And i certainly have a feeling that a lot of those debates will transition to something slightly less controversial. The full interview straight ahead. So you dont read runway . No. Before today you never heard of me. No. You have no style or sense of fashion. I think that depends on what your no, no, that wasnt a question. The devils diplomacy. Vogue editor anna wintour, u. S. Ambassador . Maybe. Newsroom starts now. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining me. Im carol costello. This morning iran is bragging. It claims it capture d an american drone. The u. S. Is denying it. Iran has made that drone a star on state tv. According to irans staterun news agency, the drone was captured immediately after entering iranian air space. The drone, now being shown on iranian television. On tv behind the aircraft is a map of the persian gulf with the words, quote we shall trample on the u. S. The United States says all of its drones in the middle east have been accounted for. The drone iran s
Weekend look through policy policy policy after policy. 31 into your career you pay the same amount starting tomorrow. Its a flat fee. Im not an expert in fe hp. Im a little surprised. It doesnt surprise you that fehbp you are able to move from plant to plan and any preexisting condition is not a problem right . Thats my understanding. Im not sure sure though. Is true. So its portable as long as you were within the federal workforce. Theres no age discrimination. It doesnt care about preexisting conditions and you have huge amount of different hmos ppos and conventional and you can be covered by 96 of all doctors in america and in all 50 states. In your opinion if all that be through is there any reason that the Health Care Plan that you have and that i have the president and Vice President and every member the cabinet that is eligible for shouldnt be made available to the American People . Thats a policy choice that i leave to people in policy positions. If you were not in the federal
Ted kennedy, hatch, crafted compromises. They were both strong partisans, but they had the spirit of compromises. Thats our main prescription for compromise. But if you look at senator hatch, he was a pretty well threatened by the tea party, the primary potentially ousted from office because of the compromises. True, and we dont say compromise is difficult, governing is difficult, however, as politicians, what do we remember hatch for . For passing great legislation to protect health care. Were not going to remember politicians for their cowardness, but for their courage. Were in the going to remember them positively for cowardness, but their courage. We are calling on politicians to exercise leadership. Theres a set of reforms that would make it easier to compromise, reforming the filibuster, open primaries, rather than close primaries. Limiting the amount of money that is politics. The problem is you cant get reforms without compromise so we all have our favorite reforms. Politicians
Of books that you may not know about of the lines. We are pleased to be at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia this week, and we are joined by the president of the university dementia is the coauthor of this book, the spirit of compromise, white governing demands it and campaigning undermines it. President , are we a politically compromising nation . We were created in compromise. A lot of people think of the revolutionary war, which separated us from our mother country, but if you recall, i know you werent there then, but if you recall it historically speaking our Founding Fathers crafted a compromise that created the constitution. They were as polarized as any set of americans who had been throughout our country and history. There were a pro and anti slavery and yet they compromised. So, yes, we were founded in compromise. Today compromise has become more difficult than ever before. What do you mean when you talk about the uncompromising mindset . Well, we live in an era t
And harn es harness our technology for new energy solutions. The people of boeing are looking to tomorrow to build a better tomorrow. Thats why were here. Additional Corporate Funding is provided by prudential financial. Additional funding is provided by the annenburg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Once again live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. Gwen good evening. 2012 was a remarkable year one that was shaped by other exploration of americas essential divide, red vs. Blue, yes. But also red vs. Red. Congress vs. The white house and when it came to Foreign Policy, whether and how to intervene. We begin, of course, with election 2012. Thank you, new hampshire. Tonight we made history. He is the worst republican in the country to put up against barack obama. If youve got a business, you didnt build that. President obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the pl