edward snowden is that the agency reported the phone traffic of the entire un names nation the washington post says documents provided by snowden show the existence of a boy's interception program known as mystic since two thousand and nine. his regular news conference in washington white house press secretary j carney sidestepped questions about the reports. i don't have a response to it except to say that we don't. as a general comment on the specific allegation. four report. this week's revelations increase pressure on president barack obama used repeatedly assured americans that the nsa is in spying on ordinary people who don't pose a threat to national security the washington post has not identified the target country saying government officials worried it could hurt the us but documents suggest that the nse at least has contingency plans to carry out similar eavesdropping operations in other countries an official compared to mystic to a time machine allowing analysts to go back in history to track suspects every move. so the nsa is hard to think that on an unimaginable scale. what is in

well washington post writes at the request of u s officials the washington post is withholding details that could be used to identify the country with the system is being employed or other countries with its use was in vision the benefit of rights based on the nbc's meet the documents as well as last year's secret intelligence budget. their peaceful life countries where the new state program has already been employed. what other countries the report again flight in the face the present obama singing january this year that the high stakes is not spying on ordinary people who don't like pink. us national security. only clear the dust media giant facebook says it has nowhere to be lean monthly users not a lot of beach photos engagement pictures and updates on what you are having for dinner but didn't know facebook as a new program that uses facial recognition to find out if all those faces are in your photos is called the faith of program was developed in house than it claims it can determine which ninety seven percent accuracy whether to photograph faces aren't the same person. they spok

host: we are talking with robert thea, reporter with "washington post." here to answer your questions and take your comments. pennsylvania. our line for democrats. good morning.r: i wanted to discuss means testing, and have further elaboration on what that meant. it has been tossed around in the political world, and i wanted to find out how that is used to address the feasibility of programs and whether they should be cut or not. seen a largee not focus on means testing. by the federal government on your means, how much you make, and that determines how much you qualify for certain subsidies or tax credits. republicans often want to raise the bar for these means -- the threshold for entry into these programs, in order to cut back on spending levels. that is not really part of the discussion right now. we have seen, for example, on social security, the president has declined in this current i,dget to include chained cp which is the way social security benefits are castrated. calculated. it is difficult in an election year to talk about raising the age or t

the washington post reporting powerful insiders are starting talks on fundraising strategy. >>> moreung people are aligning themselves with the democratic party especially since 2006. last year 53% of 18 to 29-year-olds sided with democrats. compare that to 39% aligning with republicans. >>> the gop bid is gaining nationwide attention. all nine states made it harder to vote since the beginning of last year. >>> the city of paris is welcoming the first female mayor. socialist served as deputy mayor for 13 years. in her victory speech, she says she's aware of the challenge that being the first woman mayor brings. congratulations. >>> a real life house of kards scene is unfolding in maryland. producers saying they will not film in this state if they do not get millions more in tax credits. well, now a state delegate is taking a play out of the book and introduced an amend. it would allow the state to seize the production company's property under imminent do main if it leaves. the what's post reports it was quickly approved. >>> house speaker boehner loves green grass. he said so himself

and henry kissinger has an excellent piece in today's washington post about this very thing it's completely ignored the very special and the over the cream as a state and i think the e.p.a. has been far too aggressive the idea of economic sanctions and so forth is simply silly and as we saw and heard from the earlier the enormous economic interests of germany france britain would really preclude economic sanctions while the crisis in ukraine and the way its coverage is affecting the situation right after the break stay with us. the first issue that this government this interim government preoccupied itself which was the future of the russian language in ukraine and at a time when. the country's. government was prepared to take. you know what appears to. many people at least in the west let's say

"the washington post" dan balz put hit the way.system for financing election has become. the scene at vegas at times seemed to take on an air of the ridiculous. and was all focused on one man, sheldon adelson. ken voelg was there. he wrote, as adelson whizzed around his venetian king doll on a motorized scooter he was often trailed by gop operatives, politicians and fellow donors eager to assess his state of mind, advise him on what he should do, or just lavish him with praise and gratitude. ken vogel joins me right now and joshua green, senior national correspondent for bloomberg and business week. made a comeback with all this choose me action. >> this is very emblematic of the new politics where sheldon adelson can and did in 2012 totally up-end the republican party. >> because he kept people in the race who wouldn't be in the race like newt? >> absolutely. so republican elites are nervous that that's going to happen again. so they're pleased to see him inviting out vegas to schmooze with him. >> if you need any reminder who was

