maybe he doesn't want to be like john mccain was last time around when the issue of ethnicity came up and playing the reverend wright number. maybe he want to be a seen as a guy who does go down with the right as far as he can go. maybe he want us to be doing what we are doing, saying he is so far right he is hanging out with birthers. maybe that's makes him beloved by the birthers. >> he knows that name of the game for the next five months is convincing the independentes wh he ailated by making love to conservatives o or trying to during primary answers bring him

. >> maybe president obama needs a little more john mccain in him. wisconsin -- if scott walker survives this, that could become a serious swing state again and one that obama could lose. i don't think they looked at the longer picture. maybe these guys don't stand up and take the high risk worth the reward in this case. >> i totally agree. can we vote on a guy who is clearly being funded. they are obviously pouring in here to destroy the unions and are you going to let them buy the election, and if you don't fight back on this, i don't know what you fight back on. another great point by guys. thank you for joining us. when we come back we're going to switch gears. the cia apparently using sesame street songs to torture detainees. ♪ everybody's a-okay ♪ >> in 2003 american soldiers tortured detainees with sesame street music for days. ♪ >> all right. we knew the cia was using heinous forms of tierture in guantanamo and other places but we didn't know it was this bad. apparently they are using sesame street. how dare they. >> oftentimes we talk

close race against mccain in 2008. close race there. the commission we think will help us know sew it up in the end in north carolina. >> the president's convention may be saddled with contrasting images. for example, his nomination speech will be at a stadium bearing the name of a bank he bailed out. >> he can't keep demagoguing the banks because in north carolina, you cannot compare wall street against main street because the banks in charlotte are main stream. >> convention is held to right to work state and withholding critical funding for the event. the dnc is hoping to get everyone on the same page in september, operating on the principle if romney can't win north carolina, there is no way he can win the white house. >> bret? >> john roberts live at charlotte tonight. john, thank you. still ahead, romney on his mormon faith. first, leaving behind no child left behind. all multivitamins give me the basics. they claim to be complete. only centrum goes beyond. providing more than just the essential nutrients, so i'm at my best. centr

back to 2008, it was absolutely evident that he was going to be the much better president compared to mccain. to knit together the new allianc alliances, with indonesia, with turkey, brazil, india, china, et cetera. and that's just proven harder than we all thought it was going to be. these are independent powers, they have their own interests, they are not going to simply follow american dictate. there are places where their interests align with ours, and it's just proven harder, i think, than the obama administration anticipated to knit together those alliances. and you've seen, i think, a shift back towards europe, a shift back towards the g-8, a shift back towards hard power in the obama foreign policy of late. but that challenge will be there. and i think it is a real question to ask. which administration is likely to have the better team, the better tools, the better orientation to continue that work of knitting together those new alliances, in both economic and security rules, because that is the defining challenge for american foreign policy in the coming period. >> i think you bring

that maybe have spent time they were immediately into the military they're considered war heroes john mccain for example so this is probably something i mean mitt romney is trying to keep the focus of the election on the economy and he wants to trump his business charge in part to trump business experience as very valuable and integrity to his candidacy so he's just trying to i don't know get the message to continue to stay on the business side of things and he probably said it you know like you said he was relaying the idea of a labor jobs and he was yeah really really you see us smirk after he says it like it or he knows that that's not something syria is definitely wanted this to get out there as a way to say like business people can run the nation and the reality is when you put in there the fact that what country they were born and i'm sorry maybe even standing next to trump a little too long that's just my thought. this is something that obama said yesterday he was presenting a presidential medal of freedom. wrong was written in the prompter he read it and caused quite. the out uproar

john mccain you know is really out there. mitt romney blaming the president for weakness saying he's not showing leadership saying we have to pour resources into the opposition, not specifically arms but he doesn't say exactly what we should do. why are you so strongly against arming the rebels? >> i could see all of the intelligence every day. that's what i do as chairman of the intelligence committee. i'll tell threw is no syrian resistance in total. there are pockets of resistance, there are some emerging groups. we just don't have a good handle on who they are. we know that al qaeda in iraq is operating there and has a sizable presence there. and have been successful in some of their efforts to destabilize the regime there. so we just don't know. we're not sure. so, i think that that ought to be very, very carefully considered. but not till later. we have a lot more information to learn about who these folks are and there's a whole bunch of things that we can do before that that can help destabilize that regime and bring

