current president barack obama. who is the authority on this bill. and can speak to all the lies. it s ted cruz who has manufactured negativity, ted cruz who has scared a lot of americans and created some confusion. they want us to be confused. they think we re stupid, martin. they think that we can t go to a website and read options available to uninsured americans. this is outrageous, and this is a very unique opportunity for the president. and bill clinton, to bring the best out of barack obama in a long sit-down conversation that i think is only going to be productive for every consumer. ed, for many years, you ve been arguing there audit ought to have been a public option as part of this, but is proving look at the opposition we already have to this, which does not contain a public option. and yet republicans like ted cruz stand up and say they ll defund the government sorry, they ll defund the affordable care act in order to continue resolution and pay for the
correspondent for politico. he s busy! mike allen with a look at the playbook. good morning. that strut is on youtube, so check it out. oh, wow. we ll have to look that up. all right, mike. you ve been speaking a lot lately to senator marco rubio, had a sit-down conversation with him. i guess when you talked to him, you took another crack at that science question. clarify an answer he gave to gq when he was asked about the age of the earth. remember, senator rubio took a little grief, saying that he was not qualified to answer the question, calling it, quote, one of life s great mysteries. remember, i m not a scientist, man, the whole thing. yesterday, mike, i guess you spoke to him as part of the playbook breakfast and you gave him a chance to explain that answer. let s listen. how old do you think the earth is? first of all, the answer i gave was trying to make the same point the president made a few years ago, and that is there is no scientific debate on the age
that the united states and israel are bound and in our commitments to one another. nbc s peter alexander s traveling with the candidate and joins us live on the phone from jerusalem. what s on the agenda today? reporter: what s impressive is mitt romney on the ground for 36 hours and a full plate on tap for him already this morning. speaking to you, standing outside the private residence of israeli prime minister perez. mitt romney left here a matter of moments ago finishing a sit-down conversation with him. earlier today, romney met with a man he refers to as an old friend, prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu. they have a relationship to the mid- 70s working in boston together as corporate advisers. they were business colleagues and really the intention for romney on the trip to demonstrate through the relationship we had with the individuals here and with his words that he would effectively be a better friend to israel than the current administration. earlier today, maki
it comes of course with all this increasing tensions in the region and worries about the possibility of war. jim walsh is an international security expert with mit security program. jim, we have to be careful with a report like this and consider the source and the motivation this iranian law make per you lawmaker. but you talk with a lot of folks in d.c.. do you think an attempt for a sit-down conversation is on the table? i wouldn t be surprised if this letter was sent. jenna, you re right to be cautious about the sourcing but it makes sense to me. if it is true it is not the first time this administration, president obama, sent a letter, a message to the supreme leader, iran s head of state. it makes sense for two reasons. you had the new threat from iran they would close the strait of hormuz under certain circumstances. i m sure the u.s. wanted to put down a marker no way, this is red line and if you cross it that will be a problem. this is it one of the big motivations for comm
later they were able to get key information. jenna: they would sit down with what? reporter: mcdonald s, subway sandwiches, things of that nature, they got to bond. jenna: do you think that actually a sit down conversation like that might have been the type of conversation that led to this information being leaked? reporter: well, over time the detainees got to bond with their interrogators in many cases. in khalid sheikh mohammad case he was water bordered in 2003. waterboarding wasn t about trying to get the information from him at that time. it was trying to break his resistance. that s what a lot of people miss in the whole water deboarding debate is it was trying to make a detainee think that he should cooperate rather than continue with this thraoeplt. even though waterboarding didn t directly result in the information from ksm it did help to break his spirit in 2003, that with us a critical piece to this. jenna: that s where some of the debate emerges. some say listen you