that is the case before barack obama and now and frankly after barack obama leaves the white house. most black americans had an inkling of that. they understood that and also understood with respect to racial equality the detractors of the president that said they would be waiting for anything to jump on to say he is showing favoritism to black america, but that is a dilemma. are there people looking for any and every opportunity to accuse the president of racial favoritism? yes. there are. and to combat that the president is very careful around racial issues and tiptoes because of that. some blacks think the president has not been forthright enough for forthcoming enough with respect to racial issues. doo i think they have a point*? yes. is an arguable proposition. but i say he has a special dilemma facing him. he will be criticized this way or if he goes this way. black people recognize the special dilemma barack obama faces a in in light of that dilemma by people are showing that they are being her realistic, extremely patient, and giving him the way with the special circumstance

the financial transactions tax is something the obama white house seriously considered doing. how do we know that? >> we know it because i interviewed everybody involved in long, taped interviews. what's fascinated here, during the tough days in the spring of 2009 when the markets were jittery, the president said to peter orszag, his top budget official, what happens if he have a bond option, treasury bonds and no one shows up? orszag said one thing you could do that would settle the bond markets is a financial transaction tax, it will raise revenue, it will tamp down wildly speculative trading and behavior. that's actually something that restores confidence in a system that deep down is broken. mind you, rachel, we have a situation here where even wall street knows deep down it needs medicine. may be strong medicine. it's like a patient that's sick. and main even radical surgery in terms of restructuring. this is something deep down they know and actually it's something that now people because they have this book, "confidence men" they're saying my goodness, the president wan

the financial transactions tax is something the obama white house seriously considered doing. how do we know that? >> we know it because i interviewed everybody involved in long, taped interviews. what's fascinated here, during the tough days in the spring of 2009 when the markets were jittery, the president said to peter orszag, his top budget official, what happens if he have a bond option, treasury bonds and no one shows up? orszag said one thing you could do that would settle the bond markets is a financial transaction tax, it will raise revenue, it will tamp down wildly speculative trading and behavior. that's actually something that restores confidence in a system that deep down is broken. mind you, rachel, we have a situation here where even wall street knows deep down it needs medicine. may be strong medicine. it's like a patient that's sic. and main even radical surgery in terms of restructuring. this is something deep down they know and actually it's something that now people because they have this book, "confidence men" they're saying my goodness, the president want

that is the case before barack obama and now and frankly after barack obama leaves the white house. most black americans had an inkling of that. they understood that and also understood with respect to racial equality the detractors of the president that said they would be waiting for anything to jump on to say he is showing favoritism to black america, but that is a dilemma. are there people looking for any and every opportunity to accuse the president of racial favoritism? yes. there are. and to combat that the president is very careful around racial issues and tiptoes because of that. some blacks think the president has not been forthright enough for forthcoming enough with respect to racial issues. doo i think they have a point*? yes. is an arguable proposition. but i say he has a special dilemma facing him. he will be criticized this way or if he goes this way. black people recognize the special dilemma barack obama faces a in in light of that dilemma by people are showing that they are being her realistic, extremely patient, and giving him the way with the special circumstance

the obama white house forges ahead anyway. days before the groundbreaking ceremony at solyndra's new plant the loan still hasn't receive aid proval from the office of management and budget. so administration officials press them to push things along. two days later, loan approved. the company digs itself into a hole almost immediately, bleeding money. by february this year, the company is broke. according to an administration e-mail, the optics of the solyndra failure would be bad. so instead of letting the cap shut down, the energy department and secretary chu approve a refinancing deal worth $75 million guaranteeing that in the event of bankruptcy private investors in solyndra would be repaid before the american taxpayer. months later, solyndra declares bankruptcy, taking with it all our taxpayer money. so, is secretary chu to blame? or is he just taking the fall for the white house? peter and i are joined by representative michael burgess, republican from texas. thank you for being with us. congressman and peter, let me sta

