the unnamed official said the u.s. will ease economic sanctions if the iranians put a freeze on the program. president rouhani has been trying to improve his country's standing. and the iranians presented a new proposal in talks last month to try to move the negotiations forward. they have offered to down size their uranium enrichment program. the white house official said that if the iranians stop expanding the program they would be ready to offer limited and targeted relief on sanctions. the sanctions on the banking and oil sectors have crippled the economy. >>> german officials are hoping to learn more about the allegations about the u.s. tapping the cell phone of angela merkel. they're hoping to spoke to edward

the unnamed official in the obama administration said the u.s. will ease economic sanctions if the iranians put a freeze on the program. iranian negotiators are meeting in geneva with their counterparts from the u.s. and five other global powers. president hasan rouhani has been trying to improve his country's standing, and the iranians presented a new proposal in talks last month to try to move the negotiations forward. they're believed to have offered to down size their uranium enrichment program. the other negotiators fear iranian scientists may be processing uranium for use in weapons. the white house says if they stop expanding the program, u.s. officials will be offering targeted relief on sanctions, the sanction on the banking and oil sectors have crippled the economy. >>> senior diplomats from united states, japan and south korea have sat down together in washington. they exchanged views on restarting the six-party talks on north korea's nuclear program and reaffirmed their position that the north's leaders must first make progress toward

on the record as opposed to an unnamed and unidentified official, we expect the website to function effectively for the vast majority of users by the end of the month. don't be surprised if you hear more about it this hour. they will grill five administration officials involved in the roll out of healthcare.gov including the chief technology officer who issa subpoenaed last week, a move they call unfortunate and unnecessary. the white house decided not to fight it even though they think what issa is doing is a witch hunt. the track record has been sketchy at best though the public is disgusted at congress as well as the president and hard to see how the president pulls out of this any time soon. he may wish to talk about something other than health care. they should talk about other things besides health care. until the website works and enrollment is more reliable, he is stuck and will look silly talking about anything else.

in each of the many, many, many previous times that pakistan or the united states or unnamed officials insisted he was dead, the taliban itself always insisted that he wasn't dead. this time they're making no such protests. this time, they agree he's dead and, in fact, they're saying his funeral is on saturday. there was a $25 million bounty on the head of osama bin laden, you'll remember. there's now a $25 million bounty on the head of bin laden's replacement, al zawahiri. but this guy, who was just killed, the head of the pakistani taliban, he was right up there, the rewards for justice program had a $5 million price on his head. they consider him to be the author of thousands of deaths in pakistan. they put the $5 million bounty on his head after he oversaw the triple agent plot in eastern afghanistan where seven cia officers were killed in a devastating surprise suicide bombing. in this video you'll see here, the guy on the right side of your screen, that's the bomber that killed all the cia officers. they thought he was a spy against the taliban. that's why the officers agreed to

i do think it's interesting that bob can have that honest answer here but the white house or unnamed white house officials once again are on background trying to shape a story in "the new york times" saying, no, no, no, no, we're not for redistribution. this was about reducing the cost of health care. which, one, it is proving it isn't doing. president obama said something about trying to take away the rhetoric and strip that away and then what you have. the problem is the reality versus the fantasy. on many topics. in particular on obama care. today, this morning, they had a major delay on the website. about an hour and a half disruption. can you imagine if you are a mom or dad and you own a business and you're thinking, i want to get this taken care of before thanksgiving. i want to enjoy the holidays with my family. try to get on on a monday morning and you can't even get that done. the anxiety that is added to the people's frustration with the government is leading to pick young polls that have the president collapsing not just in competence but in trust. and i think that's where

"the new york times" reported today that, according to unnamed officials, the previously unknown program is authorized by the "patriot" act. that's the same law the national security agency has used to gather data on americans' phone calls. the u.s. postal service narrowed its losses last year, but still ended up another $5 billion in the red. that was sharply lower than the loss of nearly $16 billion that the agency reported a year ago. still, it marked the seventh consecutive year that the postal service has run at a deficit. president obama will ask congress to extend long-term jobless benefits through the end of next year. the white house said today it's necessary because unemployment remains high. on wall street today, the dow jones industrial average gained 85 points to close at 15,961. the nasdaq rose 13 points to close just short of 3,986. for the week, the dow gained more than 1%. the nasdaq rose nearly 2%. still ahead on the "newshour": the effect of the president's reversal on the health insurance industry; a young chef turns to medicaid for coverage; china's plan to ease it's

