>> obama: i do get discouraged. i mean, there are times where i thought the economy would've gotten better by now. one of the things i think you understand as president is, you're held responsible for everything. but you don't always have control of everything, especially an economy this big. there are limited tools to encourage the kind of job growth that we need. i am constantly reminded that we have been through worse times than these, and we've always come out on top. and i'm positive that the same thing is going to happen this time. >> kroft: you spent nearly a trillion dollars on the stimulus package. you've got short... short-term interest rates are zero, practically zero, and still the unemployment rate is 9.6%. what can you do to create jobs that hasn't already been done? >> obama: some of this is going to be just a matter of the economy healing. there are some things we can do to accelerate growth. we still... we've got a couple of trillion dollars' worth of infrastructure improvements that need to be made

obama? richard call-in a columnist for the "washington post" and supporter had a column a few weeks ago titled who is barack obama? it is very clear he has a set of policies. we know about those. but what is missing is a description of what is underneath that were behind that were the ideology that is driving those policies and what motivates obama's? and interestingly the last couple years we had a bunch of series about what motivates her obama in response to the fact that obama does things people don't know why so people think he must be this or that but did my view they don't hold up or make that much, sen spreads on the left and the right you have these explanations it on the right it is commonly said the obama is not the american citizen or board in this country over obama is a muslim a closet follower of islam that explains why he came out in favor of the ground zero mosque or obama is a progressive. a left liberal picking up ideologies o or obama is a socialist european-style that is

obama that he had a. clinton not that the interesting thing is you look at the team that obama surrounded himself with, and i hate to say this, but i think it starts with his ex-chief of staff rahm emanuel which is if you only surround yourself with the insiders, it starts to take a toll. which is bad to say that he didn't need some people like rahm in his white house, and i think in some ways they can start taking it over. it didn't make a similar space for the grassroots part of it. you need to mix and i think obama in some over learn the lessons of the clinton years, which is the clinton people came in and they told congress this is the what is going to be done and they came in with a lot of smart, brash, kind of insurgent types, and other people from arkansas that weren't that well regarded by the traditional washington players in the capital. and it backfired on clinton. so i think they said okay we need to pitch on a washington capital insiders. we need to put it in our administration and we will ma

of the opposite of obama in a lot of ways. it was an immediate indication that this white house was not going to be about "kumbaya" and getting along and trying to do everything they could to win republican votes. they were going to try and win. >> narrator: emanuel told obama to win, he needed to move fast. >> he recognized that the moment obama was going to be at his strongest was the beginning. >> narrator: in the end, the president decided to go for health care right away to make a larger point. >> we were sitting in the oval office, and we were sort of having a debate around health care at one point, and the president said, "it's about health care, but it's not really about health care. it's also about proving whether we can still solve big problems in this country." and this was going to be the test case for that. ( sirens ) >> narrator: in his first address to congress, the president wasted no time putting health care on the nation's agenda. >> let there be no doubt: health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and

obama's real religion. his favorite team, the chicago bulls, who just happen to play in the same division as the milwaukee bucks whose arena just happened to be known as the mecca. coincidence? the wall street shuffle. big business's latest fix. avoiding taxes on the big bonuses. my special guest michael moore. including his response to shots taken at him by president bush in his new autobiography. bush versus reality. waterboarding? >> if it's legal, president bush, and if an american is taken into custody in a foreign country, not necessarily in uniform. >> i'm not going to debate the issue, matt. >> the tea party rallies against michelle backman. ron paul endorses her opponent. plus -- >> backman is a loud mouth. >> so how was your weekend? >> msnbc has a hard and fast rule that political donations represent bias in journalism unless you ask first. >> all the news and commentary now on "countdown." >> ready? here we go. >>> good evening from new york. this is tuesday, november 9. 728 days before the 2012

very close aide to obama. the interesting roll that he played was that he was one the people that was nudged aside by larry summers. who at the beginning of the administration, obama was waxes about him. larry summer was the guy that was going to saying. goolsbee was one member. now summers is leaveing. goolsbee has come back as the chairman of the economic advisers. in the current interim before summers replacement has been named, he's the most prominent voice. he's a centrist economist who i think has been more with the volcker types, those who wanted to see a deeper fix, but is also very cautious, i think in his advise. i don't expect to see a huge amount of change coming out of his new asen -- asen dent si. >> caller: hi, how are you doing? >> host: good thanks. >> caller: here are one the things. i have a landscaping company that i shut down last year. actually, the problem is not the housing crisis that started all of this. the problem starts way back with jobs. and the bottom line is, you know, i'm a de

