tragedy and of martha washington's life. she lost her husband. >> she was raised a rich woman and what that meant in the 18th century is not what it means today. >> when she married george washington, she brings with her to mount vernon, 12 house slaves and that is really almost an unimaginable luxury. occur 10 days to travel here to valley forge from mount vernon in her carriage with her slaves and servants with her and this was a difficult journey. >> her experience had not prepared her to be -- had been pared her to become the first lady. the, va.,n ducamp town she was 57 years old when she and george washington left mount vernon in service to the country. this time, their destination was the york city, selected as the nation's first the began the first of their two terms as president and first lady of united states, something important precedents for their successes in the white as a very good evening and welcome to the brand-new series," first lady's l: plants and image. we will spend time with each of the women who ser

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cold weather was martha washington right there in canso by setting the first lady's make it in sight from the president and other things but i propose in my book washington's closest adviser was alexander hamilton about history of womanizing and for example, clinton was not the first and not the worst when it comes to this behavior there is a long history and eliot spitzer spitzer, arnold schwarzenegger, john edwards, david pretoria's had nothing on alexander hamilton. and she wasn't like of a soldier and was tough and did not complain about the weather were the heart ishihara conditions but there was a tomcat misbehaving and it was noisy and kept her awake so she nicknamed it alexander hamilton because of all the young girls. i also did a book a few years ago called negative the white house about the president at each over what hobbies what are their fears and hopes? what were they like as fathers and husbands and how did their kids turn out to study presidential character. we're still trying to figure out nixon. >> he like to bowl alone and sometimes in a black suit that's begins t

it was almost as if she reseeded to that more queenly role of martha washington and deliberately rejected. >> we will take your questions and comments about these three first ladies by phone, facebook, and twitter at 9:00 on monday night on c-span. also on c-span radio and c- span.org. >> now the latest on negotiations on immigration legislation. from today's "washington journal," this is about 50 minutes. host: we're back with rebecca talent, the immigration policy advisor for the immigration policy center. rebecca, let me show you the headlines from this morning's papers. this is breaking over the weekend -- the chamber of commerce, unions, supposedly coming to some sort of resolution, however, they are cautioning, this is not set in stone. how will this work? what are the negotiating? guest: it is complicated. right before the senate went to their april recess, it came out in the press. three people that were involved in negotiations, they were struggling to reach an agreement related to wage rates for temporary workers and would be included in the program. whether or not construction

the second thing is i get to give the reader snapshots of george washington and martha washington as well reflecting upon events in the past. and what they meant and how they see them now after a period of time.no it is at that point that the book becomes truly fiction and not history. and why am i doing this? well, because i'd always thought it would be fun to write a novel, but, you know, asking myself why, what makes it fun is that it enables you to do something you cannot do as an historian, and that is go beyond the evidence. go beyond the existing evidence on paper or whatever and say what you think was really going on in these people's minds. and what they were thinking. and it's such fun because if you know individuals well enough, and i feel i do know george washington very well as a result of the book we wrote together about him, there it is. you feel in some sense you know it. but you can't prove it. well, be you're writing history -- if you're writing history, people are going to say dalzell makes all these claims and statements, and many of them are not proven. well, you

let's go back to martha in washington. martha >> just a few details, george. there was no indication of any threat beforehand before these bombings today. also, the type of bomb, again, as we've been talking about even though it caused a lot of damage, it appeared to be fairly small, a fairly small explosive device, not a large military-style bomb, but because you had all those people there in shorts and t-shirts, they had absolutely no protection. they had absolutely no idea anything like this would have happened. so no matter what size that device turns out to be, that caused a lot of damage just because this was a soft target. >> martha, help us out here. you have experience from afghanistan and iraq. i'm not an expert in this, but it's not all that difficult to put together an explosive device like this? >> no, it really isn't. and you saw that evolve over the decade in iraq. at the very beginning they were very small devices, very small ball of fire kind of like we saw today. and they advanced obviously because the u.s. military did as well. they had bett