. >> there was a washington post report that found an unnamed washington official said the administration's goal is 80 percent accessibility on the website, is that success? >> no, it is not success. we know from the congressional budget office that 31 percent of the americans and hundred percent people can get on the website will not get health care under obama care. and by the time this is done, we'll have won world twa two. and three years and eight months in they will not have the website ready. we didn't consider the nazis and japanese and call it we have only 80 percent of them and call the war over. >> that is something. there are 30 million people who will not be covered by obama care. one of the stated points is that people could stop using emergency rooms as primary care physicians. why are 30 million people uncovered? >> because as nancy pelosi said they didn't read the law until they passed it i guess. the republicans said they considered the law that 31 percent would be uninsured. they are breaking down the system. it is helpful for people to remember if you take barak obama at

unnamed officials confirm that israeli war planes struck a port city thursday. it has vowed to react if it believes syrian weapons are being transferred to groups in the region. this is believed to be the fifth attack on syria. israeli is not acknowledging that strike. >> the u.n. arab league envoy has been talking to syria's president hoping he will agree to a geneva two conference. we are joined from beirut, lebanon. he has held extensive talks with syria's president assad this week. is the syrian president any closer to agreeing on round two of peace talks? >> i think that the idea of the geneva two conference is still on the table, but still not set in stone. now, he says clearly that it's sort of a consensus whether inside syria or outside of syria that it's only a political solution that to bring an end to the conflict. he also clearly says that without the opposition, there was no need for the geneva two conference. that's a big problem at this point. it's a fragmented opposition. on one hand, you have the syrian national coalition, a sort of umbrella gro

administration officials say he will emphasize the administration's concern that china's expansion of air space could lead to a grave miscalculation. >> the talking points that we heard from the white house briefly this week really are not sufficiently resolute. the chinese are now on a path which is territorially aggressive and trying to talk the language of cooperation is just not going to do it. >> reporter: the unfolding situation in china comes as the administration faces new antagonism from pakistan over the controversial drone campaign. the opposition party of former kikt star imran khan wants to prosecute john brennan over a november 21st drone strike. in the process, khan's party is claiming it revealed the identity of the agency's station chief. >> it could not only put them physically at risk, meaning harm to them, threatened to kill or even be killed, but it also obviously can disrupt incredibly activities that the cia and united states government is engaged in. >> reporter: the same political party is also threatening to block trucks carrying nato troop supplies to and fr

"the wall street journal" reporting that according to an unnamed senior u.s. official, obama didn't know his own nsa was spying on angela merkel and other american allies. >> the white house says the president did not know merkel's phone was targeted. >> is it conceivable? is it believable that the president would not know about surveillance of a head of state of a close american ally? >> then it was nbz's lisa meyers reporting on what the administration knew three years ago about the president's promise. you heard it over and over that those who liked their insurance could keep their plan. >> when you add those two parts together, you get more than 40% to 730% of folks in the individual market cannot keep their policies even if they want to and the administration knew that. >> obama for his part is saying some critics of the program are being grossly misleading. tim carney from the washington examiner and juan williams, a columnist for the hill and lauren ashburn are joining us. lauren, why are the media engaging this? >> i think president obama has lost the

one spokesman said as they said on the record as opposed to an unnamed and unidentified official, we expect the website to function effectively for the vast majority of users by the end of the month. don't be surprised if you hear more about it this hour. they will grill five administration officials involved in the roll out of healthcare.gov including the chief technology officer who issa subpoenaed last week, a move they call unfortunate and unnecessary. the white house decided not to fight it even though they think what issa is doing is a witch hunt. the track record has been sketchy at best though the public is disgusted at congress as well as the president and hard to see how the president pulls out of this any time soon. he may wish to talk about something other than health care. they should talk about other things besides health care. until the website works and enrollment is more reliable, he is stuck and will look silly talking about anything else. his credibility on other issues is being called into question. now he might as well treat health care like it's the only issue o

this is something that's coming in right now, a senior government official person unnamed said the long gun, may have been running and what we can confirm. one tsa employee was killed and three other tsa employees injured as pete reported here as well. we've got a statement in from the ucla health science hospital, the director says that one patient arrived in critical condition. the two patients are listed in fair, that some of the information we're getting. we're going to go to local coverage to listen in to the information they've been able to obtain. >> and actually, we're being told right now that all of the victims according to sources still waiting to hear where this information is coming from. preliminary reports, nbc news is telling us that all of the victims were in fact tsa agents. we knew earlier that two had been shot, one of those tsa agents was shot and killed, now we're told there are three total victims, all of them tsa agents. again, what happened to the shooter? the gunman, still conflicting reports there. we've heard from some reports he was shot and killed. lapd det

>> that was telegraphed by unnamed administration sources over the weekend. they expect there'll be something done. they came close in geneva. that's why secretary of state john kerry and the foreign ministers arrived. they thought they had a deal but hit a glitch with the french. all the foreign ministers are flying around. it looks like something could happen. you don't know. this week we'll see a push on both sides - those who favour negotiations and israelis and others landing in washington, lobbying congress to do what they can to stop the negotiation or an agreement. >> we talk about a deal. we are really talking about a deal to make a deal in the future. >> that's the way negotiations go. you get something now and hope for something better in the future. in this case if they don't make a deal, it's an enormous setback. >> if they do? >> then there's a range of possibilities. i think this is a very important week, even though it's an interim understanding that they are striving for. >> why is it significant to make a deal. a lot of people are thinking i