanes on the northbound side. here at silver spring, traffic is looking good. we had some black ice overnight so watch out for it through the silver spring area. back to you guys. >> thanks, monika. >>> it is 4:39. time for the first your money segment ever the morning. >> nice -- of the morning. >> nice finish on friday. good morning to you. >> good morning to both of you and everybody at home. stocks closed higher capping off the biggest weekly gain of the year. nasdaq ending the day at a 13- year high. due to the holiday, the markets will be closed today, getting a much needed break. the dow gained about 126 points. we'll start tomorrow at 16,154. the s&p 500 was up by 9 points. the nasdaq was better on the session by three and a third. >>> the federal government has announced it will allow banks to legally provide financial services to state licensed marijuana businesses. the justice department issued this new rule saying banks may do business with thes

ruth madrigal works at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, not anywhere near -- >> that's the irs headquarters, right? >> yes. >> i welcome your opportunity to give your political statements. what i find odd about it is you all seem to be saying but for this scandal if this had never happened, apparently you would favor giving bonuses to the irs. >> i'll ask the question. the question is should we be rewarding this kind of pave with bonuses. that's the question. >> we shouldn't be rewarding government employees with bonuses in any situation. had this scandal evenever happened i would still be here saying why are we giving bonuses to government employees. you know where the money comes from? if they're auditors and leave and go into private practice and make a fortune because they know what they're doing. let's not con fume the two. if there had never been a scandal -- >> stevings we have to put the two together because people -- certain individuals have been rewarded for doing stuff or at least during the time at which they were doing stuff that most people find an hor rent. >> that you would s

up things are looking useful as you come inbound from pennsylvania avenue. thank you very much. police are scrambling trying to find the man who shot and killed an example -- alexandria woman when she answered the door. you just mentioned, the manhunt continues this morning for a very unusual suspect. elderly, balding and bearded man. he is accused of getting down a beloved music teacher. music forodato taught the past 20 years. yesterday, the mother of three kurtenbach at the door at her home in the 2400 block of ridge road drive. the suspect opened fire and shot her and the home health worker who was at the home caring for ruthanne lodato's mother. airliftedodato was from her home, but died at the hospital. the gunman is described as elderly with white hair. we're are probably not had a violent crime in our history. police have no motive or nothing to suggest that ruthanne lodato news shooter. ronald kirby to back in november. theived just a mile and shooting happened around the same time of day. >> that is such a sad story. a man wanted for murder in pennsylvania is in custod

in southeast d.c., here's pennsylvania avenue at alabama avenue. you can see still snow covered. give yourself extra time. i'm back with an update in ten minutes with the car fire. >> see you then. thank you. >>> some you may be watching on your phone or tablet because you don't have power. about 560 pepco customers are without power. mostly in the district. dominion virginia power has 1,400 outages in northern virginia. just over 300 outages for bge, potomac edison, 250, mostly in montgomery county. and smeco has more than 1,300 without power. most of those folks in charles county. >>> the radaren't the only problem for commuters. the impact the snow is having on commuter rail service and amtrak. >>> now a live look in montgomery county which saw some of the biggest snow totals from the storm. we'll show you how the cleanup effort is going there this hour effort is going there this hour next. pay my bill. ephone: your account is already next. paid in full. oh, well in that case, back to vacation mode. ♪boots and pants and boots and pants♪ ♪and boots and pants and boots and pants

that's not far from pennsylvania avenue. news 4 derrick ward has been talking to neighbors about what they heard in this developing story. derrick? >> reporter: well, good morning. this happened at the lexington courts apartments. you see the sign there behind me. it was 5:30 yesterday. this is off mar burrow park. someone called saying they found three dead in the apartment complex. we spoke to neighbors that said three days ago they heard gunshots but not hear a police response. it's unclear if police were c l called or if that's connected to this. some residents are just returning home. this was a crime scene for a good part of the evening. they were not allowed to return to their apartments. police are expected to return to this complex some thyme today to knock on doors, pass out fliers to get information on the homicide. one of the victims, an adult male was a resident of the complex. we're live in capital heights, news 4. >> derrick, thanks. >>> police are looking for two missing women in separate cases. 70-year-old r

