crowley: thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. crowley: i thank you, mr. speaker. will the gentlelady yield? will she answer questions? mrs. black: under your time. mr. crowley: you suggested this change in magi as it pertains to tax credits that are eligible to the middle class under the affordable care act, is that correct? mrs. black: that is correct. mr. crowley: are you going to make the same suggestion that we change the adjusted gross income for eligibility for the purposes of i.r.a. contributions? mrs. black: sir, we're talking about social benefits. mr. crowley: we're talking about tax credits for health care, you don't want to make certain individuals eligible for those tax credits, is that correct? your attempt here is to not make certain people who under the affordable care act today would be eligible for certain tax credits uneligible, is that correct? mrs. black: as the bill proposes, this would put into alignment with other federal assistance pr

. >>> coming up on "state of the union" with candy crowley, dr. king's friend and confidant, georgia congressman john lewis. >>> the occupy wall street movement against big banks, corporate greed sparked arrests in several cities around the globe this weekend. one of the biggest demonstrations in times square in the heart of new york. police say most of the protesters were peaceful but more than 40 were arrested when they tried to hold a sit-in on a side street. the movement also sparked this demonstration on the famous las vegas strip. police say the crowd was loud but peaceful. and hundreds took part in occupy protests in downtown denver, colorado as well. protesters blocked a street near the capitol building and. police there made several arrests. >>> the occupy movement began exactly 30 days ago and has sparked further demonstrations across the globe. the protest turned violent in rome, for instance. police say demonstrators threw a firebomb into an interior ministry building. more than 70 people were injured in the protests. among them 40 pol

crowley: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank my friend from michigan and the ranking member of the committee on ways and means for yielding me this time. mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to this bill. as we look at this redefinition of terms under the affordable care act, let me take a minute or two or three and go to the facts on the health care law as it exists today. some people on the other side of the aisle and in the media continue to refer to this provision that we are talking about today as a glitch. as we learned from the nonpartisan joint committee on tax from the markup of this bill on the ways and means committee, this provision was not a glitch. again the other side will make the report that this was a glitch in the law. it was not a glitch. it was written into the law deliberately. and anyone who actually read the bill would have known that. this language was deliberately put into the health care law to expand affordable health insurance. and will particularly help early retirees between the ages of 62 and

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i'm candy crowley in washington. and you can find today's interviews as well as analysis, web exclusives, and much more at our web site, cnn.com/sotu. >>> up next for viewers in the united states, "fareed zakaria gps." >>> this is "gps," the "global public square." welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. we've got a great show for you today. first up, do we finally have some good news about the economy? to talk about the united states and europe, harvard's neil ferguson and columbia's jeffrey sachs will be my guests. >>> then, most incumbents these days are being voted out of office, but we find a world leader who was just re-elected by a landslide. how, why? we'll explain. >>> next up, libya after gadhafi. i'll talk to bernard-henri levy,

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crowley sees the world and how people see it.minds me of the 18th century aristocracy and the people on the street. if they can't find bread, give them cake. >> what are we talking about? is america an empire? >> it is 7:00 a.m., why not just think of american as an empire. this is esoteric stuff here. >> i haven't seen many american colonies recently. >> talk about this gap. you spent so much time in that region, particularly in the last few years, in terms of the perception of america. >> the empire has changed. the roman empire was the reroman empire. the by zan teen empire has territories around the world. >> the question was, has america projected ilts power as an empire for its own interest to confine other interests? >> yes, and knono. i think it probably could have done it more effectively but it has projected its power. traditional empires would take over colonies and force them into exclusive trade relationships. >> they may be functioning colonies. if we isolate iraq and use it only for its oil and leave it, basically

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candy crowley asked about his plan to eliminate the commerce, education and energy departments, amongthers to cut $1 trillion from the budget. >> we got into this mess by spending and borrowing and printing money, so we can't get out of it that way. we have to cut spending and this is something nobody else wants to talk about. none of the other candidates are talking about cutting next month -- you know, next year's budget. everybody's talking in washington and the other candidates talk about cuts the baseline increases, five and ten years out. and this is why there's no reassurance gone to the economy. nobody believes it's going to do any good. so i believe, obviously, very sincerely that you can't get out of a debt problem by accumula accumulating more debt. it doesn't work. >> let's bring in ron brownstein, cnn's journalist and "national journal's" editorial director. what do you think about the candidates wanting to cut education, commerce, energy? dangerous talk or does this draw an important distinction between the candidates? >> it's the other side of the coin. you heard rick p

