in closing, i would like to thank president obama, leader pelosi, secretaries boxer and feinstein, as well as leader lahood for the commitment to public transit, creating jobs, and investing in san francisco. again, thank you this morning for being here, and let's get it done. appreciate it. [applause] >> i tried to think about this room as the dream room, where we dream and bring some of those dreams to life. i feel very blessed that i have been able to spend the last 31 years of my life doing it my way, thinking about things better interesting to me, and then pursuing them. there are a lot of different artists that come here to work, mostly doing aerial work. kindred spirits, so to speak. there is a circus company that i have been fortunate enough to work with the last couple of years. i use elements of dance and choreography and combine that with theater techniques. a lot of the work is content- based, has a strong narrative. the dancers have more of a theatrical feel. i think we are best known for our specific work. in the last 15 years, spending a lot of time focusing on issues t

was revised down from two point two to one point nine percent meanwhile the obama administration's attempt to build an industry of battery makers for electric cars is sputtering subsidized firms are struggling they don't have many customers they're operating way below capacity this is all according to the wall street journal what the problem was is that government granted this money it was linked to production calendars and not to market demand so is this an example of what happens when government picks winners and losers or is there a role for uncle sam in alternative energy let's talk about it let's get to today's capital account. more bad news out of europe and i have to say it's looking like fight or flight on the continent in terms of capital flight data from spain central bank suggest close to one hundred billion euros left the country in the first quarter alone that is around ten of the country's g.d.p. that just took their money elsewhere now the euro has had a two year low against the dollar and vest or is there a rushing into what they perceive to be safe havens one of which is t

obama's never experienced a winner. i think that's his problem, that's why he doesn't understand capitalism. he thinks everything he touches loses. which it does. >> it was president obama who said your record as a venture capitalist is something we should look at. romney is considered the best in the world. if you're going to blame romney for the job losses on bain's watch, why wouldn't you give him credit for the job games on bain's watch, which are hundreds of thousands of jobs. >> sure, but he starts counting those jobs even after he left bain, though? >> well, you're counting the job losses after he left bain. also if you look at president obama's record as a venture capitalist, it's one of inexperience, incompetence, and bad results, same as with the presidency -- >> oh, let's make another very basic point -- >> weren't failures, right? >> we've got a free enterprise economy. when private enterprises make investments, they take risks, succeed or fail. that's not what we're talking about with crony capitalism like

under obama it's $0.93. inequality got worse under obama than it did from clinton to bush. so if you look at the net effect of policies obama is to the right of george bush. whereas you might say, oh well obama is taking all of this wall street money and it's the rules of the game, et cetera et cetera. obama believes in all of this stuff. he believes that jamie dimon -- >> we got to leave. >> okay. but i don't disagree but i just want to make one more point on this, i'm just talking -- >> you think this matters. >> i do think this matters -- no, but i disagree with you on the ming of the playing field, but i don't disagree with you that they are not dissimilar when it comes to economy and he does more damage but the two candidates themselves are vastly different on so many issues. this is about the economy. >> we got to get it right there. what i'm getting is either way we're not going to go after the banks, and on top of that the drone strikes continue. and it has us increasing al-qaeda memberships when we come back. >> attacks are intensifying. >> on one occasion they kil

you can see president obama has 16 million twitter followers. romney 250,000 and ron paul, not too bad a showing here for someone, $296,000 followers. >> warner: so if you're a follower of these candidates, how many tweets a day would you get? >> it depends on the day. sometimes they come rapid fire as they try to drive a particular message. the president of the united states... it's not surprising he would have more followers but what i found surprising is where these people lived because for the obama campaign nearly half are out of the country, most of those people can't vote in the u.s. election, mitt romney only 10% outside the united states. >> warner: right, but the you do the math it shows obama with six million and romney with under 500,000. so when president bush then... last week he gave a speech in iowa and then he sat down with a laptop and started tweeting answers to questions people tweeted in but he has to keep them to 140 characters. >> it was called a twitter town hall essentially. so people can tweet@barack obama and ask him a

