and if we can put up this graphic, gingrich is on the cover of the new "newsweek." he spoke extensively with "newsweek." last week, romney was on the cover of "time." the headline said, "why don't they like me?" he didn't cooperate at all. i know romney will go on "fox news sunday" next week. how much has romney's avoidance of the press hurt his ability to get the message out? >> i doubt such. his problems are structural and have to deal doo with how republican activists feel, not how reporters feel about them. anybody's press strategy, whether it be accessible or inaccessible, is driven by their particular self-interest in the moment. his interests have changed now that he's fighting back. he's suddenly more accessible. i think that's the -- >> all right. since matt lewis -- sorry, since matt lewis said nobody calls him out. let's call him out. we played this a couple of weeks ago. i'll play it for fun. >> gingrich's campaign has fallen apart. most of his staff has quit. the former speaker is pretty much done as a serious candidate. >> maybe newt gingrich's sort of

prognosticate are rick mays, lauren thompson of the lexington institute, john barry, formerly of newsweek after 26 laudable years and tom bowman national pentagon's radio reporter. ;v program. >> glad to be hee. >> -- glad to be here. >> tom, u.s. forces will have withdrawn from the end of the year from iraq, there will be troops based as a regional premise. how will it evolve if iraq comes off the rail? >> it's unlikely you'll see u.s. forces going back into iraq. they may go back as trainers, if prime minister nouri al- maliki and president obama can work out some sort of a deal next year. but at this point there will be some troops working out of the embassy with diplomatic training, operations. even if things start to fall apart there and that's a big if, i don't think you'll see american troops go back into iraq. there's just no appetite for it anymore. >> back when iraq was part of the empire, it was not one province, it was three and that's because it had three major ethnic groups or factions scattered across its territory. >> and putting them together was the best idea. >> right i

i am joined by greg of srn news, by daniel stone of "newsweek." and by an old friend of this program, george wilson of sirius xm radio. welcome to the broadcast. >> always a pleasure. >> and someone else from sirius xm radio, and the first time on, pamela kirkland. pamela, welcome to our company. off we go. dan, what is happening at the white house? the president is on the road all the time. two battleground states, states that it says it is not political but would seem to be conspicuously political. what do you think? >> over the past couple of months we have seen the president's turn -- the president turned squarely toward campaigning not just to sell his jobs bill but to sell his reelection next year. we see the republican race heating up, and the president is getting out there to save face. one of his new catch phrase is to try to defend his 2008 campaign. he said, look, change is... the health care that we're at -- that we passed, all of the changes. >> is this doing him some good? >> we have not seen the polls moot -- move much as it is, but

special forces and cia paramilitary forces and as newsweek showed in photographs it obtained u.s. forces were present at the base soon after the events in question in november of two thousand and one so the question now that remains is after ten years of community. and two years of inaction by the obama administration. are we going to finally face the history in this incident and in doing so it's about the present in the future of u.s. policy in afghanistan but also us is here and so the geneva conventions and the uniform code of military justice or guard lists whether u.s. personnel witnessed a massacre u.s. personnel participate in any way the issue that remains is are we committed to being a nation that is living under the rule of law and if we are then we need to investigate this we're part of this what the outcome may be or how politically convenient the laws. nothing else as many people died as estimated this could be one of the greatest massacre through a car during the war in afghanistan why has there been such a little media coverage about this. well i would say that the

this "newsweek" cover all but missing a cape. our nbc news marist poll shows beginning rich is up nearly 20 points on mitt romney in south carolina and holding a double-digit lead in florida. the new university of iowa poll out an hour ago shows the former speaker maintaining a hawkeye state advantage. gingrich is crisscrossing new hampshire today talking about his place in the polls and attacks from other candidates. >> you know, everybody is going to try to knock you down, and the question will probably be whether or not the american people we're in enough trouble in a country than having someone who is determined to be positive is a better outcome than someone who runs negative ads. >> mark mckinnon is the founder of no labels and a contributor to "the daily beast." good morning. these numbers don't seem to be weakening for the former speaker. is there anything other than the candidate that can do to stop his momentum? is there anything that newt gingrich is basically the only person to stop him right now because the other can

