i'll begin with obama's father, this man, barack obama senior. barack obama senior was born in kenya. he came of age in kenya's great struggle of independence against the british, called anti-colonialism. to push the british out of kenya. he came to america in the late 1960s as a student, to study at the university of hawaii. this is where he met obama's mother. this woman right here. stanley ann dunham. they were married. actually, he didn't tell her at the time he was already married. he had married a woman in kenya. they had two children. ultimately he married four different women and had eight children. he was quite a character. he was also a chronic drunk driver. he was involved in multiple accidents. he lost both of his legs in one of the accidents. >> glenn: hang on a second. i want to make this really clear. because my mother was an alcoholic. died a tragic death. yada, yada. you're not insinuating anything on that he was, you know, a drunk or anything else. >> no, no, no. >> glenn: it's fact. >> it's fact and i'm getting to it because it

does obama care what she says? >> well, she aligned herself with secretary of defense gates and the military, supported them even more to a certain extent than gates did. they talked about the five blocks of granite, the three generals and admiral and gates and hillary and they just said, 40,000 troops and in a sense, an unlimited counter insurgency strategy, which is what general petraeus wanted. >> bill: just win the war. now, you correct me if i am wrong. my gut instinct, and i have this not on anything other than gut -- is that barak obama doesn't listen to hillary clinton. she is not a major shaper in what he does or doesn't do. >> that is absolutely correct. and political people in the white house were quite annoyed that she aligned herself with the military in such a dramatic way. i wanted to get to something -- you really need to make a distinction on the fight against al-qaeda, which as we know is in pakistan, not afghanistan, obama has been very aggressive and i think we're going to see in coming weeks mo

barack and michelle obama. that's right, the first black president has followed in the footsteps of previous presidents known for their elite education, significant personal worth and preppy trappings. franklin dell nor roosevelt, john kennedy and both jorgee bushes. he went to columbia. she went to princeton and both went to harvard law. for the second year in a row they've summered at martha's vineyard. they have that was pi sartorial style under control. barack obama with the jacket over his shoulder and michelle has made the eternally preppy j. crew label a major part of her wardbe. even beau is preppy. what's next? time to bring back the sboya with cole porter music wafting through the potomac evening? wow. all the bad news for the o bob: administration means the g.o.p. nomination is a rize p worth having. weho's definitely running for president on the republican side. plus tell me something i don't know. chris: welcome back. we're close to go or no go time for the republicans, believe it or not andho are

one of those things that obama -- look, obama is in two political boxes. one as pat points out, he has general patraeus in there and he can't say no to general patraeus. when he was campaigning, he has made iraq the bad war, afghanistan the good war. the question is, how is he going to do it and how is he going to do it effectively? >> exit question. is obama the victim of his own success in the war of afghanistan from the 2008 campaign? >> just said. that is exactly correct. >> eleanor. >> i think that we needed to put troops in afghanistan. i think president bush squandered several years by misdirecting american attention into iraq and this president is trying to clean up the mess. he is doing it imperfectly, but not going to stay there for ever. >> you cannot have a political reconciliation without changing the balance of security forces on the ground. if the taliban and other radical forces believe they can wait out the american forces, they will certainly do that. if we are in this and fight it to win it, you can have some relatively political resolut

obama exhausts organized labor. he fumes at republican opponents and their alleged negativism. >> yes, we can. remember that was our slogan? their slogan is, no we can't. [ laughter ] nope, no. no. >> 50 days to go in the name of the game is blame. blame the opponent. keep the focus on him. for the incumbent president, the strategy is offensive. blast the republicans. the party of no. >> when it comes to just about everything we've done to strengthen our middle class, to rebuild our economy, almost every republican in congress says no. >> as a punitive positive yes merger, embraced by the democrats, mr. obama calls for $50 billion of new spending. infrastructure on roads, bridges, runways, but spread over many years and fully paid for, but how the $50 billion would be produced was not explained. this was not a stimulous proposal and chance of passing congress seemed to be minus zero. on thursday, the president called for other money measures, including investment tax credits, emphasizing restriction development, the

