john walsh is from say lone.o you think it's essential for the republicans to keep a strong pro-life plank in your party platform and may keep it as a litmus test for any presidential or vice presidential candidate? >> half of americans are very pro-life. to say half of your americans your opinions don't count, wouldn't equate to representation of them. this is a very, very important issue. yes, i do think you keep it in. i think you continue the conversation, but you do it in a way that's appropriate. chris, if you look at last year or the last two years voting in the 112th congress, there have been 11 votes on abortion in the house of representatives. 1,557 total votes, 11 of those dealt with abortion. this is not even 1% of our votes that have been taken in this session of congress. so say this has been a big issue, i think it's been pretty fair, actually. >> let's take a look at your platform. i will get to joan in a minute. let's look at the platform language. this is in the platform you agreed to as a party

. -- featured authors include bill o'reilly, john walsh, jake tapper and christopher fiction's's must book with a panel that includes his widow -- book.topher hitchens' and join us on line for exclusive offers chaps -- author chats on facebook. >> outgoing budget senate committee chairman kent conrad said a budget plan would likely total five the with trillion. this said raising the medicare eligibility age and changing the payment formula for social to draw benefits could be part of the final deal. senator conrad's remarks on "the wall street journal" ceo council meeting are about 25 minutes. >> mimi -- maybe the only constructive conversation has been a group of senators called the gang of six. we invited all of them but due to very -- various conflicts, we got one, so we what ask him to carry the whole burden of the six today -- senator kent conrad and who will be interviewed. senator conrad has been budget committee chairman and is retiring at the end of the year. great to have you here. >> good to be here. >> why don't we go back to the questions that will pick up on the first qu

. >> president had some star power, singer john mellencamp and kate walsh opened for him in iowa and singer katy perry appeared. >>> there were long lines of voters in the critical swing state in ohio. president obama's re-election campaign had gone to court to chala plan by ohio to cut back on early voting. supreme court denied ohio's request, handing a victory to democrats who believe early voting he helps themment a study released by the lawyer's committee found that african- american voters were 26 times more likely to cast an early ballot than white voters. >>> and in kenya, a bullfight was held today to determine who will win the u.s. presidential election. a 900-pound black bull named obama and a 1,000-pound white bull named romney as the crowd cheered them on. after an hour the crowd cheered that obama was the winner. not surprising after all kenyans consider obama with as one of their own. >> a pretty sure for votes has voters in the bay area work overtime. ktvu's john sasaki caught up with those manning phone lines calling out-of-state. >> i'm a voter. >> reporter: dozens o

john walsh?>> we've heard a couple of assessments here on the kids as early as age 5 says they want to imulate their heroes they see on saturday and sunday, we heard figures as high as 95% drop out if tackle football were eliminated from the youth. where is this research? and how they are row is the research about the parents fulling kids out of programs? >> tom would be best to answer that. >> actually, there's i think john might have a better sense. with regard to parents taking kids out of programs, we don't have as much on that. quite honestly. that is not well developed in the area of the motivation around leaving. what we do know about the motivation of leaving sports sports in general we know about that. it's not fun. and the pressure and all the other things we sort of in the youth sport community have talked about for years. it gets past what the original goal was. with regard to some of the questions that come up, if the child thinks it's not fun, whether you want to say flag is better

featured authors include bill o'reilly, john walsh and a look at christopher hichens. our live coverage starts saturday morning at 10 eastern on the c-span 2's book tv. now look of the congressional agenda for the last of the glenn beck session and for next year. this monthly meeting of conservative members of congress read by tim of kansas. it is a little less than one hour. >> thank you. i appreciate my colleagues joining me. we are not in the senate. i appreciate folks trying to keep answers to 30 seconds or less so we can move around. this is live on the internet, on c-span. this is on scripted. open to all questions. look forward to getting started. >> we will turn it right over to questions. >> yes. [inaudible] >> talk about the fiscal cliff and where you draw the line of. >> for many years the republicans have been very clear. we think with a spending and revenue problem in washington, d.c. the president has proposed his same bill proposals but had failed to receive any votes in the house and senate. but at the end of the day the principles that republicans have

