themselves to helping the syrians find a political solution. >> with me now is tennessee senator, bob corkere top republican on the foreign relations committee. senator corker, good morning to you. >> morning, chuck. >> i want to start with what you heard secretary kerry announce, that russia and the united states would hold a joint conference about what to do about assad. is that a correct next step? >> i think it's a positive development. there's no question that russia's support of assad is most important at present and our desire to see assad leave, also have a secular moderate group in charge when he leaves. we need to be focusing on the day after. i think it's a good development and i'm happy to see it take place. >> and your reaction to the president's comments yesterday, where he says the facts about the chemical weapons are not yet known, so therefore, you've got to wait before deciding whether his red line and chemical weapons was crossed. do you accept the president's explanation on that? >> i think it's fine to be cautious and understand the chain of custody, how widespread it wa

joining me now from capitol hill, senator bob corker. a republican senator from tennessee, also the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee. welcome. >> good to be with you. >> rose: good to be with you. we talked to you in the morning and we talk to you at night. you can't get enough corker, they say. >> well, i can't get enough charlie rose, so thank you. >> rose: so let's talk first about syria and where that debate is. senator mccain was here last night. where do you think the president is in terms of what might be called an evolving series of considerations about what is wise, what's possible, what's necessary. >> well, charlie, you know, we do need to change the balance there. the opposition groups are made up into multiple groups but generally speaking there's the more extreme al qaeda oriented, groups which are great fighters, they're good at delivering humanitarian aid to citizens there and then more moderate secular group, the opposition groups that we would like to see survive. and as this has evolved, assad b

now his nomination garnered both bipartisan support and criticism tennessee senator bob corker it said in a statement i cannot be more disappointed in this nomination this gives new meaning to the adage that the foxes guarding the hen house on the other hand white house support from several republicans including senator richard burr and representative spencer baucus this is the second time obama has announced a nominee from north carolina to head the f.h. f.a. and she thousand and ten the president nominated joseph smith the north carolina commissioner of banks for the position but his confirmation failed that the republicans questions miss independence from the white house since the agency's creation in two thousand and eight and has yet to have a senate confirmed director and the post was nomination and contacts and confirmed he will take the helm from edward demarco the interim director since two thousand and nine. thousand courage to many groups to demand his removal because he has resisted efforts to help lower mortgage principal payments for bar workers and response demarco has c

in my "situation room," bob corker is coming over. e outraged, the obama administration is still providing bags of cash, millions and millions of dollars to hamid karzai in afghanistan. millions of dollars -- >> corker's mad about that? >> very mad. >> the golf thing makes sense. he plays golf at least twice a week. why doesn't he have republicans playing golf with him. thank you, wolf blitzer. look forward to that on "the situation room." kevin, donna, susan, thank you. >>> we all know those hollywood types like to pat themselves on the back with award show after award show. but one for movie ads? yeah, the golden trailer awards. that's our pop lead next. so...how'd it go? well, dad, i spent my childhood living with monks learning the art of dealmaking. you've mastered monkey-style kung fu? no. priceline is different now. you don't even have to bid. master hahn taught you all that? oh, and he says to say (translated from cantonese) "you still owe him five bucks." your accent needs a little work. i don'without goingcisions to angie's l

senator bob corker, republican out of tennessee, his comments there.there was no bomb shell in your opinion today, what do you believe was or is the motivation for yet another hearing led by republicans? >> well, you know, we have all heard the expression making a mountain out of a mole hill. they don't do that in washington today. they make a mountain out of nothing at all. >> is that fair to say that it is nothing at all? are there still legitimate questions to ensure that this never happens again? it seems to some, i'm sure, called here a mountain out of a mole hill. lives were lost. and improvements, i'm sure, need to be made to make sure this doesn't happen again. >> you are totally right, tamron. the fact is, those have already been developed, the accountability review board went through everything. they were quite critical of the security measures that were in place in benghazi. and steps have already been taken to improve those situations. so the point is, sure, it wasn't that there was nothing at all to begin with. but those things have been c