even though president obama -- colin powell has supported obama. >> he has lost some support he had in the campaign. it's not just me picking on the president. it's polling. he has to do more with respect to reducing the deficit and also being careful about putting more and more programs, more and more rocks into that knapsack because the american people looking for singular focus on the economy and unemployment. >> bill: check four, former president clinton also being questioned about mr. obama. >> let me ask you about health care. back in august of 2009, you spoke in front of that net roots convention. this is what you said about health care reform. let's watch. >> i'm telling you i don't care how low they drive support for this with misinformation, the minute the president signs the health care reform bill, approval will go up because americans are inherently optimistic. >> the white house said the same thing, mr. president, but it hasn't happened yet. >> well, i was wrong about that for two reasons. first of all, the benefits of the bill are spread out over three or four years. it

first, barack obama's dad, barack obama's dad said this. theoretically there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income. so long as the people get benefits from the government. you got it? so in other words they could take 100% if they want to, as long as it's shared with everybody else. now this was his father. his father was a marxist, anti-colonial marxist, not the kind of marxist you found in the soviet union. now his mother, she was also anti-colonialist, stanley ann. she married lolo soreto. he was a capitalist. but she didn't really know that. that's why he was sent away. he was sent away to hawaii. to her grand parents right here. this is stanley ann dunham's mom and dad. grandpa decided he needed a role model, somebody that he could really fashion his life after. a mentor. frank marshall davis. this is frank marshall davis' f.b.i. file. it's pretty intense. so this is the dad's writing. mom sends barack away because he's being influenced by somebody who is not a marxist or an anti-colonialist and sends him t

look at president obama. i mean, a lot of people have read this book and said it's very painful. >> larry: so far it is to me. >> to see that -- he's not sure what to do, that he's perhaps overintellectualizing. so people on the right, republicans, can look at this and say, he's not committed. democrats, all kinds of people who don't like the war, could read this and say, you know what, he got it, he understood that this is not just a bad hand, as he said at one of the end -- end of one of these monthly reviews, which he does, he walks out, and they're talking about kandahar and he's being briefed. he says, given that definition of the problem, i don't know how we come up with a solution to this. now, that was four months ago. >> larry: tell you whose strong, biden, right? >> yes, yeah. >> larry: i mean, he is -- he slams the fist down. >> biden, he does, and i asked president obama, doesn't this make you a little uneasy and jumpy? biden makes long passionate arguments. and president obama said no, that's exa

thinks obama wants to impose islamic law now tell me where did that come from because it sounds like it comes came from the blogs fear that you go from the blog sphere into the mainstream and now everybody's talking about it it seems quite amazing that we can hear these things repeated over and over again and then people start believing it i think that's right i think you're exactly right peter i think what you have is you have these rumors that began in the in the right wing fever swamps of the blogosphere they sleep upwards into into the world of talk radio and fox news and other murdoch outlets like the new york post and they are amplified they enter this right wing media app echo chamber in which they raise doubts now. as with other bits of right wing propaganda you don't have to succeed you don't have to get most of americans believing that obama is in fact a sleeper agent for for islam but if you can toss that you can throw some smoke out there and muddy the waters if you will to mix metaphors you can create doubt and this is bad for your opponent and it's a it's a tried and tr

look at president obama. i mean, a lot of people have read this book and said it's very painful. >> larry: so far it is to me. >> to see that -- he's not sure what to do, that he's perhaps overintellectualizing. so people on the right, republicans, can look at this and say, he's not committed. democrats, all kinds of people who don't like the war, could read this and say, you know what, he got it, he understood that this is not just a bad hand, as he said at one of the end -- end of one of these monthly reviews, which he does, he walks out, and they're talking about kandahar and he's being briefed. he says, given that definition of the problem, i don't know how we come up with a solution to this. now, that was four months ago. >> larry: tell you whose strong, biden, right? >> yes, yeah. >> larry: i mean, he is -- he slams the fist down. >> biden, he does, and i asked president obama, doesn't this make you a little uneasy and jumpy? i mean, biden makes long, passionate arguments, and president obama said, no,