visiting professor at the university of gentleman and the visiting people, peter is with us from "newsweek" and "the daily beast. there's newt. "the audacity of newt." what a the new nbc/"wall street journal" poll shows among republican primary voters, gingrich beats romney overwhelmingly. look at these numbers, 40 to 23, almost two to one. but gingrich doesn't do so well in the presidential character category. among all voters, which is important eventually, 39% said president obama has the right set of personal characteristics to be president. 34% say he doesn't. for mitt romney, the numbers were much worse. 20% say he has the right characteristics. 31, no, he's in the minority now. but look at newt's numbers here right now. only 17%, what, one in seven, are confident he has the right personal characteristics to be president of the united states. by the way, the public is pretty aware of this guy. and a whopping 42% say, no, he doesn't. that lack of confidence in gingrich on the part of the american people shows in the general election matchup where it's obama, 51, gingrich, 40. an 11-po

newsweek has junk saying make a lot of money on the talk and build a model railroad in his garage. i would do that. or take it easy. take it easy. ♪ ♪ >> greg: robin williams will show up anywhere. you were taking me on the break this was the biggest story. [ laughter ] >> greg: he is going to have 20 years to dedicate to himself. what should he do? >> first of all, i was shocked and surprised to hear clinton has only made $75 million on speaking engagements alone sings he left office. >> but those are all on the phone sex line? >> i didn't know about that. he could get job as a contributor on fox news channel. >> greg: that would be great. say, hey, what's hop up. that is what everybody does in the hallway, nobody shakes hands they are all in rush. that would cost an eighth of a second. >> it's to avoid germs. >> that is baloney. >> i hate the whole physical bumping thing. >> i hate the whole handshaking thing. >> open mouth. you got to save up for something. you do. tom, is this a problem or the benefit of politics, that people use the office to get super wealthy, or do they do t

here is a picture from the "newsweek" cover story that amanda foreman wrote. margaret thatcher with her best political ally, ronald reagan. the numbers are on the screen. you could go ahead and start dialing in if you have questions about margaret thatcher. we will begin taking your calls in just a minute. what was the importance of her relationship with ronald reagan? guest: oh, thatcher's relationship with reagan, i think, is one of the great defining relationships of the late 20th century. they understood each other totally, and they supported each other totally, and they shared a vision of an enterprise society where every man and every woman had a right to rise and the right to better themselves and that government should not be redistributing wealth, government should be creating a level playing field where anybody could create wealth for themselves. and they also had a vision of a democratic society spread throughout the world, and wanted to see the end of the soviet union. and between them, they forged in this remarkable coalition that brought in mchal

with us now author and "newsweek" contributor amanda foreman.wsweek" cover story and she writes this. maggie's moment. why thatcher is more important than ever. decades ago maurg rat thatcher warred with her european counterparts just as david cameron did this month in refusing to yield control of the national budget to brussels. the difference is the iron lady did not speak softly when she wielded a big stick. the lambasted the bureaucrats. the artificial utopian megastate you want to build, she told them, will be a to your of babel. >> iturns out she was a prophet, who knew at the time. >> a prophet, i like that. >> she was indeed. she said that a country that gives up its right to set its own interestrates, its right to set its own currency exchange is giving up its own destiny. no one believed her then, but clearly they all believe her now. >> actually amanda and i were talking about it beforehand. i was around her a lot. i can't say i knew her well personally, although well enough when she came to town, i would be invited to breakfast with

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and in "newsweek" as one of america's 20 most powerful wo n women. she's also an author, smart on crime, a career pro prosecut s prosecutors. i met your attorney general only two minutes ago thus i don't know her that well. but one can tell a lot about a person by the staff who work for them. my experience with your staff has been terrific. they are deeply committed as u you, efficient, a delight to work with and they have a delicious sense of humor. they, like you, i believe, don't see this work as a job but a calling. i'm the lucky guy who gets to introduce your attorney general, welco welcome. [applause] >> thank you, jack. for your longstanding leadership on these issues and everything that we talk about when we talk about being smart on crime you are right this staff has been with me a long time in the d.a. office and that is the special assistant attorney general in carjack of what we do around criminal justice and the most fabulous director of the california department of justice larry wallace. so, i want to recognize them and thank them. and

. >> stephen: not just cnn, you used to be the managing editor of "newsweek". >> i was. >> stephen: okay. for some of my younger viewers, what was a magazine? (laughter) >> a magazine was this thing between covers that you could leaf through where we did reporting about politics, we did investigative reportings. >> stephen: like a printed i had? >> and i've saved copys so my grandchildren will believe it. >> stephen: you've moved on to a memoir. your book is called "my long trip home. a family memoir." you're the product of a biracial marriage. your mother was a white woman from france, your father an african american, a giant in academia. you... air some dirty laundry in here about your family. as the product of a biracial family, don't you have a responsibility to say everything was just hukky dory? (laughter) >> for a long time people who knew my parents-- my father came from segregated black pittsburgh became as you said a ground breaking scholar of africa. the first black ph.d. in politics from princeton. my mother came from france during the nazi occupation on a boat 14 years old w