immolating the movement that this polarization has taken place on the barack obama's presidency shows how strong the americans feel about the direction their country takes the russian public opinion research center all citizens to gauge they add to the polls they have noted states fifty nine percent of the respondents said they have a positive attitude twenty seven percent expressed more negative feelings yet two years ago statistics were biased versa with sixty five percent negative towards the united states the question remains if midterm results will bring about another ship to beat. i gem another kind of shift gears here phil there's a lot of criticism of the tea party movement because of its backers who is funding it a lot of people say the koch brothers are there over one hundred million dollars been poured into various groups we have murdoch is there in his entire empire. i think it's fair to say promoting the tea party movement i mean again you know they give you the sense that you know they were told this is a spontaneous populist movement but it others will say it's a very h

thank you look this is about an election obama got elected in two thousand and eight because americans didn't like what they had which was george bush and arguably fit fiscal irresponsibility among other things you have to remember there was an unpopular war and some other things too this year americans are unhappy about the economy now fairly or unfairly they're beginning to blame barack obama for so that the notion of fiscal responsibility is the coin of the realm in two thousand and ten whether will continue to be the case or not we don't know what we do know is that the democrats and president obama certainly had an incredible opportunity in two thousand and nine to form a lasting coalition it is not lasted two years later by all accounts our polls everybody else's polls this can be a very republican year now what happens after this we can't tell on wednesday morning the two thousand and twelve presidential campaign starts it will get very hot it will get very heavy and the environment that is for it on will determine what happens if the economy gets better mr obama will be in much

romney narrowly edges out president obama, 45-42. too close to call. obama leads huckabee. obama leads mitch daniels largely unknown, 45-36, but he's an unknown guy and obama gets closest to 50% against palin. he doesn't get 50 against her. very interesting. we'll be right back. kitchen.com. kitchen.com. campbell's.® it's amazing what soup can do.™ my professor at berkeley asked me if i wanted to change the world. i said "sure." "well, let's grow some algae." and that's what started it. exxonmobil and synthetic genomics have built a new facility to identify the most productive strains of algae. algae are amazing little critters. they secrete oil, which we could turn into biofuels. they also absorb co2. we're hoping to supplement the fuels that we use in our vehicles, and to do this at a large enough scale to someday help meet the world's energy demands. [ gobble, gobble ] [ female announcer ] great wine, great price, gobble it up. [ gobble, gobble ] >>> i understand people's frustrations and what i've said to the tsa is that you have to constantly refine and measure whet

prospects looked worse than obama's do now. i think in our hyperventilating commentarriat tend to exaggerate what's happening this week, and as significant as the election was, it was a typical correction that we associate with all bi-elections, and the last three elections have been swing elections. so it may well be that we're going to see this kind of back-and-forth now for some period of time. and i don't see it as necessarily an indication that 2012 is going to deliver either the house or the senate or the white house to the republican party. >> rose: reminds me of mrs. churchill who said to winston churchill after his defeat in 1946, it may be a blessing in disguise. and mr. churchill said it's a hell of a disguise. >> i wouldn't describe it as a pleasing in disguise, but i wouldn't say the presidenciy is dead on arrival at this point. >> rose: so who has influenced barack obama's mind? >> that's a very difficult question to answer in short order. i think he is seriously influenced by social christianity, by the gospels--

chris: contrast that to what barack obama told you, bob, in your new book, "obama's wars. quote, we'll do everything we can to prevent it but even 9/11, we absorbed it and we are stronger. a potential game changer would be a weapon of mass destruction in a major american city, because that's one area where you cannot afford any mistakes. is there a difference between these fellas in terms of what to do after 9/11, what obama would have done, what we're doing now? >> certainly obama would not have gone into iraq and, of course, you know bush is right, they didn't hit us again. chris: is there a connection? >> no, there's not, unfortunately. as we know, there was no al qaeda in iraq until we invaded. and then they came. >> but the sort of political extraordinariness of the bush administration was cheney imagined to convince 70% of the american people that iraq was, saddam hussein was directly behind iraq. chris: you're right, it's in the polling. >> the other piece of it was everyone in that inner circle, in the foreign policy team and at the cia, they felt that it was compl

