>> many states maintain a single tax rate across the entire state. they don't allow the local cities and counties to add a mosquito abatement tax, or having a always tax holiday where you don't pay any sales tax on the first $50 of school supplies during certain days. rules like that make collection of sales tax across the country insanely complex. so pennsylvania is trying be simple. they exempt digital download and they're not members of the streamline sales tax because they want to maintain what they call a business friendly environment. >> i think this highlights the balance i talked about earlier that congress has to strike between the burdens and state sovereignty on the other. many of those things that make the sales tax more complex are things that consumers and voters like. sales tax holidays, caps and thresholds so you're not paying sales tax on a full price. those are things that consumers and voters like so it's a balance on one hand between those desires of the voters the states and the desire fireness and also for the states to be able t

the state house. we work to make our elections accessible by extending the time frame for early voting. having early voting. all of the things that are opposed. i think it is important that we make our elections as open and accessible as possible to not just democrats and republicans, but independents and those in host: there is no early voting in pennsylvania and neighboring ohio. why is that? guest: the powers that be have rejected that in the past. i think they are wrong. guest: i am against early voting. if you want to vote early, you can vote absentee. governor corbett has had the two budgets on time, which josh could never do. a democratic governor like rendell sent us into the ground and we had to bring the republicans in to provide us with leadership to get government under control. question. are you going to deliver 80,000 votes this time? the margin for barack obama, do you think? guest: there is a 20,000 margin in chester county. it came as out of the southeast, plus 600,000. i thought there

>> guest: many states maintain a single tax rate across the entire state. they don't allow the local cities and counties to add a mosquito abatement tax, they might even restrict states from having sales tax holidays on school supplies. i mean, rules like that are what makes collecting sales tax across the country insanely complex. so my own state of virginia has done a pretty good job of being simple and attractive to businesses. they exempt digital downloads from taxation to encourage that industry, and they're not members of the streamline sales tax because they want to maintain what they call a business-friendly environment. >> guest: i think the balance congress has to strike b, many of those things that make the sales tax more complex are things that consumers and voters like, sales tax hold days, caps and thresholds so that you're not paying tax on the full price, you pay it on a much reduced price. those are things that consumers and voters like, so it's a balance on one hand between those desires of the voters in the states and the desire for fairne

there are six tv markets in the state, but philadelphia covers 40% of the voters in the state. l of delaware and the southern half of new jersey. in order to be effective in the television advertising business, you have to really advertise in the philadelphia television market which goes all the way up to lehigh valley, way out into the western area moving closer to the susquehanna river. where i live just east of susquehanna, you can get philadelphia television, but it is other counties that go right up to lehigh valley. very important television market. this is what the democrats were able to do. they do very well in the suburbs. hold on to pittsburgh get hold their own in those counties out in the southwestern part of the state that increasingly have voted republican in the elections. host:. . is 20 electoral votes. obama won by 10 percentage points. unemployment is mirroring what we have nationwide, 8.2%. neighboring ohio is getting an awful lot of attention with their 18 electoral votes. what is so different between ohio and pennsylvania that makes ohio more of a battlegrou

representing a majority of the people in the united states in the majority of statesnd in the electoral vote, going to congress to be a different matter than it would be today for example. the public demand for national popular vote would be clearly on record. >> i just asked because it seems to me the compact clause is they are also to originally prevent states from engaging in agreements that harm other states. certainly in my view this would change the way we elect the president and half of those states for half of the electoral states pass the electoral vote wouldn't have any say. there were just be a new system in which their electoral votes don't count any more. >> well their votes will count because all 50 states will count but the reality is maryland has no influence in the presidential elections not because of maryland's when our takeover but the winner-take-all in rule in ohio virginia and -- so the nation -- notion when you give power to 50 states that they can exercise independently by themselves you sometimes get states doing things that affect other stat

