parties that the united states has. the pentagon says the crisis is affecting long-term planning. base operations continue unhindered. the u.s. has a substantial military or intelligence sharing relationship with the nations opposing qatar qatar. it weakens the coalition and leaves iran to believe they can continue to press and push because the enemy is not unified and they ve got a more open path to pursue their expansionist ambitions buried this week, the u.s. signed a memo with qatar expanding their relationship in confronting terrorist financing. saudi arabia and its allies dismissed it. they refused to trust qatari promises. after a day of meetings today, secretary tillerson returns tomorrow to qatar where the state department says he wrote the latest saudi point of view. trying to end a crisis the secretary says could take months
trail that was governor mitt romney in the buckeye state where he is expected to be spending a quite a bit of time over next couple of weeks. his campaign insists they re confident about victory in ohio, which of course is probably the most important swing state, despite recent polls show president obama is in the lead there and this is a quote from the romney campaign. there is just a nice, wide, open path. so i m not, we re not in a situation where we re forced into this boxed canyon to say, we have to win this string of states. but at the end of the day ohio of course will come down to the wire they say. so, let s take a look at average polls, recent polls that come out of ohio where president obama actually leads governor romney by 5%. there are numbers that are much wider margin than that, and there are numbers smaller margin than that. that is the real clear politics average right now, a 5% gap for mitt romney in ohio. joined by ed rollins former