but we'll start with republican senator john mccain. all that and some final thoughts on a "60 minutes" legend. all ahead on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. we welcome to the broadcast this morning senator john mccain. he's just back from libya. we'll get to questions about that and republican politics in a minute. senator, welcome to the broadcast. >> thank you. >> schieffer: the first thing i want to ask you about this morning. at the recent republican debate, the audience booed when a gay soldier asked a question and the candidates on stage said nothing. last night, the president jumped all over that at a gay rights dinner. i know you opposed ending "don't ask, don't tell," but i want to play a bit of what the president said and get your reaction. >> we don't believe in that. we don't believe in standing silent when that happens. we don't believe in them being silent. you want to be commander in chief? you can start by standing up for the men

we welcome to the broadcast this morning senator john mccain. he's just back from libya. we'll get to questions about that and republican politics in a minute. senator, welcome to the broadcast. >> thank you. >> schieffer: the first thing i want to ask you about the this morning. at the recent republican debate, the audience booed when a gay soldier asked a question and the candidates on stage said nothing. last night the president jumped all over that at a gay rights dinner. i know you opposed ending don't ask don't tell but i want to play a bit of what the president said and get your reaction. >> we don't believe in that. we don't believe in standing silent when that happens. we don't believe in them being silent. you want to be commander in chief? you can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the united states, even when it's not political convenient. >> schieffer: what about that senator mccain? does the president have a point? >> i think he has a point but the fact is the overwhelming majority of americans support the men and women who se

the eventual republican nominee, john mccain finished third with 13%. enough with the real news, let's huddle up around the water cooler to watch "the daily show" back last night after a week off. >> so why is it that rick perry, who is basically a 200-pound bag of choice cut great a republican meat dropping like a cow pie? is it his mangled debate performances? possible. questions about his less than pristine record as governor? perhaps. the fact that his family's former hunting facility was known as -- it had been -- it had -- >> i know you refrain from saying that word. the name of the place was called [ bleep ]. >> thank you, black walnut. republicans are brutalizing rick perry because of his faith? yes. no one gets it worse from the republican party than evangelical christians, also known as the base of the republican party. am least some evangelicals are fighting back. >> romney is a good, moral person. he's not a christian. mormonism is not christianity. it's always been considered a cult by the mainstream of christianity. >> i mean, if y'all wan

spoke to john mccain a little while ago. he's got his own reservations. thank you. >>> let's get to the battle for libya. cnn is now obtained some really remarkable video of the fighting in moammar gadhafi's hometown. troops with a transitional government say they're in the final stages of rooting out gadhafi's loyalists. look at this video. >> they going to go right now, man. we will see. >>> really amazing video. let's go to libya now. dan rivers is joining us. he's in misrata. dan, you've shot your own video as well. tell us what's going on because it looks brutal. >> reporter: yeah, we've been here for the last four days, wolf, and it has been brutal. that's the only word to describe it really, they have been trying to clear out the last vestages of the regime, but those gadhafi forces are putting up very stiff resistance and there is no sign at the moment they are managing to get them out of district two. we've seen today, the forces being pushed back by sniper fire, but explosions. not clear if those were coming from the gadhafi side or if it's a fr

we'll hear from senators john mccain, lindsey graham and more. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> >>> gunfire, honking horns, celebrations in cities across libya, marking the death of gadhafi. we're following all the breaking news this hour. the man who ruthlessly ruled the country for 42 years was killed today outside his hometown of sirte. he was 69 years old. president obama said his death marks the end of a long and painful chapter for libya. >> one year ago, the notion of a free libya seemed impossible. but then the libyan people rose up. and demanded their rights. and when gadhafi and his forces started going city to city, town by town to brutalize men, women and children, the world refused to stand idly by. faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the libyan people, the united states and our friends and allies stopped gadhafi's forces in their tracks. there will be difficult days ahead. but the united states, together wi