were getting ready to open back up when september 11 opened. -- weupus of a avenue knew that pennsylvania avenue would stay closed. i knew of a project he had worked on wellesley. i knew that is what i wanted to do on the grounds. i already started working each of those committees. the decide committee for the -- designed committee for the library and the other directors and foundations members. i started to anticipate what the next part of my life would be like. i say in speeches that are now with our living the afterlife and the state george calls the promised land. that is what texas is to us. we love it here. it is great to be back home. >> your been very active in the library, and the answer to and getting started. what about when you are invited to speak or contribute to political cost? -- cause? >> i do speak. i am of the speaker circuit. i speak all over. i had a speech in germany last year. a lot of people from all parts of the world as well. i choose which groups to speak to. we are doing a really great job in a speak to a lot of foundations of various types. this week i spoke in fort

officers responded to a report of a burglar on 14th street and pennsylvania avenue.believe the 74 resident was deceased when someone kicked in the door and ransacked the home. it appears the resident died of natural causes. police say his car is missing and may have been stolen. >>> the police chief is dispending an officer's use of a taser. the incident was caught on camera. noel walker reports it's a case of excessive force. >> on a good day, the b.a.r.t. commute is mundane and on time. on a bad day, the experience is memorable enough to get 16,000 youtube hits and counting. in january, a b.a.r.t. passenger videoed this. b.a.r.t. police asked him to leave, tazing him twice. >> he warned the suspect numerous times. >> b.a.r.t.'s own policy, says the officer can use the taser if he feels bodily harm for him or another person's life and is threatened. officers pulled tasers between 17 and 21 times and fired them ten times. b.a.r.t.'s police chief might have prevented a more dangerous confrontation. >> an officer doesn't have to be punched before he uses his taser or a

this is pennsylvania avenue that you're seeing there. at the intersection, we're seeing some frozen slush right there at the stoplight. keep in mind that if are you going to be coming up to a light, to a stop sign, you'll need stop, you're going to want to hit the brakes earlier than you normally would. also, if you are a pedestrian and we have seen a lot of them out here this morning, right by the eastern market metro station, are you going to have a tough go as well. a lot of the sidewalks including the one i am standing on, they are absolutely frozen. you can't see the asphalt or pavement at all. it's slick. we've seen people walking in the road because they don't want to use the sidewalks. probably not the best idea. back to you in the studio. >> megan mcgrath live for us. thank you. >>> want to show you a side-by-side shot here. on the left, we recorded a shot from the tower cam. we'll show what it looked like before the snow. this is from almost exactly this time on wednesday morning. now on the right side, a live picture from the

"secret and unaccountable deep state floats freely above the gridlock between both ends of pennsylvania avenues the paradox of american government in the 21st century." >> well, that's just the thing. the common narrative of the last five years, and on a superficial level it's right, is that government is broken. it's dysfunctional. it's gridlocked. well, that's true. and that is the visible government, the constitutional government we learn about in civics 101. and it is gridlocked. but somehow, obama can go into libya. he can assassinate u.s. citizens. he can collect all our phone records without a buy or a leave from anyone. he can even bring down a jet carrying a president of a sovereign country without asking anyone's permission. and no one seems to connect the two, the failure of our visible constitutional state and this other government that operates according to no constitutional rules or any constraint by the governed. >> you go on to say, though, that it's not just the executive branch that is the heart of this, that it's just one of the several constituencies that make up what you c

. >>> further up pennsylvania avenue, president obama and vice president joe biden were on the move. they turned the white house into their own personal running track. after a long jog inside and outside the executive mansion. they took a breather in the oval office. >> you're hard to keep up with. >> after a good workout, got to drink up. >> all right. >> otherwise we'll be in trouble with jill and michele. >> just let jill know i did do this. >> same time next week? >> same time. >>it's made to coincide with the fourth anniversary of michele obama's let's move campaign, of course. >>> someone is watching you. another secret spy agency accused of eavesdropping. details coming up. >> plus, the nation's aging infrastructure. what is and what isn't being done about it? we'll take a look >>> british intelligence officials are refusing to report that agents monitored people's intimate online conversations. the national security administration is accused of having a role in that operation. pamela brown reports. >> reporter: imagine learning that someone was virtually eavesdropping, watchi