. >> there was a book written about martha washington. this is her story about rachel and andrew jackson of being gentle. it is available for those of you who want to learn more. let me have you talk about a theme, that is the changing role of women in politics. what was happening for women their ability to influence politics? >> what was gaining is the abolitionist movement. they were part of that movement and were also feminist. it was not peculiar to see women with opinions. theow did the ladies in administrations deal with the panic of 1837? >> very well. >> last question. caller: yes, my quick question is that i heard that the burens -- what president family spoke foreign language in the white house, and the answer is the family of martin van buren's. >> i do not believe that his children did. i doubt he spoke dutch in the white house. by the time he went into his retirement, he went to the countryside to speak with the people who spoke dutch. the dutch in the hudson valley began to die out. >> what happens next? >> he goes home. whi

we're starting with martha washington, and then at 2:40, abigail adams, 4:15 dolly madison, and later at 5:50, a look at elizabeth monroe and louisa catherine adams, followed by our most recent program, rachel jackson, emily done ellison over on c-span. >> tonight on "first ladies," anna harrison dies. louisiana tissue shah tyler who becomes first lady as her husband assumes the presidency, but she passes away just a year and a half later, and julia tyler who becomes the president's second wife. >> julia i think of as the madonna of first ladies. [laughter] she loved publicity. she had actually posed as a model at a time when that was, needless to say, frowned upon. she was professionally known as the rose of long island. by all accounts was bewitching. she certainly bewitched 57-year-old john tyler. who married her. and she loved being first lady. she had the job for less than a year, but it was julia tyler who ordered the marine band to play "hail to the chief" whenever the president appears. it was also julia tyler who greeted her guests sitting on a throne on a raised platform wit

-- positions of golf -- evolved from martha washington until this day? >> i think the first three first were harder working, and my opinion is when we stopped being colonies and started being a country, they were growing to be more prominent. , andwere very prosperous .hey cater to them a lot more they did not have to work as hard. >> speaking of the civil war, here are some of the key events of the buchanan administration. 1858, the constitution, the pony express was established in 1860. the creation of the confederate states of america said the white house is dealing with enormous problems but not very effectively. how did the buchanan administration tried to approach using the white house and bringing the parties together? >> i will have to defer to you. >> they entertained a lot. withhad two dinners a week 40 people. >> how did they keep flights .rom breaking out harry get war another hat. she was very interested and would spend hours on the seating .lan she works very hard at that. of these senators and cabinet members and wheressman, so she knew to

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it's almost as if she receded to that more queenly role that martha washington had deliberately rejected. >> we'll include your questions and comment about these three first ladies by phone, facebook and twitter tonight live at 9 eastern on c-span and c-span3. also on c-span radio and c-span.org. >> a discussion now on china/north korea relations and their impact on the u.s. you'll hear from john park with harvard university's center for science and international affairs. he talks about the strengthened relations between the countries' communist parties, the leadership of north korea's kim jong un and the unintended consequences of sanctions against north korea and its nuclear program. this one-hour event was hosted by the korean society in new york city. >> studio korea, and welcome to the korea society. my name is stephen harper, i'm the senior vice president here at the korea society. we'd like to welcome all of you, specialists in korean policy, friends of korea, and this afternoon we'd also like to welcome c-span viewers and thank them for joining us as well. we're delighted this af

let's go back to martha in washington. martha. >> just a few details, george. there was no indication of any threat beforehand before these bombings today. also, the type of bomb, again, as we've been talking about even though it caused a lot of damage, it appeared to be fairly small, a fairly small explosive device, not a large military-style bomb, but because you had all those people there in shorts and t-shirts, they had absolutely no protection. they had absolutely no idea anything like this would have happened. so no matter what size that device turns out to be, that caused a lot of damage just because this was a soft target. >> martha, help us out here. you have experience from afghanistan and iraq. i'm not an expert in this, but it's not all that difficult to put together an explosive device like this? >> no, it really isn't. and you saw that evolve over the decade in iraq. at the very beginning they were very small devices, very small ball of fire kind of like we saw today. and they advanced obviously because the u.s. military did as well. they had bett

how have the duties of the first ladies evolved from martha washington until this day? it sounds like there are a lot of similarities, really. it depends on the individual first lady as to how. >> it is. actually, i think that the first three first ladies -- martha, abigail, and dolly -- were far harder working and more actively involved in their husband's lives and in their careers. wheny own opinion was that we stopped being colonies and started being a country, maybe by the 1800's or so, that generation growing up, we were growing to be more -- they were more prominent. they were very prosperous. men wanted their wives to have all sorts of lovely things. they catered to them a lot more. they didn't have to work quite as hard. ladies at that time, they started, i guess being frailer. >> 1857 the key supreme court -- the dred scott supreme court decision on slavery. in 1858, the lecompton constitution. in 1860, the pony express was established. and in 1861, the creation of the confederate states of america. this white house was dealing with enormous problems but not ve

