in the i-tunes store. join us again sunday morning for another critical look at the media. state of the union with candy crowley begins right now. iran nuclear talks falter, obama care struggles and white house nominees blocked. the president's dismal fall. today, no go in geneva. >> the window for diplomacy is not stay open indefinitely. >> despite an all in diplomatic -- republican senator lindsay graham joins us with his take on the talks with tehran and the latest twist in the tangle that is benghazi. then. >> welcome to new jersey. virginia, thank you. >> reading the results of 2013 through the prism of 2014 through the party chairs. democrat debra waszer man

schultz. abortion, gay rights, immigration, our political panel sorts out the doable from the political. plus -- >> we are obligated to be sure that they get everything they need. >> a reunion with republican senator leader and world war ii veteran bob dole on the two things he knows best. veterans and politics. this is state of the union. in exchange for using some of the sanctions against the country. but the united states, it's european allies all are opening an agreement can be reached. these past three days with oh,

we're close, we're going to do it, and then nothing happens. what happened? >> the foreign ministers, the secretary of state from all the key players flown in, a flurry of bilats and tri lats. the feeling that there was a deal in the -- ethat disagreement came out in public, breaking protocol. and the key to this agreement is really on enrichment facilities. and the question there does iran suspend all enrichment or just up to a certain level. do they agree not to operate a certain facility or keep building. >> it's always been my experience in politics or international affairs, time is never on the side of an agreement. what happens now? >> that's exactly right, and this delay gives time to the opponents of the agreement to

build their case and you're going to set up road blocks, you're going to have a tough -- try to continue the negotiations. you're going to have more loud protests from allies such as benjamin netanyahu, but they have agreed to a second round of talks. but interestingly, this will be at the political director level, not the minute material level. i did reach out to a member of the team this morning who said it will start at the political director level, but who knows how it will end. you might see secretary kerry bring the agreement to a close. but it didn't happen. >> thanks so much, appreciate your time this morning. joining me now, senator lindsay graham. senator, let's start off with this deal that did not quite happen in geneva. i want to ask you directly, what would iran have to do before you would believe the u.s. could

ease some of the sanctions? >> well, that's a very good question. i think you'll see a bipartisan push by the congress to do two things, to introduce another round of sanctions that we believe that sanctions and military force is the only thing that will bring the iranians to the table. there will be a bipartisan resolution introduced into the congress very soon that has four parts to it. a sensible outcome would mean that stop enriching, dismantle the centrifuges, if you want a peaceful nuclear power program, which i'm fine with in iran, let the international community control the fuel cycle for the iranian program looks like mexico and canada, not north korea, and turn over all highly enriched uranium to the

international community. >> well, that sounds like the end deal as opposed to an interim deal. is there any way that you think congress could approve in a resolution, which i'm assuming doesn't have the force of law, but correct me if i'm wrong on that. but what they were looking for, it sounds to me like what secretary kerry and the president were looking for is something to kind of put iran on hold as far as its nuclear program was concerned, why would they worked out some of those big things that you're talking about. >> well, my fear is that we're going to wind up creating a north korea type situation in the middle east. where we negotiate with iran and one day you wake up, they don't give up their enrichment capabilities, they don't divest themselves of a plutonium reducing reactor, the centrifuges continue to spin, and you will have a nuclear iran and that will be far more

destabilizing that north korean in the korean peninsula. i am all about this end game. where does this movie with iran end? if it ends with the four things i stated, i'm satisfied. if it ends with anything less, the world -- i have never been more worried about the obama administration's approach to the mid east than we are now. thank god for france and thank god for push back. >> there's what you haven't heard recently, thank god for france. >> yeah. the french are becoming very good leaders in the mid east. >> you have suggested that you want more sanctions against iran and that you might put them on a defense bill which we think is going to come up next week in the senate. would you push for more sanctions and would you think there is a majority there that would agree to that? >> the best way is to start in the banking committee, to have a

new round of sanctions that could be relieved if iran does the right thing. we believe, the congress believes that sanctions, along with the threat of credible military force by the united states and israel has gotten us to this point, that if you back off now, you're sending the worst possible signals, but this new round of sanctions could basically be -- you've got a new regime that's lying about what they're trying to do. they're trying to build a nuclear weapon. they have never been trying to build a nuclear power plant. they have the largest state sponsored terrorism. why in the world would anybody want this regime with their agenda threatening to wipe israel off the map attend of the day to have any highly enriched uranium in their possession. given their behavior --

