and a lot of people are trying to figure out how do i not have a life that's squeezed around my job but how do i have a life? >> okay. elsa walsh, thank you very much for joining us today. >> thank you. >> thank you for watching us this morning. "state of the union" with candy crowley begins right now. a widening circle in boston and a changing political calculus in washington. today, the boston bombing case. where it stops we still don't know. >> people i spoke to in the investigation, most of them are operating on the presumption that others are involved. >> the scope of the terror plot. plus, why a new gun law could still happen and immigration reform may not. meet the senate's number two dirk durbin and peter king. and as we learn more about the how, what about the why? >> there is something that

happened that triggered radicalization. >> the roots of radicalization with our expert panel. plus, a republican senator accuses his own party of tanking legislation for a political win while the president insists he's still got game. i'm candy crowley. this is "state of the union." effective immediately, u.s. customs and border protection agents will have realtime updates to the student visa status of every foreign student entering the u.s. authorities allege two of the three people suspected of hiding evidence for the accused bomber were in violation of their student visa requirements. authorities say one of them went to kazakhstan in september but was allowed reentry to the u.s. in january because customs officers didn't have access to the information. the chairman of the house homeland security committee tells cnn, this represents a serious hole in our national security. du it? joining me no is the number two

democrat in the senate, senator durbin from illinois. thank you for being here. when you look at the last three weeks of information and you have heard everything from the fbi dropped the ball, here's a huge hole, why did this happen? what are your questions? when you look at the totality of what we know so far, what are your questions about how the u.s. intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies reacted both before and after the bombing? >> candy, here's what i know. we're going to have a thorough investigation. we're going to try to determine whether there is more we could have done to protect america, and to have thwarted these terrorists before they acted. i expect that to go on for some period of time. if there is one thing i'm certain of -- >> is there anything that troubles you. anything that you look at and say we have to get to the bottom of that? >> yes, i can tell you what troubles me. the kumpb immigration system in

america is broken down. we have to change it. i have been sitting more than three months with a bipartisan group of senators talking about a variety of issues including making america safer. the immigration reform bill that will start this week. the.syou made in the lead in. we need to track the visas coming in toe united states, the visitor and student visas so we know when they arrive but when they leave and make sure we enforce that system by having coordination between the branches of government. that's not working today. we need immigration reform to make that work. >> when i heard the story that said from here on out, customs officials must check and will be allowed to check the student visa status of the people trying to come in, i'm thinking isn't that what customs is for? reason they supposed to be doing

that? it is incomprehensible to people that this information is available to people an yet the people on the front lines, the people that say come on in or hang on a second and go to that room don't have the information they need. you know, 9/11 was more than a decade ago. so how is that possible? >> it's hard to believe 12 years after 9/11 we're having this conversation, but you put your finger on it. there's not enough coordination between the different agencies so that we know someone should not have been readmitted to the united states. our bill addresses that directly. we have 11 -- up to 11 million people coming forward to register. we know who they are. that is going to make us more secure. i mentioned the border security. we are also dealing with this whole exit, entry, visa issue and having verification in the work place. at the end of the day, immigration reform starts to do things that should have been done long ago and makes it an absolute priority of this

government. >> i want to play you something that your fellow gang of eight members that put together the bill, this is marco rubio and what he said about the bill and the need to further enhance border security. >> this bill will not pass the house and quite frankly may struggle to pass the senate if it doesn't deal with that issue. we have work to do on that front. >> so basically what he is saying is the bill, as is, might be in trouble in the senate and won't pass the house. is that helpful as you move forward trying to bring your colleagues on board? >> i'm glad that marco rubio was part of this dialogue and this negotiation. i can tell you at the end of the day that there were parts of it he didn't care for. parts of it i didn't care for. we reached a compromise, which is the nature of politics if it is going to be successful. i'm sure senator rubio feels, as i do, we have the basics here. are there elements where we

might see improvement? of course. but we have to stand by the basic agreement. i have friends of mine, incidentally who look from the viewpoint of democrats and the left and say there are things we'd like to see changed in it, too but we have to stick to the standard of what we have established and agreed to the last three months. >> let me ask you about something that is going to come up. that is a push by the lgbt community, you need once a partner is brought in to the u.s., but the right needs to be expanded to same-sex couples. we are told senator leahy will probably bring it up as an amendment to the bill in committee. that is going to happen? are you going to support it? >> well, i'm a cosponsor of that measure that senator leahy has offered as free standing legislation. the senator will have to decide whether or not to offer it in

