the president says he intends -- may be the -- republican senator from mississippi roger wicker, senator wicker, good morning to you. >> good morning, glad to be with you, chuck. do you believe the various controversies of this week are going to derail this effort that seems to be, seems to have been making progress between the group -- trying to get a big budget deal? >> i'm not part of a grand bargain, you were at one, as a part of any deal that the president would sign, that would involve a tax increase. and i can't imagine that this irs scandal and that the irs was going to do anything but pour cold water on the president's attempt to raise taxes as part of a grand bargain, so yes, it will hurt the president in that respect. >> do you think irs in many ways could derail any bigger talk of grand bargain and do you think it could derail tax reform? >> i think it very well might. i appreciate what congressman levin and chairman camp are doing on the house side. let me just say this, chuck, and be clear about it. an ig report from within is not going to be sufficient. it's not going to b

letters containing ricin were also sent to senator roger wicker of mississippi. the operation killed osama bin laden. attorneys who is responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men women and children at 1.1 of the helicopters crashed during the operation. this photo captures the attention and the white house. crews are back to work today. raising the final pieces of the spire to the top of the "one world trade center." crews are back to work today. raising the final pieces of the spire to the top of the "one world trade center."high winds forced crews to postpone the project yesterday. the pieces will be lifted to a temporary work platform.and installed at a later date. the spire will bring the building to a height of 1776- feet. making it the tallest building in the western hemisphere and the third tallest in the world. former pope benedict is returning to vatican city today. he's moving into his new home a small retro-fitted convent. a few yards from the current pope francis. his apartment will include a guest room for his older brother, who is also a

senator roger wicker, as well as an elderly mississippi judge. he is the second person arrested in the case. the first suspect was released without charges after no traces of ricin were found in his house or his car or his workplace but an fbi affidavit released today says the second suspect, the guy who was just arrested yesterday, well, with him they have found traces of ricin at his martial arts studios and items he's alleged to have dumped after sending the letter. and they said the man bought castor beans off internet and castor beans are what you make ricin from. also today president obama held a wide-ranging press conference answering questions on everything from immigration reform, he's mopeful, to syria, he's cautious, and the nba player to came out as being gay. he said he's proud of him. and fox news today asked about the what really happened in benghazi. to that the president responded with confusion. but the thing that seemed to most exasperate president obama today at that aforementioned press conference. >> it is expensive, it is i

with me now, mississippi senator roger wicker who joins us from oxford. senator, thanks for being with us. >> glad to be with you, judge, thank you. >> senator, at what point does this administration totally loss its credibility? >> that may have already passed and by the way, i think you are a little tough on your mom. she might actually do a pretty good job there so. i don't know her but i look forward to meeting her. >> judge jeanine: i was going to say mom i mean no insult when i say you could do a better job. thank you, senator. what we know is the president is saying he is going to let somebody go it was leaving anyway who wasn't there at the time this happened. and what he is going to do is have the person that was in charge run obamacare. what is going on? >> i tell you, the more we he have hearings and the more we bring officials in and about put them under oath and they realize what the consequences are of not telling the truth the more information we will get. we learned some things yesterday we didn't know. we learnd that mr. miller thinks the

i introduced an amendment with roger wicker, a conservative republican, from mississippi, gets 64 votes republican votes. we go to conference and it gets downgraded, if you will, to a study, which -- >> the house didn't pass a provision like that. senate had it in their bill, house didn't have it. >> i had enough champions in the conference to say the sec will do a study, and if conflict of interest exists after this, they have to do something. and the study came out a few months ago, we're having a roundtable tomorrow. this is why i'm on your show tonight, because i've been following that, i've been pushing this for over two years. >> what are the stakes tomorrow? >> well, this still exists, conflict of interest still exists. >> as the study shows. >> as the study shows. now it is time for the sec to act. what we did in our amendment is we set up an independent ward underneath the sec that sec appoints one time, then self regulating after that, for people that do pensions, university endowments, and some people from credit rating agencies and some people from the banking industry and s

threatening letters that were tainted with ricin, not only to the president but mississippi senator roger wicker. they do believe that this letter that was sent to the white house just in the last 24 hours is connected to the letter that was sent to mayor bloomberg. and, again, as i said a few moments ago, mayors against illegal guns, all three of those letters were postmarked shreveport, louisiana. so that is one red flag at this point that they're looking at. but as i've talked to one law enforcement official about this, they're starting to believe -- investigators are starting to believe that there are copycats at work. in the words of this one law enforcement official, people are just getting some bad ideas. >> jim, thanks. i want to bring in deb from new york. deb, you are learning more about the letters sent o e to mayor bloomberg as well as the president, specifically that the threatening language inside the letters. what do we know? >> well, what we do know is the letters appear to have been written by the same reason. and the reason, the motive behind it, apparently anger against effort