>> do you think that more sanctions are needed at a time when the u.s. is trying to come to an interim deal, that's seen as toward opposing ends? >> i think the only thing that's got them to the table, and i'll give the obama administration credit for this. they have created really good international sanctions, if we back off now, i think that ee's exactly the wrong signal. i want to come up with a deal, a conclusion that will make sure iran doesn't possess the capability in the future to produce a nuclear weapon. >> about benghazi, i want to get you on the record about this. cbs aired a piece that was centered around a man, a british man who said that he was there, that he got into the compound where the four americans were killed. he seemed to substantiate some of the suspicions that this clearly was not a well fortified place, that there had been signs all along that terrorists intended to attack it.

now it turns out that cbs has backed away from their eyewitness, because it does not appear that he told the truth. now, you based on that report, went after the president's nominees and said any nominee that comes up here, i'm going to block. so we can talk to american eyewitnesses. i just want to remind you of something you said at the time. >> how can i explain to the people in my home state and throughout the country that the story they told us about benghazi holds water after the 60-minute story. >> but the 60-minute story was not true. will you now end your threat to place a hold on the president's nominees? >> no. my request has been going on for a year to talk with the five survivors of the state department. i never asked for the british contractor. i didn't know he existed. we have written one letter to the president, myself, kelly ott and john mccain to secretary

kerry, and said we would like to interview the survivors, the five state department officials who have been interviewed by the administration but not by congress. the 60-minute story said that the attack on the compound was not a protest, but a preplanned al qaeda attack that you could see coming. i want to ask the survivors who have not been interviewed by congress, did you report a protest, did you ever indicate there was a protest, did you say this was a terror attack from the beginning. when you were interviewed by the fbi four days later, did you every mention a protest. if the survivors, candy, never said there was a protest, where did the story come from? and did the survivors, would they tell me if i asked them shls had a chance to. did you tell anybody about the threat of al qaeda? and how did they respond? to me that's the essence of what i'm trying to get at. >> and i understand, you've been

at it for some time. but what spurred your action to block the president's nominees, was the 60 minutes report. so that's what prompted you to do this. i mean you did it the day after and you cited it. so my question is, are there other ways to get what you want without threatening the president's ---the head of the fed or the head of the homeland security agency? >> i met with the state department thursday about my desire to talk to the five survivors, american personnel, state department employees, american citizens, independent of the state department's accountability review board, nobody in congress has got to talk to these people. i released two ambassadors that i had a hold on because we're trying to work out a bipartisan way to interview these witnesses. why? oversight is important. i want to perform oversight. i'm not trying to prosecute a

crime, i'm not trying to defend a british contractor. i want to hear from the people that worked for us, the american citizens in harm's way, what did you feel like when you were told nobody was coming to help you. did you see a protest? did you report a protest? did you tell the fbi about a protest? and if they didn't, did you see security concerns before the attack? did you report them and who to? 14 months after the attack, we haven't heard from those who survived the attack. congress has an independent duty to find out what happened in benghazi and that's what i'm after and i hope we can find a way to get these interviews and release all of the holds. >> i want to clarify two things, right now your threat to hold up nominees stands? >> i have released two. i released two. >> right. >> with the understanding that we're going to have a bipartisan process to interview the survivors to ask the basic questions, was there every a protest? did you report a protest? were you concerned about

security before the attack? >> but the holds in general. depending on the situation, your threat to place holds? >> yes. >> okay. >> and can i just say -- the only reason is i've been trying for a year to get the interviews without holds. and you just continue allow something this bad and this big of a national security failure for the administration to investigate itself. i don't want to hold anybody, all i want to do is talk to the survivors, protecting their security, protecting their identity, to find out exactly what did happen. >> thanks for joining me, senator graham. when we return, republicans get a close law oss in virginia. no one could have left this much money here. whoo-hoo-hoo! yet many seniors who compare medicare d plans realize they can save hundreds of dollars. cvs/pharmacy wants to help you save on medicare expenses.

