the pentagon's budget will absorb a hit. funding for veterans programs will get a boost.sident obama's education initiative race to the top will absorb a cut of more than 20%. congressional negotiators will also resume talks today on a deal to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits for another year. republicans and democrats agree the extension is important to sustaining any economic recovery. the sides have disagreed, however, on how to pay for it. >>> new from overnight, a man was shot several times from inside his home near the intersection of annapolis road and 71st avenue in landover hills. police say the victim tried to drive himself to the hospital and pulled over two blocks away from the home. police found him inside his car and took him to the hospital. at last check he's listed in critical condition. his name has not been released so far, and so far no arrests have been made. th >>> this morning a man is in custody after he bar caded himself in an alexandria apartment complex for six hours. it ended last last night high above george mason drive at

. >> it cuts the pentagon budget 1%, hikes health research 1%, but cuts homeland security 5%. the bill is nicknamed the megabill. >> it is necessary reseller break the bipartisan nature of this bill. >> democrats did not celebrate a year of partisan warfare. >> more contention. more confrontation. >> one fight is left. >> we are not going home unless we pass the payroll tax cut, which benefits 160 million in our country. >> both parties want to keep the reduction in social security and the care taxes, but the republicans still link it to quick approval of a pipeline from canada opposed by some environmentalists. >> i will guarantee the pipeline will be in there. >> tonight, a two month extension of the payroll tax cut, plus the pipeline republicans say will mean more jobs and less foreign oil. that puts the ball back in president obama's court. he promised to veto the tax cut extension he championed if the pipeline were tacked on. nbc news, capitol hill. >> new on wbaltv.com, we are asking if you are stressed by the economy. more than 15,000 votes -- 75% say yes. boat on our s

it hikes the pentagon budget 1%, increases health research also by 1%. but there will be a 5% cut to homeland security programs. both parties want to keep the payroll tax cut gozing, but republicans are tying it to approval of a pipeline from canada which some environmentalists oppose. president obama says if the pipeline is included in the payroll tax bill, he will veto it. >>> the 718 prisoners living on california's death row got another legal reprieve today. a judge threw out the state's new lethal injection protocols that were six years in the making. there's been a moratorium on executions in the state since the three drug injection system used here was ruled potentially cruel and unusual punishment. the judge, considering whether the new rules were any better than the old one, says the one drug injection method used in other states was never considered. today's ruling puts the state back to square one. the decision will be appealed if it holds up, experts say, executions will be on hold for years. >>> nine months after the devastating earthquake a

the pentagon's budget will absorb a hit, but funding for veterans programs will get an increase. president obama's education initiatives called race to the top will absorb a cut of more than 20%. >>> and congressional negotiators will also resume talks today on a deal to extend the tax cut and unemployment benefits for another year. republicans and democrats agree the extension is important to sustaining any economic recovery. the sides have disagreed, however, on how to pay for all that. >>> we're going to get our first check of the forecast now with meteorologist tom kierein. it is warm. >> it is warm. >> balmy and warm out there. this is just the high point of the day, right? >> this is going to be the warmest part of the day. as the day progresses, we'll gradually get colder and colder. by later this afternoon, back down into the 40s. by midnight tonight, just near 40 degrees. a 20 degree drop here over the next 12 to 15 hours or so. right now at reagan national, it's 61 degrees on this december the 16th. we've got a wind out of the northwest. it's a little blustery, 5 to 10

we are in a time when budget pressures and austerity mean there will be some changes in the pentagon budget from low oil leaks and reporting we have a sense that as secretary panetta and the white house work with you to shape that budget for some basic outlines. one of them seems to be a reduction in ground forces on the expectation that a large scale counter insurgency of the kind we fought in afghanistan and iraq are not likely. we're not going to cut asia. help us to understand. what the shape of this budget is like. are the league's i described, do they have the contours' about right -- are the leaks i described. >> leaks in washington. that is something i'm not familiar with. let me say this about the process. it is important to understand about the process. we can get into a greater or lesser detail. the processor has been encouraging to me -- the process has been encouraging to me. we have managed to achieve when i thought was unachievable in the timeline available. we have a process to figure out the budget through the lens of an emerging strategy. we clearly are in a position where