remember back in 2008 barack obama only beat john mccain by 14,000 vote. any way you cut it, jon, this will be a very close one in november. jon: the last convention was held -- democratic convention held in denver, colorado and colorado is kind of on the bulb for the president right now as well. >> reporter: another right to work state, yeah. jon: thank you. jenna: new details today in the so-called spray tan murder case. this man is accused of killing his wife, and his lawyers once blamed her death on a spray tan. but now everything has changed. there is new testimony that may be a huge blow to the prosecution. we'll talk to our legal panel on that just ahead. what a close call, you just want to have a beer, right? a truck crashes into a bar. we will tell you how this happened and how everyone survived. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. the calcium they take because they don't

. >> quickly in 2008 in the three debates between mccain and obama the word poor or poverty didn't come up one time. it didn't get debated four years ago. fast forward four years, one out two of americans is in or near poverty. 150 million of us are struggling with poverty in this country. that's what happens when you ignore issues that ought to be higher up on the american conversation. >> tavis, cornell, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you, carol, for having us. >>> a so-called war on women over? at least in voters' minds. a new poll kind of makes you think so. but a new ad attacking mitt romney makes you wonder. our political buzz panel weighs in next. [ male announcer ] fighting pepperoni heartburn and pepperoni breath? fight both fast with new tums freshers! concentrated relief that goes to work in seconds and freshens breath. new tums freshers. ♪ tum...tum...tum...tum... tums! ♪ [ male announcer ] fast relief, fresh breath, all in a pocket sized pack. >>> 31 minutes past the hour. checking our top stories now, the city of seattle still searching for answers after a

john mccain i knew because we had served in the senate together. >> okay. >> mr. romney was governor and so i didn't have occasion to get to know him very well. >> they've had a few very casual meetings. on labor day, 2007, they had a chance meeting at a parade in new hampshire where they were both working the crowds. in january, 2008, they shook hands between back-to-back republican and democratic debates at wmur in new hampshire. and the president's last meaningful call to romney may have been when ann romney was diagnosed with cancer, romney said in early january of 2009, quote, he was kind enough to call our home when my wife was ill and he said that he and michelle had my wife in their prayers and i said, mr. president-elect, ann and i have you in our prayers. and we do. finally, last night romney held a high dollar fundraiser at a 95-room estate in hillsboro, california, cochaired by hewlett-packard's meg whitman former bain employee who just days ago announced plans to layoff 27,000 workers. not exactly the picture the romney campaign wanted but romney laid

john mccain had $370 million. that was all his entire campaign raised. barack obama the most prolific fund raiser in history, $750 million last cycle. unbelievable. thank you, citizens united. i would watch that clip forever of lito going no you are gong. >> no. [ laughter ] >> bobble head. nicole in arizona you are on the "stephanie miller show." hey, nicole. >> good morning, "stephanie miller show." i happen to live in arizona a state in which i could be fired if i'm on birth control. >> oh. >> here is the challenge we're facing, gang. those of us with reasoning capablesty can understand the difference between barack obama and mitt romney. i had lunch with a friend last week, who lives in mesa arizona, which outside of utah is mormon capitol of the world. >> yeah. >> she hates mormons. and i said to her, so are you going to stay home on election day. and she said no, she is going to vote for mitt romney. i said are you kidding me? this drives me crazy, a she said my biggest concern is protection of the country and i said the fact that we have ten times

their direction among older whites, especially white seniors. 58% of whites 65 and older voted for mccain in '08, 63% of white seniors voted republican in the 2010 house elections. on the other hand, we are seeing consistent resistance in polls to the idea of converting medicare into a premium support or a voucher system which governor romney has embraced, even when the option of allowing people to stay in conventional medicare is described. so let me ask you this, how big a threat to the republican gains among white seniors do you think, if at all, governor romney's embrace of the ryan-esque medicare proposal will be? >> well, on the assumption that the court does something to stop implementation, then both candidates will have to say what they're for. now, i assume that the governor will be for allowing or making sure that people with pre-existing conditions can get health care. you can be pretty sure the governor will be for not having lifetime caps, and if they are, they're going to be astronomical, so that if court throws out part or all of the law, the two candidates are going to ha

