if they got susan collins support she'd be okay and susan collins came out and blasted susan rice. >> susan collins is interting because susan rice had a connection to main. what happens when someone is nominated for a position there is a senator from their home state who introduces them to the committee, and it was susan collins who introduced susan rice to the committee back in 2009, and you're quite right. there were some people like lindsey graham and john mccain who were against susan rice and i'm not sure anything was going to satisfy them. when she went to see a quite moderate republican like susan collins and she came out and said she had more questions than before the meeting. i've never seen when there's been a nomination -- even before there is a nomination somebody is going up and doing that nomination charm tour to try to grease the skids on this kind of a thing to make it easier to get the nomination. this she did before she was even named and it backfired terribly. she did badly in every session that she had with republicans and democrats. bill: let's move on now to the

. >> main republican senator susan collins after hearing from u.n. ambassador susan rice on capitol hill. she also tried to tie susan rice to the 1998 embassy bombings in kenya and tanzania. now, for a while it looked like senators graham mccain were going to give her past, but then she went up there to talk to these folks. why would she do that, nina? >> i don't know, but they keep moving the bar on her. initially they said did not like what she said, then petraeus said these are the facts we gave her but now a senator collins says she should not have gone on television at all. nobody said that about condoleezza rice when she used to go on sunday talk shows all the time to represent the administration's position, including an election year, and said things that were later proven to be not true that she may not have known that. she probably didn't know. >> senator collins also had nice things to say about john kerry as secretary of state is that what this is about? to put susan rice on the sidelines, bring kerry out of the senate, open up the massach

susan collins withdrawing support, who is a moderate. john mccain, lindsey graham from south carolina seemed more furious after they came here than beforehand. so it seemed pretty clear susan rice's nomination, if it were submitted, would be a serious fight that perhaps the president did not want at this point with so much else he's trying to get accomplished heading into his second term. >> gretchen: back to ed henry. i'm wonder, is john kerry cracking the champagne right now? >> there's no doubt. i was speaking to a democrat a few moments before the news broke who was telling me around town a lot of people in senator kerry's orbit are talking about the likely possibility. i will also add to our point about the dira

you mentioned susan collins and the sub slot about the possibility of a moderate republican having a second shot. scott brown to become senator from massachusetts. if you look back at the sweep of the last few weeks, that meeting with susan collins stands out as a crucial negative moment for susan rice. a lot of the discourse from the democrats about susan rice, she is a victim of sexism and/or racism and the extreme right of the party. then along comes a woman senator known as a moderate to give her a bad review on the meeting. i had the feeling at the time and i guess i have been vindicated that was the beginning of the end for susan rice. in recent days she started to take fire from environmentalists to being too close to keystone pipeline. she started to take fire from some human rights folk wos say when she was in the clinton administration she was too close to african-american -- african dictators too. in m straws on the camel's back. >> chuck makes a point that is the most loud cross -- he is not making it, but ludicrous talking points. the racist, sexism republicans were wait

but susan collins raised that exact question, which is, why were you putting the u.n. ambassador out there? gwen: and then defend her by saying, oh, she didn't know anything. >> right. and that's the point. >> saying she was doing what she was told. gwen: there are two questions here. one is whether in fact there's any precedent for the president's pick being rejected, if he were to pick her and whether there are the votes to do that. not clear yet. but also, just like with the fiscal cliff. is there something going on away from the cameras that's not going on in front of the cameras? are there conversations being held? are there, oh, come on, we know what we're going to do. is that happening on any level that we can tell? >> i think on the fiscal cliff, the president and john boehner spoke of the weekend. i think it was the second consecutive weekend when they spoke. 28-minute conversation, variously described as curt or short. people already suspect that boehner's strong reaction against the proposal that was sent up today was something they planned together, because

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. >> moderate republican senator susan collins still expressing doubts after meeting with u.n. ambassador susan rice and we are back with the panel. it's fair to say it sure seemed like susan rice was on a prenomination charm tour to try to disarm some of her republican senate critics and smooth relations before the president names her secretary of state. senator, why do you think it went so badly? she certainly didn't disarm the critics, and at this point do you think it would be a mistake for the president to name her secretary of state? >> why it went badly, chris, i don't know. i wasn't in the room. whether my friends, senator mccain and graham were willing to be charmed, that's a very open question. >> susan rice is a pretty steady hand. and i'm not saying that mccain and graham around but she plays it pretty much down the middle. >> the most concerning thing about this was susan collins. if the republicans choose to filibuster it, you need five votes and susan collins is one of them. that was somewhat concerning. i do think susan rice is getting a bum rap on this. and i w

