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resounding and unmistakable message of change and new direction for america. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> 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 good if you're republican. the war in iraq is very unpopular and many democrats think they can win. >> many democrats announcing intention for '08. >> you had a lot of democratic candidates. chris dodd. joe biden. you think it's going to be mcclinto hillary clinton's time.

>> today on her website she made it official. >> i'm not just starting a campaign i'm beginning a conversation. >> after six years as a senator people poll she's got the skills to be president. >> i'm in to to win it with your help. >> she had a lot of experience, her president the popular president, she had all of the money, backers and big names. it looked like a pretty sure bet. >> senator barack obama threw his crowd into the ring today in springfield, illinois. >> one thing you can say about illinois senator barack obama is there's never been another presidential candidate like him. with a foreign sounding name that sounds like osama with a middle name hussein. half black half green. >> barack obama stepped on the

national sustaining and wowed them with his elkwens. >> there's not a liberal or conservative america there's the united states of america. there's not a black america and a white america a lataviino america, an asian america, there's the united states of america. >> i encourage barack obama to give thought to the presidency early on. i felt that he could really bring people together and increasingly longer you're in washington less viable you are. >> america is hungy for change looking for something new. >> he graces the covers of times, news week and been endorse bid oprah, far cry from the way he's treated by the corners of power in washington where he is 88 on the senate's list of seniority. >> the clintons looked at obama and said you're not qualified to

be president. they liked him. thought he had a great future but their view was you don't run for president after being in the senate week and half. >> early polls show him thirds trailing hillary clinton and john edwards. >> we got two different americas, one for all those doing very, very well and then one for everybody else. >> edwards is focused on eradicati eradica eradicating poverty. in 2008 was all about the war in iraq. >> how do you explain seeming contradiction from supporting the invasion. >> i do not believe that most of us who voted to give the president authority thought he would so misuse the authority we gave him. >> hillary clinton tries to claim it away. that was ultimately unsatisfactory especially on an

issue that was so divisive. >> i'm proud i opposed this war from the start because i thought it would lead to the disastrous conditions we've seen on the ground. >> obama was really smart, extraordinarily articulate but vague. >> i went on your website to find out information on you and i was wondering what really are your top issues because it's not online. >> right, well i'm not sure whether you're going to the campaign website or my senate website. >> at a health care forum didn't deliver. >> he was still trying to wing it, had yet to demonstrate he really understood policy. >> that's sharpton's black berry is that hillary calling. >> obama had trouble convincing democrats to say i'm going with obama over clinton they didn't

want to risk the lost election. >> i'm asking to you look at the evidence and the record. >> we were feeling pretty good about her prospects but our polling showed there is this obstacle for her to prove she could indeed be commander-in-chief even though she was a woman. >> when you're attacked you have to deck your opponent and that is what i be -- >> so we were run 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. and 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 then sioux city and out and around. >> how many people are going can vancing today. it's a little brisk outside. it will be good for you. walk quick. talk fast. >> it's time that we moved from sound bytes 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 under the banner of their chosen candidate. >> an unprecedenteded turn out due in large part due to unusually high number of iowa

caucus goers. >> stereo typical iowa caucus goer was older, female. >> what barack obama did was go after the young people and we all thought that's just silly they're never going to vote. we were horribly, horribly wrong. >> cnn is now ready to project that senator barack obama will win the iowa democratic caucuses, a dramatic development indeed. >> iowa is the whitest place outside the north pole. he's not just winning, he's winning handily there. >> ninety black people in iowa so how did this happen. and thenned what does this mean going forward. >> we are one nation. we are one people. and our time for change has come. >> i'm proud to nominate this judge cancer.