of california and the california state university. >> and just like the k-12 schools, the state's higher education has already felt the downturn. california's community colleges serve 2.6 million students. the largest higher education system in the country. >> it's a beautiful color back here. >> schools like sacramento city college prepare people for vocations like cosmetology or for transferring to a four-year university. but since there isn't enough money, schools like this have had to cut classes and turn away potential students. brice harris was chance hor of the los rios district and soon will be state chancellor. >> we really have seen about 15,000 students denied access to these colleges, just in the sacramento region. and some estimates statewide show that number to be in excess of 300,000 students. >> that has caused the system to essentially ration education, and to push students to get their diplomas faster, even if classes aren't available. >> they do tend to push you on a little bit more to take a little bit more classes than you actually are capable of. you may get a d or

in the most diverse state in the world's most averse democracy. the delegation will appreciate this as you walk the streets of san francisco at our best as it is across the state. people are living and a dancing together across every conceivable and imaginable difference. i have believed the world looks to us to say it is -- if it is possible to live together across every conceivable difference. we're proud of our home and place in history and proud of our example. but we also are humble in the context of the world we're living in. a world that is another connected but hyper-connected with a merger of i.t. and globalization. we recognize our faith -- fate is connected to the fate of others. that is the spirit that binds us together. the spirit that brings us here today. i want to close by reminding you that california is the birthplace as mayor lee was saying of life science, biotech, the home of the california stem cell institute, a state with more engineers, more scientists, more global -- nobel laureate's than any other state or we still lay cl

>> many states maintain a single tax rate across the entire state. they don't allow the local cities and counties to add animosity kito abatement tax. and sales tax holidays, you don't pay sales tax on the first $50 of school supplies. rules like that is what makes collecting sales tax across the country insanely complex. so my own state of virginia has done a pretty good job at trying to be simple and be attractive to businesses. they exempt digital downloads to encourage that industry. they want to maintain a business friendly environment. >> i think this highlights the balance i talked about earlier, that congress has to strike between the burdens on interstate commerce and state sovereignty on the other, the things that make the sales tax more complex are the things the voters like, sales tax holidays, a threshold so you don't pay sales tax on the full price, a much reduced price. that's what consumers and voters like. it's a balance on one hand of the desires of the voters and the states and the desire for fairness and also for the states, frankl

the federal government has way too much money dictating what the states do. it gets things back ward and it is black mail. >> victoria, what do you think? >> i agree, it is black mail. it looks that way. the larger issue. this level of spending coming out of the federal government on healthcare is unsustainable. 1960 we paid 10 percent for health health spending. today 25 percent . 10 years projected to be 33 percent. it is unsustainable. we don't have the money and it is eating up our budgets and we need to put competition in the markets instead of taxpayers dollars at the program. >> rick, this was sold with a proposition that it would not add a dime to the deficit. do you believe that? >> the honest answer, i don't think we know yet. most of the spending provision have not gone into affect yet and when they do it is experimental. >> it is not for the states emac who have to begin to set up the exchangings. there is no guarantee that obama care will be repealed and that it will not be in or out and states have to prepare right now . that costs money. >> it f

it was the sixth and largest state in the nation to approve this. one decade later, we have full voting rights in the united states. helping newly enfranchised women, a new political movement was founded. >> starting in the 1920's, it was a movement created by the suffragettes moving forward to getting the right to vote. all of the suffragettes were interested in educating the new voters. >> non-partisan, not endorsing candidates >> -- endorsing candidates, getting the right to vote and one they have their voice heard. >> the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage is taking place throughout the state. bancroft library is having an exhibit that highlights the women's suffrage movement, chronicling what happened in california, bringing women the right to vote. >> how long does this mean going on? >> the week of the 20th. people do not realize that women were allowed to vote as early as the 1920's. in the library collection we have a manuscript from the end of december, possibly longer. >> in commemoration of 100 years of voting in california. 100 years

the history of being a swing state continues this year. it is on our list of the nine swing states. competition continues about the battleground states of new hampshire. kathy sullivan is the chairwoman of the democratic party. she tried to us from manchester this morning. if i could begin repairwith the "washington post" peiece. guest: that is not true. the democrats and president obama have been on the ground since the primary ended in february. the classic story was he drove through manchester and was locked, shut and the sides were down. the obama campaign was up and running. in knocking on doors, making phone calls. engaged in voter contacts for months and months before the obama campaign came back to new hampshire. i would say the republicans are talking of a good ground game, but the reality is the obama ground game is much better, and that will be a crucial factor when obama wins here next tuesday. host: given that obama won the state in 2008 by nine percentage points, and the economy is not that bad in new hampshire compared to other states, why is the race so close for the

