7th, 2013. Good morning, im mara schiavocampo. Whether you live in the northeast or youre traveling anywhere near there this weekend, you need to know theres a whopper of a snowstorm headed this way. The National Weather service is forecasting more than 2 feet of snow in some place. Nbcs bill karins is tracking the storm. Historic is the right word. Now we need to get the players on the field. You are going to have a significant storm of your own. Travel is going to be very difficult. Milwaukee, grand rapids, possibly even around chicago with winter storm warnings for a good chunk of michigan. It should be warm enough where you dont have a lot of accumulations. One greed yeingredient for the storm. The other shot in the east. All the details coming up. Well have more later today, bill. President obamas nominee to head the cia can look forward to a grilling on capitol hill this morning. During confirmation hearings, john brennan will be asked to explain the legal justification for preda
Hello and welcome to the National Press corps and the kalb report. I am amrtimartin calb. Most would agree for the 2012 election being too long, too loud, and too noisy. Except for the last month, with three president ial debates and one vicepresident ial debate. 70 million watched the first and 60 million watched each of the other three. Only the super bowl did better than that. In 11 of the last 14 debates, there have been these debates and they are a fixed feature of the political landscape. We have a wonderful opportunity to talk to three moderatores of the 2012 debate. To my right is jim lehhrer, who has done 12 debates. Nobody will catch up to that. The most honored former anchor and prolific author and winner of every prize in journalism. To my left, bob schieffer, anchor of face the nation and an author and winner of many journalism awards, and Martha Raddatz, the chief Global Affairs correspondent. She spent a lot of time in iraq and afghanistan and winner of many prizes for h
Hoping well keep the world at bay, hoping we will sustain ourselves with a reduced presence in the world and a radically reduced capacity for defending ourselves, defending our allies and projecting our power. So that would be sort of an an litic way to present why we are in decline. Its not a conscious choice. I dont want to play the amateur psychiatrist or even a professional one in this. I dont want to look in obamas soul but if you look at where modern liberalism is taking us, it is to recreate the choice the europeans made in the late 1940s after the second world war. The problem for us, and i think the problem for the west is if we decline and use our resources internally, who will protect us, who will protect the free world, who will keep open the sea lanes and who will prevent the rise of a hegamon like china or the chaos that will ensue if theres no leader or dominant power in the world. Its a very long answer to a short question. And the reason i did that is because on televi
One thing that happens in the debates is the candidates come in, and they are ready for what ever debate that they are ready for. I think that joe biden thought that this would be a little bit more contentious. It took him awhile to get adjusted to that. I thought that this was a very interesting thing, to realize that. That this was happening with the candidates. What would you get to see those rehearsals . Now that i have thought about this at this very moment, i dont think obama was prepared for what romney was doing. I was not having done this three times, you cover all the people that you interview in these president ial debates, what do you pick up, and what are the ingredients of political success . Your interviews with people who have risen to the very top, what is it about them . Every debate is different. You talk about the things that were missed in the 2008 debate, which i moderated between president obama and john mccain, these are two very different people and personaliti