It’s a given that Washington is broken, that the two parties seem incapable of coming together to get things done. But here is something President Obama could probably do by himself that would be a signal accomplishment of his presidency: end the war on terror.
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PAUL KRUGMAN, ECONOMIST, PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, CENTENARY PROFESSOR, THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, OP-ED COLUMNIST, THE NEW YORK TIMES: Hi there.
ZAKARIA: So, explain, you know, first, very succinctly, why you feel that right now really there is almost, as far as I can tell, there’s almost no limit to what you’d be willing to do in terms of stimulating the economy.
KRUGMAN: OK, right now is a time when not spending is extremely destructive. The government pulls back, it’s destroying jobs and there’s no way to off-set that.
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DAVID GREGORY:
So, the legislative moment has arrived here on Capitol Hill. What’s going to happen with gun safety litigation?
WAYNE LAPIERRE:
Well, I mean, you just heard Mayor Bloomberg, but he’s going to find out this is a country of the people, by the people, and for the people. And he can’t spend enough of his $27 billion to try to impose his will on the American public. They don’t want him in their restaurants, they don’t want him in their homes. They don’t want him telling them Continue reading →
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FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST: This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I’m Fareed Zakaria.
This week, America’s wars, past, present and potentially future. We’ll start on the Korean Peninsula where the Korean War has started again, technically, after the North summarily ended the armistice. Could there be conflict? If there is, the United States is bound by treaty to be involved.
Then, Afghanistan, the deadly Afghan attacks on Americans continue from the Taliban on the side and from President Hamid Karzai on the other. Is it just time to get out?
Also, ten years on since the Iraq War. Was it worth it?
…ZAKARIA: An exclusive conversation with Paul Wolfowitz who is often seen as the “intellectual godfather” of that war.
And from war do love, what countries do Americans love and hate? We have an actual list.
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This Sunday – a new pope, a new day for the Catholic church, and new questions about the church’s influence on American politics. We have perspective this morning on the journey ahead for Pope Francis from Cardinal Francis George, – the archbishop of Chicago. What message did the cardinals mean to send with the selection of the first ever pope from Latin America? A special discussion, as well, with our roundtable on how Francis reforms the church.
Plus the debt duel in Washington. Is there any room for compromise and is the president right when he argues a balanced budget isn’t a priority at the moment? The debate this morning. With us, Republican whip of the House, California Congressman Kevin McCarthy, and the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.
Then, the future of the GOP and a senator’s change of heart on gay marriage. Is it the beginning of a changing tide in the party? Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker, weighs in.
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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS:
Some of them are trying to call you out right now. Paul Ryan today put forward his budget.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA:
Right. Right.GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS:
And he said he’s challenging you to come forward with a budget that also reaches balance. Are you gonna do that?PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA:
No. We’re not gonna balance the budget in ten years because if you look at what Paul Ryan does to balance the budget, it means that you have to voucherize Medicare; you have to slash deeply– into Continue reading →
THE PRESIDENT: Before I begin, I know some of you have noticed that I’m dressed a little differently from the other gentlemen. Because of sequester, they cut my tails. (Laughter.) My joke writers have been placed on furlough. (Laughter.) I know a lot of you reported that no one will feel any immediate impact because of the sequester. Well, you’re about to find out how wrong you are. (Laughter.)
Of course, there’s one thing in Washington that didn’t get cut — the length of this dinner. (Laughter.) Yet more proof that the sequester makes no sense. (Laughter.)
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DAVID GREGORY:
Because we talk tactics, let’s talk about the news, that we’ve got the potential for a budget deal by July, Senator Coburn? That’s what the president would like. How real do you think that is as a prospect?
SEN. TOM COBURN:
Well, I think if something’s going to get done– before the political– political ramifications of 2014 start playing, you’ve got other have somewhat of an agreement or an outline before that. The– but– David, Continue reading →
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On today’s show, we’ll tackle drones, the death of Hugo Chavez, the Keystone pipeline and China’s new leaders. We’ll start with the Keystone pipeline. I’ll tell you why I think it should be built. Then, I’ll have one of the pipeline’s most determined opponents, head of the Sierra Club, tell me why he disagrees.
