the state's a deadbeat. >> yeah, i mean, the state of illinois is known as a deadbeat state. you know, this is a reputation that has taken us years to earn, and we've reached, you know, the heights of, i think, becoming the worst in the country. >> it's the day of reckoning when 60 minutes on cnbc returns. [ticking] >> in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the size of the federal budget deficit has received a lot of attention. but state and local governments are also dealing with massive deficits. each state has a slightly different story, but across the country, there is a common theme. in many state houses, expenditures are outpacing income, and public pension obligations are drastically underfunded. as we reported in december 2010, some believe a day of reckoning is at hand for many states that could require another big bailout package. >> the most alarming thing about the state issue is the level of complacency. >> meredith whitney is one of the most respected financial analysts on wall street. she made her reputation by warning that the big banks were in big trouble

it is always is the gateway of the united states to china. as the economic and trade cooperation between china and the united states and california deepens, now we believe that trade and investment keeps growing. china is the third largest export destination for california. many multinationals like hp, intel, cisco, and chevron are doing well in china. they're making money in china. at the same time, as the close relationship is going on, many chinese companies are working in san francisco in california. i would like to name a few. the tsl, ciuts, just to name a few. these are successful chinese companies working here. as the american companies in china, the chinese companies working in california in san francisco are also making contributions to job creation and the development of the economy in local areas. we're thinking these are very good signs. as the previous speakers mentioned, we paid a visit to the united states last february. governor brown proposed that we set up a working group for the u.s., a state, and china provinces to cooper

state health care exchange. both have consequences and benefits policymakers are deciding in their respective states. as you know, there are approximately 20-plus states who chose not to adopt a state health care exchange. the consequence is, one, the tax subsidies and credits cannot flow to the seven cities of the state, but also the employer mandate assessment -- subsidies and credits do not flow to the citizens of the state. they adopted a law -- a role we think is inconsistent but the law and we want to enforce that against the program and saying they violated the statute. guest: -- host: if you win how would small businesses benefit from your proceeding? guest: the benefit is and the state of oklahoma, employers would not be subject to the employer mandate penalty because there is no state health-care exchange. effectively, the state of oklahoma is making a policy decision. we have a decision we must make an by irs action they have taken that decision away. they say that the benefits that would accrue to th

we felt the united states, our fellow citizens, needed to know why latinos had come to the united states the real reasons, the root causes of immigration. in just about all the cases when you look at history, you see clearly that are different ways of migration are connected to actions the united states took in our countries. in different times for different reasons, but it is very consistent throughout history, this connection between our foreign policy and immigration. >> juan, i mean, the first day of the democratic convention in charlotte, a bus pulled up in front of the gates, the undocubus, and scores of people got out chanting "no papers, no fear." 10 were arrested as police poured in. immigration is one of the key issues of this election, yet you do not have presidential candidates who have a vastly differenprbecoming an issue, non the big cities like new york, l.a., miami, but in the heartland of america, especially in the south. in north carolina, for instance, there's been a huge increase of the latino population. but most people do not understand how they got there. it is a l

states. so i believe institution building starts with the law. it starts with the law of the constitution and laws that come from those constitutions. and with a solid body of law, then you can start to build legislatures, courts, and the rest. i'll never forget a conversation i once had when the cold war was ending, the famous russian ambassador, we were in moscow, at the kgb hotel in moscow, a lovely place. anyway, we were having dinner and he was talking about gorbachev, the only microphones in the room was his and he was able to be candid. and so he said colin, you don't know what he's doing. he's making us crazy. i said how was he making you crazy? he is saying, remora gorbachev was a lawyer, he is saying that we have to put the society of this country on the basis of law. if it isn't on the basis of law, then it is always up to the bureaucrats who can issue that cuts. so his goal is to put the soviet union if he could've kept it on th basis of law, and when the soviet union ended and we

the united states had given a promise that the united states congress that if it waited and let the u.s. government debt multilateral sanctions, it could go forward with its own sanctions. it was critical the congress would wait and do it after the sanctions had been passed. if they had been imposed before then, there would be no multilateral section -- sanctions. what happened is that two days before he arrived, russia and china came in with an agreement to the proposal that had been negotiated. the white house had to break a promise. turkey and brazil or congress? six months before a crucial election, mindful of the fact the administration felt it had already lost political capital the health care debate, the sense was it would not be wise to break the promise to congress. we missed that opportunity. now we are in a situation where i do not share the optimism in turkey being able to play the same type of critical and constructive role it did in 2010 as a result of the region and of the support of assad. it is a different dynamic now between the governments. the question is, who could

