so bad senator joe lieberman the independent senator from connecticut has transformed his political career into being a thorn in the side of democrats and as he's taking a little vacation in august to attend glenn beck's rally in israel. also known as live x. television televangelism career kickstart lieberman called the rally important and constructive. and once upon a time long long ago joe lieberman used to be a democrat now he's one of glenn beck's minions. and a very very ugly herman cain the republican presidential hopeful has tried out crazy the other nominees tough task considering the field he's doing one heck of a job appearing on the glenn beck show cain defended his comments from earlier in the week on his apprehension about appointing muslims to his administration i didn't say i would appoint one because if they can prove to me that they have put in the constitution of the united states first the they would be a candidate just like everybody else my entire career abhaya good people great people regardless of their religious order so would it or are you saying that it is that m

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tom coburn, who also is a doctor, and joe lieberman, who typically votes with democrats.n giving this proposal they realize that it's a plan that nobody is going to like. democrats are pouncing on it. there is agreement on free trade. the white house and capitol hill have worked out agreements on colombia, panama and south korea that includes aid for american workers that are displaced when companies go overseas. we'll hear more about that and medicare when those all-important deficit talks when president obama gives a news conference later this morning. >> tracie potts, thank you very much. >>> in afghanistan, the taliban is planning responsibility for a rare nighttime attack in the capital of kabul. a four-hour standoff between militants and police saw at least 11 afghan victims killed, mostly hotel workers, along with eight attackers. nato helicopters brought the siege to an end by firing rockets at gunmen on the roof of the intercontinental hotel. >>> here is a look at other stories making news early today in america. surveillance video in massachusetts show that alco

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senator joe lieberman and tom coburn announced their proposal today to cut medicare to get the ballooning national debt under control. their plan would raise the eligibility age from 65 to 67 and make everyone pay more, especially the rich. the savings would be $600 billion in a decade. the plan would have been political suicide in normal times. >> nobody's going to like this plan. we understand that. but nobody wants the present medicare advantage, and those that are absolutely dependent on it to not have anything. >> our plan contains some strong medicine, but that's what it will take to keep medicare alive. >> the governor projects medicare will run out of money to pay full benefits in 2024. house minority leader nancy pelosi calls the proposal unacceptable. she released this statement saying, "it is unfair to ask seniors to get less in benefits and wait longer to get medicare all while republicans back tax breaks for beiig oil and corporations that ship jobs overseas." >>> up next, what's behind the fed's push to take one drug off the market and why thousands of women aren't letting g

you put out a pretty strong statement-- you and john mccain and joe lieberman-- yesterday about what'spening in syria after we saw this horrendous pictures of people being shot and killed and demonstrators. you said it's time for the administration to do more than it's doing. what needs to be done here? >> get the regional partners to tell assad he has to go and put everything on the table, including military force. if we don't turn this dynamic around-- the red cross can't go into the syria. it's wholesale slaughter. we're about to get qaddafi gone. we need to turn our attention strongly to syria with the regional cooperation like we have in libya. >> schieffer: when you say it's time to think about military force, you're talking about sending in u.s. troops into syria? what are you talking about? >> put on the table with the regional partners-- turkey is being overrun by syrian refugees. to put on table at the united nations in an international way aid to the syrian people. humanitarian disasters abound, what we did in libya to protect the people against a rogue regime. if it made se

officials have to say i have to say we can just listen to israeli officials like average joe lieberman explaining their punitive and illegal intent of this blockade and as i mentioned and i stress this israeli officials themselves say one thing in english to the international press another thing in hebrew in english talking about all the scary things that might be on the ship with holocaust survivor heavy epstein in hebrew that briefing the cabinet that we have absolutely no evidence whatsoever of any threat coming from this split so mr katz's has about a may may walk in far right wing circles in israel but it's it's why israel is in such a bad pint in terms of our lovely pichler ratio public. lation you completely should sex relations you just don't. know where you get what i don't ask you question yours and i ask you a question do you think that even fired at israeli said he will be as if you think he's really dilatory will tell i'm sorry gentlemen it's not risky to say shell's we keep this orderly here if i could ask you if the israeli government doesn't think that this hotel is a t

candidates like herman cain michele bachmann and sarah palin are all attending and joe lieberman is flying all the way out there too with j.p. you going to explain this one to me because i thought it glenn beck became this pariah that nobody in the conservative party wants to be associated with but i guess if he's doing it in israel then it's ok i mean i think that i think that there's you know you're asking me an earnest question i am very i was really i mean it's like you know he is going this is like the charlie party i think i think this is his effort at sort of recreating the tea party into something that people can do in israel you know they're going to see it like. sort of spread out it's like restoring party you know and i have other. ideas that i wrote them all down i put them in my i pad and i brought the dinner because otherwise i would be making really expensive trips i don't want to do it we call it because the leader is the glenn beck thinks he's going to restore courage to israel like really a pretty great is crazy you know as my interest or his ratings as a rating i decline

