Senator jeff flake see if hes any closer to supporting the republican President Shall nominee. Is Hillary Clinton closes books on a big month of august fundraising well talk about the fall out for new revelation that of her fbi interviews of the private email server while secretary of state. Plus former attorney general Alberto Gonzales talks about his new book on the george w. Bush years and weighs in on campaign 2016. All ahead on this Labor Day Weekend for face the nation. Good morning welcome to face the make im john dickerson. Weve got a lot to get to today but we begin with hermine the storm thats caused heavy rain, high winds, power outages, dangerous surf and two fatalities as it moved across florida now up the eastern seaboard. Eric fisher is chief meteorologist at our cbs affiliate wbz in boston. Good morning, john. Tricky storm weve been tracking the last several days and latest overnight tonight, many along the coastline will see conditions over time as we head overnight. T
Airplane flying around, i remember thinking, watching president bush give the address that evening. I would advise him through two cars, ive experienced pretty big moments with him before. But sitting on that airplane suddenly hit me, my gosh, something happened in washington, would i and people on that airplane be able to govern a wounded nation. President finishes his speech, base and we land. I had an appreciation of the tremendous pressure and power the opportunity to be president of the United States was really special. Dickerson were in the middle of campaign where people are imagining the candidates stepping into that role that you stepped in to for 45 minutes or however long the speech was. Saw said it takes a special kind of perp to be president , what do you mean by that . Looking at the president make the supreme skort or decision to send mend and women into battle it takes someone are you few where Integrity Matters most. People want to know the person, most powerful person
Boca raton, florida, newlyelected governors discussed their campaigns and their political agendas. The panel is made up of governorselect from arizona, massachusetts, maryland, texas and arkansas. Theyre joined by new jersey governor and rga chair Chris Christie and former mississippi Governor Haley barbour. This is an hour. Ms. We started this year, we had a daunting task ahead of us. We had a pretty difficult map. We were defending 32 of the 36 22 of the 36 races including 19 incumbents in nine states that president obama had won twice. We were able to successfully defend 17 of our 19 incumbents, we won the biggest states in illinois, michigan, wisconsin and florida. And we picked up four states that were previously held by democrats. You see a number of those all of them a number of them represented here today; illinois, maryland, massachusetts and arkansas. Arkansas. I was thinking about states that obama had won twice. And today despite 300 million spent by Public Sector unions, t
Republicans push to get even more conservative bills through and the rsc would be where a lot of those folks are. But all along we heard the senate has been the bottleneck in all of this. So whats the excuse going to be if legislation doesnt pass . I think you heard people say this is harry reids fault and i think youre going to hear that even more. Nothings changed. You still by and large need 60 votes and harry reid still is very good at blocking legislation. And also you have the fact that the house is going to send over conservative pieces of legislation and the new Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is going to have to protect members on votes much like harry reid. You have 24 republicans in the senate up in 2016 and only ten for democrats. As good of a map as it was for republicans this year its a really bad one for republicans in 2016. Well thanks to both of you for your questions this week. Thanks for being on newsmakers. Thank you. Mr. President , the honeymoon is over. Co
Been more or less stable, at least lets call it for the last few days. As for europe, going over there for the continent, across the atlantic . Its positive. Thank you, simon. Except for wheres that red there . I dont know even know where that is. Germany. It much smaller than you might this. We have a new Coalition Government in germany. They may be about to expel silvio berlusconi. We have a live and exclusive interview with Hewlett Packard Ceo Meg Whitman is coming up. The nasdaq coming off its first close above 4,000 in more than 14 years. Triple a is projecting more than 43 million americans will journey 50 miles or more away from home between now and sunday but Stormy Weather on the east coast is wreaking havoc on Holiday Travel plans for millions of them. Lets check in with kayla tausche. She is at Newark Liberty airport and will give us an update. Its not looking good, though. I dont know how many flights have been cancelled. I assume youll tell us. Its so far so good for trave