those are the states in yellow. so in this scenario, before we get to the battleground states, president obama, just from adding up the blue states, has 237 electoral votes. that's even before we get to the battleground states in yellow. you need 270 to win. so president obama picks up ohio, all important ohio. let's say he also wins new hampshire, and let's say he wins the great state of wisconsin. but let's say mitt romney wins all of the other battleground state on the map. this is not that hard to image. romney would win florida and north carolina and virginia and colorado and nevada and what i like to think of as the iowa part of ohio. so if that happens on election day, look at what the electoral count is. that is a tie. 269 to 269. neither of them is president in this circumstance. so how in this circumstance do we do side who wins the presidency? jonathan carl spun this out in print and we've been look looking at it ever since. it is not an accident what would happen in the case of a 269 to 269 electoral coll

>>reporter: the secretary of state said diplomacy can only be practiced by being on the ground. >> the united states will not retreat. we will keep leading. well stay engageed including in the hard places of the world, hard places where america's interests and values are at stake. that's who we are. that is the best way to honor those whom we have lost. >>reporter: what i didn't hear was the secretary of state mentioned by name, al qaeda or the group that is a like-minded group in north africa blamed for the attack at the consulate. >>trace: you learned new information of the video that was taken from the consulate. what do we know? >>reporter: new details confirmed of the security camera video recovered from benghazi showing there was no demonstration when the attack unfolded at 9:23 p.m. the surveillance video is characterized as "limited and in places hard to read," with footage showing men in profile and efforts ongoing to match them to known jihadists. analysts questions whether they were militants or part of a protest. lawmakers are increasingly frustrated with their lack of acce

the united states intensified its embargo. he rationed goods and urged workers to produce more. >> the rash with the caveat that the cuban economic has been recovering the last few years. >> reporter: in 1997 fidel castro told congress some compromises were necessary to let foreign capital into cuba. he promoted tourism to get much needed foreign currently into the country. >> a fall out shelter. >> and the nike missell batteries that once dotted the marin head lands. >>> tonight we're taking a second look at the cuban missile crisis. the event that brought the united states and cuba to the brink of attack. as bob mackenzie reported back in 2001 a lot of people felt the best chance for survival could be right in their own backyard. >> reporter: civil defense officials estimated americans would have six or seven hours notice to evacuate their city -- their cities if the soviets would send nuclear bombs. at the veteran's home you can still see a concrete building constructed in the 50s with a basement containing what's left of a

the but only about 16 those and were registered to vote. there was a county in my native state of alabama and the heart of the black belt. am i population was more than 80% but there wasn't a single registered black voters in the county. a little town of selma alabama 2.1 were registered to vote. people were beaten and jailed. on one occasion a man was asked to borrow another soap and count the number of jellybeans in a jar. there were african-american lawyers, teachers and doctors come college professors failing the test and had to pay a tax and we had to change that. hundreds had been arrested and jailed. my goal organization the student nonviolent coordinating committee better known as sncc. [applause] thank you. some of you remember. more than a thousand students black-and-white color the students came self and worked. the night of june 1st 1964, 3 young men that i knew, too young white men and one young african-american men went out to investigate the burning of an african-american church. was stopped, arrested, taken to jail and later the same evening they were taken from

we now know that the state -- of the administration.state department knew what was going on here. certainly the personnel in libya new. the night of the attack reenforcements were sent from tripoli to count they are paramilitary terrorist attack. they knew what was going on. the state department so far action we could tell never thought this was some kind of a spontaneous reaction that went crazy. they never thought that. and yet -- >> chris: there was no spontaneous demonstration. there was no protest at all. >> by the end of the week here came sue and rice an official of the state department on this program and many others to say the best information from intelligence is this was a reaction to the video as sparked from a reaction in cairo. i don't think that was true and that the state department thought that. it is unimaginable to me that susan rice believed that was true. i think she went out on that sunday because no one else would do it and i think it was an utterly political act. >> chris: bob as one of the key people who broke t

