>> waging war on religion and america. >> the dignity and sanctity is foundational america. >> the creator had endowed us with our rights. >> is this any way to win in november? congresswoman michele bachmann and mitch daniels. plus blood shed in syria, nuclear advancements in iran, the threat to u.s. security with former cia director michael hayden and former ambassador to israel. then, job creation from the man with a plan. starbucks ceo howard shultz. i'm candy crowley and this is state of the union. ron paul almost has a total package a strong consistent mess -- message, enough money, and motivated and surprisingly young support system. what he doesn't have after nine contests is a single win. paul's delegate estimate is the lowest of the four major contenders. looking ahead, paul is shown in third or fourth place. joining us now is a man who is needing a breakthrough. ron paul. congressman, thank you for joining us. i think it's fair to say at this point, you get great crowds, you get the money and yet you don't have a win and it seems almost impossible to envision a presidential nominee that can't win in a state somewhere. look ahead for me and tell me where you can win. >> well, it all depends on how you measure winning. if you measure whether we're winning the maximum number of delegates in states, we actually have had wins. even though the final tally is not in. that's what really counts. some of these straw votes are straw votes and sometimes they get very confused in counting votes. take iowa for instance, we think we're going to have the most delegates out of iowa and probably maine. and they are still very confused up there on what is going on with the popular vote. i know there's a lot of political benefit to that. but the bottom line is who is going to get the delegates and we think we're doing pretty good and it seems like our momentum is picking up. i'm actually shocked at the tremendous turnouts that we've had. we've been out on the road and we've had eight functions here in the last three days. 14,000 people have turned out and the enthusiasm seems to be growing. i know it's missing the national tv but if anybody travels with us, they know that something special is going on and the frustration levels. those others at the top now doesn't mean they're going to stay there. not the way this campaign's been going. >> the question, though, is, yes, you certainly prove that you can get those enthusiastic crowds. i've seen them. you see them all the time, obviously. but the question is, does ron paul have a ceiling because you're lining the polls pretty much steady since september around 15%. it's just hard to see how you put together enough delegates to win the nomination. you can perhaps influence the nomination. but in your heart of hearts, do you have a place where you think, if i can't do it here, i'm going to have to rethink this? >> you don't know until the end. i use the track analogy. i used to run very hard and i didn't decide who was going to be in first or second place. i just ran real hard. that's to be decided later on. but i just think there's every reason to believe that this momentum will continue because it is -- you know, it is relatively early. i know in a week or so there's going to be a big difference. there's every reason to believe that we're going to be in a very good position. and we have to be optimistic. we know exactly what the odds are. but, you know, nobody knows the future. you know that. >> i absolutely know it. certainly i don't. do you foresee yourself taking this all the way into august even if you get to a point where the mathematics don't add up? do you foresee yourself taking the delegates you do have and going to the convention in august? >> well, yeah. because right now we don't know when the end is. whether may, june, july, or august. i have to assume that it's going to go into august because we're not going to lock it up into may, obviously. so we have to wait and see. so that in my mind i anticipate that it's going to go on for a while and that's certainly what the supporters want me to do. >> let me read something that you told your crowd yesterday. i believe you were in kansas city last night. when you said we, the united states, we're slipping into a fascist system where it's a combination of government and big business and authoritarian rule and the suppression of the individual rights of each and every american citizen. i have heard this before from you. a fascist system is one of those things that's going to catch attention. do you really think that the u.s. now has a fascist system and point to me some examples of that. >> no, i don't think we do but i worry about it a lot because we have a system of economics. we have interventionism. it serves the interest of the special sbess and they are the big banks and wealthy corporations. it starts off with a combination between big business and government. just look at the bailouts. did you see that statistic? i think it was cnn that showed it. i do my best with the middle class because i understand this. but there's a coalition of big business and big government and why i'm getting more nervous is because fascism is an authoritarian rule of government. think of hitler. nobody wants to talk about the arrest of american citizens now held indefinitely without a trial. and people aren't concerned about it? if we have economic chaos in greece or something much worse, they could clamp down on us. this is why i do worry about it. we don't have this now and i even mentioned last night in the speech, i said, we're not there. at least we can come and visit and meet and have meetings like this