going into the obama administration itself, the obama administration argued in a brief to the supreme court -- sorry, they argued it before the supreme court after not mentioning it in their brief that churches and other religious institutions have no right to choose their own clergy, which was contrary to what every single district and appellate court. every single circuit had actually ruled on this. that is an idea that came out of radical legal feminism which argued, for example, the catholic church should be required to have female priests if that would otherwise discrimination laws, the religion clauses of the constitution shouldn't prevent it. and that is, indeed, somewhere, engen, where you can see the influence. that doesn't mean it's no influence. with regards to the affordable care act, it would be very difficult to write a book about the constitution of the obama administration without addressing the cases that everyone knows about as the most famous constitutional controversy of the obama administration. and it's actually what we call, i teach evidence also, we talk about

i want to be sure we're not letting the obama administration off the hook either. congress is acting in a way that is totally out of line with reality. the administration is making efforts but not enough. i think that points to the point that the action at the city and the state level is incredibly important. the support that organizations, that citizens movements are bringing to taking action at that level, the demands that are being made of state houses and city councils to pass resolutions that move clean energy, that are looking at the public health impact of climate change are important. i wouldn't want to leave this up to the industry, but i think that by looking at that side of things-- >>> coal, the petitioners in this case are trying to save coal as a sustainable. >> they're dinosaurs in this case. they're kind of revealing themselves that way or maybe fortunately because we can all see it, and the future is absolutely in renewables. we're seeing that play out both in the implementation and in the market. i think the more that we see that reality the more

the obama administration says it's going to try. they say look, congress asked for this plan, and so they're submitting it on the deadline that it's supposed to be submitted. they hope it will start a conversation about whether or not there's a way to bring some of the detainees at guantanamo who can't be tried and can't be transferred to other countries to the united states so that they can close guantanamo, which the obama administration continues to say is a recruiting tool for enemies of the united states, but as you said, the congressional opposition is already lined up squarely against it on two principles. one is the whole principle of just closing guantanamo. many republicans feel it should stay open and filled with new suspected terror suspects who were captured in the battle against isil. then there are those dead set opposed to any idea of transferring detainees to the united states. right now, it's against the law. congress has passed a law that not only prohibits the transfer, but doing anything to even promote the tran

administration, but apparently, the obama administration, according to these pleadings they filed, if you just be nice to the terrorists, let them keep their own money, they will quit killing americans. but it doesn't work that way. let's look at what this commander in chief's administration is willing to punish. i have a letter here that was sent by my friend, our fellow colleague, duncan hunter, to the chairman of the senate agriculture committee where he discusses sergeant first class charles martland and points out, he is considered a first-rate warrior. while in afghanistan at a remote out post, he confronted and ghanistan local police for kidnapping a young boy and repeatedly raping him. it was brought to the attention of martland and his fellow soldiers after the mother's boy asked for help after she was attacked by the afghan local police commander. when martland and danny quinn confronted the rapist, he admitted to the charge and laughed in their faces. at which point martland and quinn took matters in their hands. this took place after two separate civil rights violations, r

but it is important because it is so telling about the obama administration's attitude. grant voting rights, the constitution however limits voting rights in congress to representatives of the several states. dc is especially designated district, not adistrict, not a state. that's what the constitution and law says. so attorneys in obama's office ofobama's office of legal counsel told, look, you can't support this law. hundred years of office legal precedent. administrations all agree. i should.out two things about the office of legal counsel. they arecounsel. they are mostly -- there are some civil servants. so part of the executive branch and mostly the pres.'s own political appointees. that means they bend over backwards to try to find legal authority for whatever the president wants to do. the 2nd key point about one of the very few checks on presidential authority. the llc tells me i can't do something, they are trying to find a way to let me do want to do and i should not do it. but instead of deferring atty. general eric holder went to the office of the solicitor

amy: what could be obama administration do? >> there have been calls for special prosecutor to investigate clear allegations of crimes committed at least by the cia as evidenced by the senate report on the cia torture program. there is volumes of documented information about at least one piece of portrait of the bush and administration. there should at least be an investigation domestically. politically, you know, that seems very difficult if not impossible. those investigations have not been pursued. we at ccr, as a result, because of the lack of complete accountability domestically, we have turned to foreign courts and supported or been involved or brought a request for prosecution or accountability in the courts of spain. an action inting france. there have been actions in committee.re the cat we are at least internationally through jurisdictions a foreign courts to bring to bear some kind of accounting for what has happened. i think the fact there hasn't been anything domestically and the message is sort of, we need to look