details on the bill will be unveiled today but it's expected to chip away at the nation's pentagon budgetaid and environmental spending. it boosts funding for veteran's programs and the war in afghanistan. and a temporary spending measure expires on friday. >>> and we have a little good news for the procrastinators out there, myself included. most online stores are dropping their standard rate for gifts to get there by christmas. and the shipping program is available on orders of $25 or more. 90% have set december 20th as their deadline, and last year the majority said you had to order items by december 18th, so you get two extra days. preshipping offers end on the 20th. i need ideas. >> me, too. >> yeah, we have 12 days. >>> we have more on the 12 days of giving. let's go to pat lawson. >> barbara, helping women during the most important time of their life during pregnancy is really critical to those women, and that's a mission of a group called a woman owe choice. delores is back along with two guests. tell us how many women you help and where the women come from and how large your staf

. >> reporter: the spending plan hikes the pentagon budget 1%. health research 1%. it cuts homeland security programs 5%. a trillion dollar bill nicknamed the megabus. >> it's going to be a little while before we realize whether we are on the bus or thrown under it. >> it is important that we celebrate the bipartisan nature of this bill. >> reporter: democrats did not celebrate a year of partisan warfare. >> less substance, more contention, more confrontation. >> reporter: the big fight is just ahead. >> we are not going home unless we pass a payroll tax cut, which benefits 160 million workers in our country. >> reporter: both parties want to keep the reduction in social security and medicare taxes. republicans link it to quick approval of a pipeline from canada opposed by some environment lists. >> we will make changes to it and i guarantee you it will be in there when it goes back to the senate. >> reporter: republicans say the pipeline means more u.s. jobs and less foreign oil. president obama says the pipeline in that payroll tax extension bill, if it passes tha

it's expected to chip away at the pentagon budget, foreign aid, and environmental spending, but it's going to boost spending and funding for veterans programs as well as pay for the war in afghanistan. the house and senate will vote on the bill later this week. >>> good news for all you procrastinators, a new survey by the retail federation finding most stores are extending their drop dead date to have your bill set at standard shipping rates at december 20th. that's the deadline. don't wait any longer than that. retailers say free shipping ends no ifs, ands, or buts on the 20th. eun, back to you. >> jackie, thanks so much. >>> turning to the weather, it's quite cold out there. we aren't surprised. it's just a matter of layering up and dealing with it. >> just deal with t >> that's what tom told me. >> it's december. deal with t that's right. unless you're a dog and you don't have a coat and you've got to walk the dog this morning. they'll take care of their business really fast this morning, i'm sure, this morning as we get going on it too cold tuesday. >>> right now at reagan natio

so here's your pentagon budget, but we're going to go ahead and take the sixth amendment off your handsshould the bill defund the defense department also have to be the bill that cotfies and expands and cements indefinite imprisonment without trial? the obama administration responded by saying, well, it shouldn't. they said essentially, no way, that's not going to be in the bill. the white house threatening last month to veto the entire defense authorization bill over this new lock them up and throw away the key set of rules that were included in the bill. tons of administration officials have spoken out publicly against this thing at various times over the last couple months. defense secretary leon panetta, jay johnson, the top lawyer. the defense department. they've all said that this detention provision would hurt counterterrorism efforts. the director of national intelligence, james clapper saying these limitations could deny our nation. they got together and tweaked that part of the bill in hopes of vetoing. the house and senate did make a bunch of changes to the legislation. there