policy issues, particularly the economy and the president joked about the next rez at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> i enjoyed watching some of you with your eyes on higher office size up the drapes and each other. >> all in all, by the accounts, it was cordial, productive, until the news conference that followed just outside. >> he did mention the minimum wage repeatedly to us. what i worry about is that this president and the white house seems to be waving the white flag of surrender after more than five years under this administration. the obama economy is the minimum wage economy. i think there are things we can do instead of waving the white flag of surrender instead of declaring this economy to be a white flag economy. i think america can do better. >> until a few moments ago, we were going down a pretty cooperative road. you just heard what i think ended up being probably the most partisan statement that we have had all weekend. i don't know what the heck was referenced to white flag when it comes to people making $404 a week. that's the most insane statement i have ever heard, frankly. l

you expect it will be a condition democrats will go along with in the senate and down along pennsylvania avenue in the white house? >> this is what is different about this episode, tyler, from previous ones. they are not looking for a companion provision that democrats hate. they are doing something that democrats might be able to say yes to. one of them is resource $6 billion in cuts to veterans pensions that were made in that bipartisan budget deal, patty murray and paul ryan a few weeks ago. the other is some increases in the reimbursement rates for doctors under medicare. that may fall out of the deal, it may simply be the veterans benefits and they would have to find other cuts to pay for the change. >> john, it sounds like from what they are saying, they are not going to take this right down to the wall, that's what wall street is worried about. once again it going to be a midnight deadline and everybody is on pins and needles. >> that's the affirmative sign wall street can take. it's not likely to go up against it. that's why they are having this meeting tonight. they are off for nextpre

there is a lot at stake on both ends of pennsylvania avenue. >> that is conundrum that house speaker john boehner punted, saying i won't rely on democratic support to get it passed in the house. now the senate could be the stumbling block. >> isn't that ironic, the politics are fascinating. john boehner basically said to his conservatives who were very unhappy saying i'm going to put this on the floor, there will be no attachments, no funny business. the president is not going to negotiate on this thing. let's keep fighting on the affordable care act and home bear, let's not blow it and mix our message by talking about a government shutdown and delaying the debt ceiling as obamacare is falling on its own sword. john boehner put it on the floor, and it was an amazing thing for him to do that. it passed on the strength of democratic votes. if you look at it in a ma mamachiavellian way, now in the senate we have what appears to be a nail biter. remember it needs 60 votes for this procedural hurdle, and then for it to pass requires only 50 votes for that. >> mike viqueira, never a dull m

white house america's symbol of the presidency a beautiful mansion located at sixteen hundred pennsylvania avenue but built almost entirely on the backs of slaves that's right not only was the white house built by slave labor it was also home to countless black slaves held in bondage and while the first republic was founded under the banner of freedom dignity and the infallible notion that says all men are created equal as many as twelve of america's forty four presidents have been slave owners even george washington himself who wrote prolifically against the institution of slavery was not immune to its evils see a law called the gradual abolition act was passed in pennsylvania in seven hundred eighty which allowed slaves brought into this state to apply to apply for freedom if they were there for longer than six months in order to circumvent this act washington would rotate the time his slave spent in the state going against his own convictions against the horrific practice in fact one of washington's own slaves oh name maria judge was said to be given away as a present to martha washington's gr

would spend up to nine months living together in hotels and boarding houses, scattered across pennsylvania avenue from the capitol up to the white house. they talk to each other at party and balls and state dinners and hotel bars across the city as well as in social and religious clubs. and i want to highlight two key consequences of the close knit washington community. first, it produced something like a social and political code in washington. a set of norms for political behavior that goes outside the capitol city didn't really understand. even though those people who didn't really like each other much tended to treat each other in the same way as you would imagine a fraternity to operate. you kept things in the family. the experience of living in washington insulated politicians from the outside world. they understood the sectional conflicts of the mid 19th century in the context across-sectional cooperation in washington. what this meant in practice for the antebell lum peed many southern poll ties were unprepared for the speed at which succession told hold in the winter of 1860 so depending

leaders right now hosting a joint news conference, a live look inside the east room at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. we will go there in just a moment. also today, cannon fire over th debt ceiling. charlie rangel will talk about that and the latest obamacare delay. >>> shaun white going for the gold today on the half pipe that everyone has been talking about. we'll get to all of that in just a moment. but we start at the white house where a live news conference is underway with president obama and french president francois hollande, only the fifth state visit by a foreign leader during this administration. the first by a french president in 20 years. it's following a morning welcome ceremony in bilateral meeting of shared concern, the ongoing civil war in syria and climate change and of course the global economy as well. also, president obama announced that he will be accepting president hollande's invitation to attend celebrations in france to commemorate the 70th anniversary of d day later this year. however, on the subject of syria and its civil war, this is what president obama had to say. >> s

