i'm paul gigot. the presidential campaign kicked back into high gear late in week in the wake of hurricane sandy with president obama and mitt romney making their final pitches to swing state voters. >> governor romney has been using all his talents as a salesman to dress up these very same policies that failed our country so badly. the very same policies we've been cleaning up after for the past four years. >> attacking me does not create an agenda for him. we actually have a plan to get this economy going. >> paul: and joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, political diary editor jason riley, james freeman and washington columnist kim strassel. >> any evidence that hurricane sandy is going to affect this race? >> i think, yes, i think it might, in the sense that -- i think one of the big elements in the race is the level of enthusiasm on both sides. my strong sense, paul, this is an enthusiasm deficit on the democratic side. >> paul: all the poll

>> i think he should absolutely think that, paul. the president made clear, didn't really run on the second term agenda and didn't talk about it much. i'll tell you what the mandate is right now, the mandate is that fiscal cliff, the bipartisan mandate. >> paul: to go off it is the mandate or not to go off. >> i think the stock market went off in the last week, people are saying pretty clearly you've got to do something about this now. i think they have a lot of leverage here, because if something isn't done, the economy is going to decline, maybe go into recession and i think employment can get as high as 10%. >> paul: if we had another recession it would have. >> if you're the president of the united states in a second term, you do not want a legacy, unemployment-- >> the lesson, don't give in at all, you won and if you go off a cliff, you blame them and they'll get the blame. >> he has no other term. i think obama's going to start thinking about his legacy and i predict he may throw the left over the side to do a deal with the rep

or this is an issue of course that both rand paul and his father ron paul who you wrote a book abouthave been very vocal i want to play just a quick snippet of rand paul speaking about this last year. some say that to prevent another nine eleven attack we must fight terrorism with a war mentality and not treat potential attackers or criminals for combatants captured on the battlefield i agree but these are people captured or detained in america american citizens then where do you think all by and by some of his republican counterparts rand paul is seen a little bit as a black sheep what do you think that's all about. their republican party is just very jingoistic you know they love war and it's presented to them under the excuse of keeping america safe from the terrorist threat they are willing to throw out the constitution they're willing to throw out trial by jury they're willing to throw out the escort and it's disgraceful and it's sad that rand paul is about the only republican in the senate willing to stand up for these things but it is also great that he is able to do this and

states government for decades he's run for president three times after a long and prosperous career ron paul is hanging up his congressional congressman swan song coming up. as of tensions in the middle east war and high enough aggression between israel and gaza just started boiling over and this conflict has the potential to sum the entire region into a tailspin over you the latest information coming out of the struggle and the international implications. and unlike the days where the press and the public waited for days for pictures coming out of wars to come out social media has revolutionized the way the world gets information even governments are getting in on the instant messages welcome to the new age old rule. it's thursday november fifteenth eight pm in washington d.c. my name is christine you're watching our t.v. while i'm sure serving more than twenty years as a member of congress and running for president three times yesterday congressman ron paul gave his farewell address on the floor of the u.s. house of representatives it was classic ron paul with messages of the need for a sm

. >> paul, good to be with you. >> paul: when you wrote to the hhs secretary kathleen sebelius, you wouldn't set up a state exchange you wouldn't have the flexibility to make it work. why don't you elaborate on what you mean by lack of flexibility. >> each of the governors who run it, a state run, partnership or referring to the federal government. any folks that have a state run exchange they need to realize in the end there is no flexibility in terms of final outcome, there is no substantive difference between the three option, all of them lead to a federally run exchange one way or the other. great example of that talking to my friend gary herbert, the governor of utah, utah, and probably most of your viewers know five or six years ago set up an exchange and did it in a free market way and one of the lowest costs in the country of health care and still have quality health care, but did it through a market driven exchange. according to my friend gary herbert that doesn't qualify under the new affordable care act and they're going to have to come back and put in place something more aligns

