scheduling problems, but later, they said there were no meeting ever asked for. why were there scheduling problems? i think the white house got caught. they said there was no meeting requested in washington. but you had reporters, including experience exclude very good reporter, writing in their stories that the white house had denied a meeting with benjamin netanyahu and later in the story, quiting the white house as saying, we have not denied a meeting. they didn t have the story right. it looks bad. but, they are not going what is not going to happen, they won t have a meeting with morsi and not have one with netanyahu. greta: how s governor romney doing? i got two laughs and a smirk. well, he had a day today while, you know, the embassies were burning, where he was on tv with kelley rippa, talking about snooki, so the romney campaign seems to be all over the map. they don t seem to land, is this the day we appeal to women or talk about the economy and/or
has fallen short. dan joins me from london. appreciate it. so dan, this comes down absolutely, yeah, this is fast turning into sorry, go ahead. this comes down to a private contractor. they were tasked with providing security for the games, so what s the concern now? where did they fall short? well, they basically haven t been able to guarantee the number of guards that they were contracted to provide at various different olympic sites. we re going to turn up on time. we haven t quite drilled down to the bottom of exactly why that is but we re told it s something to do with scheduling problems with software problems, basically that they can t insure that the people they trained will turn up at the right place or that the people have the right accreditation or can get to one place or another. logistical problems bike this private security firm who last wednesday told the government, look, we can t fulfill the contract of supplying 10,000 guards. you re going to help
but i bring people together, which we must do at the end of the day remembering we are all americans first and foremost stkwra. martha: i was watching mike huckabee this morning. he felt it was a big mistake for you not to be part of his forum. he said this was a golden opportunity to show the conservative he was. the questions were great at that forum, it was a very serious environment. would you regret it? and would you change your mind about the second one? we had scheduling problems. martha: can you open up for the next one do you think. of course we are, we ll be at the next one and i ll be debating newt gingrich one-on-one in new hampshire. these things are very important, extended long-handy bates where you can talk about the issue in some details twaut giving 30 seconds or 60 seconds to very important topics. we are getting our message out. i d love more one and one debates. i love forums where we can talk about the issues in extended
anything but a holiday for americans reeling from extreme weather. lee is weakening to a tropical depression, but still a massive rain maker that could make travel across much of the country a nightmare. storms winds have helped fuel wildfires in central texas. at this hour, a thousand homes are in danger near austin. and later today, hurricane katia will unleash its first impact on the east coast. we re tracking this storm and tell you where that s headed in a moment. first, we want to begin with the flooding rains pounding the gulf coast since lee made la landfall in louisiana over the weekend. ed lavandera is in the city of lafitte this morning. what s it looking like where you are? reporter: they have shut it down because it is just after high tide here in southern louisiana. and that means that these floodwaters are going back up. many of the roadways in this area simply look like this. this isn t actually that deep but definitely treacherous enough for not allo
but had scheduling problems and continue make it. they hadn t reached a consensus of one hundred percent policy of what was going to be do. senator durbin said the president is going to let congress lead on that. a lot of people think he s done that on healthcare and other things. do you think the white house should be more actively involved in crafting the solution or leave it to congress. i think the white house is very involved in this. this is incredibly important. this speaks directly to where the president how the president believes the economy is going to proceed. i think he also recognizes he has to work with congress. this is a cooperative thing. he s going to work with john boehner and the republicans when they are in power starting in january. i think the president is deeply involved and i think the democrats are making the right decision for economy. i am anxious to have the republicans make the case that it s critical that people making over $250,000 a year get a massi