planes to turn again, avoiding, narrowly avoiding disaster. listen to what it sounded like. united 437, turn right heading 180 and maintain 300 there. turn right immediately. united 601, stop your turn, climb, stop your turn for united 601. the fourth we ve learned about just this week. stop your turn, stop your turn. embattled va secretary eric shinseki fighting to keep his job and promised to fix delays in care that may be costing veterans their lives. it could be a tough battle for the beleaguered ex-general because some high-profile democrats now are demanding that he step down. here s chief congressional correspondent dana bash. reporter: christine and john, va secretary eric shinseki was summoned to a closed-door meeting on capitol hill yesterday afternoon, not to meet with a republican, but a frustrated democrat. and afterwards, shinseki told
they kind of suspended their disbelief i think during the last days and weeks of the campaign. they were all on board with romney. they were all saying the polls were going to be wrong and romney was going to get it and romney was on the right track and romney had the right ideas, et cetera, et cetera. they re to be expected to be among the early changers, among the early people on the road to damascus because they ve got one foot in politics and the other in journalism. but i think jindal is interesting. i think the real fight now, chris, is not whether people are getting on the road. it s what they re saying on the road because they have different theories about how to go forward. one is economics, one is cultural, and one is immigration. i think there are basically three routes there. i wonder whether they re all agreeing to changes in their party philosophy that don t affect their central beliefs. let s take a look at jindal who is a cultural conservative. he s acknowledging the
these days, and the shined boots and chest medals of the combat elite. a general has an affair with a young reporter. that young reporter spies some competition, tells her to bug off. meanwhi meanwhile, that competition becomes the target of tens of thousands of e-mails from yet another general. what a soap opera. but guess what? one of the generals, actually an ex-general, is head of the cia, or just was. the other general, the one sending the e-mail by the bushel, is our commander in charge in afghanistan. if this were a british plot, and it sure is kinky enough, we d be calling it carry on generals, but there are stakes. and one of them is our country s security. let s not forget as we dig deeper that fact into this plot tonight. joining us right now is washington post reporter sari horwitz and david woods, senior military correspondent for the huffington post. give me a sense, i don t want people to get lost before we start, let me take my own shot at this, how the whole thin
this this demographic shift, the question is is it a democratic coalition or is it an obama coalition? i think one of the answers to that could certainly be hillary clinton, who could most certainly hold that coalition he together. she s widely favored among afterwardses and latinos. certainly she s a favorite of women as well. one of the questions, though, if presidential elections are always a referendum on the future and looking toward the future, i think one of the questions she would have to answer is whether or not she embodies of future or whether or not she faces marco rubio, who is younger and a cuban, that might be a problem. obama ran a very effective race against her, tieing her to the past. these are campaigns that we ve seen typically candidates run and run very successfully. kiki, the only challenge facing here is the tendency of the united states voters in general elections not to like to see one party stay in office too
one is that he s finishing off, you know, reorganizing the forces in afghanistan, and then he s supposed to go to nato and hold together the alliance to keep the focus on afghanistan and to keep people from dribbling away. so those are two huge things that the white house has been depending on him, and they ve got to be hoping he comes out of this clean. interesting we ll have you on later, sari, again. we have to get back to politics. that s what i do for a living. we re going to get away from sex in ten seconds. get back to politics. you ve been great reporting this. thank you very much. coming up, louisiana governor bobby jindal says it s time for his party to stop, quote, being the stupid party. ed he urges the republicans to reject intellectualism. except jindal is teaching creationism in his public schools. the fiscal cliff, how much room is the left willing to give president obama on entitlement reform? what is the breaking point? on issues like social security