how have the duties of the first ladies evolved from martha washington until this day? it sounds like there are a lot of similarities, really. it depends on the individual first lady as to how. >> it is. actually, i think that the first three first ladies -- martha, abigail, and dolly -- were far harder working and more actively involved in their husband's lives and in their careers. and my own opinion was that when we stopped being colonies and started being a country, maybe by the 1800's or so, that generation groge growing up, we were growing to be more -- they were more prom nanlt. they were very prosperous. men wanted their wives to have all sorts of lovely things. they catered to them a lot more. they didn't have to work quite as hard. ladies at that time, they started, i guess being frail ir--er -- frailer. >> 1857 the key supreme court -- the dred scott supreme court decision on slavery. in 1858, the lecompton constitution. in 1860, the pony express was established. and in 1861, the creation of the confederate states of america. this white house was dealing with

herg other things, one of playmates was nellie custis who was the gran martha washington. so this is somebody who's been around politics, as well, but the opposite of sarah polk. she doesn't want t iold in politics. e didnwanter husband to rufor presen accordinga snapshot, to the census of america, in 1850, as this president is serving. the population was by that point 23 million and there were now 30 states in the united states, that's almost 36% growth since the 1840 census. slaves in the united states numbered three million or 13.8% of the population and the largest cities in the country in 1850 were new york city, baltimore and boston. washington, d.c., we've learned throughout the series, as a capital city, traded on gossip and the gossip about peggy taylor was much like rachel jackson, that she was a pipe smoker and didn't bring style and substance, very different than what paul described. what's the truth about her? >> i don't think -- >> she didn't smoke a pipe. l's start with that. the pipe smoking is utter nonsense and in fact all of the people close to her say s

martha washington set the role and many first ladies followed long. and johnson's intention to have the common man and common people come to the house. he didn't want to have formal dinners like by written invitation but inviting people to come in and see the president's home. >> just on that note, to capture johnson's approach, this quote from martha johnson, we are plain people from tennessee, called here for a little time and i hope too much will not be expected of us. >> in fact, how did the -- mary lincoln was criticized in the press for her spending especially during the time of a war. how did the nation respond to the folks who said we are plain folks and going to approach this job this way? >> in many ways, they loved it. one said there was a homelyness in that statement and people were craving that after the war to know that these are people who had suffered like they had and who were not going to be -- going to be respectful of the position in the white house. bring two cows? >> martha would go downstairs and supervise the dairy operation th

among other things, one of her custis whoas nellie was the granddaughter of martha washington. somebody who's been around politics, as well, but the opposite of sarah polk. she doesn't want to be involved in politics. she didn't want her husband to president. >> here's a snapshot, according inthe census of america, 1850, as this president is serving. that pointion was by 23 million and there were now 30 states in the united states, almost 36% growth since census. slaves in the united states 13.8%ed three million or of the population and the largest cities in the country in 1850 were new york city, baltimore and boston. washington, d.c., we've learned throughout the series, as a traded on gossip and the gossip about peggy rachelwas much like jackson, that she was a pipe smoker and didn't bring style differentnce, very than what paul described. what's the truth about her? >> i don't think -- she didn't smoke a pipe. let's start with that. the pipe smoking is utter nonsense and in fact all of the people close to her say she was andact allergic to smoke nobody smoked around her so

martha washington set the role and many first ladies followed long. and johnson's intention to have the common man and common come to the house. he didn't want to have formal dinners like by written invitation but inviting people to come in and see the president's home. >> just on that note, to capture johnson's approach, this quote from martha johnson, we are plain people from tennessee, called here for a little time and i hope too much will not be expected of us. >> in fact, how did the -- mary lincoln was criticized in the press for her spending especially during the time of a war. how did the nation respond to the folks who said we are plain folks and going to approach this job this way? >> in many ways, they loved it. one said there was a homelyness in that statement and people were craving that after the war to know that these are people who had suffered like they had and who were not going to be -- going to be respectful of the position in the white house. >> did she bring two cows? >> martha would go downstairs and supervise the dairy operatio

it is like she proceeded to that more queenly role that martha washington had deliberately rejected. >> we will include your questions and comments by phone, facebook, and twitter, the night live at 9:00 eastern on cnn c- span3, also on c-span radio and c-span.org. will reducedter our grants by about 5%, which equates to $22 million, which will be distributed among the various licensees and stations that i have described. 13% cut inen about a our overall federal funding of the last two years, and if the entire federal government had sustained the cuts that we have sustained, the budget would be $500 billion smaller than it is now. we have made is significant contribution to deficit reduction and retirement of federal debt within our own context. >> the impact of spending cuts on public television tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> discussion on campaign fund- raising with the finance shares of the obama and romney 2012 campaigns. they talked about the record amounts of money that was raised, and the influence of super pacs. they also looked ahead to how funding may change in 2016

