john chafee chafee. in rhode island so the fear always failed that indicates that it's not the power that was for one. that was the one. and they. punish a. politician. it's very intimidating. so we don't really have much of a debate about issues connected with israel. there was a farmer a pack official who wants. to take a cocktail and ten minutes thirty five. what was your personal. oh i was asked to chair the national intelligence council when except for about five weeks. i guess just because. the. government for. thirty years and because i have. not concealed the. do there was immediately. basically by blocking the right wing israeli lobby apac did. assisted. up on capitol hill and basically it became clear that right go forward in the position. anything that the national intelligence council produced would immediately. contaminated attacks on a personal nature so i couldn't do what i was being hired to do which is to improve the rather poor credibility of u.s. intelligence so i was. the credibility

they tried to defeat senator chafee john chafee. in rhode island so the fear always failed then when that seemed to indicate that it's not this power that it was that was the one you know lateral that was the one instance where they didn't generally succeed. and they see the rate of success. is high so that it's very intimidating. so we don't really have much of. it is really. there was a former apac official who once. he can take a cocktail and ten minutes could get thirty five senators to sign it. what was your personal experience oh i was asked to chair the national intelligence council when they accepted it after about five weeks. i guess just because. of patriotic duty. for the paper for thirty years and because i have outspoken israel and concealed other people do there was immediately. basically. the right wing of israel there are an awful lot of people who are afraid to say what they think because they're intimidated i think frankly the country policy and israel for that matter. kind of. the discussion of matters related to

and chafee in those days, he was not the john chafee we know and love today. he had lost the governorship, he had lost the senatorship. he had the misfortune of being secretary of the navy in rhode island when they closed all the bases. and at that time i was man of the year, and we had control of the republican party, so i could have had the nomination very easily. but after the 1980 election, there's a funny story in there. i had met, gone out to meet with ronald reagan out in california, and then i met, when i met with him, the fellow who took me to meet him was john sears. but they got rid of him after they lost the iowa caucuses. but reagan was sitting there with mike dever in wilshire boulevard office. and reagan looked old, he looked older then than he did when he became president. i'll never forget because he was a conservative kind of guy, and i wasn't. so he was talking, and he said, well, what you see is what you get. and then i went left and i said to john sears, what happens if a guy like me wins or loses? what do i expect? oh, you could get this

mayor michael chafee says 75% of his town's revenue comes from the plant. >> it was hard to turn a televisiond see u.s. senators talking about letting the industry go away. >> i think about it a lot. >> reporter: when we first met john tarcheck he had been furloughed and was filling time with house chores. he was laid off for four months, just as his son was heading to college. >> we were really scraping together in order just to make ends meet, because we didn't know what the future was going to be. >> reporter: but now, he's working again. not far from bobby marsh. >> it feels like that i've conquered something by overcoming being on -- being laid off. and being able to survive, because it makes you feel like i'm a winner. >> reporter: that's the way the whole town feels. seth doane, cbs news, lordstown, ohio. >>> coming up a little later on "the early show," the latest on the struggle for recovery in tornado-stricken joplin, missouri. including how the disaster is affecting the children. >>> then, will sarah palin run for president? a new movie may offer some clues. >>> and fighting arthri

john chafee. in rhode island and so the fear always failed then wouldn't that indicate that it's not the power that it was that was the one you know lateral that was the one instance when they generally succeeded and they think the rate of success on issuing candidates or politicians take their life . very intimidating. so we don't really have much of a debate about issues connected with israel. there was a former apec. so you can pick your car. and. that was ambassador charles freeman the former ambassador to saudi arabia now it is day sixteen in the u.s. intervention in libya the military intervention is the deadline to get out or get approval from congress by law yet no loud noise for anyone to of course the law very few calls from congress seem to falling on deaf ears so what does this mean for the rule of law and the rules of u.s. engagement in war take a look. fifty eight. fifty nine. sixty eight i said at the outset that this was going to be a matter of days and weeks. days to turn two mont