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a very large questions in my mind so keystone bible and without regard calvin and pasta on pennsylvania avenue on talk about unemployment. yeah i'm one of the one point six million people that are waiting for congress to sign the emergency unemployment benefit. you have my sympathy that that's that's going to be enough. yes ministration i really lost my bedroom. my wife and i now live in a one bedroom apartment and you know with these kind of actions being taken by a congress more than likely to lose. because. they don't seem to care about the american people anymore. is their question and their have. just wondered you know my opinion that. and i don't see much coverage on the news about this either i don't know one point six million people isn't a lot of people are with you kevin thanks for the call. and near welcome to blow off some steam here and this is an issue that we've been talking about regularly i mean at least every other day the this this crisis of nearly two million people and soon going to be too many and that is going to be three million people and that is going to be four milli

plenty of news from pennsylvania avenue.esterday evening as house republicans finalize the bill that will raise the u.s. borrowing limit ahead of this debt ceiling deadline. meanwhile, the obama administration yesterday announced another delay of its affordable care act deadline. we will get to both of those stories this morning. let's focus on a washington free be

coming from pennsylvania avenue when we return. >>> the nba's all star game holds a special place for warriors fans. they haven't had a starter since 17 years ago. lights out performances, making sure no denying him this time around and he earns high praise from the highest office tonight. >> the best shooter i've ever seen. i believe that. in terms of being able to -- you know, off the dribble, get his shot off from anywhere that fast. >> this is what every player in the nba dreams about and i have my family here and people that have helped me get here so i'm going to sit back, relax and enjoy every minute of it. you never know when it's going to come around again. this is once in a lifetime experience that hopefully i can keep saying that every year. >>> very deserving. a little glimpse of the kind of stuff college hoop fans love to see. upset by their rivals, arizona goes down, number 2, to asu. final seconds of double overtime. shot block, other end, carson of asu slams it and run the floor. that's it. game over. and arizona, just their second loss of the year. got a little double

morning the attorney general went to his regular meeting at the fbi then walked back across the pennsylvania avenueo his office in the justice department for a regular 9:30 a.m. meeting with his senior staff in the big conference room adjacent to his office. an official who was in that meeting says that at one point the attorney general said i'm not feeling well, i'm going to excuse myself. you all go on with the meeting and stood up and went into his office, talked to his security detail and this official says the members of his detail persuaded him he should get to the hospital he was taken there by ambulance and admitted for some tests. the justice department said in a statement that he was resting comfortably, in fact, we're told the attorney general himself reviewed the statement before the justice department put it out. so he's obviously alert and talking to his doctor and talking to members of his staff. they say he's doing well. we're all waiting to finds out what the results of the tests indicate about what happened. >> and we actually now have breaking news that president obama has wished

. >>> check out the white house at this very moment, a snowy morning at 1600 pennsylvania avenue.aker john boehner meeting behind closed doors in the oval office today, that's in about an hour. we're going to go to the white house for a live interview with the top economic adviser. >>> and former president bill clinton is in kentucky today trying to unseat mitch mcconnell. that's a big move for democrats and it's drawing strong pushback from kentucky's junior senator. we're going to take you down south to the tempest in louisville. >>> and politics broke out right here at nbc headquarters in new york last night, vice president joe biden stopped by late night with seth meyers and brought jokes. >> i was planning on making a major announcement

so i don't think it's a foregone conclusion that she skates all the way to 1600 pennsylvania avenue. it's very hard to see who on the republican side of the aisle can give her a strong run in the end. >> who do you -- who are the three or four who seem at this point from your perspective, michael, the most formidable? we could take chris christie at least for now out of that mix. >> well, it certainly wouldn't be any of the usual suspects. i don't think that someone who is nominated from the very conservative quarters of the gop ultimately could give her the run. so i think it's probably a republican governor and someone who is not so identified with the tea party movement. that doesn't leave many people. i don't think it's rubio. i don't think it's cruz. i don't think that it's rand paul. it's going to be someone who today is perceived as being on a second level who then emerges as they all fight for that very hard-core support. >> yeah. i hear you suggesting maybe someone like scott walker of wisconsin. john kasich of ohio. maybe even paul ryan from wisconsin. those names seem to b