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and thrive. joining me now, congresswoman debbie waszerman schultz, she's chair of the democratic national committee. i want to put up an exit poll from the virginia elections where -- 46% of virginia voters supported obama care. 53% opposed it. i want to add on to that a meeting at the white house wednesday, which a collection of 15 senate democrats, most of whom are up for re-election, who

rang the alarm bell at the white house and said do something, this is hurting us. is there a fix that the president could put in place now that would ease the concerns of both those voters in virginia and those senators having to run for re-election? >> well, candy, let's take a look at what the election outcome in virginia means. terry mcauliffe won virginia and he won it with the same percentage, just about, that president obama won virginia just a year ago. and what election day this past tuesday in virginia, a very competitive state showed you is that when the voters are presented with a candidate who focuses on creating jobs and investing in education versus a candidate who doubled down on the politics of shutdown, who embraced political extremism, they overwhelmly chose terry mcauliffe, the democratic

candidate and elected him. and that is what we're going to be looking at -- they're going to have the same choices all across the country with the same candidates who were elected in 2010. when it comes to obama care specifically, obama care did not have anything to do with tuesday's outcome. you have -- >> you don't think it made the election closer? >> no, i really don't. if you look at the results a year ago and the results of now, they're about the same. >> if you look at 2014, if you look at this through the prism of 2014, you don't think that obama care will weigh level on democratic elections? >> since americans have been feeling the benefits since 2010, where -- on january 1, if you have a preexisting condition, like i do as you know, as a breast cancer survivor, the

peace of mind that those americans are going to have knowing they could never be dropped or denied coverage for that preexisting condition, the preventative care without a co-payment or deductible, those are benefits that americans have already been feeling and will increase to feel as obama care is actually implemented. i feel that -- >> how many floridians have left their health care insurance in the private market? >> the situation that floridians or any person who's gotten a transition letter from their insurance company are that they will have an opportunity to shop on the exchange and compare plans. >> right. >> and when they have -- and the ceo of florida blue, was on a sunday show just a week or so ago, talking about how they were -- they are offering a replacement plan for the plans that they're transitioning and in most cases, the plan that the

person is going to benefit from is actually lower cost and has more benefits. it is a real significant distortion to say that people -- that hundreds of thousands of people are being cancelled. what's actually happening is that they are very likely going to get a better plan for less money. >> hundreds of thousands of people have had their insurance cancelled. some of them, certainly not all of them, but some of them expressed an interest in keeping it. would you support -- should the president support any kind of movement, and there are those in congress, and some of them are democrats who say yes, people who have insurance they want to keep in the private market should be allowed to keep it, and it's not just republicans pushing that. >> and the president himself said that to the extent that his commitment and our commitment that if you liked your plan you could keep it is not possible, which is actually about less than 5% of the folks on the

individual market, then we are going to work towards making sure they can do that. what we're not going to do is we're not going to allow the republicans, embracing the idea that we should stop people from being able to get access to quality affordable health care. we're not going to allow new plans be sold like the upton plan would do to allow insurance companies to drop coverage for preexisting conditions, and not to charge women double just because we're women. and the fact that we have to do that and create two separate tracks that would allow -- we're not going backwards. >> just a yes or no because i've got to run. do you believe that democrats will win running on obama care in 2014? >> i think because americans reject the tea party extremism, they want us to focus on creating jobs and working together, and because they will -- >> that's not exactly a yeah. >> yes. >> i appreciate your time.

the chairman of the republican national committee, mr. chairman, i talked the other day to bob dole, a man some called in his time in '96 too moderate to be president. i asked him about chris christie and here what he said. >> you've got some very liberal views and he'll go to iowa, which is, you know, is quite conservative. i think the republicans are so anxious to win that the conservatives, if he's the nominee are going to hold their nose and volt for him. i mean they're tired of losing. >> so his take at this moment is that there's no front-runner and that chris christie is too liberal but nevertheless, republicans will accept whoever they get because they're so anxious to win.

