i know john mccain. we have spoken about this. and i don't think that he will be hurt or harmed that i am speaking publicly what he told me. he difference respects those people who use anonymous sources to attack their own. he told me that. so sheave schmidt and his crew, and granted, steve schmidt allowed his name toyyw be attad to on besmirching comment about another republican but those using anonymous sources are elevated and cited as sources, join john mccain in dismissing them and saying, journalists, quit using them. >> neil: you and the senator are not on the same page regarding this and i wonder if it taxed your relationship. >> we're not on the same issue when it comes to ted cruz is doing in trying to defun obamacare. there are certainly things that john mccain and i do agree on, though and that is that been, dog gonity, barack obama is our president and we have been better off to not be in our position now with the doubling of our debt and the deficits that reach about a trillion dollars a year ask all those things th

senator, could have been president john mccain? >> some u.s. forces, approximately 20,000 should remain for a period of time to help the iraqis secure the hard-earned gains that we had made together. >> i would be very reluctant to reduce the surge troops. >> under president john mccain we would have been in two wars, in iran, libya, russia, we still would be in iraq and would not be planning on leaving afghanistan, that is where he said he was against ending the surge and reducing the troop numbers. and now, of course, senator mccain gets another chance in front of the cameras, where we wait in suspense. it would be a catastrophe if congress votes no, he said, and also he might vote no. the president's military action is not big enough, it is all war, more war, for senator john mccain or he would cast a vote that he says would be catastrophic for the country, go to war in syria or the country gets it. john mccain ran for president in 2008 under the theme "country first." he lost that election, he lost that election, he lost. and so we do not l

>> yeah, far from a spokesperson for john mccain,ut i'll tell you, john mccain has famously been a critic of president putin back when george w. bush said that he looked in putin's eyes and could see his soul, mccain said he looked in his eyes and could see three letters, k-g-b. and mccain like many folks was angry when he saw putin getting an op-ed piece in "the new york times." he said fine, give me equal time in "pravda." it seems like foreign policy comes together on that, and mccain might have his chance to push back at putin. >> oh, my goodness. a lot of people angry, not so happy about what putin wrote, but especially right now at a critical juncture in diplomacy. might john mccain's sentiment be disruptive? could it interfere in all that's taking place so far? >> well, to be clear, john mccain hasn't written the piece yet, so he's got a chance to recalibrate. fred, just over the last few hours, the agreement that seems to have been reached between the united states and russia on syria is a game changer. it fundamentally changes the calculus and really the whole tone of conversatio

steve schmidt, your former boss, john mccain. what does ted cruise know that john mccain doesn't know. ted cruise is running for the president of the united states. and this fear, is fundamentally about the iowa caucuses. the failure to pass this will simply be evidence of his commitment to true conservatism. the gospel he is preaching out along the campaign trail before very long. there is great anger in the republican party. and they don't fall on deaf ears for the activists based in the republican party. if you are about ted cruz and you care about yourself interest here. this is great politics. because, you know, he is, he is rising at the expense of the party. at the expense of the congressional brand. i think what's important to remember as you watch this play out. so many republicans pointed out by governor dean. get driven off the cliff by this stuff. we have given up five u.s. senate seats over the last two election cycles. by the nomination of the tea party crazies. by any one of the number of states. it's not clear if

senators john mccain and lindsey graham. mccain has a big question. he wants to know whether he has a plan to take out syria's regime. >> i want to talk to the president. i want to find out whether there is a plan and a strategy. i want to find out whether this is just a pin prick that somehow bashir assad can trumpet he defeated the united states of america. i will say that if congress overrules a decision of the president of the united states on an issue of national security that, could set a catastrophic precedent in the future. it would be very dangerous precedent to be set. >> mccain has much more strong u.s. military action in syria. >> members congress got a look at intelligence on syria from white house, pentagon and state department officials. our chief congressional correspondent dana bash standing by on capitol hill. dana, did law makers have anything to say about the legislation the president sent to the hill? >> reporter: they had a lot to say. first of all, the bottom line is that it's not going to stay as-is. they believe many of them i