his committee where he chairs the senate judiciary committee. i believe it is consistent with the position that we should have marriage equality and therefore recognize marriages between people of the same gender. this is a hot issue. it is a contentious issue. if we can find way through this to protect that basic right of an individual and pass immigration reform, that's what i want to achieve. can i add a footnote here? >> sure. >> the supreme court has taken up doma and that decision may preclude this whole conversation. they may help us to reach the right place in this whole conversation. >> senator rubio, among others, has suggested if this is an amendment to immigration reform it will tank reform. as i understand it, the eight of you have agreed to stick together and be against anything that might upset what you hope will be a coalition for passage. you are not talking about pre-standing legislation, which is different than an amendment. is that the way to go? >> well, let me just say, we did

not have a specific agreement among the eight of us about this particular issue. as to whether it would be offered -- i would say i support this and i hope that we can find a way through it that preserves immigration reform. we have two important issues before us here. i hope we can get them both done. we may face a choice at some noint the future. >> let me ask you a final question, gun control. we saw senator reid bring it off the senate floor when it was defeated. we have seen the nra down having its national convention and celebration of that, in part. can you tell me whereas the number two democrat in the senate, the guy that counts votes, do you foresee gun control resurfacing on the senate floor? this year. >> i hope we will bring the measure up against. the manchin toomey bipartisan approach to keep guns out of the

hands of convicted felons and people so mentally unstable they shouldn't own them is still sound policy. the national rifle association can go to texas and celebrate defeating that measure, but they certainly shouldn't celebrate when they look at the carnage that takes place virtually every day in america because convicted felons have guns. we stand with law enforcement. we believe this measure should be should be brought to the floor again. senator reid put it in a procedural position where it can be called on a moment's notice. what we need to see is a change in political sentiment within the senate. we need to pick up five more votes. that's quite a task i might add but we can do this and i hope the american people don't give up. i know the president hasn't given up. >> you are counting on public pressure on those who voted against us so you couldn't get a bill passed essentially. >> the american public opinion is overwhelming. it is not a matter of pressure but individual senators

understanding their responsibility to make this is a safer nation. >> thank you so much. senator dick durbin, good to have you on. the president says law enforcement didn't drop the ball on the boston terror investigation. we will ask a senior member of the homeland security committee. peter king is next. our visionary cloud infrastructure, and dedicated support, free you to focus on what matters. centurylink. your link to what's next.

welcome back. you are looking at new video in to cnn showing the aftermath of an overnight attack in syria. syria's deputy foreign minister tells cnn the attack came from israeli rockets and amount to a declaration of war. huge explosions rocked the damascus suburb for hours. they say they will retaliate in their own time and way. with me is peter king, chairman of the subcommittee on the counterintelligence terrorism and a member of the house intelligence committee. i want to begin with syria because just when you think could it get more violent or more chaotic, it does. so my question to you is whether it is time for the u.s. to directly arm, specified rebels?

>> candy, i have real concerns. the reason i say that is because so much time has gone by and unfortunately to a large extent al qaeda elements have a lot of control within the rebel movements. my concern is that by arming the rebels we could be strengthening al qaeda. whatever we do, interest is interested but if we arm the rebels we have to make sure the arms are not going to end up in the possession of al qaeda supporters nor is the end game will be in a position to take over the movement. >> that's a pretty high bar. right? you don't -- i mean we put weapons in to countries a lot and don't know where they are going to end up. are you saying that basically it's a bad idea for the u.s. to directly arm rebels? >> i'm saying unless we know exactly who, generally who they

are going to can be counterproductive which is why i believe the president turned down the proposal general petraeus and secretary clinton last year because he couldn't be sure where the weapons were going. hopefully we have been looking at this carefully and have a better feel, a better understanding of where the weapons will be going. until then i'm concerned that we could be replacing one terrible dictator with a terrible ideological movement aimed at our direction. >> let me move to you to the latest news out of the boston bombing which is that two foreign -- two students here on student visas where one of them, at least, was allowed back in the doesn't when in fact his student visa was no longer valid because he was no longer in school. the same holds true for another foreign student. although he did not leave the country. what we have here, as i understand it is a customs service that brought somebody in because for all they knew the visa they were looking at was valid but there was information