your comment? >> well, i don't know about that, i mean i certainly respect senator dole a whole lot. and quite frankly, for about a month, mitt romney won the iowa caucus and john mccain was the nominee before that. so as far as our party only looking at conservatives, you know, look, chris christie is a conservative, i think he's going to do very well in all of his endeavors, but the fact is we have got stars all over our party, candy, we're going to be the party that is fresh and new in 2016. it's the democrats that are going to be rolling out the same old names that you would expect them to roll out. so i love our chances, i love our bench. and we're going to have a great primary season come a few years from now. >> well, part of the problem i'm having so many stars is that it has created certainly what looks like a rift in the republican party, certainly a difference of opinion about direction. i want to read to you something

that tim holtzcamp who was a tea party activist as you know, perceived to be the lack of support for the virginia candidate who was a tea party backed candidate. and this was reported in politico. tim holtzcamp said that priebus was running around new jersey boosting chris christie instead of helping the guy that barely lost by a few thousands votes in virginia, who was the conservative. there is -- the party itself, the party mechanism, the rnc is not friendly to tea party types like cuccinelli who lost the governorship in virginia. >> and it's just totally ridiculous, candy. i mean the rga and the rnc together put $11 million into virginia. >> far les than you did the last time around, though.

>> around $3 million. and then four years before that, the rnc put in $1.5 million. here's the one thing that i think we need to get straight. in 2009, mccain-palin, much to the chagrin of john mccain, had $23 million that they transfer into the rnc. the rga and the rnc sat down, i was there by the way, and they decided to take a larger chunk of that transfer from mccain-palin and put it on the television into virginia. the rnc outside of a presidential election is never in the business of buying millions and millions of dollars of ads. so what we decided early on is that we would put together the best possible ground game, about $3 million worth into virginia to help ken out. and obviously the ground game, obama care, ken's campaign came together, closed the gap, i'm really proud of the ground game that we put together in

virginia. i know ken is, i know their campaign manager is as well. so, you know, the day that the so-called, you know, republican establishment puts $11 million into a single governor's race is not enough, i think we're living in crazy world. so, look, we have a lot to pay for on the ground across the country coming into 2014. do i wish the outcome was different? of course. but obviously, it didn't work that way and we have got to just keep doing more across the country. >> let me ask you about a few things that turned up in the exit poll that kind of continued problems for republicans. and one of them was, let me show you the exit polls and the voting by gender. cuccinelli took 42% of the female vote, mcauliffe took 51%. there is a continuing problem in

attracting female voters, they played that card very well in that virginia race. it was part of your autopsy from the last election that the republicans have to do better in attracting women. it certainly didn't happen in virginia. what do you advise candidates to do? >> well, i mean, first of all, i mean you can cherry pick all kinds of numbers, what happened in new jersey? chris christie won the women's vote, he won the hispanic vote. he got 20% of the african-american vote. christie is pro life, christie is pro traditional marriage. here you have got two people that are fairly conservative on these same issues and you have two different outcomes. going back to virginia, candy, actually ken cuccinelli won married women, he won women over 35. >> married women, yes. >> on this number, if you want to break it down, what we are talking about are single women und under 35 and what closed the gap

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better plan, if you want to keep your catastrophic plan, you could. this issue is going to be catastrophic to the democrats. we will run on it in 2014 and they will lose because of it. >> always so many more questions than i have time, please come back and join us again. >> sorry. >> that's all right. when we return, chris christie gave a round of interviews this morning. we will chew over the highlights with kevin madden, earl lewis and ruth marcus. i got this. [thinking] is it that time? the son picks up the check? [thinking] i'm still working. he's retired. i hope he's saving. i hope he saved enough. who matters most to you says the most about you.

