assessing the presidential field with republican national committee chairman reince priebus. and america s cities, our first installment today with los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. that s why we re here today. because l.a. is not waiting on washington. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. on his way out of town friday, president obama called the two chairs of the super committee from air force one to tell them they needed to make a debt deal soon. that is not breaking news to panel members who have been spinning their wheels for nearly three months. we are not giving up hope ened i hope my democratic colleagues aren t until midnight on the 23rd. but wall street may have given up hope. according to cnbc, half of the investors polled by citigroup don t expect the committee to reach a deal in time. co-chair jeb hensarling joins me here in washington on his first sunday interview since being appointed to the committee. so we appreciate it. i w
attempt, congresswoman gabrielle giffords i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first, an apparent shake-up in the republican race for the white house after a turbulent week that saw herman cain finding new allegations of sexual harassment and rick perry stumbling sadly in a debate. newt gingrich leaping towards the top of a pack in a stunni stunningcome back. jim acosta is watching the race for us as he always does. where do things stand right now? some candidates are stepping in it, newt gingrich is stepping it up. what s old is newt. he s back. it is a wide open race. consider campaign road kill over the summer, newt gingrich is peaking at just the right time. he is leaping ahead of herman cain in a new poll and falling within the margin of error for the lead in another poll from cbs. the former house speaker may be scoffing at his numbers. all of this effort to create a two-man race when it was perry and romney. reporter: he already has a new racer l
welcome. great to have you here. great to see you, ali, good morning. up first, the growing penn state sex abuse scandal s. the university is vowing to find out who or who else failed the victims. right now in state college p.a. they are bracing for game day. the last home game of the year, the first in a half century without legendary coach joe paterno. the small college town swells to the largest on game day and given what we saw on campus two nights ago, police are under intense pressure to maintain control. our jason carroll is live in state college this morning and, jason, i imagine s security hey been stepped up quite a bit? reporter: that is true, and the mood on campus, really mixed in terms of how the students are feeling about everything that s been going on. you ve got a number of students who are quite frankly, have that same amount of anger that we saw out here on wednesday, but alina, also there have been a number of students who have come up to me who sai
good morning. it is thursday, november 10. well tomorrow to american morning. if you went to sleep early last night or at all, everything is different this morning. it really is. first crash of the titan penn state football coach joe paterno out after 46 years as the head man in happy valley. paterno was fired along with the university president over a child sex scandal involving paterno s former assistant jerry sandusky. the decision came hours after paterno said he would finish out the season and then retire. instead penn state s board of trustees brought the hammer down. the past several days have been absolutely terrible for the entire penn state community. but the outrage we feel is nothing compared to the physical and psychological suffering that allegedly took place. effective immediately, dr. spannier is no longer president of the university. in addition, joe paterno is no longer the head football coach effective immediately. penn state students spill flood th
out for the first time about some shocking revelations that cremated remains of american war dead were simply dumped in landfills. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com it may have been the most awkward 53 seconds of the presidential campaign so far and certainly the most widely seen. texas governor rick perry s brain freeze during last night s republican presidential debate was the most viewed video on youtube in the united states earlier today. if you haven t seen it, you re about to as we look ahead to what happens to rick perry s campaign now. jim acosta is in auburn hills, michigan. the scene of perry s monumental stumble. how does he recover from this? wolf, after last night s debate and rick perry s meltdown in michigan, the candidate and his campaign seem to have a new strategy. get the voters to laugh with him and not at him. commerce, education and the what s the third one there? let s see i