the "the washington post" editorial board claiming to take on the issue published a wishy washy politically correct editorial. it only pretends to take on mayor de blasio's efforts to take on charter schools. the post says what mayor de blasio is doing is he is undermining charter schools as though this is a war the mayor has declared on its buildings and not children. those poor children. buildings don't suffer from. this of course children do. of course i have just told the mayor i have seen this firsthand, the importance of a good education, needing children from greta home academy in haiti to my personal tour inside a new york city charter school. why did the "the washington post" even bother to speak out if it uses such weak words in its editorial? maybe so its editorial board can say at some splashy georgetown cocktail party without offending mayor de blasio that it really cares about poor children. why does the "the washington post" refuse to say like it is? mayor de blasio is destroying the future for needy children. that's my off-the-record comment tonight. >>> and this is a fox ne

the pureporting by "the guardia and "the washington post." >> welcome home, mika.s is a juicy debate that is going to play out between now and april 14th when columbia awards the pulitzer prizes. do they go ahead and endorse the reporting by colleagues at the "the washington post" and "the guardian" about edward snowden? clearly the biggest story of the year and you could argue the biggest journalistic story of the decade and president obama and people in the government say these revelations have been very harmful. the justice department almost certainly is going to try to prosecute edward snowden and he is thinking of some sort of plea bargain to bring him home. or pick the government over the journalist and ignore what is clearly the biggest story of the year? back when the pentagon papers came out, the pulitzer board went with the public service award. they have the dilemma, do you give it to "the post" or "the guardian" or both? >> gene? >> i'm a member of the pulitzer board so we don't talk about it. >> in 1972, it seems to me if they take -- they can decide w

finally tonight, factor tip of the day, "the washington post" reporter sally quinn interviewed me aboutubject i don't usually talk about it. we posted it on our website, factor tip of the day you might find it interesting, and please let me know what you think about the interview. that is it for us today. please check out the factor website, different from billoreilly.com. oreilly @fox news.com, brand-new word tonight. if you know what this means, you're good. vootery. thank you for joining us, the spin stops here, >> good morning. it is tuesday march 25th. they are looking for people who are actually buried under mud trees and lots of debris. now a major set back expected to make the devastating toll much worse. >> a free fall from the tolest building in the western hemisphere. the stomach churning video that landed a group of air devils in trouble with the law. >> harry reid once again pointing the finger of blame. lies distorted by republicans. >> and you will never guess what he is blaming the gop for now. "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ wh ♪ >> good morning. you are watch

two gop fund-raisers told the "washington post" adelson spent closer to $150 million.llion to the superpac backing newt gingrich, prolong the gop primary process to the great consternation of the republican establishment which wanted it over. adelson could spend way more than that on a candidate this time around. after all, this is a guy that "forbes" says makes an average of $32 million a day. when you're making that much, what's a few hundred million between friends. >> hey, it's not like these throwing the money away. his latest cause, the scourge online gambling, he opposes for moral reasons, not because it could compete with his own casinos. >> any skeptic could say that i am -- that money is the consideration. money is not the consideration with me. i think it's a train wreck. that's -- it's really toxicity, it's a cancer waiting to happen. >> why would you think money was a consideration for sheldon adelson? adelson and his wife donated more than $15,000 to senator lindsey graham's campaign last year and soon, according to politico, graham plans to introduce a b

let's go back to this piece by robert costa front page of the washington post.photograph of jeb bush in las vegas -- support from the republican business advocates. he was a big supporter in 2012 of newt gingrich. the piece points out that many republicans, the most powerful have begun a behind the scenes campaign to lower jeb bush to run for president. his advisers insisted that he is not actively exploring a candidacy and will not announce a decision until next year. he has traveled the country delivering speeches for republicans ahead of the midterm elections. he is focusing on income inequality and cultivating ties with wealthy benefactors signals that he is considering a run. republican mine -- caller: i have two questions. what is the difference in putin going in and taking over ukraine and the u.s. using eminent domain to take anyone's property they want? my second question -- the sanctions. what good are they when obama is taking them and gives them two weeks notice to move their interests around? tell him that one time in office -- i will have more flex

