more than one. it s been one. put out a statement that said more women applied to be part of the inauguration performance and there were spots for those. we re so honored to have the radio city rockettes perform at this inaugural as they did in 0 01 and 05. it s interesting. kellyanne conway said something on foxx news last week. she said this is the people s president. as you know, he tweeted a few days ago, basically, and i m paraphrasing here. i m not interesting in celebrities attending. i m the president for the people. i want the real people, the people that got him elected. interesting report in politico this week. two people familiar with the discussion said you guys are bandying about the idea perhaps that he might skip the traditional congressional luncheon that follows and wade into the crowd, join the parade. are we going see that? well, there are a lot of rumors out there. i wouldn t trust any of those rumors unless they come from the presidential inaugural com
better not to get into in a news interview, but i would be happy to discuss this with the government. what is the number? what s the closest you have come to estimating the number of documents? i will say the 1.7 million documents figure that the intelligence community has been bandying about, the director of nsa himself, keith alexander, said just a week ago in the australian financial review, i believe, that they have no idea what documents were taken at all. their auditing was so poor, so negligent, that any private contractor, not even an employee of the government, could walk into the nsa building, take whatever they wanted, and walk out with it and they would never know. now, i think that s a problem. and i think that s something that needs to be resolved. people need to be held to account for. has it happened before? could it happen again? what didn t you grab? was there a threshold? right. i didn t want to take
zeal. what is the significance of the name. ? there was some bandying about. is it the francis can? the vatican that it is st. francis of assisi. because that name is over well known among catholics, it is a real sign he intends to concentrate on the poor and call to us work with the poor and call to us live simply as well. so i think they say the biggest decision of the first pope is his name. he made a big decision. archbishop jose gomez of los angeles has talked extensively about the important role that hispanic catholics have played in the founding of the country and in playing witness to american spirituality. and he has called for a resurgence. do you think that pope francis will galvanize hispanic catholics here in this country for whom maybe some of their faiths may be waning? i think he has. there s nothing to compare with a pope who speaks your language and speaks it fluently. i think something like 40% to 50% of american catholics are now hispanic. you look at someone l
i guess you and i have been talking about this, bandying about the question of whether or not mitt romney can bring together the various factions of the republican party. we just talked in the last block about the uphill battle he s had to get the message turned around to get the national dialogue away from the todd akin stuff. i want to play the sound from an event just a few moments ago where he starts talking about birth certificates. let s hear that. no one s ever asked to see my birth certificate. they know that this is the place that we were born and raised. loud cheers. oh, yes, you are an american, unlike our socialist in chief. yeah, i don t even know what to do with that because there s so it s like a lasagna of metaphor. it s so piled up, like it was referred to as ironic post-birtherism, hipster racism. it s weirdly nudging and winking at this thing that everyone knows is this kind of coded racial appeal. guaranteed to get him get
a plan b or c. senate, the other from house go ahead, please, carl. republicans. but there s a big problem. i just think that they re neither of those plans may be i think that at this point they able to get through congress and probably have to go through some of these initial votes. the clock is ticking. and that s what i was referring to earlier, that the back cnn congressional correspondent channel communication that kate boulwan joins us now. continues and, you know, where senator mcconnell comes down i think will be important. let s start in the house where whether he helps harry reid or speaker john boehner has laid out his version of the john boehner ultimately get a republican solution. plan through. he has been very determined to spell it out for us. reporter: a lot of details to avoid a default. we all want go ahead. it, jessica, but what it really comes down to is the length of everybody in the city is talking about avoiding a default because the incre