the co-sponsor of this bill, lead co-sponsor is roger wicker. republican from mississippi. this passed, this amendment passed in the senate with 64 votes. that's how bipartisan it is. and that's how much support it has. >> yeah. but, i mean, does this just create another level of federal bureaucracy. we know the ratings agencies don't like this. this idea. >> of course, the ratings agencies -- the ratings agencies -- >> what's their reaction? what about the claim it's another layer of bureaucracy. >> the ratings agencies don't like this because they're the ones that profited from the conflict of interest. >> exactly. >> listen, americans lost trillions of dollars. minnesotans lost their pension savings. they lost their jobs. they lost their businesses. they lost their homes. because the credit rating agencies didn't do their job. they have one job. one job. that job is to give accurate, independent credit ratings to these financial packages. >> yeah. >> that's the only job they have. and they didn't do it. >> should we have any faith in these ra

there is a lot of ground to be gained by the republicans on this and we had senator roger wicker on theale li rundown talking about what this means to the obama agenda moving forward. >> i can't imagine that this is irs scandal and the controversy surrounding the overreach and intimidation by the irs is going to do anything but pour cold water on the president's attempt to raise taxes as part of a fwrand bargain. >> so, let's talk about that. how does this really push the progress of what the president has? and there's a very short time before the midterms come up for the president to get anything done, especially when it comes to immigration reform, which people thought we could get done, but even on gun reform and whether or not we can see a grand bargain. >> i think that's absolutely right. when you look at all scandals are not created equal, but when you look at the totality of what we're dealing with and what the white house is dealing with this week, it's clear this is all anyone's talking about. the president can try to talk about immigration reform. there was a major mark up in

a man in mississippi was charged with sending ricin-tainted letters to the capital to senator roger wickersident obama, that case is not believed to be connected to what is going on here. but essentially what they're looking at this point, guys, is that the fbi believes there may be some copycats out there. one law enforcement official telling me "people are getting bad ideas." >> jim, it might be a little too soon to know this because you said the white house is not necessarily reacting to this, but do we know first of all where is the president, what is he doing, whether or not he has been informed of this? and if not, what is the protocol here for dealing with something like this as soon as they do get this kind of information? >> well, suzanne, you know as you've worked here at the white house in the initial hours they're pretty tight lipped about this. and that is the case we're getting this morning. the president did spend the night in chicago. he was in his hometown for a big fundraiser for the democratic congressional campaign committee. he is en route back to the white house today

but roger wicker from mississippi got one of those too. to vote to end the filibuster in the senate on that failed gun control bill. so you're starting to see the dark side of the gun debate. the pro gun side or second amendment side has said we are just peaceful gun owners. but the rhetoric in terms of media, in terms of online, even in terms of the nra itself, whether it's the new president of the nra talking about the war of northern aggression or wayne lapierre going on those rants against the government and making barack obama seem actually dangerous to people, this sort of conspiracy theories are now coming -- i think they're coming to fruition in a really frightening way. you see this violent undercurrent of if you come after our guns, we're prepared to do violence. you've had people say it in youtube rants and now you're seeing a frightening manifestation of it. >> do you have something to say? >> we have to be careful about the connection between these letters and people who are trying to oppose gun control. i mean when a guy with

not just to him but also mississippi senator roger wicker and also to a judge.e earlier cases authorities first arrested the elvis impersonator on the right of your screen but he was later cleared and they arrested the martial arts instructor on the left of your screen who has been in jail without bail for a month. ricin is no laughing matter. it is lethal and the is no antidote. i want to bring in congressman peter king republican from new york and member of the house homeland security committee and the house permanent select committee on intelligence. congressman king, thanks for being here. have you heard anything about this latest letter to president obama? do you believe it is connected to the ones sent to mayor bloomberg and his group? >> well, the investigation is obviously in its early stages but the law enforcement people i've spoken to say that the letters are virtually identical. there was the two to mayor bloomberg, one in new york, one in d.c., and the one to president obama. what i'm being told now is that the letters are identical but, again, it's

dealing with a case which ricin-laced letters were sent to president obama and mississippi senator roger wicker. know indication those cases have any connection to the bloomberg letters but of course authorities and the fbi are now investigating. martha: eric, thank you. bill: happened, what, at the end of last week? maybe that helped the investigation. we'll see. we're getting rolling here. american mother of seven being held in a mexican jail for a drug crime she says she did not commit and now she is talking. >> i was in shock. i'm like, this is not real. this is not happening. bill: how is she holding up today and what happens next in her case? we'll tell but that. martha: plus there are more than two dozen tea party groups suing the irs over the targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny. we'll talk to the president of one of those groups and get their personal story about what they went through. bill: also getting ready for the cancellation notice. why the president's health care law could mean that you could lose your health insurance. >> we have to pass the bill so that you can