. >> i don't think romney, with all due respect to john mccain, i don't think romney is john mccain. i think he's a lot better. >> bill: romney will go after obama. >> he's a lot better a candidate. he's a lot smarter. >> bill: you think he's going to get the nomination? >> yeah, i do. if he doesn't, we will know who to blame. i will know how to blame for another four years of barak obama, and it will be the purists. >> bill: all right. bernie goldberg. reality czech on deck. lady gaga singing to bill clinton on his birthday. you may have to hide the children. clint eastwood, apparently president bush the elder was considering him for vice president. we have some tape on that. check is next.'?/?=ñ'?'?pwpwpw >> bill: reality check, wild things going on and we have a way to save you substantial money this evening. stay with us here. check one, herman cain as we said, running wild. here he is on "meet the press." >> lock at this economy. -- look at this economy. david, the engine of economic growth is the business sector. we are growing at an anemic 1, 1 1/2%. if we allow this economy

does john mccain realize he is not running for president anymore? do we really think if mccain was president our troops would be coming home right now? of course they wouldn't. it's shocking. >> where is all this coming from? >> this is the same obstructionism and hatred that we have seen towards this president from day one. time and again, they said to us goal number is to defeat the president. there is an issue here that they are losing some credibility. they are so ungracious in this, there is no reason they couldn't say president bush deserves credit and if you feel like you have to say that and president obama deserves credit, but let's keep the most credit on the troops. they are so ungracious. it will be interesting as we go forward in the presidential election as the republican candidates hopefully get further embedded on their foreign policy ideas. rick perry's communications director saying something ignorant about how he said that president obama's strategy in the mideast has been so incoherent when actually i think it has been coherent a

contenders the further and senator john mccain can't get enough when it comes to the u.s. sending troops abroad to find out which country he wants to invade next. to the police the wreckage. what a contest nobody seems to know. but never ever sprayed defaced by part of the argument that they're being overly dramatic. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. mr. i did sign for tonight's tool time award and tonight it goes to republican presidential candidate and former senator rick santorum theory like the rest of the republican candidates has rushed to criticize president obama's announcement that the united states will be pulling out all troops in iraq at the end of two thousand and eleven but it keeps to me the republican party is having a little trouble here coming up with a coherent response to the president's announcer because they're really just all over the place yesterday rick santorum appea

i think in the last cycle, john mccain came out of here with about $2 million. now, that was based on an estimate. anyway, that 30% is actually a significant number when you think about it, not only because of the dollars involved. but these are highly visible figures. >> right. >> who will get out there and get on the campaign trail. they'll raise money. and because they are hollywood republicans which people sthi an ox si moron, they get more and more attention. >> well, we did this entire segment, we never even mentioned arnold schwarzenegger. ted john son. always good to have you on. ted, thanks very much. >> thanks. >>> will stocks slump back into the red on monday? what can we expect on wall street today? we'll get a market preview next. >>> still to come, the not so full house in vegas tonight is looking like a theme for nevada politics. we have my man john ralston will be here to talk about why the michigan wolverines can't go undefeated anymore but in all seriousness why nevada should be a caucus state or not. first, the trivia question if what year had

listen to senator john mccain. >> we did not have any priority to the issue and, then, it took them up until a month or so ago to decide how many troops they wanted. for every military leader, everyone, recommended around 13,000. >>reporter: he said this could be a victory for iran but white house officials are being firm in their belief iran will be held accountable by the special community if it tries to do anything to take advantage of the situation. >>trace: chaw, ed henry from the white house. and despite the progress the united states has made on the ground in iraq, analysts say it remains a very dangerous place. violence has dropped to recent years but reports point out deadly bombings and shoot insurance -- shootings happen daily. a top military official told a lebanese paper that al qaeda swirl pose a "serious threat" to that country. and jonathan hunt is live in new york city. how serious are the threats from iraq's neighbors? >>jonathan: serious because iraq is in a dangerous neighborhood. to the west, the long border with syria and the president could cause trouble across t

