"meet the press." because if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." >> announcer: this is an msnbc special series. >> together we will begin the next great chapter in the american story. the time for games has passed. now is the season for action. >> yes, we can. yes, we can. yes, we can. yes, we can. >> you have done what the cynic said we couldn't do. [ cheers and applause ]

♪♪ >> attention on board the aircraft, president-elect has departed with 20 minutes. >> we were having the opportunity to have our first african-american president come on board the aircraft. as an african-american man, to have the opportunity to be one of the first to greet him aboard the airplane meant a lot to me. >> you're the pilot of air force one? >> yes. >> you know, i have to say you're an essential guest. you're exactly who i want. >> he was excited to be on the airplane. he's having a very jovial conversation with the aircraft commander. >> you look like you know how to

fly, like sam shepherd. >> thank you very much, sir. >> they're standing there having a laughing moment. so for me i'm trying to say, okay, do i fall right into the humor, or do i just try to keep it as professional as i can? >> welcome aboard. i'll introduce you to reggie jackson. >> so nice to see you, sir. >> my pleasure meeting you, sir. welcome aboard. i'm going to serve you din irtonight. have you had dinner already? >> make it medium rare, salad or vegetables. >> fries or nothing like that? >> i'll still take the fries. >> yes, sir. >> the incoming president is getting ready to deplane the airplane. i look and all of a sudden he's walking through the crew area. up to the flight deck. >> good to see you, all right. see you in a couple weeks.

>> and, you know, it made me think at that time, we're going to be in for a great journey along with this new incoming president. ♪♪ >> something happening in there. don't want to wake them. >> it's early march. nobody could be convinced that barack obama had a chance. >> hello. hi, how are you? who is there? i'm barack obama. [ barking ] >> we had a lot of heavy lifting to do to convince people we weren't tilting windmills. >> did you expect in the campaign you would be gaining more ground in the polls?

>> we always knew i've got to introduce myself to voters in a way that some of the other candidates don't have to do. >> barack obama is untested, two years out of the illinois straight senate, no national political experience, no national political organization. going up against hillary clinton, who was incredibly strong. >> the party had already coalesced behind hillary clinton. it was going to be her turn. he'll be running not just against the party and the establishment, but really against someone who had been a key supporter. the clintons were big supporters of barack obama when he came into the senate. >> hillary clinton, first lady, united states senator, very competent, very capable united states senator. she was not some fly by night political hack. and here you had an upstate two-term senator from illinois nobody knew. we all know the history of black folks and white folks in this country, so why would you dance on that pin head? >> a new poll has hillary

clinton now trouncing her closest challenger, barack obama, by 33 points for the first time. >> that's a big problem for her challengers who complained that her campaign and a lot of her media coverage gives the impression that she is already somehow the nominee. >> senator, hillary clinton has a 30-point lead. i had to ask. i had to ask. does it concern you at all? >> we're having a good time. >> there was no lifelong plan for barack obama to run for president. >> some people wanted him to run so badly that they said, don't worry, you'll see the girls. you can be home on weekends. and i wear my emotions on my face, and i had a funny look at my face and michelle said, stop talking, i want to hear from alyssa. i said, no, it's going to be terrible running for president. you're not going to see your family. we have to know that going in. she was like, "thank you." >> mayor? >> mayor.

>> that period of time in the democratic party, it was divided in two. you had the clinton wing of the party and everybody who had never been a part of the clinton wing. it was a desire for an alternative to the clinton machine, and that's who was getting excited about obama. >> he had a lot of quiet support among some really establishment democrats who couldn't be open about it obviously because hillary clinton was the presumptive nominee. >> i called him into my office and i basically said to him, i think this is a time you should consider running for president. he said, what? i said, i really think the country is ready for you. he was more than surprised. >> i think it was mrs. obama who said it. among the many reasons why it was the right time was they were very much average americans with student debt, with a two working parent household. they could genuinely express the fears and the struggles of what

