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>> meanwhile, joe biden suggested his exit speech in the rose garden might have been his way to leave the door open if clinton collapses. though he quickly back-pedalled. >> part of the speech sounded like, i'll be ready. if you've got a plan and need me. >> reporter: clinton is doing some damage controls on little known comments friday when she suggested republicans had bloen the scandal out of proportion for political reasons. >> it hasn't been as widespread as it was made out to be. >> reporter: a scandal was that veterans died while waiting for care. clinton tried to qualify, saying the ve...

>> we didn't start early on. if that were important to have outlined that early in the process as opposed to waving the right flag saying we'll take votes but we can't do anything about it. it is an unacceptable outcome. if i'm president we will deal with this issue. there is no reason planned parenthood should be getting federal taxpayer funding especially after they have been exposed the way they have. >> governor scott walker dropped out of the race yesterday. he sent his exit speech, a lot of it, talking about the need for a conservative alternative to the front-runner, pointedly at donald...

[cheers and applause ] >> the united states honors memorial day weekend at the bagram air base in afghanistan. president obama said thank you for your extraordinary service. something well-received. >> now i'm going to shake every single hand in here. although i may not be able to take a selfie with everybody, but i'll shake every hand. all right? it may take a little time, so be patient. >> the president of the united states promising to shake the hand of everybody there. it may take him some time but we're pretty sure he'll be back in the united states for the memorial day services. he is th...

The union," a big speech to be made by the president this week. is there a more perfect way to set the stage, prompt him for his message by being at bagram air force? >> absolutely not. the white house doesn't like the idea that he did this to take his mind off the v.a. scandal. having said that, let's face it, it leads into a week where he will give a speech at west point and now he's been in afghanistan. this was clearly an exit speech. this was clearly, we're winding this down, here's our successes, here why we went. i think it flows very naturally into the president's speech at west point....

intelligence committees, democrat dianne feinstein and republican mike rogers. plus, the anemic recovery and the election with "the national journal's" major garrett and janice rivlin. i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." republican leaders and former rivals are gathering around mitt romney's candidacy, but the coalescing lacks a certain warm and fuzzy feature. >> compared to barack obama? i would trust mitt romney 100 times over. >> he's the guy. he called and i called him back. we kind of traded some voicemails. >> he's the person that is going to go up against b...