president obama said yesterday in the news conference that i had the privilege of attending that we had to act fast and furious to get out of the ditch ok for you aren't you in your folks the republicans certainly weren't satisfied and you probably very quickly fell with your victory what's going to be different this time what's the difference you know a lot of what did a little a little surprise i finish my question a little supercharged tea party stuff and who knows where that's going to lead to i mean if we just heard here bob just said that the president was punished for doing too much what he thinks. well i would say that the president's agenda was punished but i'm not exactly sure this was a vote of confidence for republicans either the bottom line is we were not the victors yesterday we were the beneficiaries of voter anger a lot of people are going to put this on the tea party and say particularly the us media these are a bunch of crazies they're not really crazies are average americans are concerned about the fiscal plight of this country yes we are going to have gridlock b

i think he'll give obama a tough run but obama will ultimately win. >> larry: who do you think? >> if it were not for mass obama care i would like mitt romney. i think michelle bachman would be a great jolt of energy to conservatives, to women, to the party. i think she's a really smart lady. >> sarah palin -- >> larry: are you kidding or do you mean that? >> what kind of question is that, larry? of course, i mean it. >> if she's the nominee obama needs to start -- >> michelle bachman is a pale comparison. >> she's a woman to admire. she's very smart and she's done great things for her state and conservatives love her. >> okay. i'm all for it. michelle bachman. i was going to say go, sarah, go but now i'm all for backman. >> so am i. >> you guys are terrible. >> please, please! >> listen, i think. >> larry: i think ari would complain, too. >> larry, barack obama is the most popular democrat in the country. -- the most popular politician in the country, still, in every poll. sarah palin is actually the most popular republican politician in the country. so, you know, there it goes

and obama win a unpaid live looks good. -- and obama winning looks good for obama. it may be the only thing that saves the obama administration, maybe someone that is able to center the party. >> aha what you will see over the next three years is not bill clinton -- i think you will see harry trumam. in failing to understand that america had been transformed by the new deal. >> i will make a prediction. obama will put hillary clinton on his eyes president. joe biden will go on and be secretary of state. you are dealing with an obama /clinton. it would be historic. the republicans are putting pailin or wrongly. obama/clinton could be hard to be, particularly of unemployment drops down at 8.9% in chile but mint. >> it is interesting that use a sarah palin and it wrongly in the same breath. iand mit romney in the same breath. >> a lot of people would view that almost an act of desperation. is it necessary to boohoo is pale it -- if they live is the republicans -- if palin is the republican candidates. >> hillary clinton deserves it. she has done a great job of secretar

which is a lot like the obama health care plan. and every other republican that i've talked to is planning to attack mitt romney on that basis. chris: he knows that. >> he does know that. chris: he's a politician and should be able to deal with it. >> he will have to deal with it. the way david axelrod, top guy at the white house for obama who is looking at all this describes it, is a little differently. he says -- the way he views politics there's a wine candidate and a beer candidate. so that's the white house thinking. the wine candidate will be a manager type and the beer candidate will be somebody who does appeal on a gut level to the people in iowa. >> but in iowa, it's going to be good for mitt romney, i believe, if sarah palin runs. and does well in iowa. ok. because then people are going to say oh oh, she can't get elected even though she's doing really well. and who do we look at? chris: and one or thing. sarah palin, everybody in the press, we're all watching her. everybody is watching television is watching her. and the

obama visited indonesia. margaret warner chronicles the president's stop in the world's most populous muslim nation. >> lehrer: then, some perspective on george w. bush's and other presidential memoirs from historians julian zelizer and michael beschloss. >> ifill: from flood-ravaged pakistan, special correspondent saima mohsin follows a team from doctors without borders still working to save lives. >> we have mostly skin diseases. we have upper respiratory tract infek shuns and we have about 6 to 8 malaria cases. >> lehrer: we look at the power shift in state capitals after the midterm elections with reporters from minnesota, ohio, wisconsin and maine. >> ifill: plus, ray suarez has the story of neighbors and classmates who remember barack obama's childhood days in indonesia. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for

president obama said yesterday in the news conference that i had the privilege of attending that we had to act fast and furious to get out of the ditch ok for you aren't you in your folks the republicans certainly weren't satisfied and you probably very quickly fell with your victory what's going to be different this time what's the difference you know it was a little a little surprise that i finish my question a little supercharged tea party stuff and who knows where that's going to lead to i mean if we just heard bob just said that the president was punished for doing too much what he thinks. well i would say that the president's agenda was polished but i'm not exactly sure this was a vote of confidence for republicans either the bottom line is we were not the victors yesterday we were the beneficiaries of voter anger a lot of people are going to put this on the tea party and say particularly the us media these are a bunch of crazies they're not really crazies or average americans are concerned about the fiscal plight of this country yes we are going to have gridlock but i'm going

president obama said yesterday in the news conference that i had the privilege of attending that we had to act fast and furious to get out of the ditch ok for you aren't you in your folks the republicans certainly weren't satisfied and you probably very quickly fell with your victory what's going to be different this time what's the difference you know a lot of what is a little a little surprise let me finish my question a little supercharged tea party stuff and who knows where that's going to lead to i mean if we just heard bob just said that the president was punished for doing too much what do you think. well i would say that the president's agenda was punished but i'm not exactly sure this was a vote of confidence for republicans either the bottom line is we were not the victors yesterday we were the beneficiaries of voter anger a lot of people are going to put this on the tea party and say particularly the us media these are a bunch of crazies they're not really crazies are average americans are concerned about the fiscal plight of this country yes we are going to have gridlock