secretary of state hillary clinton condemned the attack in libya. >> the united states condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous shocking attack. we are working with libya to secure our diplomats. my administration will increase the posts around the world. make no mistakes we will work with the libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people. >> this is an attack that should shock the conscience of people of all faith around the world. we condemn in the strongest terms this senseless act of violence and we sent our prayers to the families, friends, colleagues of those we have lost. >> the republican presidential candidate mitt romney also condemned the center lines. the governor also used it as an opportunity to criticize the white house. >> the attacks of libya and egypt under score the world remains a dangerous place and american leadership is still sorely needed. in the face of this violence america cannot shrink from the responsibility to lead. >> meanwhile the united states military officials tell fox news the pentagon is sending a team of about 50

he thought he was president of the united states. president of the united states should do.dent obama is discipline and tough guy running for re-election and trying to help the re-election. what helps is a safe speech to the u.n. general assembly. then out of new york, to the campaign. >> bret: another thing that raised eyebrows last night was histones a question about benghazi and the situation in libya. and the arab spring. republicans quickly pounced on it. >> let's see what i have done since i came in office. i said i'd end the war in iraq. i did. i said that we'd go after al-qaeda. they have been decimateed in fatah. that we would go after bin laden. he's gone. so i have executed on my foreign policy. it's one that the american people largely agree with. if governor romney is suggesting that we should start another war, he should say so. >> bret: bill? >> disgraceful statement by the president. if governor romney is suggesting we should start another war he should say so. this is in respect to iran in the question. the president's position on iran is that all options ar

the deputy assistant secretary for visa services at the united states department of state. in his position he oversees the visa office in washington, d.c. two domestic processing centers, as well as visa operations at over 200 embassies and consequence late abroad. he's previously worked as special assistant to the assistant secretary of state for consular affairs, in nassau, bahamas and warsaw and poland as well. quharls edwards is the acting inspector general, he has over 20 years experience in the federal government. held leadership positions at several agencies including the transportation security administration, u.s. postal service office of inspector general, and the united states postal service. the chair would recognize miss walter for her opening testimony. >> chairman miller, ranking member cuellar, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to highlight our work on preventing terrorist travel. i head the screening coordination office where we facilitate -- we are the destination point for screening initiatives as well. as the 9/

look who's back for oklahoma state. justin gilbert, who broke a 100-yard kickoff return last year against texas. >> gus: this one squibbed and out of bounds inside the 20. oklahoma state has only defeated texas one time at home. 1997, rw mcquarter returned a punt 78 yards for a touchdown. quarterback tony lindsey ran for three scores. ricky williams ran 21 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter. it was too little too late. oklahoma state won it 42-16. >> charles: bob simmons was the head coach. that became a bowl team for oklahoma state. it was not touched by oklahoma state in the field of play. that ball goes to the 40 yard line on the kick out of bounds on the kickoff. excellent field position again for them to start. actually, it's on the 35. excuse me. now we're going to look and see if it was touched. >> gus: texas with 18 wins in the last 19 games, decided by three points or less. >> charles: the ball bounces on the kickoff. texas didn't want to give justin gilbert an opportunity. the hand came up. did it alt

and joining us the kansas secretary of state. numerous state laws including alabama. great to have you here, chris. how would you characterize the both the accomplishment the conclusion of today's meeting? >> there were a lot of facts put on the table and pretty dramatic and positive outlook for the state of alabama. for example in the nine months after the law was signed into-- the bill was signed into law, unemployment went dropping almost two full points. the whole u.s. economy, the nation as a whole 0.7% and alabama is now one of the states that has lower than average unemployment and people credit it to the legal. the law encouraged illegal aliens to leave the states and roughly 42,000 alabamans came off the unemployment rolls and crime in certain categories is down and it's been a real success story. interestingly some of the opponents tried to protest and didn't want the facts on the table. >> lou: what do you mean protest? who you could they-- how could they probably change the testimony before the commission? >> well, they were trying to shout down some of th

this after the united states, the nato allies, many in the arab world and moderate arab states workedether to get rid of gadhafi in libya and to see the attack on a mission in benghazi, that's way beyond politics, carol. this is a huge national security issue that's developed and goes to underscore that in these kinds of presidential debates when everyone is focusing on domestic issues, economic issues, the jobs related issues and domestic social issues that a national security crisis and this is a crisis right now can explode. you got what's going on in ben zba ga zi in libya right now. you got what's going on in cairo. american flags are burned. and it's a dangerous situation. this is one of the largest diplomatic missions that the united states has in the world. a lot of americans serving at the u.s. embassy in cairo. that's where they distribute more than $1.5 billion a year in u.s. economic and military assistance. mostly military assistance to egypt. but all that very much up in the air and then you have some serious tensions shall we say developing overnight as well between pri