washington journal" about the president's 2015 budget blueprint with zachary goldfarb of the "washington post." going outside of washington to get your take on what the president is proposing to congress. dan in tulsa, oklahoma, republican caller. go ahead, dan. workr: i have a relatively seven days a week. he makes a lot of money, but when i was working in the oil, in the refineries and stuff in the unions, a lot of guys get paid double time on holidays and weekends and overtime, you know, like time and a half, and then they would not show up monday and tuesday. 40%.uld be, like, 30%, to you can tax the rich if you want to, but if you look at a history lesson, the only thing that brought down the roman empire was taxing the rich. think about that. host: all right, dan. sue in illinois. democratic caller. caller: well, the roman empire was a long, long time ago and things have changed substantially since the roman empire. we do not live in rome, we live in the united states. we want the people taxed at that are rich. they are not hurting. the wall street's as they're not hurting. says they ar

joining us today, robert mccacartney, columnist at the "washington post." michael martinez, producer of the "kojo nnamdi show." and the "politics hour." and michael neibauer, reporter for the "washington business journa and one of our regular contributors. welcome to you all. mimichael martininez, let me stt with you becse you all have the poll that was fresh out of ga thagot a lot of attention. >> we were interested to see how the guilty plea would affect these candidates. what w we found most t interestg is that muriel bowser r was told running in aially deadeat and that was corroborated, we fou the vincent gray actually have a very rocksolid base of support that keeps them around 26%, 27%, and he is not likely to lose any more voters an that. >> it seems to h have lidified for the mayor. 27% vincentowser, gray, 14% undecided, , and the rest of the candidates taking the remaining f field. he "washington post" came out tn march 25 with a pol we will take a look atat that. ♪ >> welcome back. military experience can be invaluable, especially in this region. o

. >> you know, it's sort of interesting to say that the "the washington post" editorial board online had an editorial yesterday about president obama and they described his foreign policy. they used the word fantasy. that seems to be a dee dee par temperature from what this editorial board thought of the president until this point that. >> could even be the understatement of the year it seems to me that the immediate task to respond to your question, greta, task is to recognize that the mission must coalition. the coalition cannot determine the mission. and the mumblings and chatterings about the u.n. and the international community are really is a misunderstanding because what you have to do is decide -- we know that the international community is only words. what needs to be done is to fashion a coalition, based on a specific mission. the mission has to be to put maximum pressure on the russian federation and putin, pressure of all type. and it has to be only the countries who agree with that and you are not going to get the u.n. to agree to that obviously. so, the thing we have go

finally tonight, factor tip of the day, "the washington post" reporter sally quinn interviewed me abouton't usually talk about it. we posted it on our website, factor tip of the day you might find it interesting, and please let me know what you think about the interview. that is it for us today. please check out the factor website, different from billoreilly.com. oreilly @fox news.com, brand-new word tonight. if you know what this means, you're good. vootery. thank you for joining us, the spin stops here, we're looking out for you. >>> breaking tonight, australia's search for the missing malaysia airlines plane just called today due to bad weather. while around tell world the questions are mounting. in the wake of the prime minister of malaysia insisting today that flight 370 went down in the sea with no survivors. welcome to "the kelly file," everybody, i'm megyn kelly, hours ago, malaysia's prime minister devastated family members declares once and for all that flight 370 crashed into the end ocean. there were lots of questions he did not answer, but here is somewhere of what he did

has a the washington post.ith that background he is joining us live on the phone from "the washington post." let's begin on the immigration issue because that is likely to be front and center when the president meets with pope francis on thursday. what can we expect? pope may have a more social agenda than previous leaders of the church probably had. the white house is kind of trying to capitalize on that or build a bridge there. the president recognizes some of -- thengs the pope did pope was talking about are things the white house was talking about. take a moret could humane approach to his immigration policies and deportation. this has been a big issue and a tough position for the white house. the president has been talking about the comprehensive immigration reform and providing citizenship for these illegal immigrants. his administration has deported more people than any previous administration. pointrying to make the that republicans are enforcing the law. people wanted to go further. agenda with on the

the washington post has not identified the targets country, saying that ever met officials worry that could hurt the u.s., but the documents show the nsa at least had contingency plans to carry out similar eavesdropping operations in other countries. >> journaling -- german chancellor angela said that they must take a united stance against the russian annexation of crimea. there is no place for moscow in the g-8 group of industrial nation. >> as long as there is no political environment for a for him like the g-8, neither the summit or the g-8 formats exist any longer. >> her position has the backing of the vast majority in parliament, but the left party accused her of likely following washington's lead and called sanctions against russia a mistake. >> u.s. president barack obama announced extended sanctions to include a bank and 20 figures close to russian president vladimir putin. --cow to missed the dismissed the move and retaliated with sanctions of its own against leading american politicians. >> on thursday an indian court convicted a group of men of carrying out two gang rapes