spivak perhaps newsweek that they were a few days and have been the product can no longer help prevent unintended pregnancy. >> what made me now so unusual was the level of public disagreement. secretary sibelius said she was protecting young girlscome the summer reached childbearing age of 11 years old and the evidence that was not shown was that those who use the medicine can't understand the warning label. ashcroft to see in washington, from pharmacist yvette guerra agreed the drug should not be available to younger teens, saying they need to know the side effects starting with nausea. >> but her approval has always been tinged with politics. even though it's not an abortion drug anti- abortion- rights groups argue it does stop light. white house officials say this with the political decision and president obama has said message based on site. this is the case where the scientists at fda were reversed by the politically appointed boss. >> handcuffed in his home and taken to jail. former kent penn state coach jerry sandusky bay seymour charges after four more young men accuse him of

joining us to break down the list is melissa with "newsweek" and the daily beast.n powerhouses. california state attorney general camilk ka ma la harris susana martinez, who "newsweek" is calling the darling of the parties. >> saw sanusana martinez is the hispanic governor in the united states. she's drawing national attention as being a real force in the political spectrum. she is a member of the gop. the gop is really looking for a powerful female leader to emerge. the era of theç palins and bachmanns needs to come to an end. looking down the line, she could be a very attractive candidate in 2016 and there's even talk of putting her on the short lis of running mates in 2012. >> and kamala harris. >> she's a powerful african-american voice, half indian. she's really one to watch. >> interesting. number of big city mayors on this list. let's go through them. detroit's difficult bing and chicago's rahm 'emanuel who is really already a star. atlanta's kasim reed and new orleans mitch landrieu. >> dave bing is an excellent candidate. detroit's urban renewal has been

we have a special correspondent to "newsweek" as well as "the daily beast."ve you back with me this morning. let's get straight to it. santorum got the endorsement of religion conservative king maker who just asked michele bachmann to drop out of the race and let santorum take the lead. here's what she said about that today. is this the act of a sleeper candidate, what's the -- excuse me, take a listen to this. >> there was a call that was made, but it didn't make sense because my numbers have always been above senator santorum's so it makes no sense for me to drop out. >> sorry, i was jumping the sound byte there. we talked about the potential the strategy there think that's possibility? for santorum, i definitely do, thomas, it's just a basic process of elimination in my mind. this entire race has been about conservative voters searching for a plausible nonmitt candidate, right? they don't like romney, they've made it clear. romney is at his 20/22%, but he can't get higher than that so the whole process has been, let's find somebody else who maybe can win w

wiser article in "newsweek" entitled to ms. thatcher era?ek" team felt very strongly that the issues that help to bring thatcher down, ironically, are the very same issues that confronting europe today. the most important rule is the question of your european integration. as you know, the euro is sinking. there is a desperate attempt to keep it afloat among the countries of the portugal ireland, spain and greece. and that proposal is for a european super state, where there will be complete escalon political integration. that is the very topic that margaret thatcher put her stake in the ground on. and she says that the greater fiscal and political integration would lead to a stronger undemocratic no enterprise, high unemployment entity, where individual countries would not be allowed to control their own destiny because they would not build a center in interest rates. they were not able to set their own currency exchange. and she fought against that at last. that is why the party kicked her out. and now at the same arguments again. poster tha

before coming to "time" magazine, doug was a correspondent for "newsweek," reporting a major military conflicts from the gulf war to somalia to haiti. he was born in norfolk, virginia, study at wake forest university, and did graduate work in urban affairs at the university of north carolina at charlotte. before joining "newsweek" in 1988, he served as a legislative assistant on the staff of senator william and representative edward markey. douglas waller is now a defense analyst for bloomberg government. among his many, many books, a number of them, bestsellers, are the commanders, the inside story of america's secret soldiers. air warriors, the inside story of the making of a navy pilot. and big red, the three-month voyage of a trident nuclear submarine. his new book is a biography of an outsized american character, general william wild bill donovan, the founder and director of the office of strategic services, the precursor of a modern cia. in this superb biography once a cliffhanger and a work of deep scholarship, doug waller tells the story of a man who built a far-flung intellig

a special correspondent for newsweek and the daily beast and joins me now.e december 12th issue of newsweek. good to have you here. you say that cain's arrogance did the campaign in than any other factor. explain how you mean that. >> i think it's undoubtedly true. the conventional wisdom on herman cain for a long time is that he's not a serious candidate. he's in this to sell copies of his book or to jack up his speaking fees once this all comes to a crashing end. so on and so forth. i guess i kind of subscribe to that for a little while. then i read his book. this is herman cain. which if you read it, by the way, thomas, i don't recommend that you do that. you probably have better things to spend your time on. if you read this book, which i did, you see from page 1 just a supreme narcissism that leaps off the page. it's very clear that this guy did not regard his candidacy has a joke. had fact, he regarded all the other candidates as a joke. assumed he was going to be the president of the united states. pretty astonishing little document. >> i did download

