washington last week. and with certainly on a agenda for initial talks the secretary kerry i think has been between the prime minister and president obama doesn't list of course at the top of the enthusiasm of the very hard work of our officials and posts around the world actually of implementing more free trade agreement. around the world where you have. of course two years ago concluded the one with south korea which now which political agreement on a free trade agreement with singapore. close to concluding agreement with canada. it is estimated that in the united states free trade agreement could add two to three percent to the of both sides of their lands that apparent barriers are not high but non-tariff barriers all stance on removing those that are very positive economic factors. so this is this is actually a large part of the work and emphasis on this. and as that has gotten between the united states. rather than between the british government in the united states. exhibit whom are you willing as a favor and then that little go to see a of such an agreement could crave the comp

network, chase kerry, on the call, says that think they have a unique combination of rights and assets. he said that the dodgers were too rich for their blood but they are trying to figure out how to make the most of the rights they do have, like nascar, baseball, element set that. that is something that is interesting analysts on the call. >> thank you so much. interesting contrast, as we got disney results that were much better than expected. setting a fresh record high in today's session. >> i thought -- you mentioned price action on apple, the price action on disney today wasn't great. it traded up, made an all-time high and sort of floated down the rest of the day. it's lower now maybe on the back of news corp. monster volume day in the name. i thought the quarter was great, i like the stock, i think in terms of the way it's trading, feels like i wants to trade lower from here. >> the move on news corp. here, it is off, we're just a whisper away from its 52-week high. the stock has been doing well. >> 24 to 28. >>> let's hit pops and drops, big movers of the session. a pop for cum

figure out how much, this is neither here nor there, but teresa heinz kerry still has a lot of heinz stock, and it was a good day for john when he got, you know, confirmed. but this has got to be even a better day. and i looked at their tax rate last year, and i forget -- she's worth about a billion dollars. 12%. and that's exactly what warren's talking about when you have -- >> that 20% premium is an all-time high. >> off of an all-time high. are they dancing? i don't know at this point. but that will put a bounce in the secretary of state's step today i would think. that's interesting, warren. so now i'm just think you're going to buy every like brand name consumer product, consumer goods company, and you're a great investor but this doesn't seem like it takes that -- you don't really need to be that smart to do this, do you? >> i've absolutely got a deal. i look for it. you have to be smart to do a deal, forget it, i won't be there. >> warren, real quickly. the price is $27.50 on this. >> right. >> we're looking at the stock which is trading at $72.95. are you going to pay an extr

the wake of israeli elections. he's got a new secretary of state in john kerry. he's going to try to jump-start the peace process. this was an issue that was a sticking point for some critics of the president during the 2012 campaign because he had not visited israel as president. he has as a candidate. now the white house is confirming he is going to go. we did not get timing on the trip. an israeli newspaper reported it would take plagues in march maybe. >> thank you very much, john harwood. >> get ready, america. do we have mileagegate part two ahead? another report suggests your car may not be getting miles per gallon promised. >> the tale of two chinas, two american companies out with polar opposite headlines on how their business is in the world. we're going to dig in and deep. my mother made the best toffee in the world. it's delicious. so now we've turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen. i'm janet long and i formed my toffee company through legalzoom. i never really thought i would make money doing what i love. [ robert ] we created

sequester comes out as a result of the deal. the administration says to do that we need revenue, kerry interest for private executive and oil and gas tax incentives. a number of things they want to do, republicans say absolutely not. you got your tax increase, we're not going to do it. >> lindsey graham said i would go along with revenue increases if it was part of a couple things. one, a broader tax reform. two, a serious effort on the part of the other party to grapple with entitlements. >> interesting he said he would accept the $600 billion in revenue that the administration wants. the problem with that is, it's interesting lindsey graham says it. he's got a lot of defense people in the state, doesn't want defense cuts. he would move a little bit. in order to do that, big changes in social security, medicare, a lot of changes. change in retirement, change in the way we calculate social security benefits, none of the things democrats are willing to do. sort of pie in the sky to say revenue increases in return for demands. >> quick final thought. did you hear anything out of bernanke