>> obama just needed to communicate better -- i don't think that's as it. polls show that the country is still right of center, slightly, but it is right of center. the democrats haveost partularly working peoe who do not believe in government. >> mark, your take? >> democrats lost the middle of the country and the electorate and most importantly, white middle-class voters. for the press time in the middle of an economic catastrophe, they -- the first time in the middle of an economic catastrophe, they voted republican. i think the republicans won because they were not democrats. there is no doubt as a republican idea that comes out of the selt --here is no galvanizing republican idea that comes out of this election. >> for the record, in addition to taking over the house and never win the majority in the senate, republicans -- narrowing the majority in the senate, republicans now control many state legislatures. >> the change in the state legislatures is historic. in the watergate year, the democrcric sweep was 630 could there waa galvanizing idea in this

that's the obama warning. >> greta: president obama says the tsa has told him the new procedures are necessary to fight terrorism. the president and his team will continue to evaluate whether the new measures are necessary. >> did the new tsa techniques have you blushing? a man has a new invention. introducing scanner-proof underwear. yes the underwear uses a special metal to block sensitive areas from view while not setting off detectors. strategicly placed fig leaf on the male while the female uses clasped hands. >> not everybody is excited about the upcoming royal wedding. a bishop in london is not optimistic about the couple. the ladies at the view are not happy. >> it has been a week since prince william has announced his engagement. the backlash has already begun. a london bishop fired off a facebook rant saying i give the marriage seven here's. he's a bone head. >> he is william just rescued a guy on a mountain somewhere. to go off on him personally, this guy is a bishop. funny, national flim-flam. >> leave them alone. >> greta: the bishop has apologized for his comments. >> g

the money obama spent its money that had to be spent in an emergency. it is not the onslaught of socialism. >> here is a poll -- the vast majority of retirees feel they were given the opportunity to achieve the american dream but forecast a grim outlook for their offspring. 89.2% believed it will be more difficult for their children to live the american dream, and only 1.9% see their grandchildren having an easier time than they did. that is all connected with what we're talking about. >> but i don't see that, and i have grandchildren. i expect my grandchildren to do as well or better. >> look, we are undermining our economy, as we heard from the commission, to the point where we will not be able to function or educate or invest, if we don't fix the debt problem. it is not as it is rocket science. it is eminently flexible. the one success we have had over the last 30 years is the tax reform of 1986, reagan, bradley, tip o'neill, where they took a hatchet to all of the loopholes and deductions in the tax code. they wiped them out and radically lower rate

thank you look this is about an election obama got elected in two thousand and eight because americans didn't like what they had which was george bush and arguably fit fiscal irresponsibility among other things you have to remember there's an unpopular war and some other things too this year americans are unhappy about the economy now fairly or unfairly they're beginning to blame barack obama for so that the notion of fiscal responsibility is the coin of the realm in two thousand and ten whether will continue to be the case or not we don't know what we do know is that the democrats and president obama certainly had an incredible opportunity in two thousand and nine to form a lasting coalition it is not lasted two years later by all accounts our polls everybody else's polls this can be a very republican year now what happens after this we can tell on wednesday morning the two thousand and twelve presidential campaign starts it will get very hot it will get very heavy and the environment that it is fought on will determine what happens if the economy gets better mr obama will be in much

let's start with democrats unhappy with president obama. senator sherrod brown is a democrat from ohio. thank you for joining us. i want to show you some of the reportings from politico today about what went on in the caucus meeting you attended last night and bill nelson's frustration at the president. it was reported -- is that an accurate report? can you paint the picture of what went on behind closed doors? >> i don't want to talk about a meeting not open to the public, but i will say that of course the president's controversial, but among senate democrats, we want to president to stand strong. we want him to sharpen the differences. republicans want to block unemployment maintaining unemployment benefits for the millions of unemployed workers that are going to see those benefits run out. at the same time, the republicans want to do tax cuts for the wealthiest in the country. we want the president to make those distinctions sharply because that will clearly win the message and help us governor the way we ought to govern. >> to what exte