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almocrat mark udall of colorado and republicans bob corker of ennessee and saxby chambliss of georgia. we don't know if it's working ret chambliss scored a hole in e.e on the 11th hole. in case you were wondering, we did a little bit of checking. it turns out at least four wer,idents have shot a hole in one: eisenhower, nixon, ford, and clinton. none of them, though, while they were in office. let the buyer beware: the days of tax-free online purchases may be ending. pat caused a stretch limo filled with partiers to burst into flames? and a utility is hit with a e fiive fine after an explosion incinerated a neighborhood. that's when the "cbs evening news" continues. ♪ [ male announcer ] pain not sitting too well? burning to feel better? itching for relief? preparation h offers the most maximum strength solutions for all hemorrhoid symptoms. from the brand doctors recommend most. preparation h. don't stand for hemorrhoids. mommy's having a french fry. yes she is, yes she is. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. 100% vegetable juice, with three of your daily vegetable servings

right it's something that it's enough to spur that bill and the fear is enough to force senator bob corker and strange team of senators there before one of the militia was born. and there's news recently that there's been in the senate and the house we're keeping track of an effort to reform them to wind them down and replace them with something you don't want the administration convoluting the situation there by having to deal with private companies what they were afraid of is that we somehow relinquish our complete control of fannie and freddie and if you start to wind them off toward private investors that might complicate the issue an already complicated task right. so congress is always struggling with power between anywhere they share revenue. such a huge amount of debt. so thank you very much. for having me. and stay tuned because up next prime interest producer bob inglis and have you security expert on dre as answer no place on the importance of neutrality then bob and i are going to do all over the recent shutdown of another crypto currency exchange money laundering even a crime

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bob corker beat the president and mark nudal. it is the second hole in one. president obama had never witnessed one before and thought it was pretty cool. >> the time now is 12 minutes after the hour. coming up we will condititinue bring you the latest developments of the missing women found in ohio after 10 years. also coming up three beens -- witnesses telling what they knew about the terror attacks in benghazi. what kind of questions can they expect. >> amazing photos in earth taken from outer space. how the photos were taken using a device that you likely own. fi. since aflac is helping with his expenses while he can't work, he can focus on his recovery. he doesn't have to worry so much about his mortgage, groceries, or even gas bills. kick! kick... feel it! feel it! feel it! nice work! ♪ you got it! you got it! yes! aflac's gonna help take care of his expenses. and us...we're gonna get him back in fighting shape. ♪ [ male announcer ] see what's happening behind the scenes at ducktherapy.com. to get our adt security system. and one really big reason -- th

he invited saxby chambliss and bob corker and it was the democrats versus the republicans.ney said -- was asked by mark knoller our friend mark knoller from cbs news, so why would the president do this? >> well, he's willing to try anything. [ laughter ] and you know, whether it is a conversation on the phone or a meeting in the oval office or dinner at a restaurant or dinner at the residence. you know, he's going to have the same kinds of conversations. >> bill: try anything to get those votes. good for him. i know some people are critical about this. i think that's what the president ought to be doing. in fact, i think if he had been playing more golf with more members of congress, usually never plays except with members of his staff. you get a lot of business done on the golf course. first of all you build a lot of friendships, you build relationships and you can actually get some business done. i think if he had done more of this in his first term, he might be fath along on his agenda. saxby chambliss ruined it by getting a hole in one on the 11th hole. he cheated. i kn

obama chose to play a little golf with senator sexting chambliss, bob corker, and market all this, byhe way, if you count such things, is 1,201st of shouting as president, as you see, we do count such things. only the second time h has played with a republican member of congress. it was senator chambliss who dominated media attention. the senator score a hole in one. the senator choked up on a five iron, hit 155 yards into the wind on the 11th hole of the andrews air force base course and walked away with the little flack autographed by the president to commemorate the occasion. but much more was going on besides the senators ace. fox chief white house correspondent ed henry has that part of the story. >> reporter: at the regime of syria and the president show off what he planned to be the damage from more israeli air strikes and talk of a wider war started bubbling in the mideast. white house officials into a double down on president obama's redline comment, declaring he did not add live the last august by suggesting the maybe u.s. military action if chemical weapons were used. >> hi