the washington posts has a sobering answer.article profiles chris young, a 37-year-old who builds nissan cars in tennessee. the only thing is he doesn't work for nissan. he works for yates services, an in house contractor who's hired thousands to ramp up production as people start buying vehicles again. young represents what may be the new norm in american manufacturing. since young is a temp worker he has no job security, no sick days, and can't refuse overtime. recompares his job to that of a typical nissan employee saying, bob is able to lease a vehicle. i cannot. long term disability, bob gets that. i do not. i can provide this much for my family when i die. bob can double his base but bob and i are on the same line busting our butts. nissan would not confirm how many workers are are contract workers, but the advantage of going with a temp agency is clear. fewer benefits, lower wages, and a flexible number of employees. this trend of contract workers is happening across the country. the number of temp workers is at an all-t

finally tonight, factor tip of the day, "the washington post" reporter sally quinn interviewed me about i don't usually talk about it. we posted it on our website, factor tip of the day you might find it interesting, and please let me know what you think about the interview. that is it for us today. please check out the factor website, different from billoreilly.com. oreilly @fox news.com, brand-new word tonight. if you know what this means, you're good. vootery. thank you for joining us, the spin stops here, we're looking

i want to go back to condoleezza rice's piece in "the washington post."he says -- she goes on to write -- it is very interesting how putin displayed young dakota jazz his man. kovacic as hisna man. putin, in his press conference, --is finished. yana kov i don't think that is going to play very well today. the affront to russia suggests that russia has some sort of interferinght in with the sovereign affairs with a country. it is not simply how the postcolonial war works. he is expressing imperial thoughts, he has some sort of national right to represent the russian speakers in ukraine. russianause they are speakers does not mean they aren't ukrainian. just because he seems to think he represents russian speakers does not give him the right to interfere with the internal affairs of a sovereign nation. you said mr. putin was distracted, do not see this coming. did the united states see it coming yet go -- see it coming? guest: i don't think we saw it either. the debate begins three months ago in the run-up to the signing of the eu association agreement. bel

dd has this -- also this time -- this story inside "the washington post was quoted as the story continueso develop off the indian ocean ash co-asshington post come the story continues to develop off the indian ocean -- this is from "usa today." joining us from castleton in new york, welcome to the program. caller: thank you for taking my call. the big this idea on the table. -- let me put this idea on the table. we countered russia in the cold war was really built -- was we be built germany and japan and made them economically viable. i think we can target imf money to ukraine to build a seaport. .kraine borders the black sea we can give them a world-class seaport, which would counteract whatever putin is doing. it would show the rest of the russians that dealing with europe and the west on an economic basis leads to a better life. host: that seaport is in crimea. crimea is a peninsula. the rest of the ukraine borders on the black sea. we will see if our producer can pull it up. have the imfu targets that money towards infrastructure, distribution routes, and have nato start to train and

former "washington post" ceo donald graham on his new initiative for the dreamers. >> i can help them, low income kids get to colleges is about as good as it gets. >> all right now on "fox news sunday." >> hello again from fox news in washington. we're now in the week three in the search for ma lash why airline flight 370. and potential leads keep coming. but so far none have led to that missing jetliner. malaysia says it's now received satellite images from france offering the latest sign of the potential debris in the indian ocean. planes and ships search a remote stretch of water. some are looking for a palette spotted from the air saturday. so far, they turned up nothing. joining us with the latest, fox news national community jennifer griffin. >> when the air france flight went down off the coast of brazil in 2009, first sign of that plane was a wooden palette plated. they are used inside plane's cargo containers. search continues to focus on the southern corridor. australian officials add malaysian airlines to provide them with a packing list. the french satellite shows objects

