so what is obama's dream? what motivates obama? one way to ask that is to ask if obama's dream the american dream? is that martin luther king'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 obama's at my store is only possible in america. in that sense using america is unique. and yet in a press conference when obama was in europe he was asked do you believe that america is unique? actually what he was asked if you believe in american exceptionalism, american exceptionalism is the academic word for american uniqueness. american is exceptional. it is not like any other place. the founder 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 a more exceptional than greece or britain or anyplace else. so in a sense obama was rejecting, at least the sake of american uniqueness

rush to beat obama pretty badly 61%/30% and one obama decided to run for the senate, bob rash supported one of the white rivals a guide named player who was a millionaire and have enough money to give his half-brother $12,000 per month job of the payroll and it was out of spite and he has admitted that it was out of smallness and he did not support obama in that election and as soon as obama one, he got behind him and was a big supporter of him to this day. >> dr. cobb, when you say in terms of the obama presidential campaign coming to see jackson could not decide if he wanted to be the madonna of the campaign year talking about the greek tragic heroine. [laughter] can you explain what you meant by that? >> did he want to be the madonna who gave birth to this miraculously creation of the one who kills their own offspring? but then through 2008 and part of 2007, one of the things when he made the unconscionable statement he made on fox news we have good genitalia of a future president threatened. [laughter] by some of his stature. i thought there had to be something deeper. and it was no

you no it is not as if obama's advisers, david axelrod, coming to obama in saying hey president obama here poll ratings have slipped, come out for the ground zero mosque. it is not as if that is a politically brilliant thing to do get obama does that. i report in my book that obama endorsed someone secretly -- somewhat secretly the release of the lockerbie bomber. this is a guy named al-megrahi. he is an islamic terrorist, who brought down the pan am jet over lockerbie scotland. several people were killed, the vast majority of them americans. he was tried and convicted, and yet think you are ago the scottish government -- he was being held in scotland -- proposed to release him and send them home to libya. the obama administration loudly protested and rightly so what american president would be in favor of releasing a terrorist who was directly responsible for the murder of hundreds of americans? and yet, the london times reported that it obtained a letter that the obama brennan is stray shin sent to obama saying to skop scotland we don't think you should release them but if you want

obama -- rush beat obama 61%-31%. in 2004 when obama ran for the senate bobby rush supported one of his white rivals, blair all who was a millionaire who had enough money to give bobby rush's half-brother a job on his payroll. obviously was out of spite towards obama and he has since admitted that. it was out of his smallness that he didn't support obama. as soon as obama won, he has been a big supporter to this day. >> one of the best plans in your book was you said in terms of the obama presidential campaign jesse jackson cannot decide if he wanted to be the madonna of the campaign or the media. we are talking the greek tragic heroine. let's get that out of the way. can you explain what you meant by that? i will ask my follow-up. >> does he want to be the madonna who gives birth to the miraculous creation of the media who killed her own offspring? that was going through jesse jackson's head. it was hard to get a real understanding of where he was coming from throughout 2008 or 2007, one of the things when he made th

over obama care. it may go right to the supreme court and obama care could go down, and cucchinelli will go down. >> he says this is non- constitutional. >> there are a lot of ifs on the way to stardom. my choice is steny hoyer. he's been in congress 30 years. he's always been overshadowed but he's in a position to deal with john boehner and the republicans. i think if anything happens in congress next year that's positive he will be in the middle. >> i've got four newly elected republicans, marco rubio, alan west, from florida, susanna martinez the newly elected governor of new mexico, carolin >> biggest winners? >> destined for plately cal stardom. >> jeb bush because of his national leadership in the field of education, which is going to become day? >> manicuring. >> destined for political stardom in 2011. new york city mayor mike bloomberg, approval ratings from both republicans and democrats drop the more people will ask bloomberg to throw his hat in the ring for run for president in 2012 as an i

and president obama then candidate-obama really understood this. he knew that every single time he went out, it was a chance to sway the public about his message which was, as you know, change and hope. and that really, he pounded that message day in and day out, every single time he had a chance. which brings me, of course, to all those poor people who have to write those speeches. you know, back in the day, as i said, many of presidents had a chance to sit around because they were delivering fewer speeches to really dig in more as i said lincoln did. but now with the demand if you have to imagine writing 550 speeches a year, and obama did about 450 his first year, it would just be impossible if they wrote all their own speeches. they would just sit inside the oval office all day and write and never get a chance to do anything. so they needed somebody to help. the truth is, actually, presidents have since the beginning had people helping them as ghost writers. presidential speech writers are supposed to be behind the scenes. as somebody who was a