>> yes, jimmy. >> jimmy: all right, you have one here about john mccain, this is how much john mccain cares about syria, good start. playing poker -- and his phone. john mccain playing videos games. i am wondering if he is going to remember to take his medicine. i hope he is not thinking to send naked picture from his cell phone to his wife, like anthony wein weiner. a new season of dancing with the stars, dancing with the stars starts, new season cast, snooki polizzi, you even put her last name? >> yeah. >> jimmy: do you know her last name? >> yeah. >> jimmy: she should be in pre school instead of dancing. it is -- avi has gone too far now. they don't let kids dance, if i were in charge of dancing with the stars, i should put amanda bynes, lamar odor? snoop lion -- >> well, snoop dog, he changed his name. >> jimmy: it will be like dancing and rehab together. one more, miley cyrus's performance at the vmas, boring, i would rather watch soccer for 24 hours or listen to my mother-in-law problem. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: she wants to make historic, but she fails u.s. world histo

john mccain added in an amendment to the resolution. it said in essence, without all the exact wording, that the effort would be to change the momentum on the battlefield. jennifer griffin is live with us in washington. when you put the pieces of this puzzle together, they don't fit. and i don't understand why. >> reporter: shepard, you just honed in on the key language that was added at the last minute to this senate resolution. it was mccain's amendment and it talks about how the goal of the military mission would be to shift the momentum away from the assad regime on the battlefield. that's a very different mission than the president and secretary of defense and secretary of state outlined and genderly outlined as the limited, tailored mission. shifting the momentum away from the assad regime suggests moving one step closer to regime change. that's something the administration said this mission is not about. so they can't have it both ways. but mccain inserted that language because he has been concerned. he wanted to see the oppositi

. >> john mccain bad for playing a game. him, not me. and i'm going to tell you exactly why. ♪ [ male annouer ] let's go places. but let's be ready. ♪ let's do our homework. ♪ let's look out for each other. let's look both ways before crossing. ♪ let's remember what's important. let's be optimistic. but just in case -- let's be ready. let'go places, safely. >>> everyone is making a big deal about this famous shot of john mccain. like a poker game on his smartphone during the senate hearings. everyone seems off ended. commentators are blasting him. they are saying get tough with syria was not at all serious about this super serious hearing on syria. seriously? did you watch that hearing? did you get anything out of it? because i sure didn't. more than three mind numbing hours of it and i still don't know why we are going in. i'm not at all sure whether the white house won't still do whatever it wants anyway. what i am sure about is that we viewers were not privilege dwroy the classified briefing these guy has afterwards. the real

i have now found john mccain's article online on a russian website, so not the famous newspaper. what was he saying? nothing very pleasant about vladimir putin, that's for sure. the article is entitled "russians deserve better than putin." says he rules russia by corruption and violence, and it criticizes the leader for backing a sawed and says that support has destroyed russia's global reputation. strong words from senator mccain, but it's unclear how many russians will actually see them, and how many will be influenced by them. >> steve rosenberg in moscow there. senator mccain's colleagues were busy holding a confirmation hearing for the country's nominee for japan. soon, tokyo may have a very well-known american indeed in its midst. this was not your average capitol hill hearing to confirm an american diplomat. look at all those cameras. the main character -- but then, caroline kennedy is no ordinary nominee. a member of the nations most famous political family was in front of the senate. >> it is an honor to appear before you this morning to serve as united its ambassador to

i have now found john mccain's article online on a russian website, so not the famous newspaper. what was he saying? nothing very pleasant about vladimir putin, that's for sure. the article is entitled "russians deserve better than putin." says he rules russia by corruption and violence, and it criticizes the leader for backing a sawed and says that support has destroyed russia's global reputation. strong words from senator mccain, but it's unclear how many russians will actually see them, and how many will be influenced by them. >> steve rosenberg in moscow there. senator mccain's colleagues were busy holding a confirmation hearing for the country's nominee for japan. soon, tokyo may have a very well-known american indeed in its midst. this was not your average capitol hill hearing to confirm an american diplomat. look at all those cameras. the main character -- but then, caroline kennedy is no ordinary nominee. a member of the nations most famous political family was in front of the senate. >> it is an honor to appear before you this morning to serve as united its ambassador to