and we can change the course because we actually change that bill on online piracy acts. people can still act out. we're not there but there's reasons why we should not be complacent. >> let me ask you about a couple of your rivals. rick santorum has had quite the rise in the polls. do you believe today from what you see that rick santorum can beat president obama in november? >> well, i don't see how that's possible. this whole idea of talking about the social issues and who is going to pay for birth control pills, i'm worried about undermining our civil liberties, the constant war going on, the debt of $16 trillion and they are worried about birth control pills and here he wants to, you know, control people's social and lives and at the same point he voted for planned parenthood. i don't see how anybody can get away with that inconsistency pretending he's a conservative. and his voting record is, i think, an atrocious voting record. liberal record and all of the things that he's voted for in the senate and in the house. >> are you uncomfortable -- certainly rick santorum has been on the forefront of the talk about social issues, but there are others in the race. are you uncomfortable with the talk about social issues? do you consider it a winning area for republicans in november? >> no. i think it's a losing position. i mean, i talk about it because i have a precise understanding of how difficult problems should be solved. they're not to be at the national level. we're not supposed to nationalize this level. the founders were very clear that problems like this, if there needs to be legislation of sorts, the state has the right to right the legislation that they so choose. and that solves a lot of our problems. the idea that it's a national issue of who has to pay for birth control pills, that comes from the fact that it's a national mandate that the government controls insurance programs. the insurance -- to have true insurance, you have to have that done in the marketplace. you can't have that done by government. >> quickly if i could ask you, there's been a lot of talk that you and mitt romney seem to have a bit of a mutual truce going on. can we take that as you believing that mitt romney, if it's not yourself, is a good presidential nominee for the republican party? >> there's not much on issues that we agree on, whether it's foreign policy or personal liberties issue or probably on taxes we might have agreement. but, no, i think they are all the same, in the same group. the only thing that i mention when people press me on that is management style. he certainly would have a more -- you know, an acceptable management style when you consider what i have seen in experience from the other two candidates, i don't think they qualify there. as far as issues go, i'm uncomfortable with all three of them. i think they're the status quo and they don't want to change anything. that's what i'm offering. >> my guess is we will be talking to you again. thank you, ron paul. we appreciate it. see you down the road. by all appearances, the republicans are fighting for the heart and soul of their own party. two people whose votes are up for grabs, indiana governor mitch daniels and michele bachmann. they are here next. imagine if you could always see life [music] in the best light. every time of day. outdoors, or in. transitions® lenses automatically filter just the right amount of light. so you see everything the way it is meant to be seen. maybe even a little better. experience life well lit, ask for transitions adaptive lenses. the progresso chicken noodle you made is so good. it's got tender white meat chicken. the way i always made it for you. one more thing.... those pj's you like, i bought you five new pairs. love you. did you see the hockey game last night? 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is that the pressure that is on the world pressure? >> certainly there is isolation that they are feeling and it's beginning to bite. they have to look down the road and see that it's going to get tighter, not looser. >> so does this cutting off the oil threat or just wild lines we saw this week of the pictures we saw this week of ahmadinejad showing us? is this a propaganda war? >> this is not a propaganda war but making us think twice about an attack or anything like that. but want to appear to be stronger than they are. it's very difficult to estimate what is going through their minds because they have a lot of controversy in their own society at this point. ahmadinejad on the same page. >> but do we ignore them at our own risk? it just seems to me that the chatter has gotten so loud. we hear there's a column that leon panetta sort of in his mind that israel is going to attack by april and there's all this going on in the strait of hormuz. what is happening here? is there any reason for the ratcheted up tension? >> there is good reason for the tension and i don't think the ambassador is saying that we should ignore them. now, the danger here is that someone within the badly fractured decision making process is going to make a bad decision and do something in the gulf, in the straits or elsewhere that will not make sense international but they will do it because it gives them some sort of domestic political advantage. >> because if they are feeling the heat economically inside the country, you try to find something to rally their folks around their flag. >> yeah but they do too much rallying and the next thing you know you have the israelis and americans on their back and they can't possibly want that. they've got to know that ultimately they can't win in any kind of a military