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thank you, dean. >>> and coming up is "state of the union" with candy crowley. great sunday. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> out of the courts and on to the campaign trail. today -- >> if we want to get rid of obama care, we will have to replace president obama. >> 128 days from the election a conversation with obama chief of staff jack lew. and the good and the bad and the confusing economic signals. former hue let pa-- hewlett pac cart ceo, and also susan page and dan lothian. and we will talk to two governors whose states have been hit hard. and also, a talk with john hickenlooper about the wildfires in colorado. this is state of the union and i'm candy crowley. >>> white a fight in the white house. a major victory in the supreme court followed by a victory of a different sort on the house floor. the president used the trappings of this case in the formality of the east room to suggest in history and words that the em

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"state of the union" with candy crowley starts right now. >>> june disappoints with weak job numbers.ntial race. >> but it is still tough out there. >> this kick in the gut has got to end. >> exclusive interviews with senate republican leader mitch mcconnell and democratic campaign adviser robert gibbs. and then a sputtering economy with douglas holtz-eakin and mark zandi, and also dana bash. >> if we are going to succeed, we have to face the problems squarely. >> and bill bradley on how to fix a broken washington and what we can all do better. i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." >>> not the best of weeks for the romney campaign. it was under fire for sources as not ready for prime time when a senior adviser said that obama care is fine for when buying insurance is not a penalty and a tax. a big oops in the republican world world because the republicans have used the supreme court decision to say it is a tax. reset. >> the

crowley show. she also has been a regular panelist on the clock when group. she seed as foreign policy assistant to former president richard nixon from 1990 until his death in 1994. and wrote two bestsellers about her experiences. nixon off the record and nixon in winter. she also has written for "the new yorker," "the wall street journal," "the los angeles times," "newsweek" and "the new york post." a member of the council of foreign relations, she has lectured at yale university, columbiauniversity and m.i.t. she holds two masters degrees and a doctorate from columbia university. so we have to call you dr. monica. in a recent interview with ms. maxon or new book, "what the (bleep) just happened?," the happy warrior sky to the great american comeback, monica seles, and i quote, president obama is redistributing everything that takes america great. not just our wealth, but always learn ella terry power, cultural appeal, borders and their exceptionalism. monica is one of the most brilliant and savvy

peter crowley says the number of children attending school has increased from 1 million to 8 million in the last decade. he adds female students now account for 40% of all attendees. >> we continue to see occasional attacks against schools. and some of those attacks are attributed to taliban elements. >> crowley expressed hope international leaders will promise continued support for afghanistan at sunday's conference. >>> a new report on the accident at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant is making waves in japan. members of a diet-appointed panel released the more than 600-page document thursday. they criticized the prime minister's office for disrupting their emergency response to last year's accident. and they pointed to accounts given by the plant manager at the time, yoshida. the report quotes yoshida as saying they confused the change of command by directly intervening in the emergency response work. it says yoshida defend his decision to inject seawater into reactors at fukushima to keep them cool. the prime minister's office had told him to stop. he said had the order come fr

peter crowley says the number of children attending school has increased from 1 million to 8 million in the last decade. he adds female students now account for 40% of all attendees. >> we continue to see occasional attacks against schools. and some of those attacks are attributed to taliban elements. >> crowley expressed hope international leaders will promise continued support for afghanistan at sunday's conference. >>> a new report on the accident at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant is making waves in japan. members of a diet-appointed panel released the more than 600-page document thursday. they criticized the prime minister's office for disrupting the emergency response to last year's accident. and they pointed to accounts given by the plant manager at the time, masao yoshida. the report quotes yoshida as saying the prime minister's office had confused the chain of command by directly intervening in the emergency response work. it says yoshida defended his decision to inject seawater into reactors at fukushima to keep them cool. the prime minister's office had told him to sto