less than an hour from now, our white house correspondent kristen welker joins us from pennsylvania avenueident this afternoon. >> reporter: president obama using east lansing michigan as a back drop as he touts what he's going to argue are steady gains in the agriculture sector. the big center piece will be president obama signing the farm bill into law. it gives him a chance to highlight a rare piece of bipartisan legislation, in this case farmers see this as a win. it increases export insurance, also scales back some subsidies, but the most controversial part of this legislation is that it cuts about $8 billion in food stamps. now that really has angered some democrats, but you'll recall, craig, this was the source of fighting for the past two years, lawmakers unable to get a deal on the farm bill because of those food stamps. republicans wanted cuts that were much deeper, $40 billion. so the prad is going to argue that this marks a good compromise and announce an executive action called made in rural america, which is going to be aimed at helping rural businesses increase their exports

today the president met exclusively with democratic governors at 1600 pennsylvania avenue topping thea. raising the minimum wage. >> an overwhelming majority of americans think that raising the minimum wage is a good idea. that is true for independents, that is true for democrats as true for republicans. and raise the minimum wage will help up to 16 million americans. and that's a big deal. >>> the focus on governors is especially important because so many seats are considered up for grabs in this year's mid-term elections. the map is tough for republicans. 22 gop seats on the ballot 14 are either open or competitive. nine of those are in blue states that twice voted for president obama. democrats have 14 seats to defend in 2014 including ten which are competitive or open. molly ball is the national political reporter for the atlantic. molly, always good to see you. we heard briefly from the president a few moments ago. he chose to focus those brief remarks on the minimum wage. this seems to be something that the white house sees as a winning issue going into the mid-terms, is it not?

. >> but the speaker's trust issue may lie a lot closer to his end of pennsylvania avenue. even before boehner announced the house immigration principles, there was a very passionate, sizable block of conservative who is oppose the idea of actually doing anything on the issue. and yesterday the speaker's senate counterpart, minority leader mitch mcconnell, basically issued a slap back to the speaker's half-hearted attempt at unity. >> i think we have an sort of irresolvable conflict here. the house won't go to the senate on comprehensive and wants to look at step by step. i don't see how you get to an outcome this year with the two bodies in such a different place. >> as it stands, the man who shut down the government only to later claim that he didn't want to shut down the government has made an attempt at legislating, only to see his efforts summarily shot down by the people in his own party. and he has now blamed the other guys for not being people you can trust. really? really. >> you know when they say don't trust something the president does, why don't we pack up and

. >> we'll see if you convince the powers that be down pennsylvania avenue.u. >> nice to meet you. >> be cave on the campaign trail. we'll be following your race. >> thank you. >>> that's it for this edition. up just is chris jansing. i will see you tomorrow. this is interesting. it says here that a woman's sex drive increases at the age of 80. helps reduce the risk of heart disease. it seems that 80 is the new 18. grannies, bless your heart, you are bringing sexy back! eat up. keep heart-healthy. live long. for a healthy heart, eat the 100% natural whole grain goodness of post shredded wheat. doctors recommend it. but with less energy, moodiness, and a low sex drive, i had to do something. i saw my doctor. a blood test showed it was low testosterone, not age. we talked about axiron the only underarm low t treatment that can restore t levels to normal in about two weeks in most men. axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18 or men with prostate or breast cancer. women, especially those who are or who may become pregnant, and children should avo

the effort moved to 1600 pennsylvania avenue on monday. from faith-based groups protested what they called the record level of deportations in 2012, objecting that these enforcement policies are tearing families apart. dozens were arrested. now here's a big number for the context here, about 800,000 deportations over the last two fiscal years, 409,000 in 2012 alone, was a record for the united states. now we have one of the activists arrested at the white house yesterday, a bishop in the united methodist church. she joins us. how do you do? >> good morning. >> good morning. tell us, bishop, what happened yesterday. tell us about your arrest and how you got out, what we know about your situation now. >> well, immigrants, faith, and labor leaders joined to protest the deportation of almost 2 million immigrants, causing great suffering among immigrant families, churches, communities, as well. we were there to protest and demand president obama stop the deportations. >> but why were you arrested specifically? >> we were arrested because we pra