featured authors include bill o'reilly, john walsh, and hristopher hichentchens posthumous book witha panel that includes his widow. join us online for exclusive author chats on facebook.co at cm/booktv. >> treasury secretary tim geithner backed up president obama's plan to extend bush era tax cuts -- secretary geithner spoke tuesday at the annual "wall street journal" ceo council meeting. this is a half-hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, the treasury secretary of the united states, tim geithner. [applause] the people in this room, we polled them before you got there, by two to one we do not expect a deal before we had the fiscal cliff. -- haight the fiscal cliff. there is a bit of a highlighting of the dominican republic, which we have not bigger gap. -- figured out. [laughter] i think there is a lot of anxiety in this room about the fiscal cliff. do you think we will go over it, or are you confident they will deal with the other side before we get there? >> there is a lot to sea, but i think there is every reason to believe this is a solvable problem. it is true we have a lot of challe

kate walsh and singer john mellencamp both making an appearance. >> let's go back to colorado springs and chief political correspondent carl cameron traveling with the romney camp. this is now a sprint to the finish line, isn't it? what can learn about the final campaign steps? >> well, he's going to a number of battle ground states where the polls are incredibly tight. we are now 73 hours and 45 minutes from the polls closing on the east coast. and mitt romney is racing around the battle ground states. we've been o iowa -- to iowa today. this event in colorado, then we'll fly to des moines and continue the sprint across country with visits in ohio and virginia, new hampshire, florida, all jammed up right straight through until monday night when he arrives back in the granite state of new hampshire, home of the first primary where his race began. we heard new rhetoric a moment ago. talking about how he's going to restore confidence, confidence in the economy, confidence in the country's future, confidence in america's reputation around the world. confidence in american government. an

. >> reporter: don, our producer deirdre walsh has been traveling with john boehner on his three-day bus tour through ohio. he's been campaigning for romney. but they stopped at a sports bar. and she spoke with him exclusively about romney's prospects in that critical state. >> romney will do well in ohio. polls don't decide elections. voters do. and listen, i've been around ohio. i've done this trip around ohio for a lot of presidential races in the past. everyone i think ohioans vote with their wallets. that's why i think romney's going to win on tuesday. >> so, you're confident that he can pull out a win here? >> very confident he's going to win on tuesday about. >> reporter: boehner did admit that the president has gotten traction in ohio because of the auto bailout. he insists not everyone there was for it. no matter what happens on election day, congress and the president have to immediately turn to the issue of the fiscal cliff. the speaker was really pessimistic to cnn about any major effort during the lame duck session to do more than just a temporary fix. he even admitted t

that abortion should be banned for women whose lives and or health is in danger, joe walsh lost to tammy duckworth. johne rape thing" coster, he lost his race for the house in washington state. todd "legitimate rape" akin, he lost the senate race against claire mccaskill, which was once considered an easy republican senate pickup. republican rosco bartlett, who did not have the stats handy on pregnancies resulting from rape, he lost his re-election bid in jand. rick berg who said we can work out the details later of whether rape victims go to jail for abortion, he lost. john mcgovern who doesn't want to talk about rape, he just wants to talk about his pure, pro-life core, he lost to bernie sanders in vermont. paul ryan, who called rape just another method of conception, paul ryan did win back his house seat, but he lost the vice presidency in rather spectacular fashion. and tom smith, who thinks getting pregnant out of wedlock is totally similar to getting pregnant by being raped, just put yourself in the father's position, he lost his u.s. senate bid to incumbent democratic senator bob casey of pennsyl

john allen. wolf? >> nick paton walsh, thanks for that reporting. appreciate it.oining us to talk more about what's going on, former democratic congresswoman from california, jane harmon. thanks for coming in. >> thank you. >> let's talk about what's going on, you were a member of the house intelligence committee a long time. i interviewed dianne feinstein, she's not happy she learned about this from news media inquiries. listen to what she told me. >> and it is rather shocking to find out candidly that we weren't briefed and that we find out from the press in the way in which we did, with no heads up, with no opportunity to ask questions or put together any information. >> are you surprised and shocked as i was that the chair of the senate intelligence committee learns that general petraeus is being investigated when reporters start calling up her office? >> yes. there's a lot we don't know about the process here. let's start with something you said earlier, wolf, that private consensual sexual affairs should be off limits. i don't see that congress needs to know