>> obama will win. obama's got a veto of everything. >> will he use the veto? >> sure. >> and make the democrats the party of no? >> you might get some of those reforms through both houses, but the senate -- >> the political risks of that? people like the stuff you just saw on the screen. >> yeah, but democrats did. >> and they don't want to repeal obamacare completely, they want to repair it. >> the democrats don't even want to vote on it. >> i can tell by the smile on pat's face i just live the mischief making. what the republicans are doing is political sideshow. he. >> are you talking about the repeal vote? >> the repeal of health care and the notion they have something to replace it with. when they were this charge, they came one no ideas. john boehner who was the minority leader when obamacare was going through offered a plan which would expand health insurance to 3 million more people. there are 50 million people without health insurance. this is an opportunity for the democrats to show case what they have already passed and the positive elements that ha

>> obama and he are all aligned on that one. >> obama made the turn before he chose daley. daley reinforces that the next two years are not about more progressive legislation, they are about holding the line on what he's accomplished and trying to get some progress on energy and climate change. >> there has been no change in barack obama's ideological heart or thinking, however, he has been mugged by political reality. he saw what happened to his party in november. they absolutely got decimated, and remember that he brought in bill daley. bill daley opposed major elements of obama care, including the individual mandate and the public option, and he opposed big chunks of the financial regulatory bill. >> julian? >> we can all agree to agree that basically daley is a >> b@l%b@ @fa @b@fafab@is not impressive. >> reporter: $14 trillion in debt. the ongoing national debt. the national debt is the amount of money the united states has borrowed from sovereign nations like china, from banks worldwide including the federal reserve and foreign banks, state and private as well as from

exactly the same as obama. now you say, is that because roosevelt and obama were both just the tools of wall street? no, it was because they made a judgment that that would be better for the country for banking to be in private hands. and it was a trillion dollars that would've cost us if we had gone down the nationalization group. turned out tanks were healthier, stress tests work, geiger did some good things, some bad things, real bad things, but also some good things. turned out to be really smart. they came back to. we think a trillion dollars by not nationalizing. >> talk about shibboleth, nationalization was a shibboleth. this is not what people were asking for. but people were demanding was that the zombie banks, and saw the pink speed taken into receivership. you clear up the management, with both the stockholders. the bondholders become the stockholders. you put in place the new owners put in place management. you segregate the bad assets, created that bank and put the thing back in business. you don't

obama and other american friends for today. i also wish to convey through you the best wishes of the chinese people to the friendly american people and e tend thanks to people from various sectors of the united states who have given care and support to the growth of u.s.-china relations. .. [speaking in chinese] >> translator: the purpose of my visit is to increase mutual trust, friendship, deepen cooperation positive corporate and comprehensive chinese relationships for the 25th century. in recent years particularly over the past two years since president obama took office chinese-u.s. relations have made strong headways thanks to the joint efforts of both sides. we have increased exchanges and cooperation in a wide range of areas, maintained close communications and coordination on major international and regional issues and played a positive role in promoting peace, stability and transparency in the asian pacific region and the whole world. [speaking in chinese] [speaking in chinese] >> translator: under the current circumst

he said we are running as a break on barack obama. gwen: and proved it with every single vote he cast in the lame duck session. >> there's a loss of institution and leaders and people want something different. they're tried of these people saying it wasn't my fault. and they want to see somebody who they feel has learned a lesson. so i think that in both parties, people look and see did they learn something. are they going to do business differently? that goes doublely for the business leadership. people really think american business, particularly wall street, let us down. to the extent they're going back to business as usual, that's going to food a very popularrist anger. i think they're looking for some signs that they learn from this economic disaster and not just rushing back and pretending something happened. gwen: looking at washington at all. >> karen and i had these long conversations about how we're in a particularly pendulum era. if you don't perform, we're going to kick you out. happened two cycles in a row. >> three cycle