senator john mccain suggests arming the rebels, the white house says no. >> the best way to resolve this, if at all possible, is not through intensifying the militarization, not providing further arms into what is already a hot conflict. >> the u.n. wants syria's government to comply with a peace plan, but experts say it's going to take more than diplomacy to stop the violence. >>> not a great way to start a thursday, but more bad news out of europe sending the markets into a tail spin wednesday. for more on that and the rest of the news before the bell, we turn it over to seema mody live at cnbc world headquarters. good morning, seema. >> good morning. u.s. futures are actually slightly higher this morning after yesterday's big selloff as we pointed out, stocks dropping about 1% across the board wiping out tuesday's rally. now the big culprit is europe. bond yields and italy on concerns of mounting debt. that pushed investors to safer markets like u.s. treasuries and asian bonds. european markets are trading higher today. in terms of what the market will react to, we get a ton of econom

after the kennedy-mccain bill failed, it disappointed me because i thought we were really close. we didn't just have an immigration problem, but we also had a public relations problem, and he talked about that this evening. you have touched on it so many times. that is our strongest ammunition here in our arsenal. we have to get our own lou dobbs on the air, and we have to get him educating the people on the pluses and how immigrants are the backbone of this country. i am going to close out the hearing. this concludes tonight's symposium. on behalf of my fellow commissioners, we thank you for coming here. i would like to thank our assemblyman, the staff, the san francisco board of supervisors, david chew, our speaker and our panelists, our partners and collaborators, and most of all to the members of the audience and immigrant communities who are represented for which we exist, thank you for coming here this evening. we have learned a lot and are well educated for going forward. please look for a written report on these proceedings by the end of the meeting. also we look forward

senator john mccain has been calling for u.s.-led air strikes. >> other dangers and risks and uncertainties in this approach, absolutely. there are no ideal options in syria. >> reporter: another option is to arm the rebels, but lawmakers say that also comes with risks. >> i'm not one that believes we should be arming the rebels right now. we're having a difficult time of getting a complete picture of who they are. >> reporter: rebels released a video, giving syria 48 hours to comply with the u.n. cease plan or face consequences. now, syria has a pair of very influential allies, china and russia. both of them oppose any action and even any u.n. penalty. >> susan mcginnis in washington, thank you. >>> seattle police say the alleged gunman who shot and killed five people have taken his own life. the suspect's brother says he was mentally ill and that it was no surprise that this happened. theresa garcia has details. >> reporter: seattle police say the bearded man in this surveillance photo open fire shortly after walking into this

so it is a shame that senator kennedy has passed away and it is a shame that so has senator mccain. [laughter] neither of those individuals are still there. but we should resurrect the proposals they had in terms of family immigration. it has created huge problems. the backlog of family immigration has contributed to undocumented immigration, family separation. it is counter to the family values that the nation counts. to me, it is a no-brainer clear the backlog. -- the nation touts. >> cindy, in advising the immigration rights committee, for advising them on cir, who needs to be heard, which forces need to be lifted up? >> i could take professor hing's sarcastic way of looking at it -- just kidding. [laughter] i hope my other congressional colleagues do not kill me about sang this but i think it is important to keep your congressional office into an with what is important to you. i could not agree more with the two speakers. i think you have to be an optimist to be working on this issue, on this job, but i am with prof. hang in that we are scared with the flip side is. right now we

and all i will say is, compare the mccain profile and the cindy mccain profile with any profiles. the toughest profile you can find that "the new york times" did of barack obama and michelle obama. it's not a close call. one other thing that mika always brings up, just it all comes down to numbers. look at the numbers that the major media outlets sent of reporters to alaska versus chicago. for the guy at the top of the ticket, who was in rod blagojevich's kitchen cabinet in 2002. compare those numbers. >> sarah palin was just -- come on. >> this has been going on forever. >> the media is bias, just like fox yesterday ran a four-minute anti-obama video. yes, the media is biassed on both sides. >> you have one cable outlet against "the new york times," "the washington post," and -- >> which reaches more people than either of those papers. >> come on. come on. in terms of influence, nobody compares to "the new york times." >> just for the record, and mike may know, alex, we could look, maybe i can, i think "the new york times" has had a number of really positive mitt romney front pag