joining me now, connecticut senator joe lieberman. hello, senator. how are you, sir?n, i'm good. glad to be with you. i'd write that reference letter to yale again if you want to go back to divinity school. >> glenn: what do you have against yale? why? >> i'd do it -- >> glenn: all right. >> to explain to your viewers, i met glenn when he was doing a morning radio show in new haven, connecticut, quite a long time ago. we just got to be friends. i was impressed with him. it must say though you are right, we haven't agreed a lot of the time, i've been really proud of your remarkable rise over the years since then. >> glenn: well, thank you, sir. i called you and you said yes, you would be there. you said mainly because if i may quote you, mainly because of what you saw me do in washington on 8-28, that it was not a political event. and that you knew you could trust that this event would be something dignified and good. >> absolutely right. look, first, i think the idea of the restoring courage gathering in jerusalem is an important idea and very constructive one. at a v

i'm disappointed, joe lieberman. john mccain, not the modest withdrawal i hoped for. too little too late, ron paul. we will continue to press for a better outcome, nancy pelosi. far too slow a pace, barbara boxer. david gergen has serious questions about the speech. in a nutshell, why is everyone so unhappy? >> well, it really is strange, isn't it? the president and his people felt they were splitting the difference. this will be the goldilocks speech. not too hot or too cold, just right. they are all piling on here. i'm not surprised by the republican side. particularly john mccain. what surprised me about the democrats, they normally try to swallow their differences and say, he got bin laden. he's been a great president. >> why did they do it? couldn't they see it coming? >> i think they must have seen it -- yeah, they briefed people, so they must have known it was coming. i think they feel it will play better in the long run. we have not heard public opinion. it may be stronger in favor of the president than people in washington. i will tell you i think the way the

today coburn and senator joe lieberman build a medicare proposal that will help cut the deficit. president obama will hold another round of talk with senate leaders on raising the debt ceiling. both parties remain divided over taxes and entitlement cuts. i'm very pleased to have dr. tom coburn on this program. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. good to be with you. >> tell me where y think it is, this negotiation now that the president has evolved directly and not just leaving it to vice president biden. >> well, i think it all depends on whether or not we approach the very real problems that our country's facing in terms of our debt and our fiscal situation, whether or not you're approach that in a meaningful way that doesn't just pass the test of congress, it passes the test that says the people that are interested in loaning money for sovereign debt think we'vedone enough to deserve their confidence. >> you have been unilaterally said that you are opposed to some reducing some of the reductions in corporations and others get, in order and help on the revenue side, correct? >> wel

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. >> senators joe lieberman unveiled at their proposal to reduce medicare spending and cut the debt. this is about 20 minutes. >> there are a couple of things that we agree on that bring us here together. we both love our country. we can see it heading over a fiscal cliff unless there are people like us to come together to get the books back in balance. we both love our children and grandchildren. we do not want to be back country to them in such a mess. so that they will not have the same opportunities we had. that is why tom and i are making this proposal that will cut our national debt and preserve medicare as a government program for current and future seniors. there's not much disagreement about the basic facts of the crisis. our national debt is over 14 trillion dollars and a growing by more than $one trillion every year. the biggest but not the only drivers of the debt are entitlements including medicare. if we do not deal with those entitlements, we are never going to balance our budget. almost 50 million americans depend on medicare now. about 20 million more people will go

earlier today, senator joe lieberman and tobben -- tom coburn release their bipartisan proposal aimed at reducing medicare spending. from capitol hill, this briefing is 25 minutes. >> good morning, and thanks for being here. i will not surprise anyone in this room if i say there are a lot of issues that tom coburn and i disagree on, but there are two big things that we agree on that bring us here together this morning. the first is, we both love our country and we can see it heading over a fiscal cliff, coburnpeople like tobbetom and meat come together to bring it back into balance. the second thing is, we both love our children and grandchildren and we do not want to leave our country to them in such an economic mess that they will not have the same opportunities we had growing up in america. that is why tom and i are making this proposal that will cut our national debt and preserve medicare as a government program for current and future seniors. there's not much disagreement about the basic facts of america's current for it -- current cross will -- the current fiscal crisis. our deb

about an hour, president obama's comments in iowa about manufacturing jobs here in after that, joe lieberman and tom coburn on their proposal to cut medicare costs and reduce the debt. >> tomorrow morning, former house intelligence committee chairman peter hoekstra will take questions about libya and the war powers act and the situation in afghanistan. we will talk about the economy and trade with former senator byron dorgan. and we will speak with regina benjamin. "washington journal" every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> several live the best to tell you about tomorrow morning. the senate commerce committee will look into data security and privacy. members will hear from representatives of government agencies as well as business and consumer groups on the collection and security of personal information. that is here on c-span at 10:00 a.m. eastern. then on our companion network, c-span 3, at 10:30 a.m. eastern, a hearing on the impact of supreme court rulings on corporate behavior. witnesses before the senate judiciary committee were scheduled to include betty duke's, the lead and plaintiffs

