uncovered that video of mitt romney, david corn of mother jones, former clinton and reagan advisor, david gergen, time magazine editor, rick stengel, and our own john dickerson. stay with us. >> schieffer: welcome back to face the nation. back now at cbs news headquarters in new york, our political panel, david corn, who is the author of showdown, now out in paper zero back, david is also a reporter that uncovered the mitt romney fund raiser video from mother jones we want to ask him about that. peggy noonan, a columnist for the wall street journal, a speechwriter before that for president reagan, david gergen and i don't know anybody else who has this on his resume, he worked for both president reagan and for bill clinton, he is now at harvard university, rick stengel who worked with president clinton on the time magazine cover story that bill clinton authored this week, and let's also bring in round out the team with john dickerson, our own political director. let me just start by asking somebody on the panel, would anybody like to volunteer, did bill clinton say that he wants to temporarily e

. >> schieffer: david gergen who worked for president clinton and ronald reagan, time magazine editor richard stengel, and cbs news political director john dickerson. we are in the buying apple and this is face the captioning sponsored by cbs >> and now from new york, face the nation with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again and wnl welcome to face the nation. former president bill clinton, we are here at the clinton global initiative in new york, mr. president, this has become an important event. you bring together world leaders, philanthropists presidential candidates, people with ideas, time magazine said this week it has become kind of an ebay of philanthropy, where you put together people with needs, bring them together with people who have money and the means to resolve their problems, whether it is poverty, disease, just improving their daily lives, you get everybody in one place, and go at it from there. what do you hope to accomplish at this meeting? >> i hope to help people design their philanthropy and fit their partners in a way that gives them better and quicke

noonan, a columnist for the wall street journal, a speechwriter before that for president reagan, david gergen and i don't know anybody else who has this on his resume, he worked for both president reagan and for bill clinton, he is now at harvard university, rick stengel who worked with president clinton on the time magazine cover story that bill clinton authored this week, and let's also bring in round out the team with john dickerson, our own political director. let me just start by asking somebody on the panel, would anybody like to volunteer, did bill clinton say that he wants to temporarily extend the bush tax cuts or did he say not? a show of hands here. who would like to answer that question. >> do we know? >> it was a wonderful, long, complicated answer. the end of which left you thinking, what the heck did he just say? >> yes. nobody knew what the heck he was doing and everybody sort of went on with life. >> and with strategic, not deliberate. >> schieffer: create i think a fog so everybody can find an exit and then when the fog lift everybody is in a safe place. i think he is trying

i spoke earlier to cnn political analyst david gergen and white house correspondent dan lothian. david, you heard the ambassador talking. obviously he's not going to wade into the u.s. politics in the midst of an election. what do you make of what he said of where israel stands? >> well, i think the first thing was that the deadline has been pushed back to six to nine months, which means there's not going to be an attack during the elections, which from the white house point of view is a great relief. but we've got a very serious issue on the table, the next president. that is, the israelis are telling the united states, look, the red line is when the iranians get the technological capability to build a bomb, we then feel we have to attack. previously, the united states government has been telling israel, no, the red line should be when they actually get a bomb. >> acquire it, right. >> had they acquire it. >> the difference between acquiring and the capabilities. >> exactly. you brought that out in the interview. from the israeli point of view that's way too late. but there's a g

david gergen, gloria borger, john king, thank you. >>> with the election less than eight weeks away,are taking a look at the issues that keep everyone up at night, especially voters. we polled registered voters to see what is on everyone's minds. this week, we are taking a close look at the top economic concerns that voters have. housing was number five. taxes were number four. social security was number three. tonight, number two, the federal deficit. someone has made it his mission to promote fiscal responsibilities. david walker, the former comptroller general of the united states. we caught up with him on a bus tour through swing states with a group he founded, the comeback american initiative. here is what he told us. >> what keeps me up at night is the deteriorating financial condition of the country,ess clacountry,ess escalating deficits and debt and what it could mean to our future as a country and my grandchildren. this is not an unsolvable problem. the greatest threat to america's future is not terrorism. it is not some country. it is our own fiscal irresponsibility. during

david gergen on cnn say says if they have two more nights like this they could break the race open.be submit within the obamas so i don't know if we should overinterpret it. >> kimberly: all right. eric has compelling thoughts about this. >> eric: yeah, i wonder if we can get -- ask the producer to put video of the first lady up there. first thing i noticed was her dress she was wearing. rhubarb over blue. suede pumps, fabulous. she was beautiful. gorgeous. suede pumps. >> bob: take on her substance, not her dress, man. >> eric: earrings. >> bob: that was cute. the reason the main stream press and everybody else did was phenomenally good speech. that was something that you could argue the bias on certain things but on this you could not listen to that speech, nor look at that speech and say it was not a phenomenal speech. so, i think they were reporting what virtually everybody else was reporting. it was great. >> kimberly: obviously, she is talented orator and public speaker much like her husband. she did look great. she always does. she dresses very well and well prepared. the del