obama as a christian. we're going to have more on this story later this hour. >>> let's go to connecticut right now where a tightening senate battle could contribute to a major power shift in washington in november. to cnn's mary snow working the story for us. getting closer to the contest in connecticut, is that right? >> this is -- this is a state that democrats outnumbers republicans months ago. rich blumenthal had a lead over newcomer linda mcmahon. a new poll out today suggests it's too close to call and anger at the government is one reason why. >> gained fame and fortune in the form of wrestling. now lindamacman is going to give a blow to the democrats in the blue state. mcmahon has chipped away at what once was a wide lead held by democrat richard blumenthal, a popular attorney general seen by many as a shoe-in. a new quinnipiac poll shows blumenthal leading 49% to 46%. quinnipiac's polling director says independents are making the difference. >> an anti-government feeling that connecticut voters h

obama has been a disaster. and i say this as someone who was suckered into contributeding to his campaign financially -- contributeding to his campaign financially. my wife maxed out in her contributions, pushing those buttons. i still get emailed from the obama campaign telling me, we're winning here, we're winning there. but it's been a disaster. now, maybe, you know, if you could appoint elizabeth warren, you know, to the consumer agency there will be a little bit of value in this deregulaon. >> what about that? >> russ feingold was absolutely right to vote against it. >> we're going to play an excerpt of elizabeth warren's speech that she gave recently at net roots nation, next. but what about elizabeth warren? seen as the frontrunner for this job, but seen as -- there's a quiet campaign in the white house or perhaps not so quiet among people like rom emanuel who supposedly, rumor has it, are opposing her. >> come on. you can't look to the democratic party ou kno hacks, for leadership on this. first of all,

thinks obama wants to impose islamic law now tell me where did that come from because it sounds like it comes came from the blogs fear that go from the blogs fear into the mainstream and now everybody's talking about it and it seems quite amazing that we can hear these things repeated over and over again and then people start believing it i think that's right i think you're exactly right peter i think what you have is you have these rumors that began in the in the right wing fever swamp so the blogosphere they see upwards into into the world of talk radio and fox news and other murdoch outlets like the new york post and they are amplified they enter this right wing media app echo chamber in which they raise doubts now. as with other bits of right wing propaganda you don't have to succeed you don't have to get most of americans believing that obama is in fact a sleeper agent for for islam but if you can toss that you can throw some smoke out there and muddy the waters if you will to mix metaphors you can create doubt and this is bad for your opponent and it's a it's a tried and true w

>> what do i think about billy or obama? >> sean: obama. >> i've never spent any time with him. obviously, i disagree with a lot of his policies. but i've never met the guy. so i'm going to be more merciful than you are. >> sean: that i can see. >> interesting if he continues to get the question about the christian thing -- >> sean: on your new cd, you have two songs that you wrote to your wife. there's not enough diamonds in the world. you make all other husbands and men look bad. i really resent you for this. last chance to get in your text vote. we want to know the issue, which is impacting your midterm vote the most. . the results coming up after the break. straight ahead. >> sean: we continue. we have our poll question what issue in the midterm election is going to image -- going to impact your vote the most. 50% is government spending. i can't read it, i think 25% health care. and 25% i forget -- jobs, okay. i have glasses but i don't wear them on tv, i need to. pretty much what we think across the board, right? why didn't the president focus more on this? trippi, he's you

and to illinois president obama's old senate seat. both candidates had ethical issues, but the republican is virtually tried with the democrat. the green party candidate gets 7%, and says that's significant for democrats. >> it hurts them, because most of the green party voters in 2008 voted for barack obama. >> a surprisingly close senate race in the blue state of washington and one point united states patty murray from her republican challenger dina rossy and in ohio still a double digit lead for republican rob portman over democrat lee fisher. president obama won all five of the states in 2008, but now, ohio seems somewhat out of reach. and democrats are struggling to hold on to the others. barone attributes that mainly to voters discontent over the democrats handling of the economy. in washington, molly henneberg, fox news. >> bret: over on capitol hill senate democrats failed to pass a measure aimed at discouraging out outsourcing of american jobs. why a handful blocked the bill. >> mr. hennessey, no-- >> another legislative show