everyday americans were experiencing. and they would be able to take that perspective into the white house in a very unique way. >> the reality is obama is not going to be the nominee for the simple that he's never run a competitive race outside the district of illinois. it is not going to happen. >> whether obama has the stomach for the rough-and-tumble it takes to win. >> iowa was all about they wanted me to work dubuque. >> everybody was out making phone calls, knocking on doors, campaigning to try to help barak and michelle have success. >> we need your support, too. you both undecided? >> we're undecided. >> oh, goodness. >> if hillary clinton won early, she was going to be almost

impossible to stop. you had to have a circuit breaker moment. the circuit breaker would be to win iowa. >> she helped start the war. the iran resolution. you can't be fooled twice. >> we built a grassroots campaign. that's the campaign he wanted to run and we didn't have any institution political support so we had to go to the people. >> i want to stop talking about the outrage of 47 million americans without health care and start actually doing something about it. >> he was getting a lot of pressure from african americans around the country, saying, hey, you're not spending time with us. >> we had a meeting in chicago in the fall about, should we remain faithful to the iowa strategy? >> a lot of people from the african-american community felt like they were connected to the clintons, that they felt bill clinton was someone who had done great things for the neighborhoods and churches and for black americans as a whole. this idea that, oh, well, he's

an african-american, i'm an african-american, i should obviously be voting for this guy because we are kindred spirits and correlated and connected, et cetera, et cetera. it didn't really happen like that. >> i had known president clinton, had worked with him. it was very hard to make the decision to support hillary over obama. but i made it. >> it really shook him because john lewis is a hero of his. >> it was a pretty low moment. he said, listen, i may not win, but it's not okay for me to lose and not spend time with african americans. should i get the numbers up? i said, listen, the only way to get the african-american numbers up is to start early. >> 75. >> tonight the voters of iowa caucus in the nation's first presidential contest. >> if you're not totally undecided, come through here, finalize your decision.

>> stay right over here. >> we just need nine more. 132 with obama. [ cheers and applause ] this is the final count. i can't stress that enough. >> three delegates for obama. >> 45. >> 46. >> 47. >> we are back on the air here in des moines, and we have news to report at this hour. nbc news is projecting that when all the caucus goers preferences are counted up, barack obama will win -- [ cheers and applause ] >> at this defining moment in history, you have done what the cynic said we couldn't do.

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that's dirty salt and -- the campaign some more. new hampshire, in four days, you have a chance to change america. four days you can do what the cynic said could not be done. >> obama's big win in iowa has given him a huge bump here in new hampshire where he now leads hillary clinton by double digits. >> their only chance is to do something bold, dramatic and completely change the nair 2i678. narrative.

>> as a woman i know it's hard to get out of the house and get ready. i my question is personal. how do you do it? >> i have so many opportunities from this country. i just don't want to see us fall backwards. [ applause ] you know, this is very personal for me. it's not just political, it's not just public. >> hillary clinton, according to our reporters on the scene, visibly teared up. >> is that a scripted moment, is that a genuine moment, is it a repealing moment, is it repugnant? >> hillary clinton woke up this primary morning her presidential aspirations potentially on the line, ready to work for every last vote. >> nbc news, hillary clinton has won the new hampshire primary of the democratic party for 2008. she's pulled a stunning upset. >> thank you so much. thank you. >> the emotion she showed had an

enormous impact and they voted for her. >> i want to congratulate senator clinton on a hard-fought victory here in new hampshire. >> we lost new hampshire and it was a shock because we felt like we had such huge momentum coming out of iowa. >> we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. but in the unlikely story that is america, there has never been anything false about hope. [ cheers and applause ] >> we wrote that speech thinking we would win that primary and thinking, let's just uncork and write the best victory speech we possibly can and use this "yes we can" as a call and response. >> when we've been told we're not ready or that we shouldn't try or that we can't, generations of americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people. yes, we can. yes, we can. yes, we can.

