principally the things conservatives don't like about mccain are the mccain/feingold bill, which they feel really trampled on the first amendment, and his stand on immigration. and there are some other things, too. but those are big public issues, which he took i leadership position on and thought he was wrong. so how can we trust him to do what we think he should do. by the same token, 80% conservative voting record in the senate, surrounded himself with people like jack kemp, frank keating, sam brownback, ted olson, a whole number of other people who are very staunchly conservative people. so where do you go? if people get down to the election and they say, do i want john mccain picking the next three or four supreme court justices? or shall we leave it up to hillary clinton or barack obama, my guess is they'll largely say john mccain. >> are you going to sit this one out? >> no. i'm not really a political -- i'm not involved in everyday politics. but i don't think i'll sit it out. >> and finally, as a conservative, would you rather run against hillary clinton or barack obama? >> th

>> reverend wright was so flagrant, if john mccain had been sitting in the pew of right wing preacher how it painted whoever, mccain would have been out of the race, but obama never got investigated on college, graduate school life and fact that the biography coming up with stuff should have been out five years ago, is revealing how lazy and monica said how fawning they were. >> jon: we mentioned the cover of news week, anointed president obama as the first gay president, compare that with mitt romney's cover appearance on the same magazine, roughly one year ago, if you put the two up next to each other, you'll see, there is the-- well, it really talks. >> and equally gay covers, i want to say that. [laughter] >> sally, you took jon's breath away. >> the senator left, probably liberal founder of usa today said he ought to change its name to fantasia. >> as tina brown said let the games begin. both time and news week want to sell magazines. >> and remember, too, the left wing media wants this all to be about mitt romney and this is the statement that made at the top of the show when th

. >> reporter: senator john mccain said the plane was designed to fight a soviet jet that was never built and has no use now against the enemies that they are fighting. >> there is no purpose, unless you believe that al qaeda is going to have a fleet of aircraft. >> reporter: its critics say the air force can't even give the pilots enough hours in the air to train them. >> it's in the shop all the time. they are lucky if they can fly it every day. >> reporter: is it badly designed or badly produced in. >> both. >> reporter: for now, the f-22, the future of the america jet fighter jet s a $500 million aircraft some pilots are asking not to fly. what are they going with the planes? >> there are a lot of air shows around the country that could appreciate fly byes. >> reporter: and senator mccain wasn't joking. that is just where we found the f-22s, performing tricks in air shoi v shows across the country. a very expensive stunt plane. the air force says of the f-22s have been deployed to the middle east and it tries to figure out what is wrong with the oxygen. cynthia. >> thanks to you, bria

mccain had rejected it. but who knows what would have happened if the financial crisis -- chris: when would they have used it? >> i think you would have seen mccain under pressure to use it if the race were close. but in the end, because the financial crisis happened, they concluded independently -- mccain had a issue of principle. the compane also completely concluded that -- the campaign also completely concluded that the ad wouldn't have worked and seen ridiculous in the context of the global financial crisis melting down. chris: and what about the same guy pushing it in the movie? >> a hobby horse on this issue. and to clarence's point, good at getting rich campaigns to write big checks to run colorful attention-getting ads and that would be -- chris: it sinds me -- -- reminds me, i want to say something about fred davis. he's very successful ad producer. but on this particular issue, ricketts saw the mccain ad. and he loved it. he's quoted in "the new york times" as saying if that ad had run, they never

jay korff has this interview. >> senator and prisoner of war john mccain criticized president obama lack of leadership tuesday night, specifically how he has talked about the killing of osama bin laden. >> heroes do not brag. it is continuous bragging about taking out bin lande. -- laden. >> tuesday night, we've learned that the cia was able to in for debt -- into its rate outside in yemen and get someone on the inside. >> it is quite an accomplishment to pass herself off as an al qaeda terrace to the terrorists when you are working for a u.s. intelligence agency. >> we have learned that the spy secured a bomb and slipped it out of yemen through saudi arabia last week. it is now being studied by the fbi. >> having the bomb in its original state, before it goes off, experts are able to figure out how the bomb works, how it might be detected. that is easier when the bomb is still intact. >> president obama touted his accomplishments on the war on terror during a campaign event over the weekend and no higher. >> osama bin laden is no longer a threat to this country. >> his opponent in the l