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joining me around the table, cnn political comment tate for kevin madden, a.r. lewis plus ruth madden for "the washington post." we have got a little bit of wall to wall chris christie this weekend, so general impressions, watching him on the national stage? >> my first impression was it did look a little bit like a victory lap and i think in a subtle way, chris christie was trying to send a message to a lot of national observers that this is what a governing republican looks like. in many ways, governing right now is an anti-washington message and that is where i think chris christie has sought to distinguish himself from the national republican brand which is very low and the chris christie brand which was

asended. >> if it was a victory lap, and who can blame him. but if it's a victory lap, you got to show a little bit of leg. well i'm the governor of new jersey, so fair enough when you're asked to comment on the iranian nuclear deal or no deal, a little harder when you're asked to comment on whether you support a path to citizenship and immigration reform. >> both of which he dodged. >> and you can't do that very long if you have -- >> before you tell me, i want to sort of go to that appointment in that he did sort of dodge a lot of those sticky republican wickets like immigration, but he was quite happy to take on the president obama care. take a listen to this. >> own up, tell the truth about what's going on, then they can worry about whether or not he can work out the problems. but if you're working on a fantasy that these are not major problems that need to be fixed

and need to be addressed, this is what lots of us have been saying all along about the fact that this was just too big for the government to handle. >> as with so much of where he's coming from, it goes right down the middle. new jersey is one of the 36 states that's not part of setting up its own exchange, he's got 900,000 people without insurance and he's got to figure out a way to do it. he's running against washington for sure. but he's also running towards something, and we don't know exactly what. on immigration, maybe he doesn't want to be clear. but a big part of him winning the latino vote is that he wants in state tuition if you're not a citizen. >> i would assume like anyone else looking at running for the republican nomination, chris christie would like this issue to be off the table by the time he gets there. >> good luck with that. >> sorry, kevin.

i just thought i would throw that out. >> 2016 is going to be framed around who's going to be able to change washington or bring back a sense of trust and accountability that's been missing over the last few years. so that's going to be a chance for him to establish a real contrast and also play to what are his greatest strengths, the idea that he's this blunt, straight talking guy that's a good governor. >> half the problem in washington is, if you're looking at washington as a republican is republicans. he addressed the idea of divided government, also something that he's quite happy to take on. take a listen to this. >> political advice from people who ran the romney campaign is probably something nobody should give a darn about. >> i like that. >> that's for sure. >> i like that one. >> i'm going to set this up. in the new book "double down"

there were leaks about the two reporters about the back ground that was taken on chris christie a as some of the vetting that took place and some of the vetting problems were leaked to the reporters in this book. >> they were really good reporters who were really well sourced. they got to the heart of the issue. that's standard operating procedures, you're going to be asked questions that are part of your background that have been been asked about yet. >> oddly enough he ought to thank them for getting it out now, it will be two or three years later, he can say asked and answered, it's all been vetted already. >> that is part of it. but the problem is we don't know the problem of the specifics. nonetheless, we don't know what

the problems were specifically, we know sort of general areas. >> there's two layers of this. one is, you know, when you are running for president, it is a completely different stage than anything you've done before or vice president and you have to know you're going to be able to sustain that. the other thing that we saw a little bit of a glimpse of there, is the bristly, in your face finger wagging piece of governor crist -- he needs to make sure he is walking that line very carefully. >> aaron and i are new yorkers and we know that works really well in new york and new jersey. it may not work as well in places like iowa, south carolina. >> if you can be blunt, it's just that harsh edge, i think, coming from missouri, lots of bluntness there, but not that

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. we're are back with kevin madden, erol lewis and ruth marcus. i want to return briefly to this idea of running against washington, which by the way, i have never known a president, even one who's been there for four years that didn't run against washington, including

reagan nation. barack obama ran against washington, so it's not unusual that chris christie would run against washington. except that there are three years between now and the presidential race and somehow he's going to have to find an accommodation with some of these folks. once again, his strength is not being washington, something he brought up repeatedly this morning. >> there are obvious problems that need to be fixed, and that the people in washington, both parties are not fixing these problems nor is the president. and that's the problem, and they look at a place like new jersey where we're not using divided government as an excuse not to act. >> so how does new jersey translate nationally for -- because that's his big thing, his big thing is i can get things down. that was barack obama's big things too. >> but unlike barack obama, chris christie is going to be head of the republican association. he's going to own this, whether or not the states are getting

