peter doocy has more on what it could mean for the investigation. good morning peter. doug luzader this morning. >> i will answer to anything. this is certainly going to add some fuel to the fire for republicans as far as lois lerner is concerned. this seems to kind of de bunk that idea put forward by the administration that this was a result of the cincinnati irs field office. the e-mails appear to show lois lerner was communicating with counterparts from the department of justice about this idea of going after political groups. here is one of the e-mails dated may 2013 by the judicial watch. doj is feeling like it needs to respond. talking to the irs to see if there are impediments from our side and whether it will do any damage to the irs programs. this was part of an ongoing discussion over whether tax exempt groups would be criminally prosecuted if caught lying about political activity. this is the latest complication for learner herself. the congressional committee already voted to hold her in contempt of congress for her role in alleged targeting of conservative

peter doocy is live with the latest. good morning, peter. >> good morning.ight around noon yesterday everyone trying to enroll for the first time in coverage by the midnight deadline couldn't because they had to take the tools of applying on-line. 100,000 people on the site at the same time they found the bug and needed to fix it. they have unknown visitors into the cue for several hours at the time. the white house says despite all that open enrollment was a success. >> there had been a remarkable story since the dark days of november. >> the people signed up they didn't know how many were previously uninsured something lawmakers say we may never know. >> on the web site they don't ask when people sign up if they have insurance or haven't had insurance before the number one goal is insure the uninsured. they have a banner that the judge said open enrollment is over. they add vise americans try logging in the account. they ran into tech problems or long wait times before the deadline. ainsley? >> peter doocy, thank you so much. >>> in this case it's more lik

get the details on this from peter doocy at the white house.s about the aid from the u.s. >> it's nonlethal military aid so won't kill or wound an aggressive separatists. if you look at the list what the pentagon is sending over to ukraine it reading like something you might see a in camping store catalogue. >> medical supplies, helmets, sleeping mats, and water purification units for ukraine's armed forces, as well as shelters, small power generators and hand fuel pumps for state border guard service. >> so now we wait and see the impact of the nonlethal aid. secretary kerry wants to see within one week some results from the deal that the americans and the europeans cut with the russians. the dole hinges on all side -- the deal hinges on all sides in ukraine laying their weapons down. >> has the president indicated what the u.s. plans to do if things on the ground in ukraine dent improve? >> shep, the president has said many times if things do not dee escalate quickly russia will have a price to pay. he doesn't go into detail how steep the pri

peter doocy has the latest for us from washington. what was the headline, other than that, from the hearing today? >> reporter: gretchen, the big news is in the week and a half since open enrollment ended, 400,000 more americans signed up for private plans on the marketplace. those 400,000 are benefiting from the april 15th deadline for people who had problems with healthcare.gov. and they bring the grand total of new sign-ups to 7.5 million people. but it's too soon to say how big a difference those 7.5 million are going to make in reducing the number of uninsured americans because the health and human services secretary says she doesn't know how many of those enrollees had coverage before. >> there were a lot of plans adjusted to work with the law and there were people transitioned into new plans and given options of new plans. i do not have data to give you right now in terms of who exactly was previously uninsured. >> reporter: secretary sebelius says we're going to get those numbers after insurance companies submit their stats to

peter doocy live in washington with this breaking news. what are we learning in these just released e-mails? >> gretchen, we're learning in great detail the reason why some conservative groups were singled out for possible prosecution while their applications for tax-exempt status were being processed at the irs. so we've got this one e-mail written by lois lerner. it summarizes a phone call with the head of elections crimes at the justice department. and it says this, quote -- "he wanted to know who at irs the d.o.j. folks could talk to about senator whitehouse idea at the hearing that d.o.j. could piece together false statement cases about applicants who lied on their 1024s saying they weren't planning on doing political activity and then turning around and making large visible political expenditures. doj is feeling like it needs to respond." and there is another interesting e-mail in there, gretchen, obtained by judicial watch, initially, where lois lerner writes to someone else at the irs that she cannot prove that anyone on the politi

back to you. >> thank you, peter doocy live in d.c. for us this morning. >>> now out west to the bundy ranch. we have big developments. it's been peaceful to this point, which is great. now they have backed down to say we are going to handle this legislatively and judicially. they owe a million dollars in back taxes but they are not going to stand there at gunpoint. >> they also say they are going to take the 380 cattle seized on thursday. they are going to be releasing those. that's a victory for them, but this is what they said, after 20 years and multiple court orders to remove the trespass cattle, bundy owes the american taxpayers in excess of $1 million. the blm will continue to work to resolve the matter administratively and judicially. we ask that all parties in the area remain peaceful and law-abiding as the bureau of land management and national park service work to end the operation in an orderly manner. there's video of three people being arrested. >> we have pictures from yesterday outside that ranch. this story has garnere