they were with mailed to president obama and mississippi senator roger wicker. there is no information that that case or any other so far could be connected to the bloomberg case. this is all right now at this moment under investigation, jenna. jenna: we'll continue to watch for developments, thank you. jon: jury selection begins next week for notorious gangster james white thee bulger's trial. preparations underway for what some are calling the great american mop trial. we are hearing from a arizona mother of seven jailed in mexico right now on drug smuggling charges. her words next. ♪ bonjour ♪ je t'adore ♪ c'est aujourd'hui ♪ ♪ et toujours ♪ me amour ♪ how about me? [ male announcer ] here's to a life less routine. ♪ and it's un, deux, trois, quatre ♪ ♪ give me some more of that [ male announcer ] the more connected, athletic, seductive lexus rx. ♪ je t'adore, je t'adore, je t'adore ♪ ♪ ♪ s'il vous plait [ male announcer ] this is the pursuit of perfection. there was this and this. she got a parking ticket... ♪ and she forgot to pay her credit card bill on ti

senator roger wicker and a local mississippi judge, said did i holland. in a court hearing hearing yesterday for dutschke an fbi agent testified a dust mask like a carpenter might use had his dna on it. they were watching dutschke when they saw him remove items from a martial arts studio he used to own. he watched him walk down the street and throw the items away in the trashcan. the dust mask was one of the those items there is proof that dutschke made three separate online purchases of castor beans. you can't make ricin without castor beans. you may remember elvis impersonator, paul kevin curtis was the first person charged with sending letters and he claimed he was framed. he fingered dutschke as someone who might have framed him. still no word on a motive, arthel. the local magistrate says there is enough probable cause to send the case to a grand jury. not clear when that will happen. meantime james dutschke sits in jail. arthel: bottom line, scary stuff. rick, thank you very much. jon: well, the video doesn't lie and reese witherspoon is apologizing

case is connected to the ricin tainted mail sent to the president and mississippi gop senator roger wicker last month or another case just last week in washington state where fbi agents arrested a man accused of sending a ricin tainted letter to a federal judge. one law enforcement official says it appears copy cats are at work adding some people are getting bad ideas which is why the white house has long had its own special screening facility. >> there have been long established procedures and protocols. any time a suspicious powder is located in a mail facility it is tested. and i would underscore that the mail is screened. the mail sent here is screened and that these tests are undertaken at remote sites to mitigate the risk both to those recipients and to the general population. >> for now investigators are not saying whether this latest suspicious letter sent to the president initially tested positive for ricin. that letter along with the others have been sent off to the joint terrorism task force for further investigation and analysis but we can tell you, wolf, mark glaze with the ma

were sent to several other washington political figures and earlier this year including senator roger wickert to new york mayor michael bloomberg. other news we're following a fire at a transmission shop and oakland happening in the area of 102nd and international boulevard in oakland. will tran is on the scene with details. >> the fire department has secured the building and ashley walked out of the building looking for the owners. fortunately, no one was injured. it started at 8:15 a.m. this transmission shop and it is eight major place around here. one person told me it has been here for 40 years or so. they came in here just minutes after receiving the call, the firefighters said it was so hot they had to send someone up on the roof to punch a hole. no one was injured but because this was a eight transmission shop there were all kinds of chemicals and burning tires. it made it a little difficult. within 30 minutes, they got a fire under control and the investigators are and they're trying to find be cause of the fire. the officers are no longer in the middle of the roadway. the fire depa

my fellow cochair, senator murkowski, and honorary cochair senator mark begich and senator roger wicker and all of our partners are working to stop illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, clean up marine debris and collect baseline scientific data so that we can make informed policy decisions. this is important work. it demonstrates the good we can accomplish when both parties come together, and i look forward to getting it done. but it is not enough. it is not enough. until we address what is causing our oceans to change so drastically, until we protect our planet from carbon pollution unprecedented in human history, we are doing little more than putting band-aids on a gaping and growing wound. mr. president, i want here today to push back on the idea that so many of us seem to have accepted that we can't do anything serious on carbon pollution. in fact, we can, and the tools to do it lie right around us, if only we pick them up and go to work. here is my case, very simply. pricing carbon is necessary. make big carbon polluters pay a fee to the american people to cover the cost of