murdered phil, and john kept saying come on, you're making it sound worse than it was. and i'm just like holy [ bleep ] john. we laughed for half an hour and no one would have found that funnier than phil hartman. i'm voting for barack obama and not because he's black. i'm voting for barack obama because he's brilliant. >> this is personal for me. >> presidential campaigns are tough business. >> and feel change in the area. >> a democratic party has thrown us women aside. >> we're going to go to washington and shake things up. >> i can't trust obama. >> the first african-american president of the united states. >> failure to act now will turn crisis into a catastrophe. you cannot help reform, this is

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resounding and unmistakable message of change and new direction for america. >> it's been just five days since democrats took control of both houses of congress but already the focus is shifting to the next big political prize, the white house. >> when the election season begins in 2007, the climate is not very good if you are a republican. the war in iraq is very unpopular, and many democrats think they can win the presidency. >> senator biden now joining a growing list of democratic candidates who are announcing their intentions for '08. >> on the democratic side you had a lot of candidates. you looked at all these people who were running and you thought in the end this is going to be hillary clinton's time. >> it's been no secret hillary clinton would run for president

but today on her website she made it official. >> i'm not just starting a campaign, though, i'm beginning a conversation. >> after six years as a senator people believe in our poll by overwhelming margins she has the credentials and leadership skills to win it. >> i'm in it to win it with your help. >> she got a lot of experience. her husband and president, a very popular president. it looked like a pretty sure bet. >> senator barack obama threw his hat into the ring today in springfield, illinois. >> one thing you can say for certainty about illinois senator barack obama is that there has never been another presidential candidate like him. he has a foreign sounding name that rhymes with osoma, his middle name is hussein , and he's admitted to using marijuana and cocaine as a teenager. racially he's half black, half white and terms of political experience, green. >> barack obama stepped onto the national stage and while the

democratic national convention with his eloquence. >> there's is not a liberal america or conservative america. there is the united states of america. there is not a black america and a white america and latino america and asian america. there's the united states of america. >> i encouraged barack obama to give thought to the presidency early on. >> america is hungry for change. america wants something new. >> propelled by the media, hungry for a fresh face and story, he's graced the times of news week and been endorsed by oprah. a far cry from where he is in washington, where he's 88 on the

senate majority. >> they liked him, they thought he had a great future and but there view was you don't run for president after you've been in the senate for like a week and a half. >> early polls show him third trailing both senator clinton and john edwards. >> all those for who are doing very, very well and all those for everybody else. >> edwards was focused on the eradication of poverty, but in 2008 it was all about the war in iraq. >> how can you explain your contradiction? >> i do not believe that most of us voting to give the president authority thought he would so misuse the authority we gave him. >> hillary clinton tries to explain it away and that was ultimately unsatisfactory

especially on an issue that was so divisive. >> i was opposed to the war from the start because i thought it would lead to some of the disastrous conditions we've seen a lot. >> obama was very smart, very articulate but vague. >> i went on your website to find some information about you, and i was wondering what really are your top issues because it's not online. >> right, i'm not sure where you're going to my campaign website or a senate website. >> they say a senate policy speech this week was long on vision, short on specifics. >> he seemed to be trying to with wing it. he had yet to demonstrate to people he really understood police. >> is that hillary calling? >> obama is having trouble quintsi convincing democrats to say i'm going to go with obama over clinton. they did not want to risk losing

this election. >> i'm not asking you to take me on a leap of faith. i'm asking you to look at the evidence and record. >> we were feeling pretty good about her prospects, but polling showed there could be an obst k obstacle for her to be commander in chief. >> so you were running on the fact she was incredibly experienced, she could start this job on day one and just go. >> senator hillary clinton has more than doubled her lead over barack obama. >> we were as far as 30 points behind in the national polls. and our view was if we didn't win the first primary in iowa there would be no chance to win the nomination. so he spent more than 80 days there in 2007 meeting one-on-one and in small groups. >> are any of these people over

30? >> i'm on my way to mason city and out and around. >> how many people are going canvassing today? it's a little brisk outside. it'll be good for you. walk quick, talk fast. >> it's time that we moved from sound bites to sound solutions. >> we need to continue to press, keep the energy up, there is a huge momentum. >> iowa, you can make the difference. >> tomorrow night the future of the free world is riding on your shoulders. don't feel any pressure. >> tonight across this state in all 99 counties neighbors are gathering huddled together under the banner of their chosen candidate. >> an unprecedented turn out due in large part to the unusually high number of fist time caucus goers. >> the stereotypical iowa caucus

goer is, you know, older, female. what barack obama did is he went after the young people. and we all thought, well, that's just silly. they're never going to vote. we were horribly, horribly wrong. >> cnn is now ready to protect that senator barack obama will win the iowa democratic caucuses, a dramatic development indeed. >> iowa is the quietest place outside the north poll. >> no black people are supposed to win in iowa because no black live in iowa. so how did this happen? >> what does this mean going forward? >> we are one nation, we are one people and our time for change has come.