winners of the deal, the new secretary of state, john kerry. john harwood with more. >> nice payday for secretary of state, john kerry. according to financial disclosure forms personally owns $500,000 in stock. his wife teresa heinz kerry who had been married to john heinz of the heinz fortune inherit add whole lot of heinz stock. much of it was for her children. on financial disclosure forms secretary of state indicated within 90 days she was going to differencest herself of a lot of the heinz holdings not the marital trust she established. we don't know exactly what it means for teresa heinz and larger heinz -- or heinz kerry family. but john kerry himself got a nice little bonus today. >> thanks, john. >> we've got a lot of deals going on today, one we haven't mentioned too often involving constellation brands anheuser busch, enbev, potential remedy to doj problems anheuser busch had to acquire 50% of a group they didn't own. let's get to that and i want to bring up dell as well. we've had interesting developments there also. as for the deal, it's having a positive impact on cons

john kerry will now take over as secretary of state. so a lot of changes here for barack obama. obviously this is typical when you have a second term but of course it's a tricky period for any president to navigate because he's got those familiar faces now parting ways and he's got a whole new crew coming in. >> transportation, too, as my producer points out. and energy one of those that really does have implications for investing. thanks so much. >> yes. >> so is this rally going to continue? on the newsline this morning brian belsky the chief investment strategist with bmo capital markets, good morning to you. >> good morning, carl. thanks for having us. >> what do you make of today and everything that's led up to today starting at the beginning of the year? >> well, i tell you what. this is all about building, quote-unquote, street cred for equities again, rising stock prices do a lot with respect to making people feel better about the institution of equity investing. clearly, some asset allocation models have poured money back into stocks and that is why we've seen near ter

now in berlin new secretary of state john kerry is saying with regard to iran's program there is a diplomatic path. later he's set to meet with angela merkel. he met earlier with the nation's foreign minister. germany is the second stop on kerry's premiere diplomatic tour. he'll visit nine countries over 11 days. short time he insisted there is a diplomatic path to be forced with iran as six world powers began meeting today with iranian officials in kazhakstan. >>> president obama will be talking about the forced spending cuts, an estimated 40,000 civilian defense department jobs in the region could be furloughed if the cuts are not stopped. we'll get more from white house correspondent dan lothian. >> reporter: from the welders and sheet metal maintenance workers, washington's inability to avert deep cuts has left them uncertain about their futures. >> everybody's talking about it and worried. >> reporter: work on 13 ships at several of its sites would have to stop if a deal wasn't struck. >> if it goes fully and we run completely out of work, there will be a skeletal crew in here

kerry, now secretary of state, followed by the secretary of defense, leon panet panetta, the attorney general eric holder. all the cabinet will be there this evening except for one member. there's always one member who is designated to be in the bunker should the worst happen. and that member this evening is the departing energy secretary steven chu. so if the worst happens prepare for president steven chu. wolf blitzer, already saying that he welcomes president chu. >> steven chu, the energy secretary, the designated hitter god forbid in case of emergency. this will be one of theirs last official acts including, of course, the defense secretary leon panetta. momentarily we'll hear paul irving, the house sergeant at arms announce that the president of the united states is coming in with those very famous words, mr. speaker, the president of the united states. then the president will walk in. you see members of the cabinet walking in including dennis mcdonough, the new white house chief of staff, at the top of the screen. he's designated as a member of the cabinet, the white house chie

repainted for her successor, john kerry, but i'm here to tell you hillary clinton broke the law in paris. as evidenced by this picture. former french first lady carla bruni was a scofflaw, too. laura bush also a violator of parisian law. angela merkel likes to take the french to task, but she could have found herself in parisian hot water, as well. their crime? wearing pants. you see, for more than 200 years it has actually technically been illegal for a woman to wear trousers in paris unless official permission was granted. it seems that during the french revolution the lady revolutionaries took to wearing pants and the powers that be at the time wanted to put a swift end to that. so they made it illegal in 1800. amendments came over the years allowing women to dare to wear trousers for riding bikes or horses. but the law remained on the books until this week, when it was repealed by the minister for women's rights. the correct answer to our "gps" chall question was a, richard iii was a plantagenets. that dynasty ruled over britain