. >> reporter: what grade would you give president obama? >> oh, an "f." there's no question about that. >> reporter: across the board. >> across the board. >> reporter: even despite the killing of osama bin laden. >> look at what's happening in the middle east. the arab spring has become the arab winter. that's hardly a success. and of course domestically, it's hard to call what, now, 39, 40 months of unemployment above 8% a success when even he said by now, it would be in the 6% range. and by now it is not. it's over eight. >> reporter: what would do you though, specifically, when you think about the problem of long-term unemployment, what would do you to turn that around in a romney administration? >> you know, one of the things we tried when i was the governor of massachusetts was to create an incentive for employers to actually hire people who had been out of work for a long time. and so we said if you hire someone who has been out of work a year or more, we're going to give you the, the employer, i think it was a $2,000 check to be able to train this

the loan that the company received from the obama administration is a target by romney. and mark matthews joins us live. >> mitt romney came here to point out taxpayers put $535 million into solyndra only to see it fail. the obama campaign was in massachusetts pointing out what they're calling mitt romney's bad record there. >> mitt romney's visit is perfect for the message that the spending was a failure. and the solar panel maker received a lone from the federal government before last year. >> of course just the business failed as it did and this is taxpayers getting stuck with losing a half billion dollars. so it is heads krob cronies win, tails, the tax payers lose. >> two years ago the president came to solyndra to pro claim it as stimulus success. >> you can see it's a symbol of something different today, it's a sill bomb, not of success, but failure. >> last october he defended it this way. >> this is a loan guarantee program that predates me. that historically had support from democrats and republicans as well. >> and there are those in the obama administration w

president obama and former president george w. bush unveiling of the white house portraits of president bush and former first lady laura bush. on this day in 1879 now, new york city madison square garden first opened to the public. the ruthless building was just the first of four venues to use the name. the original became a pile of brings a couple of years before the invention of basketball. the second garden had a roof and hosted the democratic national convention. that was 1924. but the new york life insurance company eventually tore that down. version 3 stood until 1968. and hosted everything from world war ii rallies to the circus. now the fourth and current version is home to the knicks and new york rangers and holds hundreds of events and concerts every single year. folks in new york first took a stroll in the

. >> as president obama attempted a moment of political civility, hosting his republican predecessor's portrait unveiling -- >> it's a great privilege to have you here today. >> on opposite ends of the country, his chief political strategist and his current republican rival mitt romney were engaging in not so civil dueling political stunts. >> under governor rom nay, the state was 47th in job creation. >> the obama campaign traveled to massachusetts for a press conference on the state house steps to slam romney's record as a one-term governor. >> romney economics didn't work then and it won't work now. >> broken record. >> but given the close proximity to romney's headquarters in boston, david axelrod was knocked off message by a vocal group of romney volunteers. a few hours later, the romney campaign had a political stunt of their own to unveil in california. at solyndra, the now bankrupt president obama had visited two years ago after his administration awarded the company a half billion dollars in loans guarantees as part of the green initiative. to prevent their being upstaged they

boy, president obama has gone at president bush's record. i'm sure president bush not terribly fond, but that was all in good spirit. >> it was all in good spirit. i've got to tell you, you don't hear much from george w. anymore and he does have a great shtick. >> it was good to see him back at the white house. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. >>> outfront next, mayor bloomberg hates your big gulp. why the mayor of new york city, though, is taking on some of the biggest and most powerful and deep pocketed companies in america. >>> and new details about the man responsible for the zombie-like attack. the last thing he said to his girlfriend before he left for the gruesome face-eating assault. >>> plus, the guy who did this comes outfront. >> i'm sick of it! every year we give power to one person! >>> i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, saving us from ourselves. a superhero saving america, just like clark kent, the original 1950 superman. >> faster than a speeding bullet. more powerful than a locomotive. able to leap tall buildings in

president obama and former president george w. bush unveiling of the white house portraits of president bush and former first lady laura bush. on this day in 1879 now, new york city madison square garden first opened to the public. the ruthless building was just the first of four venues to use the name. the original became a pile of brings a couple of years before the invention of basketball. the second garden had a roof and hosted the democratic national convention. that was 1924. but the new york life insurance company eventually tore that down. version 3 stood until 1968. and hosted everything from world war ii rallies to the circus. now the fourth and current version is home to the knicks and new york rangers and holds hundreds of events and concerts every single year. folks in new york first took a stroll in the garden 133 years ago today. and that does it for "the fox report" on this thursday may 31st, 2012. i'll bill hemmer in for shepard smith. see you tomorrow. >> bill: the o'reilly factor is on. tonight. >> it's widely b