. >> chris: moderate republican senator susan collins, still expressing doubts after meeting with u.n. ambassador susan rice, and we're back now with the panel, well i think it is fair to say, it sure seems like susan rice was on a pre-nomination charm tour, to try to disarm some of her republican senate critics and smooth relations before the president names her secretary of state. senator bayh, why do you think it went so badly? she certainly didn't disarm the critics and, at this point, do you think it would be a mistake for the president to go ahead and name her secretary of state? >> why it went badly, chris, i don't know, i wasn't in the room. whether my friends, senator mccain and graham were willing to be charmed, that is an open question. >> chris: but susan rice is a pretty steady hand and i'm not saying john mccain and graham aren't but she -- >> what interested me is susan collins, if the republicans choose to filibuster the nomination you need five republican votes and susan collins has to be one and the fact that she is expressing reservations is concerning, but i think,

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collins. by all accounts, that meeting did not go well at all, because according to a source familiar with that meeting, she didn't want to answer really basic questions and got frustrated and maybe even a little prickly at some of the basic questions. and after that, the feeling even among some democrats who talked to these republicans was they really weren't sure if she can't handle meetings with u.s. senators, how is she going to be on the world stage representing the u.s. there? so, that definitely was an issue. there's no question that the president in his statement made clear that he didn't think susan rice was treated fairly. there's no question there was politics at play here by republicans who were really, really angry about benghazi, and she illustrated that, but it was more than that. it was also personality driven, because democrats even think she is very smart and capable but maybe doesn't have the personality for the job. >> gloria, i heard you say earlier that you think ambassad

as it was reported, a 75-minute meeting with susan collins, the moderate republican from maine, and she was really the tipping point, senator collins. collins came out tremendously unimpressed with whatever went on in that meting and i think at that point the dye was cast for ambassador rice. >> it's expected that susan rice will get another big job at some point, there's talk about national security adviser if tom donovan leaves. and do you think that the gop could end up regretting susan rice taking her name out of contention? >> i don't think this was so much about ambassador rice, this was political, this was about benghazi, this is about the republicans trying to focus on something and making hay out of it. in terms of ambassador rice going up to the hill and making nice with senator mccain. moses couldn't play nice with senator mccain. if he gets it in his head that he doesn't like you, there's nothing going to change his mind. >> the point i was making was that nobody was going to change their mind based upon what senator mccain said or didn't say. >> the issue was you -- >> you

that the moderate republican from maine, susan collins. by all accounts that meeting did not go well at all according to a source familiar with that meeting. she really didn't want to answer really basic questions and got frustrated and maybe even a little prickly at some of the basic questions and after that, the feeling, even among democrats who talked to republicans is they weren't sure if she can't handle meetings with u.s. senators, how is she going to be on the world stage representing the u.s. there. so that definitely was an issue. there's no question that the president in his statement made clear that he didn't think susan rice was treated fairly. there are no questions that politics were at play here. she illustrated that. but it was more than that. also personality driven. even democrats think she is very smart, very capable but doesn't have the right personality for this job. >> gloria, earlier i heard you say that ambassador rice was probably underestimated by the club. what did you mean from that? >> that was from a democrat

collins, the very moderate senator from maine emerged to express her own reservations. she said she wouldn't put a hold or filibuster the nomination, i think that raised a red flag. and finally, dick durbin just said on sunday on "meet the press" he thought she could be confirmed if a vote came to that. obviously, we're not going to see whether durbin's prediction will come true. >> to the point you raised earlier and professor dyson just raised, professor dyson said we don't want to name it, but we have seen the attorney general eric holder pursued by republicans, and he's actually the subject of litigation now, and now what do we find but susan rice pursued in the way that she has been by senator john mccain and others. is there a theme here? >> reporter: i'm not going to go that far, martin. i think we live in such a partisan time that when you give someone an opportunity on the other side, a toehold, if you will, to wage this kind of fight in such a high-profile nomination, i think they're going to be taken. i have been back here on the senate for all of two days an