area of the state. basically white, protestant, does not have a definable ethnic group in particular. once you get east of the susquehanna river, with the exception of a few counties, the demography changed sharply. let's get down to southeast -- philadelphia, heavily democratic -- democratic, but the suburban counties, and montgomery, chester, delaware, the swing townies. two of them now have a democratic edge, two of them have a republican registration edge. to win pennsylvania, you have to do very well in the swing townies and then move up a little bit -- counties and then move up to the north. allentown, lehigh county, northampton county. if you take the four suburban counties and the two lehigh valley counties, swing the county's -- windows counties in aggregate, the total vote, you probably will win the state of pennsylvania. in the northeastern part of the state, heavily democratic, scranton, might be best known that joe biden is from there and hillary clinton, her dad was born there. eveready sta

support across the state. we did it in the primary. there was so much excitement. we have that now. we have it with local people here in the state of nebraska. when you are talking about possibly finance reforms, i think we need more transparency. i think we need more accountability. you can look at requiring instead of quarterly reports, maybe monthly reports. there are changes that can be looked at to make it a more open and transparent process. that is what campaign finance is about. >> senator kerrey, 30 seconds? >> i disagree. if we don't amend the constitution to give congress the authority to limit spending, you going to see a continuation of this. waterboarding is more popular today than congress. the big wall street banks spent $400 million in 2009 and 2010 to water down the regulation bill they are trying to repeal it again. money matters in these campaigns and it has corrupted our political system. >> i can tell citizens that have donate todd my campaign, over -- donated to my campaign over 70%, they

and i am fascinated to know and understand from the president of the united states, from the secretary of state, and from the ambassador to the united nations, how they can justify that this video caused this attack. it was a terrorist attack. >> reporter: chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins us live in washington. we know you've been watching the hearing closely. what do you think. >> reporter: in his opening statement the chairman is saying the state department in that late-day briefing to reporters made his position known drawing a sharp distinction from the white house narrative that was a demonstration that spun out of control. >> they held a broad news conference over the phone in which they made it very clear that it had never been the state department's position, i repeat, never been the state department's position that in fact this assault was part of a row actioa reaction to a video or the like. this is corroborated by numerous witnesses and whistle-blowers. >> reporter: committee members told this morning in opening statements that there was a preoccupat

the state has got issues. how we think creatively about public/private financing vehicles. >> detroit has had a tremendous commitment from its foundations in the last couple of years, and that includes funding and massive planning effort, meant to address the geographic changes, patterns of the population in the city. the thing about grant funding is not about the puppet on the string. once the funding stream runs out because it is again meant to be seed money, you still have to figure out what is it that makes us to what we do better? i guess i do not want to focus too much on the grant funding. i want it to be part of our operating. >> particularly at the end of the day when you do this right. you lower energy costs radically. not just for energy, but for cities. as a whole bunch of tangible metrics you can use to help seed private finance. >> responding to the previous question and to this, but we can look at this in two ways. one is kind of tone down. it think about that, then, of course, yes, indeed quite

the service oft religion. north carolina being a big state on the bible state. the gov. romney and his mormonism? >> first of all, i would like to say, by a group with nancy a stake this country was founded on the religious and freed them. and didn't think somebody to from a to the governor susan in a-counter. prism of mama as tough as ever a question and he is now a increased imploded there is something he needs to be made it clear. it just happens to be he is a christian. that is a conversation was a negative into when a we should not be in the crux of the election. clarkson first thing we should do, which it said the harm strike you must. everything as an opponent, is should not be a realm possibility. they would test the things with it did or not. nobody is everything about mitt romney. he says he is a warning. it shows his taxes so he will not be able to make any fiber repays it. he should make sure if your category:surreal. is the abate issue? clark said ferreira romney replaced taxes. what more does and is the, but from it as the months nature of pixels to

we have seen around the world those, the enemies of the united states challenge the united states. have seen that this administration has backed away from our closest allies around the world. we have seen this administration make it less safe in america because they're unwilling to stand strong for america around the world. look, if i have the opportunity to b in the united states senate, i will stand up for america, america's values and americans here and anywhere around the world. what we need, what we need to do, what we need to do is make sure people like ahmadinejad in iran are not able to get a nuclear weapon. the administration has failed. they are four years closer to a nuclear weapon. you know, there are examples all around the world where this administration has turned it back on our allies and bowed to our enemies. if we want to be more secure at home, you do that by standing strong for america, for american values and for americans all around the world. >> moderator: congressman, thank you. a minute, 15, senator. and again, to the question as you prioritize the single bi

