bill clinton has become mr. humanitarian in chief. >> when bill clinton's presidency ended in its closing days, one of his close aides confided to me, you know, i'm really worried. i worry that he's going to end up like willie mays. remember willie mays the hall of famer ended his career at an atlantic city casino, because he didn't have the judgment and needed the money. the fear is that without bill clinton, without all the organization, without all the staff aides, would not -- would be directionalist and wouldn't know how to use his platform. that fear turned out to be really misplaced. clinton did, i think, kind of flail around for maybe six months after his presidency ended. but then he took on real purpose, and he's been a phenomenally active ex-president. he's become a much more bipartisan figure than he ever was during his eight years in office. and i think he has -- he's achieved his ambition, which is to be kind of a figure of the world. a representative of the united states, but a figure of the world

bill clinton is still alive, he is still a king maker. he will disprove what romney is saying about him. they have institutional memory, they remember who their enemies are, they remember what was said about them years ago, months ago, weeks ago, bill clinton is around and he will be out there in the campaign straight not for mitt romney but for barack obama. >> clinton raised taxes on the wealthy up to 39%, and the president wants to return to top rates to clinton area levels. mitt romney wants to lower the tax further. romney has vowed to repeal it, while clinton backed dodd frank financial reform, romney denied it. bill clinton, you're so good, i'm looking in the deep brain of one of my smartest colleges. he wants bill clinton to win because he would like his wife to be president. i don't know what she thinks yet. if this president gets beaten, it will be harder for her to be an incumbent because the business cycle will turn up eventually. >> bill clinton's version of health care was more government oriented than obama's. so the romney

don't give bill clinton -- >> they hate clinton. >> i know, but don't give bill clinton an excuse to be righteously in dig anatomy in public and campaign fat the sam time. we take seriodon't take seriouse of the other party. we just don't. he thought he was trying to be clever and stir mischief among the democrats. it won't work and nobody was listening. >> what do you make of that? it was obviously aimed at stirring trouble, but what's it about? >> it's not surprising. actually, hal stein in the huffington post had a great analysis of this. mccain tried to do this to some degree. barack obama remind people of the halcion days. mitt romney is clearly trying to paint president obama as an extremist which is not going to work. >> i'm sorry! they impeached him! how can anybody forget that? two presidents in history were impeached him. how can they go on? does he have any history in that head of his or just talking points? i interrupted you. but i did interrupt you with something important. he was at peace with republicans. >> he was. but institutional memory is a thing of the past. if t

in a way bill clinton did not. he put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. >> reagan, the patron saint of american conservative was a transformational president according to barack obama, more successful than in the recently successful democratic president, bill clinton. when obama said that, the strategy was pretty clear. mr. obama was diminishing the impact of bill clinton and taking a shot at nominating another clinton and trying to appeal to moderates and liberals who wanted their own transformational leader. o praising reagan is part of what is a common trend now. happens a lot presidents controversial become unifying icons in retrospect. the rallying around the retiree becomes selective forgetting. we forget who they were and forget about the things that divided them when they were in office. the nation's 39th president found himself seemingly out of nowhere in this presidential race just a month ago. >> you would have given the order, governor? >> even jimmy carter would

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. >> let's listen to how they tried to use bill clinton against obama. >> bill clinton that the air of obama was over. [ applause ] it's enough to make you wonder maybe it was a personal beef with the clintons but probably that -- it runs much deeper than that. >> e.j., that's just weird. he is trying to get in there on a personal beef with the clintons like no republican would ever have a personal beef with the clintons. >> right. they only tried to impeach him and, you know, it doesn't count that he made hillary and taxes were a whole lot higher under bill clinton or quite a bit higher. so maybe mitt romney has a secret plan to restore the rights despite what he says here. i think any time romney says that he wants -- bill clinton had government right size, he's going to be asked you must support a 39.5% tax rate on upper income people. >> the thing that i particularly love about this is remember back when we were in primary mode, mitt romney, and he was having to defend the fact that he voted in the democratic primary in 1992 and his justification was that he voted against bill clin

and i know bill clinton raised taxes. bill clinton raised taxes in a way that generated a much larger revenue share of the economy from government than we have had since. in fact, right now government revenues are down to about 15% of the economy which is very very low under president obama. bill clinton came up with a healthcare plan that was far more ambitious than the healthcare plan that obama has come up with. bill clinton was far tougher on business. i mean obama provided a bail-out to wall street without any strings attached and provided a chrysler and gm bail-out. these are all things that bill clinton would never have done could never have done. so for romney to say that bill clinton is the kind of president romney agrees with as opposed to obama puts -- well tuts romney in a very weird if not, i would say, somewhat embarrassing position. >> your irony is not lost on any of us. so appreciate you coming inside the war room to opine on the events of the week. >> that's berkeley public policy professor, robert reich