far as i know, obama does not know he is a leader. no one in the entire world is truly afraid of him. because of that i want to know the degree of being aloof, as far as a community organizer were you want consensus -- host: let me jump in. what would the president need to do or say to become a strong leader? caller: there was the firing of general mcchrystal. but the military realizes that if they allowed their griping comments to be recorded, they would get fired anyways. but for instance has he ever done after a republican district to harm them, the way that old fashioned political leaders would have done? there have been no consequences for the party of no as far as i can see. host: -- guest: this is the big difference between obama and clinton in the primaries. she had more experience. what we have seen with obama as president is the real evolution on how to be president. he is or does, good that time management, but not so much at communication. i run a, called the great communicator during the campaign -- ironic, as he was call

up next part two of the alone a show where they continue their review of president obama's state of the union address stay with us. for the feel we've got. the biggest issues get voice face to face with the news maker. well it's time for tonight's tool time award and without a doubt it just has to go to minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann it was almost too easy she delivered the tea party response last night to the president's state of the union in addition to the official republican response but she wasn't competing with them she promises now just watch those opening clip of the address which is played on the tea party's web site i am broadcast by a few networks live. i want to thank the tea party express and tea party h.d. for inviting me to speak this evening i am here at their request and not to compete with the official republican remarks the tea party is a dynamic force for good in our national conversation and it's an honor for me to speak with you to you. did you notice something wrong there the michelle was looking at the wrong camera it appears for six and a half minutes

and two blocks from the white house obama ties hats mugs and t. shirts aren't moving quite as fast as they used to back when there was obama mania expecting something magic and i think that people didn't get the magic so they're kind of like dude i voted for you going on with my magic the magic was certainly here at ben's chili bowl on inauguration day two years ago. the line wrapped around the block in historically black you street neighborhood. remembers the segregated. washington where blacks couldn't eat in restaurants downtown to go from that to an african-american president was very special for us for all of america for you st and the fact that he came here to ben's chili bowl ten days before his inauguration you know just says it all just incredible president obama hunkered down at ben's counter for one of its famous chili half smoke served up by jade hardy he came in here and i'm like the best day of my life and i went all the way home to north carolina but today she's frustrated i thought that we were going to get more jobs like that but

here's obama. he says, erratically there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income, so long as people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is fast. in other words, as long as the state of the people get the benefit, it's okay to identify rich people and take everything they've got. on the first of you might think this is absurd. why would an intelligent man and a trained economist proposed 100% taxation? if you put in the anti-colonialist function, it becomes very clear. it has anti-colonialist function is because the rich guy got rich by whipping off the poor guy. so if you got rich by coming to my house and taking on my furniture, what is the appropriate tax rate for you? 100% because it's not her furniture. so in a way here, this framework, this anti-colonial framework helps with a little bit, i think, to understand now. also present on obama say the rich are not paying their fair share. he never says what that fair share is. in fact, if

he opposed barack obama in the 2004 senate primary. he backed a perfectly good candidate, respectable, able candidate, and only backed obama after the primary. he brings insight skills that outside skills. -- inside it skills and outside skills. tom donahue of the chamber of commerce -- wow. he has his ego in check. >> he is the proverbial grown up. >> he is a grown-up. >> robert gibbs is leaving. what would you be looking for to replace him? >> somebody nicer. >> somebody with a sense of humor that does not get the president into too much trouble, because he reckoned get you into trouble. the best -- because you can get you into trouble. the best secretaries, mike mccurry, had a sense of humor. they also were able to defuse -- >> they did not take themselves too seriously. >> marlin fitzwater was good, and so is mike mccurry, you are absolutely right. both of them understood that the press was an important constituency, and they had a constitutional right to information. >> perhaps do not have the president quite is overexposed as he