obama. obama is a centrist masquerading as a centrist. >> larry: he got elected since bill ayers, elected after bill ayers, after bill ayers came onto the scene. >> no, what i'm saying is, look, conservatives keep bringing up, for example, more americans now think that obama is a muslim than did six months ago. usually the truth move notice opposite direction. why do so many americans say they -- >> because of the lines. >> the answer is -- no the answer is -- no. >> serious? >> the answer is because he seems foreign to them, that he is pushing this european health care system on america, that he doesn't listen to the american people, doesn't cite god when he mentioned the deck claar rigs of independence. he seems alien and that is -- i keep telling them nos, he is not a muslim, he is an atheist, governing the bay weigh bill ayers s. >> >> larry: he makes a statement he is a christian, you are calling him a liar? >> i wouldn't say i call all democrats -- say they believe in god and i would l

that is not -- i don't believe, i spent too much time studying barack obama, that is not who barack obama is. i'm not saying that he shouldn't take a little of bill clinton's vaerks pour it over, do the i feel your pain bit. but you have to in politics, the reason barack obama won this presidency in the first place, because he was true to himself. because he didn't pander. he didn't do the sorts of things that are expected of politician. >> i think that basically the advice is basically, you can do it, i can't. it's more like bragging. >>> coming up, the republican party unveils its so-called pledge to america and it may be just the biggest political cover up since watergate. you know the good stuff, cut taxes. cut spending. but the big question is, does it really hide or disguise the much more serious, more radical proposal than the republican party has? the tea party stuff that we hear all of the time. how come that's not on the paper? let's talk about what's being covered over on this pledge. you're watching "hardball." ouldr if we didn't have to weigh 'em all. if those boxes are under

that is not -- i don't believe, i spent too much time studying barack obama, that is not who barack obama is. i'm not saying that he shouldn't take a little of bill clinton's advice, do the i feel your pain bit. but you have to in politics, the reason barack obama won this presidency in the first place, because he was true to himself. he didn't pander, do the sorts of things expected of polices. >> you're basically saying, you can do it, i can't. it's more like bragging. >>> coming up, the republican party unveils its so-called pledge to america and it may be just the biggest political cover up since water gate. the good stuff. cut taxes, spending, but the big question, does it really hide or disguise the more serious, radical p radical pro pose sal the republicans have. let's talk about what's being covered over. stuff for coffee. oh there's tons. french presses, expresso tampers, filters. it can get really complicated. not nearly as complicated as shipping it, though. i mean shipping is a hassle. not with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. if it fits it ships anywher

obama thanked the u.n. for its adoption of strong sanctions against north korea and iran over their nuclear programs. the u.s. president then stressed that hexpts a pce agreement to be reached between israel and palestine. he said he hopes the talks that began this month will lead to a new member of the u.n., an independensoren atof paste living peacefully with israel. >>> foreign ministers from ten nonnuclear countries have issued a instemt atay they will make efforts to create a world without nuclear weapons. japanese foreign minister maehara and his australian counterpart kevin rudd helped make this meeting a reality. on wednesday evening in new york, ministers from germany, poland, and turkey joined the first nonnuclear state conference. maehara said that he believes the world wants to resolve the issue nle as duio he said the ten nations should coordinate ideas and take practical and responsible steps toward a nuclear-free world. the conference's final statement called for the world to be less threaten

barack obama could recover. but this smear will stick, and this is what they're hitting him with when they got him down. that's my thought p it's purely political but that's what newt is, i think. >> well, i think newt is visoral. he's a visceral attack guy. he wasn't very good as a speaker because he wasn't an affirmative character as much as a brilliant attack guy. here, he's doing the dirtiest of dirty work for the conservative cause and the conservative coalition. why he feels he needs to do this, i'm not sure. he used to be more focused on economics and issues like that. than he is on this. even though he came out of georgia, he was seen almost as a progressive in certain respects, for his -- the flavor of what he said 15, 18 years ago. why he's doing this now, i don't know. but you're right. it's to keep obama down and to try to turn the virtues of biography around on obama. let's not forget that obama sold himself originally and was embraced for it. i think the republicans understand that his biography is