. >>> john mccain continues his attack on susan rice. where's this all going? joan walsh> then the fight over the filibuster. this has been quite a discussion on liberal talk radio. a small rule change sparks a big debate over the future of the united states senate. what's at stake? that's next. stay with us. >>> we are back. susan rice heads to capitol hill to clear the air over benghazi. john mccain is continuing his crusade against the ambassador who is thought to be the president's top choice to replace hillary clinton as secretary of state. rice volunteered to meet with critics and they still aren't satisfied. >> we are significantly troubled by many of the answers that we got and some that we didn't get. >> bottom line, i'm more disturbed now than i was before. >> there's no protest, but rice based her statement on the intelligence provided to her by the cia. rice was accompanied by mike morale, but that didn't stop mccain and others from publicly lashing out against the ambassador and now graham and aye yacht say they would block her nomination. lieberman also met

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general john allen, of course, denying any wrongdoing as we've mentioned. nick paton walshy on the ground with the troops in afghanistan. he's in beirut for us this morning. tell me a little bit about general john allen. i think that there's so many things that are so complicated about this story. so give us some insight into who he is and how he treats certainly the folks who, who served with him. >> very much respected career soldier. he became the head of u.s. forces in the nato campaign in afghanistan. a man with acute understanding of the problems that the conflict faced there. even though his job to the most extent was a public relations man to try to sell the success of that particular war. a man who also had an incredibly complicated task ahead of him. much of what's going to happen in afghanistan is being decided in washington, significantly months ahead and he's simply implementing it. a man also inspired great loyalty of many of the people working alongside of him. i remember one aide who had done lengthy service in iraq said he would take a call from general joh

john mccain in ohio, colorado, elsewhere. is it enough? >> the house speaker did an exclusive interview with deirdre walsh, he insists he's never seen this kind of republican enthusiasm in his home state right now. >> it's depressing to see mitt romney using a lot of the same words that candidate obama used four years ago. >> that's what you're seeing change in the country. this is -- we want the same president we wanted last time, we just haven't gotten him yet. m.i.t. romney's out there campaigning for hope and change. yes, i'm see iing he's facing en tensity. when i look at the numbers, i think any reasonable analyst would look at this and say, obama has an advantage, you look beneath them. you can make the case, m.i.t. romney can reach 300 electoral votes. >> it's really fascinating. first of all, in places like ohio. you have ralph reid in there. anyone who thinks ohio is in the bag for obama? you haven't heard from the evangelicals yet. he tells you you're going to wake up in a body bag. at the same time, there may be real undersampling of younger browner voters. when i am in ohio, i'm seeing people, they say, no one's ever called me fo

joe walsh of the eagles has a birthday today as opposed to the unwholesome joe walsh losing his congressional seat. john the american ambassador to the u.n. under george w. bush. really one of the great guys to play my favorite game called gay or republican. play that any time you see a white guy with a mustache. bo derek has a birthday today. born in 1956. mark gastineau was born on the same day of course. sean young you remember sean young? blade runner. >> oh. >> john: no way out. '80s icon shawn young has a birthday today. mike d. of the beastie boys turns 47. biggest birthday of all, vice president joe biden. i love joe biden. i really do. i think -- i knew barack obama was going to become president when he got the nomination in 2008. everyone said oh, my god the first after man american -- african-american to -- he had a plan to pick a vice president that would guarantee zero assassination attempts and that's joe biden. barack obama comes throughout and says you want to kill me, here's what you get the crazy middle-aged white guy who is a crazy liberal and has plugs. i thank you joe biden. your tr