confrontation. >> so what does -- what do you make about all of this chatter that israel's going to bomb? what is that about? >> first of all, the israelis will bomb if they have to. they are not going to allow iran to become a nuclear power in the region. neither can we. how you go about coordinating so you have the greatest impact and hold off as long as possible. that's what don lemon is over there talking about. >> let me turn to syria. just because the pictures coming out are just -- youtube pleas from these people in homs and elsewhere. i had senator lieberman on the show last week who said, listen, first we need to give these rebels training. medicine first, training second, communications and kmimt equipment and then we've got to arm them. >> it's really a bad situation. in fact, it's hard to imagine how it could be worse. it's stasis at a high level of government. you have a government with no political process whatsoever. an opposition that won't go away. and a president, bashar al assad who still believes that he can kill his way out of this dilemma. this is really quite bad. >> it is a bad situation. we see it and feel for those people. there are people dying at their hands of their own government and the u.s. doesn't get involved and the u.s. keeps say no military and all of that. can you describe the u.s. stakes in what is going on in what looks like a civil war in syria? >> it's critical to the whole stability of the region. it has a lot to do with whether the israelis feel comfortable about doing things on the west bank or not. it has to do with iran's posture in the region. syria is iran's only ally in the middle east. this is a critical point of confrontation. >> so do you consider what is going on in syria a threat to u.s. strategic interests? is it a threat to us in any way? >> it is a threat. and just in the terms of what the ambassador just laid out, it's an opportunity. if you have an effective regime change in syria, you take iran's only ally in the world away from them. now, the real dark scenario is that you stay in this stasis. what we're seeing now bleeding into syria, particularly from iraq, is al qaeda and islamic fundamentalism. and as long as this stays frozen, you'll see the opposition take on more of this characteristic and that can't be good. >> well, stasis as you put it, or status quo, whatever you want to call it, it doesn't sound like assad is going anywhere. it sounds like it's going to continue. the u.n., what good is it at this point because what do we do? >> the u.n. can't do anything at this point or never could in this situation. the trouble is, you don't really have a leader of syria. you have a lot of different components of the leadership in syria. bashar al assad is a relatively weak guy. he's got a lot of strong people around him calling the shots and has been since he came into power but those people realize that if they give up, they are dead. that's not a very good incentive for getting something going that takes us out of this mess. >> so translate that for me. we need to give -- i don't know. -- to people and say we won't kill you? >> there are really no good ideas and success is far from guaranteed. i can guess why senator lieberman would suggest these kinds of movements to break the stalemate. another idea that's been surfaced probably not quite ready for primetime is a safe haven in northern syria. created under the turks but with broad international sanction in order to protect the civilian population, give a geographic and almost philosophical area for the opposition to coalesce and become more unified. >> split syria like korea or something? >> no, we're talking about a safe haven, not dividing the country. >> it's worked in africa, like in there are no good answers at this point. whether we could do that in syria we don't know. but the answer is not bashar. >> ambassador walker, general hayden, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. fareed zakaria will continue this discussion at the top of the hour when he talks to general martin dempsey. starbucks' ceo is here to give us a blunt assessment of the u.s. economy. >> we're facing, in my view, a collision course in time in terms of these fiscal problems. well somewhere along the way, emily went right on living. but you see, with the help of her raymond james financial advisor, she had planned for every eventuality. ...which meant she continued to have the means to live on... ...even at the ripe old age of 187. life well planned. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. can you enjoy vegetables with sauce and still reach your weight loss goals? you can with green giant frozen vegetables. over twenty delicious varieties have sixty calories or less per serving and are now weight watchers-endorsed. try green giant frozen vegetables with sauce. starbucks ceo is a rock star in the business world. his roots may be showing in the latest project to create jobs stepping in where he thinks washington has failed. it's a program to help entrepreneurs in poor areas of the country. take a look. ♪ >> to his role as businessman, add philanthropist and one more thing. he says he's a concerned american that feels maybe a little like you do. a little fed up with washington and a lot worried about the economy. i want to get your take. you often get a political answer. so i want to know from a ceo point of view what your feel is for the economy today. >> sure. i think that as we look at the economy today, we are looking at a bifurcated situation. at the high end, the people who are making money and have disposable income and live a life that, for the most part, is insulated from