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assessing the presidential field with republican national committee chairman reince priebus. and america's cities, our first installment today with los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. >> that's why we're here today. because l.a. is not waiting on washington. i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." on his way out of town friday, president obama called the two chairs of the super committee from air force one to tell them they needed to make a debt deal -- soon. that is not breaking news to panel members who have been spinning their wheels for nearly three months....

Kelly, give us the scoop on this latest meeting the president plans to hold within this hour. >> reporter: well, he'll have the democratic leadership over to the white house, not everyone. he did speak to speaker boehner last night, and they are doing incremental meetings to find where people are and where they can get the vote count, all of the kind of behind-the-scenes work. one of the interesting things is last week the meetings were a bit more public. we got to have a picture of it, and aides would describe what would hatch on the inside. that would change. perhaps not all that helpful on ...

As well. >> welcome back to "morning joe." 43 past the hour. contributor editor to "rolling stone," michael hastings whose piece on general stanley mcchrystal triggered the white house's decision to recall the commander of u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan and accept his resignation. now, hastings has a new "rolling stone" piece on the man who took mcchrystal's place, general david petraeus. hastings writes this, during his time in iraq petraeus earned the nickname king david for the manner in which he ruled over the ancient city of mosul. to get america out of the war petraeus has turned to...

Else. if we get high pressure readings, that says the wellbore is intact and talk about the casing pipe, and that all relates to how much mud is needed to kill the well down below. >> that makes all of the sense in the world. i get that. the helix producer is collecting oil, good news there. is and winds are out of the south and east, pushing the oil away a bit or providi a bit of a break. >> more importantly, they're light, and things are calm. pretty much any operation that they have to fix a situation or work the situation -- >> reset booms. >> reset booms, controlled burns, skim, all. thos...

Looking into hiring a lawyer, a woman who would do the questioning out of fear i think of some of the political optics of the 11 men of the judiciary committee. do you have confirmation that the questioning is going to be done by a third-party lawyer? >> that's the direction that they are moving, to have a third-party lawyer do their questioning for them. my view is we have a constitutional responsibility as senators to do our own questioning. examine for them to resort to this extraordinary delegation, in effect ceding their responsibility, i think shows something about how hollow their claim...