newt gingrich stared down bill clinton. he shut down the government over budget disputes. it turned out really badly for republicans. newt s popularity, the gop s brand was damaged. clinton s popularity just kept going up and up. this time speaker boehner who is leading a republican congress that s practically tailor made for shutdowns. the budget disputes are so wide and significant, they ve always managed to avoid a shutdown. he was part of the leadership team in 1998 and learned from that. i guess, i wonder how long can that go up. i keep hearing them talk about that. keep hearing talk about it and then at the end of the day, what you get is these very small budget deals, right? you are just kind of leapfrogging from one deal to the next. so we re never we re not shutting down, but we re also doing this every crisis of confidence. crisis management. so i don t know how long they can sustain it. i m wondering from you, you also talk in your piece about
little bit. the other part of the president s visit, air force one and the gaggle he did off camera, was to talk about why he s in africa, what the competitive pressures there are on the united states to be in africa, because you ve got china and brazil investing. he was at a food expo today in senegal before he left senegal. he s still airborne now. we beat him here, by the way, to south africa. you know the way that leapfrogging works sometimes. but that s what he was talking about on air force one, is this issue of figuring out as the u.s. government budgets are tighter and harder to get money for aid to africa directly from the government, the president here wants to be pushing public-private partnerships. some ceos, some business leaders are coming offense with him on this part of the trip, both in south africa and in tanzania. he s talking about how they re trying to create this sort of dollar for dollar a dollar of
point? my point is the american people are being disarmed by obscuring the true reality of jihad, and this is our way of sort of leapfrogging over the media who whitewashes and sanitizes it, and alerting the american people to what is the gravest national security threat our nation faces. do you see it s pamela s right to put up the billboards. i will say on the homophobic remarks, we could take these ads and it could be about any of the faiths that have similar if not identical views on homosexually, but what i am troubled by is her obsession and fascination with the islam and with american muslims. why is it that none of the remarks are by american muslims? we have plenty of national organizations and prominent muslim americans in the country who have not publicly stated any
gets to the california science center. bill. bill: she s a beauty. this thing looks great in hd by the way. reporter: it s quite interesting how they are doing this. this whole issue really takes a while for this thing to move, partly because it s so heavy. we are talking about 170,000-pound it s taking 160-wheel carrier to move it down the street. they had to find a route that it could fit under because it s so big. it s costing $10 million all told, and it has a 78 wingspan. 50 feet is the height at the tip. they had to cut down like 400 trees to do this. we had a chance to walk with one of the workers involved about all the different details involved in this move and he said it went all the way down to the metal on the streets. we ve depleted the supply from phoenix, loss vegas and all throughout southern california, as the shuttle passes over the plates we ll be leapfrogging them ahead to a future area. a nine-hour layover in the parking lot.
discuss all this. then we go overseas to egypt s election of muhammad morsi. what can we expect from an islamist president? two of the top egypt experts tell us. next, how do you count and catalog 1.2 billion people? i ll ask the man creating a revolutionary biometric i.d. for every one of india s citizens. also, the housing bubble caused the crash. will the coming housing boom finally power this anemic recovery? first, here s my take. what to do about syria. western military intervention looks fraught with difficulties, but the situation on the ground is a humanitarian nightmare and is producing greater instability by the week. i was recently in turkey and russia, and i ve been persuaded that there might be a path forward. the pressures on bashir al assad s regime are mounting. it is running out of cash, and it now faces a real military threat from turkey. these pressures could be combined with smart diplomacy to push assad out of power. but it would mean trying to w