tim roemer, the foreign policy advisor to the president's campaign, spoke with cnn's candy crowley. >> the threshold for governor romney, quite frankly, candy, is this -- is is he equipped, is he prepared to be a commander in chief. and when he gets off on the first leg of this trip and he goes to great britain and he insults the british people and david cameron, the prime minister and the mayor of london both rebuke him, the question becomes this -- if he can't engage our allies on a simple topic like the international olympics, how is he going to be tough enough to stand up to our gravest enemies like iran? >> that obama advisor speaking earlier today with cnn's candy crowley. >>> you can hear mitt romney's full speech in jerusalem during our 5:00 p.m. eastern hour on cnn. >>> now to syria where rebels and government forces are still fighting to gain control of aleppo, the country's commercial center. at least ten people were killed in aleppo, a total of 88 are dead across the country. syrian state tv says rebels suffered big losses after clashes with three neighborhoods in aleppo.

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eastern/noon eastern, "state of the union with candy crowley."nks very much. >>> a horrible plunge from seven miles high, 228 lives lost over the atlantic. investigators largely blame pilot air for that air france crash. we're taking a closer look at whether it could happen again. >>> and survivors tell us about their desperate struggle on the night their cruise ship capsized off the italian coast. [ male announcer ] this is sheldon, whose long dy setting up the news starts with arthritis pain and a choice. take tylenol or take aleve, the #1 recommended pain reliever by orthopedic doctors. just two aleve can keep pain away all day. back to the news. >>> it was a horrible plunge from seven miles high that ended at the bottom of the atlantic ocean. now investigators have released their final report, detailing why 228 people aboard an air france jet plummeted to their deaths three years ago. a big factor, human error. so what's being done now to avoid such mistakes aboard passenger jets? our brian todd has a closer look at the investigation and its

cnn host candy crowley is joining us, and you are talking to the colorado governor, and certainly an it is amazing to watch both the devastation as well as the coming together that almost always happens. we have unfortunately seen so many of these things it seems in the past several years, and colorado seems to be doing that same thing i remember when the virginia tech tragedy happened on this coast, we were watching virginia tech so soon coming together and shouting the name of their school. we think in the aurora, colorado, community, there is a quieter sense, but nonetheless, this sense of kind of coming together, and we are going to survive this, and trying to pick up, and move on when it is still way too early for so many people to move on. >> yeah. and one thing of course that the massacre has done as they always do is to give rise of the debate of the gun control all over again. i am sure that is a topic of discussion as well this morning. >> it will indeed. with hickenlooper and john mccain, both of them from interior west states where in fact guns are a part of, a beloved pa

candy crowley joining us now, and glad you have power there in washington studios. >> yes, power herems? >> no, i live in montgomery county, and one of the hardest hit, and we don't have electricity and i could complain, but we are past the screaming baby stage, and in my household, nobody needs electricity and i'm the elderly person in the household and it is hard to complain, but it is irritating. >> all right. let's talk business. two political storms hitting washington this week. the health care and of course, eric holder and the fast and the furious fiasco and the contempt hearing. and chief of staff jack lew is talking to you about both of them today. >> yes, in some ways a mixed week, but in some ways the white house is looking at this as a huge week. they believe and those supporting the president believe that the supreme court really put an end to the health care debate. now, not if the republicans d held hp it. we heard mitt romney coming out to say the only path to undo this is through the ballot box, and we have seen polls with half of the americans don't like the supreme

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"state of the union" with candy crowley starts right now. >>> the e kconomy falters at ho, and romneyroad. today, mitt romney campaigns with photo-ops an unofficial talk on the world stage. >> the relationship between our nations is strong. >> and barack obama pushes back from home. >> i have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with israel. >> the campaign with the commander in chief, and the confident dick durbin of illinois and one of romney's possible vp picks senator kelly ayotte from new hampshire. >> and mitt romney's company were pioneers in outsourcing jobs. >> barack obama's record is the worst record since the depression. >> and we will talk about those ads with our cnn political analyst ron brownstein and "time" magazine's michael sherer. >>> an incumbent president still in peril, and measuring optimism about the economy has fallen to the lowest level this year, and personal spending cooled as shoppers cut back on items big and small from cars to groceries and the broadest measure of economic health, the gross domestic product grew at an anemi