obama defends move as pro- growth. that is the federal reserve move last week to provide $600 billion in quantitative easing. it says the prospects of the fed flooding to the financial system with money drives gold above $49 an ounce monday. often bought as protection against inflation, settled at a record. this is "the washington post." breakdown of the most expensive races and much it cost per voter. on the issue of outside groups, political reports that president obama said the white house has given a green light to big donors to set up similar outside groups to what republicans did this past election cycle to counter gop effort in 2012. also political reports that darrell i said, incoming chairman of the oversight committee in the house, plans to hundreds of hearings. that is the headline in "politico" on this. this is the politics section of "the washington times" this morning. pete sessions, currently nrcc chief, decides to stay on. opening the way for kevin mccarthy to become the majority whip for the republican

so, the bell were in hiroshima and obama was in yokahama at the same time. >> did president obama owe hiroshima a visit? >> i think it would have been nice but frankly if the president would have done this, we wouldn't be sitting here talking about what a great trip he had to india. monica and pat would be saying enough with the apology tour. so, i think this is not an invitation that has been head lined and i don't think there were any expectations of this president. he has been gone for ten days. it's time for him to come home. >> this is a historical wasps nest he didn't want to polk. he sent the u.s. ambassador to japan to the memorial in august on the actual anniversary of the dropping of the bomb. so, there was no need for him to go. you don't want to suggest moral he quiff vow lens in the role of the united states in world war ii and imperial japan in world war ii. the dropping of those weapons brought an end to the war. it was a last resort. truman didn't want to do it. but at the risk of having a full ground invasion of japan to end the war, it was the right moral decision. >

and obama policies. do all of your reporting and the polls reflect that to be the case. >> when you look at house races that's definitely the case. we've seen a nationalized election when it comes to house races. despite the attempts of democrats and a lot of democratic candidates to make it a choice between me and the other person, i think that's... republicans have succeeded in large part this year by having a very consistent narrative against the obama administration, against nancy pelosi, against the actions of the democratic congress, and have made it a referendum on what they've done. voters are speaking in a big way that they're not happy with those steps that they've taken. >> lehrer: barbour and kaine seem to be agreeing on the reverse of this, that if there is a big response to the republicans tomorrow night that that shouldn't be read as a mandate necessarily, a positive mandate for republicans per se. >> i really do think this is one of the most unique things in this election cycle. this noti

and obama policies. do all of your reporting and the pol reflect that to be the case. >> when you look at house races that's definitely the case. we've seen a nationalized election when it comes to house races. despite the attempts of democrats and a lot of democratic candidates to make it a choice between me and the other person, i think that's... republicans have succeeded in large part this year by having a very consistent narrative against the obama administration, against nancy pelosi, against the actions of the democratic congress, and have made it a referendum on what they've done. voters are speaking in a big way that they're not happy with those steps that they've taken. >> lehrer: barbour and kaine seem to be agreeing on the reverse of this, that if there is a big response to the republicans tomorrow night that that shouldn't be read as a mandate necessarily, a positive mandate for republicans per se. >> i really do think this is one of the most unique things in this election cycle. this notion

now did you hear president obama is on his way to india the president left washington d.c. this afternoon on the ten day trip to india and other parts of asia now he's hoping to expand trade in the region and he's taking more than two hundred executives with him to try and boost the country's economic ties but all the information about the trip has somehow been lost in the media because the crazy right the sighted to make up a lie about it they claim that obama is spending two hundred million dollars a day on the trip and of the navy is deploying thirty four warships off the coast of india for his protection glenn beck sean hannity rush limbaugh along with congresswoman michele bachmann all decided to run with this information after the website drudge posted an article out of an indian newspaper saying of the trip was costing two hundred million project take a look. india is going to be the taj mahal all they get to see is the whole hotel entire hotel booked is going to one of the biggest mosques in indonesia two hundred paranoid three thousand people that i read their righ

senate democrats are fighting mad at president obama. they blame him for losing the message war and worry he's a liability for the party. here's what they want him to do. lose that bipartisan talk. put on the boxing gloves and cast republicans as the party we beholden into the special interests. sherrod brown will be here to offer his advice on how the president can regain the upper hand. >>> plus, it's a cloak and dagger story set in cyberspace. a malicious sophisticated computer worm that infected iran's operating systems was likely an attack to sabotage the country's nuclear program. and all signs point to israel. this just may be the new way to take out iran's nuclear facilities. and let me get this straight. republicans won't extend unemployment benefits for people struggling to find work, but they're pushing for tax cuts for the rich. can democrats call them out? >>> also, when will our troops leave afghanistan? president obama is meeting with nato leaders in portugal to map out the way forward. he previously set july 2011 as the s