to court remember the state makes their own you know the state you take the king is going to sing the king song so there's a lot of corruption that goes on a state run facilities as well so they and their and there's a lot of mismanagement happens in both areas and i would like to see a lot less incarceration this in this country and if you're talking about things like rehabilitation you have to look at the receipt of ation rates between prisoners state run facilities and the private run facilities where they have these these programs that the inmates participate in educational vocational my skills program and seventy nine point three percent of prisoners in the in the private sector participate in these programs versus twenty one point three percent in the public eye because you've got your numbers i've got mine in idaho she's. prisons are a lot more violent in arizona they cost a lot more in the ok let's let's talk about the let's just let's take it a little bit broader you're right about the for profit motive just going to common sense in. detroit we have water and sewage plant tha

>> the next question for mr. leno is state proposition 35, asks if the definition of human trafficking should be expanded and penalties for traffickers increased, convicted sexual trafers be required to register as sexual offenders and officers be trained and why. what is your view and why? >> the issue of human trafficking is a serious one, san francisco is one of the top cities in the nation experiencing this kind of crime. i authored a bill sponsored by our attorney general harris this past year, which expands asset forfet tour, it is a way for us to quickly gain resources so that we can provide services for victims and invest in greater public safety police officers and investigator to deal with these crimes. i am opposed to prop 35, number one because the author of it is the single individual, deep pocket putting this forward. it is not a citizen's initiative. never came to talk to me what was wrong or short with our bill that he had to go to the ballot and expanding the definition to those who have to register as sex off

so and just like the slave states of all the right to work states of today which generally vote for republicans take more benefits from the government than they pay in taxes and tend to be in the south and surprise receive an a disproportionate boost in the electoral college. again since the electoral college factors in the number of senators each state has and since each state regardless of population gets two senators and these smaller right to work for less states the former slave states have an inflated representation in our presidential elections as mo rocca wonders about the electoral college in the pages of the new york times today it certainly favors states with smaller populations but one hundred thirty nine thousand eligible voters in wyoming get one electoral college vote but it takes nearly four hundred seventy eight thousand eligible voters in pennsylvania to get a single college vote is wyoming really need to be protected. and no surprise here wyoming is a right to work for less state and pennsylvania is not so from the very beginning of our republic cheap labor corporatists they

this is in the interest of the united states and china. no one has a greater interest in ciba security than the businesses that depend -- in cyber security than the businesses that depend on a safe and secure global infrastructure, particularly those who operate the critical network that we must help defense. to be sent those networks more effectively, we must share information between the government and the private sector about threats in cyberspace. we have made real progress in sharing information with the private sector. frankly, we need congress to act to ensure that this sharing is timely and comprehensive. companies should be able to share a specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits and open their heads. a key principle must be to protect the fundamental liberties and privacy in cyberspace that we are all duty bound to uphold. information sharing alone is not sufficient. we have got to work with the business community to develop baseline standards for our most critical private-sector infrastruct

how does he play in the state, andy? e does well here, probably better than in other states largely because he's seen as a moderate republican candidate from his time in massachusetts. >massachusetts. >> bret: people know him here. >> they know him, but republican voters are largely moderate republicans. he fits in with the political character of the state of new hampshire. the bigger problem he faces is not so much whether people know him or not. it's that the state has become increasingly democratic as kevin referenced over the last ten years or so. democrats have about a 5% edge in the state. he has to motivate the republicans who kind of like him to make up for the democrats' difference in numbers. >> this is becoming a classic new hampshire election. this has been a swing state. we have the live free or die motto. we're the most libertarian state this side of the mississippi. the question for new hampshire elections is about fiscal issues, taxes and spending, republicans win. if it's about anything else, social issue