that was, of course, john mccain during the hearing. did you see his tweet acknowledging that was him? >> i did. he kind of poked fun at himself and said, you know, the worst part of all this, i lost. look, i do think in this modern era where there are photographers, people tweeting, people posting on youtube everywhere, you're smart to just say, look, you know, i'd asked my questions, people had moved on, and i was killing time, essentially, not what john mccain said. i think it's smart to poke a little fun at yourself. gosh knows i poke enough fun at myself. >> yes, busted. we should say that on twitter a lot of people were upset because of the seriousness of the subject. >> right, and i think that's why mccain felt like he needed to say something. >> chris, thank you so much. and that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." tomorrow, congressman elijah cummings. remember, follow the show online and on twitter @mitchellreports. my colleague tamron hall has a look at what's next on "news nation." >> hi, andrea. th

i argue john bainer is more important than john mccain, no offense to senator mccain. the hill is steeper for the president in the house. any help he can get from republicans is critical to argue the case that this isn't about the president, it's about u.s. national security policy. >> we have to make that case for sure. john king great to see you. >>> we'll have much more coverage on the debate on syria, with john we'll talk exclusively with senator lindsey graham coming up and also talk to senator john mccain and we're going to be hearing from the hosts of "crossfire," van jones and newt gingrich. >>> coming up on "new day," the worm has re-turned. dennis rodman back in north korea, the lowdown on why he says he's there. >>> a strange mystery solved, find out why cars in one parking zone in london are literally melting away. building animatronics is all about getting things to work together. the timing, the actions, the reactions. everything has to synch up. my expenses are no different. receipt match from american express synchronizes your business expenses. just sh

maybe i'll have better luck tonight because john mccain is next. test test >> neil: you know it was not only democrats who took offense to ted cruz's 21-hour plus marathon. john mccain took took to the floor to question the meaning of what the senator was up to and comments he made about how the healthcare law was put into place. the senator joins me now. what got your goat, senator?hñ >> pundits who said we couldn't fund obama. care. we can't because we don't have the votes. it allowed hitler to do the things he did. >> neil: he was talking about pundits. >> but you know, in some ways i'm a pundit but share their view. i wanted to#2z point out in nine 2009 i spent more hours on the floor fighting obamacare, even to the morning of christmas eve. to somehow say these guys are -- they're not against obamacare, they don't fight hard enough. i fought on the floor when(zgpet really mattered and i thought we could beat it and it didn't because they have the votes, just as they have the votes now. i will take a backseat to no one -- in 2012 i spent two

like this town hall with senator john mccain. from cnn affiliate knxv in phoenix has more for you. >> i understand your skepticism. >> reporter: senator john mccain trying to make the hard sell. >> i am opposed to having a single american boot on the ground. >> reporter: this is one of three town hall meetings the senator has to get voter insight on u.s. involvement in syria. >> i really want to hear from you, rather than you hearing from me. >> reporter: for a whole hour, voters didn't hold back. >> how much is the life of american servicemen worth? to me, it's worth a whole lot more in the situation. >> no contemplation of putting a serviceman or woman -- i'm telling you there's not, sir. so, that is not, that is not an argument we can have. it's not going to happen. >> we cannot afford to turn syria into another iraq. or afghanistan. i beg you. >> reporter: even syrian americans who were split on the issue hashed it out at the meeting. >> it's not true. you are lying. >> you cannot shut me up here like you did in syria. this i

the two broke out, courtesy of senator john mccain, who's no friend of president obama's. mccain's message to ted cruz and other radical right-wingers, when it comes to obamacare, get over it. >> we've fought as hard as we could in a fair and honest manner, and we lost. and we lost -- one of the reasons is, because we in the minority. the elections have consequences. people spoke. they spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke. and they reelected the president of the united states. all of us should respect the outcome of the elections which reflects the will of the people. >> they lost. john mccain unloaded on cruz with the truth, the truth that was missing during cruz's overnight circus act where he rambled on about dr. seuss and star wars and nazis, and he spread epic miss truths about obamacare. >> millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials. for truth about how obamacare is failing the men and women of america. >> wrong. today an important new report shows for 95% of uninsured americans, obamacare will cos

at least, that's what john mccain thought. after vladimir putin successfully pulled off one of the great global trolling enterprises in history, by placing an op-ed in "the new york times," making a direct appeal to the american people, mccain tried to do him one better, by publishing an op-ed in the newspaper that served a as the mouthpiece to communist russia. there was just one little problem. it is not the pravda john mccain was thinking of when he first hatched the idea in a discussion about putin's "times" op-ed. >> i would like to have a chance to have a commentary in pravda. >> the pravda that mccain was thinking of, that was the original state newspaper that for 80 years delivered what was literally the party line of communist russia. the current "pravda" is a weird orphan of that one and has nowhere near the influence "the new york times" has in america. pravda is the 535th most read website in russia. though to be fair, i don't think any of the other sites accept op-eds. zlat described the new pravda as a cross betw

