retired justice david souter was mugged by a group of men in 2004. justice ruth bader ginsburg had her purse snatched while walking near the kennedy center with her husband and daughter. the fbi is in nevis investigating. sources do not believe he was targeted but, rather, the victim of random street crime. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >>> and today is the one-year anniversary of one arab spring uprising that still threatens a key u.s. ally. a year ago today, bahrain's shiite majority rose up. the rulers responded with violence. the country remains deeply lly divided. >>> an american tradition is being embraced by lovers. officially considered an unwelcome and imported western custom, valentine's day is being celebrated by many young iranians. the best part of valentine's day is the chocolate. >> around the world, people get to celebrate a little bit of love. that's cool. >>> time for the weather across the country. a mix of rain and snow from detroit to cleveland, buffalo, pittsburgh, and west virginia. showers from atlanta to jacksonville.

in 2004, david souter on the court was mugged while jogging near his home here in washington.n 1996 ruth bader ginsburg's purse was snapped walking home from the kennedy center. >> pete williams, thanks. >>> president obama unveiled his budget for the upcoming here. this being an election year, the chances of a $3.8 trillion plan becoming law as-is are being judged at just about zero with the fight over taxes and spending grinding on as it has for the past three years or so. our political director chief white house correspondent chuck todd at the white house tonight with more on this. chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. here is what today was, the president's opening bid. how he thinks the government should collect some $3 trillion in taxes and how it should spend $4 trillion. here is what it wasn't, the likely budget. the president conveniently has a swing state in his backyard, and he traveled to virginia to unveil his 2013 budget. >> i will not read it to you. it's long and a lot of numbers. >> reporter: what he did, sounded the same populist theme he's b

retired justice david souter was mugged by a group of men in 2004. ruth bader ginsburg had her purse snatched while walking near the kennedy center with her husband and daughter. tonight, the fbi's in nevis investigating. sources do not believe he was targeted but, rather, the victim of random street crime. >> a startling story to read about today. thank you very much, pierre. >>> we turn now, also in washington, the battle brewing over the president's new budget for this country. he unveiled it today, a record $3.8 trillion ready to be spent. what does this budget have in common with the kind of family budget americans wrestle with around the kitchen table? we asked abc's jake tapper to break it down. >> reporter: the budget the president introduced today is a 200-page way of describing his priorities. >> don't worry. i will not read it to you. it's long and a lot -- a lot of numbers. >> reporter: indeed, a lot of numbers. so, let's try it with numbers more easily understood. removing eight zeros from all the numbers so, say, the $3.8 trillion budge

worried about because he hadn't said that he was going to really stand firm on this he came out to souter noone in said you know what. i'm going to work hard with harry reid to make sure that no amendment about keystone makes its way through. meanwhile to sefton newman the white house issued basically a veto threat to the house transportation bill citing their plans to revive keystone as one of the reasons so. god knows how this will come out if we win in the lifetime run it'll be a minor miracle maybe a kind of major miracle but what we're showing today is that the environmental movement has found its voice again anyone who thought it was kind of graying into irrelevance is wrong in twenty four hours all the environmental groups in the country working together have managed to produce a real groundswell. were able to show what it is that we care about and how passionately we care about it and the biggest reason of course for that is simply that the impact on the planet's climate we have not been able to get serious legislation through washington i'm addressing the climate crisis for twent

justice david souter was once mugged in washington. was the target of a racially motivated threat. and someone fired a bullet through the window of judge harry blackman. >> some motivated individual that is determined, he or she, they have -- there is a potential that they could get to one of our public figures, yes. >> experts say justices at the federal district court level often face greater threats than supreme court justices because they deal firsthand with the criminal element. they point to the case of district judge joan leftco who found her husband and mother shot to death inside her home in chicago in 2005. the assailant was believed to have been someone who had a lawsuit dismissed by the judge. so are top judicial figures being adequately protected? that's an answer we don't have tonight. >> we don't. brian todd, thank you very much. back to this hour's top story, whitney houston's funeral services. up next, a unique look at one of her most famous songs. for a limited time, passages malibu will be giving away free copies of

would note that while some of the justices have taken a position against this, i t was former justice souter that said it was over his dead body that it would be televised. the newer justice, particularly justice kagen, took the position that she thought they should be televised and under the bill that senator durbin has drafted, the fact that five justices are against it at this point, i too would mean that at any hearing, they could actually vote to not have it televised. it would immediately not be televised. on the other hand, times will change. as you see new were justices coming on, they are going to start having different views. we also have the fact that this is what i really do not get -- a release and audio of the proceeding a few days later. you might get it a few days later. maybe they do it the same day. this is something that justice roberts implemented and was an improvement on what used to happen which is that sporadically, they produce an audit -- they would release an audiotape. the step between audio and video does not seem to be a major step to me. it is making it more av

also during his presidency he nominated david souter and clarence thomas to the supreme court and signedties act into law. >> the ada ensures employers covered by the act cannot discriminate against qualified individuals with disability. >> he believed in handwritten notes developed bonds of trust and cooperation. it is easy to get on the phone and talk to someone. >> president bush the former u.n. ambassador and emissary to china would routinely call his counterparts. >> he would say why don't we give a call to the president x. the reaction was positive. it made my job infinitely easier. >> president of france known to be a stoic very formal individual and the reagan administration had had a hard time getting a thaw in relations with france. president bush invited the president of france to his home no neck ties and very informal. it helped them improve dramatically the relationship with france. >> he invited other foreign leaders to maine an example of bush's style of personal diplomacy. the real test of his diplomacy came when eye rack's sadam hussein invaded kuwait. >> when sadam fir

