>> i, barack hussein obama, do solemnlywear -- >> the second inauguration of president barack obama. >> we reject the belief that

america must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the country t that willuild its future. >> where does he go from here? must t choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the country that will build its future. >> where does he go from here? hillary clinton on the carpet. >>ad i been presidenent at the time, i would never leave you from your post. it is inexcusable. >> it is our job to figureut what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator. >> lifting the ban on women in combat. >> america's daughters aren't st as capable as defending freedom as its sons are. >> the coup is cing to town. >> you do not want to mess with maryo. shese doesot intimide easily. the ban uzy hearings. >> the second d obama administration began with h a 19- minute 2114-word address that

mitch mccnell described as an unabashed and the left-of-center speech that brought back memories of the democratic partrty of aid is passed. >> our journey is not comete until we f find a bett way too welcome the striving, hopeful immigranan who still see america as a land of opportunity,y, uil bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expeld from our countryry. our joury is not complete until all our children, from the streets of detro to the hills of appalachia, to the quiet lanes of newtown, know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm. >> there you have it. immigration and can control. at his comments abo climate change andnd income inequality, and the need to reserve mecare medicaid, and social security, and you have a pretty good picture of where he wants to take the country. nina how would you grade the

president's speech? >> i'd thought it was a lot better than his first speech. the crowd had a blast. it was a speech that does represent his overall views of goveverning. >> colby, a to f? >> strong b not so much on eloquence, but strong in tms of his agenda and what he wants to accomplish. plus, it is historic in a way as well. he was the first president to use the word "gay" in an inaugural addre, and it is where the country is now. head laid down a marker for this. this talkk about eququality. he covered a lot of grouound for a lot of people. >> establishing my grading system at the outset, i give a's to lincoln's second roosevelt's first and secd, and kennedy's. i would give obama a b, mayb b

+. he was far more surefooted than he has in the past. since november 6 he has shown a r clearer sense of what he wants to do, and i think this was a communitarian address, a lot more than the individuaual of some -- individualism that was heard in the recent past. >> charles? >> i will buck the tide of grade inflation that has infected e panel. if you are a liberal, this was an a + a declaration of the liberal future, declaration that 30 years of conservative ascendancy that began with reagan's inaugural which he sted within a minute and a half, government is not the solution, government is the problem, this was an overturning event. this as a way of saying, we aree in a new era that he willll initiate continue, so from that

perspective, i give him credit for honesty, open this, boldness about whhe is and what he wants to do. i was just amazed that so many in the media heard were shocked to discover that we have now twice elected a man of the left. where have they been for these four years? and i would add, 699 speeches, telecom did speeches, that he has given. >> how many did ronald reagan ive with a teleprompte >> six or seven. [laughter] the president spoke to about seneca falls and women's suffrage selma, civil rights and as you mentioned stonewall manhattan's west village where the modern gay rights movement was born. a couple of things happen. harry reid and mitch mcconnell

of reaching someort of agreement on the filibuster. nothing profound. also, they will raise the debtbt ceiling tmay 18. how will this have an impact on the president? >> they are still going to -- they he not gotten over the defeat from november 6. we are going to tie everything to the debt ceiling.. now they have the letter. it discovered that they have no leverage. now have to find a way to back down. this is their face saving device to k kick it down the road until may.y. the president is in a much stronger position in dealing with the house republicans. >> agree with that? >> all with respect colby's opinion. the president, like any reelected president

essentially, absent a national event where he becomes the dominant and central dramatic fire, watches his popularity be rationed out day by day. he is strong now. it is hard to believe he will be as strong a year from now. i think what we are facing iss not simply the debt ceiling. what we are facing is sequestratation, whihich are the automatic cucuts of more than a trillion dollars over 10 years whh many republicans are seeing a willingness, expressing a willingness toet set in at the end of march. that would mean another fight and struggle. >> all this will unfold in six months, not a ar from now. he is in a book could position to fight. >> was an interesting and little-noticed thing this week. ececonomic numbers in britain came out, where they have had a very tough, brave a austerity program.

now they are possibly entering into a triple dip recession. it is an example perhaps of too much austerity. france m may be an example of too much non-austerity. if we go through sequester, people will see what those cuts mean. i suspect there will be a rebellion over it be that y could hardly accused the united states of indulging in too ch austerity. we have added $5 trillion of debt in four years. that wou be a new definition of austerity. >> i am not saying that. t we have is a decision of how much to c cut and where to cut. the democrats are really recalcitrant about entitlements. publicans, are almost bullish about their willingness to make enormous cuts. [ male announcer ] now at your neighborhood subway: the big hot

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>> we were misled that there were supposedly protest and that something sprang out of that. >> with all due rerespect, the fact iss we have four dead american spirit was it because of a protest or guys out for a walk that decided they would kill some americans? what difference, at this point does it make? it is our job to figure of what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from m ever happening again, senator. the issue was the attack on our consulate in bengha. it tk four lives and susan rice's controversial sunday appearances was the issue. rand paul ld hillary clinton that if he were president, he w have fired her. others saidd that the consulate had turned into a death trap. what have weearned? >> demagoguery is alive and well on capitol h hill. what do they expxpect? that she would posture herself

before the committees s and say the state department's -- the oba administration was eaged in mendacity, this was a cover- up and we would try to mislead the american people? of course not. it was not true. very disappointeded that she did not list the things that they waed to chararge. there is no substance of what they're trying to suggest. >> people who take on hillary clinton do so at their own risk. as these hearings proved, -- >> but what about the charge of the peopleho are criticizing the state department t to t the effect that the ambassador who was killed hadsked for more help more protection, more security? >> there are consequences of that. people have been fired dismissed becausof this but secretary clinton was right about one thing.

hundreds of thousands of cables pour into the state department everyday. they are all addressed to the secretary of the state but also to siphon off to other people. there are people in the department responsible for responding to those requests. they did not respond appropriately and in a timely fashion and there were consequences to that. nonetheless, consequences. ththere areit is they ignore the situation. >> would you want to focus on that part of the wor first? they are on the fire line. >> congress did not appropopriate amount of money that the state department asked foror insecurity. secondly, there e were mistakes. that is what the commission discovered. we do not know what was in the

classified part of the document. she kept urging members of congress to read that part of the document. lastly, this was the first-round of 2016, and this was obvious. >> colby talks about demagoguguery. that clip that you should was the ultimate not know in demagoguery. at the end she says, o job is to find out what happened. well, to find out whatappened, you have to know whether this was a spontaneous one-ff demonstration gone awry, owas it t leading edge of an insusurgents of he al qaeda in north afrfrica wch would later impact mali and create dead americans and d others in algeria. that is the essence of finding out whatappened. yet, and have second before she says, what difference does it make if it was a spontaneous demonstration or something else? that is a complete contradictction. there was anybody that pointed itit out. the essence of what happened is, is t this a resurgence of al qaeda, and why is it that the administration went weeks and weeks attending that it had to do with a video when there was no demonstration in the first

place? >> if i am not mistaken the president, the next day, said it was anct of terroror. >> hdid not, that was false. >> he said in the rose garden thnext day. we will check the teleprompter ok? everybody who watched this, as i did, ce to one conclusion. hillary clinton s grown up. she was being bet by a group of carping adolescence. i'll say this about ron paul. 30 years of congress, he was never boarish. his son, in barely two years has established a new level of boorishness, rand paul, and so did ron johnson, the senator from wisconsin. they were carpingatty, and e was the grown-up. i think there was no question

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>> we were taking firee everywhere. i remember hearing the bullets going by me and hitting the ground hasbeside me. i shot one guy and saw him fall. >> the first woman since 1992 to receive the silverer star. this does nomean that they will b be serving in army and marine corps infantry units right away? >> there is a three-year interval. this was recommended unanimously by the joint cefs of staff. there have been 280,000 wowomen that have served in theaters in afghanistan and iraq over the past decade, but ere are fundamental questions about infantry where one of the tests historically, th has been given is that you can lift and

carry oyour shoulrs a fallen comrade of 200 pound back to safety. ththat is a test for male and female. i think that will be at least a hurdldle. >> could you have carried some 1 200 pounds? you could have, ok. >> in his heyday. >> this is long d coming. women are now gettingng wounded killed. they are not getting paid the same amount, not being able t serve in combat blocks them from progressing up in the ranknks the way that men do. do i think women will be in the marine in the e same number that men are at the front lines? no it will be like fire departments. there are few fire women because it takes enormous physical strength. >> are thehere different physical fitness standards for men and women at present, should that be changed? >> they will have to, but a bon fide occupational standard for these, regardless of gender.

once the standards are e set, we have to lead them. notwithstanding -- >> push-ups, pull ups etc. >> we had 15 casualties during the vietnam war. one file cabinetet fell over and not down one of our officers. the other 12 died laughin that was the extent of our combat rdine. >> is this about political correctness, social experimentation? >> no, i think is a fun widening the gates of opppportunity and equality. i think we all agree on this. as long as the standardsds are not changed, it should be open to men and women. understanding that there will be a much s smaller numbeber of women who will meet the standards simply because the physiology

of women is different from men. in the olympics, you have men's xing, women's boxing. they are separate. you have the m's decathlon womemen's. you have the men and women in all oth categories. we accepted in sporting life. we'v understand because of differences in strength and endurance and speed, they haveve to be separated. otherwise, if the women areith the men in the 100 yar dash, they would always lose. as long as the standard is maintained, everybody would agree, this is s the way it should . >> in his inaugural address the president said a decade of war is now ending. anyone want toto bet? >> not if you live in syria mali algeria, and other places. america will no longer be as involved, but the question is, what will we do, because the threats have not disappeared. al qaeda central has been dealt

a serious blow. they are now activen north africa. the french are in the lead. are we going to help them, how much? >> the french are in the lead in mali, not in nigeria and why?? this is a francophone country that france is in. not because they are concerned aboutt africa, only because e of the francophone countries. it represents an ecoconomic interest that they ve in those countrieies. francece is nonot stepping into a vacuum in africa. they are not doing such a thing. >> i have never accused the french of altruism. i can see e your point entirely. but i do not give a damn why they're there. they are stopping the islamists in my reading mali, and no one

else is. >>

in the rly 1990's she brought down john gotti the head of the gambino crime syndicate, and brought to justice the terrorists responsible for bombing a rough trip center and the american embassies in africa. i would say that is a pretty good run. if you do not want to mess with mary jo. >> mary jo white is the president's new twist to be the he of the sec. thprident also renominated forr a higher prosecutor richard cordray as the president of the consumer financial protection bureau. what is the message for wall street? >> it sends a message consistent withth the president has said, this is who i am, the the the ople that will best carry out the p policies in my judgment that i think are necessary to clean of this country and make sure we do not go tough it ain. challenging the senate to act

and confirm richard cordray and mary jo white to dits constitutional duty. >> good choices, bad choioices colby, based on your banking experience? >> based on experience of my frie who was a former federal prosecutor in new york and those mary jo white, an excellent choice. she will faithfully enforced the law, you can bet on that. >> this is a woman thatt is it does n not slip, as far as i can tell. maybe threree hours a night. she ran this humonus prosecutor's office, a widely respected under both publican and democrats -- u.s. attorney forhe southern district of new york.. what we do not know about her is what kind of a regulator she is. wewe know she is a very tough a and sensible prosecutor. what we do not know is what kind of regulator shes, a and it is a big task because they have to implement dodd-frank. >> "the wall street journal" is

not in love with either of these nominees. >> i concur with my colleagues on this one. can we now go on to something that we can arguabout? >> really? you think that they are a good choice? >> i did not know about him, but i know a about her. i want somebody that is toughn wall street. it is s not a conservative position to not be a against enforcing laws on wall street. you ought to be as tough on wall street as you are on main street. if we pass the assault weapons ban, i would make an exception anallow her to carry one. [laughter] >> that is still big if, at this point. >> it is. we pasassed financial reform i in the house and senate. there has to be it ---- it has to be implemented by the sec, and it still is not fully implemented by any means. that is a difficult and tricky thing to do.

>> whatever is written about the obama administration, its prosecution of the malefactors on wall street certainly is not a starling chapter. that has yet to be written i charged mr. cordray and ms. white with that r responsibility of rewriting. >> you get the last word, mark. thanks. see you next week.