john mccain gets an earful on the people of arizona. hitler's as adolf bodyguard. we look back at the life of rochus misch. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. world leaders are heading home from the g 20 summit in russia with decisions whether to take military action against syria. despite private talks between president obama and president hooton, america and russia came no closer to resolving their differences. this contains some disturbing images. more divided than ever over syria's chemical weapons, the leaders split into two camps. president obama leading one side against a formidable foe, the russian president. one opponent is india. argentina as well as south china.and alongside them, others were still uneasy at military action without united nations approval. vladimir putin sounded more convinced than ever as that it was rebels behind the attack. >> the so-called chemical weapons attack, it was a provocation by the rebels who were hoping it would lead to or help from those countries who have been backing them. that

remember that john mccain referred to ted cruz as whacko birds a few months ago. john mccain is a very different vision of how the republican party should be the loyal opposition than does ted cruz. i would note that you played ted cruz saying he's not mr. cleej yalty. i would say 75% to 80% of the rhetoric in that 21 hours and 19 minutes was devoted to calling out republicans. ted cruz praised people like bernie sanders, the independent who caucuses with democrats for his filibuster. he said he understood why harry reid was doing what he was doing. he understood why democrats were taking the approach they took to obama care. he really saved kind of the rhetoric for his own side. why weren't more republicans there? he called some of the procedural votes that republicans had advocated for fake and phony. he knew what he was doing, and i'm sure he knew that the likes of john mccain were not going to be happy about it. >> mark halperin, what is the next step? you have a dysfunctional congress, house and senate. now we have the funding bill. we have the debt ceiling.

bill: did the white house expect john mccain go that route? >> reporter: they knew he was concerned in one direction here that the president is being squeezed as you say. on one hand he has antiwar democrats from the left saying, why are we intervening at all? then you have folks like john mccain, saying intervene but don't make this a symbolic strike a shot across the bow as the president said last week. decimate assad's military. the president's team fanning out on hill. you saw secretary of state kerry and defense secretary hagel. they're back on the hill on closed hearing. yesterday was open hearings. what they're trying to do behind closed doors basically with general dempsey, we should point out, the joint chiefs chairman, make the case with intelligence behind closed doors, what they can't say in front of the cameras. i have to tell you i spoke to one top official here told me they simply do not know if they have votes in the house and senate as of today to get this through the congress. that gives you idea of predictment president is i

do they care what john mccain thinks? >> reporter: el, i think what you'll find here, what john mccain has in common with vladimir putten in this instance, apart from the fact they disagree on almost everything, they both feel misunderstood in countries they are trying to engage in. what both leaders have tried to do this in this case is communicate directly with the people, bypassing the local filters of politicians and journalists who they believe distort the message they're trying to put out. you can see that carefully in the way putin expressed the russian position on syria the way mccain is trying to stress the fact he's not anti-russian because that's what he's referred to in the country as. whether or not this is successful, i guess we might have to wait a little bit longer to find out. certainly we know putin was criticized heavily for his comments and certainly not everyone's going to agree with john mccain. generally most russians don't like being told what to do by nonrussians. >> pravda has been around forever

that's why john mccain is here and lindsey graham. so far republicans are very split whether they'll support this president. >> i left yesterday with more questions than answers, because we don't see a coherent strategy in the middle east. i mean, this is what happens when you lead from behind. >> i think at the end of the day, congress will rise to the occasion. this is a national security issue. this isn't about barack obama versus the congress. >> the white house is particularly happy about the last comment. that republican mike rogers, not any republican. he has standing in the congress, chairman of the house intelligence commitow, for him to sigh we're going to get this done, they happy inside the white house but it's basically a race against the clock. the president leaves tomorrow night for sweden and then will be gone a few days, also in russia for the g-20 schmidt. that's why he is trying to back in the phone calls and meetings as much as they can before he is out of the country. >> some skepticism over the weekend since the