mccain. >> reporter: at the white house, ed henry, fox news. >> fox 5 morning news at 4:30 starts right now. ht now. >>> good morning. it is tuesday, may 1st, starting a new month here. you will step outside today and i guess feel a little warmer than maybe it did yesterday but still things are going to warm up again. good morning. i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm wisdom martin. welcome to fox 5 morning news. just a tad bit better than yesterday. progress is always good especially when it comes to the weather. >> as tucker mentioned, i do feel a little bit more humidity out there today. >> i do too. i woke up and my hair is -- it just does its own thing for the rest of the summer. let's get to it. more on hair care coming up. we have this frontal system moving in from the west. you can see it generally tracking right through the washington area. it will bring us a chance for a identify showers and maybe a few showers and thunderstorms. by this afternoon, i think we'll be partly sunny with high temperatures expected to be in the low 80s. most of the area yesterday only in the mid-60s. a good 15

senators such as john mccain and even presidential nominee, mitt romney. but it is something that many people are extremely alarmed about. because if they are armed, it could only exacerbate the violence and deepen the crisis even more. perhaps even spilling into neighboring countries. and that's why that idea as well is not one that has been fully embraced by everybody. >> yesterday, ayman, the spokesperson for the u.s. state department suggested iran is responsible for quote aiding and abetting the massacre in syria last week by providing support for the syrian militia. left a few people scratching their heads, what can you tell us about iran's influence in syria? >> reporter: well there's two ways to look at it. in terms of the actual events on friday, there's still no public evidence to suggest that iran was involved. but there's no doubt that iran is syria's strongest ally in the region. there's no love hidden between these two countries. they support each other militarily. there's very close diplomatic relations and syrian activists in the past have

david axelrod at 5:29 this morning tweets "stunning, will mitt stand up as senator john mccain did or allow the puorbehalf"? that's david axelrod. then the romney campaign manager came out and said it's clear that president obama's team is running a campaign of character assassination. we repudiate any efforts on our side to do so. and then as a response, the jim mussina who runs obama campaign came back to once again, governor romney has fallen short of the standard that mccain has set. reacting tepidly and just -- >> mccain lost. >> romney came back again on camera. >> they have no accountability and they can go out there and lie, they can do anything they want and supposedly mitt romney can't stop it. he could stop it if he wanted to. >> i wouldn't -- i try never to just use a president's last name. i try to put president or mr. in front of it. that it's ok to just like -- at 5:29 in the morning, the he of the campaign. you'd think he had something better to do than to call out the opponents on mitt. really? we could do that here maybe. but have some dignity. >> can i ask you the -

didn't time for the democratic national committee this is a plan that would quote do exactly what john mccain would not let us do and romney condemned this yesterday as the wrong course after first kind of waffling on the topic joe ricketts the guy who was supposed to put up the ten million bucks has walked it back apparently it didn't go over well with cubs fans among other things and but have we seen the last of this plan or is it going to is this going to become an issue if so how and when and and if so does that open the door for the democrats to play the mormon card and talk about mitt romney and his his long lineage of ancestors who are polygamists. and the oh yeah. and i think that's exactly right i think that romney and his campaign does not want to get into a discussion about religion or various sects of christianity and i think that in terms of what we see more of this thing with super pacs it's anyone's guess and the thing about super pacs is that in the immediate impact we've seen is that the majority of ads are going negative attack ads normally you kind of would lead with kind o

senator john mccain on deck. is he furious that a new obama campaign ad implies mitt romney would have shied away from killing bin laden. right back with senator mccain. >> bill: in the back of the book segment tonight, tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the navy seal operation that killed usama bin laden. and now obama campaign web ad is trying to take political advantage of that ♪ ♪ >> he had to decide. and that's what you hire a president to do. you hire a president to make the calls when no one else can do it. >> bill: joining us now from washington senator john mccain who believes that ad is not worthy. so, you know, questioning whether mitt romney would have done the same thing and you say? >> i say any president, jimmy carter, anybody, any president would have obviously under those circumstances done the same thing. and to now take credit for something that any president would do is indicative of the kind of campaign we're under -- we're seeing. let me also point out it's the same president that s