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you heard what michele bachmann told our candy crowley.eople are not talking about this now, or that's not important, what she said, to the american people. so what would be the flip side if someone, say a christian or catholic or someone had said that about catholicism or about christianity. if someone from another religion would have said that? >> i think there certainly would have been a more severe pushback or more severe backlash against statements like these. you know, we, as christians, should ask ourselves, what if we were known as tolerant people. what if we were known as giving people? what if we were known as peace-loving people who, you know, had compassion towards other. wouldn't we be able to bring more people to our tent if we were known for that rather than the kinds of exclusionary statements that you see happening over this past weekend at the value voters summit. so, you know, i think we have to look at ourselves and how we project this out into the broader world. the interesting thing is that the other candidates in the

. >>> in an interview with candy crowley, joe biden said what happened in libya could be a template of what to use in future international conflict. >> this is one bad guy, one tough guy. he for 40 years had folks under his thumb. he's dead, and it's going to give the people of libya the first chance in four decades to actually put together their own government, have a little bit of freedom. little bit of opportunity. >> reporter: you mentioned in a previous stop about the template, bringing in international -- an international coalition and how this works so beautifully. >> it's a template in the following sense -- that when in fact there is a cause that the arab world can unite on and the west wants their help, and we don't -- we don't have to do it ourselves is the point. it is that the nato alliance worked like it was designed to do -- burden sharing. total cost to us, $2 billion, no american lives lost. we carry the burden where another nato is, primary burden is afghanistan. this is real burden sharing. that's the model. >> you can see all of candy's exclusive interview with the

crowley: thank you, madam speaker. i rise in support of this agreement between the united states and korea. i especially want to thank my colleague, mr. levin of michigan, for his tireless efforts to improve the agreement along with chairman camp and congressman brady of texas in a bipartisan way. a lot of credit for the content of this agreement suld also go to president obama. the bush administration was wiing to submit an agreement that heavily favored korea, but the obama administration held out until we got better deal, a more fair deal, a more fair agreement. for a long time our roadways have been home to cars named hyundai. now because of this agreement, south korean roadways will see more american cars on them. it's only right that fords and chevies have the same access that hyundai have here in america and this agreement will not only break the barriers for american car manufacturers, american services and goods such as insurance, legal, finance, television and movies will now be available in south korea. kore

crowley. obama administration has been honest. there has been no scandals. they haven't done anything. but now... >> they've been on the level about objectives. >> bill: they did. >> trance forming big sectors of the american economy including energy sector. which is why the president comes out to stephanopoulos and says what is half a billion clars, really? -- dollar, really? no big mystery here. >> bill: where are the billions of dollars in iraqi divisional? >> you know what? [ speaking over one another ]. >> bill: we can be discussing marilyn monroe. there is a double standard. you can never get the issue with you. >> i told you. i need facts oob there are investments they made in other companies and you're picking solyndra. >> i'm sorry he got most of the time, but you look much better. before we go, give me one investment the obama administration made in green energy. >> i tell you. they did wind, and solar. >> bill: no. no. >> i don't he know the names. >> bill: you don't know the names? you're going say it's worth while? >> if you want to list all of

but on cnn's state of the union with candy crowley, he backed president obama's decision to kill anwarmen. >> no weekend qualms about a u.s. drone strike into yemen that killed the top al qaeda operative who was also an american. thumbs up from the former vice president. >> i think the president ought to have that authority to order that kind of strike. even when it involves an american citizen. and there's clear evidence he's part of al qaeda, plan and cooperating, supporting attacks against the united states. >> okay by the former head of the cia. >> we're a nation at war and we have a right to kill or capture enemy combatants trumps the fact that one or another of those combatants might have u.s. personhood wrapped around them. >> and the former ranking democrat is in too, but she wants the obama administration to be transparent about its legal justification for killing an american without due process. >> i believe there is a good case, imminent threat beyond our ability to arrest him. the authorization to use military force against al qaeda, he was come policeant with al qaeda. but

he's completely out of touch. >> i'm candy crowley. and this is "state of the and this is "state of the union." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> the remaining 39,000 u.s. troops in iraq will be out by december, the fulfillment of an obama campaign promise, the end of a war, the beginning of the unknown. >> i think that they deserve a great credit. at the same time, we are now leaving iraq completely which is the number-one priority of the iranians. >> another journey into the unknown is full throttle in libya now, after the brutal death of its brutal dictator, moammar gadhafi. only two days earlier, secretary of state hillary clinton was in libya, pledging support to the transitional government. her reaction to gadhafi's death caught on camera while in afghanistan went viral. >> wow. we came, we saw, he died. >> earlier, i spoke with secretary clinton, who was in uzbekistan. secretary clinton, thank you so much for joining us. i want to start with iraq, and clearly the biggest concern here is that with the exit of u.s. troops,