along with washington. it's going to be a little hard to run against washington republicans, national republicans. he's got to split that difference. if he can get some results through the rga, then he'll be able to make that claim. and believe me, the democratic governors are not going to make it easy for him. >> i think it's going to be tricky for chris christie, yes, he has done a good job of governing in a bipartisan way in new jersey. but the trouble is translating that to washington. exactly how? how do you propose to get senator ted cruz or mike lee or the tea party crew in washington to behave when others haven't been able to achieve that and at the same time, when you're running and thinking about running in republican primaries, how do you explain how you're going to get them to behave without ticking off a bunch of voters who you're going to want to vote for you in primaries. >> right now, you can run against washington, it's basically a cold war for running against the status quo in a system that's broken. i think one of the big

challenges for christie or maybe even an opportunity is redefining his conservativism. right now conservativism in washington or the republican party is becoming more and more defined by what it's against. christie has an opportunity to use governing as an aept washington message. look, i can govern, i can put together broad coalitions to get things done. and conservativism is about con. that is a good opportunity for him as he looks to reframe himself as a national leader in the republican party. >> not only does he get to go around and help governors maybe in iowa or new hampshire or wherever, but he also has a platform in new jersey where he's going to have to have an agenda in the next two or three years and he can run on that. one of the things i found interesting in the commentary over the past couple of days has

been sort of pitting hillary clinton against chris christie. >> she can't wait to get to the horsera horserace. >> exactly. >> but when you put them together, a lot of people made the point that just because he can win 20% of african-americans in new jersey and the majority of hispanics in new jersey doesn't mean that if you put up hillary clinton, she's going to lose those constituents to him. it's just a whole different backe. >> ultimately what happens is this is a -- when there's actually a candidate involved, it's going to be very different. >> and it's also about him being conversive enough to women voters, back voters, hispanic voters, many of them are not -- he's not a divider, he can see where america's going and he's going to be somebody that we could at least give a second look to for the many nonpartisan voters out there.

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. yesterday former senate republican leader and presidential candidate bob dole was where he's been virtually every spring and summer saturday. he was at the world war ii monument, receiving veterans which brings veterans from around the country to see their monument, less than nine years ago when most of them were already in their 80s. this was the last honor flight of the season. >> i have got a bad knee. >> join the club. dole was in charge of raising the funds and getting the world war ii monument built. it is a place that captures time. >> whatever they did, they're in combat or someplace in the rear, you know, they did what they were asked to do.

>> vets are bob dole's mission now and it is a cross generational effort. >> okay, here you go. >> always a visitor to walter reed hospital, in recent years dole spent a lot of time -- it took him back to 1945 on a hill in italy where he nearly died and was permanently disabled by german machine-gun fire. he remembers his years in the hospital. his long journey home then makes him worry about them now. >> when they're there, and they're surrounded by people who are caring for them, nurses, technicians, doctors, i often wonder if they realize what happens when they roll out in their wheelchair and go home if they -- if they understand in

some cases this is what, this is forever. and it's a shock. >> what would you tell these young vets it was that kept you persevering? >> well, if you think you a e'vt a problem, then just look around. i mean, i used to go to pt at walter reed, and some of the cases were, i mean you can't describe the condition these young men and women in some cases were in. >> at the age of 90, bob dole remains a believer in the soul of the america. he says he doesn't know how much longer he'll be around, but he thinks veterans are in good hands. >> a great majority of americans will drop everything to help a veteran.

and that's what makes america so great. we don't forget those who fought for us. >> certainly, bob dole has not. on another subject, if you would like to hear what bob dole feels about chris christie and even hillary clinton go to cnn.com/stu. this is gps, the global public square, welcome to you in the united states and afternoon the world, i'm fareed zakaria live from new york. we have an important show for you today, failure to reach an agreement on a nuclear deal with iran, despite the praens of the world's top diplomats in geneva this weekend. why were they unable to make a deal? and even if they got one, would it be sellable back