and the meeting with rice went badly and susan collins prides herself as a moderate thinks worse of you, you've done a bad job on the your presentation. and adam credo, the new website called the washington free beacon has millions of dollars in investments of companies linked to iran and rattled off the list and how she got confirmed as a u.n. ambassadorship and the romney campaign never noticing this as the issues of iran and weapons heating up and coming up in independent voices like the beacon, that maybe it will get-- it will derail her. >> jon: the media seem to be circling the wagons around here, judy. >> oh, yes, john mccain's racist theme has been picked up steam and regurgitated not just by people on nbc, "the washington post" editorial pointed out something astonishing to me, of the 90 people who signed the letter objecting to susan rice's nomination or potential nomination as secretary of state, 80 of them were male and about half of them came from states that used to have slaves a hundred years ago, and this was-- when this kind of reasoning gets into the mainstream media,

and really, i'm told that she, susan collins, did not get answers to basic questions that she was trying to get from susan rice. so that certainly did not help susan rice. it seemed to poison the well for her even more than it was before. so there isn't a big surprise here. even democrats, again, who i talked to, say that she was incredibly competent. that she is very, very smart. but that there might be a personality issue that makes them reluctant to have her as the person representing the u.s. in the role of secretary of state. but they also say that just as jessica said, that she might be very well suited to be the president's national security adviser, because there isn't confirmation there, and it's more inherently political. to your answer about john kerry, there certainly is a lot of support for him here. there is a member of the senate club. he has been for years and years. he is currently the senate foreign relations chairman. and he has not really made it that much of a secret that he wants this job. has for years and years. and it's been really kind of awkward and uncomfortab

collins and clara mccasical give legitimate -- you have billionaire equity managers paying 39%. i think this is a source of unfairness and inefficient and we should be taxing all income at the same rate. >> a fiscal cliff compromise likely won't happen without those special interests in having their say and their sway with these negotiations. i mean, how much do these lobbying groups really wind up turning the negotiations in a certain way to really make things sort of end up where we just started? >> again, capital gains and wall street is heavily involved in trying to keep these rates as low as possible. the lower capital gains rate is a good example. i think the lobbying pressure is significant, also just the polarization, the political polarization we've seen in our country. >> want to watch the whole interview? you can see it online at cnn.com. >>> and americans fearful of higher taxes as part of the january 1st fiscal cliff deadline may see another hit to their wallets, thanks to what is being called the dairy cliff. milk prices could double to a whopping $8 a gallon. if c

susan collins still has questions. i have questions, and i'm sure the american people do. so we need to get the benghazi situation behind us, get the facts out, and make sure we never lose an american ambassador again because our defense mechanisms were asleep at the switch. >> since the cia says they were the one who developed the talking points, and she merely recited the talking points, why blame her for failing either in the intelligence community or in the larger obama administration? >> well, you have to ask the question, why did it take the cia two months from the attack to finally say we're the one that scrubbed the documents given to her. we really knew all along or there was a terrorist based attack, and i if that's the case we have to find out who knew what, when, why we didn't take action and have the he ability to protect the united states ambassador. >> would you be precise? what exactly do you want to know? >> i want to know why the documents didn't contain the correct information from the beginning, or at least weren't corrected in real-time within a few da

susan collins, friend of mine, and she introduced susan race four years ago when she was made u.n. ambassador and she had more criticism. >> is think it comes down to the fact that people don't want to be lied to. you can make a mistake. you cannot know all the information. but to change the information and somehow say that because something happened in egypt that obviously jumpedded of to benghazi within a few hours is absurd and people don't want to tolerate that. do you think anyone will be able to say, you know to susan rice, you knew, you had access to presidential daily briefings. you were smarter than everyone else. you should have understood that you can't go in and make stuff up. do you think anyone will be able to put her feet to the fire? >> we have to to. we had a course in recall with hypothetical fact. this is real. four americans were killed. they were not able to provide security. there's some sort of coverup going on. >> the amazing part is that when certain people stand up and say, oh, i take responsibility, but you can't really ask him any questions get any strai

susan collins, mark warner on the democratic side. those are the folks that will provide the centrist core that we need to have a governing coalition in this country so we can move forward. >> let's talk about how consumers will be affect the here. the federal reserve is currently keeping rates at historic lows trying to encourage boroughing's if we go over the cliff, right now banks are hardly lending as much it's a they really should be. what epps can lse can be done t banks to loan, especially if we do go over the cliff? >> you make deposits, make loans. into a certain economy, at low rates, that's a challenges thing. it does make you risk. i think you know -- i actually think letting rates bump up a little bit. let the market determine, and i think the market would put the rates up a little bit, it could actually help lending. it's counter intuitive, and i think more borrowers will come in if they thought rates would go up. i don't think it's well-intentioned but i think it's hurt lending, not helped them. and taking a lot of mone