why did it take a year for the obama white house to take the advice? >> look, the president has always said he wants to work with congress, and even know, the white house is very careful to say that on the jobs bill, for example, this is not a replacement of the jobs bill. they still want congress to pass the jobs bill. but they reached a point where there were no other options. they could sit here and do nothing and wait for congress to act, but if congress isn't going to, he's seen as just talking. and that's what they've had to deal with with him, a lot of words and no action. this is demonstrating action. >> these piece-meal initiatives the president is launching here, what type of practical impact can they have on the economy? >> well, critics would say very little. they affect thousands of people, not millions, so they don't have any large-scale economic impact, so will it change the unemployment rate in the foreseeable future? i doubt even the white house would say that it would. on the other hand, there are individuals who are going to feel a d

on tearing down mitt romney." >> the obama white house believes they are going to run against romney in the fall. >> romney was off the trail today -- today, but returns tomorrow in florida. nikole killion, wbal-tv 11 news. >> now, your insta-weather forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmyer. >> a week and a half of unseasonably warm late november weather. the ninth straight day with temperatures running well above normal. we are almost 20 above today. 51 is the normal high. 69 at the inner harbor and the airport. the record highs of are just a little bit out of reach. 73 was the record today, set back in 1990. 15 on the 28th of november back in 1951. it is going to get a little chilly air, but not tonight. unseasonably warm weather around baltimore, southern maryland and all across the eastern shore. as clubs continue to increase, a little fog forms tonight with the storm approaching from the south and west. the cloud cover will keep the temperatures up. -- as clouds continue to increase. you can see there is changing weather not far from here, unseasonably mild weather even

the obama white house forges ahead anyway. days before the groundbreaking ceremony at solyndra's new plant the loan still hasn't receive aid proval from the office of management and budget. so administration officials ess them to push things along. two days later, loan approved. the company digs itself into a hole almost immediately, bleeding money. by february this year, the company is broke. according to an administration e-mail, the optics of the solyndra failure would be bad. so instead of letting the cap shut down, the energy department and secretary chu approve a refinancing deal worth $75 million guaranteeing that in the event of bankruptcy private investors in solyndra would be repaid before the american taxpayer. months later, solyndra declares bankruptcy, taking with it all our taxpayer money. so, is secretary chu to blame? or is he just taking the fall for the white house? peter and i are joined by representative michael burgess, republican from texas. thank you for being with us. congressman and peter, let me start

the show will be on pbs tv stations tomorrow night. >>> and speaking of president obama and the white house, we have a video of president obama made 20 years ago when he was an editor and chief at the harvard law review. somehow this video has surfaced and has become an internet sensation. take a look. >> the distinguished charles hamilton houston was born in 1895, eight months before the supreme court's separate but equal ruling. in plessy versus ferguson. >> the fro and all. mr. obama was only 29 years old when he made this commercial for black history month. it's believed to be his first ever national appearance. >>> at&t gets hacked. ashley morrison is here from new york with more on that. ashley, good morning. >> and good morning to you, terrell. with the collapse of deficit reduction talks put most asian investors in a selling mood. most markets were lower while hong kong's hang seng was up a fraction. today, wall street gets the third quarter gdp numbers from the commerce department. on monday, anxiety over debt both here and overseas sent stocks lower for a fourth straight ses

chuck, thanks. >>> the stage is set tonight for a potential constitutional showdown between the obama white house and congress after a congressional vote to subpoena internal white house e-mails including those sent from the president's own blackberry related to that controversial half billion dollar taxpayer loan to solyndra, the solar company that went bankrupt. senior administration officials are signalling the white house is prepared to invoke executive privilege to keep those high level e-mails private. >>> connecticut light and power is saying by tomorrow they hope to reduce the number of homes without power in just that state to 300,000 still in the dark and cold tonight because of last saturday's freak prehalloween snowstorm. it's been an awful week for millions in the east. many of the same places that went without power for a week after hurricane irene. and now the same wires are getting strung up on the same wooden polls right next to big trees that will no doubt come down in the next storm. >>> still ahead as we continue tonight, there is actually something you can do to r