available that it was not. the question is how is it possible that the front line people at the border of the u.s. essentially don't have information when visas become invalid? >> first of all, there should be a way to correct this. the problem they will tell you is there are 850,000 student visas and i-20 form that certifies whether the person is in compliance with the requirements of the visa, whether he is an akred contracted student and the technology is not available to marry them up. >> seriously. >> that's one of the reasons you will be given. having said that the secretary of homeland security of the department has said starting almost immediately every effort has to be made to every student coming in now will be -- everyone coming in with a student visa will be checked, stopped and examined at the airport which could cause longer lines but something we have to do. >> not all of those students -- >> agree with you. >> not all of the students on the list are in violation of,

you know, their student visas so it would seem to me it would ping somewhere. the fact that the people who are in charge of letting people in or out of the country don't have access to that information seems to me kind of a government-wide failure because you have on the homeland security committee. isn't what customs knows and what it doesn't know sort of a part of trying to keep the country safe? that's an across-the-board failure to even see this was a problem. >> it was known to be a problem and you have customs, and ice, immigration customs enforcement, each has a separate -- one has the i-20 form which shows whether or not the student is in compliance and the other has the student visa and homeland security should have been and worked more effectively to make this technologically feasible. the same with the visa exit. this has not been done technologically. it has to be done and finally is going to be done but in the interim will cause delays at the

airport because the person at the airport is not going to know for certain whether the person is in compliance and that will be a sh short-term delay but it has to be done. >> it should have been done years earlier. >> agree. >> let me ask you, you are having a hearing in your committee about the boston bombings. what do you want answered? what don't you know that you need to know? >> chairman mccaul hearing on capitol hill. my concern is when the fbi was told by the russians to look in to the older brother, they may have done the best they could under the guidelines available to them. how can you determine, effectively determine whether or not a person has become radicalized if you don't talk to people in his mosque, talk to his imam. this is stemming from a perversion of religion and i understand the fbi is not able to talk to anyone in the mosque to find out whether or not there were any conditions to lead them

to believe he was radicalized. and did they discuss it with the boston police who would have better knowledge of what is going on in the ground than a local police force. in new york we have 1,000 officers working on counterterrorism and commissioner kelly is not afraid to be politically incorrect. he done what he has to be done to find out what is going on in the community. >> do you expect there will be more arrests. are there others that you believe are stoubt arrest at this point? >> this is not inside information. just from looking at this general, it is impossible -- not impossible, very difficult to believe these two could have carried out this level of attack with this level of sophistication and precision acting by themselves without training overseas or having facilitators here at home. to have two bombs that went off perfectly, turnly, simultaneously and the third one that worked all large amount of

precursors. so, i think there had to be assistance and that's why the fbi is going after this so vigorously and effectively. >> there are going to be hearings in to benghazi and what happened there. not your committee, chairman ie sis committee. what questions do you have remaining about what happened in benghazi, either this lead up, the incident itself in which four americans were killed or the aftermath? what's your main question? >> main question i would have gon goes back to the talking point of why they would change? who changed them and how does that relate to any element of cover-up here that the state department was asked to provide more security, didn't provide it and after the fact came up with a cover story about a video and didn't once go in to the fact why there wasn't enough security there and what we are going to do in the fuchl we have outposts around the world that are vulnerable to attack. what do we do to ensure they have security and the chain of command for those asking for

security and who makes the decision whether or not to give them that security. >> congressman king, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. when we return, trying to find a reason why they did it. >> one of the dangers that we now face are self radicalized individuals who are already here in the united states. in some cases may not be part of any kind of network. but because of whatever warped, twisted ideas they may have may decide to carry out an attack. keep working, but for himself. so as his financial advisor, i took a look at everything he has. the 401(k). insurance policies. even money he's invested elsewhere. we're building a retirement plan to help him launch a second career. dave's flight school. go dave. when people talk, great things can happen. so start a conversation with an advisor who's fully invested in you. wells fargo advisors. together we'll go far.

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jasser. and suhail khan, senior fellow for christian muslim understanding a the institute for global engagement and daveed gartenstein-ross, director of the center for study of terrorist radicalization of the foundation for defense of democracy. thank you for joining us. an esteemed panel here. the why i think is so important to get to eventually. leave it up to the investigators to figure out the how and who. i think one of the things that struck me, as i listen more and more about the background, particularly of tamerlan, he reminds me a little bit of the columbine high schooler. there's an anger, and the anger finds a focus. is anger, the feeling of isolation, a major component to what we are calling self radicalization. >> there's no doubt that at the end of the final step is a separation where they get pulled in to this violence. what we are forgetting is this is the tip of the iceberg. how many incidents do we need,

