morning of sister wives star janelle. going to hear from that family. that big, crazy chaotic family later on this hour. barry white. hello. no, i get it. thank you, roland martin. roland is back on our panel. i can see how this morning is going to go. thank you for pointing out the obvious. also with us, good morning, will. good morning. margaret hooper is with us, as well, a former campaign staffer for president bush and former new york city mayor rudy giuliani. and she is the great granddaughter of president herbert hoover. how about that? i m the great granddaughter of let s get to our starting point this morning. senator 36 years ousted by a tea party candidate who says we need less cooperation in congress and more confrontation. richard lugar lost to richard mourdock. nice to see you as always. there are many, many iterations, james. tea party, he was out of touch. he was a victim of his own sort of failures to navigate his own campaign. there s an anti-
extraordinary details have already been leaked out to a number of publications. the new york times reports the bomb itself was sewn into underwear so that it would have been difficult to detect. even in a patdown. undoubtedly could have brought down a plane according to a senior american official. the congressman peter king of new york is the chairman of the committee and again, there s a lot that cannot be discussed so we re leaving it up to the experts to tell us what they can. congressman king, the would be bomber is a double agent. what can you tell us about him? i can t tell you very much at all. i have been briefed on this and this is not declassified by the cia or the administration. it s really to me unfortunate that this has gotten out because this could interfere with operations overseas. i m sorry to do this i can t comment on any of the details. i know what s out there. i know it s being reported. i also was at a briefing this afternoon with top officials. the
stopped an ambitious al qaeda plot to blow up a passenger jet bound for the united states. a u.s. counter terrorism official tells cnn the explosive device is similar to the one used by the would-be underwear bomber. just like that bomb, there one did not contain metal, which raises real questions about whether it could have gotten passed airport security. as of yet, the person who had developed that bomb had not yet bought a ticket. here s defense secretary, leon panetta. what this incident makes clear is that this country has to continue to remain vigilant against those that would seek to attack this country and we will do everything necessary to keep america safe. fran townsend is cnn s national security contributor, a member of both the dhs and cia external advisory boards. chad sweet is a former dhs and cia official, also the cofounder of the chertoff group, a global security firm. good to see both of you. fran, i know you ve been reporting on this throughout the day
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there at their convention how he would measure progress. he literally used these words, he said we measure progress differently than republicans, presumably, but it was the fact that he said we measure progress and then he described how it was he and his party measured progress, and i think it s interesting given the fact that he laid out what his report card would be to go back and score him on the very report card he laid out. he said, for instance, that we, the democrats measure progress by whether people have good jobs that can pay for mortgages. okay. we re three and a half years later and he has not yet created a single net new job in america where three and a half years later there were job losses and 93% of the people that lost jobs had been women. on the measure that he himself put in place, creating jobs where people could pay mortgages, he fails, and there was another measure that he laid out. he said in a setting where you were having progress, you could measure i