the pentagon's budget will absorb a hit. president obama's education initiative, race to the top, will absorb a cut of more than 20%. >>> and congressional negotiators will also resume talks today on a deal to try to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits for another year. republicans and democrats agree the extension is important to sustaining economic recovery. the sides have disagreed, though, on how to pay for it. >> a government watchdog group says arlington national cemetery is being managed better a year after reports surfaced of widespread problems at the military cemetery. the government accountability office reports that the army is taking positive steps toward addressing the problems, which included mismarked or misidentified grave sites. the gao says there are still improvements that need to be made. another progress report on the conditions at arlington is due next week. >>> today current and former penn state university officials will appear in court. they'll testify at the preliminary hearing abo

from iraq but the drawing down in afghanistan and all the budget concerns there and how much the pentagon budget? what do you say going forward? >> my wife, children and i live in bucks county, pennsylvania. i know most folks across pennsylvania agree with me. we have spent so much of our resources the last ten years in war in iraq and afghanistan. the fact is this. just the iraqi war itself has cost the american taxpayer almost $3 trillion. again, chris, as i mentioned, the 4400 lives, the 32,000 wounded, but a lot of folks are saying they get it. barack obama when he ran for president and when he was president was very clear with the american people. he said, i'm going to bring the troops home from iraq and refocus on bringing bin laden to justice. a man, a criminal, a terrorist who murdered 3,000 innocent americans including my best friend's girlfriend and her father in the world trade center. we brought him to justice. we wiped out almost half of the top levels of al qaeda. we're now training up the afghan forces to bring our troops home and the drawdown is happening in afghanistan. that is

that trims the budget of most domestic agencies and gives the pentagon a small budget increase. >>> defense secretary leon panetta is in libya today. he is the first pentagon chief to ever visit the middle eastern country. panetta's trip comes after an eight-month civil war which ended moammar gadhafi's rule. the defense secretary is going to hold talks with the country's interim prime minister. yesterday the u.n. lifted sanctions against libya, unfreezing about $80 billion in assets. >>> flash floods triggered by a powerful tropical storm has killed more than 200 people in the philippines. that number is expected to grow because a lot of people are still missing. the storm packing high winds and heavy rain hit neno island earlier this morning. tens of thousands had to escape to higher ground. the storm has now moved out to sea and it's going to be out of the area completely by tomorrow. >>> even as the u.s. is pulling out of iraq, soldiers from an army reserve unit in vallejo are headed there. 19 members of the 481st transportation company are going to leave mare island -- or they are from

it trims most domestic agencies and awards the pentagon the smallest budget hike in recent memory. and they agreed to extend the social security payroll cuts and jobless benefits for another two months. a vote on that is expected tomorrow. >>> up next, zynga celebrates a billion dollar day even as the stock gets dinged during the first day of trading. >> and the softer side of the raider nation. the toy drive for kids who will not be able to spend christmas at home. >> and the first lady gets asked out on a date. and then late other nightline -- >> i'm bill weir, coming up next on "nightline" an extreme phobia scared speechless. a doctor who said who can cure them and other fears. and predators after dark. a new camera reveals what lions, hyenas and crocodiles are up to in the dead of nigh ok, you guys wanted a space for entertainingng your frien, so, open your eyes and check out your new living room! [ gasps ] honey, the tv's over there! yep, we got you the new at&t u-verse wireless receiver so you can put your tv pretty much anywhere you want. and that stand... anywhere? like, we

i mean, if they're debating a big pentagon budget or they're debating health care issues, we should be to see in realtime why these guys -- >> why should we tolerate even that, jack. why should the standard for an anchor at cnbc, who does not make laws, by the way. who does not fundamentally participate in any material way in legislation or they are a commentator among millions of commentators in that universe, why should the standard of compliance be higher for an anchor at cnbc than it is for a u.s. senator? >> exactly. dylan, you put your finger on it, exactly. if they choose to serve in the congress, which is a privilege, by the way -- >> thank you. >> coming to serve the people. they should take all of their assets and put them in trust. they shouldn't be trading anything, not one share, ever, until they leave. >> that's right! that's -- again, i don't see how you can sit here and tell all sorts of people that they can't buy a single stock as long as they have a job, and tell people that make the policies that dictate the flow of capital on the earth, peter, that there is any circ