the obama administration has given a agree light to marijuana legalization. as a result we are having an explosive incident of marijuana use. drug use is number 1 among marijuana use in young people in the united states. needle exchanges stories are not -- >> i need to get you off the blaming obama about this thing. lots of states have legalized marijuana voted to do so, 25 states are doing harm reduction on heroin and syringe exchanges and kentucky, no liberal states no democratic state two conservative lawmakers in kentucky have voted to have the ban on syringe exchanges or federal funding lifted. >> when it comes to legalization of marijuana the obama administration has refused to enforce the federal law. whit comes to marijuana to allow our food and drug administration to do its job. >> david there are all sorts of statistics that indicate that the increase in heroin usage the epidemic is not directly linked. can you say the kids who don't observe their bedtime properly could become big drug users too. there's an increase in consumption and not all about

that has been the obama administration with very rare exceptions. that's part of their the fact very rarely spills over to things what is involved, what is the answer to this legal question. they value this process and if someone somewhere disagrees with something, they don't go ahead, a bob litt up to the higher level and they think about it more. .. they can do what they want to do sometimes notwithstanding opposition. and so, in irony of the obama years they over learned the lessons of the bush years and connie rice writes in her memoir about how she was a national security advisor and she didn't even know military commissions run the table until cheney had put in front of bush's space and learned about it from the media and they're not going to have a dysfunctional backplate that. tom donnellan one of the most important national security advisers and a lawyer not coincidentally to liberally design the process for everyone to be consulted in the extra seats at the table would have a chance to assert the so power in the short term and there's alwa

the obama administration submitted its final defense budget to congress, asking for another $59 billion in wartime supplemental funding. for both amount figures was shaped by the budget deal late last year that slightly raised spending caps. the administration has said budget aims to fight isis and other terror groups while bolstering u.s. capabilities against china and russia as well as investing in new beaverhead capabilities and systems modernization. to do that on the fixed budget the budget dials back joint strike fighter purchases and army helicopters, i tbacks the air force's palmer as well as strike weapons and air defense missiles. republicans, however, are already labeling this budget as irrelevant and calling for dramatically more funding. we met last week with the pentagon comptroller and i asked him why the 2016 request was relevant and whether it charts a course of the followed by future administrations. .> i think it does i would list of the major move ,n this with respect to russia and that is within the secretary's of trying to really have us reorient a little bit so th

the obama administration has been explicit. that naval station would not be given back even if guantanamo closes. host: we are talking about the president's plan to close guantanamo bay and are guest is molly o'toole. our next guest is from tennessee. caller: good morning. molly, i just wanted to say that i think that president obama is correct about closing it. it would save the taxpayers money. president bush was also wanting this, but the republicans, they say that they want to save money and lesson government spending, and here is an opportunity to do so. i believe they will not do it because anything that president obama wants to do is blocked by the senate and mitch mcconnell. he is an obstructionist. thank you for listening. host: thank you. guest: senator john mccain, actually one of the republicans -- they are not many but there are a few -- senator john mccain and lindsey graham support closing the prison and they have been working with the obama administration for years to get a plan such as this. they have been call

the obama administration is litigating against the little sisters and the poor. trying to impose millions of dollars of fines on the sisters under obamacare in order to force the nuns to pay for abortion inducing drugs and others. let me give you all a real simple rule of thumb. if you are litigating against nuns, you probably have done something wrong. [applause] if i'm elected president, the first day in office, i will instruct the department of justice and the irs and every other federal agency that the persecution of religious liberty ends today. [yelling] a very nice young man. a very confused fellow with the bernie sanders campaign is yelling. >> look at yourself in the mirror. ted cruz: the very odd thing is that usually lefties don't believe in god. [laughter] [applause] no, it did not. we need to defend the second amendment. trying to undermine the second amendment to keep and bear arms. we will resend every single illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by this president. we need to defend the fourth and fifth amendments. our rights to priva

but it isn't just a case of the obama administration being slow or the obama administration not been committed to closing guantanamo. this is a difficult challenge because a lot of these detainees simply cannot be sent back to their native countries for variety of reasons. some of which is related to international law prohibitions on sending individuals back to a country in which they face the likelihood of torture. it's a process to try to find countries to accept them and resettled them, and a long bureaucratic process, when the obama administration has not managed particularly well, but hopefully, in his last 11 months, the president and secretary of defense carter will be able to light a fire under the people in the pentagon who are responsible for doing this and we can get it done. amy: baher azmy, the prisoners you have represented, i mean, how they end up like guantanamo, for example, those that were given money to bring in people. overwhelming majority of prisoners brought to guantanamo bay were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, fleeing the american-led bombing in

