and it continues as we speak 200 miles above us. this is coming to us from the international space station where two astronauts have been doing a spacewalk and they ve got some serious work they re doing up here and have been at it for the past five hours or so. we ll give you an update about this historic endeavour mission. this is your cnn sunday morning for sunday, may 22nd. i m t.j. holmes. also a big breaking news story we are following for you this morning. cnn has been able to confirm the earth did not end yesterday. more on that in just a bit. let me tell you about president obama following up on his vision for peace in the middle east as he addresses a group in about 2 1/2 hours. apec is t aipac is the name o. they can t be pleased with the president s stance as winds of change blow through the region. calls for change may give way in some cases to fierce contests for power. the question before us is, what role america will play as this story unfolds. cn
authentic and genuine and especially true giving a speech and clearly he s been working on it. wasn t wearing a tie giving that speech. come on! superficial. wasn t reading from a text. he was he s trying to become more that s being trained. he s been coached to do that. he s not unique in having been trained. cbs news reports that daniels assured backing from big-money donors for the republican party supporting george w. and sources say that chris christie said he would back him. the governor of new jersey and haley bar bubour and scott walk. are they behind, a group of governors behind george w., mark, is that your reporting now getting behind mitch dan yuls? a lot of governors, money people, bush people would get behind him. john huntsman is a stlet of that working particularly the bundlers very hard and i think it s an open question of whether if both huntsman and daniels are
this was the post office. it s one of about 150 buildings severely damaged or destroyed here. city hall is gone. the police department is gone. the town s grocery store is gone. the funeral home here is gone. and as well 13 lives gone from smithville that were still at last report a couple of people missing and unaccounted for. governor heal ldal haley bar is due here. after taking a look at the damage again, the national weather service upgraded the strength of this tornado to a rare ef-5. that s the strongest possible classification, winds in excess of 200 miles an hour. we ve heard from residents here who saw this funnel cloud coming through. they said it was a monster. one gentleman who owned his dream business, a pizzeria, just in business for five months, it s completely gone, but he says that doesn t matter, he was happy to get out of that building alive.
but with the divide growing between the various wings of the republican party, we could be facing a republican primary defined by the same provisions that drove the 2008 democratic race between barack obama and hillary clinton. ron brownstein is editorial director of the national journal and explores this further in his latest article. good morning. you say it s between the management and the populists? will there be aingal presidential debate or spiderman opening first? as you look at the candidates as they are in the republican field, moving toward the starting line, they seem to be coalescing in two groups reflecting the two basic wings. on the one side you ve got managers, people like mitt romney, mitch daniels, other governors, haley bar bore who are emphasizing their agenda, their record. the other side, you the popul t populists, sarah palin, mike huckabee, even nut gingrich,
income. the rich don t spend their money. they bank it. the most likely result of the top of the $700 billion in tax cuts you believe is a phase out. i think there will be a phase out. there s a negotiation here where over a couple of years say extend it three years, four years. i doubt to extend it a full ten and i don t think that the stomach is there to reduce it completely. josh, it s great to have you on. really appreciate it. thank you. let s do our trivia. which two governors once served as political directors in reagan s white house, chuck? answer is republicans mitch daniels of indiana and haley bar bower of mississippi. it s a seven-year residency requirement in florida. get that out of the way, soon. coming up, president obama hits the campaign trail and he s been hitting it and hitting it.