progressives have become the party of wall street, k straight and pennsylvania avenue.we must become the party of main street, everywhere. >> that's utah tea party republican senator mike lee. keeping him honest, though. when he's not publicly crusading against lobbyists, he's been privately asking them for money. drew giffen reports. >> reporter: it's 8:00 a.m. in snowbird, utah, and that gond la letting up the mountain an hour before the slopes of this luxury resort even opened, is filled with lobbyists. but not just lobbyists. utah senator, mike lee, is here too. in fact, it's his political action committee hosting a fund-raising ski get-away. cold weather not your thing? tee off at san diego's torrey pines golf course. it's a fund-raiser for california democrat congressman juan vargas, teeing off at the 9:40 tee time, his special gift, house minority whip, steny hoyer. for a washington, d.c., lobbyist, this is the world of unlimited access. political junkets leave every weekend, meet at luxury resorts, where lobbyists schmooze, drink booze, dine slopeside and get wh

progressives have become the party of wall street, k street and pennsylvania avenue. we must become the party of main street everywhere. >> k street what he's talking about where a lot of the lobbyists are in washington. that's utah tea party republican senator mike lee. keeping them honest, when he's not publicly crusading against lobbyists, guess. what he's privately asking them for money. drew griffin tonight caught him at it. take a look. >> reporter: it's 8:00 a.m. in snow bird, utah. and that early gondola heading up the mountain an hour before the slopes of this luxury resort even open is filled with lobbyists. but not just lobbyists. utah senator mike lee is here, too. in fact, it's his political action committee hosting a fundraising ski getaway. cold weather not your thing? tee off at san diego's torrey pines government course. it's a fundraising for california democrat congressman juan vargas teeing off at the 9:40 tee time his special guest, house mine north whip steny hoyer. for a washington, d.c. lobbyist, this is the world of unlimited access. political

. >> kristen welker from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. again, president obama not far from there, upper marlboro, maryland. when he begins to speak, we'll take you there live. for now, the agenda panel, amanda terkel "the huffington post." zerlina maxwell, political analyst and grio.com contributor. good to see all of you. mike, let me start with you, sir, the president talking about fuel efficiency, specifically for these heavy duty trucks and trailers, ordering new standards. president obama also issued some new standards a few years back requiring fuel efficiency standards for cars and light duty trucks, as well, requiring that it be somewhere around 54.5 miles per hour by 2025, i believe. michael, is mr. obama, is he going to be remembered among other things as the fuel efficiency president? >> he could be. we did get also congress back when it was in democratic control early in his years, we got an increase in automotive standards. that was the first one since the mid 1970s, then, of course, craig, he's going to be doing other things

>>> check out the white house at this very moment, a snowy morning at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. president obama and speaker john boehner meeting behind closed doors in the oval office today, that's in about an hour. we're going to go to the white house for a live interview with the top economic adviser. >>> and former president bill clinton is in kentucky today trying to unseat mitch mcconnell. that's a big move for democrats and it's drawing strong pushback from kentucky's junior senator. we're going to take you down south to the tempest in louisville. >>> and politics broke out right here at nbc headquarters in new york last night, vice president joe biden stopped by late night with seth meyers and brought jokes. >> i was planning on making a major announcement tonight, but decided tonight was your night. >> your 2016 plans? >> i'm going to run for president. >> great! vice president of the united states, joe biden, everyone! >> good morning, i am ari melber in for chris jansing here at 30 rock. next hour, president obama will host a pretty rare one-on-one meeting with speaker

on the other end of pennsylvania avenue, republicans have decided they are going to put a bill on thee debt ceiling until march of next year. off the table until after the election. they have been unable to do so in a way that gets republicans to carry the bill through. they failed at the effort. john boehner pinned it on the president. >> he will not negotiate. he would not deal with long-term spending problems without us reaching taxes. he is the one driving up the debt. the question they are asking is why should i deal with their debt limit? >> there is an awful lot that they have to go through. they are supposed to be out after wednesday and all of next week as for whether or not this will pass, house minority leader nancy pelosi to represent the bulk of the vote that will be needed to get this through says she is somewhat confident that a debt ceiling will be increased. her deputy says he is a little concerned we may have a tarp like both. anywhere between 30 and 35 republicans. democrats will have to carry this one. cheryl: rich edson live at the white house. we will be taking t