candy crowley is next with "state of the union." >>> a massacre muddies the campaign trail. >> if there is anything to take away from the tragedy, it is a remi reminder that life is very fragile. >> our hearts break with the sadness of this unspeakable tragedy. >> a conversation with colorado governor john hickenlooper. >> respond to a shooting at the theater. >>> and the u.n. crisis with syria. also, john mccain. and a diseased mind with expert jerry spoe dak. >> do you still stand by your support of this failed deal? >> you ratcheted it up and increased the debt ceiling. >> a senate debate and a conversation with tim cape and george allen. i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." >>> joining me is colorado governor john hickenlooper. governor, thank you so much for being here. catch me up now on the state of the investigation. >> well, the investigation continues now that we have had access to the apartment of the suspect. they've got a lot more new information, and they will continue to put together the case. >> and what have they found in the apartment that might be usef

cnn's "state of the union" coming up at the top of the hour with host candy crowley.ike, that candy? >> you scared me there. it's a little early in the morning. >> i know. we're having a little fun with you. but the romney campaign causing so much buzz this week after reports surfaced that condoleezza rice was a potential vp choice. some say maybe it was a distraction from the whole back and forth over bain. she has said, what, she doesn't even want the job. what do you think? what was behind all of this? >> i think certainly it was a distraction and a welcome one in the romney campaign because, as you know, they have just been blitzed with bain capital accusations and other things from the romney campaign. so -- i'm sorry from the obama campaign. listen, whenever i talk about who is on the list and who isn't on the list, i hearken back to my days sitting around in chicago waiting for then candidate barack obama to make a decision on his vp choice, and i'd make phone call after phone call and try to figure out who is on the short list and the long list and everybody h

"state of the union with candy crowley" begins right now. >>> june disappoints with weak job numbers. today, unemployment and the presidential race. >> but it is still tough out there. >> this kick in the gut has got to end. >> exclusive interviews with senate republican leader mitch mcconnell and democratic campaign adviser robert gibbs. >>> then the numbers and the politics of a sputtering economy with economist douglas hol holtz-eakin and mark zandi, and also dana bash. >> if we are going to succeed, we have to face the problems squarely. >> former democratic senator bill bradley on fixing a broken washington and what we can all do better. i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." >>> not the best of weeks for the romney campaign. it was already under fire from friendly sources as not ready for primetime when a senior adviser said that obama care is fine for when buying insurance is a penalty, not a tax. a big oops in the political world because the republicans have used the supreme court decision to say it is a tax. reset. >> the supreme court said it is a tax, didn't th

michael crowley, what did you make of that? >> i think it was about what i expected.riate. there were no surprises. he doesn't want to touch the policy component of this yet and i think that's fine and appropriate. you know, i don't want to get into theater criticism with it. it was what it was. it was probably about what he should have said and i don't fault him right now as we're still absorbing this and learning the facts for not going any farther. the question is what will come next as we start to dig into why exactly this happened. one quick thing i would like to add, mental health is a running theme through a lot of these shootings. i will be very interested to know what were the warning signs, did he slip through the safety nets at all. that was the case in the giffords shooting, the virginia tech shooting. >> actually, we can go to nbc's jay gray. we are getting vague sketches of the presumed attacker. can you give us a little more information? what's the latest? >> reporter: what we do know is that this 24-year-old james holmes apparently withdrew from medica

and a host of the nationally syndicated radio program, the monica crowley show. she also has been a week and a panelist on the maclachlan group. she served as foreign policy assistant to richard nixon from 1990 until his death in a teammate before and wrote two bestsellers about her experiences. mix in off the record and mix in a winter. she also has written for "the new yorker," "the wall street journal," "the los angeles times," "newsweek" and the new york post. a member of the council of foreign relations has lectured a deal university, columbia, university. she holds two masters degree and a stack trace a way to call dr. monica. in her new book, "what the (bleep) just happened?," that the worry to the great american comeback, monica says, and i quote, president obama is re-contribute in everything makes america great. not just our wealth, but also on military power, cultural eo, our borders and our very exceptionalism. monica is one of the most brilliant idea women of our day and most importantly, with all her many achievements monica crowley is a great ameri

