the obama defense is it was a process that was followed to allocate the money. but the substantiative question is does the science actually work. it seems like nobody has any confidence to evaluate if that works and that's not a question that's sort of a question that's beneath or above or both people's dignity to think about. so as a libertarian i have no problem with lawyers being in government. but if you are a liberal person who believes that government should be driving science, then you should have some powerful affirmative action quota for it being a government heavily dominated by scientists and technocrats. >> i'm just going to go back and forth. first question. >> there may be people up top, too. >> we're going to go around, but we'll start here. >> president of the santa clara university chapter. i'm curious about seeing so many silicon sal lee firms supporting net neutrality. it strikes me as the camel's nose under the tent. i wonder about this because i can't understand the limiting principle if we say that the telecoes are a monopoly. why shouldn't

constitutes automatic pilot unless you mean down. >> john: the "washington post" head lined obama cuts defensee bone and then some. so there is a lot of talk about that. we have this inflation adjustment chart that shows what really happened. obama's plan for it to fall slightly and flatten out. how is that cutting to the bone? >> any plan for budget that goes beyond three years is nothing but fantasy. i think everybody understands it. what we're talking about in the very near term, however are cuts in procurement. in personnel, in training. it will have a devastating effect for years to come. if you don't believe it, look what happened in the next several months as defense contractors announced layoffs in the hundreds of thousands, talk about loss of jobs. >> john: when i say automatic pilot i'm thinking about how the navy and marines get 29%. air force, 27%. the army 26%. it's about the same every year. it's like nobody is really making hard choices. >> if you don't think between the services there is a vigorous debate over what the budget amounts to be, i'd invite you to go to the plgtd for

mitt romney says the president is mishandling the economy as he tries to put barack obama on the defensive. >> it is hard to call the 40 months of unemployment above 8% a success. >> today the president said that the economy still faces had wins including effects from the euros own crisis as well as high gasoline prices. and the number of jobs created in may is the fewest in a year as we mentioned. this is a surprise to a lot of economists. jason brooks from cbs money watch .com has those numbers and you will talk about the big downturn in the market that we saw today. >> the number stink. the labor department a downwardly revised numbers for march and april by a combined 49,000. but that in perspective, over the winter we were seeing gains of 1/4 of a million dollars per month. that has severely weakened over the spring. we're expecting to gain 150,000 in may and as you can see the unemployment rate jumped up from 8.1 to 8.2%. the market as a result is having its worst day of 2012. at the dow in negative territory. down 262 points. the nasdaq is falling by 73 and the s&p is off by 30. and

president obama came out with the strongest defense of his health care plan yet while talking to voters in the swing state of florida tuesday. >> i believe it was right to make sure that everybody in this country gets decent health care and is not bankrupt when they get sick! >> reporter: further up the east coast in virginia, mitt romney was just as passionate in his criticism of the plan. >> i'm going to get rid of the cloud of obama care and return us to personal responsibility and states rights as it relates to health care. >> reporter: romney says the president's health care plan is bad for the economy. >> he put that as a higher priority than our economy, and as a result, we have had 40 straight months with unemployment above 8%. >> reporter: mitt romney has consistently attacked president obama's economic policies. now the white house is hitting back, especially on romney's record on jobs. >> you've got to give mitt romney credit. he's a job-creator, in singapore, china, india. he's been very good at creating jobs overseas. >> reporter: there is some evidence the attacks may be w

. >> sean: coming up, team obama playing defense after the president said this on friday -- >> the privatere doing fine -- sector is doing fine. >> sean: we show you how they are trying to spin the gap. david axelrod is stammering all over the place. house scheduled a vote to decide whether or not the attorney general of the united states eric holder should be held in contempt for the botched "fast and furious" operation. as we vet the white house, vet the president. we do the job the mainstream media won't right here on fox, on "hannity." follow the wings. g.g.g. every bite goes above and beyond the call of deliciousness. that's a big 10-4 kosher. with no fillers, by-products, artificial flavors or colors. hebrew national. the better-than-a-hot dog- hot dog. is important to any successful business. which is why at wells fargo, we work with you to get to know the unique aspects of your business. we can recommend financial solutions that can work for you that have helped millions of business owners save time, reduce expenses, and maxize cash flow. as the number o small business lender f nin