no matter who gets the top ticket. >> let's talk about obama's problems. >> bill: obama's problems, you say, are that he is going to have a primary challenge. i said hillary clinton is going to be the challenginger because she would be the only one to have the money to do it. >> yeah, but not yet. maybe but not yet. i have a column on dick morris.com that explores this. hillary can't just run. because there has to be a groundswell of dissatisfaction with obama. >> bill: you haven't seen that yet? >> well, not in the democratic party yet. his approval fell from 7 to 81. but it's still at 81. >> bill: within the democratic party 81% of the voters or likely voters think he is doing okay? >> down from 87 a week ago but still 81. >> bill: all right. >> i think what's going to happen is that a real radical like russ feingold or dennis kucinich and outside chance of jerry brown. >> bill: he won't do it? >> get into the race and stakeout the left alternative. >> bill: why bother. >> as those guys move up in the polls and maybe do well in some of the early primaries like mccarthy did in '68. jus

so, what is obama stream? what motivates obama? one-way device that is obama's during the american dream? is that martin luther's dream or is it something else? is it the american dream? no. that seems odd to say because obama is an embodiment of the american dream. during the presidential campaign he said my story is only possible in america. and that since you think america is unique. and yet in a press conference when obama was in europe, he was asked, do you believe america is unique? actually he was asked, do you believe in american exceptionalism? american exceptionalism is the academic word for american uniqueness. america is exceptional. it's not like any other place. the founders certainly believed america was unique. they called america a new order for the ages. so obama was asked, do you believe in american exceptionalism? and obama said, no, i don't believe america is in a more exceptional than greece or britain or anyplace else. so in a sense, obama was rejecting at least this idea of american uniqueness that the found

to the smiling energetic obama from the campaign trail the oratorical master obama the politician. they hold the killer the. latest book. the stamps or what the cynics say it is possible. what you know in your heart it's. to say it wasn't that long ago when he was chanting hope and change on a daily basis but after that pitiful sixty minutes interview we just can't help but wonder has obama lost it does he feel so defeated that he's lost all of his motivation to fix america or at least act like he wants to where is the fire where is the fight where are those beautifully phrased sentences that we used to hear between the new house majority and all the criticism surrounding his administration we can't help but notice a new side to obama the all too serious not so on gauging incredibly boring side and if that's not bad enough d.n.c. committeeman robert zimmerman just gave tabloids something else to buzz about he blamed the election losses on the fact that the white house communications effort was so poor that it quote couldn't sell cocaine to charlie sheen and i'm not making that up w

obama seems to be narrower. i think he probably will not change and i think these positions will continue to be unpopular because the obama democrats came to office with the assumption that economic distress would make americans more supportive of or amenable to be government policy. that assumption turns out to be wrong. i think that is the fundamental lesson of this election. but there are other factors of which i can foresee the reelection of the president and some significant recovery by democrats from the position they were in in this election. >> i think you're absolutely right. what this is going to come down to in 2012 -- first, who is the republican that he is running against? obama is a charismatic figure. he is an excellent presenter and we loved to follow him around in 2008 because he is a real rock star. he attracts thousands of people. they love him. he campaigns really well. we cannot discount what that is going to generate in terms of getting people out to vote. one reason why democrats fare so p

now it's the obama bailout. they haven't made a job good making it clear that that policy that hurt him is a policy that has con newity that goes back into the other party and it's the previous administration. >> charlie: he should be wary of changing his policies of changing his direction because truth be known he is essentially a centrist and as john just said it's a question of the public catching up to him. >> he has to be more assertive than he has been. he said at a photo opportunity with his cabinet, he has to be part of what gets down now. he can't be part of it he must lead it. he's identified very well the challenges the country must deal with. deficit reduction, afghanistan, education, jobs first and foremost and immigration. i think he's picked all the right energy. he's picked all the right things. he must, this is a mathematical reality he accepts, he must find ways to cooperate with republicans without abandoning his principles. >> charlie: these republicans and democrats cooperate over the next t