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that day his friend danielle crowley is filming from the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle. >> theye just asking around if anybody wanted to videotape, so i agreed, it's a fun experience. >> aaron and the other riders love doing stunts and can't resist the thrill of the open road. >> around here there's not many places that's easier to go on the road. it's not as safe. it's not safe at all but we come out here on the road and ride our bikes and we do wheelies. >> the wheelie is aaron's personal favorite. >> when you first start out doing wheelies, it's probably one of the scariest things you have done. you are like this thing has tons of power and you get off and your hands are shaking. >> that august day seems perfect for a joy ride. after all, to aaron what day is it? >> it is a perfect day for riding, really. just not my day. >> danielle crowley isn't expecting anything out of the ordinary, just the boys doing their usual antics. >> that's what they like to do. it's their fun, their release. you know, he's going to do a wheelie, he's going to come back down and he's going to be f

crowley and colmes will weigh in. later, very controversial video that some child advocates believe may be criminal. viewer warning on this one. those reports after hey. hey eddie. i brought your stuff. you don't have to do this. yes i do. i want you to keep this. it'd be weird. take care. you too. [ sighs ] so how did it go? he's upset. [ male announcer ] spend less time at gas stations. with best in class fuel economy. it's our most innovative altima ever. ♪ fourth of july prated huntsville, utah north of salt lake city causing controversy. take a look at the pictures. one of the floats mocked president obama there is the mask. signings on the float saying welcomes obama farewell tour. assault plan call eric holder. sheriff of the county actually called the secret service about the situation. here now monica crowley author of the big new best seller what the bleep just happened and alan colmes has upcoming book thank the liberals for saving america. [ laughter ] >> bill: we'll deal with that -- >> bill o'reilly stat

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to washington now and cnn's "state of the union" coming up at the top of the hour and host candy crowley morning. candy, good morning. >> good morning. >> and so you and the rest of washington have been caught in the middle of the brutal heat wave and like the rest of the country 25 states under heat advisory and record temperatures all over the place, and what is it like in d.c., and isn't this a test of the country's infrastructure? >> yes, and you add on the of it the wind storm that kept the lights out in a number of states for far too many days into the heat wave. and west virginia, i am sure you are reporting still has folks out of it and folks around here who still don't have air conditioning and you can talk about the olden days when there was not air conditioning, but onceous are used to it the 103 and the 104 is hot. it is like a blast furnace when you walk out of the front door. >> that is the central place, and don't you have people in the white house to call and say, fix this up. get it going? >> this is one of my biggest problems here is that i think, here we are, and there

i'm candy crowley in washington. head to cnn.com/sotu for analysis and extras, and if you missed any part of today's show, find us on itunes. search "state of the union." "fareed zakaria gps" is next for our viewers in the united states. >>> this is "gps," the "global public square." welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. on today's show, the presumptive president-elect of mexico, enraeon war, drugs, the economy. can mexico be the next emerging market star? >>> before that, aour truly global public square. we've assembled a panel to talk about the many international problems -- syria, egypt, iran, europe, and more. and on this july 4 week, we'll also look at america from the outside in. >>> also, who creates jobs? is it the 1%, or is it the middle class? we have a debate, a fascinating debate between two 1%-ers. >>> finally, tanks for the memories. a somewhat beautiful ballet by 50-ton ballerinas. ♪ >>> first my take. some believe the affordable care act, sometimes called