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there's something stirring around the country, it started last week in iowa, and now it's happening here in new hampshire. >> the obama steam roller pulled into new hampshire today catapulted by the big win in iowa and eager for more. >> the victory in iowa invested us with a kind of hu bu rus that was visible. we campaigned around new hampshire like a conquering army we're about to make history and you're part of it. >> i've been lifelong republican

now registered democratic. >> because of barack obama. >> correct. >> barack obama is nine points ahead of senator clintor in the polls but she's 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, last high-pressured day before the new hampshire primary turned into a day like any other on the cap pain trail of hillary clinton. >> she's taken back by losing by this guy can barack obama no one heard of months before and she's frustrated. you could tell. it's palpable. >> as a woman i know it's hard to get out of the house and get ready and my question is very personal how do you do it, how do you keep up beat and so wonderful. >> it's not easy. it's not easy. and i couldn't do it if i just

didn't, you know, 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. you know. so. [ applause ] >> all anyone is talking about is hillary clinton and that rare display of emotion. >> some are wondering if the pressure is actually getting to her. >> if the emotional strain is too much to bear on the way to the oval office how can we expect hillary to handle it when she is behind that big desk. >> presidential campaigns are tough business but s about president of the united states is also tough business. >> they attacked her as a woman. you know. if we cry we're weak. >> what would happen if barack obama cried on the campaign trail. >> they'd say he was a very sensitive man. >> that was a moment working

women can say she's relatable for once and they came out the next day in new hampshire to support her. >> senator hilly clinton has shocked the political world. she has beaten barack obama. >> i listened to you and in the process i found my own voice. [ cheers and applause ] >> this had to be a blow to barack obama and his campaign. they really thought they had this. >> they came expecting a cornation 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 the primaries and john edwards and his two americas are not getting any strategic plan. >> it's titraction. >> it's time for me to step aside so history can blaze its path. >> it is now certain for the first time in america a major political party will nominate

engineer a woman or african-american to be its candidate for president. >> i feel change in the air. [ cheers and applause ] what about you? >> the united states political royalty was endorsing this first-term senator and turning his back on the clintons. for the clintons it was personal because they worked with 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, expected to have a well-financed opponent, well-organized opponent like barack obama. >> her strategy is closing down shop, moving on to the general election but that's not happening they're out of money and that's a huge problem but she fights and keeps fighting. >> clinton has campaigned $5

million of her own money to see her through the term. >> i'm going to keep making our case until we have a nominee whoever she may be. [ cheers and applause ] >> every chair should have one of these cards. i want you to fill it out. i want you to become part of this process. >> people under estimates not just him as a candidate but the political operation that he was able to put into place. i think his background, organizing, helped throughout the campaign. >> call these folks up and tell them you will go with them. >> the two campaigns have pursued marketedly different strategies, clinton focused on new york, new jersey, california where large populations means lots of convention delegates. 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. [ cheers and applause ] but i didn't believe them. >> since the 1960s the democrats catered to this white moderate middle but obama decides to appeal to a new generation of young folks and it to usually alienated communities of color. and he was able to change the democratic map and open it up again. >> turn out is off the charts heavy. 10,000 voters in one county the first day, ten times the turn out in the last presidential election. >> obama's campaign harnessed the in the net as a organizing and fundraising tool. >> over $100 million online from 1.5 million people. >> it allowed him to compete well past super tuesday outspending clinton every step of the way. >> obama has momentum and starting to pull away in the delegate county with a sizable lead. >> we're turning out to be a

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new polls say barack obama is taking a big hit because of his pastor. >> the government gives the drugs, the prisons, passes the three strike law and then wants us to sing "god bless america" no, no, not god bless america, god damn america. >> here you have the scary black preacher say things that are clearly anti-american. it had the potential to derail his candidacy. >> he looks like a raving main yak. >> i'm fearful obama feels the same way. >> this is going to scare the hell out of white people. >> it's designed to attempt to scare. >> why are you listening to this pastor for past 20 years. >> he's like a family member that you strongly object to what they have to say. >> even family members you can't

get rid of. you can walk out of a church. you can go up to a pastor and say -- this is rock. >> he called me that night and said i want to make a speech on race. >> senator barack obama was working on a speech on race until this morning, he's hoping to disperse the controversy over those incindiary remarks. >> barack obama said i'm going to go out gachbd this speech and maybe people won't accept it and i won't be president of the united states but at least i will say what i want to say. that's worth something. >> i have in condemned the statements of the reverend that caused such controversy. as imperfect as he may be he's more like family to me, i can no more disown him than i could my