mother, her close friend julie morgan and kerry's sister julie pringle all were onboard the carnival triumph of. we can all laugh about this now and say it was the cruise from hell, et cetera, but i want to take you back to the moment where this began with a fire onboard and smoke in the hallways and the ship listing to the side. was there ever a moment when you truly did believe this was an extraordinary danger? >> we have said this before. in the beginning, we thought it was very scary. then i would say within, i don't know, a half hour, an hour, we realized that our lives weren't in immediate danger anymore, and it was just going to be a matter of figuring out what we were going to do next. >> i think that's what a lot of people have said. they worried and then they didn't. i'm trying to figure out, how did it come to pass that you went from being terrified to being extremely frustrated for a number of days? >> well, i think the lack of information initially, they just kept saying it's a little fire. we don't know. we don't know. so after a point, you just relax because you don't

while he was a 23-year-old staffer on john kerry's presidential campaign. >> out of this long political darkness a brighter day will come. thank you so much, everybody. god bless you. >> so they sent the poor kid in there to tell the keynote speaker that his favorite phrase would have to be removed from the speech and that was their introduction to each other. little did we know that that kid who ran that awful errand would end up being such an integral part of obama's future. >> reporter: obama hired favreau in 2005. when elected he made the then 27-year-old his chief speech writer. hotly pursued by the media, gq magazine then called favreau a facebooking frat boy. he was touching this cardboard cutout of hillary clinton. he apologized and got back to work. now after eight years together writing hundreds of speeches -- >> four years ago i was locked in a brutal primary battle with hill kri clinton. four years later she won't stop drunk texting me from cart at that haine in a. >> including could he meed dick ones like we saw at the white house correspondence dinner. he's leavi

the cia was talking about incoming secretary of state john kerry, incoming if he is confirmed secretary of defense chuck hagel and here is what he had to say about the new team. >> i think the new team thinks more like the president thinks when it comes to foreign policy. this is going to be a team that might not push back as much with regard to cuts or withdrawals or smaller footprints or reluctance to go with big footprints into new areas. >> i want you to tell me what your reaction is to that. do you see a new team coming in with a different attitude toward the president's policies? >> no, i really don't. i mean, after all, the president is the person who makes policy with regards to foreign affairs and defense policy. >> sure. but this was about pushback. the suggestion is you all do push back and this team might not. >> well you know, i've got to tell you, anybody who knows john kerry and anybody who knows chuck hagel, i've been with them in meetings and i've been with them in conferences, and i've been with them on issue debates, they push back. believe me, they push bac

the author of "inside the vatic vatican" in a minute. >>> john kerry is in london as part of his first international trip as america's top diplomat. he met with british prime minister david cameron as he introduces himself to some of the main u.s. allies. >> he's visiting nine countries as part of this 11-day trip. next stop germany. he also called the head of the syrian opposition group today to encourage him to come to the friends of syria meeting in rome. >> wow. the opposition group said on friday it would boycott that meeting because of a lack of support from the international community. >> we are determined that the syrian opposition is not going to be dangling in the wind, wondering where the support is or if it's coming. and we are determined to change the calculation on the ground for president assad. >> in new orleans the federal government and an army of lawyers for oil giant bp are ready to battle it out. a trial getting under way. >> bp wants to limit the civilian penalties it's got to pay for the worst oil spill in u.s. history almost three years ago. billions of do

and john kerry and his road to the state department. kerry was confirmed as new secretary of state by 93-4 vote last week. many people assumed kerry was the second choice for the job after ambassador susan rice. kerry said this, quote, he called me actually a week before susan rice got out of the thing. he calendar me and said you're my choice. i want you to do this. he asked me to keep it quiet. i did. i sat on it. remember, a few weeks before susan rice pulled out several senators said they would block her confirmation because of her comments on the benghazi tragedy. >>> a key republican said he'll back chuck haggle. nebraska senator johanns is the second to commit. his decision followed a private meeting hagel would defend israel. hagel himself a republican and former nib senator was criticized for his testimony. he's expected to make more calls on capitol hill. >>> top catholic leader in los angeles has relieved retired cardinal roger mahoney of public and administrative duties. archbishop gomez says he's punishing his predecessor for miss handling sex abuse claims, although some

