Episode in libya that left four people, including the American Ambassador dead. This president , this administration has either been guilty of colossal incompetence or engaged in a coverup, neither of which are acceptable to the American People. Schieffer mccain will be with us this morning, and well also get the take of the senates number two democrat, dick durbin. For analysis well bring in the washington posts david ignatius. Tom ricks, august of can the gen. And our own bob orr and margaret brennan. And well have a farewell interview with maines republican senator Olympia Snowe, whos leaving the senate because she no longer felt it was a place she could get anything done. Its been a wild week, but well try to put it in perspective on face the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, face the nation with bob schieffer. Schieffer and good morning again. We want to get right to the story in the middle east. , israel continuing to amass troops on the period with
Israels right to defend itself from missiles landing on peoples homes. And workplaces and potentially killing civilians. And we will continue to support israels right to defend itself. Schieffer back home, the controversy continues over the administration handling of the episode in libya that left four people, including the American Ambassador dead. This president , this administration has either been guilty of colossal incompetence or engaged in a coverup, neither of which are acceptable to the American People. Schieffer mccain will be with us this morning, and well also get the take of the senates number two democrat, dick durbin. For analysis well bring in the Washington Posts david ignatius. Tom ricks, august of can the gen. And our own bob orr and margaret brennan. And well have a farewell interview with maines republican senator Olympia Snowe, whos leaving the senate because she no longer felt it was a place she could get anything done. Its been a wild week, but well try to put i
Gestures, her calculated response. Second chances, after the iowa debacle, campaigning in New Hampshire for the new frontrunner. Our vision has been validated. We need to focus on beating donald trump. At this rate, New Hampshire might get the first vote after all. And spoiler alert, in just a few hours, the senate will vote to clear President Trump in his impeachment trial. Its been very difficult for me, it really has. I know my state and people well. I know this country well and i feel very strong about the decision ill make, its going to be very, very personal decision. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. President trump set the stage for his anticipated acquittal today with a deeply partisan state of the union speech that never mentioned impeachment itself but seemed design to troll nancy pelosi and rally his base. With a series of hearttugging cameos topped by a medal of freedom to Rush Limbaugh. It was presented mid speech by the first lady. There were othe
The people who elected us, all of us, the people that elected us, we have to take care of them. So lets start there. Cnn politics reporter and editor at large chris sew lou sa is here, as is our cnn correspondent abby philips. Chris, to you, i dont know if you saw the pop up meeting that was yesterday. Yes. But you take the free wheeling jovial sit down that he had with democrats and republicans and you juxtaposes it with the today trump arms crossed we are going after libel laws. How do you square the two . Well, there is no way to square them if you were trying to build sort of an ark of a presidency, brooke. I think any time you think that donald trump is making, oh, this is a pivot or change, trump 3. 0, thats not a thing. This is a daytoday president and presidency. I think yesterday he felt like sort of being bipartisan and proving to people watching that yes he knows what hes talking about, broadly speaking. Today you mentioned some of the things hes done. Also called the u. S.
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