while was he at it, paul ryan helped mitt romney lose paul ryan's home state of wisconsin. paul ryan also managed to lose his hometown in wisconsin where he still lives. it wasn't paul ryan's youth and inexperience that sunk him, it was his ideas, his worship of ian rand and the ryan plan to end medicare as we know it and profoundly change america as we know it, but don't expect paul ryan to admit that any time soon. >> the president wins 330 some electoral votes, does barack obama now have a mandate? >> i don't think so because they also reelected the house republicans. see, i think these ideas we talked about, i think they're popular ideas. this is a very close election. >> there is now nothing other than time in the gym that separates paul ryan and rush limbaugh. >> we're just laying down! and we didn't lose this election by that much, especially when you look at the turnout. this was not a shellacking landslide. >> this is what rush limbaugh used to think it meant when a presidential candidate won 332 electoral college votes and he thought this right up until the day be

this was the fault of the, you know, anti-islam video on youtube. >> paul: video. >> yeah. >> paul: billes that mesh with what we've been told the cia had been telling susan rice? >> i think the real problem for general petraeus in this story is that it not only does not mesh with what the white house was saying, it doesn't mesh with what we're told general petraeus said in the immediate aftermath, where he is said to have talked about a spontaneous flash mob. >> to members of congress. >> to members of congress behind closed doors as well and this is the problem. it's not only that we know that that's not true now, it's that at the time there were a lot of other indications that indicate that was not true, denied by the libyan prime minister, the cia station chief called it an act of terror. we had the fbi and i believe the national center for counterterrorism also giving briefings. >> paul: that's right. >> saying this. why was general petraeus's testimony then so at odds with other parts of the community? >> but does this, would this give-- what does it mean for, say, susan rice and t

it would be a good thing. >> paul: all right, peggy, thank you so much for being here. still ahead, from taxes to immigration to energy, a look at president obama's second term agenda is a move to the midddddddddd >> in the coming weeks and months, i am looking forward to reaching out and working with leaders of both parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together, reducing our deficit. reforming our tax codes and fixing our immigration systems and from foreign oil. we've got more work to do. . >> paul: that was president obama tuesday night promising to work with republicans on some big issues. the president wasn't exactly known for his bipartisanship in the first term, will the second be different? we're back with dan henninger, jason riley and kim strassel and james freeman also joins the panel. so, the president's second term's usually not successful. >> usually not. there are exceptions, but, what does the president need to make his better than the first. >> well, i'm certainly hoping that he was telling the truth when he spoke to the des moines register

>> paul: i'm paul gigot. with his second term how secure, is the signature healthcare law a sure thing. from the obamacare a sure thing or vast expansion of medicaid, heavily dependent on state implementation and a growing number of the governors are saying they won't do the federal government's bidding. wisconsin's scott walker is one of them and joins me now, governor, great to have you with us. >> paul, good to be with you. >> paul: when you wrote to the hhs secretary kathleen sebelius, you wouldn't set up a state exchange you wouldn't have the flexibility to make it work. why don't you elaborate on what you mean by lack of flexibility. >> each of the governors who run it, a state run, partnership or referring to the federal government. any folks that have a state run exchange they need to realize in the end there is no flexibility in terms of final outcome, there is no substantive difference between the three option, all of them lead to a federally run exchange one way or the other. great example of that

of paul ryan.onto be vice president or if they lose, he has a big future in the republican party. he's going to be a player in republican politics for the next generation. >> how can the campaign both be super happy with him and there be no rift and the campaign be telling politico actually we wanted chris christie? i don't know how the stories come to be. i'm sure somebody is talking to somebody at politico saying we wish it was chris christie. but i have no idea. i doubt very much that's mitt romney's thoughts. he could have picked chris christie. there was no disqualifying reason why he didn't pick chris christie. he went with the first choice. and that was clearly paul ryan. >> so why are the leaks happening at all? to me the truth of the leak, whether or not paul ryan really is going to become a university professor and set himself up for the presidency if they lose this year seems beside this point what is important at this point is people close to him are putting that out there ahead of the