>> sure, john mccain came back from being first to last to first again. >> stephen: absolutely. and the first term of his presidency has been fantastic. (laughter) >> it's been good for me. >> stephen: i'm sure it has. thank you so much rick davis. political strategist rick davis. we'll be right back. thank you very much. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: welcome back everybody. thank you very much. i want to apologize if i seem a little off tonight. it's all because of some controversial statements country ar hank williams, jr., bocephus to his superfans made yesterday on fox and friends. >> you remember the golf game? >> boehner... >> that was one of the biggest political mistakes ever. >> you mean when john boehner played golf with president obama? >> oh, yeah! yeah! and biden and kasich, yeah. uh-huh. that would be like hitler playing golf with netanyahu. (audience reacts) >> stephen: wow. even the fox and friends were taken aback. they're not used to hearing that sort of thing from people who don't work for the network. (laughter) and, folks, that was not the end of it. >>

>> sure, john mccain came back from being first to last to first again. >> stephen: absolutely. and the first term of his presidency has been fantastic. (laughter) >> it's been good for me. >> stephen: i'm sure it has. thank you so much rick davis. political strategist rick davis. we'll be right back. thank you very much. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: welcome back everybody. thank you very much. i want to apologize if i seem a little off tonight. it's all because of some controversial statements country star hank williams, jr., bocephus to his superfans made yesterday on fox and friends. >> you remember the golf game? >> boehner... >> that was one of the biggest political mistakes ever. >> you mean when john boehner played golf with president obama? >> oh, yeah! yeah! and biden and kasich, yeah. uh-huh. that would be like hitler playing golf with netanyahu. (audience reacts) >> stephen: wow. even the fox and friends were taken aback. they're not used to hearing that sort of thing from people who on't work for the network. (laughter) and, folks, that was not the end of it. >>

>> sure, john mccain came back from being first to last to first again. >> stephen: absolutely. and the first term of his presidency has been fantastic. (laughter) >> it's been good for me. >> stephen: i'm sure it has. thank you so much rick davis. political strategist rick davis. we'll be right back. thank you very much. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: welcome back everybody. thank you very much. i want to apologize if i seem a little off tonight. it's all because of some controversial statements country star hank williams, jr., bocephus to his superfans made yesterday on fox and friends. >> you remember the golf game? >> boehner... >> that was one of the biggest political mistakes ever. >> you mean when john boehner played golf with president obama? >> oh, yeah! yeah! and biden and kasich, yeah. uh-huh. that would be like hitler playing golf with netanyahu. (audience reacts) >> stephen: wow. even the fox and friends were taken aback. they're not used to hearing that sort of thing from people who don't work for the network. (laughter) and, folks, that was not the end of it. >

john mccain and rand paul laid out the alternative to obama's jobs plan. they say it will simplify the tax code by eliminating loopholes and reductions and reduce the rate. something the president has seen in line with before. it includes the repeal of president obama's health care bill and the dodds frank reform act. something he will not go along with obviously. it has been 69 days since the u.s. lost the top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? fitch placed morgan stanley gold sax on review for a downgrade. >>> when i talked to herman cain earlier i asked about the plan to get a healthy economy, the 9-9-9 plan and i asked whether he could go the distance in the race. >> i'm for real. people who know me, and this is what people will learn in that book, this is herman cain. they will know i'm in this to win it. i'm not in it to raise my profile or get a tv show. >> all right. here's what two new state polls tell us in florida, crucial state to win for the nomination, herman cain ahead of mirm. in south carolina an early test for conservative c