sandoval's office says, the governor has not been contacted by the obama administration-- regarding the potential vacancy on the u-s supreme court. ### turning now to weather--- i hope you're enjoying the sunshine because it's going to stick around for a while. chief meteorologist jeff thompson is here with a check of your forecast. jeff... high pressure will dominate the weather picture through friday. expect chilly mornings, warm afternoons, light wind, and occasional high clouds. a couple of systems could bring showers friday night-saturday morning and late sunday into monday, but amounts of rain and snow will be on the lighter side for most areas. temperatures will cool in their wake, after warming to 70 by the end of the work week for western nevada valleys. temperatures early next week will be closer to average. -jeff tonight: partly cloudy, with a around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. thursday: mostly sunny, with a high near 66. calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph. thursday night: partly cloudy, with a low around 37. southeast wind around 5 mph becoming south after mid

the congress had set today as the deadline for president obama and the obama administration to come up with a new plan to transfer all detainees from gitmo to some facilities in the united states. now, there are currently 91 of these detainees being held. 35 of them are eligible for release today. once they're cleared and they find some nation willing to accept them. ten of them currently face discipline or criminal charges, and quite frankly, pentagon officials labeled these ten as unlikely ever to be released because they include some of the top al qaeda leaders and at least five of them were directly involved in the 9/11 attack on the u.s. and 46 of them are currently in a periodic review to determine what kind of criminal charges they should be -- have filed against them. or whether they should be put in the list eligible for release. but the only thing really new in today's planned release is the fact that they put a dollar figure on it, that it would cost some $465 million to build a facility up to, to build a facility in the united states, but ultimately, it would save $180 mill

that is expected to be a topic the obama administration reopened tie was cuba in 2014 and since that time the number of cubans leaving has doubled. the president addressed that today. >> we will be addressing the migration issue. our focus is on how can conditions improve in cuba so that overtime there is more economic opportunity and less leave. >> some of those who have left are right here in the triangle. we have their story. >> reporter: the president -- or the obama administration also made another important statement today saying has no plans to change a 50 year old policy that basically guarantees anyone cuban who gets one foot on united states land can stay in the country may be the reason behind the recent spike in cubans coming to the united states. >> his english isn't important but jorge is working on it because this is the language of his new home. he left cuba in june on a boat with 235 25 others. for nine days it floated in the sea. it was really hard he says and then one day they found land. fishermen told them it was belize. authorities put him in jail for illegally

he also criticized hillary clinton at the obama administration policies. [applause] >> let's go marco rubio. [applause] > >> we are endorsing senator marco rubio for president. we are day one supporters. and we have the t-shirts to prove it. our interest in marco rubio began in 2012 when he addressed the republican national convention. after hearing that inspiring speech, we were hoping he would make a decision to run in 2016 and he has not let us down. we identify with his background because we are also first-generation americans.

i think that the pattern that the obama administration has followed over the past seven and some years has been to galvanize international reaction to get a coalition of people together. now it's interesting that just a week from tomorrow monday, later in february, the president of the u.s., obama, will be hosting an asian summit, the meetings of the heads of asian leaders and china's pretty president xi jinping is pektd to be there. so there is an opportunity there for a one-on-one discussions and negotiations between the leader of the u.s. and the leaders of china as well as japan and south korea to discuss this issue at that meeting which will take place on 15 and 16 february. in terms of the previous reaction that we've had from the u.s. on this, they have slapped numerous sanctions and also in the past, they have tried the carrot approach rather than the stick approach. none of those have worked right now. it gets to the question of what they can do here. you mentioned those diplomatic moves earlier. are there further economic sanctions that they can apply towards north korea? >>

dan: i'm hopeful that it will close by the end of the obama administration. i think people in the a ministration are likewise opal that it will close. -- people in the administration are likewise hopeful that it will close. a similar point that i made at the outset -- you just have to take my word for this, but when i went to work every day, i do not go to work because i was trying to violate the law. or perpetuate this lawless zone. i went to work because i believed in the constitution. i believe in our government. i believe in national security. people went to work every day and worked hard to fix this problem. it is a hard problem. there are legal and classification complexity. it is a hard problem. you don't want to release people willy nilly that are dangerous. on the other hand, you don't want to keep them any longer than absolutely necessary. you want to transfer them with conditions in place to make sure that they do not reengage in terrorism. people in government are working in good faith as hard as they can to get it done. wells: i too am hopeful th