, the cab driver and a passenger in the car all killed. >>> secretary of state john kerry in london right now as part of his first international trip as america's top diplomat. today kerry met with british prime minister david cameron as he introduces himself to some of the main allies of the united states. kerry is visiting nine countries as part of the 11-day trip. his next stop, germany. >>> well, here's something you don't see every day. police say a driver near houston lost control on a curve. he hit a house, went airborne, and landed upside down on the roof of a home. fuel leaked into the house. a crane operator had to be called in to remove the car. amazingly, no one in the car or in the homes were hurt. oh, hi there bill. hey! are you in town for another meeting? p, i brought my a-team. vo: business trips add up to family time. this is my family. this is joe. hi joe! hi there! vo: earn a ton of extra points with the double your hhonors promotion and feel the hamptonality. did you know not all fiber is the same? citrucel is different- it's the only fiber for regularity that w

president obama demanding hagel's name be withdrawn. >>> new secretary of state john kerry hits the road today for the first time after he took over for hillary clinton. his 11-day meet and greet takes him to new england, after taking him to germany and france as well. he'll start in egypt and saudi arabia. >>> north korea is threatening, quote, miserable destruction ahead of routine military exercises between the u.s. and south korea. similar threats have been made by north korea in the past. but these latest warnings come on the heels of the country's nuclear tests just two weeks ago. south korea's military is already in heightened state of alert. >>> it's the daytona 500 today. all the talk this week has been about one driver, that woman, danica patrick. we'll take you live to the track. [ female announcer ] roc® retinol correxion max. the power of roc® retinol is intensified with a serum. it's proven to be 4x better at smoothing lines and deep wrinkles than professional treatments. roc® max for maximum results. and deep wrinkles than pdad: you excitedtments. for youyeah.st day? â™

secretary kerry as you have been for me. and that you will continue to serve president obama and our nation with the same level of professionalism and commitment that i have seen firsthand. >> she is talking about senator john kerry, sworn in today as the nation's 68th secretary of state. daughter chelsea was there, too, tweeting a photo with her mom. the caption reading, thankful i shared her last day, hash tag sos, hash tag, proud daughter. >> former new york city mayor ed koch has died of congestive heart failure. after the three-term mayor left office in 1989. he practiced law and served as a judge on the syndicated show "the people's court." he also appeared in other tv shows as himself and was a newspaper columnist, too. he was 88. >> the dow industrial is closing above 14,000 today for the first time since october of 2007. the big gains are linked to strong economic reports. >>> and archeologists believe they may have found the remains of king richard ii in this grave site. he's the last british king to die in battle more than five centuries ago. the area is now a parking lot

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kerry made his first speech and said there is no such thing as foreign policy. that everything foreign impacts on america's domestic affairs. >> another one is argo poster over here is signed and a photograph of me and tony mendez, a hero in the cia that helped get out our six hostages from the canadian embassy. >>> i came here purposefully to underscore that in today's global world, there is no long every anything foreign about foreign policy. more than ever before, the decisions we make from the safety of our shores don't just ripple outward, they also create a current right here in america. >> secretary of state john kerry offering his view on u.s. foreign policy, his interview with former president jimmy carter, john kerry has a point. almost everything america does on the foreign stage these days does have a direct exact back home. >> the morning of president obama's inauguration, john kerry and his wife came to my hotel room and we had a long conversation about the future of america and of foreign policy, and he expressed the same sentiments to me at the time. >> did you

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limp across the finish line to get confirmed. i don't believe this is obstructionist. john kerry just got confirmed a week or two ago for secretary of state, 96, 97 positive votes in his favor, but the cabinet is in chaos right now because of so many resignations, and i think we have another seven or eight to confirm. >> what about john brennan then, nominated to be head of the cia. he's had his hearings. >> had his hearings. not come up for a vote. there are questions by both democrats and republicans, questions about drones, questions about benghazi, lots of questions both sides of the aisle so they are not making a political statement on him because democrats have legitimate questions that they want answers to. >> what is your state of mind when it comes to a confirmation vote on brennan? >> i still want to review the hearing. they have classified hearings and then those that are not classified. i've seen the public. i want to read some of the other information. >> are you leaning one way or the other? not at this point. >> how about jack lew, treasury secretary? >> jack lew, a lon

