jonathan allen headed to the national champion, alabama crimson tide next season. he'll be doing his thing tonight. on the offensive side of the ball, they've got ryan burns, who committed to go to stanford. he'll be back there throwing darts for them. carol, back to you. >> thanks, zack. a couple of blue chip guys on the same team. this area just produces marquee talent. >> sounds like a fierce rivalry. >> yeah, it does, right? you can say, i remember when i first heard about him. >> exactly. we will. >> thank you, carol. >>> next at 5:30 tonight, the mad dash to bring home the new iphone 5. >>> i'm jackie bensen. i'll have the story coming up. >>> the dispute between american airlines and its pilots causing a major >>> a fast forward through the headlines. this afternoon mitt romney released his tax returns for 2011. romney and his wife, ann, had taxable income of about $13.7 million, and paid nearly $2 million in federal taxes. campaign officials say the romneys paid an effective tax rate of 14.1%. and donated more than $4 million to charity. meanwhile, about an

. >>> for more on campaign 2012, we turn to jonathan allen, a senior political correspondent from politico. jonathan, good morning to you. >> good morning, rebecca. >> i want to begin where chip left off. the president's advisors say he's been so busy dealing with international affairs coming into the debate he hasn't had a chance to prepare. some of the tlmts coming out of these international affairs, the administration's stance, for example, on what exactly happened in benghazi has recently changed. i wonder how that might impact this debate. >> i would be shocked if there wasn't some questioning from that either from the moderators or at least perhaps some attention drawn to it by mitt romney. this is a huge issue for the president, is his policy working in north africa, in the middle east? what happened there? did the administration tell the truth? if they didn't tell the truth, why didn't they tell the truth? i absolutely expect this to be part of the debate. the idea that the president is somehow not practiced to speak in public or engage in public debate baugs he hasn't had more tha

host: we are back with jonathan allen of "politico." . senior .et's start with the store you posted last night about the campaign. some internal struggles at the romney campaign. it's likely there could be a shake-up in his campaign at this stage? guest: pretty unlikely you with the major shake-up in his campaign. mike allen jim, my colleague, the palace intrigue story. the dissenters usually try to preserve their future careers. they get behind a couple points in the polls and all of a sudden everybody is trying to take down stored stevens as the head strategist for romney, the complaint being he has taken on too many roles in the campaign. the speech writer, a strategist , and he has an eclectic style. people don't have the same kind of faith in his discipline and as some others high up in the campaign. mitt romney bears responsibility for the functioning of his campaign and the way that his top aides are working or not working, as some suggest george stevens is not. not. host: the front page of "politico" this morning -- guest: the odds are lon

we'll continue the conversation with jonathan allen here tomorrow on "washington journal" talking politics. [captions performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] hal rogers is, kentucky's 5th district, is our guest today, thank you for being with us today. >> thank you. >> joining us is staff writer lori montgomery, fiscal policy reporter for "the washington post," and humberto sanchez, staff writer for "roll call. "let's start with lori montgomery. >> you have had con -- been confronted with constant drama with the funding of the government. can you talk to us about the c.r. that just passed yesterday where there was a bit of drama. we were going to go with one number we thought we set last year, but no, that wasn't good enough, and now we came back to where we were in the first place. >> well, the budget control agreement passed, which was in the aftermath of the debt ceiling, the back of last year. overall spending is set for fiscal 13 at $1.37 trillion. well, the senate would have been marking that up to $10.47. we would have bee

. >>> for more on campaign 2012, we turn to jonathan allen, a senior political correspondent from politico. jonathan, good morning to you. >> good morning, rebecca. >> i want to begin where chip left off. the president's advisors say he's been so busy dealing with international affairs coming into the debate he hasn't had a chance to prepare. some of the tlmts coming out of these international affairs, the administration's stance, for example, on what exactly happened in benghazi has recently changed. i wonder how that might impact this debate. >> i would be shocked if there wasn't some questioning from that either from the moderators or at least perhaps some attention drawn to it by mitt romney. this is a huge issue for the president, is his policy working in north africa, in the middle east? what happened there? did the administration tell the truth? if they didn't tell the truth, why didn't they tell the truth? i absolutely expect this to be part of the debate. the idea that the president is somehow not practiced to speak in public or engage in public debate baugs he hasn't had more tha

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> tomorrow on "washington journal," jonathan allen looks at what is ahead for congress this week. bob woodward talks about his new book, "the price of politics." and a guest from the pew health group discusses the new nutritional and -- dietary guidelines for public schools. "washington journal, live on c- span. >> we can keep investing in wind and solar and clean coal and our farmers and scientists can harvest the biofuels. our construction workers can build homes and factories that waste less energy. put them back to work. >> i'll take it vantage of our coal, our gas, our nuclear, are renewable. we will be energy independent in eight years. >> watch and engage with c-span as the presidential campaigns move toward the october debate. energy policy is likely one of the topics in the first 90 minute debate, wednesday the third. audience questions take center stage in a town hall format tuesday the 16th. foreign policy is the focus of the final debate, the 22nd. also what the vice presidential candidates' debate on thursday, the 11th. t

allen wrench? -i went on twitter and they tell you exactly what to bring. wayne: bingo, he follows us, @letsmakedealcbs, twitter. good job, thank you, hideo. jonathan?an: what is your favorite suit? -hearts. jonathan: if you pull a heart, you're going to get $100. hold it up, hold it up. oh, thank you so much. so close, thanks, john. wayne: tiffany. tiffany: okay. i'm coming to the beautiful ballerina right here. stand up for me, please. i have $100 with your name on it if you have an eyelash curler. -no, i don't have one. tiffany: i'm sorry, jacklyn. jonathan: let's do one more here. stand up for me, sir. stand up for me, please. what is your name? -gilles. jonathan: are you french? -i'm french canadian. jonathan: canadian-- welcome, welcome. pick a card, just tell me a card, actually. tell me any card. -king of hearts. jonathan: king of hearts. i was going to ask if the top card was higher or lower than the card you picked. that's pretty good. is it higher or lower, for $100? -lower. jonathan: it is, you get $100.

. -- jonathan allen. bob woodward talks about his book. in less than three weeks, the first of the presidential debates. watch and the gauge. next, a house hearing on oxygen problems on ba'ath-22 is -- f- 22's. retired general gregory martin says researchers are unable to determine specific cause as to why f-22 pilots were experiencing -- while in flight. there was a hearing about the fight to jap lost oxygen issues. the report outlines ways to reduce risk. >> the hearing will come to order. f-22 pilot physiological issues. the committee's concerns include the impact of these issues to the pilots. and the operational capability of these valuable aircraft. the committee also remains concerned that after the study of the issue, we need to understand what the level of competency is. their 06 f-22 and physiological and -- there were six f-22 physiological instances. in may of 2011, the secretary of the airforce directed the scientific advisory board and make recommendations to address concerns. for may-september of last year, there was an upwa