the solution. which is two states, the secure state of israel, state of palestine. yet we can't seem to get there. now i think personally, we can get there. but i think we are over this next period it is maybe more difficult once you have everything happening, including here. but i think-- . >> rose: you mean the elections. >> yeah. it's-- you know, it would be odd if we were able to take a major new initiative right at this moment. however, i do think that it is possible to put together a credible negotiation, provided alongside that negotiation, and this is my sort of fixation having dealt with this now for a few years, you've got also to make the changes on the ground that support the political process. so if you carry on in a situation where the facts on the ground are working against a political solution t will never work. so i believe it is possible to do this. and i think it remains absolutely urgent. >> i assume are you talking about settlements on one side as a fact on the ground and what on the other side. >> there is the question of settlement where settl

actively working because the state has defunded all the prop 36 courts in efforts across the state. so i think this provides senator leno's bill really does the right thing and tries to move in a direction that's not contingent to how much money is available within one jurisdiction or not and actually frees up $64 million of general fund at the state level that could be reinvested into services. i know when you look at realignment, for example, here in san francisco, a 1/3 of our plan, a third of our dollars for realignment has been invested in substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment and housing but we've made that choice. i think if you compare us, though, to many other jurisdictions, we have a collaborative court continuum that is unmatched in other parts of the state. so i think to say they wood, it's not happening. and if you look at other jurisdictions throughout the state, you'll find heavy incarceration rates and not used. in fact the prosecutor is not using those programs. we're very fortunate in our district attorney. he is very visionary, and i just commend him f

i mean, the state, the counties? not take the rachel maddow show calling you for you to fix this. follow philadelphia county's example. philadelphia had the wherewithal to just change it without us calling or anything. i suggest all the other counties in pennsylvania crib the language from philly. go to their website. cut and paste. it's right there on that site. you will be allowed to vote even if you don't have an i.d. it's not that hard to do if you care. democrats have been patting themselves on the back all over the country these past couple weeks about the fact they have been winning these voter suppression battles in court against the republicans. they've been stopping the worst of the republican voter suppression laws and it is true they are winning in court all over the country. but if these republican run states are still telling their citizens that they're going to be disenfranchised then the effect is the same whether or not you won the court battle. it should not be a tv show that is first to notice or f

the united states will not retreat. we will keep weeding and stay engaged in maghreb and everywhere in the world including hard places where america's interests and values are at stake. that is where we are and how to honor those we lost. that is how we insure our country's global leadership for decades to come. thank you very much. [applause] >> at the white house briefing, spokesman jay carney was asked about joe biden's remarks on the details of the attacks against the conflict in benghazi. this portion of the briefing is about 20 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. good morning. thanks for being here. before we start i thought i would say and might in what you consider a point of personal privilege, setting aside assessments of winners and losers. as someone who worked with the vice president for two years and traveled around the country, i took extreme pleasure in watching the debate because of the way he demonstrated his passion and his wisdom and the joy that he brings to the job of serving the american people a

the arab world? i mean, small state, sectarian state, expansion of the kurdish state in area. at do you see out of this? is there any role that the arab world can play now, or are they not going to be positioned to play any role as it had been during the times of facts be coral. >> as i said, the reversion to the building blocks to taking place and that is what is being on the ground. and iraq, it's now broken into clearly kurdish shiite sunni. as far as iraq is concerned, i think the shiites being the plurality and maybe even the majority, are surely entitled to their role in government, which was suppressed by centuries of sunni predominance. i am not in any way upset by the fact that the shiite are, for the first time in iraq, exercising power in proportion to their numbers. but at the same time, the country has clearly broken into three major issue that you had. the kurds are to all intents and purposes independent. in syria, the country breaks down totally unlike that of the cities on the way to breaking down totally. i personally don't see the isle of wight -- alawite mil

that's about 70% of the state's vote. so oftentimes presidential candidates, on both sides, focus on that area, but we have active campaigns in all 72 counties. republicans generally do well statewide when we do well in the suburbs, kind of the collar around milwaukee and in the fox valley, and match the democrats person for person upstate. one of the things that governor walker's successful election did, we had victories, republican victories, in counties where frankly we haven't won in a long time in this state. we saw numbers coming out of that recall we have never seen before. and following those numbers we have gotten organization and volunteers and all of that. even before paul ryan was on the ticket, frankly, it was a couple point race here in wisconsin. and with paul ryan's addition on to the ticket, we are as optimistic as we can be. host: chairman of the republican party of wisconsin joins us, brian schimming, for wur discussion continuing look at the battleground state. our first call for him is milwaukee. on ou