one, he is defending the pentagon's budget inside the administration and publicly and says that the cutsre sufficient and that congress can't cut any more and this trigger that might be forced due to the failure of the super committee would be devastateding. so that's his first role is to deached the budget from further cuts. the second thing is he is shifting from the focus over to east asia. the idea is what will be the pentagon's main mission? the mission will be to prepare for a future contingency with a rising china, whether or not that contingency ever happens is irrelevant. we're talking about a focus back to the navy, back to the air force, away from the unions and army and shipping resources, and building relationships with japan, singapore, and australia and shifting it back to the far east. this is something that a lot of obama administration is on board with. this is something that a lot of people in the region of east asia have been calling to. whether or not this will improve relations with china h in terms of setting up a system where the chinese realize they have to act r

it trims most domestic agencies and awards the pentagon the smallest budget hike in recent memory. and they agreed to extend the social security payroll cuts and jobless benefits for another two months. a vote on that is expected tomorrow. >>> up next, zynga celebrates a billion dollar day even as the stock gets dinged during the first day of trading. >> and the softer side of the raider nation. the toy drive for kids who will not be able to spend christmas at home. >> and the first lady gets asked out on a date. and then late other nightline -- >> i'm bill weir, coming up next on "nightline" an extreme phobia scared speechless. a doctor who said who can cure them and other fears. and predators after dark. a new camera reveals what lions, hyenas and crocodiles are up to in the dead of night. that's on0p8ts@s@k!k!k!iñiñlñlñç >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to >>> a santa rosa man is in critical condition after being hit by an suv while running from police. investigators say the man was acting suspiciously, and when officers tried to question him, he took

the savings from not having a troop presence in that country, if the makes a difference to the pentagon budgett: i do not know what the budget is for the base in kuwait. the overall troop presence from the world would be a significant number. your previous guest was talking not ron paul and his foreign- policy goals. he advocates shutting other u.s. bases around the world and bring you them back home -- and bringing them back home and that would save money. host: we have a comment on twitter. bob in indiana, a republican. caller: part of the cost -- does that include the payroll for the soldiers, which would be a fixed cost matter where they were -- no matter where they were? host: i see what you're saying. the cost would remain the same. caller: war cost. i have been reading the rise and fall of the soviet empire. it is similar to what we have going on with this occupy wall street thing. thank you. host: let's take his first comments. do they get higher pay if they are in combat? guest: they get certain benefits in pay echoes of the deployment, and several troops have been deployed multiple t

did not find, as david mattingly found, reassurance about the pentagon budget.said, we're going to stand with you but i didn't feel that meant he was going to defend the pentagon against a lot of cuts that may be just over the horizon. overall, it was a very very gracious healing speech and a good one. >> gloria, how did you see it? >> i really felt the same way. the president came to ft. bragg to pay homage to the troops and to their successes and to their great achievement in bringing this to a close. he said we're ending it not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. he made it very clear, look, this was controversial and we don't leave iraq as a perfect place. i think he sort of set a realistic tone here, but he wanted these troops to understand that americans value their service and will continue to stand with them. i think it's also important to say that the first lady here has essentially devoted a large chunk of her time, her mission as first lady is to be serving military families. this is sort of a theme that she's carried on since the