he opposed barack obama in the 2004 senate primary. he backed a perfectly good candidate, respectable, able candidate, and only backed obama after the primary. he brings insight skills that outside skills. -- inside it skills and outside skills. tom donahue of the chamber of commerce -- wow. he has his ego in check. >> he is the proverbial grown up. >> he is a grown-up. >>obert gibbs is leaving. what would you be looking for to replace him? >> somebody nicer. >> somebody with a sense of humor that does not get the president into too much trouble, because he reckoned get you into trouble. the best -- because you can get you into trouble. the best secretaries, mike mccurry, had a sense of humor. they also were able to defuse -- >> they did not take themselves too seriously. >> marlin fitzwater was good, and so is mike mccurry, you are absolutely right. both of them understood that the press was an important constituency, and they had a constitutional right to information. >> perhaps do not have the president quite is overexposed as he ha

you will see the fight on obama care across the board and in the house and senate to try to defund obama care bill and start over. one thing i'm going to do with senator grasso is allow states to opt out. the expansion of medicaid under the obama health care bill is going to bankrupt south carolina so i think this fight going to continue until 2012 and move from washington to the states. it will be one big fight over the role of health care and should obama health care be in existence in 2012 the way it is today. >> senator, we talked about what kind of relationship this white house is going to have with a more republican congress or republican house, more republicans in the senate. the lame duck session was where the president finished strong. lot of booip accomplishments. this is what you said, however, just before skrichristmas react to the lake dumb. >> when it is all going to be said and done, harry reid has eaten our lunch. this has been a capitulation in two weeks of dramatic proportions of policies that wouldn't have passed in the new congress. >> so to your way of thinking -- th

obama. i think that is disrespectful. he is president barack obama, he should be addressed as president barack obama appeared to egypt, this goes way, way, way back. we as muslims, we say, oppression is worse than death. as time goes on, things began to bubble over. it is time for a new era in egypt. just like it was time for barack obama, it is a new time for egypt. host: we should offer no help to leaders of suppressing their people. we will have more on all of this later in the program with former governor tom ridge. and coming up, craig crawford, who has his political trope, part of the cq.com website. next sam, joining us from churchill, tennessee. good morning. caller: about foreign aid, right now we are talking about egypt. the people talk about how much money we give, billions of dollars over 30 years to egypt, but we do not give them dollars. we give them the equipment. we give them goods. watching a lot of this, the protests over there. you see all of these tanks and troop carriers

obama and his actions and the things that he walked back on. i think the mainstream press is really good at getting manipulated by the government you know i mean a private example of that would be wiki leaks the american government the obama administration absolutely hates wiki leaks because it's humiliating for them and wiki leaks didn't do anything that would damage our national security but the obama administration somehow manipulated the mainstream media to indicate that wiki leaks is dangerous to us and is dangerous to the national security in the u.s. so i think that it's really difficult to look to the mainstream media for real coverage on things especially on the war in afghanistan you know especially of foreign policy we were talking about that you know a couple interviews ago where you said that the mainstream media doesn't even want to cover afghanistan because they feel like it's too complex for the american public so when it comes to left wing media i think a really good example of affective left wing media would be shows like the

obama calm and confident and mr. hu hard to read. >> can you explain how the united states can be so allied with the country that is known for treating its people so poorly? >> we have some core views as americans about the elaris all the of certain rights, of freedom of speech, assembly, and religion. they are important and trent said cultures. >> there were problems with translation and when he got his answer, he seemed to be reading it from a paper. >> we have made progress but we still have much to do. not much spontaneity or personal chemistry. there is a gift. china is to buy $45 billion worth of exports and it is welcome news. china may command respect in the u.s. but it does not command a lot of affection. president hu jintao's mission maintains that. to persuade americans in the future, china can be a worthy friend. the chinese government is running advertisements on u.s. television this week which showed china in the first light. perhaps they can persuade americans that china's rise to power is not to be fe