. >>> tennessee republican bob corker is predicting the u.s. will soon be arming syrian rebels. secretary of state john kerry and russian president vladimir putin discussed the serious situation today in moscow. kerry says he hopes the two can find common ground. >>> iran's race is officially under way to replace mahmoud ahmadinejad, who cannot serve a third term. back at home and amazing story in cleveland, ohio. sounds more like a movie plot, three women held captive for ten years, suddenly free and their alleged captors in custody. our correspondent has the remarkable real life details from cleveland. >> reporter: the ten year nightmare came to an end with a 911 call to police. help me, i'm amanda berry. >> you need police, fire or ambulance? >> i need police. >> what's going on there? >> i've been kidnapped and i've been missing for 10 years. i'm here. i'm free now. >> reporter: now, police believe 27-year-old berry and 32-year-old night and de jesus spent the night as prisoners by three brothers ages 50 to 54 a house police visited at least once in the last ten years. >> ja

that's what bob corker the senator from tennessee said. he is a republican senator.s seems so ill timed. like you said it seems so early if they want this to be bad politics. do you see this hurting hillary clinton? >> that has obviously been the goal, right? once we figured out that president obama was not personally altering talking points, hillary clinton seems to be the focus of this and her potential 2016 run. i think the fatigue you just talked about might actually play against republicans talking about hilary, because if she decides to run, if this is a real story, she just won't run, and if it's not a real story, people will be tired of it >> michael: that's a spectacularly good piece of analysis, because there's no way this will hurt the democrats. but there is one part of that. if it does scare her away from running, then the republicans feel like they have a chance of winning in 2016 because there are beatable democrats, and i think a lot of people with political know how look at hilary at not really beatable right now. is there any merit to the republican

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. >>> and the top republican on the foreign relations committee senator bob corker wants president obama reports that the cia has delivered millions of dollars to harmid karzai in a letter to the white house. if the reports are true and indicates a an incoherent policy towards afghanistan. >>> also, it's official hawaiian democratic congresswoman hanabusa get the job. not just hanabusa making moves. busy week in senate news. check out our website, rundown.msnbc.com. we're back with more "daily rundown." >>> live pictures before we go. opening bell ringing on wall street. the markets responding. responding well to the april's jobs report. surprisingly strong number compared when analysts were expecting 175,000 jobs were added. unemployment rate dropped to the lowest level since 2008. the economy has created an average of compare that to an average of 138,000 over the previous six months. >>> coming up here on "daily rundown" the jobless rate at a four-year low as we noted. get reaction today from the white house. >>> plus, as the national rifle association annual convention gets under way

luke, before we let you go back to the hearing bob corker says -- i feel like i know what happened, i'm fairly safire, but look, if the house wants some hearings, i hope they're done in a respectful way. could this be the end of the benghazi chapped? >> that's a very good question. it all depends on what the red meat area of the house republican conference wants to do. one would suspect, though, that there would come a time when the leadership would try to move the focus back to issues they think he would do better overall in, and gear up for immigration reform. in all honestly which you have steve king of iowa saying this is ten times worse than watergate and iran/contraand there's over 100 members signing on to have a select committee investigate it, i think we have a few more months of it, especially with the conservative blogosphere beating the drum on this seemingly every day. so i don't think it will go away in the next few months until there's a bigger issue to take the media's focus. >> wow, luke, you just ruined a couple summers say this will drag on for a couple more months. >

