place for us need stay. leigh gallagher is with us. she has a question you re the ranking member on the foreign policy committee. to what degree has this impacted our ability to respond to a crisis, to what degree does it put our national security at risk? you mentioned this but expand on that a little bit. i think any time our steadiness as a nation is questioned, it harms us. i was at a dinner on saturday night, typically i m in tennessee on the weekends but i was with a bunch of foreign ministers from around the world who is here for the world bank and imf. look any time we place in question our ability to move ahead as a nation it hurts us and causes people to begin to look other places. i was earlier this year in china, japan and south korea as we first had new elected leadership there and i have to tell you, again, our inability to wrestle with these issues in
one area i wasn t a disciplinaryian. i m watching jack trading the markets. like that commercial. let s go to politico the chief white house correspondent is mike allen. mike, good morning. happy columbus day, willie. the lead story up on the site the ire next time. describe how negotiating under threat living from crisis to crisis isn t going to change any time soon. willie, that s right. both the white house and the different parties on the hill are looking ahead to the next negotiation already because even under the best case circumstance, the best possible solution of what s going on right now, it s just going to extend this for a few weeks or a few months. no big decision will be made. we re freezing the status quo,
problem can feel too big for any of us to solve. teen violence but how can we turn away knowing that this crisis isn t just their fault? but it is all of our fault as well. they have to take responsibility. it is still all of our fault top talk about this i want to bring mayor landrieu of new orleans and mayor nutter of philadelphia. psychologist wendy walsh and columnist l.z. granderson here with me in new york. wendy, you didn t get a chance to weigh in on this. what did you think the mayors saying about this? they said to basically don t apologize. we should be stronger in our message to young people. we should be stronger and also ask those wonderful voters who put hose gentlemen in office to approve legislation that puts more funds to help young families and help with education and instead of just incarcerating people and spending money. way too much money too late. if you invest a little bit in the early years, it is important.
stuff. people in both parties will tell you that the republican ground game is very proficient and the democratic ground game s pretty proficient, too. they have been going at it these two parties more elections than any other state has had in the last year, last two years. they are very good and very he experienced and know how to turn their voters out. certain isly the republicans can count on both the motivation of the voters and on i think the proficiency of their ground game. that is why they think they are in the hunt in wisconsin. isn t it true, governor i m sore arery, that congressman ryan in his district his district voted for president obama the last time around and in his district elected congressman ryan. it will be interesting to see how the ticket performs in his congressional district. we only have 8 congressional districts, whatever paul ryan adds to the ticket in his district will help him
a small sliver of the electorate swreesm a small lead. that s why mitt romney is looking desperately for 270 electoral votes because he s notified finding them. the president is making the final argument on the stump. new hampshire, biggest political event in new hampshire s history, talking about the past four years, digging out the greatest recession since the great depression, 5.4 million jobs have been created, manufacturing is growing, g.m. is back, housing prices up up and foreclosures are down and he is working on restoring the economic security of the middle class. that s the goal of the next term. what about the political implications of the benghazi crisis isn t president tries to portray him as a strong, connected leader, everything, moving the levers of government when needed. we saw pictures from the white house situation room, released