first we will hear in admiral mike mcconnell. he is a gw, alum and former direct of the national security agency, long-term naval intelligence officer, as well as the second director of national intelligence. and he came -- left that role to be vice chair and following admiral mcconnell, we will hear from michael chertoff, he serves on our steering committee, he is a former judge, ran the criminal division when it was a most significant division of the department of justice, before and after 9/11, took on one of the most difficult jobs in the world, was a judge and assumed the role as the second secretary of the homeland security and following these wise men we will hear from various numbers of staffers who are driving and come to the issue with expertise and are driving various legislation that is before the senate and house as we speak. first we will hear from tommy ross, who is the intelligence lead of the defense lead and cyber lead for the senate leader and the driving force behind the cybersecurity act of 2012. and we will

republican senate minority leader rich mitch mcconnell told this whopper of a lie to candy crowley. they've been trying to pretend like the president just showed up yesterday just got sworn in and was starting for sure in fact he's been in office three years he got everything he wanted from a completely compliant congress for two of those three years were really a completely compliant congress for two of those three years really then why is that the mitch mcconnell himself led his republican minority in the senate to shatter the record for the most filibusters in one session of congress a record that goes all the way back to the george washington administration obama didn't get everything you wanted from congress far from it. from the very beginning he had to negotiate down his stimulus package and make a full third of the tax cuts just to get three republican susan collins olympia snowe and arlen specter on board with it and when it came to health care you president obama really get everything you water from congress he can get a public option and he sure as heck didn't get the cor

america connell, the leader of the -- mitch mcconnell, the leader of the republicans in the senate, last week saying the republicans will not support a package not paid for and 180. the republican party has been very inconsistent on this issue and it's going to come up again at the end of the year when we're facing the expiration of the bush tax cuts on december 31. and this is an issue that's probably going to have to be resolved in this very short period of time after the election. >> you mentioned this very briefly. what does this do to president obama if congress passes things? and how does he run against -- >> it will be very telling, and i think republicans are looking for this. and does the president have a big rose garden signing ceremony with mitch mcconnell and john boehner behind him? or sign it and pass it and move on? and i think republicans noted that when they passed the bill, the authorization that was pitched as a joshes bill, the president signed and moved on and didn't talk about it, it does not help the white house's message that congress is ineffectua but looking for

by the way, at a press conference today speaker boehner said that senator mcconnell had been consultedso there appears to be strange divisions emerging between the house and senate republicans these days. earlier this week there was a story in the capitol hill newspaper with the headline, "mcconnell staying at arm's length from boehner." just today there was a story about how the senate republicans are angry at their house counterparts for hurting their chances of gaining control of the senate. well, this agreement that helps middle class families, senior citizens, and those who have been looking for work is too important to be jeopardized by political rivalries between republicans in the house and republicans in the senate. >> that was earlier today. as you heard, the new york senator saying that speaker boehner announcing an agreement that was worked out over the last four or five days. now speaker boehner 78 days ago said that lawmakers could take it to the bank the fact that the payroll tax extension would be paid for. that resolve of course fizzled yesterday when he agreed to supp

in a moment we'll hear from senator mitch mcconnell, the republican leader. i want to go back to a story we talked about in the last hour. the chairman of the committee is dave kemp. did he urge leaders of both partieser to "back off and let the panel try to strike an agreement." congressman camp is also the head of the house ways and means committee. he met with reporters saying the comments from the leadership on both sides, both the republican and democratic leadership is unhelpful in trying to work out some sort of agreement. again, the big issue is how to pay for this, a bill that would cost upwards of 150 to $160 billion. some are calling for means testing for social security and medicare recipients, just one of a number of proposals being put forth on the table. so far, no agreement. here's more everywhere senator mitch mcconnell as he took reporters' questions also on capitol hill. >> democrats and republicans are dragging their feet on this payroll issue. you are -- you say the democrats are dragging their feet for political purposes on this payroll

. >> and yet as you know one key player in this process has been senator mitch mcconnell, republican from kentucky, the senate republican leader. he's been rather coi as to how he's going to proceed on this. >> today he did a press conference as he does every tuesday, after a luncheon meeting with senate republicans. he got asked several different ways how he stood on the idea of letting the payroll tax get through and he just really wouldn't answer the question. and at one point asked a different way how he would respond, he just said, you know, i'm not going to respond to that. i've already been asked that one way or another by several other people. another reporter chimed in, tried a different way and he basically said no and gave the questions to any other reporter on any other topic. the presumption is, however, if this is moving in the direction forward a deal, generally deals don't happen in this congress unless mitch mcconnell signs off behind the scenes. if mcconnell was vehemently opposed to where things were headed, i think this would probably be falling apart rather than