the obama administration wants to call this the obama tax cut for the middle class, but yet, even if they get it through congress, no one will be getting cut further from what they are today in the middle class? >> well, status quo is that they sunset in 2010, on december about 1 of this year, that's status quo and anything new is a new tax cut. i mean, technically. it is a game of semantics. disagree with steve, i think they will all be extended. i do not think this will happen before november 2nd and they will come back in the laem duck session and pressure will be so enormous from the republican victory if not a huge republican majority maybe a slight one or a close call with the democrats barely holding on and i do believe that at that time, they will buckle and extend it for at least a year or two to all the brackets. in the meantime, democrats are back from an extended recess tonight in a very tense meeting, all coming together after having lost august in a disastrous way, politically, to discuss the fact that they have six national polls, bolstering the argument. their argumen

>> what do i think about billy or obama? >> sean: obama. >> i've never spent any time with him. obviously, i disagree with a lot of his policies. but i've never met the guy. so i'm going to be more merciful than you are. >> sean: that i can see. >> interesting if he continues to get the question about the christian thing -- >> sean: on your new cd, you have two songs that you wrote to your wife. there's not enough diamonds in the world. you make all other husbands and men look bad. i really resent you for this. last chance to get in your text vote. we want to know the issue, which is impacting your midterm vote the most. . the results coming up after the results coming up after the mmmmmm. mmmmmm. wow! you have got to be kidding me. 80 calories? light & fit has 80 calories versus 100 in the other leading brand. light & fit. irresistible taste. fewer calories. i love light & fit. host: could switching to geico did the little piggy cry wee wee wee all the way home? piggy: weeeeeee, weeeeeee, weeeeeee, weeeee weeeeeeee. mom: max. ...maxwell! piggy: yeah? mom: you're home. piggy: oh

it goes to obama. >> obama is at the end of the day carrying the bag and deciding whether or not the investigation is correct. >> bill: walk into the oval office and says this is what i find out about your pal holder he is a pinhead. >> i don't know those words. >> the president would be hard-pressed to ignore the findings of the inspector general. >> oh, p.r. >> to have the oversight. >> bill: how long is this going to take? like eight years? that's how they usually do it. >> after the next presidential election. see what i'm saying? >> isn't that true? >> take as long as they want. what they have done now is apiece the people who said look, you didn't bring these charges. >> bill: they didn't appease me. >> they are trying to appease. they are not going to appease quickly. >> bill: the final thing we have to ask ladies real quick in florida a disturbing thing a manual that was floating around on the internet teaching people how to molest children. okay? >> outrageous. and the florida authorities looked at it and what conclusion did they come to. >> authorities said look, this is le

that is not -- i don't believe, i spent too much time studying barack obama, that is not who barack obama is. i'm not saying that he shouldn't take a little of bill clinton's vaerks pour it over, do the i feel your pain bit. but you have to in politics, the reason barack obama won this presidency in the first place, because he was true to himself. because he didn't pander. he didn't do the sorts of things that are expected of politician. >> i think that basically the advice is basically, you can do it, i can't. it's more like bragging. >>> coming up, the republican party unveils its so-called pledge to america and it may be just the biggest political cover up since watergate. you know the good stuff, cut taxes. cut spending. but the big question is, does it really hide or disguise the much more serious, more radical proposal than the republican party has? the tea party stuff that we hear all of the time. how come that's not on the paper? let's talk about what's being covered over on this pledge. you're watching "hardball." no pain medicine is proven to last longer than advil. not tylenol.