. >> first, the ninth states -- as i said in my opening remarks -- the united states, as i said in my opening remarks, is the country that provided us great support to get rid of the nuclear weaponry. and the famous program -- cooperative threat reduction program -- worked well here in kazakhstan for many years. and, frankly speaking -- frankly saying, i could tell that this program was a real success kazakhstan. all missiles were dismantled. the warheads have been removed. and the fuel -- the nuclear fuel has been transformed into peaceful purposes. a great achievement of many years of cooperation between the united states and cat extent. >> people might not know that when the soviet union controlled the area, it was in kazakhstan that they tested all of the nuclear weaponry, and this was kind of the headquarters. so, what the president did, even before independence, was to say, this must go. >> absolutely. it was a courageous decision made by the president at the beginning of independence. by his degree -- decree, decidedly" the testing site in the kazakhstan. and the size of this t

and the united states society. i lived when i was a young student between 1978 and '85 in the united states. these were student days and these were good days and my family was with me. i want the relationship between the two peoples of the united states and egypt to reach the highest levels of communication and love and respect. respect, mutual respect. this is a message that i want to be clear, very clear, for the egyptian people and they know that and they love this and for the american people. i hope that this visit is the beginning of a relationship of mutual respect and the relationship of not intervening in the affairs of the other party as well. >> rose: when you were a student at southern cal-- (laughs) -- did you ever imagine in a moment that you might become president of egypt? >> i was busy, very busy at the time studying and i was very much interested in political affairs and the situation in egypt and i always thought about the egyptian people and how i could benefit my nation and my country and i want

i delivered one of my state of the state addresses using the seven print knight's state of the state addresses using the seven print. look, here's how we addresses using the seven print. look, here's how we need to conduct ourselves. anyway, just very commonsensical. >> so if you would come your philosophy in the libertarian of the right role of government, the racist government. >> so libertarian philosophy if you were to just have a broad brush stroke, the notion of most of us in this country are socially accepting and we are fiscally responsible. that is a broad brush stroke. a broad brush stroke is wearing a pan -- if the pope in that sense i am pro-choice regarding everything. well, pro-choice regarding everything means that actually if your choices involve putting other people in harm's way or your choices and a defrauding or harming another human being, then that is when the government -- that is what the government does have a role to protect us against individuals, groups, corporations that do us harm. >> as governor, teach you shrink the size of the state government you use

there are 13 other states, and the federal government which already do this and in the 13 other states, we have the data that shows that we get better results, better outcomes, meaning safer communities, and surprisingly the states include not only the large eastern states of pennsylvania and new york, but also states like mississippi, south carolina, west virginia, wyoming, iowa, all of which use this mid deem charge rather than felony. and what we find in these 13 other states is that there are higher rates of drug treatment participation, lower rates of drug use, and even slightly lower rates of violent and property crime. so again, we can prove we can have safer communities. and then of course there are the unintended consequences of a felony conviction. consequences that really can cause great damage to a young life for many decades out. the very three things that can keep someone successfully in his or her recovery, access to housing, education and employment are put farther out of reach because of a felony conviction, especially in a down economy, someone with a felony has great

state department. prior to arriving in benghazi, he served in brussels, baghdad, pretoria, montreal, and the hague. glen doherty was a former navy seal from boston. he was killed while serving on the ambassador's security detail and helping to evacuate the wounded. tyrone woods spent two decades as a seal, was the father of three, and had worked protecting diplomats in dangerous posts for the past two years. mr. speaker, our thoughts and prayers are with the families of all the dedicated public servants whose lives were lost. libya owes the american people a full investigation of this incident in complete cooperation with u.s. authorities. the killers must be found and brought to justice. i stand by ready to assist in any way i can. with that, mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time voifed. the gentlelady from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i will reserve the balance of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady continues to resee. the gentleman f