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the world is a better place with gaddafi gone to request arizona senator john mccain also credited -- with gaddafi gone. >> arizona senator john mccain also credited the administration while saying that it could have done better. for>>> we are following breaking news out of the district tonight. a fire broke out at the d.c. farmers market on fifth street and northeast. it happened about 9:00 p.m. it comes less than a week after immigration and customs enforcement officers made a major parade at that market, leading to nearly a dozen arrests -- made a major raid at that market, leading to nearly a dozen arrests. >>> a st. mary's county man is dead after he was shot by a sheriff's deputy. investigators tell us that the deputies arrived to investigate a reported domestic assault in progress. they say that the suspect resisted arrest. the name of the man has not been released. >>> we are now following a developing story from phoenix. this is the grandmother of a missing5-year-old girl and is asking the media for coverage in the search for her granddaughter. >> i want the media to pick it

all right now, how is obama going to handle himself against john mccain? now we're in the big leagues, and let's see. well, obama presented himself as somebody who is calm and cool, and much later and confident. the other thing was, did he have the confidence that it took to be president. and all those things he demonstrated as much with body language. there again, as he did with words. and at the same time, john mccain on the other hand was demonstrating, because the bad rap on him was he got angry and he was fidgety and he was this and that. well, he proved that. he proved a negative. and in obama's case he proved a positive. but here again very subtly, and had nothing to do because neither one, i'm sure nobody remembers this. i barely remember it myself. neither one would answer any of my questions directly about what to do about the financial crisis. >> host: i kind of remember that. >> guest: i would ask are you in favor of this? each one would answer me different point of view but they never would say. so there was no content difference really betwee

. >> i don't think romney, with all due respect to john mccain, i don't think romney is john mccain. i think he's a lot better. >> bill: romney will go after obama. >> he's a lot better a candidate. he's a lot smarter. >> bill: you think he's going to get the nomination? >> yeah, i do. if he doesn't, we will know who to blame. i will know how to blame for another four years of barak obama, and it will be the purists. >> bill: all right. bernie goldberg. reality czech on deck. lady gaga singing to bill clinton on his birthday. you may have to hide the children. clint eastwood, apparently president bush the elder was considering him for vice president. we have some tape on that. check is next. [ dennis ] allstate wants everyone to be protected on the road. whether you're an allstate customer or not. all you have to do is call. [ female announcer ] call allstate now and you'll get a free lifetime membership in good hands roadside assistance. [ dennis ] shop less. get more. make one call to an allstate agent. lugging around a hot water extraction unit can be a rush! that's why i'm carpet

. >> i don't think romney, with all due respect to john mccain, i don't think romney is john mccain. i think he's a lot better. >> bill: romney will go after obama. >> he's a lot better a candidate. he's a lot smarter. >> bill: you think he's going to get the nomination? >> yeah, i do. if he doesn't, we will know who to blame. i will know how to blame for another four years of barak obama, and it will be the purists. >> bill: all right. bernie goldberg. reality czech on deck. lady gaga singing to bill clinton on his birthday. you may have to hide the children. clint eastwood, apparently president bush the elder was considering him for vice president. we have some tape on that. check is next. about the best approach to food is tkeep it whole for better nutrition. that's what they do with great grains cereal. they steam and bake the actual whole grain while the otr guy's flake is more processed. mmm. great grains. the whole whole grain cereal. >> bill: reality check, wild things going on and we have a way to save you substantial money this evening. stay with us here. check one, herman

. >>> number four, senator's john mccain and rand paul laid out the alternative to the jobs plan. the plan would cinsimplify the code by reducing the overall rate, something the president has sort of seemed in line with before. the plan includes the repeal of the health care rebill and the financial reform act something he will not go along with. >>> and it has been 69 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are doing to get it back? bank of america, morgan stanley and goldman sachs on a review for a downgrade. >>> when i talked to herman cain earlier i asked about his plan to getting back to a healthier economy, the 9-9-9 plan, but also whether or not he could go the distance in this race. take a listen. >> i am for real. people who know me and this is what people will learn in this book, "this is herman cain." they will know that i am in this to win it. i am not in this to try to raise my profile or get a tv show. >> all right. here's what two new state polls tell us. in florida, the crucial state to win gore the nomination, herman cain ahead of mitt romney, 34-28%.