>> yes, we can. yes, we can. yes, we can. yes, we can. >> what's interesting is in the moment of defeat, that's actually when he's sometimes at his best. and the delivery of that speech is so powerful. >> and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the american story with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea. "yes, we can." thank you, new hampshire. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> i remember being back in my tiny studio apartment in chicago a couple days later and waking up to this viral video that had been made. with all the celebrities, will i am. >> it was whispered by abolitionists and blazed the trails for freedom. yes, we can. yes, we can. >> yes, we can to justice and

equality. yes, we can to opportunity and prosperity. i didn't know that that would be one of the biggest campaign tools and how it would, you know, become so big on social media and beyond to help really advance the campaign. and create that phrase to be something that will forever go down in history. >> yes, we can. yes, we can. yes, we can. yes, we can. >> during the campaign shepherd ferry calls me and he says, "hey, i had this image that i did. i'm happy to let the campaign use it. do you think they'd be interested in it?" i knew then senator obama was going to be in los angeles. so i take the tube of the art and i give it to reggie. the next day they call me. they say, hey, hill, we really like this one image. do you think you would change what it says on the bottom? it said "progress" and they said, our campaign, you know, we

are about hope and change. do you think you'd be willing to change it to like "hope?" i was like, i don't know. call him. it's his artwork. he changed it to hope, and the rest is history. ♪♪ >> obama was something of a rock star at the time. and i think there were many people on my side of the political aisle who felt like the media was sort of allowing that to occur. >> the interesting thing about obama is he was the most uncomfortable person about the cultic personality that was growing up around him. he'd look at the hope poster and say, you know what? the image on the poster always fades. nobody can live up to all of this adulation. and so it made him slightly unnerved. >> we cannot wait to bring this

war in iraq to a close. we cannot wait. >> the super-duper tuesday has been a split, a horse race in the delegate counts. >> this is where we start going into what is going to be a very active caucus and primary calendar. >> if we can stop thinking in terms of black, white, hispanic, asian, gay, straight, old, young, rich, poor -- i'm going to reward teachers for their greatness by giving them higher salaries and giving them more support. >> obama has an opportunity here to put a little distance between himself and hillary clinton over the next few weeks. we had to expand the electorate quite frankly to beat hillary clinton in the primaries, but also expand the electorate for the general election. >> the only way we were going to do that was to drive turnout amongst young people, amongst african-american voters, and to win back some of the suburban voters who had been drifting republican. >> john lewis switched sides and threw his support to barack

obama. >> obama had emerged as this bright shining star. it was a decision that i thought was the right decision to make. >> in a new usa today gallup poll, obama is pulling ahead as their best chance to beat the gop. >> the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front. >> the inflammatory remarks about race and the 9/11 attacks made in sermons by his personal pastor -- >> it's important that he figure out how to bring short-term closure to this issue. and if he can't, then he's not going to be president and he might not be the democratic nominee. e.

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right now barack obama leads hillary clinton among pledged delegates 1408 to 1251, and there are 566 more that are at stake. >> he can't win the election. >> why not? >> i don't think that america is ready for it yet. >> for barack obama as a presidential candidate, the biggest risk factor, of course, was race because the biggest achilles heel in the united states has always been race. david axelrod and david plough who were the chief strategists for senator obama when he was running for president really understood how to run a black candidate. there is a theory which is you don't run too black. >> you needed to be palatable enough to white america so they wouldn't be seen as this raisman who is going to come in and tilt the playing field toward black people. they were downplaying race as much as they could. their goal was to run him as

just a candidate from illinois, a senator, and to sort of drain race out of the equation. >> the government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "god, bless america." no, no, no, not god bless america. damn america. >> when the reverend wright tapes hit, it was one of those deep breath moments, one of those moments that wasn't any political handbook anywhere because this moment had never happened in america before. >> jeremiah wright was the pastor of barack obama. married he and michelle, presided over the baptism of their children. jeremiah wright is in that vaunted tradition of trying to bring a powerful megaphone to those who would express outrage at injustice. >> there was an explosion. it seemed to feed into this idea that he had inherited this

anti-american radicalism from reverend wright. >> how could you go to this church for 20 years and not know this guy -- >> we don't have a choice when it comes to our relatives. we have a choice when it comes to our pastors. >> new polls say barack obama is taking a big hit because of his pastor. >> the notion that somehow that barack obama was an accolite of this guy could be really damaging to places that barack obama needed to win. it energized the anti-obama forces. and they were significant. and for some independent voters, i think it was, wait, do we really know this guy? >> barack was at a dinner. he called me. i said, hey, man, i think this reverend wright thing is a blessing in disguise. they started laughing. marty said it's a blessing in disguise. they started laughing. i said, look, it's a hurdle that