it's going to kill them. >> karen finney and michael crowley. fabulous, the pair of you.hank you so much. >> thank you. >>> next, the president admits he's fallible and his critics pounce. stay with us. pu >> just in case your friends or neighbors and uncle jim who is a little stubborn and been watching fox news -- [ laughter ] >> he thinks that somehow i raise taxes, let's be clear. we've lowered taxes for middle class families since i came into office. [ applause ] matters. pioneers in outsourcing us jobs supports tax breaks overseas. insourcing. industry and favors bring jobs home. it matters. this message. >>> the president is taking a lot of heat from his opponent's campaign today. all because of something he said, which is ironic, i think. after all, when was the last time mitt romney said anything that's worth listening to? >> the mistake of my first couple of years was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right. and that's important. but the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the american people that gives them a sense of unity an

adams, the treasury secretary of the longshore union has been nominated to fill the seat vacated by crowley. his nomination will be heard by the rules committee on july 19 as well. with any luck, he may be joining us by our august meeting, which would be terrific. we will say more about him and his qualifications when the time comes, but we're really looking forward to having him. so, we have an amazing person in the room. we have a lot of amazing people, but for some special recognition, aaron, would you stand for one minute? this is air in washington, an employee of the submarine up in pier 45. technically, he is an employee of the national arts association, but he is assigned to the uss [unintelligible] and has been there for 15 years. you might be aware that about one month ago, june 14, he was critically involved in the rescue of a young boy who had jumped, willingly, into the bay near the boat. this young man was on a field trip of the facility next door to the museum. this was a killed trip for children with disabilities. he took one look at the enticing bay and decided that is where

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. >> by the time they reached high school, the crowley quads had a high profile in their hometown oflie, texas. >> sit! >> in addition to service projects like training guide dogs, they've racked up a slew of accomplishments in academics, athletics, art, music, and scouting. >> ♪ time grabs you by the wrist... ♪ >> but they made history when they became the first set of quadruplets to be admitted to the american mensa. that's an organization for super-smart people. >> the only standard for being extended an offer of membership is to achieve a score in the top-two percentile on either a mensa-provided intelligence test or submitting prior evidence of a standardized test. >> and she should know -- natalie qualified for mensa when she was just a child. >> and the test wasn't even that scary. everyone's saying "i.q. test, oh, my goodness. do they, like, hook you up to, like, sensors or something?" no. >> no, it's just finding patterns and -- >> word association -- "what is cold?" "winter." "good job." >> one of mensa's goals is to help people who might feel isolated by their intelligence

. >> what a weekend, cocoa crist crowley for four runs down, stunning the yankees' 5/4.akland is the first team in nine years to sweep the yankees in a four game series and have earned a much deserved day off. the host toronto tomorrow. they're playing good baseball. >> a san fransisco couple that try to reduce their credit-card debt almost ended up in a deeper financial hole. consumer watch reporter julie what says that they did figure out a way out and hope that this will be a lesson for others. >> they are on the do not call list but diane and samuel smith still got plenty of telemarketing calls. >> it is a solicitor ... >> that includes one last year from a company called a w geek. >> it sounded like an opportunity to reduce my credit- card debt. >> he says there is some of this business promised to reduce the couple's credit card bills by $3,700, all he had to do was take $1,300 up front. >> they claim to have a connection with the banks. >> without his wife's knowledge he paid the money and provided a w d with all their account information including card numbers. >

i'm candy crowley.ere are some stories we're working on for our next hour. why mitt romney's trip to israel is more about attracting christian evangelicals than jewish voters. former house speaker newt gingrich and former labor secretary robert rice will go head-to-head on which party has the quickest fix for the economy. plus, the story of a family that's literally living on the brink. standby, you're in "the situation room." >>> joining me for today's strategy session democratic strategist, donna brazile. and erick erickson, editor and chief of red state.com. erick, first to you couple things jessica yellin pointed out at the top of the hour. team obama is running major ads during the olympics. michelle obama is in london. defense secretary panetta visited poland to discuss missile defense. all of these happen to be places that mitt romney is going on his trip, london, israel -- england, israel, poland. this cannot be a coincidence. how do you interpret that? is this campaign as usual? do you think th