no way sarah palin beats obama. i don't think she beats huckabee or mitt romney in a primary. >> speculation is unimportant. whether she could beat obama, i don't know. >> let me ask you a question. >> i think she's a strong candidate. >> do you think she would be an effective president? >> the media keeps talking about, you mentioned sarah palin or christine o'donnell. >> larry: what does the former governor -- >> either one of those two, and the hits on your web page go through the roof. people like to hear about sarah palin and christine o'donnell. >> they like to mock sarah palin. even republicans don't want sarah palin. karl rove, major strategist doesn't want sarah palin. >> larry: what about karl rove? >> this is why there's a tea party movement, because of the establishment republicans who have -- >> larry: karl rove is an example of that? >> yeah, and a lot of republicans in washington have basically taken the position we're going to be the washington generals to the democrats harlem globetrotters. we'll be

for obama's senate seat in illinois. colorado senate michael bennett. washington senator patty murray. nancy pelosi. california senator barbara boxer. political analysts say several races are must-wins for democrats. >> they know if patty murray and boxer go down on election night, they've almost certainly lost the senate. if they hold them both, they're in better shape. >> reporter: it's not unusual for first ladies to campaign in mid-term election. laurie bush did it in 2006. first lady is no strainier to campaigning. she stirred controversial in 2008 talking about her husband's candidacy for president. >> for the first time in my adult life i am proud of my country. >> as first lady, mrs. obama in a recent poll had 68% favorability rating focussed on platform of healthy eating and physical fitness for kids. her office says he comes to campaigning as a mom. that is the lens as she sees the world. sabato expects she will stick to fixed, nice remarks. >> she says nice things about the candidate she's with. >> reporter: s

>> bill clinton led them down the garden path as did barack obama. this was perhaps the greatest political miscalculation in the last 50 years, this thing is not selling and, yeah, he is going to have to offer them jobs. >> the line is going to be long. when we come back, the latest salvos in the battle over school reforms, the movement, get the boost as al gore's movie director sets his sights on the teachers union, but they have the school chief michelle reed in their sights. will she hold on to her job? . look at all this stuff foffee. oh there's tons. french presses, expresso tampers, filters. it can get really complicated. not nearly as complicated as shipping it, tho. i mean shipping is a hassle. not with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. if it fits it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. th is easy. best news i've hed all day! i'm soooo amped! i mean not amped. excited. well, sort mped. really kind of in between. have you ever thought about decaf? do you think that would help? yeah. priority mail flat rate bo

that's president obama's fault. >> yes, i do think that it's president obama's fault. >> before or after the health care meeting. >> come on, ron, you're being a little tough on the president. he was reached out time and time again. >> let me answer you question, ed. >> all right, all right. >> the fact of the matter is that the president of the united states can change the tone, the way that leaders on both sides of the aisle deal with sufficientic disagreements. i think if you look at president bush and what we did with no child left behind he brought ted kennedy a very liberal senator. >> i got what you are saying. so how should president obama have responded to senator demint's comment over a year ago? if this is his waterloo, if we could break him? how is the president supposed to -- he should have cut off all of the olive branches right there and he did it. >> i would have ignored it. >> you would have ignored it but it was said on the right, ron. it was said on the right, no doubt about it. >> so what, ed? >> so what. >> so what. >> a dialogue in washington. i want to know, where

obama says, i'm taking charge. i'll do a 30,000 temporary surge but we're going to have a plan to get out of there. i was impressed by that. he took charge. good for him. >> bill, bill, i think this bill -- this book is very troubling. the fact of the matter is the pentagon and the white house are not on the same page. the fact that the president's worried mostly about politics and not about policy, he's worried about losing the whole democratic party. why doesn't he -- and also does not say at all -- >> well, hold on, john. >> john, john -- >> no sense of winning the war. >> wait. >> here's the bottom line here, gentlemen -- >> they are -- >> hold it, time-out. hold it, we have to bring in point in. john, this is a key point. the bushies always said that they listened to the generals on ground. despite of what president obama wants to do he's listening to the generals who are operating this war. he gave them another 30,000 troops. >> exactly. >> how can the conservatives turn on him for that? >> the implication of

obama doesn't know the country. john, i thought your answer was interesting and said he lacks a consistent compelling communication right now. is it the people don't get why he is president, the basic reason he's there? >> yeah, and actually it goes beyond communication. you mentioned in t stup reagan and clinton. the are two people who are not just good communicators but had a good theory of the case, they knew what they believed and exained it well to the country and talked about where the country was at that moment in history and how their policies would translate and lead us forward. obama during the him campaign had a clear message but had that theory of the case, he was for change, he was not a clinton, he was not a bush. he came into office still without that big narrative and really hurt him becauset this moment you can see he is left as a state figure. people on the left think he's sold out as becoming a modern centrist and betrayed their ideals. people in the center think he sold out and went to the left.