this is the obama campaign's new asset, bill clinton. we'll show you president obama's best jokes at this weekend's white house correspondents dinner, and in tonight's rewrite we caught paul ryan in a lie. the republican congressman is lying about his relationship with a right wing political philosoph philosopher. we will show you the truth in paul ryan's own words. [ female announcer ] women have made it the number one selling anti-aging cream undeniably. it creamed unbelievably a $500 cream and now women have made regenerist microsculpting cream also unscented. women love it. in original and also fragrance-free. >>> he took the harder and the more honorable path and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result. >> that was bill clinton praising president obama's strength in making the tactical decision to kill osama bin laden in the navy s.e.a.l. attack instead of firing a missile into bin laden's compound and hoping for the best. in a new obama re-election campaign video. at their first joint fund-raising appearance of this c

it does is it just validates bill clinton and gives him credibility so when bill clinton criticizes mitt romney, it makes those criticisms all the more effective. and also, i mean, look, the base of the republican party loathes bill clinton. and this is the party that impeached him. so i just think with mitt romney's kind of peak standing with bill clinton. this guy will say just about anything in the course of this election and i think he's glen straiting that. >> it's not an embrace. this is romney making a play for independence in the way that he has been throughout this whole season. it's fairly smart of him and yeah, sure, clinton can fire back, but look, president obama has not been the kind of centrist president that bill clinton was and i think it's important for romney to point this out. that this guy is not a center left democratic president. this is a guy who's been, you know, administering from the hard left, and that at least romney can bring the country together. and i think that that's a valid point. >> i wish republicans said that line when bill clinton was in office

>> of bill clinton is inaugurated in 1993. he had five former presidents alive. >> which has never happened other than lincoln. his five were nixon, ford, carter, reagan, and bush. >> they had all been turned out of office. >> had you spent much time on them? >> when you could only write a book of so many pages that was the place to start. hoover goes up to truman on the diocese of ike swearing in says let's start a president's club. truman says great. you be the president. i will be the secretary. >> they were joking, but that language, reagan uses it with carter. there are souvenirs. at one point kennedy sends eisenhower a bunch of golf balls with the presidential seal and says i cannot use these in new a the only one that legitimately can. >> when reagan leaves office, here are some rules are going to need to follow. you're going to have to say no most of the time. they what try to drag you into financial deals. you have to ignore this. people will try to take advantage of you. we will talk about this as it goes on. we will

bill clinton was great. we spent an hour with him in harlem. >> why did you begin the book with him? >> he was so i bought it about his -- e vocative about his predecessors. he said is a presidential library to all of the 41 you came before him. yet the picture of johnson. but he plans to the bookshelf -- >> he points to the bookshelf and says there is my presidential library and from washington through bush. it is of his memoirs and diaries. they all study each other. they all talk about it. it is as though the only people who can understand them are the ones who came before. they devour the letters and diaries. >> george walker bush read 70 -- 17 biographies of lincoln while he was in office. it was in a "times" story. >> i entered bush for a -- i interviewed george w. bush for a different story. i asked him about how his views of his predecessors had or had not changed as a result of his own experience. he said i think differently about all of them. that was not what i expected to hear. >> tell the story

first, is bill clinton still bill clinton? of course he is still bill clinton. you are watching "red eye" on fnc. stick around. >>> well, could bill clinton be anymore bill clinton? i refer to this picture of the exprez and a couple of porn stars. slick willy posed at a gala event attended by several celebrities and, yes, a bunch of adult actresses. he has brooklyn lee and tasha rain with him. lee won for best new star let and "mission impossible." and clinton has been seen on a beach in monte carlo. i believe we have tape. now the porn stars make sense. greg, the two actresses told tmc sme were going to take a picture and the secret service brushed them away. but clinton had secret service call them back to take the picture. does it make you love him more or a lot more? >> it doesn't surprise me. by the way the saddest two words together are porn star let. when bill clinton is with those women he is thinking, i am president why not invent the porn pod. it is a thing that would come over him like a sex pod. the minute he was with them it would drop over him and

>> of bill clinton is inaugurated in 1993. he had five former presidents alike. >> which is never happened other than lincoln. his five for nixon, ford, carter, reagan, and bush. >> they had all been turned out of office. >> had to spend much time on them? >> when you could only write a book of so many pages that was the place to start. hoover goes up to truman on the diocese of ike swearing in says let's start a president's club. truman says great. bbv president. i will be the secretary. -- you be the president appeared i will be the secretary. >> they were joking, but that language, reagan uses it with .archecarter their souvenirs. at one. kennedy center's eisenhower a bunch of golf balls with the presidential seal and says i cannot use these in new a the only one that legitimately can. >> when reagan leaves office, here are some rules are going to need to follow. you're going to have to say no most of the time. they what try to drag you into financial deals. you have to ignore this. people will try to take advantage of you.

