bironson who i met in 1991 is still there today. >> being your first lady has been the greatest honor of my life. and i hope i have made you proud. [ applause ] voting for barack o not because he's black, i'm voting for barack obama because she's brilliant. >> i feel change in the air. >> the democratic party has thrown us women aside. >> we're going to go to washington and shake things up. >> i can't trust obama, he's an arab. >> the first african-american president of the united states. >> failure to act now will turn crisis into a catastrophe. >> this is not health reform, this is control. >> how is that hopy changy stuff

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but today 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 that she has the credentials and the leadership skills to be president. >> i'm in it to win it with your help. >> she got a lot of experience, her husband was a very popular president. she had all the money, all the backers, it looked like a pretty sure bet. >> senator barack obama threw his hat into the crowded ring today in springfield, illinois. >> one thing you could say with certainly about illinois senator barack obama, there's never been another presidential candidate like him. he has a foreign sounding name that rounds with osama, his middle name is hussein and he's admitted to using marijuana and cocaine as a teenager. he's half black, half white, and in terms of political experience, green. >> as a senate candidate in 2004, barack obama stepped onto the national stage and wowed the

democratic national convention with his eloquence. >> there is not a liberal america and conservative america, there is the united states of america. there is not a black america and a white america and latino america and asia america, there's the united states of america. >> i encouraged barack obama to give thought to the presidency early on. i felt that he could really bring people together and increasingly, the longer you're in washington, the less viable you are. >> america is hungry for change. america wants something new. >> propelled by the media, hungry for a fresh face and a good story, he's graced the covers of "time" and "newsweek," and endorsed by oprah, a far cry from the way he's treated in the corridors of power in washington. where he is 88th on the senate's list of seniority. >> the clintons looked at obama and said you're not qualified to

be president. they liked him, they thought he had a great future. but their view was, you don't run for president after you've been in the senate for a week and a half. >> early polls show him third, trailing hillary clinton and john edwards. >> we've got two different americas. we've got one for all those who are doing very, very well, and then one for everybody else. >> edwards is focused on the eradication of poverty. the 2008 election was all about the war in iraq. >> you said if you were president in 2002, you would not have gone into war. >> right. >> however, how can you then explain the seeming contradiction from your voting to support 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 explain it away. and that was ultimately unsatisfactory. especially on an issue that was so divisive. >> i am proud that i opposed

this war from the start, because i thought that it would lead to the disastrous conditions that we've seen on the ground in iraq. >> obama was really smart, extraordinarily articulate, but vague. >> on your website, i went there to find information about 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, you didn't deliver, and critics say a foreign policy speech was long on vision, short on specifics. >> 2007 was a tough year for obama. he seemed to be trying to wing it. he had to demonstrate to people he really understood policy. >> that's sharpton's blackberry. is that hillary calling? >> obama is having trouble convincing democrats to say, i'm going to go with obama over clinton. they did not want to risk lose thing election. >> i'm not asking that you take me on a leap of faith.

i'm asking you to look at the evidence and the record. >> we were feeling pretty good about her prospects, but our polling showed there was this obstacle for her to prove that she could indeed be commander in chief, even though she was a woman. >> when you are attacked, you have to deck your opponents. and that is what i believe. >> so we were running on the fact that 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. 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?

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there is 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 with us a kind of huberus that was palpable. >> we are about to make history. >> i've been a life long republican who is now a registered democrat. >> all because of barack obama? >> correct. >> barack obama is surging here, nine points ahead of hillary clinton, where just a few days ago 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 pressure 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 who no one had ever heard of months before. and she's frustrated. you could tell, it's palable. as a woman, it's hard to get out of the house. my question is, how do you do it? how do you keep upbeat 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. >> all everyone 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's sitting behind that big zmefk >> presidential campaigns are big business, but being president of the united states is also very tough business. >> they attacked her as a woman. if we cry, then we're weak. >> what would happen if barack obama cried on the campaign trailsome >> they would probably say he was a very sensitive man. >> that was the moment working women could say, she's relatable for once, and they came out the next day in new hampshire to support her. >> senator hillary clinton has shocked the political world. she has beaten barack obama. >> i listened to you, and in the

process, i found my own voice. [ applause ] >> 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 the primaries, 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 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 turning his back on the clintons. for the clintons, it was personal, because they had 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? 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 entire strategy is based on winning early on, closing down shop and moving on to the general election. but that's not happening. they're out of money and that is a huge problem. but she fights and keeps fighting. >> clinton loned her cam paypai5 million of her own money. >> i'm going to keep making the case until we have a nominee, whoever she may be. >> every chance you have, one of

