war on the united states in 1979. question claired war on israel in 1979 under ayatollah khomeini. they started taking hostages. they killed americans in lebanon, saudi arabia, iraq, afghanistan. now if this plot turns out to be credible, combined with the nuclear weapons development strategy, you have a declared war from an enemy with virtually no response for all these years. i brought in with me, an article from april 2010, fromç the new york times then defense secretary robert gates says u.s. match policy to iran. detailed three-page secret memo saying the obama administration doesn t have a plan. what is that plan? to neutralize iran. to degrade their capabilities to threaten us. either with terrorism or nuclear war.
one prominent republican succeed. mz think that the joint select committee is goingç to be successful in reaching the goal of getting 1.2 trillion in cuts. in fact, i served on the biden discussions to the vice president s credit that that can form the basis of getting to the 1.24 trillion. you are confident the super committee will make a deal? i am. we can t fail there. has to be success here. reporter: failure to reach agreement would trigger drastic cuts in defense and domestic spending. as you mentioned, president obama launches another bus trip to promote his plan for creating jobs. he will stop in north carolina and virginia over three days, starting tomorrow. a trip similar to his bus trip to minnesota, iowa, and illinois august. supporters say the republican alternative to the president s job plan wouldn t work.
the problem is we have a president currently who doesn t have a plan. and republican presidential candies and none of the republican presidential candidates have laid out a plan either. i m writing a about a fictional terrorist attack on the united states by iran in new york, not washington. and iran ?pr g nuclear weapons and pressuring israel not to launch a first strike. we re not living in a fictional world. we live in a world where we neither have a president nor ly a republican presidential campaign nor currently a republican presidential campaign structure that has given us a plan? how important do you think it is that candidates be asked about this? many within the gop field are strong supporters of israel. do you think they would allow israel to act on its on behalf if that nation felt it were necessary for survival? i d like to see it. no question jobs, economy, bold tax reform, all critical.
roman for bill romance. thank you very much. president obama hits the road tomorrow on a three day bus tour geared towards selling the public on his jobs initiative plan which was a hot topic on the sunday morning thoughs. steve centanni. the president will combine campaign pollty with economic politics. just like the last bus trip in the midwest. the president is focusing on swing states he is in danger of losing in 2012. he starts off in asheville, north carolina tomorrow hoping to rally support for a jobs bill that has already been shot down by the senate. the administration will now try to pass individual parts of the measure but republicans who have their own plan are keeping up their criticism of the president. obviously his economic plans are not working. that is why we are trying to say we have got to change directions here. we have to focus on private enterprise and small business. we have got to get the entrepreneurs back in the game.
top notch performance. thanks for your time. thankç you. shannon: the iranian plot fbi director mueller has talked about reads like the pages of a soon to be released novel. joel rosenberg s new book bears an eerie, unconnie resemblance to current events. it uncanny resemblance to current events. he joins us now. joel, thanks for coming in. this with week we are talking about the foiled iranian plot. some wonder how far up it went in the iranian leadership. whether leaders there knew about it. whether this is a legitimate plot. what do you make of it? were you surprised to hear of it this plan to assassinate the saudi ambassador, here in d.c.?p f i want to see the evidence come through. right now time will tell in terms of the specific plot. the problem is, iran declared