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among other things, one of her playmates was nellie custis who was the granddaughter of martha washington. so this is somebody who's been around politics, as well, but the opposite of sarah polk. she doesn't want to be involved in politics. she didn't want her husband to run for president. accordinga snapshot, to the census of america, in 1850, as this president is serving. pointpulation was by that 23 million and there were now 30 states in the united states, that's almost 36% growth since the 1840 census. slaves in the united states numbered three million or 13.8% of the population and the largest cities in the country in 1850 were new york city, baltimore and boston. washington, d.c., we've learned throughout the series, as a capital city, traded on gossip and the gossip about peggy taylor was much like rachel jackson, that she was a pipe smoker and didn't bring style and substance, very different than what paul described. what's the truth about her? >> i don't think -- >> she didn't smoke a pipe. let's start with that. the pipe smoking is utter nonsense and in fact all of the people c

abc's martha raddatz in washington this morning. how will investigators try to figure out if there is involvement from an outside, organized terror group? >> they'll work backwards. they want to look at the pattern of life. particularly the older brother, who they really are focusing on. the older brother, tamerlan, was in russia last year for six months. we have no idea why he was there. they're suspicious about what he w -- why he was there. did he get training, guidance, financing for a terror attack? investigators do, and the national security intelligence establishme menment in the unit states is go back and see if they missed any signs. we have been told again and again there was no so-called chatter. they didn't hear anybody talking about a potential attack. they didn't think an attack was imminent or possible at the boston marathon that day. they'll go back and see what m. they do detective work in reverse. they'll see what the plans were for the future of those two. they're going to search the computers, scrub them. see if

washington deliberately rejected. >> include your questions and comments about these three first ladies by phone, facebook, and twitter tonight live at nine europe on c-span and c-span3, and also on c-span radio and c-span.org. >> next, iran's nuclear program, the brookings institution hosted a talk ahead of meetings between iran and the u.n.'s p-5 plus one group meeting this week in kazakhstan. among the speakers, president obama as coordinator for wmds. this is about app hour and a half. >> well thank you very much for inviting me to participate in the debate. i was in charge of the negotiation for a long period of time, and in 2009 from 2003 when i was the first -- the first visit to teheran, we said the plan at the time, the plan of the european union so from 2010 to today, i have been less in charge, but i follow closely, and i'm on the lines of communication. i don't have any responsibility from thereon. let me start a little reminder how these started because i think it's very important to have perspective of how the whole process has gone. what, to my mind, has been the most imp

martha: chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins us live from washington. catherine, what have we learned from the questioning now of the younger brother in the hospital? >> reporter: thank you, martha, and good morning. we've had a series of briefings on capitol hill and fox news is told during the briefings fox news was told that the suspect's mother possibly knew in 2011, the same year the russians warned the fbi and cia that tamerlan tsarnaev was a believer in radical islam. that he apparently september text messages that he was willing to die for islam. unnamed officials tell fox news that the premature termination. fbi younger son may have national security implications. fbi official briefing lawmakers, that agents were just 16 hours in questioning were stunned to sigh a judge and attorneys show up and felt valuable intelligence may have been sacrificed under under this public safety exception they can typically interview the suspect up to 48 hours before readings them their miranda rights, martha. martha: hard to understand why they would cut the tim

martha raddatz, in washington. we thank you for that. >>> take a look, now, at the morning's other developing stories. bianna golodryga, with this. good morning. >>> good morning, everyone. good morning, everyone at home. we begin with a health alert this morning. the fda is now blocking certain kinds of cucumbers from entering the country after a salmonella outbreak. dozens of people have become sick. most of them in california. officials have traced the cucumbers to two suppliers in mexico. says they were distributed by a company called tricar sales based in arizona. >>> if you do shopping online, this next story will hit home. we're one step closer to being forced to pay sales tax on items we buy online. abc's rebecca jarvis is here to explain. >> reporter: a proposal to require online retailers to collect state and local sales tax has just cleared a major hurdle. senators have agreed to end debate on the so-called marketplace fairness act, setting up a final vote early next month. now, it remains uncertain if t