these cards, fill it out. i want you to become part of this process. >> people underestimated not just him as a candidate, but the 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 marketedly different strategies. clib has focused on new york, new jersey, california, where large populations meech 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. 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 alienated communities of color. he was able to change the democratic map and open it up again. >> turnout is off the charts heavy. 10,000 voters in one county, the first day. ten times the turnout in the last presidential election. >> obama's campaign also harnessed the internet as a fund raising 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 not only has momentum but starting to pull away. in the delegate count, he has a sizeable lead. >> we're turning out to be a scrappy little team. >> barack obama was the first black candidate who had a chance to win. he was cruising along and out come these tapes. >> barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people!

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passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing "god bless america"? no, no, no, not god bless america. god damn america. >> here, you have the scary, black preacher saying things that are clearly anti-american. it had the potential to derail his candidacy. >> that reverend looks like a raving maniac. >> i'm fearful that obama feels the same way. >> this is going to scare the hell out of white people. >> it's designed to attempt to scare. >> why have you been listening to this pastor for close to 20 years? >> reverend wright is someone like an uncle or family member, who you may strongly reject what they have to say. >> even when they say outrageous things, you know you can't get rid of them. you can walk out of a church. >> went on cable tv and just got pummeled. and he called me that night and he said i want to make a speech

on race. >> senator barack obama was working on the speech on race, until early this morning. he is hoping, of course, not only to diffuse the controversy about those incendiary. >> 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 then, i won't be president of the united states. but at least i'll have said what i wanted to say, he said, and that's worth something. >> i have condemned, in unequivocal terms. statements of reverend wright. as imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. i can no more disown him than i can my white grandmother. a woman, who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world. but, a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by 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 denials and avoidance, we're not going to kmencomment further. instead, he made use of it. >> it's that 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. >> reporter: one year, four months, and 18 days after she started her campaign, hillary clinton waited through an emotional crowd of supporters to end it. >> although, we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest 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 pumas, party unity my ass is what puma stood for. >> selected as barack obama's running mate. >> going into the election, joe biden provided a level of experience that obama didn't have. but more important, 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 are getting to know senator obama.

>> on the republican side, you have john mccain who almost dropped out of the race. had no money. he decides that he is going to dig in. and remarkably, he is 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. >> what's remarkable is that both parties want a change. john mccain described himself as a maverick. so, he felt that he had a legitimate claim to being the anti-bush in the republican party. >> obama and mccain will be fighting for female voters. mccain seeing an opportunity with angry, working-class women, angry at how the primary turned out. >> i've spent the last few months looking -- looking for a running mate who can best help me shake up washington, and make it start working again for the people that are counting on us. >> john mccain faced the same problem that hillary clinton faced.

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the top google searches going on today. the hot trends. look at this. palin. palin. vice president. governor of alaska. it's fair to say that it's not every day the web is abuzz with the mccain presidential race. >> sarah palin was unknown to republican voters. she was a maverick, in her own way. young, dynamic woman that had risen from local mayor. she was the success story that everyone could relate to. >> she's a lifelong nra member

and on a recent visit with troops in kuwait, she knows her way around a gun. >> she goes out and kills a caribou, skins it, and cooks it for dinner. >> john mccain's choosing sarah palin certainly was a curve ball and i think gave some energy to the republican ticket. >> i'm not one of the movers and shake rsz within the republican party that, conventionally, you would think would be tapped. >> when you're in america that has an itch for change, it looks like it could be a really smart pick. and maybe, she will get some of the women that are mad over hillary clinton having lost. >> ladies and gentlemen, the 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 that was scary to us. >> they say the difference between a hockey mom and a p pit bull? lipstick. >> that's one of the best convention speeches i've ever seen. mccain, who had been eight points down to obama with no possibility to turn it around, by the time sarah palin finished speaking, he was five points up. >> the campaign announced today that it has raised $8 million

online and that has just been since sarah palin gave that speech less than 24 hours ago. >> with your help, we're going to go to wash whereington and w going to shake things up. >> before the conventions, that was 50-42, obama. that is sarah palin. >> if she can be a mother and a homemaker, she can be vice president. more skills than anybody. >> sarah palin really does fuel the thunder. and she garners all the headlines, and that is scary to barack obama. >> it was just like a month ago, saying, experience, experience, experience. then, they chose palin and they start talking about change, change, change. what happened? >> reporter: palin has yet to hold a news conference, and steers well clear of the national reporters who travel with her everywhere. >> eventually, she's going to have to answer questions and not be sequestered.