john allen. many people asking questions this morning. >> nick paton walsh thanks so much for your perspective onandal, if that's what it is. >> for how the white house is is responding let's bring in brianna keilar. we've been talking about the fiscal cliff for so long know. the president and congress are scheduled this week to talk about this. you would imagine, though, this is a huge distraction. >> it is a distraction. of course a sex scandal takes up a lot of the air in the news cycle. but the president and congress still focused on the fiscal cliff. congress returns to town, as you know, zoraida, today. and president obama begins a series of meetings. today he meets with liberal leaders, as well as labor leaders, and then tomorrow he meets with business leaders. friday he'll be meeting with the top democrat, the top republican in both the house and the senate, to talk about the fiscal cliff and how to move forward. of course, the other issue, and you heard nick touch upon this, is this transition of power in afghanistan. general allen was already set to depart as -- as far as being the top

john boehner told his supporters last night that the election was not a mandate for raising taxes. democrat tammy duckworth is on her way to washington, after she defeated republican congressman joe walshe won the 8th congressional district by 10-points with 55- percent of the vote. nancy loo is live in rolling meadows where duckworth is thanking voters and volunteers today. nancy? >> it was under a glaring national spotlight. >> on the morning after her big win the congresswoman elect treated voters at the metro station to thank them for sending her to washington. she told them that she is eager to get to work for the eighth district even for those who did not support her. >> it does not matter whether or not you voted for me. what matters is that i do my job serving them. >> her win was one of the countries most closely watched races. it follows an especially bitter campaign. labels as too extreme and a deadbeat dad. accusing duckworth of focusing more on her life as a disabled veteran. in conceding walsh was somewhat emotional about having to leave congress after just one term. >> respect what happened tonight. it was not an easy phone call for me to make. respect what happened toni

john mccain, in ohio, in colorado, elsewhere. the question is it enough? >> his job to say this, but the house speaker did an exclusive interview with deidra walsh in ohio, henows ohio, from ohio, he insists he has never seen this kind of republican enthusiasm in his home state. >> fascinating to hear mitt romney using the same kind of words that then-candidate obama used, talked about change a lot, but also talking about being on this mission or this is a movement which is kind of reflecting what a lot of the obama folks felt four years ago. >> that's what you're seeing changing the country, you know? this is -- we want the same president we wanted last time, we just haven't gotten him yet. mitt romney is out there campaigning for hope and change. and but yes, i'm seeing in these states a tremendous amount of intensity. obama intense sit pick up here near the end. the storm helped the president and i know we want to talk about that. but this thing's a nail biter. when i look at the numbers, i think any reasonable analyst would look at this and say obama has an advantage. but if you look beneath them, i can make you the case that mitt romney can reach 300 e

walsh and allen west and the gang are there. the incentives for them -- >> they are not going to lay down. >> they don't have any incentive to help johnnell. they want to burn the thing down. >> scott brown sure does. >> well, yeah. >> play nice and then gets to be senator. >> if john kerry goes to defense or state. >> a progressive until -- >> but to your point, hugo. we have maintained, i think, through the last couple months of the election that the president kind of figured out during the payroll tax cut fight how to win this stuff, not negotiating initially behind closed doors but taking it to the american people. what he's doing right now -- >> you have to do both. >> absolutely. >> they will make a mistake if they just think they can -- >> steam roll. >> legislate this in front of a podium. >> meeting with business leaders today, progressive caucus, meeting with congressional leaders on friday but he knows that's not where it stops. the american people and the power of the bully pulpit is instrumental in getting anything passed. >> and i think one of the strongest messages sent by the electorate last tuesday is that they want t