state of the union with candy crowley begins right now. >>> romney struggles to control the message. today, the battle over bain. >> you're ultimately responsible for the conduct of your operations, but again that's probably a question he's going to have to answer and i think that's a legitimate part of the campaign. >> this is all an effort on the part of the president's campaign to divert attention from the fact that the president has been a failure when it comes to reigniting america's economy. >> the romney pushback with senior adviser ed gillespie, then obama campaign senior adviser david axelrod. >>> and the states brace for federal cuts. the view from the governor's office with virginia republican bob mcdonnell and massachusetts democrat deval patrick. >>> plus, floods, fires, and drought. what it means for farmers and your grocery bill with agriculture secretary tom vilsack. i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." >>> in an election about the economy, the obama campaign has made it a mission to discredit mitt romney's business credentials. recently it zeroed in o

i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." >>> joining me is colorado governor john hickenlooper, thank you so much for being here. catch me up now on the state of the investigation. >> well, the investigation continues. we had access to the apartment of the suspect. they got a lot more information, they're going to continue to put it together in the case. >> and what have they found in the apartment that might be useful or are they learning anything more about this suspect? >> you know, they asked for me not to talk about this. i think they are learning more, you know, moment by moment. but like in any investigation, like this, they're trying to make sure they are getting all the information first before they release it publicly. >> e.

"state of the union with candy crowley" begins right now. >>> i'm candy crowley in washington, and wemney's foreign policy speech in jerusalem. right now we want to show you a live picture where we expect to see romney any minute. he is at a community center in jerusalem. the backdrop is spectacular. we will be looking at the tower of david and the old city wall behind him when mitt romney speaks. also, somewhere in that area is our jim across to covering the romney campaign. i want to bring you in, jim, and have you tell me, when romney left, he said he did not -- he would not criticize the president. and yet he is there to define some differences. how does he walk that line? and here mitt romney coming in, we see. >> reporter: that's right. and candy, i should mention mitt romney is arriving now. make no mistake, he is going to be drawing some contrast with president obama even though he might not explicitly criticize the president on this speech. he's going to give a very tough speech on the subject of iran and that country's nuclear ambitions. according to an excerpt released by h

i'm candy crowley in washington. head to cnn.com/sotu for analysis and extras. if you missed any part of today's show, find us on itune, just search "state of the union." coming up in our noon hour, live coverage of mitt romney's speech in jerusalem. >>> 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 special and important show today. we will start with a powerhouse global affairs panel. tom friedman, paul wolfowitz, richard haas, anne marie slaughter on syria, iran, mitt romney, and president obama. later in the show, two of the world's leading economists, paul krugman and ken rogoff, go head to head on the most important economic matters of our time. the economy, the fiscal cliff, the euro and much more. >>> also, why in the world does the united states find itself number one on a top-10 list with yemen, iraq, and serbia? i'll explain. >>> but first, here's my take. mitt romney has picked a bad time to launch an attack on barack obama's foreign policy. as he was speaking

. >>> and coming up is "state of the union" with candy crowley. thank you, everybody. thank you, everybody. have a great sunday. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> out of the courts and on to the campaign trail. today -- >> if we want to get rid of obama care, we will have to replace president obama. >> 128 days from the election a conversation with obama chief of staff jack lew. and the good and the bad and the confusing economic signals. former hue let pa-- hewlett pac cart ceo, and also susan page and dan lothian. and we will talk to two governors whose states have been hit hard. and also, a talk with john hickenlooper about the wildfires in colorado. this is state of the union and i'm candy crowley. >>> white a fight in the white house. a major victory in the supreme court followed by a victory of a different sort on the house floor. the president used the trappings of this case in the formality of the east room to suggest in history and words that the supreme court settled the controversy over his health care law. >> today was a victory for people all over