adviser to president clinton and vice president gore and doug holtz-eakin and is a former adviser to john mccain among others and former director of the cbo. so thank you all for coming. let's dive right in with the most important question on everyone's minds. jobs. let's start with you, doug. if governor romney wins this election, what could we realistically expect from him right away in terms of an immediate job creation plan? >> i think the pressing need are deep structural reforms. we need fundamental tax reforms, entitlement reform bees, education reforms. the governor has placed tax reform at the top of his agenda, and he's taken strong positions on the entitlement reforms as well. so it becomes not a question of do we understand the policy needs, but can you get as a matter of the political progress the job done in washington. and there i think his history of being a governor, of having to work with a legislature will be a real asset for him. >> and what's the sort of underlying economic theory that he is bringing to his plans here in terms of how to create jobs? >> i mean, it's a relianc

you got gottlieberman -- you've got lieberman, graham and mccain. the secretary of state yesterday in denmark talked about how russia's support for assad was turning this into a civil war and it had to stop. so she's feeling the pressure and tried to in turn pressure russia to end their support for the regime. the problem is this is not bosnia. it is central to europe's identity and security. it is not libya where you had an opposition that had formed to oppose the government where you had an on-going civil war where a whole section of the country had split off and had declared itself independent of libya. what you have here is protests. you have some scattered armed resistance to the regime. you have certainly terrible, terrible casualties bullet so far about 10,000 dead at the hands of assad. terrible situation but certainly nothing that would qualify as a vital u.s. national security interest and that's why you see the hesitation. >> bill: do we know who the opposition -- if we were to arm the opposition, are they united? do we know who they are?

. >> john mccain wants to arm the rebels. the white house says, no. >> the best way to resolve this if at all possible is not by intensifying the middle tarization or providing arms into what is already a hot conflict. >> kofi annan just left syria where he met with syria's government. >> the syrian people do not want their future to be one of blood shed and division. >> the united nations says 9,000 have been killed there in the last 15 months. >> syria is getting money and weapons from russia. we're told russia and china will reject any efforts to send in troops. wbal-tv 11 news. >> in this morning's education alert, more teachers will be in the classroom this fall but they won't see pay raises. county officials recently turned over money but it's slated to pay for 128 positions including teachers and assistants and councilors. and the rest spent on textbook and transportations. >> failing to fulfill promises made to the people who teach our kids. and they are failing to meet those kids when they can afford to meet at least

senator john mccain mocking russian president vladimir putin. dear vlad, surprise, surprise, you won. the people of russia are crying too. >> and from pete sessions, quote, texas named one of the friendless places to start a small business. >> bad typo. >> and kevin mccarthy deleted this retweet. tips for driving in d.c. walk towards your car, set it on fire. set yourself on fire. arrive at spiritual destination. >> oh, congressman, don't think you want to have that out there. look, it's out there. >> that's a problem. >> not only does stuff live on forever in twitter verse but on video, too. illinois lawmaker losing it on the statehouse floor. this video is going viral. when you see it, you'll know why. republican state representative flipping out after democrats pushed a last-minute bill. let's listen. >> the american way. these damn bills all the damn time coming out here at the last second and i have to try to figure out how to vote for my people? you ought to be ashamed of yourself. i'm sick of it every year! we give power to one person. en

senator john mccain has been calling for u.s.-led air strikes. >> are there dangers and risks and uncertainties in this approach? absolutely. there are no ideal options in syria. >> reporter: another option is to arm the rebels, but lawmakers say that also comes with risks. >> i'm not one that believes we should be arming the rebels right now. we're having a difficult time getting a complete picture of who they are. >> reporter: rebels release add video giving syria 48 hours to comply with the u.n. peace plan or face consequences. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. >>> making news now at 5:53, the 20 yearldz rutgers student convicted of using a web cam to record his roommate's sexual encounter with another man plans to report to jail today. tyler clementi committed suicide after dahram ravi posted the video online. >>> the house passed a bill to give the food and drug administration more flexibility when it comes to inspecting drug manufacturing facilities overseas. the number of u.s. drugs produced overseas has more than doub