like the times square bomber to realize the isolation is the final step of a pathway of radicalization that begins with an ideology. these terrorists are a tip of the iceberg of a growing conflict between political islam and islamic state. that granted the dreams of islamic youth and tells them the better society is one based on the islamic state. sharia as law and we see that oppressing hundreds of millions under iran, egypt, and on and on. prime minister cameron after the bombing said we have been ignoring the battle for the soul of islam globally, internally within the youth and between societies in the west and the east, or islamic dominance, that is. we have to play offense instead of defense. >> so what would you all say when you are looking at how do we identify -- i mean here are

two men who were able to do quite a bit of damage as far as we can tell they are not -- they are not acting at the direction of anything but the influence of either the internet or maybe something happened in russia when tamerlan was over there. how do we go about identifying them or should it be about prevention? >> i think we have to ask why is it that some young are vulnerable to that narrative. there has to be something about the individual that he or she -- >> do you have a theory? i agre with you. >> i think when we see people who are more or less self radicalizing and may a trip abroad that may be part of the radicalization process but there are things to identify more with the growth of the jihad di movement than to identify with their neighbors. i think there is a personal vulnerability when we see this radicalization in the west. >> i think that's right.

these are individuals who are engaging in these type of violent behaviors because they are radicalizing on their own. i think the key to getting and stopping that is that law enforcement, particularly on the local level, needs to partner with local communities, people in vulnerable communities where by there is a partnership where the local imams, religious leaders are preaching a message of inclusion and peace that undercuts the terrorist narrative that you are isolated, you are not part of the western society and therefore you need to be a violent extremist. that type of partnership really prevents from the very beginning on a community level a lot of these types of violent behaviors. >> i think those kind of partnerships are very important. when we look at it from a law enforcement perspective, it is not clear to me that there was some sort of sign that could have prevented this. that will be absolutely investigated, as it should be. there is already discussion as to whether or not there was an intelligence factor given that

russia warned the u.s. in 2011. i went through and did a comprehensive look at the time line of the radicalization. i think there are signs in 2011 that he did have or was starting to adopt an extremist ideology but that isn't the same as a propensity to act and undertake violence. we have a lot of people in the u.s. who subscribe to a variety of extreme ideology but not all are under veil lance nor should they be. >> not all militants and think the ends justify blowing up people at a marathon, right. >> right. >> we don't have the resources to conduct surveillance on all of them. nor in an open society would we want to. that's the question when we look back at radical sags. extremism and propensity for violence are two different things but obviously correlated. >> one of the things i would disagree on is we have had a failure in leadership of our muslim community. the theirtive is imbalanced. many of the leadership in our

community says there's no problem. these guys weren't even muslim and the theirtive, victimization, america's big gots, american anti-muslim and anti-islam. this narrative is not balanced by other muslim leaders the reformists that are anti-islamists who believe in american liberty and that creates a their they have makes them feel that this society is not theirs. that they are visitors and i'm not saying they shouldn't have free speech but we have not had a balance narrative from the pulpit. many imams come out of the muslim brotherhood ideology and they have not allowed us to have diverse ideas defending and protecting america. >> we did see in the early days when it was learned that these men had attended a mosque, a woman came out as a spokesman for the mosque and said we saw no signs of this. had we seen any signs of this we would have called the police. we do see the face of islam

that, you know, obviously the bulk of those who practice it. so the question is, you know, there's a fine line between a community in which you reach out and a community you are spying on. it seems to me that if you spy on and you are always in there going who's doing what that you created distance for those folks who might otherwise help you. they begin to feel attacked. >> the key thing is a partnership. rather than trying to create a mentality of siege or suspicion for an entire faith community. there are over 6 million peaceful american muslims in the country, you want to create a feeling of partnership and inclusion whereby -- and the facts bear this out. whereby you see in the last ten years nearly half of foiled terrorists plots have been foiled by the help of the american muslim community given law enforcement folks a tips or the christmas day bomber for

example where the father called law enforcement and said my 0 son may be engaged in violent extremism. something needs to be done. >> i want to switch it up and ask you, you know, the younger brother is an american citizen. i wonder if enough is being done to bring in those who have come from other countries to make them feel a part of the american fabric. are there too many of here's this community and this community and this community. >> i want to say a couple of things. with respect to the younger brother, the two seemed to have followed different radicalization trajectories. tamerlan's seems ied lodgeal in nature. the younger brother was a pot smoker, drinker, partier, womanizer. >> he had friends. >> both had friends. tamerlan if you look at him he fit in well as a boxer. he was flamboyant, wearing furs,