. >>> number four, senator's john mccain and rand paul laid out the alternative to the jobs plan. the plan would simplify the tax code by reducing the overall rate, something the president has sort of seemed in line with before. the plan includes the repeal of the health care rebill and the financial reform act something he will not go along with. >>> and it has been 69 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are doing to get it back? bank of america, morgan stanley and goldman sachs on a review for a downgrade. >>> when i talked to herman cain earlier i asked about his plan to getting back to a healthier economy, the 9-9-9 plan, but also whether or not he could go the distance in this race. take a listen. >> i am for real. people who know me and this is what people will learn in this book, "this is herman cain." they will know that i am in this to win it. i am not in this to try to raise my profile or get a tv show. >> all right. here's what two new state polls tell us. in florida, the crucial state to win gore the nomination, herman cain ahead of mitt romney, 34-28%

john mccain made this mistake about abortion when confronted with. both quayle and mccain and now cain say, it would be up to the individual. i don't approve, but the woman in the family should make their mind up for themselves. >> that's exactly right about the rise of cain, it has a lot to do with romney. he's rising as more and more republicans come to the conclusion that the republican party has found its michael dukakis, a massachusetts governor running on competence not ideology. >> what is all this doing for president obama as they watch this infighting and what frank has been telling us? >> they're campaigning against mitt romney, they already started. david axelrod, the democratic third party groups, they ultimately think that romney is ultimately going to be the nominee. when i talked to president obama earlier this week, he was clearly aware of the 9-9-9 plan, and second of all, he had seen the republicans had been rising and falling and so, they're lying in wait. i think they have gained out a lot of different scenarios if perry is the no

even though people like john mccain criticized him. because, remember that question, michael smerconish said, well, what happens if bin laden's in pakistan, and john mccain said, no, no, we can't tangle with that, and barack obama said, we will bring him to justice, period. and we did that. we brought number two of al qaeda to justice. he has continually made america safer. and the news, just yesterday, with gadhafi. and let's be very clear. bringing gadhafi to justice is an important step to keep our world safer. and i will tell you, chris, and you know why this is important, because we have people that, unfortunately, american service members who were murdered by gadhafi, we have people that, unfortunately, were killed, americans -- there's a young girl who was 21 years old, miss johnson. she's from greensburg, pennsylvania. a semester abroad in scotland. she was on that flight coming home when she came to her death because of gadhafi. finally, he was brought to justice. this guy was a madman. do the republicans give the commander in

the guy who became the mascot for john mccain's presidential campaign is now seeking office himself. yes, officially filing papers to run for united states congress in ohio's ninth congressional district. looking to unseat marcy captor who's held it since 1983. let's look back at some of our fondest memories. >> if you look at spreading the wealth, no one can debate that. that's fact. >> politicians are going to kill our country. >> social security is a joke. social security i've never believed in, don't likeforced o. >> thank you for coming out here. >> i think media should be abolished from reporting. >> would you ever run for office? >> i will consider it in about six years. that's a lot of work. it's a job that's very important. i would take it as serious as it is. >> there you go. joe the plumber running for congress in ohio's ninth district. how about hugo chavez? the venezuelan president appeared on television dancing with a young rapper trying to show he's in touch with kids. it showed he was in good health. kn we know he's been fight cancer. some good move there is. polls sh

john mccain was stuck at 14. mitt romney was at 10. mike huckabee was just about 6 points, and all the focus was on the tightening, the move upward by fred thompson and rudy giuliani it dropped a little bit and people seemed to be consolidating into a thompson-giuliani race and as we know that's not how it turned out in 2008. >> the polls are taken, and maybe you can explain this, but they are national polls and it seems the person who gets the nomination wins in iowa, wins in new hampshire and on to nevada so even if you are winning the polls nationally, if they love you in california and love you in the state of washington, big deal. it's how they like you in the other states and those are the polls, if i was running, i would be more interested in. >> you are absolutely right. first of all, remember, when we poll in primaries, it's hard to figure out exactly who is going to vote. so a nation-wide poll is more like just sort of a testing of general sentiment, not of what actually might happen in those early primaries. you are right, w

