This is piers morgan tonight. Good evening, the reelection celebrations seem a long time ago for book, one week after defeat egg governor romney, staring down reporters white house fielding questions on the petraeus scandal, benghazi, the fiscal cliff and a long couple weeks with many waiting for answers. Jay tapper is an abc correspondent. Jay, welcome. Thank you, great to be here. Almost perfect timing, this book. Discussing before we went on the air that its it concern he is two great generals. Mcchrystal and petraeus and they are both gone before the book has hit the streets come you have ever imagined when you were thought embedded with these troops that would happen . No the book mainly about the grunts on the ground but does look a lot at how people like president bush, president obama, secretaries of defense and how these celebrity jones, how their decisions end up affecting these guys at this very vulnerable outpost at the bottom of three steep mountains just 14 miles from the
Important that is for a young person to not only have dreams and believe those dreams are possible. If i worry about anything, i spoke about this last night, Young Americans arent dreaming or arent believing the dreams are accessible to them. You mentioned mitt romney who until three weeks ago was the leader of the party. Mitt romney going to disappear or does he have a continuing role . I hope he doesnt disappear and hope he has a continuing role. First of all, very few people have done what he has done, run for president and be the nominee of the party. And get crushed. Thats not accurate. He got 47 . He won a lot of states. He didnt lose 491. He won places and has a lot of supporters. But he has been successful at life. And i told him this, too. Mitt romney is a role model as a person, a father, husband, community leader. He has a lot to offer the Republican Party and our country and i dont know what that role is going to be but im excited because he has a lot to continue to contrib
Secretary of defense leon panetta visits the Walter Reed Medical Center followed by david coombs, Bradley Mannings of turning. The hearing on the republic of mali. The Supreme Court will look at what was passed in 2008 by a majority of 63. Theyre going to say that this president. They decided it was constitutional for them to establish i. D. S they did not say all of those states. Correct. Let me finish. You are misrepresenting what i am saying. When i hear these accusations that black people, voter i. D. Laws a disproportionately affect us. If white people can go through all the laws, what are you telling back people . They are less than . That is what bothers me about rhetoric. We always have to make special there has to be a specialist when we deal with minorities. It there too feeble mind it appeared we need to make concessions. They cannot follow the rules. We treat people like victims, i do not think they want to aspire. Defense secretary leon panetta visited the Walter Reed Medi
The presiding officer the senator from ohio. Mr. Brown thank you, mr. President. I ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown and ask for unanimous consent also to speak for up to ten minutes as if in in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown thank you. Earlier this afternoon, mr. President , i appeared with senator blunt, my republican friend from missouri, in front of senator rockefellers Commerce Committee to talk about our Bipartisan Legislation with manufacturing hubs that would promote new technologies to make our country a leader. Let me illustrate by this, mr. President. Along the ohio turnpike from toledo to lorain to cleveland to sort of akron to youngstown, much of the Auto Industry grew up along that turnpike from glass that would go for wields in windshields in toledo, steel in lorain and cleveland for the fenders and thehoods in much of the car to rubber in akron for tires, the w
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