. >> i want to talk about stats from former mccain, okay. chief economist and republican. mark zandy. job losses are the most serious weight on the job market thachlt is mccain's former economist. what do you think about that? >> all due respect to senator mccain, i don't think his economic program won the day in 2008. you can pick a random economist out there and, you know, say anything that you want. alex, i think the great thing about the president coming 20 virginia today to kick off his presidential campaign is the incredible contrast between what's been happening in the country under his policies and what's been happening in virginia under the policies of a conservative economic minded governor, governor bob mcdonald who believes in right to work. president obama said in virginia that virginia shouldn't be a right to work state. someone in bob mcdonald who focused on the economy like a laser beam. it's why he won by 17 points after president obama won by seven. virginia voters are focused on jobs. >> are you going take that message, are you going to richmond virginia

when john mccain trailed barack obama, mccain refused to run ads attacking obama's connection by reverend wright. it was featured on game change. let's look at this scene. >> these numbers show it. we have to make this about obama. we have to get tough, and we have to get negative. >> if we go this way, reverend wright is still the best play we have. >> any of you ever been accused of having a negro child out of wedlock because your adopted daughter was born in bangladesh. and then when she pfs 16 and googled her name, i had to explain why she was called a bastard when she was 10 years old. >> south carolina was an ugly thing. reverend wright really did say those things. >> that may be true, but there was a dark side to american populism, i'm not one of those people. >> how do you spin this, todd? you know, your candidate, romney, uses the references to wright, we just caught him doing it in february. and this ad campaign guy, fred davis is trying to sell him on a 54-page proposal, and he thought romney would do it. >> not romney, his people. >> we can be cute, okay. >> it's a bad strateg

challenger john mccain is also talking this morning. he went on the record and talked about what it was be like if he were president of the country. >> i hesitate to get into that but one our debt deficit would have been addressed and austerity pemeasures would have been closed. entitlements would be open in the room and we to make tough decisions the same way ronald reagan made a decision about social security way back in 1983. we will be leading in front and not from behind. the united states of america is an exceptional nation and we lead and we wouldn't be standing by while thousands are massacred in syria. >> he goes on to say what he is worried about is the future of our economy. >> let's talk about the weather. maria molina is here with the current temperatures. >> good to see you guys this morning. if you live in new york city and you are headed outdoors it is very humid very warm very muggy conditions. 65 degrees is the current temperature. we have to deal with drizzle. we are going to deal with the humidity the warm temperatur

this is this was true in two thousand and eight as well obama did much better on wall street the john mccain did bill clinton generally did more fundraising from wall street than than elsewhere it's not as if the democratic party just woke up one day and say oh back i was from goldman sachs i'd never heard of that but it doesn't work that way and for us to finance a prize just because obama is able to channel one percent of the kind of occupy wall street mess. on occasion on a college campus that doesn't mean that the democrats aren't doing business with big ticket wall street firms yeah it's a fallacy of even remotely believe that the business favors one party to much more than another they favor power and they favor influence and you know that if we should mention just because president obama is the top in terms of like how much money you know you have to look at the congressmen in the senators as well because they it takes a lot less money to be elected into those offices than it does to be elected president and a lot of those seem to be beholden to a lot of people that they raise money f

john mccain will ultimately win if we don't get bin laden. there's no narrative for us to leave afghanistan unless bin laden is shut down and captured or killed. >> once we get him, we know how we will leave. that seemed the closing clause of that sentence. steve clemons. thank you very much for joining us. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> nobel prize winning economist is here for the interview. that's still ahead. stay with us. ♪ surf's up everybody get your boards and your wetsuits ♪ free-credit-score-dot-com's gonna direct you ♪ ♪ to check your credit score before it gets too late ♪ ♪ and you end up strapped for cash ♪ ♪ patching your board with duct tape ♪ ♪ so hit free-credit-score-dot-com ♪ ♪ find out what credit's about ♪ ♪ or else you could be headed for a credit wipeout ♪ offer applies with enrollment in freecreditscore.com™. you walk into a conventional mattress store, it's really not about you. they say, "well, if you wanted a firm bed you can lie on one of those." we provide the exact individualiz