of accountability to see how this money was being spent, and if anything, in the pakistanis have chafedthat. and i think if anything, those requirements of stricter accountability are going to increase over time, and the i think the u.s. side is going to become far more intrusive. >> woodruff: is it in doubt, that this aid is going to continue? >> i think it will come under increasing scrutiny, and rightly so, because congress will want accountability. but the fact that it is not being favored by the administration and fact that even the pakistani response to the charges against them today from the core commanders' meeting, the military statement talks about any future raid and the consequences of which might be disastrous in the words of the foreign secretary, means that the pakistanis really haven't reacted as badly as they could have, which is they could have stopped the flow of materiel into afghanistan. that's a good sign. i also feel that it's an opportunity to engage with pakistan and to finally--. >> woodruff: for the united states? >> for the united states to engage with them a

just chafing at the bit to play that -- this issue which-to-their advantage.. i think they should have done less. >> guys, we will continue this conversation as we always do. we didn't get to your former boss, newt gingrich. >> we able to talk about that. >> guys, thank you very much. cnn went to the scene of the twin suicide bombings in pakistan today. stand by for a full report. going there live on the damage, the taliban's claim of revenge for bin laden's death. also, torrid details from ethics report on former republican senator john ensign. his affair. and the criminal allegations. love to hang out in the kitchen. you love the aroma of beef tenderloin, don't you? you inspired a very special dog food. [ female announcer ] chef michael's canine creations. chef inspired. dog desired. only yoplait original has twice the calcium of the leading yogurt. that's 50% of the daily value to help close the calcium gap, we're giving away a million free cups at yoplait dot com. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has

in my state, my predecessors, men like john chafee, claiborne pell, lincoln chafee clearly adhere to those and we have a strong record of judges in our state and they have come from different background. they have come from the practice of corporate law. they've come from being a former federal attorney. they've come from being a significant and principled attorney for a major insurance company. they've come from a vast array of legal background and professions. one thing they have had in common which is shared by jack mcconnell is integrity and commitment to the law. and that we insist upon. now, we've long recognized that these district judges serve a critical role, and we all recognize too, i think, here as senators is that this is a special role of the home-state senator. we understand that the circuit level when judges have to consider issues of constutionality, where major policy issues could be resolved, in fact finally resolved, at least for that circuit, we understand there's another add dimension. but in district courts we have traditionally recognized the judgment of not o

they obviously chafed at being held to certain conditions for financial aid, and they wrap themselves around the cloak of sovereignty. does the things that we're going to just have to work through. but it is too important not to give it a real good shot. >> in your perception of it, and you're well informed, is are some credibility to the idea that there is a price for leetch -- each level of assistance -- if we give them this much, they will give us this much, and if we give more, they will give more? is there some credibility to a bargaining view of it? it and there might be, but one of the problems of dealing with pakistan is that the american people want to know correctly that that money is going to the right and that. -- the right end. and there are problems of making sure does not get diverted to other means. for example, if we give them military aid and some of the military aid shows up on the indian-pakistan border, that hicksites india. -- excites india. and we have to figure out how that happened because it was supposed to go to the west side of the country. in the next few

they obviously chafe at being held to certain conditions as for our financial aid. and they wrap themselves around the cloak of sovereignty. those are things we're just going to have to work through. but it's too important, i think, to not give it a real good shot. >> so in your perception of it and your well-informed perception of it, there's some credibility to the idea that, you know, there's a price for each level of assistance they give us. if we give them this much, they'll help us a little more. the way you would normally enter into some sort of contractual bargain. there's some credibility to that view of it? >> there might be. but one of the problems of dealing with pakistan is that there is the american people correctly want to know that money is going to the right end. and there's -- there were problems with making sure it doesn't get diverted to other means. for example, if we give them military aid and some of that military aid shows up on the indian/pakistan border, that excites india. and then we have to, you know, we have to figure out exactly how th