>> well, i said in december of 2003, both on "meet on press" and on "newsweek," that he had gone off a cliff. ambassador bremer had given us an assignment that we couldn't do. i think we're going to find through our great sadness that we've lost several thousand young americans and had many thousands more wounded undertaking a project we couldn't do. last week, when maliki visited the president, one of the people in his entourage was a commander in the iranian revolutionary guard. i mean, people do not understand how much the iranians have penetrated iraq, and that the vacuum we've created will lead to, i think, a very, very unstable and very unpleasant environment in iraq. >> schieffer: we have just a short time left. let me just ask you, did you think six months ago that you would be where you are today? >> you know, when i came on the show at one point and it was, as we were sliding down, and i thought i could fight my way back up to being in the top three or four. but i think positive ideas and positive solutions, the contract we laid out at newt.org has attracted people. i think

. >> schieffer: believe it or not, gingrich was already flexing his muscles for "newsweek". michele bachmann, who was on the stage last night, is up early this morning to tell us why she hopes it won't be gingrich. and we'll hear from iowa congressman steve king, whose endorsement in the iowa campaign could be crucial. plus a preview of steve kroft's "60 minutes" interview with president obama, and analysis from cbs news chief white house correspondent norah o'donnell and political director john dickerson. then, we'll have an important announcement about "face the nation." it all starts now. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. congresswoman michele bachmann who was on fire during the debate last night is joining us from des moines this morning. congresswoman, appreciate you getting up early. to come in and be with us. i want to ask you this question. it just struck me last night watching the debate. you're a social conservative, but when newt gingrich's three marriages came up, all t

of two thousand and seven and he hasn't given any in-depth interviews with magazines like time or newsweek which he did quite often in two thousand and eight and he also just totally ignores the sunday morning chat shows he is quite adamant in his refusal to answer the questions of the press and check out how he blows off this reporter when he was greeting floridians. we are still to discover the area mostly where she's going to be able to go to the coverage was our money where your work in the church of the world right now there is a thorough answer no not just a straightforward answer on anything and it's important to note the myth doesn't give press conferences every day his last one was on nov twenty third turns out romney has become so good at avoiding cameras and microphones that he's forgotten how to answer the president's questions regardless this is going to be a big problem down the road if he actually intends on being the republican presidential nominee so for thinking he can win the primaries just by shaking hands and looking good and not giving interviews on his intentions and

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was even more dangerous because when that as a foreign journalist i remember when we gave him safe newsweek we kept a very low profile we tried not to go too much into the quality tough to square we took all kinds of signage that we had on us that said we were journalists i mean of course a con tied to camera so by and large you don't want to do more attention to me than is necessary the officers from which we were for cost and we took off all the signs that said that we were media because this was also was inside some anger and frustration among the people. people often ask me if being a woman is an advantage or disadvantage to going to dangerous areas as a journalist most of the time that is an advantage because we find that people have to shake things mode with you i'm talking to men and women because you're a woman and you laced with me perhaps in a male colleague but i do feel frightened being a woman in tough experience the people you know. they believe in they'd be replaced one dictator hosni mubarak one cannot i can tell me that anything i'd look for toughness square i walk through

was published and in the new edition of bearish beagle which is germany's equivalent of time or newsweek national news magazine it's untitled the republicans farcical candidates a club of liars demagogues and ignoramuses and you can guess it's a great read let me lay some quotes on you from this article they're quite they start out by quoting from some of the republican candidates africa is a country in libya the taliban reigns muslims are terrorists most immigrants are criminal all occupy protesters are dirty and women who feel sexually harassed well they should make such a big deal about it welcome to the wonderful world of us republicans then they go on to talk in this in this magazine and keep in mind the dirt beagle's editors looked at this op ed and said you know this is solid enough that we'll publish this in a world class literally world class news magazine they went on to say it's horrifying because these eight so-called would be candidates are eagerly ruining not only their own reputations and that of their party the party of lincoln lore worse they're ruining the reputation of