quite a few members of congress are talking about it, including john mccain. let me play that for you. >> to now take credit for something that any president would do is indicative of the kind of campaign we're under -- we're seeing. i've had the great honor of is serving in the company of heroes. the thing about heroes, they don't brag. >> is there a fine line, michael, about these two things, bragging rights but also criticizing mitt romney? is there a fine line between, you know, bragging and legitimate ti talking about your accomplishments? >> i do think there's a fine line. senator mccain has his own heroic past that his campaign was not shy about talking about and featuring. they had plenty of ads during the 2008 campaign that sort of highlighted the things he had done in his career. i think it's interesting senator mccain's comments, this were much tougher, in a statement he put out a come l days ago. you know, he has a particular thing of, you know -- with barack obama. he ran against barack obama, lost to him. so i think it probably particularly galls

. >> john mccain's lead media strategist. john mccain nixed the idea. >> this is not a winning idea. >> fear mongering. >> it's insulting. >> it is nasty. >> this is hate porn. >> gutter politics. >> how does mitt romney respond to this? >> haven't seen the papers this morning. >> it's a lack of courage on the part of mitt romney. >> it takes attention away from the key issues. >> i'm not familiar with exactly what i said but i stand by what i said, whatever it was. >> overall this is terrible for our democracy. >> whatever it was. whatever it was. >> we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems. >> i stand by what i said. >> either black, white, latino, asian. >> whatever it was. >> but rather problems that confront us all. >>> the day begun with the revelation of a plan of attack against president obama that republicans began to disown quickly and mitt romney demonstrating his usual followship instead of leadership took his position only when it became absolutely clear he had no other choice. on the campai

we are hearing john mccain for this. tomorrow do you expect to hear once the president is back republicans taking critical rhetorical shots at the president? >> i don't think so. i think it is significantly different to take this trip where the troops are. there's the young men and women over there still dying, still bleeding. and for the president of the united states at some risk to go over there is a big deal. and i think that is so different from running a political ad wondering whether mitt romney would have okayed the mission to go get osama bin laden. i think it is completely different this time. >> wolf blitzer is also joining us as we wait for the president to stand behind the podium. >> john king is here. momentarily the president will be speaking. the isis a speech that i'm sure white house officials have been working on for a long time. >> because negotiating this agreement took some time. it's a difficult policy for the president. this has been a relationship. can't always trust president karzai. at home the

it was senator clinton, senator mccain. there were a whole host of individuals who called the president, the now president, naive and worse when he said that he would do what in the end he ultimately did do. and i think he deserves credit and praise for that. >> and chuck, beyond the debate that happened at the time, as i understand it, and we know it has been widely reported. when the intel came in that osama bin laden may be in that compound, even in the minutes and hours leading up, there were some within the president's inner circle who were unsure about the decision. when mitt romney says, it's a no brainer. any thinking american would have made that decision. we know that that was not the case. there was apprehension to the very last minute there. >> there was. and i want to clarify one remark. jim miklaszewski corrected me this morning, wanted to make sure we had a fuller context of what gates's objection was. it was not of taking out the compound but he was against the idea of sending troop in on the ground, doing t

the palin pick as you know was a disaster for mccain in the end. i don't know that romney, if there's anybody out there that romney can pick who would be a kind of game changing type. marco rubio to an extent, as latino, hispanic, that would be a new flavor the white house as it were. but marco rubio, as you know, as come out with a fairly sane immigration policy, sort of a dream act light, and that's not going to please the base who are vehemently anti-immigration. so that's a problem for him. condoleezza rice has been mentioned, but i don't see her ever getting into politics. >> what about rob portman? >> rob portman, that's like a mayonnaise finally meets tapioca. can you imagine a less exciting duo than rob portman and mitt romney? it's just sort of two boring white guys out there. so his advantage, of course, being that he's from ohio, and ohio is going to be a crucial state as it usually is. but, you know, it would certainly be a safe pick. i'm not sure it's going to do him much good except in ohio. >> all things being fair, though, would som