"state of the union wts request candy crowley starts right now. >>> cain catches on but the party establishment gels around mitt. can any candidate stop the romney run? >>> today, 2012 prospects with presidential candidate newt gingrich and through the democratic prism with party chair woman, representative debbie wasser man schultz. then republican veteran john mccain on jobs, iran and politics. >>> and as the mlk memorial is dedicated, the hero's hero -- representative john lewis on martin luther king. >> he made me a stronger, better human being. >>> i'm candy crowley. and this is "state of the union." >>> four months ago one prominent beltway blog said of newt gingrich's troubled presidential run -- he looks a lot like the bruce willis character in the "sixth sense," everyone but him thinks he's dead. but at last week's washington post/bloomberg debate gingrich remained very much alive and kicking. >> all of the spending cuts that are built in the debt ceiling bill, all of them are acts of congress. they can all be repealed at any moment. it is nonsense to say we're going to disarm the unit

with us now, monica crowley and alan colmes. so colmes, first of all, do you agree with me about mitt romney, election held tomorrow, romney? >> yes, without debates, without head to head confrontation. if we were to fast forward without an actual campaign, you might be right. >> bill: okay. so you see president obama rising up in the campaign? >> yes. >> bill: rising, like a phoenix? >> well, phoenix might be a good analogy. >> bill: rising on what? >> rising on the fact that -- against an un-- >> bill: rising on what? a phoenix is going to rise, he's got to rise on something. is it just going to be more rhetoric? >> the fumes of the republican party. they're like people having one night stands. daters having one night stands, waking up and saying, how did i make that choice? one minute it's perry. they go back to romney whatever they're done with their fling. >> bill: you say that the president will rise because the republicans won't be able to mount -- >> i don't think they can mount -- nobody is excited about romney. cain is

. >> i'm candy crowley. and this is "state of the union." >>> an economic trifecta thursday boosted the administration and maybe the president's re-election chances, too. new figures show the economy grew by 2.5% in the third quarter, almost double the growth in the previous quarter. and european leaders struck a deal to settle greek debt and bolster the euro. then world markets surged in response. wall street ending thursday up over 300 points. >>> meanwhile, out on the campaign trail, the president tried to reconnect with voters where they are hurting. he launched a spate of initiatives he can execute without congressional approval -- helping homeowners with underwater mortgages, lowering student loan payments, training for veterans to work in the health care industry, and informational tools for small businesses. joining me now, senior campaign strategist for the obama re-election campaign, david axelrod. david, thanks for being here. before you get just too giddy about these latest economic -- >> i don't

as candy crowley reports, many in romney's own party of doing what they can to sidestep the issue. >> thomas jefferson talked about the wall of separation between church and state. nobody said anything about separating church and politics, but everybody knows it's a sticky wicket. >> is mitt romney a non-christian? >> i'm not running for theologian in chief. i'm a life-long christian. and what that means is one of my guiding principles for the decisions i make is i start with do the right thing. i'm not getting into that controversy. >> reporter: the question arises because dr. robert jeffress, a southern baptist minister, introduced rick perry at a voters values summit the other day calling perry a genuine follower of jesus christ as opposed to another candidate jeffress can and did mention in a later interview. >> i think mitt romney say good, moral man. but those of us who are born again followers of christ should always prefer a competent christian to a competent non-christian like mitt romney. >> reporter: mitt romney is a mormon and has passed this way before. four years ago, th

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i'm candy crowley. and this is "state of the union." >>> five months after navy s.e.a.l.s raided a house in pakistan and killed osama bin laden, the cia launched an armed drone into yemen killing the intended target, famed terrorist recruiter and propagandist, anwar al awlaki, an american. here to talk about the terrorists' bad year is former vice president dick cheney and his lawyer, liz cheney, chair of a national security advocacy group, keep america safe. together they wrote "in my time: a personal and political ma'am war." thank you both for joining us. i want to start with the drone strike that took out the top propagandist, at least for al qaeda in the iranian peninsula, perhaps took out the bombmaker for the same group, al aserei and also took out samir kahn. what's your reaction to that? >> well, i think it was a very good strike. i think it was justified. i think it is very effective use of our drone technology. the thing i'm waiting for is for the administration to go back and correct somethi

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radio talk show host monica crowley. jim pinkerton, contributing editor the american conservative magazine. and former president of the women's media center jehmu greene. i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. ♪ . now the bad news is your approval rating is 41%, but the good news you're three times better than congress. they are he' at 13 (laughter) >> so, i mean, if you're grading on a curve, you're killing, killing. >> jon: the most powerful man in the world taking time from his busy west coast swing sharing yucks with comedian jay leno and his trip like the the past two bus tours an effort to win support for the jobs plan and garner popular press. we told you the pew research study release add study looking the past five months and negative coverage for mr. obama outweighed positive 4-1 on that period. on the heels of that the president announces the end of the iraq war. the full pullout of troops of the plan to try to get more americans who are underwater in their mortgages to be able to keep their homes and