with john mccain on a lot of things. it is beyond disgraceful this administration is going around saying giving this delay does nothing to change the strategic calculus or limit the ability of what we can do if we do strike syria. that is simply, blunt, a disgusting lie. we know now, a.p. and other news outlets have been moving stories on this, that asad has been moving his assets into civilian areas and moving civilian areas into military areas. he's, in effect, making it extremely difficult for americans to do something even cosmetic without killing a lot more innocent people than remotely necessary. and the president is saying all of that basically because he just wants cover from congress. this idea for a lot of my friends on the right are celebrating obama for consulting with congress and all of that. but president obama does not say that he needs congress' authorization. he says he wants their organization for something he already insists he has authority to do anyway. what he's basically looking to do is perform c

mccain planning to deliver his message on this well it was reported that john mccain in various parts of media had there been reports that mccain was planning on writing an editorial in russian newspaper profit up and as sort of a rebuttal to this even though the american people have obviously turned away from the thought of military intervention in syria mccain still wants to get a word in according to press reports and that would be his publication of choice now prob does editor has said the publication would be more than happy and would welcome anything he were to write but to be honest there were a lot of raised eyebrows when this hit the media over here because prada being a very well known publication in soviet times it was at the communists newspaper now it is not exactly the new york times or russian media whatsoever so that caused a lot of sort of raised eyebrows on the heels of this report one of the presenters for television channel has said he would be more than happy to give john mccain a slot on his interview show should he accepted so of course the drama continues and w

john mccain faced a stormy town hall meeting in his home state of arizona. the cane, one of the main proponents -- john mccain, one of the main proponents of intervention in syria, tried to be reassuring. >> i understand the cynicism, manyar weariness that citizens have. the president will have to make a strong case to get the approval of the american people, and i suggest that he speak directly to the american people. >> congress is divided on both sides of the aisle. republicans such as house speaker john boehner and representative eric cantor are in favor, republicans make up most of the 230 members of commerce who have declared themselves opposed. significant numbers of democrats are speaking up, too. one of the latest to do so is west virginia senator joe manchin, who said it is not the answer. >> the military strike in syria at this time is the wrong course of action. diplomaticaust all options and have a conference of plan before we act. russia, barackn obama is trying to drum up support among allies, even if one of his supporters, david cameron, has

to arizona john mccain, he thinks this could be a russian plan to solving things. senator, good to have you. >> thank you. by the way, i agree with what rudy giuliani had to say a few minutes ago. >> neil: he makes a lot of sense, talking about if you're going to do something, do it and dilly dalying or whatever has emboldened the enemy and given them time to hide things. to the mayor's point about what we do now, what do we do now? >> well, to the mayor's point, if you say you're going to take the enemy, take the enemy. i never heard of a president of the united states who said he would take military action then said he was going to seek agreement of congress. >> neil: why do you think he did that? i want to pick your brain. it does -- a lot of people think he seemed to be ready for a unilateral move. he was going to do it and many argued he would have the legal bounds to do it. he didn't. why? >> i don't know except that it's been widely written about in the media that he took a 45 minute walk with his chief of staff and came in to meet with his national security

john mccain on day one said, i don't think this is a good idea, and he has switched already after one meeting with obama. the president knew the temperature in the house and he's going to get this through. >> why do you think that is, david? >> ultimately it will come down to thinking a little bit further ahead than right now. right now it's really unclear what would the end result be? we've got so many fractured rebel groups and nobody could predict how it would all shake out. i think john mccain and others who have longer potential political futures are thinking how is this going to affect me if i run for re-election? how will this effect me? do i want to be seen as that guy in two and four, six years? do you think we'll get a debate on the long-term strategy beyond today with the limits targeted strikes? >> i certainly hope so. i'm going to be looking for how much discussion of the exit strategy will be, and also those who might call for details of the exit strategy. were they calling for one when we were debating iraq before or were they not as concerned because maybe of who was i

then we'll talk to three key senators, including arizona republican john mccain, plus georgia republican saxby chambliss, and virginia democrat tim kaine. and we'll get the latest from syria's capital of damascus with elizabeth palmer. it's all ahead on "face the nation." 7 captioning sponsored by cbs >> substituting for bob schieffer, white house correspondent major garrett. >> major: good morning, and welcome to "face the nation." secretary of state john kerry joins us from the state department. mr. secretary, good morning. >> good morning, major. >> major: mr. secretaryish know you believe the president's decision to seek congressional authorization is courageous, but isn't it bowing to a political arrangement that was communicated to the president late this tweak that there would be significant congressional backlash in he didn't give congress a exproal that back lash, in part, reflectedly the inability of the administration to make its case this past week? >> major, i disagree with that premise on all accounts. the fact is the president clearly had sufficient case presented to the a