projected that in addition to health care, higher costs for weapons systems will increase the pentagon budget by about $40 billion over the next five years." congress and current leadership at the department of defense tried to attack these problems, but they have not been successful in changing the prevailing culture yet. for example, after several attempts to change the pentagon's buying approach, which as c.b.o. noted, rarely, if ever, correctly predicts how much a program will likely cost, the weapons system acquisition reform act of 2009 created an office of cost assessment and program evaluation to analyze the cost of new programs and why they fail. it also required the pentagon to keep closer tabs on technology maturity and emphasize testing new weapons before they enter production. as a result of that act, some newer major programs are not making the mistake of relying on overly optimistic cost estimates provided by the contractor or of staking too much -- taking too much production money too early before critical technologies, design drawings and manufacturing processes of stabilized

they passed a $1 trillion budget bill that will pay for day-to- day operations of 10 cabinet departments and warn the pentagon its smallest budget in recent memory. the senate is expected to pass the bill, but a much bigger battle could be ahead. more ahead on that on abc7 news at 6:00. >>> a baby jesus disappeared this week from a nativity scene in fredericksburg, but it is back. it disappeared on tuesday night but the figure is back and police are asking questions. we are in fredericksburg with the details. >> it is not the first time this has happened. the baby jesus was taken back in 2005 and they put cement in the figurine helping it would not happen again. tuesday night the baby jesus was taken again and they used social media to get it back. after being stolen from this spiritual seen earlier this week baby jesus is back in front of this busy shopping center tonight. >> i'm glad they put it back in place. i am flabbergasted they would take it. >> the recovered it from my home in spotsylvania county. they believe the suspect, a 25- year-old woman, took the figure tuesday night and posted a picture of th

the spending plan hikes pentagon and health care budgets but cuts homeland security. it is nicknamed the mega bus. >> will the going to be a little while before we realize we are on the bus or have been thrown under it. >> it is important that we celebrate the bipartisan nature of this big. >> now lawmakers will turn their extension to extending the payroll tax cut. a two-month extension is likely but includes a fast track of the keystone oil pipeline, something that president obama vowed to veto if it is included. >>> the two former ceos of fannie mae and freddie mac are hit with allegations of fraud from the securities and exchange commission. the s.e.c. says daniel mudd and richard syron tried to cover up the extent of the subprime mortgages that they were involved in. fannie and freddie collapsed in 2008 leaving the taxpayers with a $150 million bill. >>> five virginia college students accused in a hazing death will avoid jail time. samuel harris mason was found dead in october of last year. investigators say he was forced to drink while pledging a fraternity. fiv

budget. that happened, and now general dempsey says you cannot afford to cut it further without imposing other national security problems on ourselves. >> the pentagons $700 billion per year and is already facing $400 billion in cuts over the next eight years. but the federal budget crisis means that the team sent to run the military this summer is now being threatened with the same again or even more, prompting the defense secretary to raise the specter of a hollow military. >> it is a ship without sailors. it is a brigade without bullets. it is in error wing without enough trained pilots. it is a paper tiger. >> the press has started in about -- >> this new threat to the pentagon arises because of the gridlock in congress over the budget deficit. many republicans say the military must be scared, and democrats say they must share the pain. but the point is, the consensus that funded president bush's wars has gone and threats to defense spending and a part of the negotiating process. if the budgetary pressures are intense, what about the consequences in the wider world? in iraq, the minute final u.s. withdrawal has been blamed, in part, by some crit

it trims most domestic agencies and awards the pentagon the smallest budget hike in recent memory. >> a big improvement in california's job market. it fell to 11.3% in november. that is the lowest since may of 2009. down from 11.7% since october. the employment development department says they added another 6800 jobs last month. still two million people remain out of work in the state. >>> a south bay couple is in police custody accused of rent fraud. an unusual story here. timothy august and monica peretta is charged with several counts. they say they swindled landlords out of income. they rented the homes with no intention of paying rent. >> they misrepresented themselves from head to foe. they said they were married, they weren't. that wasn't important but they said many other things, like they had good credit. showed me two falsified credit checks. >> the couple is expected of carrying this fraud out on six occasions that was a windfall of $30,000 in unpaid rent. >>> barry bonds is avoiding prison time after a federal judge sentenced him for obstruction of justice. he is placed on