had been the obama administration. we haven't had a legal remedy. it's awfully and would take a figures i hope we get them out before the. the important thing, and i would like to reestablish, i think the fact that the d.c. circuit has said that the people at guantÁnamo bay due process is appalling. unlike reverse that. can i raise one other question back at you ask i think the real issue of guantÁnamo is a security panel, is we may be talking to the choir here. everybody might agree with this but a lot of people in this country feel, they might not like it but they feel that we need a place outside the law to deal with terrorism. they feel we need torture. i ask you, i mean, my feeling has always been that we don't, that ultimately it hurts us. we are much better off and we are stronger by sticking to principles. i don't know why we always abandoned the. from a security standpoint those people out in the country think we need a little torture. i might not like it but i like this place when we can put muslims where t

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nathan: i think the obama administration is trying to save a law that they know is failing everybody. first and foremost, the obama administration has always put the emphasis on their metrics of success, which is putting an insurance e card in everyone's hand. the premium increases was less important to them. sharyl: in round numbers, 10 million have gotten expanded medicaid, 4 million people have picked up insurance buying their own policies, and 3-4 million are young adults covered on their parents' plans. but nobody's counting how many previously-insured are now going without, like janet hill. she's paying a price -- a $325 penalty tax in 2015. $695 this year. insurance. janet: exactly. aryl: there's a penalty that comes with that. janet: i'm aware of that. sharyl: you're just gonna have to pay the penal? janet: that's all l can do. i cannot afford insurance. sharyl: there's another downside. she broke her shoulder and says she just has to live with it because doctors won't see her without insurance. and meantime you have a broken shoulder? janet: yes, this was fractured. because i

katie: well, you know, look, the obama administration has been broiled in scandal for years, you know, ever since president obama came into office. he promised he'd be the most transparent president in the history of the country. obviously, we don't want to be transparent with military intelligence, that's not something that we want. but when you're talking about reports about intelligence being deliberately changes to show -- changed to show a rosier picture of what's going on when the administration publicly is saying to the american people things are going great, that is putting political calculations above national security and has huge implications on not only national security of the united states, but on how we handle the threat as a whole. and you can't, you know, take care of the threat if you're not willing to acknowledge it. for the president to, quite frankly, lie to the american people when they're talking about the fact that isis is being contained when clearly they're not, that really serves as a real problem about what their priorities are and how seriously they take u

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nathan: i think the obama administration is trying to save a law that they know is failing everybody. first and foremost, the obama administration has always put the emphasis on their metrics of success, which is putting an insurance e card in everyone's hand. the premium increases was less important to them. sharyl: in round numbers, 10 million have gotten expanded medicaid, 4 million people have picked up insurance buying their own policies, and 3-4 million are young adults covered on their parents' plans. but nobody's counting how many without, like janet hill. she's paying a price -- a $325 penalty tax in 2015. $695 this year. and so you're doing without insurance. janet: exactly. sharyl: there's a penalty that comes with that. janet: i'm aware of that. sharyl: you're just gonna have to pay the penal? janet: that's all i can do. i cannot afford insurance. sharyl: there's another downside. she broke her shoulder and says she just has to live with it because doctors won't see her without insurance. and meantime you have a broken shoulder? janet: yes, this was fractured. because i do

. >> caltrain plans to electrify the system is getting a boot from the obama administration much the white house were whats to earmark $125 million for the protect. the new trains would let caltrain carry 100,000 extra passengers a day. and cut pollution. the president's 2017 budget still has to be approve by congress. >> a man visiting the nfl experience in san francisco last week found a pair of tickets to the super bowl. he tried to fine the owner but

this creates something a dilemma for the obama administration and the senate who must confirm a new justice. it appears he has passed at the age of 79. >> mike, what do we know about his health? >> reporter: we didn't know much about his health leading up to this. there had been some reports of some heart issues in the past. many of the justices obviously are gietting older. his good friend, ruth bader ginsburg, the two of them known to be as thick as thieves, she a liberal justice but she is much older than scalia. to our knowledge, we haven't really known of anything that would be, i guess, for lack of a better phrase, life-threatening when it comes to scalia, that's probably why it's coming as such a shock. >> you had mentioned the texas governor, greg abbot weighed in already and this is what he had to say: >>> let's go ahead and bring in lisa stark who covers the supreme court for us. what are the implications for the court? >> reporter: these are enormous as you know, the court is divided by 5-4 often with justice kennedy being smack in the middle going between the liberal and conserv