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romney and obama are not unpleasing. others -- i wonder in our politics, if that has crept in il,we can't see a tip o'neail and we wouldn't have a lyndon johnson. >> our culture changed when jfk was shot. this nation lost its innocense. we have grown more vulgar, bitter, and more angry a nation. less discerning in the art forms. any of the great shows of the 60's or 70's, when a great singer got up to sing, judy garland. she shanang it as written and te camera never left her. the audience applauds a high note. we become a country where the audience has a s much a right to perform as the performer. we can't just sit back and be quiet. there is a conspiracy against silence. you get into a taxi, someone sells you something. the stewardess does co mmercials for the airline. it is all about selling. i suppose it always was. but the days of a limit, or some sense -- iyou just don't go there. commercials are violence. people throwing each other off bridges. what do kids thing when they see that? >> you give me a wonderful takea

he wrote the cover story on the obama campaign strategy, that's what we were going to talk about but we have to talk about this. bring us back for this. those covering him in 2004 in those small rooms in iowa and in new hampshire, he was a force to be reckoned with. it was emotional, populism like never heard before, and now here he is facing 30 years he was facing today and he is still free. >> let's not forget if bob had gotten his way in 2000, it would have been gore verses edwards. he was one of the short listers in 2000. >> that ticket might have won. >> it might have. he really made his stamp, put his stamp on his early career for democrats. that sort of is where he became a dc rising star winning that senate seat. so this was a guy on the fast track in the minute he essentially that gore didn't win and he didn't get picked, i think it was two months into president bush's first term that john edwards made his first visit to iowa. he was on the fast tract, and maybe just a week away from momentum in 2004, he could have one the 2004 iowa caucuses. >> go ahead, john heilmann he wa

this is one area of education as opposed to twelve education where the president obama obama administration is far better. but how different with student loans under romney really be according to her poor released yesterday by us per the two thousand and ten changes seem to be more of a nuisance than a barrier when it comes to scamming students in taxpayers see banks and financial firms they have been skirting the rules anyway by getting colleges to outsource certain services and exclusive deals and the services have been embraced by colleges attended by forty two percent of students nationwide so what are the services well not only do they include student aid disbursements on debit and prepaid cards there's also a service it's a special student id card that surprise surprise also offers additional banking services now not only is this raise privacy consumer choice concerns but it goes much deeper than that you see in some cases the financial firms logo is just in the leaves and on the id cards and students who want to quickly access financial aid will they have to use the firm partnered wi

the solar power plant obama visited two years ago after his company rewarded a half million dollars. to prevent their being upstaged they kept the visit top secret until the last minute, not allowing traveling press to report on it publicly until the candidate arrived outside the company's headquarters. >> it's a symbol of something very different today. it's a symbol not of success but of failure. >> you know, matt, there's a reason that all of this is so personal and even petty right now in the campaign trail. the race is extremely close. we have these new nbc polls, you can find them on our website, nbcnightlynews.com. dead heat. >> on a nightly basis, we're going to see more of this at least for the next several weeks. >> until the conventions, stunt afterstunt, desperate to get on television. >> chuck todd, chuck, thank you very much. >>> still ahead as "nightly news" continues, more on that special joint appearance today at the white house, politics put aside and portraits unveiled. >>> first, should there be a legal limit on the size of sugary drinks. the supersized controvers

what did he say to michelle obama that had everyone rolling in the aisles? >>> good evening. as we come on the air tonight, the verdict is in. former presidential candidate john edwards found not guilty on one big count of campaign finance krepgs and there was a hung jury on the rest of the charges. what does this mean for this man, whose life and infidelity played out in the courtroom like some turbulent soap opera? his defense always said this was a sin, but not a crime. and we walked out of the courtroom to say sinner is the right word. let's get right to abc's bob woodruff, at the courthouse in north carolina. bob? >> reporter: good evening, diane. yes, when this decision was actually handed down, i watched john edwards close his eyes in relief and then the jurors left the room. he turned around to hug his daughter and his patierents. his mom told me she prayed for this and his father just pointed to his smile, said, "this says it all." and then john edwards broke his silence. it was relief on the face of john edwards, leaving court with his daughter cate, by his side nea