ray scanners have on passengers senator susan collins and others want to know if radiation emitted by these machines could actually cause cancer so to pray down the latest information i was joined by a roof i can bomb he's a transportation policy analyst at the reason foundation and i started off by asking him if he was surprised by the first reports findings. i make it well first of all thanks thanks for having me on basically i would say not i think this is not what most passengers expected from the t.s.a. and i don't think that a lot of people are probably all that surprised i will say that when we look at the contract you know the airport screenings what happened there is in early two thousand and eleven john pistole who's the head of the t.s.a. had gone ahead and announced that he didn't see any advantage to contracting the screening he actually thought that the government government could do a better job in the t.s.a. screeners were fine and so that basically put an end to all contracted screening for a while now thankfully earlier this year when congress passed the latest f.a.a

she then met with senator susan collin a moderate. she also came out of the meeting saying, i actually have more questions now than i did before. so if you couldn't get the moderate republican to vote for you for secretary of state, the writing was probably on the wall. >> brian: what i thought was totally out of bounds with andrea mitchell said yesterday in her evaluation and analyzing what this means in terms of politics with her backing out, she brought up the gender factor and the race factor. listen. >> i think that this had become sort of an impossible challenge for her to be confirmed. she realized that. the white house realized it as well. i think they know that they are on good political, solid ground, as you were pointing out. this is not going to heparins at all, the fact that a woman and a woman of color has been forced out of the confirmation process before she was nominated. >> gretchen: nothing to do with it. >> steve: look, it was george w bush, a republican, who placed in the job of secretary of state a woman of color

collins who came out in expressing concern. two things were going on. ill feelings as a result of the election. combined with ill feelings about things that susan rice may have said about john mccain in the past combined with benghazi. they felt they were able to make the president pay a price somewhat of a small price in their eyes but still a price and they were tenacious and the president -- i think you're right. i think he finally caved because this would be a painful thing to have benghazi play out day after day after day while he's trying to deal with fiscal cliff issues. >> eliot: steve, i think that's exactly right. those factors all converged. but joe it seems to me the president miscalculated here because they saw the factors were adding fuel to the flames and the senators who were arguing their case, the republican senators, believed very deeply they did not want susan rice but the president escalated the fight in the past number of weeks with his affirmative statements about susan rice with the cabinet meeting so fo

collins, john hd said i'm going to give her a break. see what she has to say. mccain, lindsey graham and colin, couple -- and ayotte spent hours with her behind closed doors and came out with a face like uh-oh, this is going to be a problem. they were trying to give her the benefit of the doubt and realized they couldn't she has no choice. >> dana: there is an art of floating somebody's fame for something, they didn't do it well. >> andrea: they created this mess from day one. they floated her name. they are the ones that pushed it. now, they think this is good for them. it really do think this is good for them. the president issued a statement that said we can't believe, we're disappointed in republicans. if i were her, i would say you know what? spare me. you have have done enough to hurt me. now i look like a victim. she should have said weeks ago i think we talked about this on america's newsroom, she should say i don't want it. >> dana: happy where i am. >> bob: if you float a name for secretary of state and don't do it by giving h

watch what ranking member of the committee susan collins had to say. >> the terrorists essentially walked into the compound, virtually unimpeded, and set it ablaze due to extremely poor security, in a threat environment that the undersecretary of state, patrick kennedy himself, has conceded was flashing red. >> the committee also found the department relied too heavily on libyan security guards who were known to be unreliable. this report comes after a similar scathing assessment by an independent state department board which led to top security official and three others at the department stepping down. >> and a charter bus crashed in northern oregon killed nine people and injured least 26 more. the bus skidded on ice, crashed through a guardrail and tumbled several hundred feet down a steep e steep embankment. the driver hasn't spoken to authorities. he was severely injured in the crash. >>> the body of newtown school gunman adam lanza has been claimed by his father. connecticut's chief medical examiner says lanza's body is ready for burial, more than two weeks after he opened fire on ch

it's susan collins, a moderate from maine, who introduced susan rice at her combination hearing. it's bob corker. very much a moderate, very much works across party lines. i know that steve has worked with him. these are people not worried about primary challenges. i spoke to one senator this week, this consequences, this individual conveyed was that these meetings did not go well. benghazi was a serious issue. we can debate whether or not susan rice should be blamed for it. but she was front and center. and i think the administration has handled this terribly. they have put her out there as though she's going to be a nominee but they haven't nominated her. john carney is being asked questions about her. now she's under the media onslaught for her investments. companies in iran. investments in canada. she gets all of the downside of being a nominee without any of the infrastructure and support for her. >> we can talk about that and debate that. but what i believe, i think what she did was entirely appropriate. she was given a set of talking points, to the best of our knowledge th