, like kerry washington for example, and i'm really proud of them. they do a wonderful job. i am still stunned at how few women directors are represented at the oscars. there's even fewer this year than last year, i mean, one. that's something we have to do something about. where are the women in hollywood? >> why is that? >> i'll tell you why it is, because women are not in positions of decision-making power any more than they are in television, as you know well. you're a woman on screen, but the people who make the decisions are men, and they're all upstairs. the men who run the studios for the most part, they want to hire people that look like them. it's a familiar, safe thing. it's not they don't take chances. they very often a big studio will hire a man who has never made a feature film before to make a $200 million film. but women don't get hired. they do documentaries, they do independent movies. when men and women graduate from ucla film school, the men get agents and managers right away, the women don't. it's not a level playing field and it has to be. the reason it has to be

shredding truck was spotted on the property. >>> well, it is official, john kerry now the u.s. secretary of state. he was sworn in yesterday by supreme court justice as the top diplomat. he succeeds hillary clinton. and the now former secretary of state is waking up to a brand new life. but as she herself says, she may be calling up the state department to find out what's going on there. they packed the state department for her farewell. held signs saying thank you and cheered and applauded clinton. cnn's jill dougherty is at the state department. >> reporter: randi, secretary clinton's last day at the office included meetings, farewells, and a crisis. on her last afternoon as secretary of state, an emotional farewell to the state department staff hillary clinton led for four years. >> i will miss you, i will probably be dialing ops just to talk. i will wonder what you all are doing because i know that because of your efforts day after day, we are making a real difference. >> but early friday morning, even before she left her house, reports of a suicide bombing outside the u.s

military aid and training. secretary of state john kerry was scheduled to at the end that meeting in rome. we will stay on top of that story for you. today, we got a dire warning to expect nightmares at the nation's airports. >> yes, it is because of the forced spending cuts that we have been talking about scheduled to hit every level of federal government one week from today. renee marsh has been looking into this, and the direct impact on consumers and anyone who wants to get on a plane. >> yes, kate and wolf, the most information that we have gotten so far from the federal government. we now know more about what kind of impact consumers can expect to see. $600 million slashed from the faa's budget and the head of the department of transportation paints a doom and gloom p piict for flyers. >> reporter: a gummed up transportation system could be weeks away. >> flights to major cities like new york, chicago and san francisco and others could experience delays of up to 90 minutes. >> reporter: it is all part of how the transportation department says they will have to deal with the loo

, david petraeus' replacement, john brennan and secretary of state john kerry, he's still finding his way around the state department. what are they leaning to in terms of arming the sunni rebels. >> the president is still pretty much leaning totally against directly arming the rebels with u.s. military equipment. they're getting nonlethal aid, some computers, phones, humanitarian assistance, several hundred million dollars to the rebels. but as far as weapons are concerned, i think the boobama administration, the president of the united states, together with the european allies, they're reluctant to do it, afraid those weapons might get into the wrong hands. some of the rebels might be affiliated with al qaeda, for example. if you provide weapons to some of these groups they could wind up endangering potentially israeli aircraft in the vicinity. the airment in favor of it is, bashar al assad's regime has been brutal. hundreds of thousands refugees, thousands dead. more than a million misplaced. the president rejected the advice of his top national security advisers a few months a

confirm the authenticity of the clips. >> happening right now in germany, secretary of state john kerry is in berlin. his first trip to germany as the nation's new top diplomat. it's one stop on his 11-day, nine-country tour. kerry will hold a series of high level meetings with german officials including chancellor angela merkel. >> you want to ward off the stroke or a heart attack? i think the answer to that is yes from everyone. the mediterranean diet is the twi go. that's what a just published study found. in fact, the benefits were so clear, so clear that spanish researchers say they decided to end the study early after about five years saying it would be unethical not to end it. they followed more than 7,000 people with heart disease, risk factors, some followed up a low fat diet with those who followed a mediterranean die wet extra-virgin olive oil or nuts and even wine at dinner, seven cups a week, by the way, were 30% less likely to suffer a heart attack, stroke, or death associated with cardiovascular disease. >> i laugh. this has been around for so long. folks talking about the m