and today, the president sit down with the house republican leader mitch mcconnell and democratic leaders in a rare luncheon session with bipartisan group of congressional leaders in washington. tonight a formal dinner for a few at the white house to pay tribute to the troops who fought the battles in iraq by inviting a small group of iraq veterans to pay tribute to the 1 million-plus who served in iraq over the last nine years. >>> some weather news today that will likely have the federal emergency management agency involved in cleanup operations. entire blocks of illinois and kansas flattened after a storm system bringing tornadoes to the hea heartland early this morning. six people were killed in southern illinois and another three dying in kansas. the town of harveyville left in rubble, and this is after a series were moving through the area with speeds up to 130 miles an hour. >>> we begin with the lead story and the announcement of ben bernanke about the state of the u.s. economy and what miit mean for the job market, and the overall growth in the next six to nine months. and we wil

if mcconnell was vehemently opposed to where thinks were headed and this would fall apart rather than coming together. >> what's changed in the republican caucus? we heard last december we support the tax cuts. we want to figure out a way to pay r for them. that resulted in the compromise extending it for two months and now it appears as if democrats are going to get this without any way to pay for it. >> i think that the -- they got pummeled so badly in december for about two weeks as the republicans looked as if they were obstructing -- blocking the tax cut for the middle class. i think there was a real shift inside their own thinking here, and it was a moment where they realized a chief of staff to a freshman republican who on he -- over that weekend and right before christmas on sunday he had been telling me about how they were ready to fight, fight, fight. by that friday when they had completely given up and given into the democratic demands, he also said to me, he said, well, i think we learned our limitations. they don't control the whole place. they can't get everything they w

mitch mcconnell is a reserved guy, right?gh, has a well spring of kind of fundamental conservative belief and principle and experience. he's been there for a while. mitt romney doesn't have the fundamental connection. he wasn't there back in the day. he wasn't there in '94. he wasn't there with reagan. he can talk the talk. but the problem is can he communicate it and connect with people? i don't see him doing that. he can mouth the words and he can get enthusiastic and as we've seen he is adept at turning on a dime shaping his message but it's kind of hard to see him with that crowd. >> if mitch mcconnell can do it mitt romney can. >> he has tried in the past but i think the question a lot of conservatives have, is it in his heart? does he mean it or is he out playing president? i think you'll see that today. >> we'll be right back with this great panel discussion. right now it's trivia time. we asked how many women have held both congressional seats and cabinet posts? the answer is four. secretary of state hillary clinton w

part of the challenge of this is, as admiral mcconnell said this is a good start. there are so many more pieces of this. this is like ten dimension chess. the problem is it moves very quickly. >> absolutely right. and i will speculate. china and russia have been focused on this approach for quite some time. the arms control argument works as reagan said trust but verify. the atrib u bugattribute is dif. that is debilitating economically and for national security. let's -- please. >> can i just make a comment about information sharing? i feel so strongly about this issue. if it's not required, it won't happen. niso sounds look a nice idea. but bureaucracies will not put information into the system unless they're forced to do so. what i do mean fwha? i grew up in the navy. 30 years, loved the navy. had a great time. the navy's view of the world was we have our own ground force. we have our own airplanes and all these ships. why do we need the army or air force? and so our whole mental attitude was we were not going to cooperate with those guys. they're competing for

of national intelligence mike mcconnell, both served during the second bush administration.

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. >> here is mitch mcconnell on the senate floor today. >> the president's goal isn't to solve our problem but ignore them for another year which will insure they get worse. once again, the president is shirking his responsibility to lead by using this budget to divide us. >> senator, is voting on the payroll tax cut separate from the extension of the unemployment insurance, that is a mistake in. >> i don't think it should be separate, ed. you have two huge issues, clearly i'm not a great fan of the payroll tax holiday, but the middle class needs a tax break but at the same time we cannot forget that long term unemployment in this country is very, very high, and we also need to make sure we don't cut drastically the reimbursement rate for doctors who serve medicare patients. >> back to the budget for a moment, i have to say i thought it would have been a bigger number now that we will be winding down.