peter doocy is joining us live from washington, d.c. with the very latest. peter? >> reporter: tucker, today ships will try to get a better idea whether or not the pulse signal that searchers picked up under water, one on friday, one on saturday, a little more than a mile apart, did, in fact, come from the boeing 777 that vanished almost a month ago. >> i think the fact that we've had two detections, two acoustic events in that location, provides some promise, which requires a full investigation of the location. >> there are questions now about why the pinging sound came and went so quickly and didn't just keep pinging giving investigators a more precise location, so it's possible that some sort of animal or another ship is making a sound that investigators have confused for a ping from a black box. but these promising pings do have the same frequency a black box does, and that's why this is such an intriguing lead. the equipment being used to pick up pings is moving really slowly through the ocean being towed about 5 miles an hour in an 83,000-plus-square-mile sea

peter doocy following that alarming story out of washington, d.c. what do we know about the suspect? and please bring us up to date. >> reporter: elisabeth, we know his name is booker and he told his friends he's going to commit jihad. he also told his friends goodbye and said some things that made them feel like a deadly plot could happen at any time. that plot is believed to target u.s. soldiers in the style of the 2009 terror attack on fort hood where a gunman killed 13 people and injured 32 others. the focus of the search forç booker also known as muhammad abdullah hassan is the midwest united states, where booker was recruited by the u.s. army two months ago in february. just two weeks ago booker was apparently interviewed by f.b.i. agents in the kansas city division. that interview was march 20, and it is included in the alert now circulating with local police in kansas city and the u.s. military. the purpose of that alert is to make sure our military is on the lookout for booker, ready to respond appropriately. if he shows up somewhere. we s

jon: peter doocy, at the white house. peter, thank you.many police officers have experienced working with real-world crimes. tangible items, physical evidence, if you will, but cybercrime as you know is exploding. in fact in 2012 the internet crime complaint center reported more than 8% jump in damages from a year earlier. resources to fight cybercrime are expensive and out of reach for many local law enforcement departments. morgan wright is security analyst who worked with local law enforcement teams. morgan on the past of this very issue, this story came to us because we saw this crime committed in the state of utah. basically the state of utah, their own department was ripped off to the tune of 2 1/2 million dollars. but local law enforcement found themselves stuck when suddenly the crime seemed to hop states and perhaps hop overseas. >> absolutely. jenna: what is the biggest challenge really facing local law enforcement when it comes to cybercrimes? >> you know, jenna, a few years ago i wrote a couple chapters it as a contributing aut

. >> peter doocy joining us as well. >> time for a look at who is talking.irector michael hayden is talking. >> the sennal intelligence committee voted to de classify a report in the advanced interrogation technique. >> hayden questioned the objectivity of that new senate report. >> he wanted a report so scathing it would ensure an american intentional interrogation would never be permitted. they show deep emotional feels on the part of the senator. i don't think it leads to an objective report. >> while senator fine stein is striking back saying the objective and based on fact and says it will stand on its own merit. >> would you complain if your flight was not on time? surprisingly it turns out less people are making a case of it. loren simonetti joins us now with your details and the other top business stories. i would complain. >> a lot of people aren't like you. more people are traveling by air and they are experiencing more problems. but 78 percent of flights were on time last year and more bags were lost damaged or stolen, customer complaints fell by

. >> peter doocy 4r50live for us. >>> a problem with mid-sized suv. only two popular received top ratings in recent crash tests. >> lor lauren simonetti has tha news. >> two out of 9 tested got top ratings in the insurance institute of highway safety crash test. the chevrolet equinox and gmc terrain. they are both made by general motors. it mimics what happens when the front corner collides with another object like a car or a pole. they are adding safety measures so it can pass the institute test. the kia sorrento and mazda cs 9 honda pilot all rated poor. if your computer is five years old it is running on windows xp operating system. that is more than 12 years old. microsoft will no longer issue security updates. devices like printers and scanners they won't be compatible. who is at risk? computers running xp. it's even in 95 percent of atm machines doctors offices many small businesses many governments so they can have patient and customer information breached users should upgrade as soon as possible. >> there are reports the web giant is looking t