in the state, all the swing states that have republican secretaries of state, all of those swing statesor the november election. alone among them, iowa has been getting nowhere with those efforts. iowa's republican secretary of state matt schultz started the year by asking the state's bipartisan legislature to pass a new law requiring iowa voters to show documentation in order to vote that voters never had to show before. and that many iowans do not have. he did not get his new law. in part because mr. schultz himself was forced to agree that there have been no real reports of voter fraud in iowa. at all. let alone the kind that would be hampered by blocking people from voting in this particular new way he wanted to block people from voting. after that mr. schultz promised fellow republicans that he was turning over every stone to find some voter fraud in iowa. when he didn't find any, he brought in an agent from the iowa division of criminal investigation to help him look at a cost of taxpayers of up to quarter million dollars. at last report, mr. schultz was still looking for voter fr

of co's in the valley and trying to get them to expand in other states or move to other states. someone in this room may have engaged in that. >> they cannot all expand in california. we are try to help california. quex their offering tax breaks. >> we are not offering a break. >> not only you. what do you say to the ceo's? what are you trying to do it? what are two or three things you are doing to keep companies here? >> we take specifics. i met yesterday with the representative of nissan and they're very interested and supportive of the installation of high-speed chargers throughout california. we have a plan, criticized by some but nevertheless, well funded by a legal settlement of $100 million. to get these charging stations in throughout the bay area and down the coast to los angeles. they sold 5000 electric cars and they want to keep expanding. problem, permits. some people are making it hard, some cds are making it too difficult to get these charging stations up and running. we will deal with that city by city and we will have success. secondly, the utility's charge vario

i'd rather let education and what is taught state by state be determined state by state, not by the federal government. >> last question from me and i see more than a few people have lined up with questions for you. your dad went on a poverty tour of 17 cities. back when the need was absolutely acute in this country. and yet at this conference what's coming up more and more is poverty. again. and what a component it is in education. how many teachers have to worry about poverty at home while trying to educate children. would you consider something akin to what your father did? >> not only would i consider that, but i get the chance to do that from time to time and that's why for instance i was at the school in philadelphia was seeing what's happening there. why i was at jeffrey canada's preschool program in harlem to understand what's happening there and the impact of poverty. and you've seen the film waiting for super man that he figures in quite prominently, he goes back to talking not only about the school, but the home where the children are coming from and how -- he has a program for p

and a smaller battle ground state, up here, the state of new hampshire. here. fiv five-point advantage for the state here, romney doesn't necessarily have to win, but it figures prominently for him. and a slight advantage for the president. and in virginia, what do you see again? a five-point advantage for the president. this is very close, competitive, but you have another battle ground state, yet another battle ground state where the same thing is happening. a slight advantage for the president. and let's bring up the state of florida, what do you get, yet again, a five-point advantage for the president in a very, very key battle ground state there. you add it all up, coming to colorado, east to florida, in each state yes they're very competitive. the president has an advantage. what does it do to the race that matters most? the race with the 270 electoral votes. dark blue, obama states, light blue, leading obama, dark red, strong for romney, light red leaning his way. here is why the polls tell us so much going into the final stretch. the president led

and then secretary of state cut on nights and weekends for everyone in the state of ohio.o democrats tried to offer weekend voting, he fired them. we hosted them as guests on this show. today those two democratic officialed sued him for wrongful termination. they said he fired us and dared other board members to try to stand up for the voters in their community. mr. husted is failing a court decision to make those days available in ohio. since they were available without incident in 2008 and without incident in 2010, they were available without incident in this year's republican primary, but he wants to get rid of them now that barack obama will be on the ballot. his appeal of that decision means that voters are 57 days out from the election with no clear idea of when exactly they will be allowed to vote. he's getting help from an outside lawyer from washington, d.c. a liberal ohio blog reported out last week that you can find this same lawyer they have flown in, you can find him arguing for a county in alabama and for the state of florida. both in cases where key provisi

united states put itself in such an embarrassing position in which i agrees on most the united states and israel against the whole world and student happened by barack obama may be the most liberal american president ever and he did so so this change which we all look for and wait for and pray for this change didn't happen yet ok mika can you explain to me and maybe there is no explanation because most american jews are liberal and most of them support obama and those that vote will probably vote for obama but we still have this very concise consistent pollan defending israel and its policies on the ground there what you want to see the american jews are they just compartmentalized it i mean but they do say but that's a different topic it's a different subject because where they kept their values then. well i think i'd preface. the preface my answer by saying i really don't think the jewish community is monolithic. complete book the general's son has been out. i've been touring the country and i booked a tour the country over the next few months and i would say at least half of the in