you have to clear that nobody else in the field has the opportunity to clear. and so you clear this hurdle, you win. and he said, i guess i've got to give the speech. i said, you have to give the speech. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. reverend wright's comments were not only wrong, but divisive, divisive at a time when we need unity. >> i didn't know if the speech was a good idea. but i know we didn't have any better idea. he called david axelrod and i and said he had just done a series of interviews, went on msnbc, fox. that's not going to satisfy, more importantly, i'm not satisfied about this. i can't talk about this in a 30-second answer. >> the man i met more than 20 years go is the man who helped introduce me to my christian faith. he spoke to me about obligations to love one another, care for the sick and lift up the poor. as imperfect as he may be, he

has been like family to me. >> he didn't want to be president if he couldn't be him self. and so he stood up in front of the american people and he shared his perspective. >> but i can no more disown him than i can disown my white grandmother, a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, 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. and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe. these people are part of me, and they are part of america. this country that i love. >> i think that was the balance that no one else could strike because the average black couldn't imagine what a white grandmother thinks. and the average white couldn't imagine the anger that is generated from being

marginalized and discriminated against with blacks. that was a moment america had never seen because here was a guy in one body that understood in his own being, in his own blood line the bias of some whites and fear, and the results of bigotry, what it meant to blacks. [ cheers and applause ] >> there were moments that he had perfect pitch, and i think that that speech about reverend wright may have been one of those moments. >> and we are covering a big moment in the democratic race. barack obama has won a decisive victory in north carolina. >> i think that's borne out by the fact six weeks later he secured enough delegates to clinch the nomination. [ cheers and applause ]

>> our primary season has finally come to an end. [ cheers and applause ] tonight i can stand here and say that i will be the democratic nominee for the president of the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] >> yes, we can. yes, we can. yes, we can. >> now that the primary battles are over, barack obama and john mccain are looking ahead to the fall election. >> we have two very patriotic men, but we have men with very, very different senses of what our country should be. >> the old tired big government policies he seeks to dust off and call new won't work in a world that has changed dramatically since they were last tried and failed. y were last tried and failed. ♪

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here's what's happening. reagan's former secretary schultz has died. he is credited with helping end the cold war. he held four different cabinet level positions over the years. president biden used his taped super bowl message to thank health care workers and call for a moment of silence in honor of those who lost their life to covid. he asked americans to wear masks and get vaccinated. now back to "yes, we can." let's make john mccain, my friend, an american hero, the next president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> barack obama ran against a consensus u.s. hero in john mccain. this veteran senator, naval aviator, annapolis graduate, p.o.w. was going to be the standard bearer for the republican party. >> we will campaign to

strengthen job growth in america, with lower taxes and less regulation. [ cheers and applause ] >> what senator mccain stood for was the stability and leadership quality of america that we needed more of a substantive type of leadership presence, not soaring rhetoric that was going to lead us nowhere. >> the biggest criticism from pundits and people who didn't support us was sort of a lack of foreign policy experience, and how he would sort of ascend on the world stage. >> and mccain like george h.w. bush was at home in world politics, while barack obama with his lack of experience was a question mark. >> so our face-off tonight, does obama have the foreign policy credentials? >> he is great on the themes and inspiration and the nice photo ops. but that's not governing in foreign policy. >> so we decided to send obama just a few months before the election to afghanistan, iraq, jordan, israel, france, the

united kingdom, germany. >> when it comes to first african-american president in november, he will bring peace. >> i doubt we're going to have a million screaming germans. let's tamp down expectations here. if we get a few tens of thousands. >> 900,000. >> the center piece of the whole trip was his speech he would give in berlin. we envisioned this as deliberately echoing some of the more iconic presidential speeches overseas. reagan, tear down this wall. kennedy. >> the walls between old allies on either side of the atlantic cannot stand. the walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand.

the walls between races and tribes and natives and immigrants, christians and muslims and jews cannot stand. these now are the walls we must tear down. thank you, berlin. god bless you. thank you. >> the world could see something that was hopeful. i think the people internationally could see, you know, when america is better, the world is better, too. and with a great leader, like, we could be at our best. >> barack obama, very rarely made a mistake. we were 12, 13 points behind and we were dropping on a daily basis. and the most effective line of attack was posing the question to the country, do we really want to have a celebrity president? >> he's the biggest celebrity in the world. but is he ready to lead?

