soldiers were killed airing a telegram -- taliban attack on the bob graham air base in afghanistan. -- the bahgram airbase in afghanistan. >> thanks for being with us. president barack obama has delivered a highly anticipated beach at berlin's random burgh gate. the address through heavily on history and also drew a number of rowing concerns that have tainted obama's image among germans. >> among them, the prison surveillance program and the expansion of the drone wars under the obama administration. the iconic vandenberg gate -- brandenburg gate has seen previous speeches by john f. kennedy and ronald reagan that made new policy commitments. the centerpiece of obama's speech was an announcement for a renewed push for nuclear arms reduction. >> the sun blazed down as the crowd waited for the president and chancellor. barack obama followed in the footsteps of previous u.s. leaders setting out foreign- policy visions, but first, he shed his jacket. >> we can be a little more informal among friends. >> obama spoke of the end of the cold war but warned americans and europeans about becomi

was governor at the time and all the governors, governor clinton, governor riley, many others, bob graham, all working together to try to take advantage of that, make our schools better. that led to a whole series of actions, 1985, governor clinton and i were head of the governor's association. we devoted the whole year to higher standards and better schools. and president bush, first president bush, held a conference of governors in 1989 and set some national goals and all through the 1990's, governors and chief state school officers worked to create higher standards and better tests and accountability systems that were tailored to the needs of the students. and they worked together to do that and came up with common standards which all but five states have adopted. they did that without the federal government making them do it or telling them to do it. what has happened since then has been that the combination of no child left behind, then race to the top, and then the waivers have in effect imposed those standards on states and made it not possible for them to change it in a practical

lindsay graham and bob menendez, let's listen to this. >> would i tell my republican colleagues bothnate that the road to the white house comes through a road with a pathway to legalization. without it, there will never be a road to the white house for the republican party. >> if we don't pass immigration reform and get it off the table in a reasonable, practical way, it doesn't matter who you run in 2016. we're in a demographic death spiral as a party and the only wach we can get back in the good graces with the hispanic community in my view is pass comprehensive immigration reform. >> demographic death spiral. >> this this why the democrats aren't that worried about this or seemingly? >> i think things happen when it's in everyone's self-interest to get it done. at this point it's in everyone's interest to get it done. at some point something's going to happen. i know the house republicans are going to try and block it. i understand that. >> will the speaker put it on the floor without the majority? >> that's the big question. and by the way, the speakership of john boehner could b

. >> lindsey graham agreed with bob mendes the republican party is in the death spiral unless they passthis bill? >> yeah. graham has been from what i see -- you follow it more closely than what i do but graham has been very good on this bill and, you know, it's just while you two were just talking, i was just thinking back to last november and december and everybody saying republicans, every republican saying, this is the one we have to do, you know. >> john hannity. >> john hannity and charles krauthammer said i evolved. guns? no. gay marriage, no. immigration, yes, we are going to doismgration. if they screw this up, it will be just the most amazing political failure by a political party in the last 30 years. >> that you knowing about two of the hot-burton issues: border security, healthcare and there is more to talk about on both of those areas. but you just mentioned gay marriage not really divorced from the immigration thing because pat leahy had to drom his and. >> right >> bill: will that come back on the floor? the sometime in the next two weeks is going to rule on doma. how is

the key to republicans when it comes to susan rice, bob corker, senator john mccain, senator lindsey graham, they said maybe they would be the pick her, but they look forward to working with her. a rough political climate but things look okay. >> what do they think at the white house? do they think samantha power will have a rough ride through the senate foreign relations committee and the whole senate? >> reporter: they expect there will be tough questions but she'll get confirmed. they're confident of that. we have yet to see if it bears out. if i could shift for a moment away from the politics and call your attention to something a little bit different here on a more personal note, we'll talk a lot about the politics, something unique here is you have two women appointed by the president now to very senior foreign policy roles, both of whom have very young children in the rose garden at the announcement with the president. one child, samantha power child's so young, under a year old, that the child started to cry in the middle of the ceremony and was carried out because really just a bab