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some of the new england moderates, scott brown and susan collins. it doesn't seem like it would be as challenging to get something out of the senate. he is not going to stick his neck out and get something to the senate floor to have the house blow it up. >> marty, we have heard voices saying the same thing. you have tom coal saying we should go long with the tax increases. >> even in the minority. the republicans were 20 votes short. we sometimes forget, that's significant. they were only 20 votes short. nancy pelosi and the democrats, the idea of getting all the democrats to sign and bring the bill to the floor. if you can get 15 it 20 republicans to also sign on, maybe the tom cole types, they say we are not going to get a better deal and we don't want the party to pay hell for this. >> it seems unlikely. it's almost unheard of for a minority party and force action by the majority party on the floor. it might sound like a nice idea and say we are all unified. if you find the 15 or 20 republicans, good luck. they would be outcasts in their confere

one being talked about is from maine republican senator susan collins suggesting that maybe small businesses should be excepted from the tax hike. >> new higher tax rates. >> above $250,000. >> this would get at the republicans stated greatest worry about the higher tax rates on the so-called rich, because say republicans, that hits small business, big driver of employment. now the truth of the matter is obama administration said well, almost every small business in the country would fall below that. they are not rich people and it doesn't count. that universe of the small businesses that the white house is talking about includes the smallest internet vendor. the truth is that number of businesses that pay at the higher rate are all the ones of any size. that would do any hiring. this would really get at the republican objection. it would be interesting to see if the white house is trogg agree to that. >> bret: political curveball. >> thanks. >> bret: new rule for some taxpayer funded government workers about tweeting and what you and your neighbors really think about the federal employees.

susan collins teled the message to the administration about the secretary of state opening. >> i think john kerry would be an excellent appointment and easily confirmed by the colleagues. >> there are other key cabinet picks. secretary of the defense will have to contend with a destabilized middle east and rising threats from asia when big defense cuts are anticipated. former republican chuck ha gel of nebraska and ashton carter and michelle florinoid . act being director michael more accident orell . homeland security advisor michael vickers and former senator chuck hagel if he doesn't get the defense job. thosen will show how the president will proceed. >> thank you. >> a double-decker bus crashes in a bridge in the miami international airport. florida, police say 32 people were on board when it collided with the low bridge. the bus was too tall to fit. buses and other tall vehicles are thosed to use a another entrance. the driver is not familiar with the area. hawaii, an oregon man attacked by a shark snorkeling off of the coast of maui. he got a look at the shark who bit in the lef

collins, now endorsed by republican olympi s well. all week, he tried to turn it around by making the president look unreasonable. >> the president has adopted a deliberate strategy to slow-walk our economy right to the edge of the fiscal cliff. >> reporter: democrat jim manly were top congressional aides for years on opposite sides of many negotiations. >> when you have the negotiations, you have to fill the public space up with images of communications, on what the leaders are standing for. >> reporter: but manly, the democrat, from the president's perspective he says this time is different. >> the president and his team finally came to the result that they can't negotiate with hostage-takers, and learned their lesson from last year. >> the speaker says over and over he is waiting for the president to give him a counter offer, but democrats say they don't expect it to happen until the republicans say they're willing to give at least a little bit on the tax rates for the wealthy. the speaker put out a comment, saying his opposition t

and the meeting with rice went badly and susan collins prides herself as a moderate thinks worse of you, you've done a bad job on the your presentation. and adam credo, the new website called the washington free beacon has millions of dollars in investments of companies linked to iran and rattled off the list and how she got confirmed as a u.n. ambassadorship and the romney campaign never noticing this as the issues of iran and weapons heating up and coming up in independent voices like the beacon, that maybe it will get-- it will derail her. >> jon: the media seem to be circling the wagons around here, judy. >> oh, yes, john mccain's racist theme has been picked up steam and regurgitated not just by people on nbc, "the washington post" editorial pointed out something astonishing to me, of the 90 people who signed the letter objecting to susan rice's nomination or potential nomination as secretary of state, 80 of them were male and about half of them came from states that used to have slaves a hundred years ago, and this was-- when this kind of reasoning gets into the mainstream media,