>> let's try to make his greatest asset his chief liability, and that was the purpose of those ads. and then from their airing over the course of the summer, we were able to get some traction. and by the time the democratic convention began, it was essentially an even race. >> my friends, fellow americans, i am very privileged to introduce to you the next vice-president of the united states, governor sarah palin of the great state of alaska. >> i did not know much about her, other than the fact that she was the most popular governor in the country. at that moment in time, we had to excite the conservative base of the republican party who was apathetic about mccain. and we needed to close a massive gender gap that disabled any prospect of us winning. >> i was just your average

hockey mom and signed up for the pta. i love those hockey moms. you know they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? lipstick. [ laughter ] >> she electrified the hall. she electrified the republican party. we believed the country believed the obama campaign believed maybe it was possible that john mccain could win the election. >> are you ready to change things up in washington? [ cheers and applause ] >> the media i think immediately fell in love with sarah palin. we found her fascinating and interesting and endlessly talkable. >> sarah palin is speaking to her generation. >> she even has her own action doll. >> we were getting ready for the party. she's going to win the race for mccain. obama was super chill.

i'm not worried, my opponent is john mccain. >> one of the early est supporters was bill ayers. who according to "the new york times" was a domestic terrorist. and it sure would be nice if even just once he'd say that he wants america to win. [ cheers and applause ] >> the thing i think was the most jarring for people who were watching what she was doing were the ways in which she just openly invited white americans to hate barack obama. >> now, this is not a man who sees america as you and i see america. this, ladies and gentlemen, has nothing to do with the kind of change that anyone can believe in, not my kids and not your kids. >> there were a lot of code words. i mean, sarah palin had her role to play, and that role was to kind of stoke the sense of suspicions, this fear of who

barack obama was and what he potentially represented. you're laying those seeds out there that were seeds of doubt, if you will, into the actual character, not the politics, but the character of barack obama. >> obama is a terrorist. did you know that? >> he wasn't born in america. >> i do not want a black man running my country. >> he's a little hussein. >> the ways in which sarah palin openly invited racism and hatred, they aren't new in american politics, but they were new on television. what she unleashed was hard to put back in the bottle. >> on the broadcast tonight, meltdown. the american financial system is rocked to its foundation as top wall street institutions topple under a mountain of debt. >> as we were going through the final stretch of the campaign, the economic meltdown was happening in real time.

>> lehman brothers declares bankruptcy. >> by far the biggest bankruptcy in the country. >> the biggest banks are gone. the biggest mortgage lender is gone. >> american taxpayers woke up this morning to learn that their money makes up most of a bailout package to save a huge insurance conglomerate called a.i.g. >> people were in the grip of a brutal economy. >> you're seeing massive acceleration of job losses. firms were cutting into investments across the country. there was a general condition of terror, at the edge of panic. >> tough situation for america, but we'll recover from it. >> george bush's last days and the collapse of the economy, there was a lot of uncertainty. >> you had the iraq war going badly. >> there was a lack of confidence in the bush administration in george w. bush himself, the handling of katrina. there was a sense everything was failing. >> people were really frustrated with washington and they wanted a change. and there was one candidate who

was promising change. >> don't believe for a second this election is over. don't think for a minute that power will concede anything without a fight. we're going to have to work like our future depends on it in these last few days because it does. >> but it was clear as the days unfolded palin was going to end up being a net negative for mccain. >> sarah palin was an issue, overwhelmed by the economic meltdown and people's insecurities and anxieties about what was going to happen in the economy and who was best to deal with it. >> obama will end this day thousands of miles and many hours away in hawaii at the bedside of the very sick grandmother who raised him. >> i was on the press-play when he went back to see his grandmother. he knew she was sick and there was an unexpected detour off the campaign trail in those final weeks. and he was very, very intro speculative.