here's abc's white house correspondent, jake tapper. >> reporter: president obama came to first in the nation primary state new hampshire today, but he could hardly get a word out before occupy wall street protesters interrupted him. >> over 4,000 people have been arrested. >> i appreciate you guys making your point. let me go ahead and make mine, all right? i'll listen to you and you listen to me. all right? >> reporter: the president was there to talk about the need to extend the payroll tax cut, set to expire at the end of the year. the taxes of a family making $50,000 a year will go up by $1,000 right after christmas unless members of congress act. >> they should be doing everything they can to protect the middle class from tax hikes. you've got to send them a message. make sure they're listening. tell them, "don't be a grinch." >> reporter: it's an area where there is some bipartisan agreement, though not for how the president wants to pay for the tax cut and extending unemployment insurance benefits by tax increases on corporations and wealthier americans. a non-starter for repub

here's abc's white house correspondent, jake tapper. >> reporter: president obama came to first in the nation primary state new hampshire today, but he could hardly get a word out before occupy wall street protesters interrupted him. >> over 4,000 people have been arrested! >> i appreciate you guys making your point. let me go ahead and make mine, all right? and i'll listen to you, you listen to me. all right? >> reporter: the president was there to talk about the need to extend the payroll tax cut, set to expire at the end of the year. the taxes of a family making $50,000 a year will go up by $1,000 right after christmas unless members of congress act. >> they should be doing everything they can to protect the middle class from tax hikes. you've got to send them a message. make sure they're listening. tell them, "don't be a grinch." >> reporter: it's an area where there is some bipartisan agreement, though not for how the president wants to pay for the tax cut and extending unemployment insurance benefits, by tax increases on corporations and wealther in americans. a non-starter for r

even before obama occupied the white house before making analogies with obama and fdr one of the reasons is both assumed the presidency in the midst of financial crisis. so the great recession, the biggest downturn in the american economy since the great depression. when you think great depression franklin delano roosevelt and the new deal, what about obama? i try to use analogies, try to compare and contrast. with fdr, people think about fdr, here is a president in the 1930s-1940s. for much of franklin delano roosevelt's presidency for much of his presidency he was never questioned by a black journalist. for most of the time franklin delano roosevelt was president, there was a rule that allowed only journalists from daily newspapers to question him. the white house made exceptions for certain journalists but not for black journalists. i talked about in the book how it was that black journalists finally got the question of the president. what happened was the president, fdr was seeking reelection and he went on -- he was campaigning in harlem and one of fdr's chief lieutenants got in a s

the thing that is alarming for the obama white house that we found is he's in a tough situation nationwide. he's in a worse situation in the battleground states. people are more negative about their lives. they give him a lower approval rating. it really underscores the uphill climb he's going to have to win a second term. >> what does that tell you about the kind of climb he's going to have to do, probably? >> i think it's a couple of things. in that polling as well, and in your story, is talk about how pessimistic americans are. we know that right track/wrong track number is so indicative of how independent voters are thinking. the problem with that is that the white house knows that independent voters are looking up and saying, you know what, am i better off than i was? these are independent voters who had soured on the bush years and thought that obama had the competence to lead the economy forward and lead the country out of where we were? and look what's happened? the best argument, as we were just saying was, well, it could be a whole lot worse. that's not a position of strength. nu

white house. he wrote that vice president biden and i tried to get the democratic national committee to get a set of talking points so democratic foot soldiers would have good ammunition for their phone and door-to-door campaigns. we couldn't persuade the decision makers to do so and he's talking about the 2010 elections which, of course, were a real setback for the white house and democrats. he's basically saying that, you know, he tried and he tried with joe biden but the obama team and the white house wouldn't play. is that helpful? >> well, andrea, you have to look at the whole book not just that one paragraph. he's very supportive of president obama's approach to the economy. he gives 46 specific ideas -- >> but any implied criticism, with all due respect from the former president and especially given their past relationship, the edginess what he said about the debt ceiling. >> look. people like to do the psycho drama between the two of them. bill clinton has been very supportive of president

