so i think that her mobilization, what she mentioned about going to individual businesses is the kind of thing that could individual people could do in their own states and obviously appealing to the legislature. so i wouldn t be at all surprised to see that be one way that the direction moves. that letter that you read from is obviously very disturbing and very threatening and i m sure it will be fully investigated. but i also have to say it s probably fairly standard issue for people who protect officials, both at the state and federal level. i wouldn t be at all surprised if the nypd has seen something like that before. anne cornblut, susan page, you looked like you wanted to get in there. it s probably not fair to taint the entire gun rights movement with the action of this disturbing letter because there is a serious debate and two sides to it when it comes to the issue of guns. it s unfortunate that for a few it comes to this. susan, anne, thanks to both of you. thank y
this breaking news, as we track hurricane sandy. officials are warning people in the storm s path, today is it. the last day you have to prepare. we have just learned, washington, d.c. public schools will be closed tomorrow. they join new york city schools closed tomorrow. we ll have more on all of this in a few minutes. but now it s time for the big three. and today s topics, sandy impact? surprise nod? and this week s must reads. let s bring in the big three panel. correspondent for the guardian anna marie cox, robert trainum, and anne cornblut. a big welcome to my three of you, the big three. anna marie, first to sandy s potential impact. we have the president, canceled visits to virginia and colorado, he heads to florida and ohio tomorrow, before returning to the white house, where he will
but the question is the right one. do you see the differences the two men? differences jurs around the edges or rhetorical differences. i wouldn t down-play the rhetorical differences too much. obviously, what we care about is the substantive policy differences. would one take us to war where the other would not. the rhetorical differences between republicans and democrats are meaningful in recent administrations and what s described as swagger and what republicans call as strentd wanting to exhibit greater american strength could be a bigger difference tonight. in the areas you just described, certainly afghanistan, even syria, iran, maybe to a lesser extent israel, whether there s real differences, there s similarities. we ll see how bob schieffer does to tease it out. that s why we d end up returning to libya. even if mitt romney won t say what he d do differently, that s the biggest point of contention between them. do you agree with anne
sense of where the republican field is, and b, whether he thinks he was burned by this. but if not, he has the otherwise conservative credentials to stand up on this one. and i think either way is clearly giving romney a other y front today was the endorsement from john thune, south dakota, bordering on iowa. he does seem ready to, it s clear that romney is making a play for iowa. absolutely. they ve been indicating this bit by bit over the last few weeks. that s why we ll see them there. hard to believe it is only another month left but we ll see him there. he really has to at this point. he still has such stiff competition. their campaign will argue if he comes in second or even third, that s good enough. they re obviously hoping to come in first. anne cornblut, thank you so much. we ll take a couple days off to have a lot of turkey and enjoy family and friends. remember to follow the show online.
anne cornblut. you cover the congress. let me ask you this about darrell isa. he s on the reform committee. he is exactly where he has to be if he s new chair of that committee. they go after what here he is with savannah guthrie, our colleague, asking congressman isa what he ll do if he gets subpoena power which is the power to call before that committee, anybody wants, dig anything that he wants to do to bring down in administration. let s listen. some people said you re the man, the white house most fears. is that fair? and what do they have to fear? every administration, once they become the administration, become somewhat imperial and insular and not just on behalf of you know people working in the white house. but it spreads into the cabinet positions. suddenly, every problem the inherited, they want to blame the predecessor but they don t want you looking to see if the change will work. whether if you will a change that you can believe in. that s the part with this preside