it clears most domestic agencies and awards the pentagon the smallest budget hike in recent memory. they have also agreed to extend social security payroll cuts and jobless benefits for another two months. >> barry bonds is avoiding prison time after he was sentenced yesterday for obstruction of justice. bonds is placed on 30 days house arrest and two years probation. he is also ordered to 250 hours of community service and pay a $4,000 fine, allful which were suspended while his lawyers appeal his felony conviction. more from abc7s vic lee. >> he lives in a wonderful multimillion-dollar mansion in beverly hills. many defendants would be happy to serve home detention there. >> investigative reporter lance williams who wrote a book on the balance -- balco drug scandal is referring to this mansion where he may be unhouse arrest for 30 days. >> barry, how are you feeling going in right now? >> good morning, hora doing? >> pretty good. >> prosecute course believe it's not much of a punishment for the superstar who was also put on probation for two years and ordered to perform 250 hours

it trims most domestic agencies and awards the pentagon the smallest budget hike in recent memory. they have also agreed to extend social security payroll cuts and jobless benefits for another two months. that floor vote also expected today. >> barry bonds is avoiding prison time after he was sentenced yesterday for obstruction of justice. bonds is placed on 30 days house arrest and two years probation. he is also ordered to 250 hours of community service and pay a $4,000 fine, all of which were suspended while his lawyers appeal his felony conviction. more from abc7s vic lee. >> he lives in a wonderful multimillion-dollar mansion in beverly hills. many defendants would be happy to serve home detention there. >> investigative reporter lance williams, who wrote a book on the balco drug scandal is referring to this mansion where he may be under house arrest for 30 days. >> barry, how are you feeling going in right now? >> good morning, how are you doing? >> pretty good. >> prosecute course believe it's not much of a punishment for the superstar who was also put on probation for two y

it also fills in details of the budget tax reached last summer that holds the pentagon to the smallest increase in recent memory. and poses modest cuts on most domestic agencies. >>> in the philippines, devastating flash floods are being blamed for more than 400 deaths. many of the victims were asleep friday night as flood waters triggered by a tropical storm tore through homes and villages. piles of debris were left in the wake of the storm. survivors waded through swollen rivers and flooded streets to reach safety. >> occupy wall street protesters have been arrested in two cities. new york city police arrested 50 people today after they breeched in an attempt to occupy a vacant lot. additional arrests were made as protesters marched in midtown. wall street occupiers have been looking for a new place to set up camp since they were ousted. and in raleigh, north carolina, six protesters were arrested as they are blocking a downtown street and refusing to move. >>> half dozen occupy des moines activists setting up a camp outside president barack obama's campaign headquarters in iowa and

involvement in the international organization and efforts to flash budgets, non pentagon, foreign policy, there is a real capacity problem and you that permeates a lot of policy-makers. it's a real impediment. the second, the big challenges that they will agree that there is only a political solution. they agree its initiation that is required, but they have the belief that you can only negotiate from a position of strength, and you only get to that position by bringing the taliban to the issue the table. >> did you can negotiate with their right now because they don't want to come to the table. you have to basically beaten to the table. that is a very widely held position, and one that permits a lot of the decision making that takes place in d.c. >> well, i think that is an accurate description of reality, and i acknowledge it. i don't know how you deal with that exactly. as i mentioned, you know, american is true in the worst of. the british have had also humiliations. we have negotiated the end of so many wars. was a very successful. northern ireland more recently. so, you know, yemen