what would actually happen if president obama won the election by 50% of the vote and john mccain won by 46,000 -- 46% of the vote. what if the ones that voted for john mccain did the same thing they're doing in libya to rebel against the government? would president obama and the united states military have to shut these riots down? gadhafi called them terrorists. these uprisings, they would not just overthrow the government but what would happen if this happened in the united states? people have been killed for protests. >> guest: thankfully we are living in the united states and we have a constitution. we have democracy. we have separation of powers. we have a peaceful transformation of government. we are not living in a place like libya. we have the freedom to demonstrate freely. we are blessed that we are living in the greatest country in the world. >> host: what are the black banners? >> guest: the black banners. i wanted to name the book the black banners because it shows what we know about al qaeda or how little we know about al qaeda. the black banners is from the prophet of i

arizona senator john mccain took a swipe at the president saying his inaction to support anti-iranian government demonstrators years ago may have allowed for this plot to unfold. >> early in 2009, the early stages of the obama presidency, there was a flawed and corrupt election. people of iran rose up and they were saying in the streets, obama, obama, are you with us or are you with them? and president obama's answer was, i don't want to jeopardize my chances to negotiate with the iranian islamic republic. that was a moment. >> as the case unfolds, some of the strongest evidence tiesing iran to the assassination plot is coming from two wire trans r transfers routing the down payment on the proposed killing to a u.s. bank account secretly managed by the fbi. officials say the money transfer is offering investigators important insight into operations within the iranian government. nbc's michael issycough is reporting that the suspect in the case is claiming his iranian handlers were actively involved in the drug trade and could arrange for large shipments of opium to be delivered to a m

joining me is john mccain. senator, welcome back? >> thank you, sean. >> what happened to the president's job bill, what happened and he is lashing out to eric cantor. what happened to the senate? >> in the senate, mitch mcconnell asked for a vote on the president's jobs bill, something that you might recall has been arguing and shouting for all over the country. harry reid that we would not have a up or down vote on the president's jobs bill. only bill that harry reid may have in the future. so the next time you hear the president say pass it now, well, maybe we ought to ask harry reid. >> sean: it seems the democrats wanted to put together some face saving measure for the president. so it's still going to be a variation of raising taxes and talking about a surtax on the rel think in the country. on top of it the president city wants to spend money. what happened to nearly i trillion dollars we gave the president? >> as you know when i read the liberals it wasn't big enough. i thought that is what you and i believed. the fact it's m

and john mccain was earlier and he and ted kennedy worked closely on it. that changed. it started changing in the 2008 campaign and it accelerated to the point where mike huckabee told me in an interview that one of the reasons he did not run this time was because the atmosphere was so toxic. he pointed out that tom tancredo, the former republican congressman of colorado, has defined the republican debate -- >> he attacked representative. this week as harshly as anybody because of immigration. >> will we have another government shut down? we narrowly avoided one. >> just tell the congress to rule that if they close down the government, they will also close down the paymaster on capitol hill and they don't get a dime. that will take care of the problem. >> who is going to vote for that? >> part of the problem is a -- democrats feel they have been rolled. now they are trying to earn their manhood by standing up. and understandably so. they are doing it on the right issue behalf -- the right issue, axle of the funds for disaster relief, whether it is fires and texas where