the unemployment rate is not going to come down to make obama comfortable. it will not get to 6%. >> happy news in 2011, a republican house. the two-year experiment of hyper-liberalsim iism is over. we have two years of a debate between large and small government, the social democrat agendand the resistance of the tea party. that great debate that went on for two years and the resolution will be in 2012. >> the speaker of the house is john boehner. he says he will start the new year cutting the budget by $100 billion. >> the congress will do something differently. >> the new congress comes together next wednesday. a 53-47 advantage for the democrats. how will he cut the budget by $100 billion? >> because of how the house operates, there is a great deal of influencing. i think when we were in the lame ductiok session, they had the debate for enhanced benefits for emergency workers. that showed the fights ahead. many republicans say, they have to draw the line. they couldn't draw the line at $4 billion. $100 billion they will find difficult. me of the voters w

obama's book is a little different though. instead of saying, i think i can, i think i can, the main character is saying i thought i could. i thought i could. >> what washington needs now are new voices and new ideas. >> the american people want change. >> i think that we need to make a change in washington. >> i so firmly believe that we need change. >> wait. what was this then? oh, i guess obama was promising us cha-an-ge. >> we'll be right back. cha-an-ge. >> we'll be right back. don't want to deal with a lot of flibbity-flab or mumbo-jumbo. sounds like you need to name your price. no gobbledy-gook? never. do i still get all the dagnabbit coverage i need? sure. we give you a quote and you can adjust your price up and down to find something that works for you. ♪ this thing is okey-mcsmokey skiddly-doo. great! i think. diggity. oh! still not sure. the "name your price" tool. only from progressive. call or click today. affect wheat output in the u.s., the shipping industry in norway, and the rubber industry in south america?

obama, is doing that might be a tipping things to friends. how cozy as mr. obama with google? with all of the company -- how cozy is he with all of the companies that may have opted out with the new health care plan? if it is such a great plan, how come so many companies need to ask for permission to opt out of the new government health care plan? host: of bed this morning by the chairman of ge, jeffrey immelt. he is chairman and chief executive and was just named to a new position within the white house. he made some proposals in his op-ed to improve the u.s. economy and its competitiveness worldwide. that is a little bit of jeffrey immelt's of bed this morning in the "washington post." laurie -- lauren is joining us on the democrats line. caller: i am a commercial loan officer and i managed a portfolio on small businesses across this country. budget cuts, $250 billion is what i see on the screen over 10 years. -- what i see on the screen. and over 10 years, $2.5 billion. that is exactly the amount of money that the rich do not want to spend. they have been getting a socializ

exactly the same as obama. you see is that because roosevelt and obama were both the tools of wall street? no they made a judgment that would be better for the country for banking to be in private hands and the key point was a trillion dollars that it would have cost if we had gone down the nationalization group. it turned out the banks were healthier, stress tests work, it did some good things, some bad things, real bad things but also good things come stress test turned out to be smart. they came back to help. we saved a trillion dollars by not nationalizing. i haven't actually heard people make that point during often. >> talk about the nationalization. this is not what people were asking for. what people were demanding is that the law be followed and the insolvent banks be taken into receivership. you break it up from a takeover, clear up the management, you wipe up the stockholders, bondholders become stockholders, you put in place somewhat the new owners put in place management coming to segregate the bad

obama said something like this. his courageous mother and grandmother raised him and gave him love and disciplines and made him who he is today, but he still can remember the regret and the void he had when he was a child without a father, so he actually and this void is no government or not any individual can feel. [speaking chinese] >> translator: today, i want to tell president obama that my daughter and my son truly understand what you meant. by 17-year-old daughter and my 7-year-old son, they have been missing their father very much. it has been so painful for them, and maybe when you missing your father you know where he is, but my children don't know where their father is right now. maybe he's no longer alive, or maybe he's been tortured by many people right now in rural china. [speaking chinese] >> translator: how many times because we don't know where he is we've been crying at night? how many times because we thought about the torture he's maybe experiencing and has experienced with pain and heart broken a

reagan, clinton, bush o barack obama. para tu opinión ingrese a la página de univisión noticias punto com. >> y aquí en n. washington miles de personas op puestas al aborto se manifestaron por las calles de la capital hasta la corte su frem así cono momaron el aniversario de... la decisión del el supremo que legalizó algunos tipos de aborto más de una docena de legisladores hambrearon antes que se iniciara la llamada marcha por la vida. >> y ahora vamos a chico goshgs donde la boleta en la elección por la al caí no llevaría el nombre de emanuel, corte de apelación decidió que el ex jefe de gano te del presidente barack obama no es elegible para aspirar al cargo, viviana nos dice en que se basó la decisión y como emanuel a este fallo. >> a menos, de un mes de elecciones, el ex jefe de gabinete rezo boda un dure ves por parte de una corte de apelaciones de la ciudad que dice que no puede ser candidato en un documento de 42 páginas expresan que no cumple con el código municipal de haber vivo ido en la ciudad

