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assistant vice president of a nationwide insurance. this is one hour. [applause] >> look at this crowd. this is amazing. good morning, everybody, and ross yes for being here. we have a packed house at are honored to have two distinguished guests. on behalf of nationwide, it is our honor to welcome mitt romney to the des moines offices. this is our headquarters. we are extremely proud to employ 4500 associates in iowa and recognize the big part they play. todays program is sponsored by ...

issue one, down under. >> thank you, madam prime minister, for your generous welcome, your friendship and urbe down under. >> president obama traveled this week to the australian military base in darwin, on australias northern coast. the president met there with australias prime minister, julia gillard, to salute the 60th anniversary of anzus, the australian, new zealand, united states security treaty. anzus came into being in 1951 as a mutual defense pact. an attack on one nation woul...

there are plans wto withdraw -- al absallah has left his rule after pressure from the united stats in saudi arabia. we have your thoughts on a heated exchange last week. it is between don young and professor brinkley. a lot of media outlets have picked this up. who is right? if you want to see exercise in futility, it is this hearing. this side has made up its mind. this is garbage. >> rice is the anniversary. you said in his chair and be quiet. >> i will tell you right now. >> i will ...

party. that ought to bring chills to your body as you think of the spiration. can you hear him now? he would say i understand what it means to be looked down upon. i understand what that means to be held back because of something over which i have no control. i understand he came from a broken background. he has brought healing to this nation and healing to so many lives. since im a preacher, i might as well " the bible. it said he was wounded f our transgressions and bruised from our ...

margins among these groups. therell be some compression of margins among young voters and compression of voters among hispanics for example, maybe some among blacks. we can live with that. the question is what is the level of that compression? these groups are still very sympathetic to obama and more broadly very importantly to where the democrats come to this point versus the republicans. this is the disjuncture between approval ratings and support at this point. if you look at hispan...

from americans of prosperity. he will talk about who wins from the failure of the super committee. and then jake tapper has just come back from being with the troops in afghanistan. we will talk about what he has learned on the ground there. we will begin our conversation in a different direction. the video of the use of pepper spray on protesters at uc-davis has gone viral. the chancellor has apologized, offering to pay medical expenses. and there are a number of stories as the debate...

[inaudible] receiving less indirect benefits than he was els an entire country. while my constituents appreciate that under the plan for last labor, they will be paying even more, will he accept that for them and others in rural areas it has become an intolerable burden? >> i do accept what my honorable friend says. thats why the budget we took the decision not only to cut, not want to get rid of the tax increases on petrol that were coming down the tracks but also to make a cuts in pe...

>> tomorrow morning on washington journal, a look at the republican presidential debate focused on national security. we speak to general wesley clark. then fill kerpen joins us. he talks about the failure of the committee to reach an agreement by this weeks deadline. and then jake tapper joins us to talk about the mad about unit. washington journal, each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern, here on c- span. president obama was speaking in manchester, new hampshire. president obama was interr...

former geordie ambassador to the u.s. and middle east scholars jon alterman and marina ottaway talk specifically about how the arab monarchies of bahrain are dealing with pro-democracy movements in their countries. this is an hour and 25 minutes. >> i am very pleased to be moderating the session today. the session is on arab monarchies and how they confronted or dealt with the third spring or awakening. we have a distinguished panel with us. and this is part of a research project that ...

republican candidates gather in the shadow of the white house tonight for the big cnn national security debate. it is the first test for newt gingrich as front-runner. cairo bracing for a million-man sit-in. police beating demonstrators on the fourth straight day of violence, and now late word three americans have been arrested. is there anybody out there? nasa relaunching a program to listen for alien life, searching for signs, on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- w...