then it was paul's turn.cuffed, the whole drill. >> how long did it take until this game took a very bizarre, painful and dangerous turn. >> i'd say after about five or six items, i felt a heavy thrust on my chest. it almost felt like a dumbbell dropped on my chest. >> did she say anything to you? >> i'd say after maybe three seconds passed, i felt another large thrust on the chest and then she said, oh, my god, you're bleeding. i think i hurt you. >> there wasn't a lot of blood and he said the pain wasn't severe so he wasn't sure what happened. >> i saw one wound and it didn't look deep or anything. i thought maybe she had a seizure and fell on me or did something, but now i've come back to reality because she's helping me get out of the chair. >> paul said sheila seemed to panic when he started to bleed so he took charge, telling her to call an ambulance. >> i said all right, call 911. she gets on her phone. i hear her my husband's been hurt, please hurry. >> in her conversation with the detective, sheila d

paul? year for $1,000. paul. who is nehru? nehru. jawaharlal nehru. you to $4,800 and taking us to break number one. we'll come back to chat with the players right after this. that goes with this bit of information. colin bodels is from pennsylvania, but you got stuck in queen elizabeth's personal elevator? i did. i was in edinburgh with a friend e who was special needs, and they needed to use the elevator, and the one that they normally use was out of order. so, they had to keep the tour moving. and we got to use her own personal elevator, which nobody was meant to use. unfortunately, we got stuck in it for 25 minutes. aha. [ chuckles ] but her majesty was not around at the time? she was not. she wouldn't have been amused, i'm sure. [ laughter ] no, that's queen victoria, not elizabeth. i know. jessica lee is an immigration attorney who was once a synchronized swimmer. that's r does that mean you performed with a group of young ladies, or was it just you and a partner? both. i did duets. i also did team routines with eight other girls. and it was a l

ron paul joins me on the phone from texas.essman paul, nice to have you back on the show here. >> thank you. good to be with you, brooke. >> let's get right to it. in the 11th hour, live on cnn, ready to close ranks around your party's nominee? >> not quite because i don't think there's enough difference between the two candidates and i i assume the victor will be the status quo because i think the status quo's been up and there's no competition. we'll continue with the same policies that we've had for a long time. i don't see the election as -- the way it's turning out to to be very crucial at all. >> status quo, and which means are you saying the president, the president will win another four years? >> i would say either person would carry on the status quo because they essentially endorse, you know, government managed medical care variations, you know, a little bit. they endorse the same foreign policy of having our troops around the world and doing a lot of things i doesn't believe in, endorsed the military system. they ha

ryan and by paul ryan's wife. they flew inch. it was short. it was to the point. it was direct. and full the best tone in the campaign. he did it just right. he said the election is over. aid he picked the right v.p. he didn't lay anything on paul ryan, which is appropriate. he said he called the esident. anere. he said we have to end the partisan bickering. he didn't come out dragging his family surrounded by him. he too right up there by himself. i thought it was very well done. >> he began by -- >> no complaints. >> he began by congratulateing was very prays the president's success. andtation that i haven't seen in hisj and this is so common that good and decent people when they have to give a concession speecht'b out more abo is, and this looks like a man who knows what he's going to do tomorrow. he doesn't look like someoneho is lost. he doesn't look like somne who doesn't know how to go on with lifeó without having this high office. >> it looked to me like he had thousand-pound brick taken off his back pre

it's not about paul and me. it's about america and the future we're going to leave to our children which we thank you and ask you to stay at it all the way until victory on tuesday night. [applause] now i have a question for you, are you finally ready for real change? [applause] as you know four years ago barack obama promised to do so much. he promised to be a bipartisan but he became the most partisan. then he was going to focus on jobs instead he focused on obama care which killed jobs. he said he was going to cut the deficit in half but doubled it. he said the unemployment rate would be at 5.2% and today we learned it's at 7.9. unemployment is higher today than when he took office. he promised he would propose a plan to save social security and medicare from insolvency. he didn't. rather he raided $716 from medicare for his obama care plan. he said heed lower healthcare premiums for the average family by $2000 a year which now they're higher. and gasoline the american family pays $2,000 more a year than when