obama a socialist, obama is this and that. not born in the country. it's stirred up things to the point where the establishment has lost control and the tea party is now in control in terms of picking candidates. when i hear you guys talking about o'donnell, it's amazing to me. okay, so o'donnell has trouble with taxes, her academic credentials, paying for school, paying her own mortgage. she is someone with no record. and when you start to talk policy, you know, obama is un -- obama is un-american. she says her jobs plan for america is cut the capital gains tax. when the voters of delaware -- by the way, delaware has very few republican voters. they have independent voters, more than republicans. i think people are anti-establishment and challenge them to give republicans a chance. when they look at that candidate they say this is extreme. and that's the problem across the country. >> o'donnell may be too far and delaware is not the state to elect someone with a strong conservative message. but before the tea party began and the republican party is o

president obama is talking the economy this week. vice president biden urged democrats yesterday to stop whining and consider the alternatives. the question is whether youth will back it up with their vote. >> they're paying attention. but they're starting to increase in their cynicism about the process. >> reporter: president obama's trip to wisconsin, really highlights a huge shift in the electoral landscape over the last two years. in 2008, a record number of new voters in wisconsin turned out for the democrats. this year, key races all across the states, looking much tighter. >> emily schmidt, live in washington this morning. >>> bob woodward's new book, "obama's wars" is number two, on the best-selling list this morning. and in an exclusive interview with diane sawyer, woodward talks about top brass over the war in afghanistan. >> what's the angriest that he gets at the military? >> one of the meetings, he says, i'm pissed. and he is. they keep coming back about details. and they're trying to push him in that direction. and he's

they will be able to to some degree control obama's program, but obama cannot run against the do-nothing congress if he runs for reelection. >> un die are at the white house often, almost daily. what has happened to obama? it seems to me that he is under clause in a way. he is the same man. he walks to the podium. he is very appealing an attractive. but somehow he is not financing, even with us covering him. >> it is interesting because you have a very unusual dynamic here. i think we're on a wholesale level, president obama can connect with people at any given time. but on a personal level, that is where you hear people unable to tell you who the president is, what he means to them. it is an interesting sort of dynamic that has been created here. i think some of it is caused by, you know, the first family's sort of need and want to try to keep certain things together as a family private and personal. but i also think that, how do i put this in a way that robert gibbs is not going to be offended? >> i have tried. >> i think they're much better at running a campaign, quite frankly, than t

he called on president obama to withdraw his troops. mullah omar's statement marks the end of ramadan and was posted on a jihad website. the sri lanka and mp's agreed to terms for the new prime minister. it boosts the president's powers. the national party boycotted the vote and many members voted with the government. they call this a nail in the coffin for democracy. the investment bank goldman sacks has been fined $13 million by the u.k. party for failing to reveal it was being investigated for fraud in the u.s. goldman made a mistake and is one of the biggest fine ever imposed. president obama is facing the prospect of heavy losses for the democratic party in november's midterm elections. his own personal ratings have also been slipping. he is taking to the campaign trail to sell his strategy. he wants to invest $50 billion to renew america's roads and airports. our washington correspondent has more. >> barack obama is not on the ballot in november, but he once every vote anyway. the midterms are a referendum on his performance. this

obama. it should be noted with summers announcing his intention to leave by the end of the year, this is now the third key member of the obama team, economic team to announce departure following peter orszag, the budget director and christina romer who chaired counsel of economic advisors. >> bret: mike emanuel live on the north lawn. thank you. let's get more on the president's economic team and the politics of the economy. from senior political analyst brit hume. good evening, brit. >> hi, bret. president obama suggesting that that town hall meeting monday, the top members of the economic team might be leaving was followed by comments from the press secretary today that did nothing to dispel the impression and then came the summers announcement. it makes sense. his original chief economic advisor as mentioned, christina romer left after a rocky tenure, among other things she claimed that passing the stimulus spinfest would host jobless rate at 8%. the economic research, official judge of s