leading the obama administration's efforts to raise sexual assault awareness. we are the only place you can see the glamour and glitz of the academy awards. coverage begins at 7:00 p.m.. no fear if you're not near a tv. download the watch abc app and we will have a wrapup of the night for you on eyewitness news at 11:00. steve: i'm a huge fan of chris rock. i can't wait to see what he says this year. tisha: there is a lot happening straight ahead. robbed a bank and apex, >> hi given everyone. >> like a modern day bonnie and clyde. a cary couple charged for robbing a banker. >> the husband and wife faces a judge. he joins us live outside of the wake county with all the detail details. >> reporter: while most of us were hunkered down by the storm, apex police say this couple was robbing a bank there. this is not the first time 36-year-old aaron wagoner faces a judge on charges of stealing. this is the most serious charge wagoner has faced. other three are misdemeanor stops in durham where wagoner is currently on probation. he was arrested at the wells

this came weeks after the obama administration promised to bring some ten thousand refugees into the country. he was one of the governors quick to say not in our state. three days later the governor said this. >> what i request as governor so that we learn exactly who these people r what their backgrounds are, and we know exactly where they're being potential threats, we know where to follow through. >> the move won both praise special teams criticism but so far the request has gone ignored by the obama administration. a handful of refugees have moved to north carolina since november the 13. governor's opposition mark baker. >> in terms of north carolina, it's really small. attacks. 70 since the syrian refugee crisis began. what was governor was talking act was security. what we saw when we asked for written communications from his office which we got last week, they were reacting from call ands from lawmakers we saw them circulating news reports saying we better react to this in some way. >> what kind of push back to the governor's office receive? >> it came pretty quickly right awa

laws the obama administration considers underconstitutional. >> it is well within -- smack dab in the core of his responsibilities as commander in chief to be able to say i want to move for conditions related to our war objectives and because it's terribly expensive, i want to move this detainee from this military facility to another facility. >> reporter: but whatever happens, it's legal and moral problems still require attention. >> what are the next steps that need to be taken to actually close it down? >> reporter: obviously congress is going to be taking a close look at this plan, and going to probably try to come up with legislation either endorsing the obama administration's plan or rejecting it. let's review the four steps which though administration say comprise this plan, one finding place for the 35 men who have been cleared for release from guantanamo. that process is being negotiated between the u.s. government and other governments. we won't know which governments they are until these men have been resaddled. that's a long-standing practice. there is another 46 men who h

then probably the most disturbing example is the aim by the obama administration that it actually has the ability to target even american citizens for extrajudicial assassination, to kill anybody a president decides without a whit of transparency is guilty of terrorism, a power that not even george bush and dick cheney attempted. you see the worsening of this trend rather than the curtailment. i think that is also unique. importation ofhe the war that i just described onto american soil progressively as we move further away from 9/11. one of the things that made the post 9/11 theories of dick cheney and george bush so extremist is there is no more limitless power that a president han the power he can exercise during a theater of war. on a battlefield, there really is no law. everybody acknowledges that. terrorist say when men take up arms, law false. more is the ultimate expression of lawlessness in limitless powerful stuff on the battlefield, people shoot each other without having trials or due process. everyone agrees that is war to nobody thinks soldiers have to give opposing soldi

it will not be complete by the end of the obama administration. that has to change. have 10 people who have charges against the right now who have already been convicted. and you see a similar scenario. as an outsider, from a policy perspective, you have a preference for military commissions rather than article three federal court prosecutions. it seems to us to be a holdover from the failed effort to bring the 9/11 defendants to new york several years ago. right? from that point on, there does not seem to have been any appetite to try to transfer men out of commissions or to bring to federal court or even to bring new charges in federal court. i will say it again. the president has the power, in our view, to do some of these things. right? in terms of federal court, there are possible avenues to bring people to federal court if that is something that needs to happen. again, just one specific example -- there are detainees in guantanamo who i suspect would plead guilty in federal court. people who are now uncharged. people like abu zabeda. right? i don't represent hi

