kathy rogers and carolyn maloney. sizing up obama versus romney. plus, comedian and actor, the outspoken bill cosby on politic, and the man who killed trayvon martin. it doesn t make a difference if you re a racist or not. i m candy crowley. and this state of the union . but first two break stories we re following. a series of attacks across afghanistan and a deadly tornado outbreak here in the united states. we want to begin with those tornadoes that tore through the midwest and central plains overnight. authorities say at least a dozen twisters touched down across four states in the northern oklahoma town of woodward, five people including two children died from injuries related to a suspected tornado. twisters also decimated thurman, iowa where 75% of the homes were damaged or destroyed. in the nearby town, tornadoes forced the evacuation of a hospital that was damaged. dangerous as it is, there are some people who actually chase tornadoes, one of them is jeff who joi
should it be an american, as always, or should it be opened up to emerging economies, in asia, africa, south america, nigeria s finance minister says she should be the bank s next leader, and she has some very influential supporters. we will talk to her. also, the new kind of warfare we re seeing pop up more and more. dirty wars. that s what the new york times s jeffrey getleman calls them, and we ll talk to him about it. first, here s my take. as many regular viewers know, i have been following the tense back and forth with iran very closely. i continue to believe it is the single most dangerous crisis that we confront today. everyone seems to believe that whatever the momentary ups and downs, there is unliable to be a deal between iran and the great powers that will avert war and prevent iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. that s not clear. there is a path to a deal. if, as with any successful negotiation, both sides can come away with something. so what would a deal loo
troops without leaving chaos in its wake? next up, debt, shedding real light on our present situation in the united states and europe. we have the author of a phenomenal new book, phillip kogan. i ll explain. first, here s my take. some of you regular viewers will recall that at the start of the first show of this year i predicted hopefully that the u.s. woo economy would recover nicely in 2012. i m returning to that topic with some preliminary good news. if you look around the industrialized world, the u.s. economy is the most promising of the bunch. the american recovery is not as vigorous as one might hope, but it is remarkably broadbased. manufacturing is up, including for the first time in 30 years nontechnology manufacturing. retail sales are up. consumer confidence and spending are growing. consider sales are up. the stock market reflects this. two areas of the economy that continue to lag are jobs and housing. both critical areas. generating economic growth and prof
world? i ll tell you. then the politics of outer space. america won the race to the moon, but that was 40 years ago. the u.s. is essentially sitting on the bench in the current space race. will that hurt it back here on earth? and is america coming apart? that s what the author of a controversial new book says. i ll ask him about it. first, here s my take. something caught my eye the other day. pat robertson, the high priest of the religious right, had some startling things to say about drugs. i really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol, mr. robertson said recently. i have never used manner, and i don t intend to, he said, but it s just one of those things that, well, i think this war on drugs just hasn t succeeded. the reason robertson is for legalizing marijuana is that it has created a prison problem in america that is well beyond what most americans imagine. he is right. here are the numbers. the total number of americans under correctiona
many claims to bank. i ll talk to him about the global economy and more. later a. look at the silicon valley facebook, pay pal, zynga. reed hoffman has been at the ground floor of all of them. and why is one of america s friends, india, friends with one of its sworn enemies? i ll explain. but, first, here s my take. we re going to hear a lot of polarized rhetoric over the next few months. the republicans and democrats will seem to disagree about everything. but there is one huge and important area where there is a possibility, a possibility of bipartisan action. that s tax reform. most americans, republicans and democrats, dislike the tax code. their right to do so. america has what is arguably the world s most complex tax code. the federal code plus irs rulings is now 70,000 pages long. the code itself is 16,000 pages. the state of france has only 1,909, only 10% of ours. and then there are others that have innovated and moved to a flat tax with considerable success. y