thinks obama wants to impose islamic law now tell me where did that come from because it sounds like a car came from the blogs fear that it go from the blogs fear into the mainstream and now everybody's talking about it and it seems quite amazing that we can hear these things repeated over and over again and then people start believing it. i think that's right i think you're exactly right peter i think what you have is you have these rumors that began in the in the right wing fever swamp so the blogosphere they sleep upwards into into the world of talk radio and fox news and other murdoch outlets like the new york post and they are amplified they enter this right wing media app echo chamber in which they raise doubts now as with other bits of right wing propaganda they don't have to succeed you don't have to get most of americans believing that obama is in fact a sleeper agent for for islam but if you can toss that you can throw some smoke out there and muddy the waters if you will to mix metaphors you can create doubt and this is bad for your opponent and it's a it's a tried and tru

is president obama trying to circumvent the nomination process. and the pope arrives in great britain with a message of traditional values. live from our studio in washington. this is special report. good evening, i'm bret baier. president obama looked to the future today saying he is confident the country will emerge from the current storm, with the stronger economy. but for the average family, that positivity about tomorrow doesn't necessarily translate when bills need to be paid today. chief washington correspondent jim angle looks at the economic situation. >> more signs of a struggling economy today as mortgage lenders repossess more homes in august than any month since the housing market crashed almost three years ago. >> looking at rising foreclosures and the expectation is we're not going to peak until at least the middle of next year. >> reporter: in all banks repossessed more than 95,000 homes last month. up 3% from july and an increase of 25% from august of last year. and some say administration efforts have only made things worse. >> t

thinks obama wants to impose islamic law now tell me where did that come from because it sounds like it comes came from the blogs fear that you go from the blog sphere into the mainstream and now everybody's talking about it and it seems quite amazing that we can hear these things repeated over and over again and then people start believing it i think that's right i think you're exactly right peter i think what you have is you have these rumors that began in the in the right wing fever swamp so the blogosphere they sleep upwards into into the world of talk radio and fox news and other murdoch outlets like the new york post and they are amplified they enter this right wing media app echo chamber in which they raise doubts now as with other bits of right wing propaganda they don't have to succeed you don't have to get most of americans believing that obama is in fact a sleeper agent for for islam but if you can toss that you can throw some smoke out there and muddy the waters if you will to mix metaphors you can create doubt and this is bad for your opponent and it's a it's a tried and

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this is why president obama wants us to buck up. i'm following those orders in a commentary tonight. >>> and john boehner and his crew, they don't really care about the middle class. they don't care about the divided american we live in, because you see the income gap between the rich and poor is at an all-time high and republicans have nothing to say about it. jessie jackson sounds off. what can we do about it? president obama takes off the gloves and hammering fox news. he says fox promotes a point of view that is destructive. now, for a guy who always rips on the cables, i think the president would do a pretty good job if he was on cable. we do it every night, mr. president. this is the story that has me fired up tonight. the most powerful elected republican in america is plotting to stop the united states government dead in its tracks procedurally. on monday night, senator "waterloo" jim demint warned he would place a hold on any legislation that would not been cleared by his office before the close of business today. demint, as

they are all angry with barack obama. they overdosed with the anger at barack obama and it stirred up things to the point where i think the establishment has lost control and the tea party is now in control in terms of picking candidates and when i hear you talking about o'donnell. it is amazing to me. o'donnell has trouble with taxes. her academic credentials, paying for school, paying her own mortgage. someone with no record and when you start to talk policy obama is unamerican. she wants to do away with the education department. she is someone who says her jobs plan for america is simply cut the capital gains tax. i think the voters of delaware, more independents than democrats and more republicans than independents. i think they are go willing to give republicans a chance but they say this is fringe and this is extreme and that is the problem across the country. >> o'donnell may be a bit too far and delaware delaware is not the state to nominate someone with a strong conservative message. when the republican party was