white grandmother who love mez more than anything in this world but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her on the street. 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 denyals and avoidance, not going to comment any further, instead he made something useful out of it. >> the profound mistake of the reverend's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society it's that he spoke as if our society is static. what we know is that america can change. >> hillary clinton had a chance to catch obama from behind but when obama gave this 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 starts her campaign, hillary clinton waded through an emotional crowd of

supporters to end it. >> although we weren't able to shatter the highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it's got about 18 million cracks in it. [ cheers and applause ] >> 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 of. >> they were called the pumas part yy yy unity my ass is what stood for. >> the delaware democratic senator had been selected as barack obama's running mate. >> going into the general election joe biden provided a level of experience that obama didn't have, more important shs the assumption for many people was that this country was not ready to vote for an african-american president so biden could help appeal to

working class white voters who might not otherwise vote for him. >> the american people didn't get to know me yesterday as they're just getting to know senator obama. >> and the republican side you had john mccain who almost dropped out of the race, had no money, he decides that he's going to dig in and remarkably he's able to win the nomination. but this is not a great year to be in the incumbent party. >> i'm not comparing myself to president bush on anything. i'm joining my own campaign. >> what's remarkable is that both parties want a change. john mccain described himself as a maverick. he felt he had a legitimate claim to being the anti-bush in the republican party. >> obama and mccain will be fighting for the female voters. mccain seeing an opportunity with older and working class woman angry at how the primary turned out. >> i've spent the last few months looking for a running

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and in a recent visit in kuwait showed she knows her way around a gun. >> she goes out and kills a caribou and skins it and cooks it for dinner. >> that was certainly a curve ball that gave new energy to the republican ticket. >> i'm not one of those conventional movers and shakers that you would think would be tapped. >> why not go for a woman. >> when you are in a america with an itch for change looks like it could be a really smart pick and maybe she'll get some of the woman who were made over hillary clinton being 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 game 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 that was scary to us. >> you know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull, lipstick. >> that's one of the best convention speeches i've ever seen. mccain had been eight points down to obama with no possibility of turning it around, by the time sarah palin finished speaking he was five points up. >> the campaign announced it raised $8 million online just

since sarah palin gave that speech less than 24 hours ago. >> with your help we're going to go to washington and we're gonna shake things up. >> this is the real shocker among white women, mccain leads obama 53-41 before the convictions that's 4 2-53. that's sarah palin. >> she have has more skills than anybody. >> sarah palin steals the thunder and garners the heads lines. that was scary to barack obama. >> just like a month ago they were saying experience, experience, experience and chose palin and started talking about change, change, change, what happened? >> palin has yet to hold a news conference and steers well clear of the national record reporters who travel with her everywhere. >> eventually she's going to

have to answer questions about her record. >> when it comes to establishing your world view i'm curious what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read to stay informed. >> i read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media. >> what specifically, i'm curious. >> all of them. any of them that have been -- >> there's no more tele prompter. there wasn't anything to memorize for the interview and when asked about foreign policy challenges had nothing to draw on. >> you cited alaska's proximity to russia as part of your foreign policy experience what did you mean by that. >> alaska has a very narrow maritime border with russian and the other side land boundary we have with russia as putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of united states of

america where do they go, it's alaska it's just right over the border. >> you got alaska here and this right here is water and that up there is russia. so we keep an eye on them. >> tina fey doesn't need new material all she needs to do so read the transcript of that interview to get huge laughs. it's embarrassing. not just to palin but to mccain. >> i just found out from mccain's campaign manager they only met once before he started to consider her as a contender. >> joe linerman was the candidate he wanted but was convinced that would create a revolt in the party. joe is prochoice and liberal issues. >> is the idea to race off for candidate with same internal plum something offensive and

