mr. jindal's case, shouldn't his game be in louisiana? mean, he really does have b bigger cat fh to fry. nearly one in five people in louisiana don't have health insurance. mr. jindal doesn't have any intention of using the supreme court's decision to extend coverage and that's not your state's only disorder, mr. jindal. if you traps around the president's bus, reside in the most violent state in america. number one in this dubious ranking for the last 20 yes. well done. as for education, near the bottom. obesity levels, near the top. pollution, plenty. so, why is mr. jindal in pennsylvania today instead of louisiana? we actually called the governor's office in baton rouge to find out and a staff member told us quote, we don't know why we're going and in that, mr. jindal's staff is not alone. stay with us. the week's top lines are coming up. and oh, what a week it was. we get to the emergency room... and then...and then they just wheeled him away. i had to come to that realization that "wow, i am having a heart attack." i can't punch this

mrs. bobby jindal. marcus bachmann -- his head spinning. all over the rose garden.anos be gone. that's why we don't need volcano monitoring. i'll ex-or ice them. -- i'll exorcise them. >> probably pick that boring portman. >> pawlenty. >> stephanie: people are saying portman. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] portman doesn't have name recognition. >> stephanie: i would know -- i wouldn't know him if i ran into him. the boehner is behind portman. he told fox news -- >> portland from ohio? >> he said i'm close to portman. he would be a great asset. >> stephanie: exactly. bobby jindal. marco rubio still being speculated about? >> he will go safe and boring. >> is it possible for someone to be more boring than him? perhaps. with 58 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show." governor tomorrow night. she is awesome. we'll be right back on the "stephanie miller show." currenttv we're going to places where few others are going. >>it doesn't get anymore real than this. >>occupy! >>the award winning series "vanguard" only on current tv. >> this is a vintage

mr. romney's bad press in europe into good politics in america. governor jindal telling a conference call today, we're not worried about overseas headlines, we're worried about voters back here in america. making the calculation that americans don't care about headlines in foreign papers. he's probably right. americans certainly are not basing their vote on british editorializing, but it seems to me that we can learn a lot about a candidate by how they interact on the world stage. senator obama's world tour in 2008 as a presidential candidate wasn't just about how the kids loved him so bad in berlin. he also visited iraq, where he met with the prime minister and top u.s. military commanders in baghdad. and he went to afghanistan where he met with american nato troops and with afghan president karzai, and called for more troops, more focus on the war in afghanistan. for those of you keeping track at home, this is what president george w. bush's exit from the international stage looked like. >> so what if the guy threw a shoe at me? >> that happened during george w

mr. obama is visiting just ahead of the president. two men who have been mentioned as possible running mates, former minnesota governor tim pawlenty and louisiana governor bobby jindale doing their best to cool off mr. obama's welcome. today he said after promising to get tough on china's trade practices the obama administration has done almost nothing, the white house says it filed more complaints against china than the bush administration and never lost one. >> wendell goler, thank you. new reaction from inside the obama campaign to the supreme court's decision to uphold the so-called individual mandate as part of the president's healthcare overhaul. it's all about one very basic point, if the government forces people to buy healthcare or pay a price, is that a tax or not? campaign carl cameron is live in d.c. >> is it or isn't it? the supreme court said the mandate is constitutional as a tax but not as a penalty. still this morning the obama camp disagreed and the press secretary said quote, the solicitor general's argument said it was a penalty and that's under the section of the law that is the tax code but it said very specifically that it is a penalty. he sai

later today he'll be at a fundraiser with louisiana's governor bobby jindal, a possible pick. and mr. obama will be in ohio speaking in cincinnati, and tonight the president is back in town to see the u.s. olympic basketball team play brazil in an exhibition game at the verizon center. >>> did you get your tickets to that? >> no. >> okay. president has your tickets. it's 76 degrees on a monday morning, 7:10. final preps underway for the olympics in london. but there are some problems. >> weather forecast is one, i know that. and a threat this morning to kill two americans taken hostage in egypt. what the u.s. embassy in cairo is doing to insure their safe return. >> big story playing out across a huge part of our condition. the dry conditions -- country. the dry conditions are affecting the crops and people living in the areas as well. >> live look outside. rather slow, no traffic out there. i think that's wisconsin avenue. more on weather and traffic in a few moments. we'll be right back. it's 7:11. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] virtual wallet can help you be that person who's good with