mitch mcconnell and his buddies in the senate want to deny all american women the right to coverage foryou about republican senator roy blunt, he has an amendment which allows any employer to deny contraception coverage to any employee based on moral convictions. this has nothing to do with religion anymore, but senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is still spinning it this way. >> the fact the white house thinks this is about contraception is the whole problem. this is about freedom of religion, you can't miss it in the first amendment, right there in the very first amendment to the constitution. the government doesn't get to decide for religious people what their religious believes are. >> bob schieffer asked the gentleman from kentucky if he supported blunt's amendment. >> yeah, if we end up having to try to overcome the president's opposition by legislation i intend to support it. >> republicans and catholic bishops muddied the waters for a week. it's clear this isn't about religious freedom, this is nothing more than a frontal attack on president obama and any woman in the countr

a lot of debates these days over contraception and birth control here's a little bit from mitch mcconnell. legislation that would ban any group that had just a quote moral objection not just a religious group but just to any group that had a moral objection to that would would you be willing to push that in the. yeah you know if we end up having to try to overcome the president's opposition by legislation of course i'd be happy to support it. all right so not just you know it religious organization the catholic church doesn't have to do it but now if any organization of the boss morally objects to something he doesn't have to provide you with insurance that's crazy i think. the real compromise here the real ideal thing the thing on which we can all agree is that health insurance should not be tethered to employment and that is that that is the absolute worst way to go about it because if you get fired from the job if you get laid off you can't bring that insurance with you so it also destroys the price was going to be around you need to state your case on health care well no i mean way no

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because mitch mcconnell suggested.cconnell is the guy who said his primary objection is to make sure you lose. the guy he picked before who suggested him? mitch mcconnell. the guy before him? an independent. you are a democratic president. he angered the republicans by picking richard, oh my god, mitch, are you going to be okay? let me give you a couple more republicans. when are you going to fight? when are you going to fight? it doesn't look like you are ever going to do it. and if you go into an election this way and every time romney challenges you, you step on the gas and get the hell out of here, that's the way a loser looses elections. "young turks." only one who thinks an amendment to the constitution may be in order. that's next on "the war room." >>> those are some of the super pacs of course running in this campaign. and they have done some serious damage especially to newt gingrich. and will president obama encourage people to donate to his super pac? absolutely. >> we see carl rouge, the koch brothers, and

because mitch mcconnell suggested.itch mcconnell is the guy who said his primary objection is to make sure you lose. the guy he picked before who suggested him? mitch mcconnell. the guy before him? an independent. you are a democratic president. he angered the republicans by picking richard, oh my god, mitch, are you going to be okay? let me give you a couple more republicans. when are you going to fight? when are you going to fight? it doesn't look like you are ever going to do it. and if you go into an election this way, and every time romney challenges you, you step on the gas and get the hell out of here that's the good job. we'll explain what that means when we come back. it gives me a healthy scalp and great looking hair. does it do anything else for you? no? no? yes. [ male announcer ] head & shoulders. 7 benefits. 1 bottle. untamed fruit flavor. jolly rancher. only one who thinks an amendment to the constitution may be in order. that's next on "the war room." >>> those are some of the super pacs of course runni

that people that were a part of that conference, mcconnell very quiet on this. >> very quiet.n this is going to come to a vote today, you're not going to see many republicans support this, at least in the senate, and because there's a fundamental split within the party about whether or not this is good policy. and democrats really believe they have a winning hand on this. >> david, you watched the hill recently and congress over the last few years, this is the last thing they're going to do in 2012. >> yeah. and even this, they're going to do a few things, the cyber security bill that's going to come up and they're going to dabble in a few policy areas. but in terms of real political hard core political issues, this is about it. republicans lost the politics on this. and they really lost it in december. but it was always, you know, when republicans are referring to a payroll tax holiday that they don't believe is a tax cut, they don't, as a tax cut, that means barack obama won the rhetorical argument. and this was a get out of dodge in terms of politics type of vote that we're

he said for mitch mcconnell i'll go three to one.very dollar he pace, i'll pay three times as much. do you know much mitch mcconnell has paid extra? zero. not at all because they don't mean a word of it. you think if they're paying low taxes, their profits must be in trouble, right? sixty year high for profits. you ready for this number? in the third quarter of 2011 alone, $1.97 trillion in a quarter of a year. when it comes to taxes, they're not going to pay it. from 1950 to 2009, i this i this is a killer chart. great, look at this. i don't know if you can see it here, but this is corporate taxes. as a percentage of all of our taxes, it nose dives from around 30% to around six to 5%. you see the photograph going way up? that's the percentage of taxes paid by us through the payroll tax. somebodied got to pay the tax so when corporations don't pay the taxes, who does? you do! the percentage of taxes you pay through the payroll tax goes way up. look, this is about justice. corporations aren't paying too much, they're paying too little

admiral mcconnell the floor is yours. >> thank you very much. i appreciate the kind remarks.i have actually been focused on a topic that has become common in the last year or so, about four years. i was asked or just after the cold war in the early '90s. my worry when i checked on board there was thinking about a wonderful agency and the great contributions, not only contribution for the cold war but that before world war ii as an example. we were breaking and reading nazi germany coats in wartime and reading them before the german field commanders and that is a tremendous endeavor so when you think about it in the scope of the context a tremendous agency great contributions and how are you relevant going forward? so what i was struck by is most of what nsa has been successful at doing and exploiting the nation's nations interest for its history was -- and i talked to a few young engineers and they presented me with some facts about the future. one of the things i will never forget they said is mr. or before you leave here 90% of the world's communications will be inside the

mcconnell. we had others. della is as good as everyone. >> every night in games and practices.to be able to learn off of them. >> he's such a dedicated, intense leader. on the court he's always so into the game and also so calm and knows how to take control. i mean, i learn from him every day. i mean, he might learn from me. probably not as much, but i'm really glad to have him on my team. >> reporter: during his three seasons at st. mary's, he's been a key part of an incredible story, one that's still being written. >> i haven't really thought about that now. i think about that after i finish playing here. we're just focused on this year right now and trying to get better each day so we can continue to improve throughout the season. >> reporter: jamie syer, nbc bay area. >> thanks, jamie. >>> from one court to another, he's the greatest star to play at the s.a.p. open in san jose this weekend. john mcenroe stopped by our studio to answer questions, like, what happened to the great american tennis players? the ambassador of the game bags weighs in. >> we have to get better athl

boehner and mitch mcconnell said we're going to cut spending, the problem is too much spending. you can't solve a problem of too much spending by raising taxes. it has -- raising taxes has nothing to do with cutting spending except that raising taxes is what you do instead of cutting spending. so no tax increase at all. $2.5 trillion in spending cuts. we have to police it, but we have real spending cuts, now and down the road. and not a single penny of tax increase all year. the wave of conservative energy that came into the modern republican party through the tea parties and ron paul guys was not just in washington, not just in the house and the senate. there are 711 newly elected additional republican state legislators and as a result, the other thing that obama, reid and pelosis wanted to trick them into put their fingerprta ox in states, depending on who's counting, and they were hoping -- look, we gave the states all this money not to reform in 2008 and 2009 and 2010 and then we took it away. you know, now they're going to go into withdrawal and everyone will demand tax inc

on the senate floor, mitch mcconnell, republican leader from kentucky had this to say. >> over the past few weeks, the american people have begun to feel the painful effects of president obama's energy policy. make no mistake the rising price of gas line isn't simply the ult of forces that we can't control, it's the result of a vision that this president laid out even before he was elected to office. that vision was on clear display just last week, as americans groaned at the cost of gasoline, the president took to a microphone to talk about far off day where americans might be able to use algae as a substitute for gas. algae as a substitute for gas. and then, dusting off the same talking points, democrats have been using for decades, he claimed that there are no short-term solution to the problem. in other words, he kicked the can down the road for another day, another time, abdicating leadership on yet another issue on national significance. so, this morning, i think it's worthwhile, to take a step back from the red rihetoric and look what this president has actually done about this p

and the next year they want to lay off more government employees mitch mcconnell knows the consequence that is going to shoot up unemployment and what's what's going to happen if one employment goes up between now and november president obama will probably lose the election this is why the republicans are willing to crash the economy again just to win an election and by the way that's just fine with their billionaire donors who make money when the economy goes down just like they make money when it goes up back when it goes down they have a crisis that they can use to push through and sound familiar deregulation more tax cuts things like oil pipelines meanwhile according to research done by talking points memo almost eighty three percent of the donations to romney's super pac came from that very elite group of one hundred thousand dollars plus donors both individual and corporate and by the way the keeping them a secret is possible now why would they keep them secret is an obvious you know here's some definitions the definition of fascism the old merriam webster dictionary definition o

and does the president have a big rose garden signing ceremony with mitch mcconnell and john boehner behind him? or sign it and pass it and move on? and i think republicans noted that when they passed the bill, the authorization that was pitched as a joshes bill, the president signed and moved on and didn't talk about it, it does not help the white house's message that congress is ineffectua but looking forward to this year, you talked to republicans and talked to democrats, there's not a lot more options for compromise this year. and i think after this, they'll do what they have to do. and there's not going to be a lot more payroll compromises before the election. >> so what you're saying here is this was like everybody just sort of doing -- as you said, what they had to do. so you think at this point the terms have been set and from here on out, does the president still have his argument that the republicans are a do-nothing congress? gwen: and have they cleared the decks so nothing much else happens now for the rest of the year? >> there's not much they have to do now. in terms of