Next up, Hugo Chavez is dead. Will his successor continue Chavez’s anti-American, anti-Western, anti-capitalist ways or is this beginning of a new Venezuela? We have a terrific panel including Moises Naim.
Also, Rand Paul is worried about America killing Americans on American soil. He’s right, but there’s another huge problem with drones we need to start worrying about. I’ll explain.
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But, first, here’s my take. Secretary of State John Kerry is making news on his first foreign trip swinging through nine countries in Europe and the Middle East.
He’s talking about European trade deals, about providing greater assistance to the Syrian opposition and he’s talking about Iran, of course. These are all important issues.
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DAVID GREGORY:
As we sit here Friday afternoon, you’ve emerged from a meeting at the White House. There is no deal. Take me inside the room. What happened?
SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER:
We had a very nice, polite discussion, but I had asked the president and Senator Reid to come with a plan to replace the sequester. Now listen, we’ve known about this for 16 months. And yet even today, there’s no plan from Senate Democrats or the White House Continue reading →
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GREGORY: And as the White House warns of dire consequences, the sequester blame game has already started. Here with us, live this morning, the Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood who sounded a pretty lard– loud, rather, alarm bell on Friday. Mister Secretary, welcome. Good to have you here.
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BILL PLANTE, CBS NEWS: We have gotten used to being called whiny lap dogs. I’ve heard it for 30 years. But this is not about a picture of Tiger Woods. This is about access to the president. And access to the president has been cut and pushed and curtailed over every administration I’ve covered. Here’s the nub of it, Howie, this administration has the tools to reach people on their own. They don’t need us as much. And to the extent that they’re able to do that, they’re undercutting the First Amendment, which guarantees a free press through many voices.
If they put out their own material, it’s state-run media.
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So I wanted to get to the bottom of some of these crucial issues of national security with a panel of people who come at it from different angles.
Michael Hayden was the director of the CIA and the NSA. He is a principle with the Chertoff Group, a global security advisory firm.
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Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he said, “to report the State of the Union – to improve it is the task of us all.”
Tonight, thanks to the grit and determination of the American people, there is much progress to report. After a decade of grinding war, our brave men and women in uniform are coming home. After years of grueling recession, our businesses have created over six million new jobs. We buy more American cars than we have in five years, and less foreign oil than we have in twenty. Our housing market is healing, our stock market is rebounding, and consumers, patients, and homeowners enjoy stronger protections than ever before.
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But, first, here’s my take: One of the great political debates in Washington and around the country has been whether Barack Obama is a highly partisan Democrat bent on a liberal agenda or a centrist searching for compromise.
It’s still early in his second term, but he’s recently made moves that seem to answer the question. Obama could easily choose a partisan strategy that would be politically effective: Don’t make deals with the Republicans on immigration or entitlement reform, and go into the 2014 congressional elections with those problems still live.
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DAVID GREGORY:
So there’s so many areas that are contentious between Republicans in the White House right now. And chief among them is this “sequester” word, this dirty word in Washington. It means automatic spending cuts. $1.2 trillion over ten years could begin in a matter of weeks, with $85 billion in automatic cuts.
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But, first, here’s my take. The scenes of chaos and strife in Egypt that you’ve been seeing during the second anniversary of the Tahrir Square uprising are just the latest and most vivid illustration that Egypt’s revolution is going off the rails.
It has revived talk about the failure of the Arab Spring and even some nostalgia for the old order. But let’s remember, that old order was doomed. Arab dictators like Hosni Mubarak could not have held onto power without even greater troubles; look at Syria.
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Steve Kroft: This is very improbable. This is not an interview I ever expected to be doing. But I understand, Mr. President, this was your idea. Why did you want to do this together, a joint interview?
President Obama: Well, the main thing is I just wanted to have a chance to publicly say thank you, because I think Hillary will go down as one of the finest secretary of states we’ve had. It has been a great collaboration over the last four years. I’m going to miss her. Wish she was sticking around. But she has logged in so many miles, I can’t begrudge her wanting to take it easy for a little bit. But I want the country to appreciate just what an extraordinary role she’s played during the course of my administration and a lot of the successes we’ve had internationally have been because of her hard work.
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