eventually, she is going to have to answer questions about her record. >> when it comes to establishing a world view, i was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regular did you regularly -- what, specifically? i'm curious. >> all of them, any of them, that have been -- >> there's no more teleprompter. there wasn't anything for her to memorize in preparation for her interviews with katie couric. and when asked, she had nothing to draw upon. >> alaska's proximity to russia as part of your foreign policy experience. what did you mean by that? >> a foreign country, russia, and on the other side, the land boundary that we have with canada. as putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the united states of america.

where -- where do they go? it's alaska. it's just right over the border. >> you've got alaska here. and this, right here, is water. and then, that's -- up there, is russia. so we keep an eye on them. >> tina fey doesn't need new material. all she needs to do is to read a transcript of sarah palin's interview with katie couric to get huge laughs. >> i just found out from mccain's campaign manager that they actually only met once before he started seriously considering her as a contender. >> joe liebermann really was the candidate that he wanted but he was convinced by his aides that that would create a revolt in the republican party. he's pro-choice. >> let me quote from gale collins. she says the idea that women are going to race off to vote for any candidate with the same internal plumbing is both offensive and historically wrong. >> if john mccain wins, this

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>> reporter: palin attacked obama for his ties to an anti-war activist who participated in a domestic bombing campaign during the vietnam war. >> barack obama faced a challenge that, in a way, no candidate before him had faced. there were whispering campaigns that barack obama had not been born in the united states. that he was a secret muslim. that he was some kind of manchurian candidate. that nothing about him was real or true. >> who is the real barack obama? >> obama scares me. i just -- i am worried about what will happen to this country if obama takes office. >> american. no, he is not. >> i can't trust obama. he's an arab. he is not? >> no. no, ma'am. no, ma'am. he's -- he's a decent, family man, citizen, that i just happen to have disagreements with.

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all of us were watching in the united states and around the world. we're really privileged to have this front-row seat to history. >> i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear. >> on the foreign-policy front and also the economic front. >> by all indications, he relishes the chance to go into the oval office, and get started. he wants to get moving. >> reporter: it's a rare day when a president goes to the

capitol to meet only with members of the other party. >> hello, everybody. >> reporter: president obama did just that to actively seek bipartisan support for his economic stimulus package. >> obama believed he'll, somehow, be able to reach across the aisle. but this hope and change and optimism 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 on the senate. a long way away from those hopes of bipartisanship. >> we are going to keep reachlireaching 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 expand coverage. >> and to the prosperity of our businesses but to the foundation of our economy. >> president obama absolutely understood that addressing the issue of health care was going to be a difficult challenge but we had to try. >> the president is being very pragmatic about this. he is open to listening and that's the way we are going to accomplish this goal. >> obama believes they will vote with him on something that's reasonable. if he compromises, they will as well. but over the next few months, it turns into a challenge. >> 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. >> it's not health reform. this is control. >> i want to know if it's coming out of my paycheck. >> seeing people who had never been 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 now weighed into the heated health care debate in a new facebook posting, the former governor raises the possibility of what she calls 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 were going to see balloon, later on. >> when we do disagree, let's

disagree over things that are real. not these wild misrepresentations, that bear no resemblance to anything that's actually been proposed. >> the president said he doot ba the debate is over. >> but with republicans still unanimo unanimously opposed, he wants 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 bank ruprupt. and he said that's why we do the work. >> the challenge now is to sell

this to a very skeptical public in a tough election year. >> 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 'em. >> rand paul headlines a slate of conservative tea-party backed candidates. >> 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 is to think that

the country speaks as one. that we're all one thing. what we really are is a massive reaction. we are 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. and if the country is looking good for rich people one day, well then the poor people are going to hate that and get angry. if we think we're past race, well, 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 matter to rest, than the donald. obviously, we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. seriously. just recently, in an episode of "celebrity apprentice," you, mr. trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. and so, ultimately, you didn't

blame little jon or meatloaf. you fired gary busey. and these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night. this is cnn breaking news. >> hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm robyn curnow. we are following this breaking news in the election. the state of georgia will, once again, recount the presidential ballots as the trump campaign requested, on saturday. now, recounts are allowed when the margin of victory is less than .5%, as it was for joe biden. now, the state already did an audit of the presidential vote. so, that will be the third time around, at taxpayer expense. the biden