even before obama occupy the white house were people were making analogies between obama and fdr. i think one of the reasons was because both assumed the presidency in the midst of financial crisis. so, the great recession. people say this was the biggest downturn in the american economy since the great depression. when you think of great depression you think of franklin delano roosevelt. >> host: and the new deal. >> guest: and the new deal so what about obama? so i tried to use analogies. i try to compare and contrast. with fdr i came across an interesting thing. here's the president, 1930s, 1940s. i point out for much of franklin delano roosevelt's presidency, for much of his presidency he was never questioned by a black journalist. because for most of the times of franklin delano roosevelt was president, there was a rule that allowed only journalists from daily newspapers to question him. now, the white house made exceptions for certain journalists but not for black journalist. i talk about in the book how it was that black journalist finally got to question the president. wha

the thing that is alarming for the obama white house that we found is he's in a tough situation nationwide. he's in a worse situation in the battleground states. people are more negative about their lives. they give him a lower approval rating. it really underscores the uphill climb he's going to have to win a second term. >> what does that tell you about the kind of climb he's going to have to do, probably? >> i think it's a couple of things. in that polling as well, and in your story, is talk about how pessimistic americans are. we know that right track/wrong track number is so indicative of how independent voters are thinking. the problem with that is that the white house knows that independent voters are looking up and saying, you know what, am i better off than i was? these are independent voters who had soured on the bush years and thought that obama had the competence to lead the economy forward and lead the country out of where we were? and look what's happened? the best argument, as we were just saying was, well, it could be a whole lot worse. that's not a position of strength. th

barack obama, even the left didn't like what he did all the time on health care, but in the white house, people keep telling him, back off, back off. he said i'm going to push ahead, even if this wrecks my presidency. let's take a look at that. >> here's the latest huntsman campaign web ad, showing how romney has flipped on issues. >> here illegally should be able to sign up for permanent residency or citizenship. >> we can't talk about amnesty, we cannot give amnesty to those who have come here illegally. >> i don't think i ever hired an illegal in my life. we hired a lawn company to mow our lawn and they had illegal immigrants that were working there. >> i believe that since roe v. wade has been the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and support it. >> i'm in favor of having the supreme court overturn roe v. wade. >> wow, a lot of 180s along that road. yesterday romney tried to defend himself against the charges of flip-flopping to the seacoast media editorial board. let's listen. >> i think you'll find that i've been as consistent as human beings can be as i look at those issue

barack obama and other white father was black but nobody talks about his white man's. why is that? and barack obama was not the only president to have negro ancestry there were several others including jefferson and lincoln but nobody ever speaks about that. what about the president of the continental congress? he was a black man. could you speak to those issues? i would appreciate it. >> about barack obama ratio lineage, there has been some attention paid to that and a good many people who object to those like myself who called barack obama of black african american in some who say he should be called multiracial. his mother was white and his father was a black african and. i call barack obama according to what he says he wants to be called. he identifies himself as black and african-american in. so that is how i describe him. it is a very important thing for him to describe himself as black that is an important decision that he made a good many years ago. i think his history would be different if he called himself lotto or multiracial , i had he had done that he would have a diff

white house some of it's about personality some of it's about strategies but the reality of it is that the foreign policy of united states is not necessarily depleted by any of these people and stick to it by other institution or players they're always weinstein's particularly of course the corporate establishment wall street and corporations and their tremendous spending and tremendous profit centers in military contracting and this is the untold story this is the story i read it economies are right now are going to. and that was ross baker editor of who what why dot com and author of the vulcan family secrets the bush dynasty well that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to artsy dot com slash usa you can also check out our youtube page if youtube dot com slash r t america you can also follow me on twitter liz wall the big picture of thom hartmann is coming up in just a half an hour that's going to do it for me i'm liz wall had a great night.