martha, abc news, washington. >>> dedication of the bush presidential library brought out emotion rarely seen in politician. president obama and the 4 living former president's were on hand for the ceremony at southern methodist university. guest of honor briefly lost his composure at the end of the speech. >> honorable life time to lead a country is brave and as noble as the united states. whatever challenge come before us i will always believe our nation best days lie ahead. god bless. [applause]jfÑ. [applause]. >> former cabinet members also paid their respects. president obama called president bush a great american. >> president for your service for your courage for your sense of humor and most of all for your love of condition try, thank you very much. >> poignant moment during the ceremony when the first president bush confined to wheelchair stood and acknowledged the crowd. there you see him rise to go his feet next to his son. proud moment for the bush no, sir doubt. >> news now that should have air travelers cheering. senate late today passed a bill designed to end the furlough

martha: national correspondent steve centanni joins us live from washington. so, steve, what is the latest on all this morning? >> reporter: well martha the two suspects appear in court tore bail hearings. they're accused plotting to derail a passenger train that travels international route from new york to toronto. one suspect is seen arriving in toronto for today's court appearance is 30-year-old. chiheb esseghaier. according to royal canadian mounted police he and his codefendant, 35-year-old, raed jaser, we have the first video of him arriving too, were planning to target a train, canada's equivalent of amtrak. authorities say they had done surveillance of trains and railways. they had received direction and guidance but no actual funding from al qaeda and their activities point up a shadowy relationship between al qaeda and iran. >> the individuals were receiving support from al qaeda elements located in iran. there is no information to indicate that these attacks were state-sponsored. >> reporter: the rcmp worked hand in hand with the fbi and homeland se

abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz is live in washington for us. good evening. >> good evening, david. this is the closest the u.s. has ever come to saying the syrian government has crossed a red line, which means, this is the closest america has come to having to consider military action in syria. it is a stunning assessment. american intelligence now believing that the syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale on its own people. >> they have a reasonable amount of confidence that some amount of chemical weapons was used. >> reporter: specifically, sarin. the nerve agent suspected in an attack in march, leaving 30 dead. sarin acts in seconds, causing convulsions and paralysis that suffocates its victims. president obama hasn't wanted to embroil america in another war but warned the regime, if it ever used chemical weapons, that could change. >> i have made clear that the use of chemical weapons is a game-changer. >> reporter: on capitol hill today, the call for action was swift. >> i think it's pretty obvious that red line has been

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martha: back to washington now where a top republican lawmaker is considering changing the way that the u.s. grants asylum to immigrants, in light of the boston terror attack. as we know the suspects are ethnic chechen brothers from russia who came to the united states about a decade ago with their parents. their family was granted asylum and all the benefits that come along with that category of asylum. joined by mary katharine ham, editor-at-large of hotair.com and fox news contributor. and peter mirijanian former advisor to the clinton-gore campaign and gore-lieberman campaign. we're always going back to some issue based on the horrific attack that happened. we learn the family came in and they got asylum. i don't understand how you get asylum and come back and forth freely to the country you needed to get asylum from, peter? >> martha, you raise a very good point. this is individual case of a family up having through the cracks in the asylum process. it would be a msha if we looked at this particular case and somehow derail the overall immigration effort where you have republican an

martha raddatz, washington. >>> 27 years since the nuclear disaster in chernobyl. a released a deadly cloud and the blast blamed for 31 lives. >>> in beng ludash thousands of factory workers protests poor safety standards. they recovered 275 bodies from the rubble. they ordered an evacuation due to cracking walls but factory managers ignored that warning. >>> stopping imports of some mexican cucumbers. they were going in a greenhouse in mexico. they link the raw vegetables to 73 illnesses in 18 states already. because salmonella can be deadly, cucumbers from this greenhouse may not be shipped to the u.s. until it passes safety tests. >>> good news for some here, twinkies will be back pretty soon. the bad news for other, possible labor problems. the iconic food will be back on store shelves this summer and hundreds of new jobs will be up for grabs at four bakeries over the next couple months, but those jobs will be nonunion. >> especially good news for emporia, kansas, where one of the plants is set to open. as many as 300 new jobs there. >> hopefully all these peop

martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >>> charges against tsarnaev will likely include a weapon of mass destruction charge which carries the death penalty. with the intensive emotions surrounding the case, we asked michael garcia, whether tsarnaev could get a fair trial in boston? >> very difficult to move a trial. the legal standard, essentially, no jury in this city will be able to look fairly on this evidence. very high standard. i believe he will face trial in boston. >> tsarnaev is being questioned without being given his miranda rights as a matter of public tors are looking overseas for answers specifically want to know more about the older tsarnaev, the brother, who recently went to russia and how that might have changed him. abc reporter is in dagestan where the family has roots. >> reporter: last year, tamerlan tsarnaev traveled here to his old home in a region home to an islamist uprising. investigators want to learn if it was during that trip he became radicalized. family who saw him then, told us they saw no signs of extremism. there was no feeling that he could be, his aunt

elizabeth prann from washington there. >> reporter: thanks. bill: martha. martha: what type of presence do we have in that region since the korean war? the united states has maintained nearly 30,000 u.s. troops active in the south korean peninsula. 18,000 of those troops are based about halfway between seoul and the demilitarized zone in 17 different u.s. military camps. you can see why there is a lot of concern. bill: back to this breaking news now. we showed you 30 minutes ago a school bus accident that looks absolutely terrifying. 25 children on board. medical helicopters on scene. 45 miles north of chicago. that that is up near the wisconsin border. you can see a mangled jeep in part of the picture here. it looked like one bus or two had overturned on that rural road north of chicago. this is the video we're watching now. we had seen, what, several students being taken away in stretchers and what look like gurneys to make sure they were held stationary to prevent further injury. that is the kind of scene you do not want to see. when a parent puts her ki

martha: steve centanni joins us live from washington. how are the lawmakers viewing all of this in this investigation at this point? >> reporter: as you heard for the most part they are raising questions about how these two young men became radicalized and what connections they may have had to any terrorist organizations. the older brother, tamerlan traveled to rush a sha last year raising -- russia last year and whether he got training or assistance to carry out the attacks. many believe there is a connection to a terrorist group, they even believe the boys' mother may have radicalized them and they blame the russians for not sharing enough information. >> the mother thought he was certainly sympathetic towards jihad and they did not share that with the fbi. if they had it could have changed this dramatically. >> reporter: he says it's hard to believe that two people could have carried out these attacks by themselves. martha: what about the surviving brother, dzhokhar tsarnaev? what are they saying about him on capitol hill? >> they say

gregg: peter doocy, live in washington. peter, thanks. martha: something to pay attention to. the irs is now claiming that agents can legally access your personal e-mail, also texts and other private forms of tron trick communication without a warrant according to some documents that have just been rerevealed. i'm joined by doug schoen, former pollster for president clinton and monica crowley. radio talk show host. both would be happy to share their e-mails with the irs, right, guys. >> right on, martha. >> we've gotten used to the idea that we have almost no privacy. you try not putting anything into an e-mail you wouldn't want someone to read. this is real interesting. the aclu submitted a freedom of information request and they received documents and manuals from the irs which basically claim that the irs says that they believe that they have the right to go through e-mails. there was a case, united states versus warshak, which basically threw out e-mail evidence in an irs case and you can't use it. but now the big question, monica, i want to explain it all up front, whethe

and abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz is also standing by tonight from washington. i want to go back to the big headline about north korea's nuclear capability. tell us more about what it really means. >> well, they've had three nuclear weapons tests. but what we're talking about tonight is the tricky part. it's miniaturizing a nuclear weapon and putting it on a ballistic missile. this is the first time we've heard an official assessment from the pentagon about this, saying that they had moderate confidence that north korea could do this. this is a big development. now, i should add that no other intelligence agency in the u.s. government has yet signed on to the dia assessment, but still quite a development. >> i want to be clear. there's no indication that the missiles we've been watching, the ones poised for the test are armed with any kind of nuclear material? >> absolutely. no indication of that right now, diane. but it is an indication that they built up missile defenses, that they want to build up missile defendanses in the u.s. because of this assessment, b

>> thanks so much, martha. and from your location south of pyongyang, to washington, d.c., where they're tracking every move in this aggressive game, unfolding on the world stage. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl now on the mind of this young leader, raising the stakes day after day. >> reporter: imagine the cia's dossier on the world's most mysterious leader. until shortly before he took power 15 months ago, this was the only known photograph of kim jong un, a snapshot of a boy just 11 years old. >> we still debate how old he is, we think perhaps 30, but i still see quotes as 28 or 29. >> reporter: bruce clinger is the former head of the cia's korea unit. >> very little is known about someone whose finger is on a nuclear button. >> reporter: but here's what we do know, he and his older brother are believed to have studied under fake names at this private high school in switzerland. former classmates have offered a window into who he is, describe the -- describing the kim jong-un they knew, a