i remember him being particularly bothered by our presence in hawaii. not quite realizing or accepting the new place he was in his life. and he was still really chafing against those demands and the interest. he wanted to have a walk and he walked down the street and thought that he could do that without anybody or any of us taking notice. and there is this picture of him walking where his head is down. he just looks extraordinarily lonely and annoyed with us for trying to get that picture. but it was a very -- it was a very sad time for him, you know. his grandmother raised him and he wanted that space. when you're talking about a few weeks before the election, you know, that wasn't something a lot of people were willing to give him. >> for senator obama, this day took an incredibly sad turn. the unfortunate news tonight his beloved grandmother has lost her ongoing battle with cancer just one day shy of this historic election. >> you know, obviously there is a little bit of a bitter/sweet time for me. some of you heard that my

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>> american. >> patriot. on his slim shoulders rested the weight of american history and democracy for eight years. remarkable. the feeling in the air was electric and incredibly exciting. >> truly one of the greatest days i ever experienced in life. we were cold but just feeling great. >> the day of the inauguration, it is myself, barak obama, all kind of standing back there and

waiting. a little bit of surrealness. i remember looking out and seeing all the way down to lincoln and basically just the sea of people. we were seeing the inauguration of the first african-american president. 1.8 million people on the mall that day washington, d.c. never had seen anything like that. >> are you prepared to take the oath, senator? >> i am. >> i barak -- >> i was sitting at home and we were watching the inauguration taking place, seeing him being

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is when we must bring the best ideas of both parties together. >> it was clear at that point by just democratic votes. we had 60 democratic senators and needed 60 votes. >> there are those that would claim our efforts would ensure illegal immigrants. this is false. the reforms i am proposing will not apply to those are here illegally. >> it was so out of the circle of any of the experience any of us had. my first reaction was to just go down there and throw them out. but that would be a victory for him. >> i thought that was inappropriate and disrespectful of the individual and the

office. >> of all of the people that would have expected to yell you lie at president obama, joe wilson would not have been the likeliest nominee by a long shot. >> i particularly didn't like it because a fella that did it was sitting right behind me. when the president has the opportunity to address congress, that is his opportunity to speak and i think there should be respect. >> black america saw a president in whom all of us were extremely proud, being treated as if he were not president. as if he had broken into the white house and he was occupying the building. >> wilson did become something of a folk hero. people from all over the u.s.

were contributing to his campaign and money really was pouring in. >> that is an indicator of how deeply hateful they were to the president. this would be difficult to heal. >> i had people that said to me why did president obama respond to that? any time that you react and you are taken off message, than you are losing the reason why you are there. you just have to keep it in check. how he managed to do that every day, i don't know. >> the house passed the bill on the floor and then we moved into the senate. >> clearly the nurses are here because we see a need on case by

case basis for reform. >> i will not accept the status quo. not this time. not now. minnesota, we are closer to reform than we have ever been before. but this is the hard part. >> when the health care bill went to the senate floor, it was the second longest debate the senate had in 50 years going from thanksgiving to christmas eve. >> just the reality. >> this bill would provide real reform. >> democrats in the senate think that i know these republicans.

we can sit down with them over beers. they still think the old rules of washington apply. >> i have a diagnosis. legislative malpractice. >> to the american people that are concerned about it being a done deal, it is not. >> it must be opposed. >> the vote was taken. we were still trying to reach out to republicans to see if we could vince them. bringing health care reform a step closer to reality. senate democrats pushed through their version of the bill. >> democrats took their victory lap and republicans warmed up for another round in the fight. >> this fight isn't over. in fact this fight is long from

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>> it happened in massachusetts, a special election to fill the seat of the late ted kennedy. >> this is the people's seat!

