presidential race. how much will same-sex marriage, private equity, and contraception have to do who is elected in november, or is it all about the economy? i ve got a great panel. the wall street journal s peggy noonan, ross of the new york times , and more. also, moving a capital. to increase your political capital. should russia build a new kremlin 4,000 miles to the east? i ll explain. first, here s my take. there s much speculation these days about the power struggles in china in the wake of the ouster of the powerful party boss. china s political system will surely be tested, but in the short run its leaders may have dodged a bullet. he was a charismatic leader who used pop lichl, money, and power to build a political base. had he not been brought down by a series of mistakes, revelations, and bad luck for him, he might well have altered the nature of the technocratic system that now runs china. in the short run china might well survive its political crisis, but it f
close election. but i think the president s the taliban, al qaeda, and the afghan government with the pretty well-positioned. chairs of the senate and house his saving of the auto industry is a big deal for ohio. intelligence committees, democrat dianne feinstein and sure. there are hundreds of republican mike rogers. thousands of people working plus the anemic recovery and the today in ohio because of the auto industry s recovery election with the national that s why i asked why it s so close. journal s major garrett and janice rivlin. i m candy crowley and this is why why state of the union. that s why i asked it s so close. republican leaders and i think it s close because of the nature of ohio. we are a microcosm of america. former rivals are gathering around mitt romney s candidacy, the country is divided, and the but the coalescing lacks a certain warp and fuzzy feature. electorate in ohio is divided as compared to barack obama i well. it was close the l
should it be an american, as always, or should it be opened up to emerging economies, in asia, africa, south america, nigeria s finance minister says she should be the bank s next leader, and she has some very influential supporters. we will talk to her. also, the new kind of warfare we re seeing pop up more and more. dirty wars. that s what the new york times s jeffrey getleman calls them, and we ll talk to him about it. first, here s my take. as many regular viewers know, i have been following the tense back and forth with iran very closely. i continue to believe it is the single most dangerous crisis that we confront today. everyone seems to believe that whatever the momentary ups and downs, there is unliable to be a deal between iran and the great powers that will avert war and prevent iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. that s not clear. there is a path to a deal. if, as with any successful negotiation, both sides can come away with something. so what would a deal loo
troops without leaving chaos in its wake? next up, debt, shedding real light on our present situation in the united states and europe. we have the author of a phenomenal new book, phillip kogan. i ll explain. first, here s my take. some of you regular viewers will recall that at the start of the first show of this year i predicted hopefully that the u.s. woo economy would recover nicely in 2012. i m returning to that topic with some preliminary good news. if you look around the industrialized world, the u.s. economy is the most promising of the bunch. the american recovery is not as vigorous as one might hope, but it is remarkably broadbased. manufacturing is up, including for the first time in 30 years nontechnology manufacturing. retail sales are up. consumer confidence and spending are growing. consider sales are up. the stock market reflects this. two areas of the economy that continue to lag are jobs and housing. both critical areas. generating economic growth and prof
world? i ll tell you. then the politics of outer space. america won the race to the moon, but that was 40 years ago. the u.s. is essentially sitting on the bench in the current space race. will that hurt it back here on earth? and is america coming apart? that s what the author of a controversial new book says. i ll ask him about it. first, here s my take. something caught my eye the other day. pat robertson, the high priest of the religious right, had some startling things to say about drugs. i really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol, mr. robertson said recently. i have never used manner, and i don t intend to, he said, but it s just one of those things that, well, i think this war on drugs just hasn t succeeded. the reason robertson is for legalizing marijuana is that it has created a prison problem in america that is well beyond what most americans imagine. he is right. here are the numbers. the total number of americans under correctiona