. >> well, welcome to washington. here's my question, martha. how did they know they couldn't have made it there? they had no way to know when it was going to end. they knew when the attack started but how in the world could they possibly know when it was going to end while it was going on? nobody would have for seen this lasted seven hours. so that is the middle tranche. let me say with respect to the accountability review board. martha's a reason we don't let students grade their own papers and don't let defendants sentence themselves or investigate themselves. people lack the objectivity to question themselves. the fact that the state department may have cleared the state department doesn't matter. i could care less. it is congress's job to provide oversight. the other point that i think speaker boehner hopefully will make is this. we know susan rice was wrong. we know that she was demonstrably wrong. what i want to know is whether her intentional misleading of her fellow citizens actually hampered the investigation going forward? we know she

>> thank you so much, martha raddatz in south korea tonight. >>> now we head to washington where today president obama drew attention to those across-the-board budget cuts with a personal action. those budget cuts, known as the sequester. the president said he will return 5% of his annual salary. that's $20,000, to show solidarity with government employees who will be furlough. the white house says obama will personally write a check to the treasury. >>> and also tonight, washington watchdog is back, watching out for the ways government squanders taxpayer dollars. after katrina, nearly a billion dollars was handed out for the rebuilding of homes. but tonight, the rebuilding, the money, is missing. abc's senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny. >> reporter: felicia higgins lost everything in katrina seven years ago. but, she built her home using federal money from the road home program. she still starts every day looking out at this. >> it hits you in the face every time you walk out the front door. >> reporter: abc news has learned that hundreds of millions from that program is mis

. >>> martha, right now, in washington, our chief global affairs correspondent, the young man was born in kyrgyzstan, his father back in russia right now. chechnya, places where there had been terrorist cells but directed toward the russian leaders. >> they don't have terrorism that goes outside of there. they kept their eyes on chechens there. they're going after the russians. again, we don't know whether that background has anything to do with their motivation, we don't know whether they were trained there, we don't know how often they went back and forth. i assume they did since the parents lived there now, but we do not know any connection so far, that's what they're urgently trying to find out. one thing that's pretty obvious, they would love to take this young man alive, they would want to know his motivation, they would want to know what if any international connection there is. this is something that the whole of government is working on right now, intelligence officials. this government is trying to find out whether there is any connection to international terrorism and what k

i'm joined here by martha raddatz, also pierre thomas in washington. let me begin with you, pierre. intelligence officials, brian said, are not ruling in or ruling out anything at this point. one thing so mystifying. no one has stepped forward to claim responsibility. >> reporter: i spoke to a senior official who said typically in the hours after a bombing like this, terror organizations like to claim responsibility. they want the credit for their deadly work. a number of people were interview ed overnight. some associated with that saudi student and still don't know if he had anything to do with the bombing but out after an abundance of caution they're trying to dissect his life but piecing together the bomb remnants is key because they have air vast catalog of past bombing incidents and will compare it to whatever information they can get about these devices and come up with a list of potential suspects. >> pierre, this is exactly the kind of attack homeland security officials have been worried about over the last several years, not all that sophisticated but attacking softing its

steve centanni in washington, thanks. martha: all right. to health care now because small business owners are starting to weigh whether they should cover everybody or just pay the penalty for health care when that law kicks in fully next year. so under the law employers with 50 or more full-time employees will be required to provide coverage for all of them. those employees must work 30 or more hours per week which led to a lot of part-time alternatives at many of these companies. an alternative for the business owners to pay $2,000 in the penalty for each full-time employee. this only applies after the first 30 workers this we'll talk about it. bob beckel, campaign manager and co-host of "the five." mare can i catherine ham, editor-at-large of hotair.com and welcome to you both. >> good morning, martha. gregg: bob, i heard small business owners talking about this, some of whom, like the man who is quoted in this story, say, when they add up what it will cor their employees, it would cost more than they ever made in the company since the be

