pass, texas and mexico is open following a bomb thrempt it was closed down for six hours after finding a suspicious local reports said it was a grenade but that was not confirmed. and evange list rick warren is in the hospital after experiencing numb and pain. further testing is being done to find out if it is a virus. another look at who is talking. bob woodward is talking author of the price of politics . woodward said the associate editor of the post and sat down with hannity to discuss the economy. it is beyond unsustainable . poem are talking about about the fiscal cliff coming and new tax increases and spending cut us.
the house passed a bill to raise the debt limit with bipartisan support. and this week, while the senate is struggling to pass a bill filled with phony accounting and washington gimmicks, we re going to pass another bill, one that was developed with the support of the bipartisan leadership of the u.s. senate. that was president obama and house speaker john boehner at the height of the debt-limit crisis last summer. and bob woodward has more behind-the-scenes details on that political chess match in his latest book, the price of politics. and in it he writes, in part, the debt limit crisis was a time of peril for the united states, its economy and its place in the global financial order. when you examine the record in depth, you cannot help but conclude that neither president obama nor speaker boehner handled it particularly well. despite their evolving relationship, neither was able to transcend their fixed partisan convictions and dogmas, rather than fixing the problem, they postp
includes one word that the speech that romney eventually gave did not, and that is afghanistan. he included talk about hotspots in the world that mitt romney later paid such a price for the colossal oversight in his convention speech, not having a salute to the troops, not talking about policy in afghanistan. so as mark halperin mentioned, today they say that they re going to come out with a different approach. the economy, economy, economy idea which, as you guys know, was the fundamental idea of this campaign. back when mitt romney was thinking about whether to run, he knew it was going to have to be about economy, economy, economy. well, now they say they re going to go broader, and now it s going to be status quo versus change. that s going to take in foreign policy. it s going to take in the tone in washington. it s going to take in the deficit. it s going to take in the economy. hey, mike, this piece
republican congressman, peter king. author of the new book, the price of politics, the washington post s bob woodward. the atlantic s jeffrey goldberg. and nbc s chief foreign affairs goldberg. and nbc s chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. relative calm this morning in the middle east after several days of intense anti-american protests raged across many parts of the islamic world. and word this morning that the president obama has ordered evacuation of tunisia and sudan and the pentagon has deployed forces in several areas to in an increased effort to protect u.s. person nell and property from the potential of violent protests, the latest consequences of this troubling unrest. joining me now for the very latest, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, susan rice.
republican congressman, peter king. author of the new book, the price of politics, the washington post s bob woodward. the atlantic s jeffrey goldberg. and nbc s chief foreign affairs goldberg. and nbc s chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. relative calm this morning in the middle east after several days of intense anti-american protests raged across many parts of the islamic world. and word this morning that the president obama has ordered evacuation of tunisia and sudan and the pentagon has deployed forces in several areas to in an increased effort to protect u.s. person nell and property from the potential of violent protests, the latest consequences of this troubling unrest. joining me now for the very latest, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, susan rice.