and john mccain was earlier and he and ted kennedy worked closely on it. that changed. it started changing in the 2008 campaign and it accelerated to the point where mike huckabee told me in an interview that one of the reasons he did not run this time was because the atmosphere was so toxic. he pointed out that tom tancredo, the former republican congressman of colorado, has defined the republican debate -- >> he attacked representative. this week as harshly as anybody because of immigration. >> will we have another government shut down? we narrowly avoided one. >> just tell the congss to rule that if they close down the government, they will also close down the paymaster on capitol hill and they don't get a dime. that will take care of the problem. >> who is going to vote for that? >> part of the problem is a -- democrats feel they have been rolled. now they are trying to earn their manhood by standing up. and understandably so. they are doing it on the right issue behalf -- the right issue, axle of the funds for disaster relief, whether it is fires and texas where th

take a listen to senator john mccain. >> a year or so ago we could have negotiated an agreement. we didn't. we had an arch there prior to this one that had in experience in any part of the world. he served as our negotiator in korea and we know how well that turned out. and we did not have any priority to the issue and, then, it took them up until a month or so ago to decide how many troops they really wanted. >>reporter: now john mccain says even if the training mission of 3,000 troops stayed behind it would be meaningless and iran is waiting in the wings to fill the vacuum. >>shepard: thank you. we have new fundraising totals from the presidential candidates this afternoon. the numbers and the check writers. [ female announcer ] once you taste new fiber one 80 calories... ...with its sweet honey taste, 40% daily value of fiber... ...and 80 calories per serving... ...you may want to tell a few friends. ♪ or all of them. ♪ i'll go get my bowl. [ female announcer ] new fiber one 80 calories. yes, you can actually love breakfast. ♪ [ cellphone rings ] cut! [ monica ] i have a

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john mccain. his so-called straight talk express in 2008 was built by the exact same canadian company that built the president's bus. too bad mr. mccain didn't bring some straight talk to this issue. of course, this whole thing is bogus because the secret service did order the president's bus from canada. but it was outfitted by a company in tennessee. and they ordered two. so the eventual republican presidential nominee will also use this bus. senator mccain, the wheels are coming off. nice try, but we got you. it's your fault. naturally blame the mucus. try advil congestion relief. it treats the real problem, reducing swelling due to nasal inflammation. [ male announcer ] advil congestion relief. her morning begins with arthritis pain. that's a coffee and two pills. the afternoon tour begins with more pain and more pills. the evening guests arrive. back to sore knees. back to more pills. the day is done but hang on... her doctor recommended aleve. just 2 pills can keep arthritis pain away all da

about an hour ago, senator john mccain and rand paul did just that. it's a plan that we saw in the house. first and foremost, it's to repeal by the president's health care and the repeal of the bill. on top of that, you would also have a deregulation specifically looking at what the epa does. the national relations board. there is news on this end. >> hit us with the news. >> the corporate tax goes down to 25% and personal income tax goes down to 25%. >> tax cuts. the specific numbers, there would be a moratorium on the new regulation and torque reform. that's one we heard for a while. >> the balanced budget amendment. a combination of ideas on capitol hill. >> if 2/3 of the country believes the jobs plan is the right way to go, one independent said it would raise growth by 1.3%, creating 1.3 million new jobs and another team estimates by 2%, recreation of almost two million jobs, how is it possible the republicans won't support that? >> they would tell you that elections have consequences and they have a different fundamental belief on how the countr

and john mccain was earlier and he and ted kennedy worked closely on it. that changed. it started changing in the 2008 campaign and accelerated to the point where mike huckabee told me in an interview one of the reasons he did not run this time was because the atmosphere was so toxic. he pointed out that tom kent -- tom tancredo, a former republican congressman from colorado, has really defined in the republican debate and position -- >> he attacked rick perry this week as harshly as he attacked anybody because of his stance. >> speaking of a toxic debate, will we have another government shut down? we narrowly averted when. >> i know a way to avoid it. have the congress to agree that if they close down the government they will also close down the paymaster on capitol hill and they don't get a dime. that will take care of the problem. >> yes, but who is going to vote for that? [laughter] >> part of the problem is -- and you can see it -- democrats feel they have been rolled. that they collapsed. now they are trying to earn their manhood by standing up. and understandably