according to the washington post, this sophisticated system can replay phone calls up to a month afterhey happen. the most goes on to say mystic is deployed in at least one country. >>> looks like that a flu sa case to settle with the victim 's families. the family will pay the undisclosed amount. >>> president barack obama will announce the march madness bracket on espn as he does every here. he's expected to also make a push for the affordable care act. the 16th sweetest reasons to get the covered campaign to get americans signed up before the march 31st deadline. >>> in disney world, presented with the freshest fish they had seen. the tank sprung a leak sending customers running. been there. the best tables are right around that. that's what you get. >>> time to get down to business. federal reserve chief janet yellen wraps up a two day meeting. many are expected to increase $65 million to $55 billion. >>> rapid excel ration problems in some of the cars, toyota will pay $1 billion and doj won't prosecute as long as they make improvements. >>> amazon will roll out to compete with app

los presidenciables del partido republicano para los comicios de 2016, seqala el diario "the washington postun el diario, esto porque algunos liders conservadores estan preocupados por el impacto que el escandalo "bridgegate", relacionado con el cierre parcial en septiembre del puente george washington, pueda tener sobre el gobernador de nueva jersey chris christie. los asesoresde bush insisten en que no esta explorando activamente la posibilidad de preentarse y que no tomara una decision hasta finales de este aqo. tendremos el resultado y las mejores jugadas del superclasico de la liga mexicana de futbol entre las chivas y el america. inauguran en china uno de los acuarios que ya figura en el li contando...ya solo faltan 74 dias para el mundial de futbol brasil 2014 con una gran actuacion del colombiano luis gabriel rey, que anoto en dos oportunidades, el america goleo a domicilio 4-0 a las chivas rayadas del guadalajara, en una edicion mas del clasico del futbol mexicano. en apenas un cuarto de hora los dirigidos por antonio mohamed sentenciaron el encuentro gracias a las anotaciones de re

washington journal" about the president's 2015 budget blueprint with zachary goldfarb of the "washington post going outside of washington to get your take on what the president is proposing to congress. dan in tulsa, oklahoma, republican caller. go ahead, dan. workr: i have a relatively seven days a week. he makes a lot of money, but when i was working in the oil, in the refineries and stuff in the unions, a lot of guys get paid double time on holidays and weekends and overtime, you know, like time and a half, and then they would not show up monday and tuesday. 40%.uld be, like, 30%, to you can tax the rich if you want to, but if you look at a history lesson, the only thing that brought down the roman empire was taxing the rich. think about that. host: all right, dan. sue in illinois. democratic caller. caller: well, the roman empire was a long, long time ago and things have changed substantially since the roman empire. we do not live in rome, we live in the united states. we want the people taxed at that are rich. they are not hurting. the wall street's as they're not hurting. says they arer

and wants "the new york times" or "the washington post" to publish that manifesto. and if, in fact they do, the fc will desist from committing terrorist acts. >> two months later, the unabomber sends a 35,000 word manuscript to "the new york times," "the washington post," and bob guccione at "penthouse" magazine among others. it becomes known as the unabomber manifesto. >> there were many people that thought the unabomber manifesto was a red herring. i had agents come to my office saying we're wasting too much time. we need to stick with forensics and known facts. >> most people in the fbi never even read the manifesto. the popular opinion was that it was nonsense, it was just scribbling. >> the media and the fbi are faced with a dilemma. publishing the manifesto could be seen as giving in to terrorist demands. >> the last thing we wanted to do is set a precedent that we would be blackmailed into publishing terrorist manifestos. because every terrorist could come out of the woodwork and decide, this is nice. we'll try this too. >> attorney general janet reno called

welcome. >> glad to be here. >> the washington post, you're still writing a column.as it changed today? >> not a change, whatever. it is syndicated to other papers. when i first started writing, charlie, i wrote from home and my column went to the post by motorcycle. by carrier pigeon. [laughter] >> then you emailed it in. >> yes. you switched from abc to fox, why? then the show that i was on on day one -- >> and that was with david brinkley -- >> yes. that moved to new york. george stephanopoulos. superb talent and wit, but i got a little weary of saturday night to new york. nothing against you. >> i can guarantee we can give you a better time with saturday night in washington. that is a debate, i guess. but washington is interesting. if you came to new york, i would take you to a restaurant. the violet washington, it would be entertaining in my home, depending on the level of my friendship. illinois is your home. your father was a professor. >> a professor of philosophy. >> what was the great divide between being a cardinals fan and a chicago fan? >> good sense. [l

