Bob Schieffer: Obama speech spat "ridiculous"
On CBS' "The Early Show" this morning, CBS News' chief Washington correspondent and "Face the Nation" anchor Bob Schieffer said he's skeptical that it was a "coincidence" President Obama requested to deliver a speech before Congress on the same night as the next Republican presidential debate.
The White House called the scheduling conflict a "coincidence." But after House Speaker John Boehner rebuffed the president's request, the president rescheduled his speech for the next day, anyway.
"It's going to take a lot to convince me that the president's people did not know there was a Republican date on the night that the president wanted to make that speech," Schieffer said this morning. "If they didn't know -- the president's people didn't know -- then I think it might be time for the president to get some new people."
"This was shaping up something worthy of the playground, 10-year-olds arguing over who was going to get to bat first or something," Schieffer added. "This is just really one of the most ridiculous episodes that I think we've had in the last year or so, a year of ridiculous episodes."
He said that both parties could suffer serious political fallout from these sorts of antics. Watch the rest of his remarks in the video above.