chairman of the homeland -- homeland committee, the distinguished senator state of connecticut, joe lieberman and were delighted to have you here, mr. chairman. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, chairman feinstein, senator chambliss, members of the committee, colleagues and friends, i am truly honored to have been asked to appear before you this afternoon to introduce president obama's nominee to be the next direct your of the central intelligence agency, general david petraeus. none of chair, as you indicated earlier in a literal sense, and general petraeus needs no introduction. i want to take a few moments to describe what i believe dave petraeus has meant to her country and why i am confident he will be a superb direct and why i am confident he will be a superb direct and why i am confident he will be a superb direct and why i am confident he will be a superb direct petraeus is the most distinguished general officer at the united states generation of his generation contained a number of very impressive general officers. he is a true american hero who has twice been called upon

we all know what happened to joe lieberman back in 2006 when he was bounced from the democratic ticketimary and the came back as an independent and one. won. there is a share of voters to make or break a general election for the party. one of the reforms adding to the laboratory experiment in california is a new ballot rule that essentially says that anyone can vote in the primary election but the top two finishers will advance and a general election. you could have cases in california in 2012 or you have a democrat and a democrat on the general election ballot or two republicans and that would theoretically increase the incentive for voters to evaluate the candidates. perhaps of one of the finalists is not a member of your party, you consider which one is ideologically moderate and which was closer to your views. that might have a impact on the outcome and produce more politicians. i say that three theoretically. host: quiet conversation on our twitter page. 435 house of representatives members were set back in 1911. palm beach, calif., democrats line, good morning. caller: good morni

senate homeland security committee chairman joe lieberman and i held a series of hearings in 2008 that examined the impact of corn-based ethanol on food prices, and we found that it certainly had had a negative impact. for one thing, crops that had been grown to support other grains were being diverted to produce corn. that land was being switched to corn production, but that corn was no longer available for constructs that use corn for food but instead was being diverted to the construction of ethanol. the bottom line, mr. president, is that we can no longer ignore the cost of this policy to our nation and its taxpayers, particularly given our current fiscal crisis. at a time when we're projecting a deficit of this year alone of of $1.5 trillion, why in the world are we spending $6 billion subsidizing ethanol? subsidizing the blending of corn-based ethanol into gasoline is simply fiscally indefensible. i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting the coburn-feinstein amendment to repeal the ethanol excise tax credit and to eliminate the ethanol import tariff. thank you, mr. president

after that, tom coburn and joe lieberman unveiled their proposal on reducing medicare spending. all that is getting under way at 8:00. tuesday marks robert gates final day on the job. we will bring you a live armed forces tribute. he will be replaced by former congressman and cia director. that ceremony is live beginning at 9:45 eastern. the house recently debated and voted on two measures related to u.s. military involvement in libya. look for continued debate at c- span's congressional chronicle. find the daily schedule and committee hearings. >> my name is michele bachmann. i stand here in the midst of many friends and many family members to announce formally my candidacy for president of the united states. >> as the field of republican candidates continues to take shape, follow the candidates announcements and look back at their careers, at the c-span video library. >> earlier today, president obama travel to iowa to talk about manufacturing jobs and the u.s. economy. this is 25 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. ♪ >> thank you. thank you,

the chairman of the homeland committee, the distinguished senator from the state of connecticut, joe lieberman, and we are delighted to have you here. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, chairman feinstein. members of the committee, colleagues, friends, i am truly armored to have been asked to appear before you this afternoon to introduce president obama's nominee to be the next director of the central intelligence agency. general david petraeus. madame chair, as you indicated earlier, in a literal sense, and general petraeus needs no introduction. i want to take just a few moments to describe what i believe david petraeus has meant to our country and why i'm confident he will be a superb director of the cia. general david petraeus is the most distinguished general officer of the united states armed forces of his generation. degeneration contains a number of very impressive general officers. he is a true american hero who has twice been called upon by our commander in chief to assume leadership of a faltering war effort and twice he not only answered the call but lead our forces out o

. >>> earlier today senators tom coburn and joe lieberman unveiled their bipartisan proposal aimed at reducing medicare deductions, seeks to reduce $600 million from medicare costs. from the senate radio and tv gallery, this is about 20 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> well, good morning, and thanks for being here. i won't surprise anybody in this room if i say that there are a lot of issues on which dr. tom coburn and i disagree. but there are two big things that we agree on that bring us here together this morning. the first is that we both love our country, and we can see it heading over a fiscal cliff unless people like tom coburn and me come together to get our government's books back in balance. the second thing is we both love our children and grandchildren, and we don't want to leave our country to them in such an economic mess that they won't have the same opportunities we had growing up in america. that's why tom and i are making this proposal that will cut our national debt and preserve medicare as a government program for current and future seniors. there's not much d