leather pants, silk scarves, things like that and he went through a tremendous change. since they had two different radicalization trajectories but i wouldn't blame the u.s. for not doing enough to assimilate their immigrants. there are no signs they were assimilation failures. if you compare immigration similarizations in the u.s., with europe, it is much better. i would not blame the u.s. for not doing enough to make them feel welcome. >> jessica, let me bring you in on this. when you look at the totality of what you know right now about these two young men, were they impossible spot? from a law enforcement point of view, because you were on the president clinton administration, is there just not anything that was obvious that could have stopped this? >> i do think that part of the issue, of course, as my

colleagues have said is that the muslim community is the key. however, they were not radicalized in a mosque. they weren't displaying symptoms of radicalization in the mosque. they seem to have been much more active on the internet. we don't yet know exactly what happened in dagestan, but it is very hard if somebody's doing this radicalization on their own, on the internet for others to notice. so it is a problem. >> they were displaying radicalization in the mosque. >> not enough. >> first about martin luther king and the like. >> you can't report anybody who has an outburst. >> there is a difference between violence and outburst of radicalization. >> you are discussing the final steps of the outburst. the beginning steps of the mentally and i as an american muslim. i have three children and hope they can embrace american liberty. that's why we have a muslim liberty project that looks at the ideas of promoting american

patriotism and global part of the global jihad. we have to counter those ideas early on and i think we need to, you know, hold accountable our leadership about these things. the solution f it is going to happen will come from within our faith community. the problem is not the violence. that's just the symptom, the deeper problem is ideological difference. >> i hope you will all come back. the why is always so important. see what we can do and how to spot what's going on when you have somebody troubled in your midst. thank you so much. when we return, president obama's second term slump. w we . we're americans. we work. we plan. ameriprise advisors can help you like they've helped millions of others. to help you retire your way, with confidence. ♪ that's what ameriprise financial does. that's what they can do with you.

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>> golly! i think it's a little -- as mark twain said, rumor of my demise may be exaggerated at this point. >> he's right. this is not the end of the game but a case can be made the president is in a slump. he started the new year staring down republicans and winning a higher tax rate for the wealthy, but since then the big rollout of his budget was all but ignored. there's no grand bargain in sight and despite the administration's dire warnings about the forced budget cuts, two months after they went this to effect, 30% of americans say the sequester is a bad thing. 17% say it is a good thing and 52% don't have an opinion. meanwhile, even supporters say obama care, that signature bill from his first term is confusing and poorly sold to the public. 42% of americans don't think it is still law and half of the public doesn't understand how it

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joining me is a b. stoddard and jeanne cummings political reporter. good to see you both. start with the president's mojo. how much time does he have left -- let's remind you it is an election year next year, to accomplish something, given this is a president who has always talked about transformation and transforming a country. >> i think he's running out of time and he knows that. the campaigns for the mid-term elections in congress really begin sort of late september. that's it. this is the window this summer on immigration reform and the deal and those are legacies for him. the gn control issue is not looking like it will be successful. it comes up again this year and ges 60 votes in the senate and gets out of the senate. it is not likely to pass out of

the house. that will be a long marathon of a battle if he hopes for a budget deal an immigration reform he ought to get cooking. we are looking a better of months. >> do you agree? people don't realize but after the midterm it is off to the races for the election and he is really a lame duck. >> this is the year that things are more on track than they may appear. there are -- this week we will see the amendments come for the immigration bill. that's on track. the senate hopes to vote in june. nothing right now that is derailing that particular calendar. that should fit with enough time for the white house to achieve it if they can get it through the house. the house is taking a totally different path. >> the senate is the oozy part. >> exactly right. >> do you think the defeat of the gun bill was an object lesson. i thought they will pass something but even the more moderate, no assault weapons

ban, no limitation on gun magazines? it. >> was definitely a take up call. . 90% of americans were behind the expanded background checks at one point, still something could fail in the senate. it is pretty surprising and it was a wakeup call. when we talk about immigration, what we should keep in mind is you are right. the senate is the easy part. the senators run statewide. when you get to the house, after the redistricting, bloomberg and political report went back and did some number crunching. the average house republican comes from a district that is now 75% white. what is the incentive for them to do immigration reform? there's only down side to them. the house is very, very hard. >> i agree. i think we focus so much on the senate that we forgot that this is a big lift over there. let me tell you something that senator toomey than co-authors