we're at the halfway point of president obama's first term. as i said earlier, also, david brody, we're just weeks away, literally from a whole bunch of folks starting to line up and publicly declaring that they are running for white house. most all of them are going to be republicans. what's about to happen over the next couple of months? >> wow, you're going to see probably starting in march at some point, you'll see some of these candidates get in like newt gingrich. you'll see tim pawlenty get in. myth -- mitt romney, sarah palin is an open question. i think as it relateds to the republican field, i think there is an evangelical primary and a businessman's primary. you have people like huckabee, palin, potentially, mike pence and some other folks that will compete for the evangelical vote and then you'll have the businessman primary where you'll have romney and pawlenty and beginning rich. the republicans -- and newt gingrich. the republicans are vulnerable. i think it remnants to where the president may have -- relates to where the presid

president obama mean -- needs to be conciliatory. the republicans control the house of representatives. he needs them to help advance his policy priorities. so the question after that speech in the last few lours is, will -- four hours is, will the state of the union help him with all of that? this is bbc news. >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold, get the top stories from around the globe and click-to-play video reports. go to bbc.com/news to experience the in-depth, expert reporting of "bbc world news" online. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its global expertise to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corporations. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was brought to you by kcet los angeles.

you're looking at barack obama. you heard him mention google and facebook saying innovation, education. those are the themes. those are the watch words. and jerry brown saying some of the same things as he's trying to make the case -- we'll hear him in the state of the state, and lisa, you'll be walking about that -- this is the problem that both of them have. i mean, it's about budget cuts. it's about concerns. and it's about balancing these deficits and this competitiveness agenda that both of them are talking about. >> one big difference is that jerry brown may not run for re-election. he may be a one-term governor. barack obama is certainly going to run for re-election. >> this is a major issue. seen as the kickoff of the 2012 presidential election. and so a huge vision speech. more than an hour long vision speech about things like high-speed rail. and that it is a huge issue to california, and it is a huge issue to the republicans who want to slash -- >> belva: he said i was a vision guy before this guy was a v

so tonight president obama goes to capitol hill to deliver his state of the union address. he'll have a lot to say about jobs. more from washington. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. the president and the white house have been giving hints about what will be included in that state of the union address and you can expect that america's greatest concern will be addressed, the economy. tonight president obama is expected to lay out his plan for getting americans back to work. >> i think you'll hear the president talk about a whole host of economic things including getting our fiscal house in order. >> reporter: the president will highlight the need to make u.s. companies more competitive and ready to hire. he'll call for new incentives and investments on everything from education to green energy to roads and bridges. but funding those programs may be difficult. and online preview of his speech over the weekend immediately raised red flags among republicans. >> the president has looked for every opportunity to spend more money. >> reporter: hours before the state of the

>> it was the first meeting obama had. he said "i'm going to think seriously about running for president immediately after the midterms. literally the day after the midterms they meet the in david axelrod's lunch. and obama was taken aback by daley's encouragement of him running. daley knew the clintons very well and daley said "why not run? you'll never be hotter than you are now." obama had just come off his book tour, uf of campaigning around the country. he warned him, though, he said "running against the clintons and john edwards is tough. tlesz two people who are going to be aggressive on the campaign trail." but he said "why not go for it. >> rose: the question of the business community, the this solves the problem about there's nobody who had business experience in the white house. >> it doesn't solve it entirely. i think the business community is going to want a lot of not just rhetoric but action but bill daley, first of all, is a supporter of free trade which is a huge issue for the business community and for re