down to business. john kerry spent a busy weekend on the phone with palestinian and israeli leader, plus officials in japan, south korea and turkey. all that was before he officially said hello to the state department staff today. >> here's the big question before the country and the world and the state department after the last eight years. can a man actually run the state department? i don't know. as the saying goes, i have big heels to fill. >> hillary clinton, condoleezza rice, madeleine albright. he certainly, certainly does. we're getting new details about the shooting of a best-selling author. you're going to find out why the man being held for allegedly killing american sniper author chris kyle had to be tased in his jail cell. >>> plus, the story behind the presidential photo a lot of people seem to have an opinion on. ories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? and with all the points i've been earning, i was able to get us a flight to our favorite climbing spot even on a holiday weekend. ♪ things are definitely looking up. [ male announcer ]

kerry kicked off his first week as a top diplomat by speaking to leaders in the middle east. secretary of state john kerry sat down with benjamin netanyahu and spoke about the recent elections. and he spoke with mahmoud abbas about the relationship between the palestinians and israel. >> did you hear we have some good news? >> slept. i can't wait. >> i think it's great news. it is in the world of weather today. deliver. deliver for us. >> it finally does. i have good news for you. for those of us who have been so cold, we're getting to a slow warmup. temperatures above average in d.c. 47 by wednesday. here's the story, a pattern change as we go throughout the week. so we will be talking about the jet stream in the northeast e and warming us up on the eastern half of the country. almost pay back, right? obviously we're going to be warming much more down in the south. look at these temperatures. houston today well above normal at 75 degrees. new orleans, temperatures in the 70s. just want to mention even though we're going to be warming up. showers towards mississippi valley a

the iranian foreign minister said he hopes a new secretary of state john kerry will work toward softening washington's policies toward iran. hillary clinton has said good-byes to colleagues at the state department. >> i am so grateful that we've had a chance top contribute in each of our ways to making our country and our world stronger, safer, fairer, and better. >> john kerry was sworn in yesterday and brings in the doughnuts for his new job monday morning. good mof. but a cnn political ed other tore paul steinhauser explains the hot topic is what could happen in four years. >> hey, miguel. it's the biggest question in presidential politics. will she run? the she, of course, is now former secretary of state hillary clinton. when asked in a global town hall a few days ago if she was thinking of making another bid for the white house, this was her answer. >> i am not thinking about anything like that right now. >> here's what she said the same day in an interview with cnn. >> have you decided that you absolutely will not run? >> well, i have absolutely no plans to run. >> no pla

last four years, and her successor, john kerry, will be signed into office. >>> and then a vocal supporter for alternative energy, and that made him the target of some conservatives and oil. why is he stepping down? do we know? >> reporter: he served a full term and it's not unusual for a cabinet member to say it's time to get out, and the president wants to look at the energy policy reform and it wouldn't hurt for him to have somebody in that position that is not a prize-winning scientist, but somebody more politically savvy and can help navigate congress. >> have we heard from the president or the white house on his resignation? >> reporter: yes, jay carney opened up his speech saying thousand, and the president said thanks to steve we expanded support for our brightest engineers and ontras they pursu ground breaking innovations. i am grateful that steve agreed to join in my cabinet and i wish him all the best in the future. the stimulus bill had millions for green energy ventures including new batteries and the u.s. has sort of pioneered some of the new inventions. >> it will

honor. >> hillary clinton hands over her office to former massachusetts senator john kerry who will undoubtedly be meeting all of these important people to whom she's been spending so much time in the last four years. john kerry's nomination to the post was, of course, confirmed on tuesday of this week. ot with. [ ding ] oh, that's helpful! well, our company does that, too. actually, we invented that. it's like a sauna in here. helping you save, even if it's not with us -- now, that's progressive! call or click today. no mas pantalones! then you're going to love this. right now they're only $14.95! wow-a grt deal just got a whole lot better. hurry. $14.95 won't last. >>> this is the kind of week that my colleague carol costello lives for. it is officially called the super bowl, but ever since the baltimore ravens and the san francisco 49ers won the right to play for the nfl championship on sunday, it's been renamed the harbowl because it's been named off the harbaugh brothers, john and jim. they have been friendly rivals and they've been not-so-friendly rivals almost from the day th

far enough. america has a new top diplomat, john kerry is now secretary of state, succeeding hillary clinton. a majority of people we questioned in a poll in december said kerry taking over would be good for the country. kerry was easily confirmed by the senate. but the president's pick to take over as defense secretary is having a harder go at it. >> i'm not going to give you a yes or no answer. >> 48% of the americans we questioned last month say the senate should confirm former republican senator of nebraska chuck hagel who's come under criticism for his positions on the war in iraq. >> this super bowl matchup has it all. >> a new national poll suggests that neither the san francisco 49ers nor the baltimore ravens are favored among americans. when it comes to the super bowl, there's even a partisan divide. republicans are pulling for the 49ers and democrats are pretty much divides between the two teams. miguel? >> interesting, two university of texas coaches are accused of having affairs with students. but they're not getting the same punishment. longhorns women's track coach was