. >> let's get more from pierre thomas in washington and i'm here with martha raddatz. we just heard from the press conference. only two explosive devices. we heard from the fbi special agent in charge, no additional threats at this time. so little chatter around the explosion. no intelligence coming in before the explosions. no claim of responsibility after. >> reporter: george, intelligence officials are perplexed that there has been no chatter. typically, terror organizations like to claim responsibility as the event is unfolding. one thing left unsaid at the press conference, i spoke to a senior official about just this morning. whoever did this got away. there's no specific threat. officials say they have to be mindful of that going forward. they're quite sconcerned about copy cats. this investigation is complicated. you heard the fbi official and the police officials say that the crime area extends 15 blocks in diameter. they've only been able to reduce to it 12 this morning. that tells you how complicated the situation is, george. >> that's right. the police comm

martha: another big issue in washington whether or not we might get a deal. looks like we could on immigration reform but will it include real border security as part of that deal? >> you can make the fences far and wide as you want and i'm in favor of locking down that border but you've got to fix legal immigration. you also have to implement i think e-verify so you dry up jobs people can get when they're here illegally. martha: congressman jason chaffetz you just heard was just at the border. he spent time with border officials talking to them. he says he knows what still needs to be done and he is going to tell us. gregg: plus watch this car before a harrowing and deadly crash. what police are saying went horribly wrong. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right back into our business. this is the only thing we've ever wanted to do and ink helps us do it. make your mark with ink from chase. man: the charcoal w

martha. just since 5:00pm eastern time yesterday when the police released the pictures, the fbi released these pictures, to you will lee not these pictures, b but -- released these pictures of the suspects and what events have transpired since then. jenna: you can see what is very much a developing story. we have some answers today that we didn't have yesterday including the names of these two suspects. the man on your screen right now is suspect number two. he was the one with the white hat that we saw yesterday during the fbi briefing at 5:00pm. his older brother, tamerlan, you've heard that name, was killed overnight during a chase with law enforcement officers. there are still a lot of questions about that, including how did this younger brother get away. jon: that is the person they are looking for now. martha has been bringing you coverage of the scene in watertown, massachusetts where shots and possibly some kind of an explosion was heard. it has been a chaotic morning on the streets i

martha: molly henneberg live from washington with more on the story that started to break yesterday afternoon. molly, a lot of focus on one particular group called progress kentucky. tell us about them and why they would be into this? >> reporter: hi, martha. one leader of the democratic party in kentucky is trying to get out in front of this and telling fox news to look at that liberal group, progress kentucky, which says its main goal to defeat republican minority leader mitch mcconnell. jacob conway with the jefferson county democratic party in kentucky told fox two of his friend with progress kentucky, allegedly made that recording. conway said to fox, quote, i don't know why they were there at the grand opening of his, meaning mcconnell's campaign office but they were there after the event had ended and they were in the hallway and you know, they heard the conversation going on. it was an extremely tacky conversation to me but it was a private conversation nonetheless. and i guess once they heard the tasteless things the mcconnell team were discussing they decided to record it. and they

joined by catherine herridge live in washington. good morning. >> reporter: thank you, martha. this letter, first obtained by fox news, is signed by more than 700 special operations vets urging congress to back a select committee tasked with a pigs to investigate the benghazi attack, and founder told fox and friends this morning why it still matters. >> this has been slow rolled, as we say in the air force. if we wait long enough, maybe it will go away. but we owe the truth to the american people and particularly the families of the fallen. >> reporter: the letter includes 16 points of investigation from the well-documented warnings before the attack to the realtime decision making of president obama, secretary clinton and the defense department on the night of september 11th. the letter reads if part, quote: >> reporter: the letter also questions why the survivors who were evacuated from the consulate in the cia annex have remained silent more than six months after the attack. martha: and one of the avenues that has been pursued to try to get answers to that is the select comm

martha: how close are we? kelly wright is live in washington. what impact do senators believe that this agreement between labor and business will actually have on the work they are doing on immigration reform? >> reporter: good question. good morning to you and bill as well. the chamber of commerce issued a statement saying this is a structure we can move forward w. then you look at the senators in that so-called bang of eight acknowledging the legislation still needs to be written, but they are encouraged, in fact some of them applaud the agreement between the afl-cio and the u.s. chamber of commerce calling the a major breakthrough in paving the way for immigration reform. it's a stumbling block that has now been removed according to some allowing immigrants or would allow immigrants, rather, to come to the u.s. each year and work in low-wage jobs. also the senators still want to pursue other goals such as securing the borders. all of this some say will lead to passage of immigration reform in both the house and senate the. >> first people wil