the chairman of your question committee says the judiciary committee is already engaged in an impeachment inquiry. this part of that? i think it absolutely is. one of the core functions of the judiciary committee is to determine whether or not they re impeachable offenses. the mueller report was part of that, but there is certainly a number of other allegations concerning this administration that could amount to high crimes and misdemeanors. so i guess that s an interesting question then. do you believe the question you re posing here is whether the president was involved in or whether or not he was the principle figure in setting up this scheme to go around campaign finance laws to keep the politically embarrassing affair a secret during the campaign. you believe if established that would be impeachable? that would be a high crime? absolutely. in fact, the framers of the constitution, when they debated those terms, whether or not
sometimes the majority gets the heads up if you re chairing the committee before the minority does. why should we have confidence in what they re doing if that s the kind of politics that s being played within the committee? i don t think that s necessarily true. the white house or any would contact the majority staff and let them know that and it would be up to the majority staff to be able to communicate that. they didn t. i don t think that s a white house problem. no, no. i m not suggesting it is. i m saying it s within the question committee but it winds up being partisan just the same. this committee has not necessarily been a showcase for bipartisanship. i mean the senate committee has done a really good job of keeping it, now, above board and keeping the partisanship level down. but, look, adam schiff is on television every single day on this investigation. so this goes both ways. i mean if you re going to go out there and publicize everything that goes on within th
he is going to stop regulations that are bashing businesses, he is going to bring investment to the u.s. you can t imagine how many foreign investors won t put their money in the u.s. because they don t understand what s going on. they don t trust the environment. that is the first time i have heard that in my life that will change under mitt romney. this question committee will grow. i agree with no foreign investments. he made a crack about mitt romney knowing about foreign investments. oh, come on. secretary gut you re rerkz you have been a good sport being on with us tonight. i appreciate it. thank you thanks for having me. thank you very much. it is remarkable to hear republican surrogate try to talk about the immigration as being positive for the republicans and medicare being a positive for the republicans right now when the when the party has moved so far to the right, even in just the last four years on both of those issues. plenty of time to talk about that an
cnn, we have seen more of the moon than the deep sea. the lead researcher in australia says the camera will be sent to the gulf of mexico to monitor the effects of oil on marine life. thanks for watching state of the union. i m candy crowley in washington. for our international viewers, world report is next. for everyone else, fareed zakaria gps starts right now. this is gps the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. this week, the big news is that the doom and gloom continues. some of it makes sense, the question committee of the western world remain fragile and the poll ratings of incumbents are also in bad shape most places, including here in america and including those of president obama. some experts now believe that if the november midterm elections were held today, the democratic