of the bipartisan gun control had 0 to say about its defeat. >> there are people on my side who didn't want to be perceived to be helping something that the president wants to accomplish, simply because it is the president that wants to accomplish it. >> he tried to walk that back a little but it is out there. so the question is, first of all, do you think gun control will come up again in the senate. certainly if it is not coming up in the senate it is not coming up in the house and how much can you blame the president for failing to get gun control if this is what he is up against? it is not a question of mojo but the make upof the senate? >> i think the gun control bill and republicans will tell you privately, they can't do immigration and gun control. they can't do both. they are getting questions on gay marriage. this is too much for them at once and immigration reform is a necessity, not expanded background checks. they will give the president a within on something they is

important to the survival of the party to win the presidency again. but they don't have to monkey around with other stuff right now. it is too much at once. the problem is that the gun control bill is not only impossible on the house, it would need, as i said, it would need 70 votes in the vat to go to the house. >> gift a big push. >> immigration is also taking on terrible water on the left and right. it is not just the newly vocal loud criticism on the right coming against the gang of eight and their bill. the left as well believes the bill is too onerous and taken together that opposition from both sides could sink it. i want to show the cover of the review this week. is it at stake in the rise or

fall of this bill and in what way. >> i think they are connected. if he is -- it is at a point now where he needs a victory because he's so tied to it. he is now the face of selling it to republican audiences. it goes on republican talk shows and gets skewered but he goes back to make the case and try to change the minds. if he were to pocket this, that is a big, serious policy accomplishment he puts in his briefcase for 201 6. that separates him from the rest of the pack. >> and if he sglunt ted cruz and rand paul who have their eyes on the president any 2016 will make sure he is a rhino squish republican candidate on the left of the party in that they are representing the heart and soul of the conservative movement. a defeat on immigration will be tough for him. >> meaning republicans in name only.

>> yeah, sorry. >> do you think looking at immigration reform when you look at this -- now the gay issue that's going to come up this thursday, it seems to me that democrats are banking that it's not a poison pill but republicans are making a lot of noise. >> they are wrong about that. >> yeah? >> they are totally wrong about that. the key, one of the players in the immigration debate is the evangelical community. that was really important to the republicans to have that cover and the evangelical community is being active and open and they are gone if that amendment -- >> do you agree? >> i do. that is an essential part of the coalition. >> a b. stoddard, jeanne cummings, thank you for being here. when we return, boston says thank you to the reluctant hero that notified authorities helped to catch the bomber.

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declaration of war. they say israeli rockets hit a government research facility in a damascus suburb. syria says it will retaliate in its oempb time way. afghanistan's president hamid karzai said he received assurances from the cia that it will continue to deliver cash to his office. although the agency has been delivering bags full of money to karzai the past ten years the practice sparked outrage after a "new york times" report last week. karzai says the money is used to pay salaries, help war wounded and provide scholarships. the taliban is claiming responsibility for a road side bombing that killed five u.s. service members in southern afghanistan. the attack occurred on saturday in the kandahar province. two nato troops were also killed on saturday when an afghan soldier turned his weapon on them. a third soldier died after an insurgent attack in northern afghanistan. a recreational soccer league referee in utah has died after

being punched in the face by a teenager player. ricardo patillo was refereeing a game when he cited a player for an infraction. police say that decision prompted the 17-year-old player to punch him. the teenager is in juvenile custody. an enthusiastic crowd greeted bombing survivor at the game between the bruins and the maple leafs. he served as this honorary captain. he lost both of his legs in the bombing but was able to provide investigators with critical information that helped to identify the bombers. the maple leafs, by the way, won the game, 4-2. now, looking at live picture of the commencement ceremony at ohio state university. the president is just about to speak. we are told there are as many as 70,000 people in the crowd today. 10,000 of those students will listen to the president while

getting their diplomas. thank you for watching state of the union. i'm candy crowley in washington. head to cnn.com/sotu for analysis and extras. if you missed any part of today's show, you can buy it on itunes. fareed sa cara is next for our viewers here in the united states. this is "gps the global public square." welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world, i'm fareed zakaria. let's start the show with a look at syria, guantanamo and how to fix what ails us in america. we have a terrific panel, joe klein, richard haass and anne-marie slaughter. next, salman rushdie thoughts on the bombing in america. what is the easiest way to drive the u.s. deficit down and create jobs? what's a quick and perhaps easy way to drive the u.s.