we are looking to see about the same level of funding over all as a state. of approximately $3 and a half billion under the two programs. but, the key issue is that the funding programs are distributed. the funding is distributed differently, and there is a tug of war going on right now as we speak between the state and the regions about how that funding will be distributed. so, and i will get to that in a moment. but the issue will be discussed in detail at the ctc meeting on september 26 and 27th in burning game. over all the proposal maintains the current level. -safetea-lu-calls for a 50/50 split for the funding sources which in the past had been funded two-thirds to the region and one-third to the state and this is primarily the surface transportation program which is the most flexible source of federal funding under the federal transportation bill. there is also a working group and maybe mark can speak to this if you have any other questions. but the working group that is working with ctc and cal tran staff and also local grups across the country. i am

state department and the u.s. embassy here has revealed very little information. >> jomana it's john berman here. i have a question, because this may be confusing for a lot of americans waking up this morning to hear that the u.s. ambassador was killed in libya, after last october, moammar gadhafi was killed in libya. after the u.s. seemed to support the uprising there. what has been the sentiment towards the u.s. over the last several months? is there a rising anti-american sentiment there? we appear to have lost jomana in libya right now. but we are fortunate that we're joined by jamie rubin, of course, former u.s. assistant secretary of state. jamie is with us here in new york this morning. that question i asked to jomana i can ask to you. this would be confusing to a lot of americans when we hear a u.s. diplomat was killed in libya. libya is supposed to be this place where change is happening for the good, presumably. >> yes. and i think that there has not been a big rise in anti-american sentiment in libya in

the states with the highest poverty rate in the united states, eight of the 10 are southern states, alles are above the national average, some way above, with states like mississippi having over 30% living in poverty. 10 states with child poverty over 25%. nine of those are in the south. there are six million kid living in extreme poverty. that means income of less than half the federal poverty standard, and of those six million, 42% come from the south. there are 11 states with over 10% of their children living in extreme poverty, and 10 of those 11 are in the south. the pugh study, a new one, relatively new on economic mobility indicated that the lowest economic mobility in the united states is in louisiana, oklahoma, south carolina, alabama, florida, kentucky, mississippi, north carolina and texas. so this picture is pervasive. and in the south it's not getting better at the moment. the south was the only section of the country in the last census where these poverty figures got significantly worse. the next point being congenial to being concerned with poverty. this is not a southern

the impact in the swing states, have you analyzed your impact in the all so important swing states?well, we have. and i think if you look at the big four, where these voters are to be found, it's florida, ohio, virginia and north carolina. and if you look at every one. those, you know, ohio romney's trailing probably by an average of four points. but florida there's a new poll out this weekend, "miami herald" poll conducted by mason-dixon, it's 48 obama, 47 romney. and brad cokier, the pollster says ground game will decide it. virginia effectively tied. north carolina effectively tied. in every one. those states, greta, we believe we'll be able to increase the evangelical turnout from the 2008 baseline by an average of about 7%. and when that happens, there's going to be a lot of shocked faces in a lot of newsrooms all across america. >> greta: let me take ohio, for example. let's take one. 18 electoral college votes. you think you have enough -- there are enough evangelicals who have not been counted in this poll that are going to vote for -- that were going to vote for president o

state workers are expensive.ies and benefits account for 85% of the state park's advertising budgets where as private companies it's as low as 30 to 40%. some even argue privatization will actually improve the parks. >> the state government is pretty bad at advertising the experience you can have in public parks. a private company would have much more incentive to broaden their appeal to a wider pick in order to encourage people to come. >> reporter: not surprising the park's directer in washington state doesn't think it can be done going off the public dole. he's having the legislature to restore $18 million to his budget. patti ann: dan springer live in seattle, thank you. jon: a haunted house with its own horror story you might way and it's not even halloween yet. town officials shutting down this scary place, but critics are shoutin shouting, boo. we'll talk to the teenager who built it in the name of charity next. we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss w

in 20 states, less than 20% of government employee unions are members but in 15 states more than 50% are union members. now, do art these union members? they are teachers, they are firemen, police and postal workers and by the way they are the most unionized government unions represent almost every type of government worker including federal border patrol agents, civilian employees of the military, office workers and state and local government, university professors, graduate student assistants and even zookeepers. government is the growth area in unions compared with the private sector of course and just to give you some kind of an idea and this is the number that mr. sherk developed here at heritage. there are over 200,000 private-sector union workers in the auto industry and about 219,000 in just the post office there are 477,000 union members, almost 2.5 times the entire auto industry in just the post office. what does this really mean for our nation? many americans feel we have lost control of our government and politicians no longer answer to the american people and there's a g