that's the big headline in "the washington post" today.e kentucky senator is taking a possible presidential run in 2016 seriously. the latest cnn/orc poll shows him leading the field, although the lead is slim. and over the weekend, he won his second straw poll at the northeast republican leadership conference in new hampshire. his first win was at cpac. meantime, his main competition, certainly on the right, senator ted cruz, is back in iowa for the fourth time in eight months today, with two events. another strong signal he is at least thinking about running in 2016 too. i want to bring in our strategist, angela ry. joe watkins is a former george h.w. bush white house aide. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> so, joe, rand paul has won two straw polls. he's topping the latest 2016 poll. so to chris cillizza's point, does he need to be taken seriously now? >> clearly, he's somebody to be taken seriously. winning these polls early on means a great deal and he's got a strong following. it still is early, though, chris. remember, there

that's from the washington post.ies, a big change in the search for the missing malaysian airliner. the crash area has shifted some 680 miles to the northeast. this after some new analysis of radar data. it has been three weeks since the boeing 777 vanished with 239 people on board. >>> new images show the aftermath of the washington mudslide. this morning, the death toll has risen to 17 with the latest confirmed victim a 4-month-old baby girl. searchers will resume their work at sunrise there. >>> and a new high for obamacare. the white house says more than 6 million people have now signed up for coverage under the health care law. open enrollment for most americans ends monday. >>> and this next piece of video is dedicated to those who just can't stand one more second of winter. it is still cold across much of this country, so students in northern michigan are trying to jump start spring. by burning an effigy of childhood favorite frosty the snowman. no word yet if the burn had any -- >> that's a good job. >> no, n

. >>> it is time now for your first look at politics with washington post david knack uemu uemura. what do you make of the u.s.'s handling of the situation so far? >> veronica, it's a tough test for president obama. somewhat unexpected. it's sort of caught the u.s. off guard by their aggressive action in crimea. president obama and the white house stressed over and over in several conference calls and statements that they're using all diplomatic avenues and looking at all economic possibilities to put the pressure on russia and isolate them. that will take time to put the pinch on, freeze russian assets, withdraw from the g 8 summit. which is supposed to be in sochi. that will take time. right now they're trying to figure out how to get russia to make a withdrawal, figure out how to replace russian troops with some sort of international forces or protect russian interests there. it's something the president doesn't have a lot of good military options. >> let's talk about leverage. does the u.s. have any leverage here in negotiations at all? >> not really. the problem is this is not

we have a few more minutes with robert costa of the "washington post." michael is in alabama on our line for independents. are you with us? caller: yes, sir. how are you doing? host: good. you are on with robert costa. caller: i have a couple of questions about this budget. i am not a republican, not a democrat. i am for who has the best policies. you talk about cutting spending, ,hat about all of the pork sending money overseas to feed these people? my uncle jerry made a comment -- sadid it is said we we live in the richest nation in the world, and we cannot even feed all of our people. you have harry reid calling american people liars. i hate to be him in nevada when i go up for reelection. let's stop spending money overseas and bring it home for a change. host: when you bring up overseas spending, is there other pork spending? caller: i saw a thing where they shrimp spent [indiscernible] a treadmill. look at theyou amount of spending being done with programs across the country from federal dollars, republicans will try to seize on that with the ryan b

the planned extension first reported by the washington post comes six days before the deadline to enrolll marketplace or face a government fine. now, under the new loophol

there was, i thought a sad article in the "washington post." i mean, it was about people who would go on to college and couldn't get jobs going back to trade school to learn how to be electricians and plumbers and things like the. there's nothing sad about being an electrician or a plumber. in fact, i was talking to a fellow law professor a few to go about an article about the exploitation of the working class and his response was, i might find that persuasive if i hadn't seen my electrician's house. [laughter] being an electrician is good work. there's no reason why a smart person can't be an electrician. the sad thing for these people is that going to college and run up debt before deciding to become plumbers or electricians. they would've been better off if they just skipped the college stage intoned but according to the article, guidance counselors and high school don't want to tell smart people they should skip college. smart people make better electricians. so i don't know if it's so bad. electricians make good money. people and skills tr

also "washington post" columnist and former george w. bush speech writer, michael. as well as cbs news state department correspondent margaret brennan. when you left, we're going to give you time to go back and get on the phone see if you can sort this out. have you found out anything more? >> they're trying to figure this out at the white house and here in washington right now. what we heard earlier today from the russian foreign ministry that there is now this broader conversation about finding diplomatic solution through constitutional reform. that is different from what the message sent very clearly by the kremlin at the same time which was, we're not changing our foreign policy. this referendum still happening in crimea today we're going to recognize the results of it. and basically putin saying we're not backing down. we'll continue to talk diplomatically what lavrov told kerry today, the secretary of state here. it looks like there is a broader conversation right now. but it doesn't look look there's an immediate halt in any way. >> schieffer: do you think it

