huge forum here in iowa, in demoines, the faith and family forum, that brought most of the republican field here, but romney skipped it, and as a consequence of his absence, and some misgivings about his reliability on social issues, a number of socially conservative evangelical christians who organized that event had a meeting monday night where they discussed their inability to select an alternative to romney to unite behind, they re concerned if the social conservatives are divided in the upcoming caucus, romney, because of his evolveing positions on social issues, conservatives will be split. jenna: national security and foreign policy the focus of last night s republican debate, just six weeks before the iowa caucuses. pretty unreal to think about it, but that s the case, six weeks. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon to work through a few parts of the debate with us, jen.
pretty well, delays holding at 35 - 30-45 minutes, there s one last bit of rain moving through. this storm impacting the northeast, it happened about one if it happened 12 hours later we d have big problems because last night, very heavy rain along the eastern seaboard. it s exited the east coast. still have a last batch of showers near the airports causing delays. big snows across new england so the roads driving home will be problematic. not across the west, the steady stream of moisture is pulling in, across oregon and washington, you get that this time of year but this is certainly a wet storm out there. here s your look at tomorrow. we ve got rain across the west, the center part of the country is warming up. we re going to see temps around 30 degrees above where you should be in the heartland. so a very nice day, much of the east coast looking great. it won t be that windy, great lakes will see a little bit of cool weather. want to quickly, though, jen kwrarbgs talk about your
out there doing things i think i should be doing. his enthusiasm and dedication inspires his fellow soldiers. he pushes me to make myself push harder because i know he s like twice my age. after three wars in six three-month necessary combat zones, the pentagon says sergeant nick must retire next summer when he turns 60. something he isn t looking forward to. retirement t. seems, bothers him far more than the enemy. you want to be out there. i want to be out there, yeah. as long as i m able to do it, i ll do it. reporter: jen kwrarbgs because sergeant nick is a doctor back in the united states he s trying to get into the army medical corps, which has a higher retirement age, and he says he d even like to come back to afghanistan if allowed to stay in the military, jenna. jenna: what an inspirational story, conor. we ll think of sergeant nick this thanksgiving and your family as well. conor is on the road during thanksgiving.
you don t have to believe me on that. that s what the president s own secretary of defense, leanne panetta, has been saying, that these would be devastating to our ability to protect ourselves. jenna: and that plays into our next segment, which is the psychology segment. right. jenna: steve, when we hear that, if we re sitting at home, that s enough to make us nervous, and when we look at the supercommittee it seems they chose failure over compromise, and that just sends a weird message, doesn t it, overall? i mean, if we could just speak plainly about t. about what that says about where our country is and who s working for us, makes the government work. i think that s right, that it is a grand failure by congress and the president, by the way, who wasn t even involved in these negotiations. but you know what, jen kwrarbgs the real big failure is we have as you know, the debt clock, you rart dollars report thunderstorm last week, went over $15 trillion last week, we re on a cou
based on your article in the wall street journal today. plain and simple, what are the real ripple effects of the failure of the supercommittee when it comes to our economy? you know, jen kwrarbgs i ve been talking to a lot of people on wall street, the investors who move the market and they say all along we thought this was going to fail, so this wasn t a big shock to us, but you do see the readit credit rating agencies saying they re taking a lot closer look at the u.s. debt. as you know, jenna, remember back in august, we had the downgrade of the debt by s&p and moody s. i don t think it s going to happen eminently, but there is now a lot of talk about possible second downgrade of our debt. by the way, jenna, as you know, it s been 50 years since we had a downgrade of our aaa bond rating. we had one in august, and now we re looking at a second one later this year. that s pretty glum. jenna: that does sound glum. first i m going to talk to you as an economist, and i m going to