president obama gave canned tow trick-or-treaters at the white house. he wanted people to like his costume, so he went as himself from 2008. >> ouch. that hurts. that's your last call. we are closing down shop. thank you for being with us tonight. we will see you tomor

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white house or congress has made it pretty hard for the president blocking the transfer of detainees onto u.s. soil but a lot of the legal experts out there would agree that there is a lot more that he could have done so as mark the tenth anniversary of good motive here is that the facility is here to say prime example of america's human rights abuses and the obama administration's eventual embrace of the bush war on terror we have to wonder next year i'll be able to just update this mark the eleventh anniversary of get most building open sadly i'm betting yes. now was just a little over a week ago that president obama announced that all u.s. troops would be leaving iraq at the end of two thousand and eleven as of course doesn't mean we won't still have contractors or u.s. troops integrated into nato troops in the country but hasn't stopped military analysts and mostly republican lawmakers from crying out and fact twelve members of congress have written a letter saying this move will likely be viewed as a strategic victory by our enemies but don't you worry cording to report in the n

president obama gave canned tow trick-or-treaters at the white house. he wanted people to like his costume, so he went as himself from 2008. >> ouch. that hurts. that's your last call. we are closing down shop. thank you for being with us tonight. we will see you

white house and congress has made it pretty hard for the president blocking the transfer of detainees onto u.s. soil but a lot of the legal experts out there would agree that there is a lot more that he could have done so as the markets have anniversary of give here's a facility is here to stay prime example of america's human rights abuses and the obama administration's eventual embrace of the bush war on terror we have to wonder next year we'll be able to just update this script mark the eleventh anniversary of get most ill being open soundly i'm betting yes. now it's just a little over a week ago that president obama announced that all u.s. troops would be leaving iraq at the end of two thousand and eleven as of course doesn't mean we won't still have contractors or u.s. troops integrated into nato troops in the country but hasn't stopped military analysts and mostly republican lawmakers from crying out and fact twelve members of congress have written a letter saying of this move will likely be viewed as a strategic victory by our enemies but i'm sure we're courting to report in th

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don't think that that's so surprising i think the same kind of thing is going on right now with the obama white house some of it's about personality some of it's about strategies but the reality is that foreign policy of united states is not necessarily get created by any of these people it's dictated by other institutional players that are always behind the scenes particularly of course the corporate establishment wall street and corporations and their tremendous been doing a tremendous profit centers and in military contracting business i'm told the story i've read it i believe the right would tell has been growing. and that was ross baker investigative journalist and author of the book family of secrets the bush dynasty and syrian authorities have reached a final agreement with the arab league this following the arab league's demand that tanks be pulled off the streets and a dialogue be established with the government opposition president assad had stated earlier that he would only be open to talking to parties that had no legs to foreign powers or what he called terrorism some three t

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serving in both the clinton and obama white houses, representing illinois's fifth congressional district and in his current position as mayor of the great city of chicago, rum has always been focused on results. -- rahm emanuel has always been focused on results. as chief of staff, he became one of president obama's closes at pfizer's, a catalyst for the most productive first -- closest advisers, a catalyst for the most productive first 100 days in presidential history. he ensure that policies were put into place to turn the economy around, and after decades of complacency, america has true health care reform. [applause] he is here tonight because he has been a witness to president obama's vision for our nation, and he knows the importance of granting him another four years in the white house. please join me in welcoming chicago's mayor, rahm emanuel. [applause] ♪ >> thank you, sue. we need here tonight -- while we meet here tonight, the republicans are having a debate across town. i do not know about you, but i have watched a couple of those debates. i have got to be honest. i never t