senator john mccain has been calling for u.s.-led air strikes. >> are there dangers and risks an uncertainties in this approach? absolutely. there are no ideal options in syria. >> reporter: another option is to arm the rebels, but lawmakers say that also comes with risk. >> i'm not one that believes we should be arming the rebels right now. we're having a difficult time getting a complete picture of who they are. >> reporter: rebels release add video giving syria 48 hours to comply with the u.n. peace plan or face consequences. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. >> syria does have a pair of influential allies. china and russia so-so far oppose -- who so far oppose any intervention or u.n.-backed penalties. >>> the world's first commercial supply ship heads back to earth this morning after its maiden voyage to the international space station. live pictures right now from the crew. there it is. it's going to use the station's robotic arm to detach the expais x dragon -- the spacex dragon capsule. it will release this morning an

more than the whole john mccain spent in '08. how do outside groups on the democratic side plan to compete with that? at least for now, they don't. one labor leader telling politico.com for their story today, "we're not making any attempt to match american crossroads or any of those groups with tv ads. progressives can't match all the money going into the system right now." so how do you possibly compete and win against all that dark money piled up against you? let's ask somebody who knows. joining us now is iowa congressman, targeted by those ground zero mosque attack ads, bruce braley. congressman braley, thanks for joining us. >> welcome home, rachel. great to have you back in washington, d.c.. >> did i get the facts right about what that race was like in 2010? >> you nailed it. it was one of the most unexpected outcomes of any political race. nobody was tracking me as a vulnerable candidate. and then this mountain of secret cash came flowing down into my race and it was -- i became the poster child of the bad aspects of citiz

you are basically mitt romney whereas mccain tried to tamp down the obama hatred in the more extreme views of him. romney isn't doing that i know why he is not doing it it you alluded to it. a lot of people believe. that a lot of people believe barack obama is not -- >> -- is he going to get all those votes anyway. what he needs to do is focus on the economy and not go off on a side show. i don't think trump regards this as the major issue now either. i think he has moved on to the economy too you know, this right now is a very important time in the presidential race. it's the end of round one. you can see the girl running around with the one sign around the ring. it's the round one. romney won round one. obama thought that bain capital would be a silver bullet he thought that romney walked around with a bulls eye on his chest and all he needed to do was pull the trigger. once he put the bain capital stuff on romney would fall apart. it didn't happen. romney is coming back with solyndra and aobama is dropping bain and moving on to his record as governor. that's huge. when your politi

john mccain i knew because we had served in the senate together. mr. romney was governor and so i didn't have an occasion to get to know him very well. >> jimmy: but then eventually, in a couple months he's going to start to put out attack ads. then it gets personal. >> yeah, it's not, like, the best introduction for someone. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: it's not the greatest way to get to know somebody. >> yeah, if you want to get to know somebody there are probably better ways to do it. >> jimmy: is this campaign going to get ugly, you think? >> well, you know, part of the problem we have is these outside groups, because of this ruling by the supreme court, citizens united, there's unlimited spending by outside groups, many of whom don't have to disclose where they're getting their money from. so if you look at the republican primary, i wasn't even involved at that point, millions of dollars were spent in negative attack ads, but there's no accountability because the candidate can say, "well, i have nothing to do with it." and meanwhile, millions of

i'm not sure if mccain was ever fully put to the test. on the other hand, romney, i don't know if he's getting the kind of feedback you're talking about. the notion that some of this is racially coated, the notion that this is going to destroy your reputation and so forth. i don't think that's romney's main concern now. his main concern is raising money, his main concern is talking to the base by whatever means he can, and seeing if he can get away with this. and i think we're going to find out over the next few days. >> and we are seeing a theme of that. whether it's ted nugent or his gay adviser, romney's not willing to stand up on these issues when it comes to the base. they're not going anywhere. >> but that doesn't seem to be bothering republicans right now. >> it doesn't. that's my point. they're not going anywhere. >> here's the thing. the republican party has made a choice. i mean, they could have gone in the direction of trying to open up the party to appeal to minorities, to appeal to latinos. they have obviously decided to doub