to sing kumbaya with obama. we're sending them to stop obama. >> reporter: more than 500 senate, house, and governor races now in the hands of the voters. >> big decisions to be made. >> reporter: the mood, very different from two years ago. from pennsylvania to kentucky, all over the country, more blame than hope. the crushing economy. partisan fissures. dysfunctional government. >> what's your mood on this election day? >> scared. >> i'm more apprehensive about what's going on, you know. >> about what? >> all the fighting between parties. >> there's just too much theater. >> i'm voting against a lot of things this year. >> reporter: we asked voters around the country to sum up in one word what they want most from washington. >> cooperation. >> unity. >> faith. >> health care. >> peace. >> stability. >> statesmanship. >> equity. >> harmony. >> open-minded. >> employment. >> term limits. >> talking to voters, one senses they are weary of partisan division, weary of hard economic times. but not so weary that they

president obama said yesterday in the news conference that i had the privilege of attending that we had to act fast and furious to get out of the ditch ok for you aren't you in your folks the republicans certainly weren't satisfied and you probably very quickly fell with your victory what's going to be different this time what's the difference you know a lot of what is a little a little surprised i finished my question a little supercharged tea party stuff and who knows where that's going to lead to i mean if we just heard here bob just said that the president was punished for doing too much what do you think. well i would say that the president's agenda was punished but i'm not exactly sure this was a vote of confidence for republicans either the bottom line is we were not the victors yesterday we were the beneficiaries of voter anger a lot of people are going to put this on the tea party and say particularly the us media these are a bunch of crazies they're not really crazies are average americans are concerned about the fiscal plight of this country yes we are going to have gridl

president obama said yesterday in the news conference that i had the privilege of attending that we had to act fast and furious to get out of the ditch ok for you aren't you in your folks the republicans certainly weren't satisfied and you probably very quickly fell with your victory what's going to be different this time what's the difference you know a lot was it a little a little surprise that i finished my question a little supercharged tea party stuff and who knows where that's going to lead to i mean if we just heard bob just said that the president was punished for doing too much what he thinks. well i would say that the president's agenda was polished but i'm not exactly sure this was a vote of confidence for republicans either the bottom line is we were not the victors yesterday we were the beneficiaries of voter anger a lot of people are going to put this on the tea party and say particularly the us media these are a bunch of crazies they're not really crazies or average americans are concerned about the fiscal plight of this country yes we are going to have gridlock but i

obama says never look backwards. i wasn't going to investigate bush on torture, even though he just admitted it in his last book. said, yeah, i waterboarded them. we're not looking backward. he's not going to go after bush on the iraq war and wiretapping. he's not going to go backwards on anything, even though he had a treasure chest of illegal actions to go back to or possibly illegal actions if you want to be kind. but when the republicans get in, they don't need anything. they don't need a scandal. look at -- we're already talking bout impeachable offenses and how obama is the most corrupt president. based on what? based on nothing. but the republicans are coming. they're coming for him. it seems like obama for the 88th time in a row doesn't realize it. okay? wake up. they're on your doorstep. >>> all right. now, democrats, there's no more time to lick your wounds. we've got a brand new battle cry coming out. we'll tell you how progressives should fight back. naturally colorful vegetables are often a good source o

for more o prident obama's tr to india we get two views. deepa ollapally teaches international relations, and is associate director of the center for asian studies at george washington university. she travels frequently to india. charles kupchan is a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and author of "how enemies become friends: the sources of stable peace." he served on national security council staff during the clinton administration. professor ollapally, during this trip, president obama has called the tie with india one of the defining relationships of the 21st century. is it right? and how does this trip contribute to that? >> i think the... his view of india as one of the defining partnerships is easy enough to understand. if you think about overall u.s. interests in this century in the 21st century india offers, if you look at it strategically, economically and ideal logically india is a pretty sure bet in the long term to be working together with the u.s. in solving a variety of problems both globaly as well as regional

no way obama could stick to his withdrawal dates or see his political opponents demand victory in a country that knows nothing of peace. and. to discuss afghanistan after the u.s. midterm elections i'm joined by kelly lagos in washington she's an analyst with antiwar dot com in philadelphia we go to justin quinn he's an award winning journalist and in dubai we cross the dina hum not a professor at ziad university and another member of our cross talk team you know in the hunger justin if i can go to you first i haven't seen too many people actually talk about the issue we have a triumphant victory for many tea party candidates closely aligned with the republican party obviously and they didn't talk much about foreign policy during the campaign now they're going to be inaugurated in january what do you think speculation because we haven't heard much from the tea partiers themselves and the republican party actually what and let's focus on afghanistan how are they going to affect obama if at all are they going to make you know the republicans are going to say look you know in the house we have