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9 opponents ahead of hillary clinton in one of the latest polls. where just a few days ago where they were tied. but senator clinton is fighting back hard. >> i don't know since when experience became some kind of liability in running for the highest office in our land. >> she got really gritty and was like i'm going to fight this thing out town by town. >> this day, this last high pressured day before the new hampshire primary turned into a day unlike any other on the campaign trail for hillary clinton. >> she's taken aback by what's happened. she's losing against this guy named barack obama whom nobody had ever heard of once before. >> and she's frustrated. it's palpable. >> as a woman i know it's hard to get out of the house, get ready. and my question is how do you do it? how do you keep upbeat and so wonderful? >> it's not easy. and i couldn't do it if i didn't

passionately believe it was the right thing to do. you know, i have so many opportunities from this country, i just don't want to see us fall backwards. so -- >> all anyone is talking about is hillary clinton and that rare display of emotion. >> and some are wondering if the pressure is actually getting to her. >> if the emotional strain is too much to handle on the way to the office how can we expect her to handle it behind the big desk? >> being president of the united states is also a tough business. >> they attacked her as a woman. you know, if we cry then we're weak. >> what would happen if barack obama cried on the campaign trail. >> they'd probably say he's a very sensitive man. >> that was the time working

women said she's -- >> i listened to you and in the process i found my own voice. >> this just had to be a blow to barack obama and his campaign. they really thought they had this. >> they came expecting a coronation. instead barack obama had to concede. however, they're not throwing in the towel by any means. >> the energy is all on barack obama and hillary clinton. so we get through all of these first primary and john edwards and his two americas are not getting any traction. >> it's time for me to step aside so that history can blaze its path. >> it is now certain that for the first time in america a major political party will nominate either a woman or an african-american to be its candidate for president.

>> i feel change in the air. what about you? >> the united states political royalty was endorsing this first-term senator and turningeturning its black on the clintons. for the clintons it was personal because they had worked for ted kennedy, they were friends with ted kennedy and it was a real blow for us. hillary said where do we go from here, and frankly we didn't have the answer. >> hillary clinton never anticipated to have a well financed opponent and well organized opponent like barack obama. >> her strategy is winning early on and closing down shop, moving onto the general election. but that's not happening. they're out of money and that is huge problem. but she fights and keep fighting. >> clinton has campaigned $5 million of her own money to see

her through the near term. >> i am going to keep making our case until we have a nominee whoever she may be. >> one of these cards, i want you to fill it out and become part of this process. >> people underestimated not just him as a candidate but to political operation that he was able to put into place. and i think his background in community organizing helps throughout the campaign. >> call these folks up and tell them you will go with them. >> the two campaigns have pursued two markedly different strategies. clinton has focused on the big primaries, new york, california, georgia. obama is hoping to run the board. he's visited 15 states in the past week including red states like kansas and idaho. >> they told me there weren't any democrats in idaho.

but i didn't believe them. >> since the 1960s the democrats had catered to this white moderate middle. but obama decides to appeal to a new generation of young folks and to usually alimentenated communities of color. >> turn out is off the charts heavy. 10,000 voters in one county in the first day. ten times the turnout in the last presidential election. >> over $100 million online, 1.5 million people. >> it allowed him to compete well past super tuesday, outspending clinton every step of the way. >> obama not only has momentum, he's starting to pull away and the delegate county has a sizable lead. >> we're turning out to be a scrappy little team. >> barack obama was the first black candidate who really had a

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member who you may strongly object to what they have to say. >> uncles are blood relatives you're kind of stuck with. you can't get rid of it them. you can walk out of a church. >> as i say, this it wrong. >> you went on cable tv and just got pummeled. >> and he called me that night and said i want to have a speech on race. >> he's hoping of course to not only diffuse the controversy -- >> we were in the greenroom and senator obama turned to me and said i know everybody's nervous but i'm going to go out there and give this speech and maybe people won't accept it and i won't be president of the united states but at least i'd have said what i want to say and that's worth something. >> i've already condemned in unequivocal terms statements of reverent wright that have caused such controversy. as imperfect as he may be, he

