a visit by the south korean president overshadowed by the unfolding international drama surround i surrounding an alleged iranian terror plot. for the first time, president obama spoke at length about what the united states maintains was a plan to assassinate the saudi ambassador to the united states here in washington, d.c. let s go straight to jessica yellin. jessica, the president was asked about the links to the iranian government. what did he say today? he declined to say the highest levels of the iranian government had knowledge of it. he would not say that the nation s supreme leader or president was aware of it. i don t think the problem here jessica is that i have not been unwilling to negotiate with republicans. i ve shown repeatedly my willingness to work overtime. to try to get them to do something. he had direct links. was paid by and directed by individuals in the iranian government. now, those facts are there for all to see. and we would not be bringing for
fired up over america s economic troubles had no one to blame but themselves. here s what he told the wall street journal . don t blame wall street. don t blame the big banks. if you don t have a job and you re not rich, blame yourself. then this past weekend, cain fired another shot at the protesters on cbs face the nation. watch. my parents never said that we hope that the rich people lose something so we can get something. no. my dad s idea was, i want to work hard enough so i can buy a cadillac, not take somebody else s. but, listen. now cain is tweaking his message and saying the protesters should be blaming someone. the white house. here s what he said last night during the bloomberg/ washington post gop debate. that response was directed at the people that are protesting on wall street. not that 14 million people who are out of work for no reason of their own, other than the economy s not growing. not the millions of people that are underemployed. they h
floor and health care providers do not have to intervene if this bill is passed. it s just appalling. check out this tonight from anita perry, wife of governor rick perry. some perry aides blame shaky debate performances for the need of more sleep. mrs. perry suggested his slip in the polls is because of brutal attacks from other republicans that she suggests somehow resent his faith. of those republican critics, mrs. perry said, quote, they may feel like god called them, too. but i truly feel like we are here for that purpose. rising cain, the leap of herman cain to the top of the pack of the presidential race. new poll numbers out tonight, 27% of republican voter back cain. former massachusetts governor mitt romney is the choice of 23%. governor perry follows at 16%. congressman ron paul cracks double-digit support. some are quick to suggest cain is the latest beneficiary of an anyone but romney dynamic among the most conservative republicans. the never shy mr. cain say
under way for many months, and it got so far that money was actually transferred for an assassination. what the iranians didn t know, piers, was the person they hired to carry this out was a dea informant working for the u.s. government. so it was never actually going to take place. but that was a massive stroke of luck, presumably. reporter: absolutely. once this dea informant was contacted by the iranians, the fbi was brought in. what we know tracing the timeline was the president was notified in june. the arrest of the naturalized u.s. citizen, the iranian we all have a mug shot of now was on september 29th. so it unfolded over the course of about four months where u.s. law enforcement was tracking it for all that time. secretary of state clinton said today the idea that they would attempt to go to a mexican drug cartel to solicit murder for hire to kill the saudi ambassador, nobody can make it up. it is an extraordinarily outrageously aw dash out plot, isn t it? r
cut, unemployment benefits, tax credits for businesses, protection against bias for unemployed job applicants. despite the president s hard line push to nas bill and tireless national campaign, obama s jobs plan essentially die ted hands of senate republicans tuesday on a key procedural vote. 60 votes were needed. clearly, the votes just weren t there. the president knew it was coming. he now has to rethink and regroup. the republicans don t exactly have a concrete alternative jobs bill to fix the problem. so the big question is what happens now? are we back to square one or do we call it plan b? whatever you want to call it let s talk about it with someone who knows a lot about it chief national correspondent and anchor, john king, joining us live now from washington. hi there, john. so the president, he says that he is prepared to break his jobs bill now into pieces in the hopes of getting parts of it throughsome that the answer here, do you think? it is the only answer b