his trip coming after the obama administration opened ties with cuba at the end of 2014. no american president has been to cuba since calvin coolidge and 1928. president obama says it is part of an effort to improve the lives steve: of the cuban people. steve:president obama saying little about his supreme court nominee to replace antonin scalia a. tisha: joe biden is giving some insight. radio that president obama is looking to nominate someon liberal jurist and the nation and put them on the court. steve: tragedy for a tree state dot. the workers were putting out roadwork sides when a car went crashing into the employees standing behind the truck. nicole on the scene. >> that the them in this accident was standing near this would chip or when he was struck and killed. here are the images from the accident. the victim identified as tony woods. he was working with the company, dot contractors, putting out signs at the time of the accident, getting ready to do some tree trimming work. police say that they believe the driver who struck woods had some sort of medical conditi

so much so it was recently revealed a couple months ago by the new york times the obama administration has adopted a new definition of militants, which says that any military aged male and a strike zone, meaning any male who dies above the age of 16 or below the age of 55, is automatically deemed a militant without knowing anything else about them. this is how we have come to think about muslims, to the extent we think about them all, they die at the hands of our violence justifiably because even when we don't know anything about them, we assume they are militants or terrorists. this has been so indoctrinated for so many years in the mindset of americans that i think it really distinguishes this form of persecution from prior once. i don't mean it i mean it is a unique form of how this persecution is justified. another unique attribute of the current persecution campaign is that as we move further away from the precipitating event, in justifypitated the abuses, the 9/11 attack, the injustices actually worsen. to become more extreme, not less. what is amazing about that, if you look at

the obama administration hant -- hasn't done anything about it. they captured two boats. these were lightly armored naval vessels with two .50 caliber machine guns. one became disabled and they drifted into iranian waters. the iranians reacted as if it was some kind of invasion by america. they humiliated these sailors. instead of standing up for our naval personnel, basically we thanked the iranians for being so nice to people that they captured at gunpoint in violation of international law. but it goes to a deeper point. the iranians are letting everybody in the region know they're not changing their behavior, that this nuclear deal, don't mistake us having a nuclear agreement with a behavior change. that the ayatollah and his hench men are still in charge. they're not part of the family of nations. since the deal has been signed, they fired missiles in violation of u.n. resolutions. thefer on the ground helping thd helping the butcher of damascus. they are still the state sponsor of terrorism. and this is just the cherry on top of all of that misbehavior. one thing i d

elias: today, the obama administration down to congress. has long-vowed to close the prison facility. opposed previous plans down. proposal involves transferring most of the detainees to other countries. those too travel will be held in the u-s. sabrina: elias: number four... sabrina: in flint, michigan, an analysis says that more than eight-thousand lead pipes are present in the city's water system. now that officials have an idea of the extent of lead pipes, the process now begins in removing them. finding the problem pipes has been difficult, as researchers had to comb through decades old city records that didn't clearly identify which pipes were lead. sabrina: elias: and finally... you'll want to know about this story in the big five... elias: a date has now been set for a final decision on the permits pipeline. the iowa utilities board will meet either on march 9th or the tenth to give their final say on the project. state regulators have spent months hearing from the public and researching the proposed pipeline's impact on iowa. sabri

suction states are -- six states are suing the obama administration over it. they are taking issue with the health insurance provider fee which covers federal subsidies. it says nothing in the language provided notice that the states would also have to pay the fee. concern for three pregnant women that tested positive for the zika virus. all believed to be travel. it is rapidly spreading in latin mark. scientists are studying the babies born with unusually small heads. 32 cases have been report the in florida of zika. john: musical night at the white house with a contribute to ray charles. celebrating the iconic music man from georgia t. is the 16th and final music tribute program to take place at the white house during the obama administration. it featured performances by usher, lee on bridges, demi lovato and others. barbara: what a line-up there. john: much calmer today. barbara: yes. don: nice day shaping up. it is still windy. you may feel them pull on your car but we are not seeing any rainfall and that's good. looking at temperatures the next several da

what is the thinking with the obama administration here? >> the obama administration will fulfil their constitutional obligation and appoint someone in the next few weeks, they said repeatedly they want a consensus pick, they won't try to drive a wedge, they know this is a tough time for the republicans and they want to get this done. this is a signal they are looking far afield and really want to try to bring somebody forward to can get the support of republicans. liz: i am reading the washington post headline, floating brian sandoval's name for the supreme court and a maverick role of republicans? why would they say that? is more of a centrist republican. >> he raised taxes, he has got a lot of criticism for that. obama is many things, a crafty way to handle this, he could have picked a left-wing judge, and republicans say we don't want a left-wing judge to flood the courts. an actual member of the same party. >> mitch mcconnell, no way at all. >> it will be hard for a pr standpoint to say we won't hold a hearing for someone who is a sitt