has been like family to me. i can't disown him as much as i can disown my own white grandmother. these people are part of me. and they are part of america. this country that i love. >> i thought it was taking a moment that is normally responded to by a politician with denials and avoidance, we're not going to comment any further. and instead he made something useful out of it. >> the profound mistake of reverend wright's sermons is not he spoke about racism in our society, but he spoke as if our society was static. what we know is that america can change. >> hillary clinton had a chance to catch obama from behind. but when obama gave his great speech on race, that was it. that was the end. she was never going to catch up. >> one year, four months and 18

days after she started her campaign hillary clinton waded through an emotional crowd of supporters to end it. >> although we weren't able to shatter that highest glass ceiling this time thanks to you it's got about 18 million cracks in it. >> even when she did concede her supporters were still so passionate and so inspired by her that they wouldn't accept barack obama. >> the democratic party has thrown us women aside. >> they were called the pumas, party unity my ass is what pumas stood for. >> it will be obama-biden. >> going into the general election joe biden provided a level of experience that obama didn't have. but more important the assumption for many people is

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president to an office in alaska. she was a success story everyone could relate to. >> she's a lifelong nra member and in a recent visit to kuwait, she shows she knows her way around a gun. >> thee goes out and kills a caribou, skins it and cooks it for dinner. >> but john mccain's choosing sarah palin, that certainly was a curve ball and i think it gave some new energy to the republican ticket. >> i'm not one of those movers and shakers within the republican party that you'd think would be tact. >> when you're handling an america that has an itch for change it looks like it could be a really smart pick, and maybe she'll get some of the women who are bad over hillary clinton having lost. >> ladies and gentlemen, the next vice president of the united states. >> i was hired to work on the obama campaign after hillary

conceded, and we were watching sarah palin give her convention speech. >> before i became governor i was mayor of my hometown, and since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. a small town mayor is sort of like a community organizer except that you have actual responsibilities. >> she did what hillary clinton could not do, and that was deliver a precise attack without looking like a bitch, and sthth was scary to us. >> you know what they say between the difference of a hockey mom and a pitbull, lipstick. >> that was one of the best speeches i'd ever seen.

by the time sarah palin finished speaking he was five points up. >> the campaign announced today it has reiss r raised nearly $8 million online, and it's just been since sarah palin gave that speech less than 24 hours ago. >> with your help we're going to go to washington and we're going to shake things up. >> this is the real shocker among white women mccain leads 53-41 and that was 53-42 obama. >> sarah palin really does steal the thunder and garners all the headlines, and that is scary to barack obama. >> it was just like a month ago they were all saying experience, experience, experience. and then they told pailen and they started talking about change, change, change. what happened? >> pailen has yet to hold a news

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we now get to see what it will be like for either of these people to be president in the middle of a crisis. >> we know we've got to get something done as quickly as possible. >> from the moment he set foot in washington he was engulfed in politics and then a second guessing of his actions even by republicans whose infighting unraveled a near completed deal and left mccain lilt to show for his efforts. >> it's one thing to be a maverick, but you want to be a maverick who gets things done but he didn't. and he's making obama look more presidential. >> i've put forward a series of proposals to make sure we protect taxpayers as we engage in this important rescue effort. number one, we've got to make sure we've got oversight. >> before it was about hope and change but now he's able to offer a vision for how he would lead the country forward in concrete ways. >> barack obama has nearly doubled his lead over john mccain in the weeks since their

first debate. senator obama gets better marks for his handling of the crisis. >> campaigning in california, sarah palin launched a new line of attack on her opponent barack obama. >> who according to "the new york times" was a domestic terrorist and part of a group -- >> pailen attacked obama to frizz ties to william airs who participated in a bombing campaign during the vietnam war. >> barack obama faced a challenge in a way that no candidate before him before had faced. there were wisperring campaigns that barack obama wasn't born in the united states, he was a secret muslim, he was an manchurian candidate, that nothing about him was real or true. >> who is the real barack obama? >> obama scares me. i just -- i'm worried about what will happen to this country if

obama take sas out. >> he's american, no he's not. >> i can't trust obama. he's an arab. he's not? >> no, ma'am. he's a decent family citizen i just happen to have disagreements with. >> i think mccain did the country a real service by refusing to embrace conspiracy theories and people launching attacks. >> i will respect him and i want -- i want everyone to be respectful. >> john mccain is now so mavericky he's mavericking away from his own supporters and getting booed for it. >> there's a way to play this game so that you end up with no good choices. we are watching a campaign that has maneuvered itself into exactly that position. >> as the polls open from the east to the west across this

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all of us who are watching in the united states and around the world, we're privileged to have this front row seat of history. >> i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear. >> tomorrow, the president of the united states gets down to real business. the enormous challenges facing him and the country on foreign policy and on the economic front. >> by all indications he relishes the chance to go into the oval office and get started. he wants to get moving. >> it's a rare day when a president goes to the capitol to meet only with members of the other party.