their idea here is if they can get the obama administration to play defense in states like this, you 're going to have the force of weight behind them. the obama people sort of concede they are going to get outspent in this thing. so if the romney campaign and their allies can even make the president spend time in places like michigan, in places like wisconsin, if he has to defend those places, it's a whole different map. also, by the way, just the fact that the entire boston hierarchy has cleared out to come to utah this weekend, that almost never happens. there's very few folks left in boston who are not here in utah handling this donor event this weekend. >> i want to bring in our panel a little. ben, you were nodding your head when garrett was talking about forcing team obama to spend in states where they don't want to. money is obviously going to be a huge part of this. one thing that i think a sort of a news tidbit that came to light this week was that the tension between state level governors and the romney campaign, when it comes to touting positive economic news. the sort of

a comment that's drawing sharp criticism and putting team obama on the defensive. peter doocy following that in washington. hi, peter. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. friday morning, president obama said the private sector is doing fine. friday afternoon, he came out to clarify that the economy is know fine because there are too many people out of work and the housing market is weak. but despite the clarification, the romney campaign put out a powerful new ad, that features americans who are hurting. >> i just lost my job recently. i have to work part time in order to make ends meet. >> sometimes i feel like i'm a failure. >> the private sector's doing fine. the private sector's doing fine. the private sector's doing fine. >> reporter: responding to the president's original comments, mitt romney said that barack obama wants to hire more government workers and teachers and firemen, but americans want to cut back on government. that's what the obama campaign senior strategist david axelrod jumped on this morning, saying that the private sector is doing better

. >> sean: coming up, team obama playing defense after the president said this on friday -- >> the privatere doing fine -- sector is doing fine. >> sean: we show you how they are trying to spin the gap. david axelrod is stammering all over the place. house scheduled a vote to decide whether or not the attorney general of the united states eric holder should be held in contempt for the botched "fast and furious" operation. as we vet the white house, vet the president. we do the job the mainstream media won't right here on fox, on "hannity." wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. fohalf the calories plus vgie nutrition. could've had a v8. sfx: sounds of marching band and crowd cheering sfx: sounds of marching band and crowd cheering so, i'm walking down the street, x: sounds of marching band and crowd cheering just you know walking, sfx: sounds of marching bandnd and crowd cheering and i found myself in the middle of this paradeeet, x: sounds of marching band and crowd cheering honoring america's troops. sfx: sounds of marching bandnd and crowd cheering which is actually in tquite

arizona senator john mccain blasted obama administration for reason defense leaks and is calling for drastic action. >> we need a special counsel. we need someone who the american people can trust. we need to stop endangering the lives of those men and women serving our country. >> he and other senators are pushing for a special counsel saying the white house has failed to oversee its own defense operations. john mccain says those leaks heard the troops and have already put international allies on edge. if enacted, the council would find and wouldwhoprosecute whoever leaked the document. predicting crews will resume their search at a mall. there was a wreckage in ontario on monday. they were concerned about another collapse, so they stopped searching. they resumed the search effort. the canadian prime minister has offered to send members of the military to help with the search. one person died after the roof collapsed on saturday. at least one person is still believed to be trapped inside. a two-year-old lawsuit over a little league game is heating up. a woman sued a boy of new jerse

as one example of the conflicting statements coming out of the obama, defense secretary leon panetta sent a letter to senator mccain saying that the sequesteration would not impact war funding. in april the o.m.b. comptroller testified before the house budget committee that the issue of whether war funding would be reduced by the sequester was still being evaluated. last week it was said war funding would in fact be kpwabgtd by -- be impacted by the sequester. congress needs a precise understanding from this administration as to the full effects of sequesteration on all accounts across the federal government including national security funding. that's why i've introduced a bill along with budget committee ranking member jeff sessions that would require the administration to bring some much-needed transparency to the scheduled across-the-board spending cuts. our legislation sent a bill 3228, the sequesteration transparency act would require the administration to submit to congress a detailed preview of the sequesteration required by the congressional budget office. it would require th

obama goes on the defense claiming executive privilege and the white house tries to spin this. >> the politically motivated tax funded fishing expedition. >> it looks more like our broken politics and vicious fights now out in the open. >> jon: nbc news at it again. >> i went to a place today called wa wa's. >> jon: andrea mitchell and others tried to pull a fast one and editing to mike mitt romney look out of touch. >> taking shots at ann romney and her therapy for ms. one more nbc blunder, the interview bob costas had left one thing out, the evidence. what's going on over at 30 rock. h.b.o. has a new series, the news business. is there a bias. >> you, too, you, too. >> and the crazy guy-- >> and on the panel this week, fox news contributor jerry miller. the columnist barelli. jim pinkerton, the editor conservative magazine and bureau chief, ellen ratner, i'm rick fulbaum. fox news watch is on right now. now. >> to advise you, i think perhaps you and others have the interest in this at your network knows the administration, principally the department of justin has cooperated extensiv