what is the united states saying? >>jonathan: officials are deeply saddened by the murder of the man what worked for the embassy in yemen for something like 11 years. they also say that they condemn what they call this "vicious" murder in the strongest terms and extend their condolences to the family. yemen officials are saying they believe this was an al qaeda assassination, u.s. officials are saying they are not ready to draw that conclusion quite yet. listen. >> the yemens are investigating and we are supporting their investigation. it is premature, as it happened today, for us to draw conclusions about who did it or why it happened. obviously, this is a great concern given the larger issues in the region. >>jonathan: one of the largest issues in the region is what appears to be a resurgence of al qaeda attacks in that country and others in the middle east and of course north africa. >>shepard: i guess a concern that a pattern could be developing here. this could be coordinated. >>jonathan: certainly that is somethi

blue states, it was the united states. is still focused on that to make sure we can reach across i knothe aisle. it does not make sense the day he gets sworn into office that the republican top goal is to make sure he is a one-term president. host: any interest in elected office yourself? guest: i am not entirely sure. we will see. host: why are you a republican? guest: my family gained citizenship in the early 1980's. they came to this country to pursue the american dream. they wanted to ensure their children had the same opportunity to pursue the american dream. when you look of the candidates you have to make a decision on their ideologies and what they believe and what their experience is on which canada can best help everyone. all people pursue the american dream. i think that as governor romney. host: our guest is niraj antani and kyle strickland. james is on the phone from cincinnati. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. thank you for c-span. i sit here and listen to both of you young people maintain

turn the historically republican state democratic, and all eyes are on the crucial swing state and its six electoral votes. >> the goal is to get as much support we can from the hispanic communities. >> hector is one of the people in charge of the latino out reach for the republican presidential nominee, mitt romney. >> it's a growing electric rut, and it's going to continue to grow in the elections to come, and so i don't think either party can take that vote for granted. >> democrats are fighting to hold on to nevada, with heavy hitters like harry reid hoarding the latino community. nearly 300,000 nevada voters are latino. >> no more magnified anywhere else than nevada is the hispanic vote. >> but republicans want to take the state back in 7 out of the last 10 elections nevada voted republican. >> we understand to win, you have to win the hispanic vote. we have to be engaged. >> the presidential candidates come here to win the west -- >> in october of 2011, the republican presidential candidates rolled into town with their money and their message. >> herman cain, let me start with yo

and the state has seen enormous change. demographically with the reverse migration of blacks returning and an influx of hispanics and other new residents. and economically. u.n.c. professor and long time political reporter says north carolina is moving in two directions at once >> the up escalator in this state is the economic diversification into higher-wage, higher-skill, research and development, biotechnology. the down escalator is the collapse of the traditional industes of textiles, tobacco and furniture. and the elevation of the unemployment rate. >> brown: you can see the dividing lines everywhere. in downtown durham where an old tobacco plant is now an upscale historic district, home to restaurants and businesses with an art center and the durham bulls' athletic park across the way. while some 80 miles away in more rural rocky mount, old textile plants and mills sit shuttered. all this, he says, plays into the state's divided politics >> where the republicans have gained in this state is particularly among blue-coll

you talked about the state department spokesman and you had representatives of the state department, ifying under oath, this week, before congress, and, they said, what i said to you, which is that anyone, based on this intelligence, that they had at the time, would have said what the administration said. what ambassador rice said, the day after the attack. >> chris: the reason i ask this is because you say, well, the president made a statement. yes. he did and then went off to a fund-raiser or a campaign stop in nevada. question, before he went to the fund-raiser in nevada did he meet with his national security council to try to sort out the shifting stories, because state said they never said it was a spontaneous demonstration and intel did, you are quite right. did he meet with the national security council before he went to campaigning in nevada? >> chris, i assure you that the president was in contact with all those who had information and responsibility in the national security chain about this incident. again, let me stress, this isn't anyone on this planet who feels a greater