paul ryan's extreme budget is no solution and i really think that in terms of his future, i'm not so sure he's going to play as big a role as some might think because i think the republican party is going to have a big ideological conversation, it's been ongoing, more serious after the election as to what is this part going to be, hijacked by extremists or actually come together and work to solve the economic problems of the country. >> in "the new york times" today, an article asked by a reporter last month if he expected the broad responsibility for the economy that mr. cheney held for national security as an aide suggested, mr. ryan said i do. a large reason he was chosen was to help romney govern an yads visor to the campaign said, paul will focus on being a partner. >> i think if romney does win, if all the polls are wrong and he wins. >> there's a couple. >> small. you know, i think then he would absolutely be a very strong outreach to capitol hill and be able to work with the republican caucus and congress. i think the senate will have a very strong role in blocking whatever t

paul? >> yes. >> the onion also listed some of the previous sexiest men alive, bernie may doff and the uni bomber. maybe a couple of clues that should have been taken seriously. >> they are latching on to any pr they can get. sex symbols have been something to explain to different cultures. you noy how hard it was to explain that at one time henry winkler was a sex cymbal in this country -- symbol in this country? >> that was during "happy days." >> this shows how much we will miss communism when it finally disappears. >> we searched for decades about how to influence communist chinese behavior. and now we found it. >> we just make up stories the way they are -- >> the way the onion does. >> lauren, it is nice to know when it comes to saw tear cal news we are better than some things. >> when i look at kim jun u.n i see channing tatum. >> you think he was actually a great choice. >> he is a good looking dude. i don't know if he is the sexiest. that's up for debate. no one was more surprise t

we were talking about it, paul. i want to play something that bobby jindal, the governor of louisiana, someone who has been very prominent since the election had to say not just about the republican party but about their senate candidates. let's listen. >> we don't need a demonizer or to be saying stupid things. we had candidates in indiana and missouri had a said offensive things that not only hurt themselves and lost us two senate seats but hurt the republican party. >> okay. so he's talking about todd akin in missouri. richard mourdock who made rape comments that they should not have made. you are down there every day with senate republicans. despite the fact that they lost seats and everyone thought they would pick up seats, john cornyn was chairman of the campaign committee, moved up. why? >> when it comes to choosing those spots, those positions, those leaders, it is about i have known you for 10 or 12 years. and a certain bond and trust that happens there. that you just cannot replace and mitch mcconnell does

>> boy, paul, this is a huge defeat for the unions in michigan, no question about it. basically the voters looked at this and they said they weren't willing to be union's guinea pig for the plan to get their interest written in state constitutions as to way to end run any reforms that states my try like what happened in wisconsin. what's interesting about the michigan numbers looking at them though, the no vote on pop significance proposition 2, the union initiative, got about 500,000 more votes than president obama did in the state and even more votes than mitt romney. and what that tells us is that the moderates and democratic support for the unions and their interests in michigan may be weakening, that's something significant and key for michigan's state lawmakers, too, going forward if they start to look at things, like, oh, say, right to work. >> right to work initiative. and the biggest probably result was the california tax increase, kim. that's a huge tax increase that's going to either the pressure and fiscal pressure on jerry brown right away and he also got

i think that this is true of jean paul gaultier's work. i know that have been friends for a very long time. it is my honor to introduce both suzy menkes, fashion editor of the international herald tribune, and mr. jean paul gaultier. [applause] >> the love seat. [laughter] i just want to know, can you hear me? please shout loudly if you cannot. [laughter] yes or no, you can hear? >> somebody said no. >> mic people, can i be heard? should i start? ok, good. so before i introduced one of the funniest, wittiest, most amusing and funkiest designers that i know, i would like to start with something a little bit more serious. you know, in fashion, the reason that people laughed seem obvious when you see the exhibition of all it's incredible glory and excitement. but at the same time, there were real reasons why designers laughed, and one of them, when it comes to jean paul gaultier, is probably what is talked about least. it is the technique, the skill, the handwork, the knowledge. sometimes it gets buried underneath the fantasies of the close.

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