tonight the independent voice of massachusetts has spoken. when there is trouble in massachusetts, rest assured, there is trouble everywhere, and they know it. people do not want the trillion dollar health care plan that is being forced on the american people. >> republicans suddenly inspired by the word senator elect scott brown. >> with the election of a republican u.s. senator from massachusetts, scott brown, it robbed the democrats of that super majority in the senate and we would not be able to reconcile the two bills. it became clear the only path forward is for the house to pass the senate bill that was on the senate floor for a month and

take it without changes, which the house was not going to want to do. we were discussing how we would go forward and it just became clear to me you shouldn't go forward without republican votes. it would hurt him politically. that was more important than passing the bill. by then all of the negativity about it really had started to bring down the popularity of doing anything. it looked like it was not going to pass and it failed it would be a disaster for him. the president said i want to talk about the problems and see if we can get support. >> the last meeting that he had in february 2010 was a bipartisan meeting at the blair house, which was televised. he brought the leadership of the

senate and house to sit down to make one last effort. >> it is a way for him to say let's brain storm our plans. >> we just can't afford this. that is the ultimate problem here. >> it seemed clear that the republicans at the meeting with a few exceptions seemed against what we were trying to do. >> the question i am going to ask myself and i am going to ask all of you, is this enough serious effort that in a month's time or a few weeks time or six weeks time we could actually resolve something? if we can't we have to go ahead and make decisions and then that is what elections are for. >> i think that is when the president decided that he would

go forward and ask the speaker and the majority lead tore pass the bill and take the vote. >> i can curse like a sailor behind closed-doors sometimes. a bunch of times i have been aggravated. i have a competitive streak and a sense of determination to want to get done what needs to get done. >> he understand the challenges that we faced and he understood what the opportunities were. we made a decision to succeed. the press would say to me it does not look like you are going to pass this. i said we believe it is a challenge of our generation. the president called people for their votes and he was deeply invested in putting his own stamp on it. >> after all of the debate and

bickering. >> i have spoken with a couple of democrats. >> you have to be there when the vote is going on. when you are the vote counter, you have to be there. i went up on the senate side up constitution avenue. there were protesters there. >> i was in the house chamber overlooking the house chamber. >> can you say that it was done openly? with transparency and accountability? without back room deals and struck behind closed-doors give

the american people a victory. give health care a chance. >> the president's idea was to get everybody into the roosevelt room to watch the vote. the president and i had spent all day going through the vote count again. there was still a lot of tension in the room because we weren't there yet. >> a sufficient number have voted. it is a 15-minute vote. >> it seemed like it took five hours. every increment of time, every 30 seconds seemed like an eternity. >> the yays are 219, nays, 212. the amendment is adopted and without the motion reconsidered as laid on the table.

>> we moved heaven and earth to pass that bill. >> it was a high moment to savior, no question. >> any presidency, there are the things you have to manage, and then there is the mark that you try to make. you know, we had to manage the financial crisis. health care was affirmative. health care was we are creating something and leaving behind something that was not there before. >> this is something that for 100 years presidents have been trying to do and coming up short. this president, working with nancy pelosi and harry reid and rank in file members all came together to do something that nobody would predict they would have been able to do. >> phil called me saying get back down to the white house.

the president wants to see you. i went out on the independence side towards the house. there were a lot of people there that seemed to have just gathered. and it was very emotional. i got back down to the white house. i open the door of the roosevelt room and there are all of these people celebrating. people came over there and they were hugging me. >> the party is upstairs. >> president obama invited a small group of us up to the residence. it was a combination of the people that really helped to get the health care vote done. he wanted people like me who had been there in 2007 and 2008 to be there for that moment. >> mrs. obama was out of town which is how he got away with doing something that spontaneous. he went around thanking every person. >> raising toasts and celebrating and looking at awe with this amazing view.

the truman balcony, the washington monument and the jefferson memorial in the distance. >> i remember seeing this incredible relaxation he had that i had not seen in a long time. shoulders were finally relaxing. >> i asked how he felt that night compared to election night. he said there is no comparison. election night was all about getting to this night. >> one great achievement of barak obama was just being barak obama. winning the presidency. the second was when he became president, it was not a universal consensus that there should be universal access to health care. when he left, there was. that was a big achievement. >> i remember when i came up to him and i shook his hand and he kind of poked me in the chest like an athlete that won a game and said remember, don't bet against me.

>> we oond that he had to walk a tight rope. like trayvon. >> he may not have been born in this country. >> surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or for that matter my citizenship. i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> god no, please no. this can't be real. >> a teenager home alone in a night of terror. >> i would just stare at the windows and try and figure out how scared she must have been. on