the most important thing is to nominate an exceptionally well-qualified person to replace justice souter. women make up half our population but right now hold only one seat out of nine. this is out of balance. in order for the court to be relevant, it needs to be diverse and better reflect america" and then of course the president nominated sonia sotomayor, and we're very excited about that. so it was wonderful to work with her on that. we worked together on respecting human rights in tibet and led 27 senators in a letter to the clings leader asking that the tibetans be respected. and women in afghanistan, we worked together to ask afghan leaders to revise a law that would legalize marital rape and impose other taliban restrictions on should iite women in -- on shiite women in afghanistan. this is just a partial list of what i worked -- issued i've worked with olympia on. and i will do a longer tribute at a later time. but again, as i heard this, i would filled with sad -- first i was worried about her health. i hoped she was okay and she clarified that she was. she'll always work on iss

retired justice david souter was mugged by a group of men in 2004.nsburg had her purse snatched while walking near the kennedy center with her husband and daughter. the fbi is in nevis investigating. sources tell us police do not believe breyer was targeted but rather was the victim of random street crime. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >>> well, this is a punishment a memphis teenager will not soon forget. her family forced the 13-year-old to stand on a busy street corner while wearing a sign saying "i steal from my family." they say the teenager stole her mom's debit card to reactivate a cell phone that was cut off as a punishment. >> my niece for the past couple of years quite honestly has been just kind of taking things. it hasn't been anything big, but it never really has to be. >> i didn't think it made any sense. so i just wanted my phone back. >> the aunt says she hopes after this embarrassment the message will finally get through and keep her out of trouble. a little public humiliation. it's our facebook question if you want to go that

david souter was mugged in 2004. ruth bader ginsberg was the victim of a purse snatching.g, authorities are taking another look at supreme court security and, josh, they are thankful that the breyer case did not turn out worse. >> as all we are, too. thank you. >>> big news about your taxes overnight. in a surprise move, republican leaders in the house agreed to extend the payroll tax cut through the end of the year. without demanding spending cuts to pay for it. for the typical family, that tax cut amounts to about $40 per pay check. >>> overseas, rising tensions this morning between israel and iran. a bomb that targeted an israeli diplomat is being called an act of terror by indian officials this morning. israel blames iran for the bomb which injured two people. and for another plot in the country of georgia. today, iran denied involvement. >>> this morning, an iranian man blamed for a series of explosions in bangkok, thailand. four people there were injured. >>> also new this morning, some dramatic new video from syria. take a look. government rockets raining down today

justice david souter was once mugged.is a potential that they could get to one of our public figures, yes. >> reporter: other experts say that justices at the federal district court level face greater threats to their security their supreme court

justice david souter was once mugged.is a potential that they could get to one of our public figures, yes. >> reporter: other experts say that justices at the

in 1996, a man snatched rouge bader ginsburg's purse and then david souter who was on the court was mugged jogging near his home here in washington. matt? >> i'm to assume there is no special security provided for justices of the supreme court? >> reporter: well, that's one thing the court doesn't talk about or the marshal service. i think it's fair to assume there is always more security when they're on official business than they are when they're on vacation. >> pete williams, thank you very much. >>> it's now ten minutes after the hour. >>> president obama unveiled his new budget plan on monday and with this being an election year, his republican rivals were quick to lash out in opposition. chuck todd is the chief white house correspondent. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ann. one giant issue this presidential election may settle is who's going to bear the greatest burden on reducing the large national debt? the wealthiest of americans or government itself and what you had in the unveiling of the budget was presidential populism versus a republican focus on shrinking government

he had impeccable credentials including having khrurpblged for justice -- clerked for justice souter on the supreme court. but delays. my friends on the other side of the aisle applied a double standard to president obama's nominees. they have departed dramatically from the long tradition of deference of home state senators and judicial court nominees. since 1945, the judiciary committee's reported more than 2,100 district court nominees to the senate. of those 2,100 nominees, only six have been reported by party-line votes. only six of the last 65 years. five of those six party-line votes have been by republican senators against president obama's highly qualified district court nominees. just think of that. since 1945 we've only had six party-line votes against district court nominees. five of them against president obama's nominees. in fact, only 22 of those 2,100 district court nominees were reported by any kind of split roll call vote at all. and eight of those, more than a third, have been by republican senators choosing to oppose president obama's nominees. president obama's

and in 2004, justice david souter was assault while jogging. at his vacation home. but according to bloomberg news, justices often go without security at their private homes. >> nevis a well-known resort. a four seasons resort there. >> up next, obama explained, we'll bring in "the atlantic" james bennett and jim fallowes, on the new cover story. >>> keep it right here on "morning joe." today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. dave, i've downloaded a virus. yeah. ♪ dave, where are we on the new laptop? it's so slow! i'm calling dave. [ telephone rings ] [ sighs ] i need a new i.t. guy. [ male announcer ] in a small business, technology is all you. staples easy tech experts are here to help. you must be... ...dave. [

while some of the justices have taken a position against this, i think it was former justice souter that it would be over his dead body that it would be televised. the new word justices, particularly justice kagan, took the position that she would think it should be televised. under the bill, senator durbin has drafted, even though there are five justices are against it, they would vote to not have it televised so it would immediately not be televised if they chose to do that. however, times will change. i think you will see justice is coming on and they will have different views as you can see by justice kagan's testimony. the release routinely and audio of the proceedings a few days later. you do night did it the same day, but a few days later. sometimes they do it the same day. this is something that justice roberts implemented. it was an improvement on what used to happen. now they do it routinely. it is a huge step from the audiotape to videotape and real time does not seem to be a major step. this is simply making it more available to people so they can see their court in action. t