. >> the united states of alec. a special bill moyers report and how the secretive american adjusted exchange council has helped corporate america propose and even draft legislation for states across the country. >> i was stunned at the notion that politicians and corporate representatives were voting behind closed doors on these changes to the law before they were introduced in state houses across the country. >> as the yen and the states declares wikileaks founder julian assange to be an enemy of the state, we will air is addressed to the united nations from inside the ecuadorean embassy in london where he has been holed up for the past 100 days. >> it is time for the u.s. to cease the persecution of wikileaks, to cease its persecution of our people, and to cease its persecution of our sources. >> we will play julian assange's address and speak to his attorney michael ratner. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. anti-austerity protes

as i travel around the state the focus is jobs, economy, reforming state government.hat has to be the primary focus. these are critical times in new hampshire as well as this country. we need leaders that understand that jobs are created in the private sector. what it takes to create an environment for job creation here in new hampshire is the primary focus. that is what my campaign has been about from the beginning, and that is what we will continue to be as we go for intestinal election. >> moderator: abcaeight. over to you with the question. >> moderator: the next governor will decide whether to expand medicaid. would you support this? lamontagne: this is where my position is. i have been outside general counsel to a major hospital. i know of the health care field. i have seen the impact of the federal government on our current health care delivery system. i think we should do as a state is go to the federal government to do a couple of things and get a maintenance of effort waiver on medicaid so that we can have more flexibility. number two, demand of the federal

it is only natural that the united states relationship with burma should have some impact on united states relations with china. and also that our relations with the united states would impacts to a certain degree on our relations with china. but i think that this could be taken forward in a positive fashion. it does not mean that because burma is in beijing now with the united states -- is in beijing now with the united states that the relationship with china should in any way deteriorate. also it does not mean the united states is engaging in burma. it should not be seen as a hostile step towards china. we can use our renewed situation to strengthen relations between all three countries. i will put it very simply. it would be to our advantage, the united states and china, to establish friendly relations. this would help a great deal. this is what i look forward to being -- this is what i look forward to. burma has had a history of preserving friendship with many different countries following different ideologies. as it was one of the first countries to recognize communist china back in t

this is his home state.ld us earlier today, quote, we've always thought wisconsin would be harder for us this year than four years ago. we're going to run here like in any battle ground state like we're five points behind until election day. right now it looks like based on some of the polls, the president is up by five or six points in wisconsin. the reason they're nervous is he won by almost 14 points in 2008. so it gives you an idea it's closer than last time. >> heather: by five or six now. thanks so much. weppreciate it. >> gregg: the republican candidates crisscrossing the country today. governor mitt romney adding two last minute fund raiding events in california. the presidential nominee, paul ryan, beginning with events in florida and heading north to his home state of wisconsin. national correspondent steve centanni live with more. how is congressman ryan attempting to win over all those important florida voters? >> he's calling for more space exploration, which is a threatened industry in florida,

we've turned the tide in states across this country.sconsin and texas and florida. we've seen republican governors in places like michigan veto very similar bills. what you saw with the chief justice of the supreme court of pennsylvania today who's a republican and it's a court that's split 3-3, democrats and republicans, was that he seemed to not be satisfied with the state's arguments and to be somewhat hostile in his questioning of the state. and he has broken with his party before. and so i think there's reason to be cautiously hopeful that he might do it in this case. >> it was a rather -- just that point we just heard was a rather tortured point that he made about, yes, you know the right to vote is a fundamental right but things surrounding that are not fundamental rights. >> well, and the state was like that again and again. i think what they can't really get around is that we could be headed towards a constitutional crisis in their state. florida in 2000, pennsylvania in 2012. and that's the real fear here. what it came down to

and the state of indiana, just like the state of pennsylvania in the lower court, admitted it could come up with no, zero cases of inperson voter fraud. which is what the law is designed to protect against. but the supreme court upheld it anyway. they thought nearly the threat was enough to justify a voter id law. only that threat doesn't exist. according to the brendonsen ter who released research in 2007 said allegations of voter fraud, especially polling place impersonation fraud almost always prove to be inflated or inaccurate. in truth, the mat sere that voter fraud votes knowingly cast by ineligible people is false. so our law finds itself in a crisis. it's whole reason for being is a myth. but what is real is -- more than one million people, more than 12% of pennsylvania voters that voted in 2008, more than 750,000 voters, lack a valid photo id under the new law. and those least likely to have valid identification, aren't you a diverse group. african-americans, latinos, the poor. they all have a tendency to vote for the democratic party. which brings me to the beginning. the penns