connection with the september eleventh attacks comes just six months after president obama signed the national defense or ization act which would have allowed american citizens to be held without trial or charge a judge ruled the act was unconstitutional last month but the obama administration asked her to reconsider the ruling attorney carl mayer says the actor and americans basic freedoms. but all of this is going too far in this country our civil liberties are increasingly under attack not just from drones that are being sent over american cities not just from the police or now or paramilitary guard not just from wiretapping of citizens phones but the the ultimate attack on our civil liberties was in this case the homeland battlefield act or otherwise known as the national defense authorization act the n.d.a. which threatened to put him in a military prison indefinitely without benefit a trial lawyer anyone who quote substantially supported al qaeda or quote associated forces u.s.a. today did editorial and a tour realized that indefinite detention is un-american and it is un-american for president

obama goes on the defense claiming executive privilege and the white house tries to spin this. >> theolitically motivated tax funded fishing expedition. >> it looks more like our broken politics and vicious fights now out in the open. >> jon: nbc news at it again. >> i went to a place today called wa wa's. >> jon: andrea mitchell and others tried to pull a fast one and editing to mike mitt romney look out of touch. >> taking shots at ann romney and her therapy for ms. one more nbc blunder, the interview bob costas had left one thing out, the evidence. what's going on

take that position and he took that position and now he is fishing back and it he is putting obama on the defensive, he is saying if you are so committed to immigration why did you wait until now? when i'm president and i have that power of will do it as a standard part of the program >> every four years or so we hear this but it doesn't seem like anything gets done >> that's because there is no clear concise politically acceptable answer. you really have a problem because if you say you will provide a path and a way to get somebody to citizenship, you're talking about new voters and usually those new voters do not go towards where the republicans are and many times, they don't go where the incumbents are. many times they're not ethically part of the group your trying to represent so you have some real limitations on whether or not you have somebody to be eligible to vote. when we used to draw the district lines for congress and the assembly, the ideal district was one that had exactly the amount of population required by law but no voters >> he was being a little bit sarcastic but the fact is that

now he is fishing back and he is doing it in a dramatic way because he is putting obama on the defensive. he is saying if you are so committed to immigration, why did you wait until now? when i'm president of will do it now >> every four years or something like that we hear this. it doesn't seem like anything really gets done >> that's because there's no clear concise politically acceptable answer. you really have a problem because if you say you're going to provide a path to get somebody to citizenship, you're talking about new voters and usually those new voters do not go towards where the republicans are and as a matter of fact, many times they don't go to where the incumbents are. many times they're not ethnically part of the group you're trying to represent so you have real limitations on whether you are eligible to vote. and we used to draw the district lines for assembly and the senate, the ideal district was one that had exactly the amount of population required by law >> catch the latest on politics campaign 2012 joining us live every friday morning at 6:45 a.m. here in cbs five

congressional panel cites attorney general eric holder for contempt as president obama invokes executive privilege. >>> the defense rests in the jerry sandusky child abuse trial, but sandusky never takes the witness stand. >>> and buying hawaii. one of the world's wealthiest men set to purchase nearly all one of the world's wealthiest men set to purchase nearly all of a hawaiian island. captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the vst morning news for thursday, june 21st, 2012. >>> good morning, everybody. good to be with you. i'm terrell brown. the investigation into the "fast and furious" gun running probe has turned into an all out partisan and acrimonious battle between the obama administration and the republican controlled house. at issue here justice department documents relating to the congressional investigation. president obama invoked executive privilege to shield the documents. a house panel cited attorney general eric holder for contempt. susan mcginnis in washington. susan, good morning to you. >> reporter: terrell, good morning. this is a long time dispute to a new level. some democrats say this is desig

defense. president obama met back in the white house after spending a weekend in this small town of chicago. he's going to fly out to san francisco in one state. he was out here just a few weeks ago for a fund raiser in redwood city. >>> that claims that romney's promises did not pan out when he was government of massachusetts. president obama and romney are very busy today. they're raising campaign money. romney is in the pacific northwest. one of the biggest topics this week is the disappointing jobs report in may. >>> i am not going to vote for anyone that has not been an executive before in a business. >>> tomorrow's primary election is the state white elections since the eat voters voted it it the ballots will be a lot longer. they will also decide a ballot initiative. and the biggest local issue of san jose's valid to will the measure be. it will affect city workers there. 51 percent plebiscite to vote yes. >>> it is 511, straight out of the movie. the center of the bp oil spill. and the facebook fate they want you to decide on. ♪ [ kari ] i used to serve my country in the u.s. army. ♪

