there is a history to this that s the democratic party going way back here of of george mcgovern. the blame america first party. the idea of the democrats of jimmy carter as president. the idea of democrats as the weak party. any democratic party being weak on foreign policy. republicans had a lot of electoral success. is there something to tap into when they do this? first, i m shocked that dick cheney would not take responsibility for the mess in iraq are. the criticism that he and mccain and lindsey graham and everybody would be akin to saying we were attacked on 9/11 because they were weak, if he canless.
he canless feckless, john mccain even more. he urged gop senators to tone down their criticism and try to be supportive of the president rather than madder at the president, that this is a time when you need to do that. what do you what do you think is going to happen here? well, i called bob gates yesterday because i was troubled by the level of intense criticism of the president from senator mccain and senator graham in the middle of what probably is the biggest foreign policy crisis of obama s presidency. i wanted to reach out to somebody who s sort of both republican and democratic administrations, bob gates has been secretary of defense in both, and can him what he thought. and not to my surprise because gates really is at the end of the day a pretty balanced,
for some on the left in terms of prosecuting the war. absolutely. many progressives have been very angry with the way he uses drones, the way he intervenes on foreign territory to kill terrorists. pakistan this week. then you have mitt romney saying he is an appeaser. he is weak, he is if he canless and i wanted to serve in vietnam and he didn t. this is a certain level of absurdi absurdity. my guess would be on the demographics, the democrats are weak, the republicans are strong and obama doesn t do very well with white voters in general. final comment from you? it hasn t affected his standing. romney s standing with veterans. this story is coming out. we should look, a couple weeks down the road to see how far this story goes. to see whether this has an impact on his standing with veterans. the president s record on
want to begin with this afternoon s scary situation on board this air liner and i am sure it was equally frightening for drivers on the ground who say parts of the plane were hitting cars. we can tell you the jet landed safely. i want to bring in lizzie o leary, our aviation spore kond ent. what do we know? what happened? we can take it from sort of two sides. what was happening on the ground, those parts of the plane, potentially the debris field and what was happening in the air. there you see pictures from our affiliate cb-24 in canada, pieces of did he pree they say fell from the ski. the blackberry is to i have give you a sense of comparison. now, switching over to what we know from the air side, we are talking about an air canada plane, a boeing triple 7, a twin engine plane, a large pass engineer judget that left toronto at around 2:10 this afternoon carrying 318 passengers and 16 crew members according to air canada. after take off there was an engine shutdown. this
president obama, 45% support mitt romney. the tight race makes for pointed rhetoric. i know governor romney came to des moines last week, warned about a prairie fire of death. that s what he said, prairie fire. but, you know, he left out some facts. you know, his speech was more like a cow pie of distortion. [ cheers and applause ] i don t know whose record he twisted the most, mine or his. with a 24/7 focus on the economy, the soon-to-be republican nominee has begun to paint a picture of what a romney white house would look like, starting with the jobless rate. over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we put in place, we get the unemployment rate down to 6% or perhaps a little lower. joining me is former new york mayor and romney supporter rudy giuliani. mr. mayor, you are also a former presidential candidate and a pretty astute observer of politics. let me start out with the broad-brush question, which is give me your most honest assessment of how