it is all formulas back to the state. and no tiger grant program. but, the tifia program grows 700 percent and the rules are relaxed and administrators of the program at the federal level are told that you are going to have a number of weeks to make a decision on the project. and the main criteria will be the credit worthiness of the project. with your permission, whether who is eligible for this tifia stuff, if the credit worthiness is the criteria then this is geared to interpreting the help of the private sector into infrastructure development. here is the direction that the country is taking, we are borrowing money from the future at let me see low interest rates, but your question is good too. all interest rates are low now. but we are borrowing that from the federal government but we have to repay it later. and that is our policy for investigating infrastructure in the future. so not a great picture, not a picture that really commits the country to a solid future as far as creating the new infrastructure and rehab taiting the one that we have

secretary of state hillary clinton. the script an awful internet video that set the middle east on fire. add for a little drama libyan president who calls the white house script prepostorrous. enter cn. in with the murdered ambassador's journal. the plot thickens. the ambassador writes he is on an al-qaeda hit list and wor worried about his embacy. the white house writes an investigation is in order and within three days concludes it was terrorism. man, that was one fast investigation. by the way, had the lead agency the fbi even gone into benghazi? is it safe yet? but still, how to explain the sub plot of who knew what and when. didn't the president and the war on terror with the kic kilg of osama bin laden and isn't hillary clinton responsible for the security of american diplomats throughout the world? if that is true how do we explain the attack in libya? go back to the video narrative. but that is the movie that would never sell. right? covering up for the failure of not only the secretary of state to protect our d

well the united states has historically been very aggressive the united states has long been the dominant oil power in the middle east and parts of africa and in parts of latin america so china as it overtakes the united states as the leading oil importer has no choice but to be assertive to be aggressive in places i don't think this is because of a desire to to confront the united states but the sheer necessity of providing energy for china's booming economy michael i have a quote here that i think proves proves your your your statement my guidance is clear about america declared in canberra australia last year. as we plan and budget for the future we will allocate the resources necessary to maintain our strong military presence in this region and quote can. this can this strategy voiced by mr obama will lead to a new two new arms race or don't you think or do you think chinese the chinese will not respond to such words. i don't see how the chinese cannot respond to those words after all we're not talking about the area of the pacific off of the american coast we're talking about areas o

three states in the southwest. three states in the near south and north carolina, virginia, and florida. now, these buckets of it's a pretty different, as you'll see. the six states, it's more heavily white. the level of demographic change, and there are more -- you know, they're much more slowly changing than the states and the news of which have a much higher level of minority voters better tilting fairly rapidly. that, of course, is facing the southwest with a minority population is shooting up their rapidly and the state's are much higher proportion of minority voters. in that sense, more favorable to barack obama. now, with that in mind let's look of some of the particular swing states that are in play at this point. now, maybe more so than any other state of ohio is believed to be the focal upon the selection. it is a state that was believed to be very accessible for mitt romney, a state that obama could hold. if he holds all six of the states in the west govern the area he is only four electoral votes short

candidates hitting key swing states hard.ust a short time ago governor mitt romney and paul ryan in jacksonville, florida . gov romney slamming president obama on possible cuts to our military. >> be there is only one place this president is willing to cut and that is a little. he wants to cut a trillion out of your military budget. like that is bad for jobs and that is bad for our national security f. i am president and paul ryan is vice-president, we will not cut our military budget. >> earlier today the romney/ryan ticket in separate events and governor romney stopping with boehner. vowing to work for a balanced budget. the buck eye state is a lynch pen. no republican won the white house without taking ohio. congressman ryan was among the tailgators in the ohio state. the buck eyes beat ryan's red hawks 56-10. >> and president obama doing his best to build momentum heading in the democratic convention. you are looking live in sioux city. it is a four-day tour in north carolina. we have team fox tonight . ed henry is travel