>> but it's not just bob menendez saying -- i can't count how many times lindsey graham and john mccaino us. he told us last week on the hill and i think he said again on one of the sunday shows if we don't get this done in 2013, we're dead in 2016. >> that's more effective. >> bill: lindsey graham says it is a death spiral for the republicans. >> i'm just saying -- to republicans. >> not necessarily bob menendez. >> who is not the political director of the republican national committee. >> bill: personally, i hope they reject it. but republicans meaning reject the advice. but i think they would be wise to take it. this is related in a sense that "the new york times" lead article today is speaking of what's going on on the hill, unfazed by 2012, g.o.p. is seeking abortion limits. you know the bill i'm talking about in the house. "the new york times" points out this morning, this is the most restrictive abortion bill to come to a vote in either chamber in over a decade. is this the republican path to power? in 2016? >> never being resolved. i've been writing about this issue in the begin

seeing this offer from bob corker, from john hoeven, senator from north dakota, as well as the gang of eight. who are saying, all right, you wanted this, now you have it. >> major graham said major things in the next 24 hours. so this thing could move in a hurry. the real issue becomes the house side. how does this change the pressure that's speaker painer is facing now? >> first thing's first you need to get the votes. and then i think people like chuck schumer, supporters, have always said, john boehner has the pressure. of course john boehner's caught in this interesting position. where the base of the republican party -- you saw that from that tea party rally -- they don't support this. there are senators -- you're going to be interviewing corker shortly who might be able to say look, i can be for this, as well as a pathway to citizenship. >> how has rubio handled this? we saw folks at the capitol complaining. how has he done this delicate balance? >> it's been difficult. doing legislation has been hard. covering the health care legislation from '09 to 2010, it's never pretty. always the hope is you actually get something passed. you can tout that i took all these

graham is wrong. this is a conspiracy by the left to bring us down. i knew bob woodward. we went back to school together way back when and i had to agonize through some conversations on some evenings about what was going on, how the builders of the government seemed to be shaking and might come down. so much of that originate in sort of the tensions, the hatred, the animosity, the paranoia if one may call it that towards the press. and one of the reasons that jerry ford was important was he called off at war. because he did have a very different view what democracy is about. and understood, of course when government there are times when you're angry about the leak. of course, some these leaks endangered nashe security, but if you look at the balance, the need for the government to have secrecy versus the imperatives of the first amendment and having a free society, that balance is often struck in the wrong place. we were going through a period now in which it appears to many of us at the balance has been struck in the wrong place. and we have to first stand up and say wai

graham was wrong. this is a conspiracy by the last -- left to bring us down. a new bob woodward.gonizing conversation some evenings about what was theg on, i did pillars of government seemed to be shaken. and might come down. so much of that originated in the president -- tensions of towardty and paranoia the press. one of the reasons that jerry ford was important was he called off that ward. he did have a different view about what democracy is. and understood, of course when you're in government, there are times when you're angry about the leaks. some of these endangered national security. if you look at the balance of the need for the government to have secrecy versus the imperatives of the first amendment and having a free society, that is often struck in the wrong place. we are going through a time now in which it appears to many of us that the balance has been struck in the wrong place. we have to stay up and say, wait a minute. the press is important. we all live better off when we have a watchdog in the press. we do need watchdogs. we don't need rottweilers. it can go too

bob corker from tennessee. you're not even in the deep south there. and then john mccain's committed life partner lindsey graham: john boehner says what senate bill. particularly the doma decision and the prop 8 decision. give us, as a gay man what this means. how important is it? >> i don't think it's possible for heterosexual people to understand what it's like growing up and never contemplating the idea that i would one day get married. it is not even on the radar. every kid thinks i'm going to grow up and go to college get a job, have a wife or husband and have kids and have a family. for gay people of my generation, it was all of that except for get married, have a family. it wasn't even something you said oh, shucks, they won't let me do that. you didn't think about it. >> bill: not part of your -- >> media being representative of that kind of a life. so yeah, it is great for today. for all of the people that want to get married and want it to have their relationships recognized by the federal -- obviously there's 38 more states we have to get marriage equality in for that to matter. but the real lasting

bob menendez on the democratic side. but today i especially want to thank the republican members of this group, led by john mccai mccain, lindsey graham, and jeff flake, marco rubio. for their extraordinary leadership. for reasons that everybody in this chamber understands, their willingness to be at the table and to stay at the table was an act of leadership unlike any other that i've seen in this chamber in the four years that i've served here. we would never be here today voting to fix our broken immigration system were it not for them. and so on behalf of the people i represent in colorado, thank y you. for me, this all started in colorado because everywhere i went, mr. president, i heard people talk about how the broken immigration system was affecting them. i'd here the peach growers in palisades say one thing and the cattle ranchers on the eastern plains say something else. the immigrant rights community, many of whom represented children in my old school district, or high-tech community, our ski resorts -- everybody was feeling the pain of a broken immigration system that washington was refusing to fix. and they had actuall ac

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