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some very serious and troubling news from wall street. the most serious financial crisis since the great depression. >> heading into the fall of 2008 you have the collapse of the economy all tied to the mortgage melt down, now, at the time everybody was still trying to figure this out. >> john mccain said he would suspend campaigning, no speeches or fundraising or commercial marshal and go back to washington. >> all we must do is tempt prayerly set politics aside and i'm committed to doing so. >> obama agreed the need to bipartisan action but insisted he plans to debate mccain friday in mississippi. >> i think it is going to be part of the president's job to deal with more than one thing at once. >> the financial crisis was a realtime test of leadership. 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 he got to get something done quickly as possible. >> from the moment he set foot in washington mccain was engulfed in politics an then abundant second guessing of his actions, even by republicans wluz infighting unravelled a near-completed deal and left mccain little to show for his efforts. >> it's one thing to be a maverick but you want to the be a maverick who gets things done. mccain didn't and he's making obama look more presidential. >> i put forward a series of proposals to make sure we protect taxpayers as we engage in this important rescue effort. number one we got to make sure we have over sight. >> 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 the crisis.

>> campaigning in california, sarah palin launched a new line of attack on barack obama. >> one of his earliest supporters is a man who according to the new york times was a domestic tororist. >> palin attacked obama for his ties to an anti war activist who participate in a domestic bombing campaign during the vietnam war. >> barack obama faced a challenge in a way no candidate before him had faced. they were whispering campaigns that barack obama wasn't born in the united states. that he was secret muslim. some kind of manchuria nrkn candidate. that nothing about him was real or true. >> who is the real barack obama. >> obama scare mez. i just am worried about what will happen to this country if obama takes office. >> tell me he's american. no he is not. >> i can't trust obama.

he's an arab. >> no ma'am, no ma'am, he's a decent family man citizen that i just happen to have disagreements with. >> mccain did the country a sbirves refusing to embrace conspiracy theories and rebuking people who was launching attacks. >> i will respect him. no, no. i want everyone to be respectful. >> john mccain has now so mavericking he's away from his own supporters and getting booed for it. >> he is in a position created a monster he can no longer control. there's a way to play this game you end up with no good choices. we're watching a campaign that's maneuvered into exactly that position. >> as the polls open from the east to the west across this country the same picture continued to emerge, eager

voters showing up before the polls opened and in many cases lines as far as the eye can see. >> all of it felt like something it a real thing, like, is it possible that america can do this. it was like a collective holding of our breath. >> we're only few seconds away from the top of the hour when these states will be closing. >> the rules were that we had to wait until all of the voting had ended. i remember 10:59 my producer in my ear saying ten seconds. it was electric moment. >> cnn it can project barack obama 47 years old will be the first african-american president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] s

. >> for those who lived through the civil rights era it felt like the fulfillment of everything they thought the country could be. [ cheers and applause ] >> when something seems impossible and suddenly it's achieved, it was beyond words. it's still a shock to me. >> it's been a long time coming. but tonight change has come to america. [ cheers and applause ] >> it was just overwhelming. there was my friend of some years now president-elect and you could see almost instantly a change. you could see the weight of the world on his shoulders. he was already thinking about the responsibilities that had just flowed to him in the

gravity of the moment was very, very palpable. >> even as we celebrate tonight we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime. the road ahead will be long. our climb will be steep. we may not get there in one year or even in one term but america, i have never been more hopeful that i am tonight that we will get there, i promise you, we as a people will get there. [ cheers and applause ] [ chanting "yes we can" ]. this is not a bed.

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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. hi, honey, it's me. >> 80 million people in the country now have cell phones. they're no longer a high-price luxury. >> today apple is going to reinvent the phone. >> to google means to find out all there is to know. >> how many friends do you officially have now? >> 175 million. >> within four degrees of me are 700,000 people. >> who is barack obama? the answer is right there on my facebook page. >> if you like hilarious, shocking embarrassing videos -- >> i like turtles. >> -- chances are you spend a