and stands to benefit every state, every state. i repeat, stands to benefit from the opportunity to sell more goods and services to russia through pntr. so we've got to get it right. let me conclude by saying this. i'm the ranking democrat on europe. and as i go and talk to a number of nations, who used to be part of the ussr, some who still have conflicts with russia, one of the things i want to talk to them, what do you think? are you happy to be in the w.t.o.? they said yes. should we get rid of jackson-vanik and they all said yes that it sends the right message and compels russia to play by the rules. and we then have a referee in which to make sure they do that. so i'm hopeful that we can get together and before we leave here, we pass pntr for russia, because every single day that we don't, we're losing out on creating jobs here in america. so i yield back, mr. dreier. i look forward to working with you and hopefully we'll get this done. mr. dreier: i thank my friend for his thoughtful comments and i would just like to undersc

it's one of the states -- we have nine states we call toss-ups. this is one of them. seven of those nine states allow some form of in person early voting. iowa is still in play, but iowa is one of those states that have drifted a bit in the president's favor. and, again, this is a state where republicans did very well in 2010. they believe they have some energy on the ground. but they've watched the last ten days, wolf, if you talk to them privately, they're not happy with the romney strategy. they're not happy with the romney advertisements. and they think first and foremost he must have a very, very strong debate on the question of which candidate can better handle the economy. they say he must do that in that first week of october to turn the tide here. >> all right. john will be joining us later in "the situation room" as well. thanks, john, very much. >>> today we learned the president plans a friday phone conversation with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. earlier today the prime minister literally, literally showed the world where to draw a red lin

what does it tell snu governor romney can fight them state by state or he can change the race with some national changes in the dynamic. his best opportunity for that, next month's three debates. >> john king, keeping an eye on the numbers for us. the occupy protesters are back in new york. tomorrow is the anniversary of the movement, and already police are putting owe pro-testers in handcuffs. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] you've been years in the making. and there are many years ahead. join the millions of members who've chosen an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. go long. insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. mom: ready t♪ go to work? ♪ ♪ ♪ every mom needs a little helper. that's why i got a subaru. announcer: love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >> good morning. gorgeous shot there of looks like the hudson. hanks for watching cmn sunday morning. glad you're with us. tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the occupy wall street movement, and protesters plan on being back out many full force. large crowds already assemb

against the ited states. so far for the obama administration, the one that comes after that, this is going to be a kind of crisis that they encounter over and over again. they need to come up with new strategies of how to deal with it. >> ryan, you basically have time to agree. >> i agree with you. this is a tipping point that could start to define the president i presidential election in the coming weeks. sometimes this things pass and move on but it looks like we have a worldwide crisis that both candidates will be talking about. >> ryan lizza. brooke baldwin, it's been a great week with you. soledad o'brien is back next week. carol costello and "cnn newsroom" begins right now. >>> happening now in the newsroom. demonstrations canceled. egypt's muslim brotherhood calling off nationwide protests. was president obama's phone call behind the move? as we're learning to new arrests linked to the attack on the consulate in libya that killed four americans. >>> the fed's new push to make buying or refinancing a ho

but now there's a second group of swing states across the sun belt, states that by changing demography brought to within reach of democrats. so the president's itinerary really reflects kind of the changing strategic dynamics and the two paths that they're simultaneously pursuing. >> louisiana is a critically important state, but not necessarily a swing state this time. that's pretty much in republican hands. why north carolina? why the did they pick charlotte? we're hearing charlotte already. why was charlotte picked for this convention? >> on the one hand, conventions are often in a reach state, for the party that's holding them. the republicans go to minnesota and pennsylvania. the democrats, last time, went to colorado, denver, a state that was a reach for them in that election. but north carolina is really embodies how the changing demography have brought some of these sun belt states. obama, the first democrat to win it since '76, only the second since '64. and he won it because there are enough college-educated white voters, many transplants from the north, meck linberg county,

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for see the overlap is the united states and israel both status quo powers. challenging both left and islamist of movements in that part of the world. military industrial complexes of the two countries are closely intertwined israel has and united states supported certain governments in insurgencies and others and. cooperate in intelligence gathering and covert operations if you go down the list but. you know i think that while certainly the pros will lobby and plays an important role i think the main factor is they perceive fluence of interest and i think the long term it actually hurts this is where i want to. go because it encourages a backlash by extremists ok i think the perception is that israel is an ally ruthie what do you think about and also it's ok i think it's appalling that we should call the alliance between the united states and israel a perceived none of you has mentioned the share democracy shared values of freedom what about the palestinians those are the american society. what about their democratic right i'll tell you about the palestinian