mr. obama was playing up. former presidential candidate tim pawlenty and louisiana governor bobby jindal are on their own bus tour, shadowing the president. >> his presidency has been a losing hand for ohio and for america. we know that we are not better off than we were four years ago. >> reporter: the president says the republicans don't have real solutions and that a full recovery will take time. that's the message he took to his second stop at an ice cream social in sandusky. >> it's not enough just to recover and back to where we were before the crisis, we've still got to address this basic challenge of how do we build a strong middle class and make sure that the next generation has the same opportunities that we did? and that's a long-term project. it's not going to happen over night. >> reporter: the president will make a total of six scheduled stops in two key battleground states. the romney campaign says that the president's economic policies are only weakening manufacturing and hurting the middle class. and they accused him of covering it all up with a bus tour. wolf? >> reporter: dan lothian, traveling

mr. romney convince voters that he can do better? two governors debate those questions. potential running mate bobby jindal and martin o'malley. >>> plus -- >> it's a tax. they decided it was constitutional. >> more fallout from the supreme court health care decision. >>> our third heat wave and a record heat wave have people asking, dog days of summer or evidence of global warming? >>> that and more on our political roundtable. >>> good morning, everyone. george stephanopoulos has a well-deserved morning off. hopefully, he's cooling off somewhere. big news this week that depressing jobs report. new evidence of a trulging economy. truly. and that means more questions about whether president obama or governor romney is the best man to fix things. our guests are ready to continue that debate. republican governor of louisiana bobby jindal and maryland governor mall leigh. o'malley, the economy stinks. let's take a look at the trend. this isn't a one-month blip. look at the numbers. second quarter, 80,000, 77,000, 68,000. governor o'malley, how does president obama answer a voter who says, you inherited a terr

jindal are shadowing the president's bus path. >> i think the american people are tired of the speeches, mr. president. we want results. >> reporter: a day before the monthly unemployment report is due the labor department said weekly unemployment claims dropped to the lowest level since may. friday's overall unemployment rate coincides with the final day of president obama's bus tour that wraps up in pennsylvania, a state he also won in 2008 and needs again. mitt romney toured the same region about three weeks ago. craig boswell, fox news. >> fox 5 political analyst mark plotkin joins us now. so we just heard about the president kicking off his two- day tour in ohio and pennsylvania tomorrow. there's a variable play in pennsylvania that i wanted to talk to you about tonight and that could have a huge impact on the obama campaign. it involves new legislation on the way voters in pennsylvania get their ballots. what do you know about that? >> this is a very important point. the republicans control both houses in pennsylvania and there's a republican governor. he signed the bill in march which says that

mr. obama was playing up. former presidential candidate, tim pawlenty, and louisiana governor, bobby jindal, are on their own bus tour shadowing the president. >> his presidency has been a losing hand for ohio and for america. >> we know that we are not better off than we were four years ago. >> reporter: the president says the republicans don't have real solutions and that a full recovery will take time. the president will make a total of six scheduled stops in two key battleground states following a final event in parma, near cleveland, he'll visit pennsylvania on friday. now, in addition to those romney surrogates, we noticed something else this morning at that first stop before the president arrived, there was a small plane towing a large banner around the venue there. and on that banner it said "romney 2012." wolf, one other matter, the china filing by the administration, this complaint, at the briefing or at the gaggle on air force one this morning, reporters peppered jay carney, white house spokesman, questions about the timing saying that this has to be more than just a coincidence. but he pushed back ha

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mr. president, if you spent time speaking about your record?" he plans to raise money with fellow republican louisiana governor bobby jindal, a possible running matepresident obama addresses ohio voters later today, of planning to tell them mitt romney's tax proposals would spur job growth in foreign countries including china. the president plans to highlight his administration's bailout of the automotive industry. c-span is covering the event. you can hear that later in our program scheduled. those are the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> it is personalize internet radio. >> panasonic actually has a very wide range -- wide array of products. >> a computer-controlled hot glue gun. you run it through a heater. >> a look at the latest in technology and technology devices from the consumer electronics association technology fair on capitol hill. that's tonight at 8:00 eastern span 2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: the latest issue deals with the annual failed states index. susan glass and joins us to talk about it. -- susan glasser. what is a failed state? guest: we look at the consequences of state's failure and we rank the countries e