. >> david gergen, your top takeaway? >> two.tive of north carolina, i'm hugely proud of what charlotte did. terrific convention. secondly, wolf, i said last night that the democrats had two back-to-back rousing evenings, unexpectedly strong. if they could have a third, they could potentially break this race open. i think they did not do that tonight. they fell a little short of that. it's part because president obama had to be presidential. he gave a strong speech but it didn't sweep you off your feet. it's still a tight race and that first debate is going to be crucial. >> candy, i want you to weigh in on this. i carefully read the speech as he was delivering it. he rarely deviates. he deviated twice today. he said no company should have to look for workers overseas because they couldn't find workers at home. and he said, we believe that a little girl who is offered an escape from poverty by a great teacher or grant for college could become a founder of -- like steve jobs. and he mentioned steve jobs by name. in the advanced te

but cnn political analyst david gergen had a far different view. he posted this on twitter. if anyone ever tells you a woman can't give an energizing, hard-hitting speech, tell them to watch video of jennifer granholm. we'll let you decide this one. >>> republican mitt romney is taking a break from debate prep to head back to the campaign trail and also appear on nbc's "meet the press" on sunday. but before that, team romney is reacting to president obama's address. matt rods, romney's campaign manager, says tonight, president obama laid out the case for this election, laying out the policies that haven't worked for the past four year. he offered more promises but he hasn't kept the promises he made four years ago. americans will hold president obama account for for his record. they know they are not better off, and it's time to change direction. the dnc was rocking inside the arena last night. but what about the 65,000 that weren't invited to the party? we'll talk to one of them. >>> it was like a cavalcade of stars at the democratic national convention. james taylor, the f

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david gergen, do you expect.es he do a head nod to president clinton in 2016? >> he will stay as far away from that as possible. they made it very clear, this is not about 2016. he believes there is a choice. he genuinely supports obama on it. there are ancillary benefits for hillary clinton, of course there are. this is a speech where he is working very hard. donna, he has had a parade of people in to see him. jean pearlin in to see him, and president clinton writing it out in his own hand. keep changing it, terry mcauliffe went to see him. >> you worked for him. how involved is he in writing a speech? >> more than your executive producer does. >> what's interesting, is he notorious for getting to his speeches late. staff wants to have a meeting, now, later, that's down the road. he started on this weeks ago. weeks ago, reached out to old friends, help me out, what should i say? look for a very full-throated endorseme endorsement. >> we see a live picture of the motorcade coming to the hall. we don't know if it'

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joining us, senior political analyst, david gergen and fareed zakaria. the president has time for "the view" but not for meetings with world leaders. why would the white house open itself up to this kind of criticism so close to an election, especially considering all that's happening in the middle east, north africa and the middle east? >> anderson, it's almost inexplicable except this white house has been focused on this campaign for a long time and it's paying off in the polls but not in terms of foreign policy. >> just the optics of that, do you think it has the potential of hurting the campaign? >> i doubt it. it's going to clearly come up in the foreign policy debate, but i think it's more a mistake in terms of foreign policy. at a time like this as you say with so much turmoil in the middle east, to refuse to meet middle eastern leaders, the president of asia, egypt wanted a meeting, prime minister netanyahu of israel, as he well knows, fareed knows better than i do, and diplomacy, personal relationships are very, very important. it's especially t

joining us now, senior political analyst, david gergen, ari fleischer, and "time" magazine editor, fareed zakaria. host of "gps." fareed, what's most notable about romney's statement is at odds with previous statements that he says on record he supports a two-state solution. >> exactly. what he said with regard to the palestinian issue, the israeli/palestinian issue is not nearly as big a gaffe as the 47% which seems to reveal something new and startling. what he is saying here is pretty standard hard line republican talking points. what's strange, though, is that mitt romney the candidate has said something quite different. he's endorsed the two state solution and the republican platform endorses the two state solution. so he's now going to have to explain what does he think of the republican platform, what does he think of his own prior statements. >> he's also saying palestinians don't want peace, he's not making much of a difference between different groups of palestinians. he's painting with a pretty broad brush. what do you make of these comments? >> he said the palestinians who and

we talk about this year's battle for the state is cnn senior political analyst david gergen. ng for the white house just about 138 miles apart in the all-important state of ohio. one thing our viewers would like to know, i think, is who needs ohio more? the president or mitt romney in this quest for the white house? >> reporter: there's no question about it that mitt romney needs ohio. he cannot -- it's very, very hard to see how he gets to the white house without it, joe. the road to the white house has always been through ohio for republicans, as you say, you don't win unless you get there. what mitt romney has seen is the upper midwest, michigan and wisconsin, have been moving steadily toward obama. now ohio goes. and if mitt romney were to lose ohio, he has to essentially run the tables on the remaining states. or eight other battle ground states he'd have to win every one of them by the way, he's behind in almost every one of them. >> we've seen the president with what seems like a strengthening lead there in the buckeye state. >> stunning ten points. i couldn't believe t