does mccain have a point? if anyone knows war it's mccain who has seen battle firsthand and brings up an interesting point one we read about in "the washington post" this morning. for the first time in modern history, neither man running for president has any military experience. it made us wonder if that really matters any more. it doesn't guarantee a win. after all, mr. obama beat mr. mccain in 2008. yet some of our most successful presidents have had military experience. among them, george washington, jfk, dwight eisenhower, and ronald reagan. the talkback question for you this morning is military service necessary to be a good president? facebook.com/carol/cnn. i'll read your comments later this hour. when you have diabetes... your doctor will say get smart about your weight. i tried weight loss plans... but their shakes aren't always made for people with diabetes. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. and

senator john mccain on deck. is he furious that a new obama campaign ad implies mitt romney would have shied away from killing bin laden. right back with senator aspirin is just old school. people will have doubts about taking aspirin for pain. that's why we developed bayer advanced aspirin with micro particles. now we're challenging you to put it to the test. visit fastreliefchallenge.com today for a special trial offer. >> bill: in the back of the book segment tonight, tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the navy seal operation that killed usama bin laden. and now obama campaign web ad is trying to take political advantage of that ♪ ♪ >> he had to decide. and that's what you hire a president to do. you hire a president to make the calls when no one else can do it. >> bill: joining us now from washington senator john mccain who believes that ad is not worthy. so, you know, questioning whether mitt romney would have done the same thing and you say? >> i say any president, jimmy carter, anybody, any presid

, confused man, that i am told didn't go over well in mccain world, and also mccain advisers have come out on the record to jessica yellowen and to me and i spo he can with charlie black and she spoke with steve schmidt and charlie black said to me that senator mccain said very firmly we were not going to discuss the other candidate's relationship with his pastor. he was right about that and anybody who wants to relitigate that, he says, is absolutely wrong. >> gloria, i want to highlight specifically why this is so dirty apart from what you just highlighted, the nastiness referring to john mccain. there was a plan that was sort of in the works in this working paper, by the way, not just a working paper, like a 54 page glossy with photographs >> it was a proposal actually. that's the thing. they were all bidding for business, right. >> in this proposal they suggest and had quoting from the "new york times" hiring spokesman as a, quote, extremely literate conservative african-american who can argue that mr. obama misled the nation by prending himself as what the proposal calls a metro s

john mccain will ultimately win if we don't get bin laden. there's no narrative for us to leave afghanistan unless bin laden is shut down and captured or killed. >> once we get him, we know how we will leave. that seemed the closing clause of that sentence. steve clemons. thank you very much for joining us. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> nobel prize winning economyist is here for the interview. that's still ahead. stay with us. [ male announcer ] whoa, megan landry alert. and she's looking directly at your new lumia, thank you at&t. first, why don't you show her the curved edge... now move on to the slick navigation tiles -- bam, right into the people hub. see megan, colin has lots of friends. hey, colin, what kind of phone is that? whaaa -- oh megan -- when did you get here? [ clears throat ] ohh yea no, let's... [ male announcer ] introducing the beautifully different nokia lumia 900. only from at&t. rethink possible. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 you and your money deserve. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 at charles schwab, that means taking a close look at

john mccain other veterans of the vietnam war are remembering this day with honoring those who served in the vietnam war. >> thank you very much kelly. appreciate it. >> it is time for the top 5 at 5:00. top five stories making news tu hour. for the latest on the etan paintballi patz case. people are worried about mental illness. >>> hernandez reportedly stashed the buys body in the refrigerator before he discarded it in the crash. it is unclear how long he kept the little boy's body hidden in his family's home. they are seeing if his description of the basement matches the drawings from 33 years ago. >> the 17-year-old boy dispiered in the ocean off long branch yesterday with rescue crews searching late into the night. his friends saying the boy wasn't that far out when he went under but never came back up. his name is not being released. >>> three family members in stable condition after being rescued from the snow covered mountains in idaho. they stayed there more than 15 hours in a complete white out after surviving a plane crash. one was able to use a cell phone and call 911. the