. >> is there a new obama, or an old obama in any suit? >> there will of course the spending cuts. we will see that in the budget. it may not be the ones that you like, but there will be spending cuts. he has got to deliver on that. whether there will be deficit reduction to the extent that it will make a significant difference, i don't tnow. >> he has not press anyuts. he only spoke about a freeze. >> he did a complete that it -- complete pivot. he was elected as a centrist, features that person, and then he was -- i would not socialist at all, but certainly leaning left, doing all the things that the left wing of the party should like, and then he pivots and respect to the center. i think is fair to ask which one is the real obama. all the people he put in place are the ones who will help him with an industrial policy that bill clinton promoted that is centers. >> we talked about the deficit and debt. the most important issue to the american voters, last fall and today, remains the same. it is jobs, it is the economy. that is the problem

. >> is there a new obama, or an old obama in any suit? >> there will of course the spending cuts. we will see that in the budget. it may not be the ones that you like, but there will be spending cuts. he has got to deliver on that. whether there will be deficit reduction to the extent that it will make a significant difference, i don't know. >> he has not press any cuts. he only spoke about a freeze. >> he did a complete that it -- complete pivot. he was elected as a centrist, features that person, and then he was -- i would not socialist at all, but certainly leaning left, doing all the things that the left wing of the party should like, and then he pivots and respect to the center. i think is fair to ask which one is the real obama. all the people he put in place are the ones who will help him with an industrial policy that bill clinton promoted that is centers. >> we talked about the deficit and debt. the most important issue to the american voters, last fall and today, remains the same. it is jobs, it is the economy. that is the probl

obama received especially high marks last night. a cbs news online poll taken right after the speech found that 91% of those who saw it approved of mr. obama's proposals. and 82% approved of his specific plans for the economy. earlier i discussed the speech and the republican's response with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. >> the mainstream republican establishment, the republican leadership, is really not sure what to do with these new firebrands that make up the tea party, who got elected in this last election. i mean, this is almost unheard of for some, basically, what was a back bencher in the congress, to announce that she was also going to give a -- a response. and nobody had the nerve to say, no, you can't do that. you know, they just sort of let it go. and i mean, i've been around here a long time, and i think back to, you know, when you had some very powerful speakers, and people like senate leader lyndon johnson, say speaker sam rayburn when he was in the house, from texas, i mean one can imagine wha

obama, barack obama, speaking about the protests. he said mr. mubarak must deliver on his promises. so, i mean, the protesters in egypt through our bbc arabic website and even through twitter, although the internet is blocked, they have maneuvered using old-fashioned technique. they're receiving the statement of obama with this appointment, with bitter irony, and actually they expect little or nothing from obama. >> the unrest in egypt has put washington in an awkward diplomatic position. mubarak is a key middle eastern ally. andrew north reports. >> calls for the egyptian leader to go have come to president obama's doorstep, keeping up the pressure on the u.s. administration to back the protests in cairo. >> i want obama to pick up the phone, call hosni mubarak, leave now. leave egypt to the egyptian people. >> we are here. you have to go. game over. >> the white house has said it is reviewing u.s. aid to egypt. it is still struggling to find the best response. it is not with these demonstrators want. it is unlikely americans will abandon their longtime allies so quickly. this is a

this is not the last we've heard of anti-obama-care. chris: they'll use it against mitt romney at the solar plexus of mitt romney. when we return, tell me something i don't know. ring ring progresso i look great in my wedding dress with the help of your amazing light soups. you know they're the only ones endorsed by weight watchers. they taste so good. now we're adding even bigger pieces of white meat chicken. oh, so when's the big day? oh, we got married years ago. but the point is, i fit in it! are you wearing it... right now? yes! well, good for you. [ shopper ] excuse me. oh, so sorry. you look nice. oh, thank you. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. chris: welcome back, john, tell me something i don't know. >> the appointment of bill daley at white house chief of staff, the white house now has a strong economic voice inside the white house and that means a lot of things but it also certainly means that someone who has been more criticized than any other obama cabinet member, tim geithner, will be there for the