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senator susan collins of maine, congressman charlie dent of pennsylvania and lindsey graham of south carolina, they are all pro-gun. they are all open to looking at gun control solutions. there is also congressman jack kingston of georgia. in the past, this gentleman has voted to cut down the waiting period, the number of days for gun purchases. he vetoed -- or should i say he voted for broader concealed to carry weapons laws. the nra gave kingston an "a" rating for his voting record today. today this staunch advocate opened the door for change. >> we see a huge problem like this, and it's a problem that is happening in other countries as well. we look for something that, okay, what can prevent it? and i think that's where we need to go with this discussion is, yes, put gun control, more gun control on the table. >> on the surface, the comments are very encouraging. but when things get specific, we can understand why this country has so much difficulty arriving at common sense gun safety. >> connecticut has the fifth toughest gun control laws in the country, including an assault weap

maine will be in it in good hands with susan collins as our senior senator. i am also grateful to my friend, senator mikulski, for her warm and wonderful comments she made yesterday on the floor. i have known barbara for more than 30 years beginning with our mutual service in the house of representatives. she is truly a dynamo who has always brought to bear and a tenacity that has been reflected in her vigorous advocacy for those -- it brought to bear a of a vigorous tenacity in her advocacy. there is no one i would rather have to pass on nussle legacy and what a reflection in her legislative stature that she has assumed the mantle as the longest serving woman in the history of the united states congress. to madame president and the chair, i have enjoyed serving with you as well in this august chamber and getting to know you. i hope to know you well into the future. i have enjoyed working with you over the years. senator isaacson, my neighbor, a gentleman in every way. he has been magnificent to work with. and of course my colleague, senator rakowski from ala

every senator up for re-election in 2014 except susan collins who, by the way, is from a blue state, voted against it. lindsey graham cast a no vote though john mccain was one of the treaty's biggest advocates. kelly ayotte voted for it. mississippi senator thad cochrane voted in favor and then as it was going down switched his vote to no. cochrane up in 2014. mississippi more worried about a primary than a general. this is one of of the saddest days i've seen in almost 28 years in the senate. and it needs to be a wake-up call about a broken institution that's letting down the american people. the g 0 op divide was on full display yesterday in both chambers. so was the republican attempt to move past the losses in 2012. there was a tribute to honor the late jack kemp. two men who had their eye on 2016. congressman paul ryan and marco rubio laid out their visions for expanding the appeal to the middle class. clear from the outset that the night was about moving past mitt romney. ryan welcomed rubio to the dinner, by the way, by joking about potential early state r run-ins the two of t

maine senator susan collins is 60 today. larry bird is 56. his former teams include the cowboys and the eagles, terrell owens is 39 today. if it's your birthday, have a great day. we'll be right back. >>> grab your coat, scarf and gloves. it's brisk out this morning. temperatures in the 30s and 40s. our day planner is going to keep the clouds around. we'll have the opportunity for some showers as we go through the day. we'll move out of the 30s and 40s. should top out in the lower range 50s. maybe about 5at reagan national. owe. there's a slight warm-up on the way. i'll have details coming up. >>> you'll see the volume on the increase right now, but other than that, lanes are open for the most part. here on 95, a good example as you head up from 644 to the beltway. no issues on the beltway leaving springfield through annandale and up toward 66 and the toll road. i'll be back with more traffic coming up in a few minutes at 5:48. jess? >>> thanks, monika. i've been combing through the day's daily deals, e-mails and retailer websites to find you

the crucial one was with the moderate republican susan collins of maine who is a very careful, very thoughtful and very moderate in temperment and in philosophy senator. and she had a 75 minute meet being susan rice and came out sounding more doubtful than before. so i don't know what happened in that meeting. i think the essence of this thing and i'm guessing from the body language is the politicsment people think she's too political, too partisan. >> susan rice. >> susan rice and that sometimes she is been kind of, you know, she can be tough. i think she's had too many times at the u.n. has been quite effective but has more of a political aura than we are used to in our diplomats. the only thing coy say is the job of the secretary of state is to go into a room with somebody, have a meeting and get somewhere. and if she couldn't get somewhere with susan colins, then that is a little bit of a problem. >> what do you think, is it about benghazi, the politics or susan rice. >> benghazi say mystery to me. i mean i think benghazi is who lost china. it's almost like the republicans are looking for