stopping the end and its tracks a group of lawyers activists and authors are suing president obama over the national defense authorization act and now they've got a u.s. district judge on their side so is this the end to the controversial legislation last one of the plaintiffs next. more chaos in syria it seems the violence there is unstoppable while the u.n. is tiptoeing around the issue no one making a firm decision on what to do and the u.s. is strong arming its way into the discussion we'll tell you why the u.s. insists on trumping u.n. decisions. plus the people of taiwan have serious beef with the u.s. more specifically our meat standards and it's driving a rift between the two nations we'll tell you what the dangerous ingredient is what it means for your dinner plate. it's thursday june seventh four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching r.t. . well another victory today for critics of the controversial indefinite detention law a federal judge has ruled that the government cannot use that law to hold people in military prisons indefinitely the really comes after a group of journa

and its tracks a group of lawyers activists and authors are suing president obama over the national defense authorization act and now they've got a u.s. district judge on their side so is this the end to the controversial legislation last one man who is representing the plaintiffs. and it looks like the occupy movement might be losing its momentum many expected a spring resurgence but it seems these protesters are at a crossroad we'll tell you why the banners may be fading but the occupying message remains as resilient as ever. it's thursday june seventh eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching are. spying on people based on their religion may not be illegal after all a group of muslims now suing the n.y.p.d. for singling out and surveilling them simply based on their religion this after reports came out that the n.y.p.d. spied on muslim businesses mosques and students in new jersey and built up secret files of the complaint filed in federal court in newark asks a judge to deem the spying unconstitutional and stop targeting people of a single religion top government

take take defense budgets the obama administration and both parties in congress have been lying through their teeth for years now about the doom that our national security would face if we decreased the rate of growth in the projected defense spending that's a key phrase because of course they talk about cuts to defense taking an ask axe to defense budgets but all that's being talked about is decreasing the rate of growth in projected defense spending and now when you think about these this drone war what we're facing now is that drones have become a tool for war but the war makers don't need to declare war and so again this is about total dominance nobody can face against us and that's the nature of what it's like to be in washington and the heart of the war party now that we've reported a lot on his rounds and plenty around but what exactly is this new magazine around capable of. well this this mega drone which is far bigger than the type of drones that are now flying over pakistan or somalia or in the war zones for a war zone in iraq and afghanistan it's far bigger it can fly fly far

if you look at what mitt romney has said about president obama presiding over national security and defenseposture and his drone strikes and killing osama bin laden are tough. you have the -- >> what else would romney do that obama's not doing? >> maintain and increase the defense spending. make sure our navy is growing and not shrinking. when you have the previous president ask the czech republic in poland to host missile defense systems you don't pull the rug out from beneath them after they committed to do it. don't negotiate a treat with russia to have robust missile defense system which we obviously need and make sure we don't have sequestration and gut our american military. those are just some of the things that this president is doing. don't stick your thumb in the ally of israel. >> as far as the covert war that the president has authorized personally and has now been pretty well documented in these books coming out and newspaper articles. a romney presidency would have no problem continuing those. >> romney would be tougher on those measures and more. one thing that's happened in

president obama had been stuck playing defense for quite a while now. if it's not outside of interrupting him, it's his surrogates. it may be the natural posture for any reelection campaign when you are dealing with 60% of the country believing it's on the wrong track. it is not exactly an optimistic message. this was the president with a supporter lgbt crowd in los angeles. >> what they are going to do is say you know what, you are still not satisfied, it's obama's fault. that's their campaign. very easy to put on a bumper sticker. it's obama's fault. >> the president went after an easy target, by the way. washington. >> people are not paying attention to the day to day stuff in washington. it all seems cynical and negative and dysfunctional. >> even when the president ticked off the list of accomplishments, the joking sounded more like an attempted persuasion. >> i keep a checklist in my desk at the oval office. i have a to do list. every so often i take a look at it. i say we are doing okay. >> it has been a tough few weeks with democrats over the ba

that roberts was just straining to find something and in fact he he picked the third line of defense for obamaare by the proponents of the bill. one that was so weak that they themselves devoted only 21 lines in the brief. and came up new mexico. hardly occupied any of the oral debate. everybody knows that was the weakest of the three defenses and that is why i think everybody is so seston initialed. a tax is something that you do to raise revenue. a penalty is something that you do to deterp conduct. when you run a red light you get a notice. it doesn't say you are now assessed a speeding tax. you are assessed a speeding penalty. the reason why i think the dissent was is so scathing on the attempt to equate a tax with a penalty in the mandate is that in this case the penalty was for the what he is calling the tags was obviously punitive, regulatory and intended to come people behavior. that is not a tax. that is a penalty. that is a fine. that is a mandate. >> sean: and the president is insisting and white house insisting still today that it is not a tax but yet and the president promised the