the group limited to top congressional leaders which means mitch mcconnell, harry reid and house speaker john boehner and the house democratic leader nancy pelosi, that left out eric cantor. last summer the president and the republican of the house had a tense encounter. white house staff saying eric cantor repeatedly interrupted the president. cantor's staff saying the president walked out but they have been working on a number of jobs packages. the jobs issue, the economy and gas prices came up. following the luncheon the speaker of the house and the senate republican leader back on capitol hill meeting with reporters. >> good afternoon, everyone. we had a positive lunch at the white house today. i believe there is common ground between the two parties particularly on jobs and on energy. i'd like to think some of the bipartisan bills we have moved through the house will with taken up soon by democrats over in the senate. you know, during the state of the union address the president said he was for an all of the above national energy policy. the house of republicans has been for an all

. >> here's mitch mcconnell oat floor today. >> it isn't to solve our problems but to ignore them forr, which will ensure they get even worse. once again, the president is shirking his responsibility to lead by using this budget to divide us. >> senator, is voting on the payroll tax cut separate from the extension of the unemployment insurance? is that a mistake? >> i don't think it should be separate, ed. i think you have two huge issues. clearly i'm not a great fan of the paul roll tax holiday. at the same time we cannot forget that long term unemployment in this country is very veshgs high, and we also need to make sure we don't cut drastically the reimbursement rate. >> i have to say i thought it was a bigger number now that we're winding down in iraq and afghanistan. i thought it was maybe six or seven trillion in instead of four. when you say that number, what was your reaction? >> ed, remember, the president's budget is essentially a recommendation to congress. that's all it is. we've got to go from here. i agree with you. i i think with an infrastructure crumbling with the pot

here again, i want to thank senators reid and mcconnell for their leadership here. i think we see our leaders acting like leaders and trying to get things moving for the fiscal year 2013 appropriations bills. but i must say, and we all recognize this is easier said than done. we all know that. but i want them to know that they have many, many of their colleagues that support them in this goal of getting all of these appropriations bills done as we should. we have two very respected and accomplished senate leaders here on the floor, but we also have two accomplished and respected senators that run the appropriations committee. we could all talk a long time tonight about the chairman and ranking member, and i'm confident that if as a chamber we stand behind them and stand behind the two leaders, we can break this cycle of inaction here in the senate. the good news for this year is that we have already enacted into law our top-line spending number. in technical terms people call that 302-a allocation. so we know how much money we can spend on discretionary programs und

this is for mike mcconnell. this is a couple of old intel guys talking to each other, and maybe i've been around this thing too long, but, mike, one of the things that spared us a lot in the cold war was having a doctrine. you know, when i listen to this today, it's fascinating. a lot of hard working people up here, but if i'm sitting in nebraska, it looks like a bunch of kids playing soccer on the field, a bunch of 5-year-olds. everybody's got their own lane here. so the question i would have for you at this point looking forward here, have we or are we in the process of developing some kind of doctrine that approaches the youth, the enforcement, our superb national -- international, our domestic use of cyber? because in the cold war that allowed us to inform our national security strategy, it allowed us to inform to some extent our law enforcement strategy with the fbi, our military and intelligence strategy. and frankly i'm not seeing, or at least i don't think i'm seeing this right now. >> my view is your ob

we'll ask senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. and we'll bring in the white house chief of staff jack loo for the latest on the war in which the president finds himself with the catholic church. this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. welcome to "face the nation." first to the campaign. yesterday maine weighed in on the republican presidential race. mitt romney ended up just edging out ron paul. he joins us this morning from his district in texas. congressman, you made a long flight to be with us this morning from your own state. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. good to be with you. >> schieffer: i want to ask you something. you came very, very close to beating mitt romney in maine yesterday. our estimate is he's going to eight delegates and you'll get 7. but i know this is one that you really wanted to win. where do you go now? >> well, you know, our numbers on the delegates are much different because the proces

budget beyond just typical politics one of these four guys have in common what the senators mitch mcconnell and jeff sessions and representatives john boehner and paul ryan all have in common beyond just being republicans what is it give up they've all signed multimillionaire lobbyist grover norquist anti-tax pledge forbidding them from raising taxes on anyone anyone except one hundred sixty million working americans by letting the payroll tax cut expire and these four lap dogs aren't the only guys who signed the pledge so to have two hundred thirty six other representatives all but six republicans in the house and so to have thirty nine other senators all but seven republicans in the senate. and since president obama's budget calls for making millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share of three major tax increase republicans are contractually obligated to vote no on it just as their anti-tax master grover norquist demands in other words republicans are choosing grover norquist. over our founding fathers. according to the article six of the constitution members of congress shall be b