snubs obama. congressional republicans said they were too busy to accept the invitation to a bipartisanship leadership meeting thursday of last week. the meeting would mark the first time president obama meets with new leaders since the midterm elections. the white house postponed the meeting until november 30 to accommodate the g.o.p. schedule. question, was president obama trying to lure the g.o.p. into a snare? and did they dodge the trap? >> no, i don't think he was trying to lure them. i think the president is genuine, talking about bipartisanship, compromise. i think he's being followish in a way to say this so openly that he's ready to compromise. where is the leverage going to come when the meeting actually happens? >> right. senator mcconnell was complaining that he never really met with the president, hadn't gotten any phone calls, and now we've gotten two phone calls, as though they were welcoming this. they are intimidated by the tea party that doesn't want them to do any engagement ac

obama. add to that the chaos surrounding the taxation situation and the stock market is getting hammered because investors simply don't know whether the president is going to raise taxes in less than two months. republicans, of course, don't want a tax raise and this situation could get nasty. last night i spoke with president bush about the state of the union and he was reluctant to weigh in on president obama's governance. but he did say this. >> i think it's important for policy makers to understand most new jobs are created by small businesses. 70% of new jobs in america are created by small businesses. many small businesses pay income tax at the individual rate. and, therefore, raising any income taxes will cause there to be less capital available for small businesses, which will make it harder to create jobs. >> bill: that's one of the rare times mr. bush has talked about what's going on in the country right now. we'll have more on this with newt gingrich in a moment. the problem that

childhood called little obama. two other such trips were cancelled because of pressing issues. it wraps up in south freeaway and then to home. >> a check with mike next and talk about when the rain may move in. >> doppler 7 hd well to the north but has affected our neighborhoods. show you what's expected you're heading out during the next couple hours. plenty of sunshine. see shows clouds roll in, the rain won't be far behind. >> and a possible break in the case of a stolen dog in the east bay. the new story the accused dog napper is telling about where the animal is. you can see ♪ >>> great news. appears that snowboarders, expected to open at noon, 40 minutes from now for those of you who can't wait to ski. using snow making equipment to cover the ski runs. right now they have a base of 8 to 10 inches plus 8 inches of new snow from the storms. a lot of snow there. three others will open before thanksgiving. a live look now at our heavenlily cam looking at tahoe. the mountains surrounding the lake and starting to

and obama-palin really looks good for barack obama. and so, right now, it may be that this strategy, as bad as it is, of making the republican party the rush limbaugh-glenn beck party, it's costing the democrats right now in the mid- term, but in '12, it may be the only thing that saves the obama administration, since they don't have somebody more center to represent the party. >> and that's why, speaking of historical analogies, i think if the republicans do make big gains on tuesday, or if they take over one or both houses, what you'll see over the next two years is not bill clinton. i think they'll see harry truman, who brilliantly exploited the opposition and their inclination to go too far in trying to roll back the new deal. and in failing to understand that america had been permanently -- as much as these things are permanent -- had been transformed by the new deal. >> and i'll make a prediction. historians aren't supposed to do it, but here we go. obama will put hillary clinton on as vice president. it's going to be obama-clint

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we can extend the obama middle class tax cuts. and we need to do this for the sake of the economy and for these families that have been losing ground all through the last decade. >> congressman george miller, always a pleasure. good to have you with us tonight. >> thank you. >> i hope that it's an active lame-duck session. for more on this joining me now is michigan senator, debbie stabenow, who had the guts to step up. and try to help the 99ers, just not long ago before the election. and as we go into this lame-duck session of the congress, what hope do they have, senator, at this point? because we know the republicans won't do anything. how important is it going to be to extend those unemployment was about for those who are going to be falling off? >> ed, it's extremely important that we extend the unemployment benefits and that we continue to focus on jobs as well. i mean this is about working families who are barely keeping their head above water, their house may be under water. their small business may be under water. we've n

obama this morning sought to link his travels directly to u.s. job creation. >> for every $1 billion we increase in exports, thousands of jobs are supported here at home. and i'm looking very much forward to help pry some markets open, help american businesses and put people back to work here at home during the course of this trip. >> warner: his itinerary takes him to four leading free-market democracies of asia: to mumbai and new delhi in india; jakarta, indonesia; seoul, south korea, for a g-20 economic summit; and yokohama, japan, for the asian- pacific economic cooperation forum. along the way, he'll meet with u.s. c.e.o.s of companies seeking to expand their business in asia. notably, mr. obama will not stop in china, whose increasingly assertive economic and military posture worries its neighbors and the u.s. he visited there last year, and will see chinese president hu at the g-20 in seoul. for more on president obama's trip to asia, we turn to: douglas paal, a national security council official in the reagan and first bush administration