. >> and peter doocy is joining us live from washington, d.c. with all the details. hat can you tell us? >> reporter: i can tell you overnight the president said they need to place new sanctions on russia together as part of the unified effort because president obama says if this becomes the united states versus russia conflict, the impact of the sanctions won't be felt as much. >> oftentimes they are really interested in portraying this through this old cold war prism, when in fact that's not what the issue is here. the issue is respecting basic international norms of sovereignty and territorial integrity. >> reporter: as the conflict between ukraine and russia boils over, the underwater search for malaysia flights 370 continues. and even though millions of dollars worth of american time and equipment haven't produced any tangible results yet, top officials in malaysia are very grateful. >> on this journey, we are thankful for the united states and our friendship. over the past two months, the strength of our relationship has been revealed for all to see. from the da

peter doocy, thanks. >> details about the former clue includ ku klux klan leader.razer glen cross was plotting to bomb the martin luther king day parade back in 2011. one post guard sent to the jail cross said the vast majority agrees with me that you have been set up, framed. cross is charged with murder and federal prosecutors are expected to file hate crime charges in the coming weeks. >>> oscar pistorius in for another day of trial. a forensic expert is challenging how reva got the wounds on the back. pathologist by a ricochet by a blunt hard object. after today's testimony the trial will be postponed until may 5th. >>> a missing malaysia flight goes down to the ocean floor. the robotic blue fin submarine was sent down in waters nearly 3 miles deep. it takes about 16 hours to map the 25 square mile area. some of the search area is too deep for the blue fin submarine. they are bringing more subs that can dive deeper. 14 planes and another 11 ships are also assisting in today's search. >> now to the ukraine a blistering report accuses the obama administration adm

joining us is peter doocy. what can you tell us about the candidate? >> there is a candidate keep your doctor change your senator. monica wege is trying to unseat jeff merckle. oregon is a state where the 160 million web saturday didn't work for several months. she is trying to expose that. her strategy reflects republican priorities going into the mid term. >> it is clear that obamacare is the number one, number two and number three topic. >> the president said his signature legislative achievement should be a selling point to voters in november. >> i don't think we should apologize it. it's a strong good right story to tell. >> wednesday the ballots will go out in oregon's republican primary which will be conducted entirely for the mail. there are four republicans vying we will see if it will be doctor wehby race to go pick up one of the six streets nationwide to take control of the senate. >> beater dos see, thank you, peter. >> also this morning about an hour from now pope frances is set to deliver a special blessing in celebration of easter monday

peter doocy is live krurning the numbers for us. we heard a top official say they plan to hold votes in favor of the affordable care act against vulnerable candidates. fox news poll numbers show if opinion of obamacare is the only difference between two people on a ballot a majority 53 percent will vote for the one who will fight against obamacare. many voters are looking way past november. 51 percent now say 20-years from now obamacare is likely to be viewed as president obama's worst accomplishment. 37 percent have the opposite opinion. it will be deemed as his west accomplishment. then there's a question of what difference it will make in the end? control of congress is on the line and the numbers are a lot closer when voters are asked who they vote for if the congressional election was today. 44 percent say republicans 41 percent say democrats. neither gets the majority and they are statistically tied within the margin of error. maybe this has something to do with it only 15 percent of voters approve of the job congress is doing

peter doocy live in washington with this breaking news. what are we learning i

so how many times has peter doocy been counted? "the l.a.is quoted by the daily mail as saying they looked at a rand study that says just 23% of those who had signed up by monday night had insurance before and only a fraction of them have paid. they say the numberç is 858,000 previously uninsured paid by monday night. that's less than a million who had paid by monday night. charles krauthammer says be dubious of the big number. >> this is a phony number. it's a -- and it's wonderfully precise. these guys go six months without any idea what the numbers are and all of a sudden it is to a decimal point. 7.1, not point two. of course it is meaningless because, a, we don't know how many of them have paid so it is an enrollment number that is not enrollment. but the more important one is how many were previously uninsured. if it turns out that the overwhelming majority of the so-called 7.1 were people who had health insurance,ç liked their health insurance, were renewing their health insurance or got kicked off their health insurance, whose live

there i am with my wife, kathie, and our 1-year-old boy peter doocy.how you have been covering the white house since the reagan administration. >> i will do that. correct me if i'm wrong, it would be a lot less cute if i were chewing on my credential today. this is great right now. streaming on to the south lawn as we speak just about 30,000 of the president and first lady's closest friends meaning mascots and cartoon characters with the kind of costumes that must have made for a long morning at the secret service security check point. children are rolling pastel colored hard boiled eggs across the lawn. there will be story time with jim carey. a shoot around on the president's personal basketball court all part of the themed event "hop into healthy, swing into shape" all part of the first lady's let's move campaign. this is the 136th year they have done this on the south lawn basically since congress said get off the lawn since they were chewing it up on the rotunda. people around us are taking pictures that will be on the mantle for at least 25 years