. >> you get the sense they're talking to bob corker and the people now looking at this in congress toyou think that's a conversation that's really happening between wall street? because the common shares would say no, there's not much communication. >> i don't know that there is. i think this is in some ways the beginning of it. it's hard for the big hedge funds to get up there and say we've already made four times our money. we bought this at six times on the dollar. now we want it to be restored to par. a guy like burke wilts with 250,000 holders out there of this mutual funds who speaks for the people so to speak. you can see he's making a decision here, talking to me and putting this little note out or at least he sent me this e-mail to get vocal. so i think that's the conversation that may take place. >> taking the lead is berkowitz in this. both companies have made tremendous profits in the early part of this year. tremendous. >> they have. fannie has written up its deferred -- freddie mac has not yet. take that out of the equation, they will pay the government back this 188 bil

that was with the speaker, john boehner and now we've got him going out with saxby chambliss and bob corkerublicans, as well as mark udahl, a democrat. >> i did a little research thanks to my old boss who has played boss with jim clyburn a few times. by far the only one that got publicity was john boehner. >> and he was the only republican. >> here's what's fascinating. my colleague a few weeks back said as a suggestion, he put it in a piece, saxby chambliss very active golfer. mark udall is an excellent golfer. he should take them out and play golf. don't play golf with the same three or four people you always do. that would go a long way. i give him a lot of credit. the most important thing to take from this is the announcement in the report that there would be a photo opportunity on the first hole. what does that mean? it means the white house wants to make very clear over the one in congress and out of congress that he is doing this. he is reaching out. he is playing golf across party lines. he is doing the dinners. he is doing all these things in hopes that we see some sort of grand ba

today by himself, not necessarily news worthy, the fact that he played with republican senators bob corkerthat makings it more interesting. the white house says the golf game didn't have a political agenda, be you the president is trying anything he can to bring the two parties together. by the way, senator chambliss got a hole in one, that means drinks are on him. >> for everybody. i want to go back to this exporting of liquid natural gas, which is a plus by the president. >> a huge plus. >> between our energy independence in the next ten years, which means we won't have to import and we actually will be selling stuff, our trade deficit will evaporate. >> a little less than half of our trade deficit comes from energy alone. you won't talk about the knockdown effects in terms of national security and all the rest of it. so this is a big deal. there is no two ways about it. the president, i'm so glad he's moving in this way, to add this to immigration, there is a chance the u.s. could grow out of its fiscal problems, more than any other country in the g-7. >> let me connect the dot, exporti

i saw bob corker earlier and the sound he used was him saying he was satisfied that he knew what happenedhazi case. clearly there are problems maybe with security for these consulates and there was a lot of things we don't know in terms of the security situation and what kind of agencies were on the ground there and how they interacted but we have to keep this out of the political process. it's nerve-racking to watch republicans try to make so much political hay out of this which clearly seems to me to have overtones going into 2016 in the possible candidacy of hillary clinton more than getting at the facts of what happened in this case. >> and i should also say democratic congressman from new york came to the defense of hillary clinton at the hearing. let's listen to that. >> i find it truly disturbing and very unfortunate that when americans come under attack, the first thing some did in this country was attack americans. attack the military. attack the president. attack the state department. attack the former senator from the great state of new york, former secretary of state hillary c

have gotten the tarp bill done had i not had a partner in judge gregg and bob bennett, as well bob corker>> but they were great. bob ben set a pretty conservative republican. >> the point is -- >> moderate used to me they were liberal on some issues. moderate republican today means they're not nuts. >> rose: that's your definition. >> absolutely. >> rose: okay, so one last question. are you both out of there, running the motion picture association, you're writing books and lecturing and all of that. >> hoping for a movey. >> barney frank story is one are you promoting. >> or the book. >> people look at congress today and they say it's dysfunctional. can it be fixed? >> yeah. some things, again, this could be a whole separate show but to me the biggest, i have often been asked what the last thing you do, redistricting because it is out of that process people become governors and senators. and you don't have to listen minority voices in your district. it's going to be very difficult to get you to recognize the importance of compromise. and it's a legislative body, no one has ever run for th