>> hello, everybody. >> president obama did just that to actively seek bipartisan support for his $825 billion economic stimulus package. >> we had a wonderful exchange of ideas. >> obama believed he'll somehow be able to reach across the aisle. but this kind of hope and change and optimism that had made this such an inspiring campaign runs up against the reality of politics in 2009 when he takes office. >> hr 1 as amended passes. >> it's a victory that came with almost no republican support, zero on the house side. three in the senate, a long way from those hopes of bipartisanship. >> old habits break hard. so we're going to keep on reaching out and eventually i have confidence that it's going to pay off. >> president obama is incredibly ambitious, and he still sees that 2009 is a unique moment. the democrats control the house and senate, and he realizes

these windows are limited. >> the president vowed to solve a problem that has bedeviled presidents since theodore roosevelt, how to reduce health care costs and expand coverage. >> one of the greatest threats, not just to the well being of our families and the prosperity of our businesses, but to the very foundation of our economy. >> president obama absolutely understood that addressing the issue of health care was going to be a really difficult challenge, but we had to try. >> we're doing it on a bipartisan basis. we're working together. the president is being very pragmatic about this. he's open to listening. that's how we're going to accomplish the goal. >> obama believes republicans will vote with him on something that's reasonable. if he compromises, they will as well. but over the course of the next few months, it turns into a terrible political challenge. >> as members of congress return to their districts for their monthlong summer break to hear from their constituents, the shouting at so-called town meetings has sometimes reached a

fever pitch. >> i don't want this country turning into russia, turning into a socialized country. >> this is not health reform. this is control. >> people who were never involved in politics before, grandmothers, grandfathers across the country saying, hey, give me my country back. 2009 was the awakening of the tea party. >> sarah palin has waded into the heated health care debate in a new facebook posting. she raises the possibility of what she calls an obama death panel. >> millions of people will be given the pill to make them comfortable while they die. >> there was an element in the republican coalition that was already beginning to listen to conspiracy theories and falsehoods. it was a sign of the kinds of things we would see balloon. >> where we do disagree, let's disagree over things that are real.

not these wild misrepresentations. >> the president said the debate is over. it's time to pass health care reform. >> but with republicans still unanimously opposed, the president left no doubt he wants democrats in congress to pass his bill with democratic votes only. >> when's the right time? if not now, when? if not us, who? >> as the final votes came in, i went and i found the president and i said, you know, i'm so thankful for what you did here on behalf of all those families who won't have to go through what my family went through when my child was young and had a chronic illness and we almost went bankrupt. and he just said, that's why we do the work. >> the challenge now is to the president to sell this to a very skeptical public in a very tough election year. >> there's a funny thing about political success.

people tend to rest at the top of the mountain. and the people who are out of power tend to gather the energy because they have a focal point. we want to get rid of this person, this congress. we want to change things. and that change possibility is energetic and frenetic. >> tonight, there's a tea party tidal wave, and we're sending a message to them. >> rand paul headlines a slate of conservative tea party-backed candidates who are partying after victories. >> a remarkable 40% of voters now identify themselves as tea party supporters. and eight out of ten of them voted republican. >> feels bad. >> two years ago, barack obama was at 62% in the polls. "time" magazine declared the republican party all but extinct. and look at where we are now. the voters have not gotten what they asked for. >> the mistake was to think that the country speaks as one.

that we're all one thing. what we really are is a mass of reactions. we're always reacting to the last thing that happened. so if the country goes left, you can be damn sure it's going to go right. if the country is looking good for rich people one day, the poor people will hate that and get angry. if we think we're past race, racism will come right back. our pendulum swings. in the long run, we make progress, but it can be pretty ugly to watch. >> what a week. the state of hawaii released my official long form birth certificate. no one is happier to put this birth certificate to rest than the donald. obviously we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. seriously, in an episode of "the apprentice," you recognized the real problem was a lack of

leadership. and so ultimately you didn't blame lil jon, or meat loaf. you fired gary busey. these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night. this is my best friend, garth. >> when you can find two people that can work off of each other, there's nothing more brilliant to watch. >> chemistry is obviously the main special sauce in a comedy team. >> our timing was perfect for each other. >> you burnt a hole in my pants. >> and we're going to be pals, right? >> there's one guy who's out of control, and one guy trying to say, calm down. >> do you ever disagree on material? >> no. >> yeah. >> the audience wants to feel they're loose and having fun. and we are really able to fake fun and business. >> yeah.