peter doocy live in washington with a report. >> reporter: when 71-year-old navy veteran thomas breeno mesa, arizona, he wanted to continue getting care from the v.a. hospital because of the -- because the v.a. hospital in brooklyn treated him well. so when breen who has a family history of cancer found blood in his urine, he went to the closest hospital in phoenix. that was in september. he died in november. the v.a. hospital finally followed up with him about an appointment in december, a month too late. here is how her daughter described the treatment. >> horrible care. they didn't give him any respect as a veteran. they didn't help him. >> officials at the phoenix v.a. hospital kept two sets of books so that long wait times were not reflected in their records. now calls are growing louder for the feds to step up and take better care of vets. >> this is just the tip of the iceberg. anybody who follows v.a. these type of paper shuffling happen across the country and vets are aware of it. >> the inspector general is on it and with the quote, veterans can expect to have full faith in

bill: peter doocy, keep us posted on that. martha: the ceo of general motors set to testify on capitol hill. mary barra who has only been in the ce sorks job for a few weeks but has worked for gm for many years will place plenty of questions why it took so long to issue a massive recall tied to defective ignition switches. those problems are believed to be connected to at least 1/2 13 deaths. one of those deaths. one of those vick tapes was amber rose. the ignition key slipped out of the run condition. when she crashed her airbag failed to deploy. amber's mother is vowing to keep up the pressure on gm and the government. >> i contacted them multiple times and i didn't get through the call center. they inform meade they were not interested in what i had. martha: joining me now is republican congressman tim murphy, the chair of the subcommittee that will lead today's hearing. obviously a lot of emotions on all sides really involved in this issue. we heard from the families. we just heard from one of the family members there. but

peter doocy is with us live. what is first on the schedule today? >> reporter: the first thing is for the president to go and see how horrible that mudslide one month ago today that killed 41 people really was. but he's not going just be seeing the damage. reports on the ground are the entire area smells like sewage and it's litters with the splinters remains of homes, cars and toys. there are still 2 people mission. rescue crews are using dogs to inspect the area. we'll hear from the president later on this afternoon during a visit to a firehouse in washington state. bill: how involved has the federal government glen this recovery effort? report report very involved. fema chipped in $13 million. the labor' department, $15 million. the president sign sad disaster declaration. $53 million is a good guess how' it will cost when all is said and done. almost 100 agencies are involved. look ahead the people in the affected area are not in the clear. in a digs to all those who lost loved ones, many lost their homes. state road 530 is completely blocked an

martha: peter doocy is live in washington. what's the top objective at this point? >> reporter: if that pinging sound came from a black box there is a chance it's still making noise continuously. so crews are sailing in different directions at different headings and they are trying to triangulate the wreckage. >> the connections a few days ago were a time of great hope that it had been a significant break through and it was disappointing that we were unable to repeat that experience yesterday. >> reporter: the ocean shield is pulling a towed pinker and it's described the way you would mow our lawn. martha: why aren't they using remote controlled submarines to look for this wreckage? >> reporter: investigators know they heard pings this weekend and now they don't hear them. they don't know if there is even a black box down there at all. >> there have been no further contacts with any transmission and we need to continue that for several days right up to when -- the point at which there is absolutely no doubt that the pinger batteries will have expired. so it will be

our washington correspondent peter doocy is live at the white house with more on this. at is one of the big questions, peter, how high up did this targeting scandal go? >> reporter: jenna, the emails reveal the irs and doj teamed up to brainstorm, they were trying to figure out how severely they could punish conservative groups that were asking for tax-exempt status but at the same time, were very vocally supporting conservative political causes of the so we've got this email from last may, 2013 with, lois lerner summarizes a phone call with a doj official in charge of elections crimes. she writes this. he wanted to know who at irs the doj folks could talk about senator whitehouse's idea at the hearing that doj could piece together false statement cases about applicants who lied on their 1024s saying they weren't planning on doing political activity and turning around and making large, visible political expenditures. now the response to that note written by then acting irs commissioner's chief of staff suggested including in their little brainstorming circle the criminal

peter doocy is live with that in washington. >> there's concern among many common core critics there between catholic schools and public schools if everyone is using the same standards. each diocese needs to determine if the common core is right for them. references say to drug use and social justice in some of the books that were selected for reading lists, they want to make sure their child is not exposed to those themes. pittsburgh catholics against common core, for example, say while this decision may seem practical for catholic schools, it minimizes duty for the whole child in the mind, body and spirit. cardinal newman society says common core just focuses on college prep but they want catholic school students to also learn to live like christ. but so far, 100 diocese across the country out of 195 have decided to embrace some part of common core saying it improves quality and the national catholic educational association is with them. here is why. >> everything that we do, christ comes first. our faith comes first. so whatever standards we use, and we've been using standards for