that's what tennessee senator bob corker told us yesterday. >> there are four state department officials that candidly, there's been just no accountability. and i just don't think it bodes well to -- to know that people have made mistakes and candidly mistakes that cost people's lives, and there's nothing happening. i've been able to read all the cables. i've seen the films. i feel -- i feel like i know what happened in benghazi. i'm fairly satisfied. but, look, the house wants to have hearings, i hope they're done in a respectful way and hopefully it'll shed some light on what happened. >> mark may 2013 on your political calendars. it's the day when republican party conservative movement, at least, returned to what its favorite pastime was for a good part of the past 16 years. 1992 to 2008. going after the clintons. could the vast right wing conspiracy as hillary clinton once called it be back? could be. drudge report yesterday was interesting to see. before wiping yesterday away it's an entirely political exercise. don't overlook what was learned and what was a very credible whistle bl

the president teed off with republican senators saxby chambliss and bob corker as well as democratic here's the big news -- saxby chambliss got a hole in one. >> the president got it out of the hole for me and handed it to me and then they brought the flag out later. he signed the flag. everybody signed the flag. and it was pretty neat. >> did he ask for your vote on immigration reform in return? >> actually, i told him since i'd made a hole in one he ought to give us everything we want on entitlement reform. >> stick with the hole in one. that's a sure thing. that wraps up this hour of "jansing and company." thomas robert is up next. >>> good morning, everybody. the agenda next hour, new dae death tails on this amazing story out of cleveland, three missing women found alive after escaping their kidnapper. amanda berry able to escape first with her 6-year-old child then flagged down a neighbor for help. what police are saying about the kidnapper and the ordeal these three women have gone through. we'll talk to two dads whose own daughters were kidnapped with very different outcomes,

your colleague in the united states senate, bob corker, told this to chuck todd yesterday on msnbc. >i've been able to read all the cables, i've seen the films. i feel -- i feel like i know what happened in benghazi. i'm fairly satisfied. but, look, the house wants to have hearings, i hope they're done in a respectful way and hopefully will shed some light on what happened. >> obviously that sound is from before the hearings yesterday. do you agree with speaker boehner that the white house should be more forth coming with information about benghazi? >> i think transparency is a very important here. and i think that the federal government can hide behind some cloak and should come forward. we don't know why these special forces were told to stand down where that order came from, i'm very concerned about that. and as i raised with secretary clinton, they asked for additional assistance in march. in may. and in august 16th cable as well. meanwhile, the consulate is getting hit, got hit two times, in that time frame. and those requests were denied for extra security. so that does raise so

i want to point out two of the three senators that were there, saxby cham blilsz and bob corker, it appears the white house has identified the two georgia republican senators and the two tennessee republican senators. these are the guys they can make a deal with and if not it ain't going to happen. >> yeah. i think the president has learned over time their relationships are abundantly important and i think we have to continue to watch. >> sort of an understatement. >> at the end of the day, all that matters is he's learned and we have to see how this plays out. >> saxby getting a hole in one. >> i know. >> boost morale a little bit. you would think. maybe he's thinking, hey, hanging out with the president is good luck, right? so you cut a deal. when are these budget talks going to be done? they have to start at some point. >> i think you're asking the wrong person. well, i think what's so interesting -- >> mitch mcconnell doesn't want to have them. there's only a small group of republicans that want to do this. >> the conversation in washington is so focused on other issues, you forget you'

. >> do you have any update about when you're going to -- i know that republican senator bob corker of tennessee is saying he's waiting for an explanation on the hamid karzai claiming cash payments from the cia and that these cash payments are continuing and he's been confirming this and claiming it in afghanistan and the senator was hoping for an explanation from the president and he says he's sent two letters and haven't received an explanation. >> i'm not aware of the letters and i'll have to take the question of the specific story itself involves the cia and i have to refer you to them. with regards to letters i'll let you know if there's a response. >> jay. >> yes. >> you've used this formulation about the president's support for unfettered investigative reporting a number of times here. to what extent is the former constitutional law professor in the oval office torn between that philosophy and the case for, you know, going after leaks? >> i think the appropriate way to skribt that the president believes there needs to be a balance because there is an interest in making sure that