the drama of being unemployed and the mortgage crisis, those people are fine. however, there's so many people in america who are suffering and such a lack of hope and understanding about the situation in washington. >> i guess the question is, do you sense it's any better? and here are the figures that i would point out to you. the dow jones at this point is pushing into the 13,000 level, which is the highest that we've seen in years. the unemployment rate is 8.3. not great but better than the 10%. and consumer confidence has been up for the last four weeks. you know and i know that when consumers are feeling confident it helps to drive the economy. do you sense -- this is the same kind of picture you painted four or five or six months ago. do you sense that nothing has changed? >> i really believe that you cannot use a stock market as a proxy for the economy and consumer confidence, although it's a good metric, also should not be the primary issue. i really believe that the economy perhaps on the margin has been improved. but at the same time, you have the majority of states in america who are facing insolvency, cutting social services and the safety net for the people who need it most and the unemployment level is at a level that we should not be celebrating a the fact that we're not down from 9.1 to 8.3. we still have a disastrous situation in america where people feel as if they have no hope and no opportunity for jobs. and as a result of that, their self-esteem, it's almost a infrastructuring of the morality of america when we're celebrating these kind of statistics and still have so many people in the country who can't find a job. >> so who do you blame for that? >> well, i'm not here to point blame but i do feel very -- >> well, somebody is not stepping up to the plate. >> well, i'm profoundly disappointed that the fact that we have leaders in washington who i do not believe are representing the interests of america. there should be a singular focus on job creation and the economy in america. there should be a singular focus on getting banks to lend to small businesses. the fact is that the businesses in america that had access to credit ten years ago, seven years ago do not have that access to credit today, and that is why we decided to get involved in this job creation and raise money through the opportunity finance network and get cdfis involved in almost creating microloans for small businesses. >> i wanted to give our viewers an idea of what you are talking about. you have a create jobs free usa program where visitors to starbucks or your website or whatever can contribute to a fund that backs up loans, particularly in underserviced communities for small businesses to help create jobs. so i just wanted to make that -- what you were talking about clear. >> yeah. >> and tell me at this point how many jobs this has actually created, but i think more to the point, i have to tell you my first reaction when i walk ed into starbucks and saw this thing that said you can buy a rubber wrist bracelet and help create jobs. my first thing was, whoa, you know, isn't the government's job to create an atmospheric so that jobs are already created? what does it say about this country and where we are right now that u.s. citizens have to give money to a fund like a cancer, fight cancer fund, in order to create jobs? >> well, i think your question and the approach to that question is exactly right, but my view of this is i don't want to wait for washington any longer. i want to encourage businesses and business leaders to step up and recognize that we, too, have an opportunity and a responsibility to the people in the communities we serve. i do believe, and i hate to say this as a proud american, that washington and the leadership in washington has let the country down. it's not a republican or a democratic problem. it's a problem in the fact that we are not gaining access to the leadership and the results that we need. and i think if you talk to most americans, we feel as if for some reason that washington has lost touch with the pulse of the country, and the fact that we're arguing constantly, day in and day out, about ideology, about partisanship, and everyone in washington is more concerned about re-election than the core issues of the country, there's something significantly wrong, and what i'm saying is i'm tired of the blame. forget them. i'm just going to do whatever i can to use our scale for good and encourage other businesses to join with us and try to make a difference. >> mr. schultz, i think you're an idealist here, but -- >> i'm not an idealist. i'm a proud american that is disappointed with the direction of the country. >> you ever plan on running for office, because you sound like you might be gearing up. >> no, i have no interest in public office. i have only one interest, and that is i want the country to be on the right track. i just feel that for some reason over the last few years there's been a fracturing of understanding and sensibility about the responsibility that the leadership in washington must have to the people who are being left behind, and i'm significantly disappointed about the ideology, the partisanshipness, and obviously the way in which everyone in washington is focused on one thing right now, which is re-election. >> howard schultz, ceo of starbucks. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. up next our sound of sunday. then animal house comes to the campaign trail. the fraternal antics of the man who could be president. after the break. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? 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