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outside the embassy in turkey yesterday. the turkish journalist was injured. >>> topping john kerry's agenda as america's new top diplomat. he was sworn in yesterday as the 68th secretary of state, succeeding hillary clinton. he plans to head to israel and egypt, possibly as soon as this month on his first overseas trip. >>> speculation has been swirling, well, for years, whether or not hillary clinton will make another run for president in 2016. she officially stepped down yesterday as secretary of state. here she is at the big sendoff for her. the washington rumor mill is churning more furiously than ever. here is political editor paul steinhauser. >> good morning, randi. the biggest question in presidential politics. will she run? the she, of course, is now former secretary of state hillary clinton. when asked at a global town hall a few days ago if she was going to make another bid for the white house, this was her answer. >> i am not thinking about anything like that right now. >> here is what she said the same day in an interview with cnn. >> have you decided you absolutely will

they get to the vatican, as catholic leaders prepare to pick a new pope. >>> john kerry is going to nine country us in 11 days. tee bee sides england, he will visit germany, turkey, egypt you saudi arabia, the united arab emirates and qatar. >>> there could be another addition to the president's cabinet this week. the u.s. senate is expected to vote on chuck hagel as secretary of defense. democrats believe they have the votes to confirm hagel, despite opposition to the pick from hagel's own republican party. >>> the president and congress go back to work this week and high on their agenda, the forced spending cuts, if they don't reach a budget deal by friday, $85 billion across-the-board cut goes into effect. this will have an impact for all of us, meats inspection, public safety, longer lines at security checkpoints at the airport. candy crowley anchors "state of the union." you spoke with ray lahood, transportation secretary about the cuts. here is a portion of what he had to say. >> we are going to look at everything we possibly can to get to where we need to be, which is about $

. government but also in south korea. the new secretary of state, john kerry, spoke to the south korean foreign minister just moments ago about the latest nuclear test and now everybody is trying to get their diplomatic ducks in a row. everybody getting on the same page. there will be a security council meeting tomorrow morning, 11:00 eastern time. to discuss the next response and that is what the question is. what will the traffic there? will the chinese sign on to the tough resolution that the united states is looking for? will they set on to tough sanctions. it is unclear at this point what china will agree to and that is the best the u.s. can hope for in terms of getting anything out of the u.n. security council. then i also understand the united states is also discussing what kind of unilateral further sanctions it could put on north korea. may be something along the lines of the sanctions regime they have on iran or you squeeze north korea out of the international financial system. making it so difficult for north korea to do any type of business anywhere that maybe it can force a

those who buy gun s for those nt allowed to have them. >>> john kerry is off to a busy start. kerry spoke this weekend with leaders of israel and the palestinian authority. he also made calls to the foreign ministers of japan, south korea, around turkey. kerry was sworn into office on friday. >>> l.a.'s mayor says he's not interested in joining president obama's cabinet, at least for now. antonio villaraigosa shot down rumors he might be considered to replace outgoing transportation secretary ray lahood. vi ya rig -- >>> the boy scouts of america could decide to lift its ban on gay members as soon as tomorrow. the group holds its executive meeting this week in texas. republican governor rick perry of texas says there's no reason to change the ban. >> scouting is about teaching a substantial amount of life lessons, sexuality is not one of them. never has been, it doesn't need to be. >> governor perry, a former eagle scout, spoke yesterday before a statewide scout meeting. >>> this church in kansas city, missouri, leaves no doubt where it stands on the issue of gay boy scouts. under a

