0 i m candy crowley in washington. head to cnn.com/sotu for analysis and extras. if you missed any part of today s show, find us on itunes. fareed zakaria gps is next for our viewers here in the u.s. this is gps the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world, i m fareed zakaria. we ll start today in washington, d.c. the week from hell for the white house with three controversies all erupting on them. how in the world do you handle so many problems, so much incoming fire at once? we ll talk to a man who would know, former white house chief of staff, ken dubber steen. and the amazing shrinking american budget deficit. i ll ask mitt romney s chief economic adviser whether he thinks the problem has gone away. also, as america prepares to draw down from afghanistan, what can it learn from britain s withdrawal 170 years ago? i ll ask theauthor of a great new book. next, a look into the crystal ball of technology with google s executive cha
don t even know what the contents of that was. well, he came out this morning that cain had a pretty good recognition of the settlement from the outset. she was making huge claims about sexual harassment. i do recall she was asking for a lrnlg sum of money. i don t remember what the sum of money was. as the review of this moved forward, that sum of money negotiated my attorney and negotiated with her attorney got less and less and less because her attorney started to figure out, she didn t have a valid claim. she couldn t find people to corroborate these things she was making and so as it got smaller and smaller and smaller it turned out to be from my perspective, which is why i didn t go back and ask to see it, more of a separation agreement rather than some sort of legal settlement. so is this a political pothole, a brick wall or wind fall? we ll look at the impact on the cain campaign in our fair game segment later on this hour. our other big story comes from the o
word agreement you know, i m not sure what they called it. and yes, that was some sort of settlement or termination and i don t even know what the contents of that was. well, he came out this morning that cain had a pretty good recognition of the settlement from the outset. she was making huge claims about sexual harassment. i do recall she was asking for a lrnlg sum of money. i don t remember what the sum of money was. as the review of this moved forward, that sum of money negotiated my attorney and negotiated with her attorney got less and less and less because her attorney started to figure out, she didn t have a valid claim. she couldn t find people to corroborate these things she was making and so as it got smaller and smaller and smaller it turned out to be from my perspective, which is why i didn t go back and ask to see it, more of a separation agreement rather than some sort of legal settlement. so is this a political pothole, a brick wall or wind fall? we ll l
science, innovation. less than 12 years after sputnik, americans landed on the moon. that s one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind. thank you. now, a decade into the 21st century, listen to president obama in his last state of the union speech. this is our generation s sputnik moment. we need to outinnovate, outeducate and outbuild the rest of the world. the soviet union is gone, but other nations have taken its place, challenging our long-standing supremacy as the world s leading innovator. so, how well are we meeting that challenge? well, in a recent ranking of 40 countries efforts to foster innovation over the past decade, guess where the united states ranked? dead last. this year china is projected to outpace us in the number of patents it files. that s the first time any other country has overtaken the united states. the first step in winning the future is encouraging american innovation. we need to get behind this innovation. innovation doesn t
and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. the president heads out to sili con valley to talk to the top tech gurus. our senior correspondent ed henvy on the stakeout. what is this meeting all about? reporter: it s trying to follow up on the state of the union when the president talked about innovation and what can the government do to help american business foster some of that innovation and create jobs and deal with the stifling unemployment right now. along the way the president will have a little dinner in san francisco with steve jobs of apple, mark zuckerberg from facebook as well as eric schmit from google. interesting subtext is the fact that steve jobs obviously a couple weeks ago took a second medical leave of absence just in the past couple of years for an