the washington post reports thompson is close to reaching a plea deal. january our own bruce johnson was the first to report prosecutors were prepared to indict thompson. at that time sources told bruce thompson's attorneys were arguing for misdemeanor charges while the u.s. attorney insisted on felonies. the timing of this news is interesting since d.c.'s mayoral primaries are less than a month away. mayor vincent gray is said to be fighting for his political life. >>> the army investigating a top sex crimes prosecutor oval allegations he groped a woman at a conference on -- over allegations he groped a woman at a conference on sexual assault in alexandria. the revelations came on the same day the u.s. senate was considering whether to strip military commanders of their authority over sex assault cases. >> people who do not trust the chain of command are the victims. >> you're indicting the whole chain of command here accident folks. that's why i'm so -- command here, folks. that's why i'm so emotional about this. >> the senate came up five votes short

dana milbank is a columnist for "the washington post." and jonathan capehart is an opinion writer, also with "the washington post" and an msnbc contributor. gentlemen, this was something. this week went really far right. >> it's always a bit of a circus at cpac when they come to town. and of course everybody is under pressure on the right to provide all the red meat. but this did go further. this was the time when you had ted cruz not just speaking to cpac, but speaking to the further right group called the uninvited. >> further right. >> people who were too far right to be invited there. you had the spectacle of cpac not inviting the leading republican in the land, the speaker of the house, not eligible there. you had republican candidates in turn snubbing cpac -- >> is this the republican party of 2014? people working here, i've been talking with people today, they say you could argue this is the republican party. it's no longer the fringe of the fringes. >> right. paul ryan was saying it's not necessarily a civil war within the republi

joining me is david corn, msnbc contributor and dana milbank, a columnist for "the washington post." gentlemen, i know i'm on this cheney case. gung-ho, we got to fight the war in vietnam. that was a military option available to him. he said at the time i had other priorities. and now every time a war comes along -- >> he is saving his butt. >> he wants to push further. you don't know the motive, i just go by the conduct. pushing, pushing, pushing, war, war, war. he is now talking options in ukraine, about building the anti-ballistic missiles. we're not worried about missiles. we're not fighting the soviets over nuclear weapons. i don't want to talk about it. he is basically pushing the iron curtain further and further east to see if he can get the former soviets crazy. >> see, i have a theory. i think he is obsessed with his legacy. and i think he has good reason to be. this is a guy -- >> what does he want his legacy to be? >> i think he wants it to be that he saved america, not that he led sexual abuse a war with lies and misrepresentations, not that he started torture. >> killed

david nakamura of the washington post., david. >> hi, veronica. >> we mentioned david silver's predictions. how are democrats seizing on that regarding the gop taking over the senate. what are they doing with that? >> not surprisingly the democrats are trying to turn that to their advantage. how they're doing that, warning their own supporters, hey, we need to get the turnover out there. the momentum is with republicans. they're pointing out that nate silver made a similar prediction that republicans would take control of the senate in 2012 at one point. we know how that did not actually come to fruition. i think unfortunately for the democrats they wouldn't have a top of the line ticket for the white house to help carry them. i think they're trying to raise money and they are warning they have to come out to the polls. >> what do you think of that for a strategy? will it work? >> they're going to target individual senate races which are important. the problem with them is they're on a little bit of defense over president

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i'm not pro russian troops tightened their hold and feed on what tuesday the washington post reported that the us national security agency had recorded the content of every single phone call in one country the post said documents provided by format and is a contract with snowden show the existence of the boys and deception program known as mystic since two thousand and nine. the white house refused on to questions on the reports. i don't have a response to it except to say that we don't. as a general comment on the specific allegation. four report. this week's revelations increase pressure on president barack obama who has repeatedly assured americans that the nsa spying on ordinary people. the washington post is not identified the target country saying government officials worried that could hurt the us. the documents suggest that the nsa at least had contingency plans to carry out similar eavesdropping operations in other countries. on thursday german chancellor and the medical tell parliament and down and that the international community must take a united stance against russia's a