Can they . A conversation with the Number Two Senate democrat dick durban and tom price. Also, republican Carlos Gutierrez. We must be the party of immigration. Our followup conversation with a man who led mitt romneys outreach to latinos. Plus, the politics of scandal. The Jackie Calmes of the New York Times and jerry seib and cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Im Candy Crowley, and this is state of the union. Good morning from washington. With all the intrigue of a bond film, i stealthy general David Petraeus arrive and left capitol hill. Behind closed doors they heard him. His testimony today was that from the start he had told us that this was a terrorist attack. It was testimony that seemed to challenge white house explanations of who knew what when about the attack on the u. S. Consulate in libya that killed four americans. Joining me is missouri senator roy blunt and mare marry congressman doug coopersburger. Thank you for joining us. Lets start off with the last point, a
Two Senate Democrat dick durban and tom price. Chairman of the House Republican policy committee. Also, republican Carlos Gutierrez. We must be the party of immigration. Our followup conversation with a man who led mitt romneys outreach to latinos. Plus, the politics of scandal. The Jackie Calmes of the New York Times and jerry seib and cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Im Candy Crowley, and this is state of the union. Good morning from washington. With all the intrigue of a bond film, i stealthy general David Petraeus arrived and left capitol hill. Behind closed doors they heard him. His testimony today was that from the start he had told us that this was a terrorist attack. Terrorists involved from the start. It was testimony that seemed to challenge white house explanations of who knew what when about the attack on the u. S. Consulate in libya that killed four americans. Joining me is missouri senator roy blunt and mare marry maryland congressman, doug coopersburger. Thank y
With the new egyptian president , mohammed mersi and turkish Prime Minister. They have relations with has mass according to the senior official they were encouraged to engage hamas to get them to stop the rocket strikes which the official characterized as the precipitating factor in this exchange of rocket fire from israel and hamas in the gaza strip. Finally prospects for a ground offensive by israel into gau scat white house official would simply say israel can make their own decisions about tactics and operations. Okay, Mike Viqueira, thank you very much for that. From mike to tell awe vooef we head to nbcs martin fletcher. Martin, what is the nature of the conflict on the ground there now for both sides . Reporter well, alex, as mike just said, what president obama said sound a little bit like a green light for israel to do whatever it takes necessary. Whats happening right now is with the army here is doing all it takes to prepare for a Ground Invasion of gaza. But no order has be
Just goes to show the republicans who caused this shutdown are really earning their pay. Just ask north dakotas kevin cramer who was asked if he would give up his pay during the shutdown. Im working to earn the salary that the people pay me to do the job. I dont get into those sort of stunty things. Im not going to do it. Sure. Republicans got 800,000 federal workers furloughed. But you wouldnt want to do anything stunty. And nebraskas lee terry was even more clear. When asked if hed keep his pay, he said dang straight. But what about giving back pay to furloughed government workers once the shutdown is over . One of the biggest culprits behind this mess, ted cruz, refused to answer that question. The people who are missing, who are awol are the democrats. Should they retroactively be paid or not . The democrats are refusing to compromise. Yes or no do you support retroactive back pay . I support the house to fund the government. And at the same time to prevent the enormous harm obama
To stop. No matter what you do, they just keep on coming after you, hungry and ready to tear you apart. You can never just sit back and relax, because after these zombies, the ones right in front of you, there are thousands more right behind them and a thousand more behind them, and theyll all want a piece of you. Maybe you have a plan for the zombie apocalypse. The cdc certainly does. No, really, thats a real post from the federal governments zombie preparedness campaign, but what about if the government defaults on its debts . The way some are talking about it, it sure sounds like an apocalyp apocalypse. In order to admit default would be, and im quoting here, insane, catastrophic, chaos, these are the more polite words. Warren buffett likened it to a nuclear bomb. But the real zombies in this metaphor arent the countrys debts, the real zombies are the congressional republicans. See, no matter how much you think theyve been defeated, they just keep coming back. The Affordable Care ac