the move comes after the pentagon slashed the budget for the mission. forces left on the border will shift their focus from grand patrols to areas surveillance using military helicopters and planes. troop reductions begin next month and a smaller force will likely remain through the end of 2012. new federal rules limiting mercury emissions from coal plants with you not liked. the environmental agency says it will combat toxic air commissions. we have the chairman of the committee on energy and power. he joins us now. hi, congressman. >> hello, good afternoon to you. alisyn: the epa is announcing new regulations to limit mercury basically from spewing into the environment. that sounds like a good thing. why are you opposed to it? >> well, first of all, that is not actually the case. there are already strict regulations relating to mercury emissions. all of the hearings we held on this utility regulation indicated that overwhelmingly the benefits would come from reduced par particula par particulate matter, not mercury at all. the epa is being misleading

a time when budget pressures and austerity mean that they're going to be some changes in the pentagon budgetlittle weeks and reporting, we have the sense that secretary panetta and the white house worked with you on the combat commanders to shape that budget. one of them seems to be a reduction in ground forces. on the expectation that large- scale counterinsurgency is of the time we fought in iraq and afghanistan are not likely. and the president could not have been clearer in asia, we're not going to cut a share. so -- cut asia. so you have been in this process, what is the shape of this budget? are the league's i am describing, do they have the contours' about right? are there issues were still worried about is you put the budget doctrine to bed? >> leaks in washington? well, that is something with which i am not familiar. let me say something about the process, first of all. it is important to understand the context and through my willingness to do so, we can get into greater election bid appeared the prospect has been quite encouraging to me. at the president's direction and with secret

boiled down, though, he's mainly about cutting taxes and spending, including pentagon spending and cutting all of the foreign aid budget foreign aid is taking money from poor people in this country and giving it to rich people in poor countries. >> reporter: do you think the depth of the economic crisis has made people more open to ideas like yours and that has resonateed with the public? >> absolutely. they realize the necessity of understanding this. >> reporter: but doubts about his electability have dogged paul for years and have not gone away. faye brown heard him speak in des moines. >> i may vote for him but i'm worried that he can't get the nomination. and so it's like am i going to throw my vote away. >> reporter: how do you convince people that you are worth the vote? >> continue to do what i've been doing. i've done this for a lot of years. >> reporter: he sure has, scott. ron paul first ran for president back in 1988 as a libertarian party candidate. then four years ago as a republican challenger. now, however, paul believes his time may have come. >> pelley: three weeks to the caucus. thank you, dean. the

the other republican presidential candidates, he does -- as you just noted -- addresses pentagon spending. his budgetplan -- arthel: okay, okay, sir, mr. hunter, you know what? >> costs $1 trillion. arthel: we've heard that a lot, and that's not what i asked you. specifically, i wanted to ask you about this story that's in the news today, and you're here as a surrogate for the congressman, and i wanted to know specifically seeing that his critics claim he's weak and perhaps dangerous on foreign policy, i want to know how you would handle in the tenuous situation that's taking place right now? >> well, any potential threat that iran would actually pose to the united states or our interests in that region would be met. the question we're not asking, you're not framing the question correctly, are our interests at risk? that's the question we don't ask often enough. arthel: well, it's not so much in this case, sir. excuse me. the question right now is not are our interests at risk. if question is, as you know, ahmadinejad is right now showing and flexing his muscle as he always does, and congressman paul

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. >> the spending bill includes day-to-day budgets for ten cabinet departments. it gives the pentagon a small increase. >>> california senator barbara boxer joined the president in supporting a yearlong extension of the payroll tax cut paid for by a new tax on wealthy meshes. she said quote we should extend these priorities by asking millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share because those offsets won't dampen economic growth. >>> a new poll shows growing discontent with president obama. the associated press poll shows 52% of adults say the president should be voted out of office. when he was matched against the two republican front runners. mr. obama had a 1% lead over mitt romney and 9% lead over newt gingrich. >>> a historic peninsula post office could soon be up for sale. the building located on hamilton avenue will be sold as a nation-wide effort to cut costs. the post office sits on prime property. earlier this year a four story building was sold for $64 million or $900 per square foot. the hamilton office will be relocated but with no expected layoffs planned. >>> 7: