>> this is going to be a titanic struggle. >> this week, while frs econic and political headwininds make barack obama a oneterm president? >> i really implore you as a citizen of this country to please, sir, to reconsider. >> as republicans begegged chchris christie to take the plunge, does mitt romney begin to look like rodney dangerfield? why do so few african-americans vote republilican? >> it is j just brainwashining an people not being open-minded pure and simple. >> as alabamanacts the toughest immigration law in the country the political debat heats up. >> the reason why states have to

deal with this is because of the failure of the pro-government. >> the boston red sox make baseball history with another epic september fold. >> this may be the wor situation i have ever been involved in my wlele career. captioneby the national captioning g institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> barack obama's top political adviser was in new hampshire to drum up support for the president's reelection effor david axelrod told an audience of new hamhire politicians and business leaders at a college in manchester that the path to a second term will be a titac struggle and mitt romney, longs to be the president's s opponents in 2012, agrees. >> the captain of the ship has been otherwise occupied for most

of the voyage. and finally most and portly, it is going to sing. >> i know it is clearly but with history as your guide, what are the indicators regarding a second term for barack obama? >> they are not good. we have 90% of americans saying the economy is better right now which is the highest number in his entire presidency and the highest really since november 2008. david axelrod did speak of the obvious truth, and that is, that democrats are far less enthusiastic about voting in 2012 -- no simply abandon were in 2008 -- but far less enthusiastic than republicans are. enthusiasm does indicataverage early turnout. that is a problem. >> colby? >> this same poll that shows 90% of the public says things are dismal tt same poll shows a 52% of the public still blames

the bush administration and republicans for the bad state of the economy. and less blame democrats. but axelrod's assessment is probably right on target. it is hard to see where things look good for barack obama except if you go back three years ago, same time, and look at the polls, you see hillary clinton twice the lead of barack obama and guiliani and fred thompson were the leaders. >> evan? >> barack obama won in 2008 by turnout, getting people to vote an exciting people. he is basicly displaying old base politics. class warfare, same old stuff. republican socialist. why is that going to excite people to come out and vote? >> margaret? >> i think the titanic struggle with the effort to be the underdog and fighting for you that helped him in the last election, it just handed mitt

romney a metaphor, the ship is sinking. he went to the congressional black caucus and told them to stop crying, stopped grumbmbling stop complaining. it struck me if you are doing that with your base you really are in trouble and you are scolding them rather than looking at yourself. >> quick foreign policy question. we learned that another major terrorist, american-born anwar al-awlaki has been killed. osama bin laden and this demand. does that translate into political capital for the president? >> it translates into a good talking point.t. he can make the point he has made more progress against al qaeda and george bush. but in the context of talking about as the economy that is first and everything else is so far behind itit is just -- it hardly matters. it takeses away national security as an issue. democrats are traditionally lower on national security and

now they're killing terrorists right and left. it takes about the table unless there is another terrorist attack. >> why didn't he get more crcredit fofor this? >> he does. the commander in chief credentials are his best as president, people give him the highest ratings. ratings higher than traditionally democrats get. but does it mean jobs? i don't care how manany -- who is building the drones? apparently drones were used or reportedly were used in that assassination. is that producing jobs? are there drawn factories in ohio? >> lockheed martin building those drones -- and a lot of people employed. >> there is too much pain to feel the pleasure of getting these really bad guys and obama is not the type to spike the flaw in the and islso there has not been much gloating. he has not saw to really

capitalize on that. >> let me show you a picture. with its owner ted leonsis and basketball friend barack obama -- ted leonsis's blog, he challenges the rhetoric out the gap between the very rich and everyone else. he says -- i votedfor the president, i maxed out on donations. what blows my mind when i am asked for money as a donation at the same time i am been blasted as the bad guy. his advice toto the president is rethink how to talk to businesses and selell to business leaders on the plan to make the country great. many of us want to be the part of the solution. we are not a problem. >> well, he is not all wrong in the sense that rich people do pay an awful lot of taxes. but warren buffett has -- you can debate the fact that the rich people, really rich people, their average tax rate is like 15%. americans look at that and say,

how can it be? it is because of capital gains. the reason we need to bring up capital gains. both are right. it is true rich peopl pay a disproportionate amount of money but they do pay a low tax rate. >> it is his message to business leaders the wrong one, margaret? >> he is very thin skins. they are the ones who came out of this debacle way ahead. what is the real complaint when you look at what you have gotten? the real class warfare is taking away benefits that go to the poorest and the working class. how can -- that is class warfare. and republican dan coats said, these people who don't have any skin in the game, let's tax them. he is referring to the people who get the earned income tax credit and only paid payroll taxes. >> and sales taxes and all sorts of other taxeses. it is actually true, the war on poverty is over and the poor

lost. i think what you have right now is abundantly clear -- he says, adding rightly so, after the capital gains tax these people are paying a higher rate but every republic is pledging to abolish the catal gains tax but including jon huntsman. >> obama is getting the biggest push back from wall street. is getting it because of the reforms initiated after he came into office. comedian rodney dangerfield used to

>> it's got to be something that you and your family really believes is not only the right thing to do, bui think, what you must do at that time in your life both for you and the country. and for me, the answer to that

was -- >> chris christie e again saying he is not going to run in california. they were begging him to run. it must be obvious even to mitt romney, that the rank and file there pulse does not quickened. >> romney has done well in the debates and he grew on some people. but christie would be a very appealing candidate except that he weighs too much. it is an issue that everybody is unpardonable with what realllly is an issue. >> technically isn't it getting a little late now. a big mountain to climb? >> a point of personal privilege. you have planned a 28-inch waist? how about being a leader? chris christie has touched something in the arican people, whether you like his politics are not. anybody who stands out there in the face of an arcanane and says to the polls still on the beach, get the helll off the bch at crosses democrat and republican. >> i like him but i think the weight will be an issue.

>> it may show a lack of discipline. >> he has a point on the lack of discipli. >> getting personal. >> the comparison to run a -- i don't think he is not getting respect, he is not getting the love. republicans have been speed reading -- trump, pan, bachmann perry, and then a fallout of love and are still looking, trying to find somebody else. they don't want an arranged rriage. >> let's talk about the voters. they listen to chris do not and they respond. >> that is a side of it. he is the guy i would like to have breakst, lunch, and dinner with at the same setting. [laughter] >> it would be all you can eat. >> did you see what he did? he struck a blow to national good taste. he eliminated out of the new

jersey budget the tax credit for the worst show on television "jersey shore," which shows people who are drunk fighting, looking up indiscriminately, stupid, and they are all italian americans. at the college other guido, and so forth. he jt edeared himself to every italian-american family. >> he gets my vote for that. >> to his credit. the weight thing is a problem. i can say if you sit in the bathtub and the water levelnd the toilet does rise, it is a pretty good indication -- i think that is a problem with thehe governor. >> let's talk for a minute about african-american voters. last week and president obama raised eyebrows in washington when he told the congressional black of-- kong called -- caucus to stop claiming -- complainin grumbling, did to work. here is republican herman cain in an interview with wolf itzer.

>> why is the republican party basically poison for so m many african-americans? >> because many african- americans have been binwashed into not beinopenen-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. i have received some of the same vitriol simply because i am running for r the republin nomination as a conservative. >> nevertheless, jane marret, king says if he -- cain says if he were the nominee one-third of the americans would vote for him. brainwashed? >> he is doing well because he is book christie stand in. he talks clearly annd bluntly. i would like to find out and got father bts a got any government help when it was starting out that was the result of democratic officials. in that interesting question. >> you know, this is one way that he is not going to turn around two-thirds of african- americans who don't vote for the republican party by saying they are brainwashed. he is going to lose it just that way. but he is also conveniently

ssing a little history, because there was a time when the republican party did enjoy great support from the african- american community particularly because of lincoln. it stayed that way significantly almost up to eisenhower. but when you get to the southern strategy in which the republican party makes it clear to the south that you can come with us. we know you don't like the civil rights bill, we know you don't like the poverty programs, come with us. and they played that card since the nixon administration, and even some african amerin republicans acknowledge that it has happened. and cain should at least step up to that and face that fact. >> intesting strategy in s self- promotion. >> blamed the customer. probably not a good idea in retail or politics. but if barack obama's presidency has suffered from his limited

experience in public office -- being a united states senator for two years before -- four years before he was elected and having been in the sta senate -- i mean, herman cain is not what people are looking for in terms of public experience. that really is a problem. >> he is a gadfly - free to say whatever he wants because he can't win. >> in the party where he is running, not having government experience is a plus. at least he argues it that way. so does romney in a way. >> but romney has been look, every

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♪ >> to m me it says are government promotes r racism. >> reaction to alabama's new anti-immigration law that went into effect this week. popolice can stop and detain anyone they suspect here

illegally, track people down, children in school, and the justice department is suing alabama errors on on this issue. on this one, rick perry sounds like a humanitarian. >> he says if you really oppose something like in state tuition for children of undocumented aliens that you don't have eight hearts. he caught a lot o of flak from that and stepped back a little bit. but actually he was right in expressing the sentiment that way. the fact is, the republican party, if you look at the nominees or the candidates for the presidential nomination, they all disagree with rick perry. they all sort of support of the flavor of that immigration law down there in alabama. i think this does tell us a whole lot about this republican field that we are looking at. >> perry said on cnbc that it wain the best interest of the

state of texas to have those young be but educated rather than give to the curb. >> how can you argue with that? >> of course people do. >> they do argue with it. because they are children of undocumented -- >> but the perry argument is, you have to solve its state-by- state because there is no federal policy. i think the president is saying the same thing. >> he is right. the feds have dropped the ball. close to a deal a few years ago. but most what is going on is playing on fear -- it is terrific in getting votes, sorry to say. the immigration probably exactly not as bad as it used to be because ourr economy -- we don't have a h huge illegal immigrants coming over the border. it is less than it used to be but it is a y of scaring people about the other. >> i think perry might have been able to be soft on immigration

if he had not consulted his potential voters by saying they did not have a hard and they did not agree with him and that is onthat exploded. this alabama law is the harshest in the country. there is a sentiment for it and if mccain had not run for president and republicans at not dropped out we might have had an immigration policy. >> you see how much has changed in the last eight years. george w. bush was committed to a national immigration policy and a path tcitizenship. and john mccain was earlier and he and ted kennedy work closely on a. it started changing in the 2008 campaiaign and accelerated sinince to the point mike huckabee told me in an interview one of the reasons he did not run this time is because the atmosphere was so toxic. tom tancredo, the nativist former republican congressman from colorado has really defined the republican debate --

>> he attacked rick perry thihis week as harshly as anybody because of his stance onn immigration. >> are we going to have another government shut down? we nearly avoided one. >> i kno how to avoid it. just have the congss to agree if they turn up -- closdown the government the also closed down the paymaster on capitol hill and they don't get a dime. and that will take care of it. >> who will vote for it? [laughter] >> part of the problem is -- and you can see it. democrats feel they have been rolled collapsed. now they are trying to earn their manhood by standing up, and understandably so. and i think the doing it on the right issue -- actually the funds for disaster relief, whether it fires intact -- texas or floods in vermont. we talk about business being

concerned about certainty and predictability, you would think at some point they might get upset at the republican to continue to close the government or threatened to close t the government because no greater threat to uncertainty and predictability. >> it seems like everything nowow goes to the limit. that republicans he become grommet kings and queens and whatever they did not disagree that they threaten to shut down the government. >> what they are worried about is this incredible that we have and justifiably so. >> debt overhang hangs over all. in europe and the united states, we have lived beyond our means for a long time and this is the center of all of our problems. and the problems with the political process is they will not deal with it so the monster stays right there threatening us with real trouble -- real fiscal crises, and the political parties will not deal with it. >> a series question -- it's about

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>> a baltimore orioles -- >> absolutely shocked. >> i was watching it and could not believe it. >> how many times have we been here before? there he is again, the moment on wilson's grounder game 6 of the 1986 world series. suffering the bucky dentism. is the cur that? >> it never really left. it briefly interrupted, sort of like the prosperity of ireland. it was enjoyable but we all knew it was not going to last. we were irish and fatalistic. all red sox fans are fatalistic. either. and protestants who believed devoutly in our original sin or fatalistic irish who believe we will suffer in this world and things will get better in the next. it is a terrible mixed marriage. the only agree on the redd sox and they know they are going to lose. second-highest payroll a all

of baseball. we are not really underdog's an longer. and we lose to the team with a second lowest payroll and all of baseball, tampa bay. >> good news? then what -- the washington nationals finished the season one game short of 500. that is something to be pleased with. >> and strasburg's arm is pretty good. >> 10 strikeouts in the last game. >> great athleteses are overpaid -- just like i did in high school, i choked. >> i should yield my time to the gentleman from massachusetts. but i do have a son-in-law from boston who watches on his computer screen every boston red sox game. it is a national team, of sorts. and we still think of them as an underdog and root for them. so, it affects all of that is -- us. >> mark talked about the reality of this, which is very deep and profound. >> red sox fans are a litittle bit different than nationals fans,

tampa bay. 712 consecutive sellouts. since may 11 2003, every sine game at fenway park has been oversold and oversubscribed. no other team in the history of baseball. >> it is a real bar of -- ballpark. nonot a skybox ballpark. >> it will continue because we are all masochists. >> on that sad note last wordrd. thanks. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ multiple sounds making melodic tune ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, every innovation every solution comes together for a single purpose -- to make the world a safer place. that's the value of performancece.

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