why does he keep talking about bill clinton? >> he's highlighting things bill clinton did good for everybody. that's a smart thing to do. remember, the battle here is not for republicans alone. it's for the middle, for independents, for swing voters, for democrat who is might vote for a republican. so -- >> so those swing voters who voted for bill clinton might be attracted to mitt romney? >> absolutely, absolutely. if they know mitt romney has -- >> are you buying that daniela? >> i'm not buying that at all. to borrow a line from my boss, maybe mitt romney was too busy firing people in the '90s to remember what bill clinton actually did. you know, he raised taxes on the wealthy. he made investments in infrastructure and education and technology and these are all things mitt romney is against. so, i'm not sure what mitt romney is thinking about invoking bill clinton. may i remind you, bill clinton is out there campaigning for president obama, so he just opened up a big stage for bill clinton to come and talk about all the reason

on the other hand we also know that bill clinton, mrs. clinton's husband and the former president was smarting over some incidents that took place during the campaign. >> he was called a racist essentially in south carolina. >> in south carolina when said a number of things he was critical of then senator obama and some of obama's supporters did suggest that bill clinton who takes great pride in his record on race was in fact a racist. >> greta: the words that are used, i don't know, i mean, first of all, we don't know if this is a correct quote or even happened but to call the president an amateur. >> yeah. >> greta: that sort of cuts to the quick. >> here again we can't evaluate it without knowing the names involved. is it plausible that bill clinton in a private setting hass been very critical of barack obama? yeah, i think it is. it strikes me as entirely plausible. is it plausible that they discussed this topic? >> i think it is, too. i don't know if it happened in this particular way but there is no doubt mrs. clinton tried very har

yes. >> what was the reason bill clinton -- i mean, president bill clinton posed for a photo with two porno stars? >> jimmy: okay, why did he? i don't know? >> because four porno stars were not made available. >> jimmy: four porno stars were not made available. >> yeah, he would have preferred to have more. >> jimmy: i understand. all right, well, thank you guys. thank you for your work. we may have to start buying our jokes from the chinese. and one more thing, it is thursday night, it's time for our weekly tribute to the fcc, where we bleep and blur things whether they need it or not. it is "this week in unnecessary censorship." >> facebook, nasdaq and now morgan stanley. all under pressure of the [ bleep ] price of facebook stock. >> i had to [ bleep ] every reporter at ktla. >> after she saw the first half of the movie, she couldn't really talk to me. >> why? >> something about how hard my [ bleep ] was. >> i got a little nervous. i thought he was coming over to [ bleep ] me. i didn't know what was happening. >> we got to do a better job than that. all they're going to do is going

in the past week mitt romney invoking bill clinton's name saying bill clinton was a guy that supported a lot of things we republicans like and all in an effort to brandish bipartisan credentials and basically say, look, i like bill clinton and i don't like barack obama but i might like bill clinton. as you saw in the remarks there, that is an easy way to swat away the line that mitt romney has been having when bill clinton says i am not supporting mitt romney, i am supporting barack obama. >> the a.p. put out a report, a fact check on mitt romney's speech that he gave regarding the debt and fiscal issues and it says that romney falsely claims that president obama doubled the debt according to the ap he actually increased it by half, 10.6 trillion before president obama and now 15.6 now. and they have gone through a list of these things with the speech, mark, which obviously is what we're going to see i think the first he point out mitt romney has put ideas but no real meat behind some of them. >> what was interesting yesterday and also today that mitt romney really pivoted away from th

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we didn't have a black president, we had to use bill clinton. mama, with a streak in her hair going to the racetrack born poor, eating mcdonald's and so on. so i think in this sense gay as a signy fire for his identification with the beleaguered and those vulnerableable to state rebuff, yes, in that sense, of course, they should claim him. you say maybe kathleen parker is right, maybe you're right that substantively and constitutionally nothing has been done but dag gum, can the folklore, the mythology is where a lot of stuff gets done that is followed up on by the courts. so the fact that he's culturally unleashed a big huge kiss from the white house of legitimacy on the foreheads and other places of the gay imagination, means he's also kissed the american imagination and forced us to deal with things we would not rather not deal with and forced all of us to claim our positions and to stake our positions in regard to this particular issue. >> to that point, what the president should do next is send a constitutional amendment to the congress and

left as president, why do you sing the praise of bill clinton so often these days? can we predict the person that will hide is the guy whose policies you're out selling. you put us on that course, mister, and we're going to the same collision. that's "hardball" for now. "politicsnation" starts right now. >>> welcome to "politicsnation," i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, willard mitt romney has a bridge he wants to sell you. a bridge to nowhere. the question is who is heading to nowhere? today in new hampshire, he stood in front of this bridge built in the 1880s and attacked the president for using stimulus money to restore it. >> you all know the story of this bridge, it's part of the stimulus plan. we put in a series of elements critical to the future of america. and you have one right there. this is the absolute bridge to nowhere if there ever was one. that's your stimulus dollars at work. >> well argued. a compelling argument, but here is the problem -- many of the people romney was talking to wanted that bridge. they wanted that bridge restored. the "huffington p