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Cancelled the trip to iowa to talk about his infrastructure and budget. when you look at the capitol hill calendar it gets compressed because at the end of august thats when -- because the reconciliation, the vehicle theyre using for what would be health care and tax reform, that closes. that window closes in august. so youll potentially have a lot of capitol hill conversations, you have some debt ceiling conversations there as well. normally, on a friday night at a white house you get whats cal...

Theyve got no one who really is sort of leading the pack to get 218 votes. you were a committee chairman. they are hounding paul ryan tonight. theyve even got governor mitt romney calling him. i mean, this has gotten to be quite a situation of chaos on capitol hill. >> well, theyve got to find somebody who can get the votes, greta. but let me go back and explain to you why im hesitant to say anything. we changed the speaker. we had to have a new speaker in the ohio house in my state. weve had a ...

>> its a really special connection i have with him. >> rick springfield joins me now. great to have you back. >> thanks. appreciate it. this is an amazing documentary because its all about your fans and some are very personal stories of how their lives have evolved over the 30 years theyve been following your career. >> right. we go back a long way. we started early. i think theres a window at a certain age early teens where you let everything in and you find where you are based on that and then...

>> hes been a part of my life since ive been eight. >> regular people. just over the top fans. he really makes himself available to fans. i think its phenomenal. >> its a really special connection i have with him. ill always have. >> mike: rick springfield joins me now. rick, its great to have you back. >> thanks, huck. appreciate it. [ cheers and applause ] >> you know theyre not going to quit that easily. >> mike: this is an amazing documentary because its all about your fans and some of them ...

>> hes been a part of my life since ive been eight. >> regular people. just over the top fans. he really makes himself available to fans. i think its phenomenal. >> its a really special connection i have with him. ill always have. >> mike: rick springfield joins me now. rick, its great to have you back. >> thanks, huck. appreciate it. [ cheers and applause ] >> you know theyre not going to quit that easily. >> mike: this is an amazing documentary because its all about your fans and some of them ...

Since ive been eight. >> regular people. just over the top fans. he really makes himself available to fans. i think its phenomenal. >> its a really special connection i have with him. ill always have. >> mike: rick springfield joins me now. rick, its great to have you back. >> thanks, huck. appreciate it. [ cheers and applause ] >> you know theyre not going to quit that easily. >> mike: this is an amazing documentary because its all about your fans and some of them are very personal stories of h...

Capability of israel to take out the iranian nuclear threat exists now and theres a certain window. that window closes for israel, the united states has greater capability and probably has another year or so is the way he put it in which they could do that, but then if israel waited that long, it would be totally dependent on the united states. >> its not going to wait that long. >> another interesting thing he said, though, in direct question from tom friedman, was do you trust president obama....

Administrati administration, you worked with governor romney. what do you think is going to happen now that theç medicaid expansion provision is optional. it covers in the original version of the bill 17 million people. it covers most of the people who pick up coverage. what do you think is going to happen? >> i think its going to be very challenging for the 26 states that went to the court to just say no, were not going to take 100% of the funds to provide coverage for our citizens. i think t...

100% of the funds to provide coverage for our citizens. i think thats going to be a tough sell at the end of the day. i think there will be fewer states that wont take advantage of the option. >> christine makes the point its free money for a while. but then the window closes and the states have to pay 10%. just, for example, some of the costs, even in blue state where is you think they would sign up for this, california, it will cost california $2 billion additional dollars in the first six yea...

also, james wolfensohn has many claims to fame. yes, he ran the world bank but he hired paul volcker when he started his own investment firm. ill talk to him about the global economy and more. later, an inside look at the silicon valley facebook, paypal, facebook, zynga. reid hoffman has been at the ground floor of all of them. and why is one of americas friends, india, friends with one of its sworn enemies, iran? playground politics are at large. ill explain. but first, heres my...