today president obama welcomed his predecessor george w. bush back to the who is for the hanging of his official portrait. as reported, it was really quite a jolly affair. >> he's back. this time it's permanent. [applause] >> the portrait of george w. and laura bush will hang inside the white house continuing the tradition of honoring former presidents that date all the way back to george washington. >> when the british burned the white house as fred mentioned in 1814, dolly madison famously saved this portrait of the first george w. [laughter] now michele, if anything happens -- [laughter] there's your man. [laughter] >> there was a lot of laughter. but tears, too. as mr. bush paid tribute to another former president, his dad. >> i am honored to be hanging near a man who gave me the greatest gift possible, unconditional love, and that would be number 41. >> painted by an artist from his home state of texas, mr. bush is portrayed standing in front of the desk given by a queen. explaining how the cares of presidential office transcend party

thought about what a role you can play with the social media and we can take a lesson from president obama and what he did with the social media, how you raise money, how you organize, and you will be surprised with many of our young people they don't read the newspapers. they flip past what's going on on the news. they're on the internet. they get their information from the blogging and the tweeting. guess what? one minister out about his business tweeting to thousands with the message could do more than i dare not say on sunday morning in pulpit because you won't like it if i say that, however, you can connect and talk to people on your own time all during the day and in the evening and guess what? as you build that following, it becomes broader than the church population because it multiplies, and so i hope that we can get into a little bit of that today because i think that perhaps the power and influence of the church still is not being utilized. it is under utilized, perhaps not understood, and i see jefferson back there just shaking his head because i think he understands something

in february, 2009, president obama signed an executive order that encourages federal agencies to consider requiring the use of project labor agreements on large-scale construction projects. the e.o. defines a large-scale project as one, when the total cost to the federal government is $25 million or more. the order states that agencies are not required to use project labor agreements. regulations implementing the executive order went into effect in may, 2010. now, if that isn't neutrality, what is neutrality? i think this is a big to-do about nothing. this amendment is not necessary. the president didn't mandate anybody to do anything. the agencies decide. is it in the interest of the government to do this in a particular case. and this administration has not done hardly any project labor agreements as far as my understanding of this is, at least with the department of defense. so, again, i don't quite understand why all of this concern -- and emwhen non-union contractors can be part of the agreement. they can be part of the agreement and as long as they will abide by the law, prevailing

obama, screwed up again. it gets on my nerves. >> 2003, production of natural gas occurred in 2009 and 2010. >> regulations from the epa drag out the process so long that getting the okay to drill takes years. much of the production started years ago before the obama administration. producers in the left say the slowdown in permitting is hurting the regional economy. >> we see the government delays preventing the creation of 65,000 jobs. $15 billion economic activity annually. >> the president talks about producing more oil and gas these days. one witness said the energy is heartened by the change of rhetoric and waiting for the policies to catch up. >> thank you. stocks were down today. dow lost 26. s&s&p 500 fell three. nasdaq was off ten. >> they are releasing e-mails about pharmaceutical industry. they indicate they struck a deal with the industry obtaining support for preservation of been a on cheap drug imports and withdrawal of the price controls. >>> a big setback for big gulpers later in the grapevin

team obama love the question. polls show president obama with a big lead over mitt romney in the republican's home state of massachusetts. the obama campaign heaped big attention on the base state not because it is worried about winning but because it wants to convince you not to believe what governor romney promises now. >> a look at mitt romney's record here in massachusetts and pull back the curtain. he is not what he seems. >> in leading that rally under the massachusetts state house steps, the raid on governor romney's territory was the president. senior adviser, david axlerod, who joins us from boston. >> my word, not yours. your criticism of governor romney's record. you are saying essentially he is a fraud. >> i'm saying he is misrepresenting himself when he calls himself a job creator. that is not what he was in his business. that's certainly not what he was as governor. massachusetts had a laggered record when he was governor. he said i know how business works. i know how to create jobs. when he became g

, 34% president obama. this is three and a half years later. i mean, is it wise, politically, or just they are so locked into their dogma to even surround yourself with advisors who the overwhelming majority of american people feel they're policies cause us to have a weak economy. >> it's interesting because you hear the arguments, and things aren't better and they're blaming him for it. and i think what we're seeing here is this is the difference between being the president and running for president. you have to have policies to push forward. mitt romney can put together any type of platform because what he says doesn't matter. it doesn't influence the american quality. and that's where leadership comes in. it's not about conforming yourself to a doing ma and sticking to it. it's about understanding the environmental context and making decisions based on that and the policies that bush shows he has no context as to where we are right now. >> before people say that i'm embellishing this connection, let me p

right absolutely i mean president obama when he was a senator actually vowed to filibuster the files amendments act because it gave all the telecommunications companies like eighteen c. absolute immunity for the crimes they committed by allowing the n.s.a. to suck up everybody's e-mails and phone calls after nine eleven when the after he vowed to filibuster he ended up actually voting in favor of the bill and then after he got into office he said ok well when the bill comes up for renewal i'm going to make sure that there's added civil liberties protections well when time comes around for renewal right now the attorney general eric holder says it's his top priority to renew it without any changes and he just wants it just like it is and so you know we've seen this pattern over and over again where we've seen promises where you know more transparency is going to be added more civil liberties protections are going to be added and it never ends up happening so hopefully congress you know after this hearing after hearing the a.c.l.u. and effort privacy explain the real dangers of this bi

in fact, the affidavit quotes two posts attributed to story threatening violence against president obama and attorney general eric holder. story wrote i think there is one way o bummer would be proven as a mere mortal, if someone puts a 30 aught six round at the base of his skill, huh, you think? the second post read holder will likely be removed when the administration changes in 2012. although personally, i prefer removing him from office with a 30 aught six. story made news two years ago when he put a mural on the tamegate of his ford pickup that shows the burning world trade center buildings with the caption everything i ever needed to know about islam i learned on 9/11. story's truck parked outside of his monasses apartment today, no longer displays the mural but does sport numerous aspect obama and pro-gun stickers. story, who works as a truck driver with the virginia department of transporting a, was arrested in the -- transporting a, was arrested in this parking lot on wednesday where the fbi said he took possession of the gun he modified to fire like a machine gun. the fbi said

president obama hosted both presidents bush 41 and 43 and their wives at the white house. for the unveiling of george w. bush's portraits. >> behave yourselves. >> reporter: he paid tribute to his dad. >> i am honored to be hanging near a man who gave me the greatest gift possible -- unconditional love. and that would be number 41. >> reporter: president obama paid tribute to his predecessor. >> president bush understood that rescuing our economy was not just a democratic or republican issue. >> reporter: but the president's campaign team had opened a new attack on the republican running to be president. mitt romney charges the new obama video failed as massachusetts governor. >> governor romney's plan for america right now is the same plan that he sold to the people of massachusetts in 2002. >> top obama adviser david axelrod went to romney's home turf, boston. >> romney economics didn't work then and it won't work now. >> reporter: mitt romney meanwhile made his own partisan play in california showing up at solyndra, the solar energy firm that went bankrupt after investo

gave to obama? it just seems like the media worries only when it is a rich republican. i mean, we don't talk about how much money john kerry or al gore or any of them have but it seems to bother them if it is a republican like romney has money. >> just before ms. pollitt comes in, i want to let you know during the series we presented both sides and have a conservative columnist yesterday and i would invite to you go to our website to see that for yourself. cata pollitt, go ahead to her point. >> i think the thing about citizens united that's disturbing is it allows all the money to be given anonymously, and i think that both democrats and republicans should be extremely concerned about that. i think it violates just basic standards of sunlight and transparency and knowing who your politician is going to be indebted to because they are giving that money to get something back. i don't see how that's really a republican or democratic issue. to me that's an issue of basic good government and citizenship

. >> president barack obama often blames his predecessor for the state of the economy, but today he called for a timeout. >> sally kidd is live in washington with that story. >> i understand there was a private lunch before the corporate ceremony. not a lot is being said about what was talked about, but a spokesman said is best that they did not been a lot of time talking about election-year policies. >> the president and former president george w. bush or not exactly best buddies. >> we inherited an enormous deficit. >> criticized him and rejected tax cuts. >> it is fair to wonder where there might be awkward moments when the two came together at the white house. president obama presided over the unveiling of president portrait.icial >> they know exactly how to make small talk, but this is more important than that. what they are now part of, a very special club. >> president obama said "you are really love me of good sports package." >> when you are wondering these halls as to wrestle with tough decisions, you will now be able to gaze at this portrait and ask, "what would george do?" >> i

obama referred to a polish debt cap, without noting that poland was occupied by not to germinate. on wednesday, and jay carney said that the president had misspoke. >> the president was referring to not to death camps in occupied poland. we regret the statement. that simple statement should not at all detract from the clear intention to honor mr. karski and all those brave polish citizens who stood in the face of violence. >> thousands of people marched in cities across canada wednesday night in an act of solidarity with the quebec student protest. demonstrators bank pots and pans as they marched the streets. the video of an illinois republican legislator launching an angry tirade on the part of the illinois general assembly is making the rounds on the internet. the lawmaker exploded in a speech denouncing what he called the excessive power of the illinois house leader mike madigan, a democrat the debt total power in one person's hands. not the american way. i have to figure out how to vote for my people. you should be ashamed of yourselves. i am sick of it. every year, we give po

$4.1 million in jobs created. >>> seconds away on the "kudlow report," why isn't president obama worried about massachusetts ten years ago when we could be in the front edge of a recession right now? and all of the important wisconsin elections, governor scott walker is pulling away union membership is fading away dropping 50%. >>> and what

president barack obama and the first lady hosted a private lunch for the predecessors. >> staning in the oval as they used to call it. >>> thanks for watching wjz, maryland's news station. don't go away. because there's much more ahead on the cbs evening news with scott pelley, including a mistrial on five counts in the john edwards case. what will the >> pelley: tonight, the jury comes back in the john edwards trial. they say not guilty on one count of campaign fraud but they can't decide on the rest. reports from anna warner and erin moriarty. the highest court yet strikes down the national law that denies same-sex marriage. nancy cordes on what's next. america's biggest city plans to ban super-sized soft drinks. michelle miller on one mayor's crusade against obesity. and norah o'donnell with a familiar face at the white house. >> as you wrestle with tough decisions, you will now be able to gails at this portrait and ask, "what would george do?" ( laughter ) captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. with a former vice pre

i'm on the left and i love the president obama. i don't care about the democrats that don't like him that much. i am going to vote for him because i trust him. i trust him completely. i know he has my -- what happens to me, i know he cares what happens to everyone. i am terrified, too, about the unemployment and we were one of the ones that got -- my husband after 30 years, you know, lost his job. he was on unemployment for all of the time that there was and he finally took a minimum wage job. you know, if you're poor, you're poor, and you don't, you know, have a big house and blah, blah, blah, but when you go and lose two thirds of your income, how are you supposed to pay the bills? >> caller, we'll leave it there and let our guest respond. kathy pollitt, go ahead. >> i am very sorry for your situation. there are a lot of people that are living that way also because one thing that the unemployment figures don't reflect is that let's say you get another job. it can be as in the case of you and your husband, the job you get, this is

romney's campaign kept the location secret saying they didn't want the obama administration to stop them from staging this event in any way. the bottom line is today you have both of them digging up dirt from the past and we will have to see if that work was voters as many of them want to know about the future, not necessarily the past. >> and new poll numbers out and things may be closer than we think in some states. >> reporter: very close. especially in three states, this is a new poll out. nevada, you take a look and see the president has a 2% lead over romney. we move to the next state to colorado, all of the sudden that lead goes down to 1% for the president and then finally we will end in iowa. both candidates at 44%. we talk about key swing states, considering them you go back eight years the president won all three, four years later become won them all, those are the swing states. >> all in the margin of error. thank you. no also a key part of the law banning federal recognition of same sex marriage has been struck down as unconstitutional by a united states appeals court. the d

today president obama welcomed his predecessor, george w. bush back to the white house for the hanging of his official portrait. as steve king ton reports, it was kind of a jolly affair. >> he's back and this time it's permanent. the portrait george w. and laura bush will hang inside the white house, continuing the tradition honoring former presidents that dates all the way back to george washington. >> when the british burned the white house, as fred mentioned in 1814, dolly madison famously saved this portrait of the first george w. now, michelle, if anything happens, there's your man! >> there was a lot of laughter but tears too. adds mr. bush paid trib -- as mr. bush pays tribute to another former president, his dad. >> i'm honored to be standing next to a man who gave me you the most precious gift possible, unconditional love. that would be number 41. >> painted by an artist from his home state of texas, mr. bush is betrayed standing in the oval office in front of a desk gifted to the white house by queen victoria. the current tenant pa