mccain the word poor or poverty doesn't come off one time in those debates. obama doesn't raise it, mccain never utters it. the moderator's never asked about it. so three presidential debates taking place at the very moment that our economy is tanking and there's no conversation about the poor or poverty in this country. fast forward four years later and half of the citizenry is an or near poverty. we cannot abide another campaign for the white house where the issue of the poor in this country is not addressed. we can't go from here to november letting mr. obama and letting the presumptive nominee mr. mitt romney get away from having another contest with a contestation of poor people's humanities is the order of the day so we put this book out now and apologetically to do our part to remind the nation that we cannot render poor people and visible. we cannot treat them as an afterthought. we cannot at best and presidential election season treat them as some sort of a political calculation. it's telling the truth of allows suffering to speak. nobody tells the t

maybe he doesn't want to be like john mccain. maybe he wants to be seen as a guy who goes down with the right as far as he can go. maybe he wants us to say he's so far right he's hanging out with the birthers. >> he knows, he knows, that the name of the game for the next five months is convincing the independent who's he alienated by making love to the conservatives, or trying to, and bringing them aboard, and asking like that moderate reasonable governor that he once was. >> i'm not saying their moderates. >> there's a lot of -- >> no i'm not saying that, they like a moderate temperament. they don't want somebody who is severely conservative or hanging out with a kook ball. he made a promise to donald trump to do something with him when he got the endorsement in february, and the campaign thought better to do it sooner than later. >> i think a lot of people in the middle -- think who would be undecided at this point, somebody not paying attention, somebody turned off to everything going on. so ail yent nated they probably buy th

to take it seriously, because if you look at the last couple of elections, the president beat john mccain by about 13 points with women. and in 2004, john kerry only got three points better with women than george bush and george bush won. so losing women by double digits is not the way to get to the white house. >> thanks to all three. appreciate it. >>> ahead, apple's ceo said something that took our breath away. we looked into it. he said he wants to make iphones here in the united states. but does it add up? >>> and a man's horrifying flesh-eating attack could be part of a growing problem. it's truly bizarre what we found in our investigation. we'll be back. [ female announcer ] did you know the average person smiles more than 50 times a day? so brighten your smile a healthy way with listerine® whitening plus restoring rinse. it's the only rinse that makes your teeth two shades whiter and two times stronger. ♪ listerine® whitening... power to your mouth. listerine® whitening... those surprising little still make you take notice. there are a million reasons why. but your erectile d

even though that would have been one that would have disqualified eisenhower, roosevelt or john mccain. it might have been me. it sounds like the absurd suggestion that i might make in this book. >> and you do, it turns out, have access to power. for your book about the constitution, i believe you got access to at least one supreme court justice. >> well the rumors are true. i did think who would be the most amenable. i thought, probably the man who has devoted his entire life to securing and protecting every article, phrase and sentence in the constitution. but yes, justice scalia did meet. >> what you're revealing here is we have a supreme court justice with time on his hands. enough time to say yes, mr. emmy winning daily show writer, come right in. i got nothing to do. >> he's a man with a sense of humor. >> when i suggested it may no longer allow him to have lifetime tenure, he asked me if

in 2008, then-candidate obama, and republican john mccain spent just over a billion dollars, combined. with so much more money being raised this year, how will it be spent? we turn to two reporters who closely track campaign finance. tom hamburger is with the "washington post" and ken vogel is with "politico". gentlemen, it's all about the money, at least that's what we're talking about tonight. ken vogel, so these outside republican groups can actually raise $1 billion? >> it essential appears so. when i covered the first cycle of this unlimited outside money in 2010, which was sort of precipitate bide these federal court decisions that allowed these outside grouped to accept unlimited funds from very wealthy donors there were some really vast, big figures that upper thrown about that karl kal rove's group were talking about raising $52 million. i thought there's no way they are going to raise that much. they raised more than that. they raised upwards of $70 million. there are many more groups raising that kind of money, and the conservative donors, these very wealthy business type a