john boehner and the house republicans. i think that, in fact, it's a mandate that the tea party got this rash thrashed. allen west in florida, joe walshtea party people, who got swept out of office. i think it is a mandate for compromise. it is a mandate for people coming together, and that's very good news, but i certainly don't think, norah, that it means the people rejected the president's plan. i think it is an affirmation of what he campaigned on. >> and mr. speaker, let me ask you about that. what does this mean for the republican party? i mean the hispanic vote which is the fastest growing part of the electorate, obama won 71%. mitt romney only captured 27%. that's less than john mccain. you acknowledge you've talked about this, your party can't win unless you do better among hispanics. are republicans going to have to back an immigration bill? >> i think republicans are going to have to listen very carefully to the people, like senator marco rubio, former governor jeb bush, current governor of new mexico, susanna martinez. there's going to have to be a serious understanding that the republican party has to understand the faste

nick payton walsh told me last hour and follow me here, the general may have been warning kelley about e-mails allegedly sent by petraeus' former mistress. >> one was received by general johnbout jill kelley. he knew jill kelley. he would according to the senior official, he wrote to her and said, look, somebody is talking badly about you in e-mail, even threatening you. >> it is not clear what happened after that, but we do know how general allen and retired general david petraeus' troubles are connected. it started with the bombshell friday, david petraeus resigned from his cia post because of an affair with his biographer and fellow west point grad paula broadwell. the man who co-wrote the biography says he was absolutely clueless that there was an affair. >> i'm sure both of them look back on what is now transpiring and realized they both made the biggest mistakes of their lives. and i assume both of them regret it tremendously. but i would bet both of them sort of come roaring back. >> the affair ended at some point broadwell allegedly sent what a source describes as jealous e-mails to kelley, perhaps perceiving kelley as a competitor. now petraeus says he was never i

walsh is in his first term. tammy duckworth selected by president obama to be assistant secretary of veterans affairs in 2009. >> why would the assassin johnkill william henry stewart? >> this is in the subject of some debate. some think that he realized in the event of the death of the president and vice president, the secretary of state would organize an election. i do not think so. he was not a lawyer, he was an actor. a shakespearean actor who knew the play julius caesar backwards and forwards. he viewed himself as brutus, doing the right thing and lincoln as caesar the tire ayrat and seward as co-tyrant. >> more with walter stahr on c- span's q&a. >> next, and joe walsh faces tammy duckworth. tammy was a black hawk helicopter pilot and was selected by president obama to be assistant secretary of the veterans affairs in 2009. this is about half an hour. >> the candidates we have with us tonight in one of the most watched and heated congressional races in the nation. the newly drawn eighth congressional district includes west and northwest suburbs. a couple of quick notes before we begin tonight. this is being stream to live on our webs

john allen, wolf, still under investigation. a new characterization of the e-mails he may have sent to jill kelley now known as the other-other woman. nic patton-walsheporting he got information in the spring from the handle potentially threatening e-mail that allen saw he forwarded to jill kelley and that is somewhat of what set all of this off. what are in those allen e-mails? officials are telling us it's embarrassing. that john allen, the commander of the war in afghanistan would be very embarrassed if his wife saw those e-mails. the problem may be here the investigators, everybody's got a different interpretation of what's embarrassing, what's over the line, were they just a little inappropriate or did they cross the line? that's the question, wolf. >> lots of questions on that front as well. meanwhile, his nomination to become the supreme ally commander in europe, the nato top commander, that is on hold. barbara, thank you. >>> meanwhile, amidst all of this israel is striking gaza with deadly force killing a hamas military leader. the exploding tension has the united states right now very concerned. we're going to jerusalem. and woman power in

john walsh? >> we've heard a couple of assessments here on the kids as early as age 5 says they want to imulate their heroes they see on saturday and sunday, we heard figures as high as 95% drop out if tackle football were eliminated from the youth. where is this research? and how they are row is the research about the parents fulling kids out of programs? >> tom would be best to answer that. >> actually, there's i think john might have a better sense. with regard to parents taking kids out of programs, we don't have as much on that. quite honestly. that is not well developed in the area of the motivation around leaving. what we do know about the motivation of leaving sports sports in general we know about that. it's not fun. and the pressure and all the other things we sort of in the youth sport community have talked about for years. it gets past what the original goal was. with regard to some of the questions that come up, if the child thinks it's not fun, whether you want to say flag is better