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kerry, what the president has is not a team of rivals. it's more a team of boosters. people he feels comfortable with. that's the way he's going, clearly, in the second term. not a lot of sort of outsiders that he doesn't know or feel will support him. >> we'll know when that final confirmation in the senate armed services committee -- >> we don't. although the chairman has said, you've had requests for more information about financial disclosure, this is more than is required. it's very clear that levin wants to get a vote going quickly. they'd like to have hagel confirmed by the 27th. >> gloria, thanks very much. >>> violent protests erupting on the streets of tunisia. lisa sylvester is monitoring that and some of the other top stories in "the situation room" right now. what's the latest? >> tunisia was held up as the model for the arab spring and positive change. but it can be hard sometimes for real change to take hold. tens o f thousands turned ut o for the funeral of a prominent official assassinated wednesday. riot police fired tear gas. it's left the country in turmoil,

john kerry hits the road for the first time since he took over for hillary clinton. his 1 1-day meet and greet starts in england before taking him to other key allies like germany and france. he will stop in egypt and saudi arabia. >>> north korea is threatening, "miserable destruction" ahead of routine military exercises between the u.s. and south korea. similar threats have been made by north korea in the past. but these latest warnings come on the heels of the country's nuclear tests just two weeks ago. south korea's military is already in a heightened state of alert. >>> cuban president raul castro is expected to be sworn in for another five-year term today or tomorrow, but just this past week, he joked about retiring. he told reporters, "i'm going to turn 82. i have a right to retire already. then he said, you don't believe me." he took over for his brother, fidel castro in 2008. his new term will last until 2018. >>> congress gets back to work tomorrow. the first thing on the agend saw the looming for spending cuts. house republicans won't act until the isn't votes on a plan. t

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. >> joining only two others to vote against john kerry for secretary of state, aggressively defending gun rights and trying to take down defense secretary nominee chuck hagel. >> i've covered the senate for a long time. it's unusual for a freshman to be this out spoken on a high profile issue. >> at the end of the day, i was elected to represent 26 million texans and to speak the truth. you know, i think a lot of americans are tired of politicians in washington and both parties who play games. >> the 42-year-old cuban-american, the first hispanic governor from texas memorized the constitution as a teenager, thanks to his father, a cuban refugee. cruz became solicitor general of texas, arguing for state's rights and religious freedom before the u.s. supreme court. tea party activist bucked the gop establishment to help elect cruz and now see their hard work paying off. >> he's the total package. he's brilliant. he's a great messenger for ideas and he's a guy you never have to wonder how he's going to vote. >> conservatives here in texas who fuel behind tea party senate win he's been so

making our country and our world stronger, safer, fairer, and better. >> john kerry is now officially the country's 68th secretary of state. he was sworn in yesterday by supreme court justice elena kagan. the former senator will likely head to the middle east on his first overseas trip this month which stops in egypt and israel. >>> to your money now and a milestone for wall street, the dow ended the week above the 14,000 mark, the first time that's happened since october of 2007. a positive jobs report and strong news from consumers helped to push the market higher. >>> to pennsylvania now where people are gathered to see everyone's favorite groundhog. it is punxsutawney phil's big day. he loves the spotlight. groundhog day. the day where he pops out of his hole or whatever they keep him in now and he looks for his shadow. if he sees it, you know what that means? six more weeks of winter. but phil isn't the only one out there today. atlanta has general beauregard lee. buckeye chuck. all right. whole lot of groundhogs out there this morning. >> how come there are no girl groundhogs? >> yo

. >> american foreign policy is not defined by drones and deployments alone. >> reporter: john kerry, call, distinguished, gray-haired, son of a foreign service officer. >> trying to get some daylight between me and secretary clinton, that's not going to happen here today. >> reporter: as his confirmation hearing showed, the policy is likely to remain the same, but the personality will change. more straight laced with a hint of humor. >> i'm taking it for the red sox, taking it for the patriots. >> reporter: and that personality of hillary clinton in a way, i think you could say overshadows any job she's had. it will be fascinating to watch this last day and then the days coming. >> jill, what are the plans today at the state department? like a big cake and a tearful good-bye, a party, what will happen? >> it will be like the very first day. i was there, i remember it very well. it will be at the c street entrance where they have the flags and she will say good-bye. could be quite emotional. don't know exactly what she will be saying, but obviously thanks and standing room only when