but obama himself has found it very hard to navigate that space. it's not as if it's an easy issue. >> i have a few more questions but i want to open it up to the audience. what's going to happen is there's a microphone somewhere. there it is in the back. so if you could identify yourself and speak clearly into the microphone. we have lots of recording going on, so please be aware of that. i think we have a question up here in the front. and the one thing that i'd ask of all the questions, we want to keep this focused on the presidential election so that the three gentlemen can talk about many, many things when its comes to the foreign stage. let's keep them focused on mitt romney and barack obama. >> thanks very much. i'm garrett mitchell. i write the mitchell report. i want to pose the question in the form of an hypothesis. so it has a question mark at the end. but it seems to me directly from right down the line if you think about bruce's excellent paper some time ago about the u.s. as the majority shareholder in a liberal democratic order, stro

is obama playing favorites in the energy policy? obama said so outside solyndra today, company failing after receiving federal loans. plus, someteams are pushing party lead torres reconsider the selection of charlotte, north carolina, as host city for the national convention. "special report" from washington starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to new york and "the five." ♪ ♪ >> bob: god only gave you a certain number of breaths so you shouldn't waste them doing exercise like that. mayor bloomberg, one of my favorite people who charged $2350 to speak in a hotel room has come out with a new york city obesity task force plan, among other things would say everybody exercise, and then do away with sodas. do away with snapple. sugar. salt. everybody will get skinny at one time. there is reports out that exercise is bad for a lot of people. and i agree with that. stay out of our lives. drink sodas if we want to. not run if we don't want to run and we ought to be able to smoke in hotel rooms around this if it wasn't for you. >> brian: who

bush faced that as well. >> i would simply say that president obama will probably not spend a lot of time talking about the election year politics with either president bush. he has come as i think you know, she has met with former president george h. w. bush on several occasions. he has very high regard for that president bush's foreign policy record in particular, and in general appreciates the service provided by all members of the bush family, and again, that transcends political differences. and of course there are political differences. i think every race is different. we have with the president says repeatedly and i try to echo is that it is precisely because there are headwinds like the crisis in the year autozone that can affect the global economy and therefore the american economy we need to buckle down and do the things we can control to influence the american economy from those headwind to help the economy grow to help create jobs for the congress to take action on before it the specific items they can do with it for full can contribute to economic growth and job creation

i think the tough call now is for the obama administration. for everything that pete said plus these two facts, one, this case was really well tried by the federal prosecutors. robert higdon pr from d.c., dav harbaugh as well. the key issue here was always john edwards to be the first person prosecuted for this so he couldn't have had criminal intent. the federal election commission was not on board with this prosecution, they couldn't find a violation, so the prosecution could have had a better reason for a conviction, they didn't get it. >> all you have to do is show one purpose of giving this money would be to help his campaign, right? >> that's right. and the statute said anything of value given for the purpose of influencing an election will be considered a contribution. she didn't require that finding of this jury. she said it could be for one of many purposes. there was every opportunity for a conviction here. john edwards, the politician, ended his career on the beach. >> you know what's interesting, pete, i don't know whether i can pu

speculate hold on where these things theorized in this meeting and you saw in two thousand and eight when obama infamously kind of skirted his press corps which is within twenty four seven onto another plane and said that he was going to be meeting with hillary in virginia multiple meetings with multiple people and it was never really disclose what was happening and then right after that we saw that she was as you know. a very high position in his cabinet so people speculate you know who is what's going on at these meetings are these powerful political players being picked for policy positions and it's just completely unknown to the public and so people are speculating that this year like every year in the past they think that they're conspiring or maybe theorizing on how to control the occupy wall street movement control the arab spring movement and how to control the currency and i think that's what people are really worried about and so you know since since people can come in and they can't hear what they're talking about is a lot of speculation a lot of theories that you just mentioned but

. >> attribute from president obama as he reveals an official portrait of former president george bush. we will have details on the event and the reason behind it. more details surface about the human remains discovered this week in harford county and it is really gruesome. a case of human cannibalism. those stories ande the car on the left was filled up with low detergent gasoline. while the car on the right was filled up with bp gasoline with invigorate. which helps clean and protect its engine so it can get a few more miles per tank than the car on the left. go a little farther with bp gasoline with invigorate. >> hundreds of kids started the national spelling bee but tonight there will only be three in the final competition. it has been real world, difficult round so far. it brought tears and squeals of delight from contestants who mated to the semifinals. some have come back year after year. -- who made it to the semifinals. >> m-a-s-c-a-l-a-g-e. [applause] >> the final round for the final three contestants will start tonight at 8:00. >> for many people, exercise is part of their