mccain who is a supporter of intervening in syria, john mccain says according to reuters and associated press that he is not supportive of a bipartisan compromise of a rising the president to attack syria with conditions. john mccain and others on the senate foreign relations committee will have the opportunity to change that compromise proposal at a committee session beginning in 30 minutes of perhaps trying to influence that proposal doesn't mean john mccain is a total no on this. he has in pushing for intervention on syria and there's a lot of process left to go and president obama continues to push congress to approve the use of military force in syria, he says failed to act will reflect poorly on the united states and congress. >> my credibility is not on the line. the international community's credibility is on the line and america and congress's credibility is on the line because we give lip service to the notion that these international norms are important. >> the president refuses to say if he will attack of congress refuses to approve this resolution donnelly that congress wil

mccain because john mccain has never met a war he didn't like and john mccain's response to the prospect of the u.n. security counsel resolution, which we apparently now have, was that it made him sad. he did not want this to be resolved diplomatically. that made him feel sad and what's amazing about that is that it's just him. that's a bizarre view to have. the rest of the country doesn't have a window. >> we're now showing the breaking news banner. i have to say, we were, you and i were both reporting on this in the run up to it and i was watching it when john kerry came to the nation when he made this argument for strikes. this is a train wreck. i don't think it's going to work, i think it's going to make things worse. with russia voting for it and chemical weapons is incredible democratic victory. >> on the day that the american president speaks to the iranian president for the first time since 1979. these are both the kinds of things that are not just unimaginable a week ago, but for the last several decades. i guess this is the way these things happen. you quietly work on these thi

john mccain is all about -- correct me if i'm wrong -- regime change. the president's position isn't that as far as we know. >> there is no question that john mccain wants to go and lindsey graham has wanted to go further than the president. they have been pushing the hardest for the president to do that. there is also no question that the president is not going to be able to give them what they want in terms of promises of further action. what they are generally asking for now is some kind of not necessarily time frame but game plan in terms of what the u.s. policy will be going forward after the strikes go ahead. part of the concern by people who are more hawkish on the issue -- lindsey graham, john mccain and others -- is they are concerned that you do this. you have pin-prick strikes against where the chemical weapons could be stored. then what? you keep al assad in place and maybe embolden him. that's the concern they have militarily. that's the thing they will want answers from the president on today. >> all right. dana bash reporting live for us

senators lindsey graham and john mccain. senator mccain also thinks leaving this whole thing up to congress is a bit risky. >> i want to talk to the president. i want to find out whether there is a plan and a strategy. i want to find out whether this is just a pinprick that somehow bashar al assad can trumpet that he defeated the united states of america. but i will say that if congress overrules a decision of the president of the united states on an issue of national security, that could set a catastrophic precedent in the future. it would be very dangerous precedent to be set. >> we are waiting to hear from senator mccain and senator graham as soon as they finish that meeting in front of the white house. and what happens when everyone convenes on monday. the fact that the president has to convince congress, the senate, the house, to fwget on board with this plan for authorization. a busy schedule has left the president with a very small window to work with. look at this. before congress votes, that is next monday, the pres

if john mccain wants to say something to me, happy to respond to something john mccain says. megan mccain has no standing to be kri tooeking me. i'm not going to respond to somebody just because of her last name. >> he would have responded if she were a new jersey citizen. >>> investors hoping stocks close on a positive note after a rough week. major averages avoiding a six-day losing streak. good jobless claims are part of the spark for that one. good morning, jeff. >> good morning to you. away from the markets, we're also keeping an eye on the debt story as well. i'm not talking about the debt ceiling per se. i'm talking about detroit. story during the rounds that there will be some financial assistance for detroit, but the federal government is only talking about $300 million here. this is a city in it up to $18 to $20 billion. so that's some way off the pace. that assistance reflecting the federal government's own limited ability at the moment to provide funding. moving on, i want to talk about microso microsoft. people have been speculating who is going to replace this m