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this is a big drag on the obama administration. we saw what happens in the mid- terms, when the progressives and liberals stay home. he's broken this promise and is struggling with guantanomo. these promiceses have been half- kept or unkept. >> charles said something earlier, saying "hyper-liberal" is the last couple years. >> i was being charitable. >> when you look at the base, they don't think this is hyper- liberal. there is no public option. they have a list of offenses, the liberals do. >> veterans understand this. you have to position obama as a wild-eyed liberal. he's tried to impose socialism. we get this every week. i would be disappointed if i didn't hear it. >> charles has had favorable things. >> to my defense, hyper- liberalism, if obamacare is the only element ennacted, he would be remembered like lbj and fdr, as a guy who socialized a sixth of the economy. if obamacare remains, insurance companies become the public option. >> we drifted away from foreign policy. what are we missing? >> there was a story about the wo

el presidente obama y la primera dama regresa en esta misma nochÉste ha sido el cuarto viaje arizona desde que es presidente. >> luis el propÓsito de obama esta noche era unificar al paÍs despuÉs de esta tragedia en este momento de crisis, lo logrÓ con sus palabras esta noche? >> por lo menos con la gente con la que hemos hablado aquÍ, en arizona, Ése parece ser el resultado. la gente se siente Única, aquÍ no ha habido diferencias entre republicanos y demÓcratas, todos estados unidos como estadounidenses. la gran pregunta es por cuÁnto tiempo esto se podrÁ mantener marÍa elena. >> muchÍsimas gracias luis. hoy uno de los amigos mÁs cercanos de... revelÓ que el joven causaba el alcohol y de las drogas y que consumÍa un alucinÓgeno no prohibido. los padres salieron de la casa del joven sin hacer ningÚn comentario a los periodistas. salvador durÁn no tener lo Último de la investigaciÓn y la condiciÓn de la congresista. ♪ >> las nuevas evidencias en la tragedia en arizona revelaron hoy que el dÍa de la masacre en acusados de homicidio e intento de homicidio fue de

sitting here prison obama, obama is only president today only because he had a black daddy. remember, he has a white mother. the joe biden was all right then and he is right now. guest: in terms of sarah palin, i am not a spokesman of the democratic party. they are not afraid of her at all. the intensely do not like her but think she would be the easiest candidate for president obama to defeat in 2012. i think if you look at polls, they show that. she is very divisive and very polarizing. i don't see how she broadened her political coalition beyond that 25% or 30% of republicans who really love her. i think she is too divisive even for the republican party. she will get enthusiastic support if she runs for president from the tea party, but those that of one alexians year in and year out, are going to be terrified of her and do everything they can to defeat her. host: joe is on our independent line. caller: thank god for c-span. we are going after the wrong thing. the fairness doctrine -- let congress opened their doors up. let us decide. washington is getting us aggravated,

obama shows sympathy for the protesters. and does our man in the white house has the troops, the rtsmas, the stuff to be another lawrence? i'm chris matthews. welcome to the show. with us today, david sanger and andrea mitchell. helene cooper and then phac kara. and now it has come to egypt. the domino effect may bring fire to other arab states. the president that has been in the watch and wait position for much of the last three days vifri spoke to the listing, revolutionaries in the rest of the arab world. >> around the world governments have an obligation to respond to their citizens. that's true here this the united states. that's true in asia. it is true in europe. it is true in africa and it is certainly true in the arab world, where a new generation of citizens has the right to be heard. chris: we had a euro-centric foreign policy for years. this is a third-world look. he seems simm thick in talking to the people in the streets and possibly the people in the streets of the other countries. >> he is. the president put

obama -- obama offered the vice presidency to biden, biden wasn't seeking it. he told obama that he thought as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee he could be more useful to the country and to his own career. so he sat down conditions to obama that if he would take the vice presidency, he wanted first and foremost to be involved in the governing of the country. he didn't want to be just a showboat for a ceremonial vice president and that he would be in the room as politicians say when the big decisions were made. obama agreed to all those conditions, and that's pretty natural it is worked out over the first two years. obama has looked to biden increasingly for his counsel and for his friendship also in terms of personality they are not that much alike, biden be really open and outgoing and obama can be at times more protective. but as we've seen and biden's role in overseeing the withdrawal of troops in iraq and now and monitoring the surge in afghanistan biden has been a key figure, and at home which have seen in the last week or so biden's impo