i think so far the obama administration has been wise to learn that lesson from the clinton experience. clinton he may have started with that booklet but they dropped 1,300 on the lap of congress and they were not happy with that. obama tried to be respectful of the prerogatives. what you're hearing from members of congress including democrats who really do want to make this happen and are on his side is that they now want to hear about him some specific policy proposals. which tax proposal do you prefer? do you support something about an employer mandate? we now want him to weigh in on the specifics. chris: give us the three elements that will be on the package. >> if you see a big with baurp support it will be that every american carry insurance. it will be a very gentle slowly phased in contribution so that you don't have a complete uprising in the corporate world and that you will also see slowly but surely stuff to make doctors and hospitals start earning their pay depending on how they perform as opposed to just the number of things they do. chris: mike, that's a smart dream. >>

because of bill clinton's experience, which they sometimes ascribe, this bhout white house, because of the fact it took so long to get to it. the white house, obama white house has been saying speed is essential and they're right, for the reason that emerson said that when skating on thin ice speed is safety. >> the streejs istrategic decision they made to go for everything is the right decision? >> but not with cap and trade and new energy supplies, country has a sense of overload. the president has 60 senators, he has a 70-vote majority in the house of representatives and he blames republicans. that's not the problem. his difficulties from the mayo clinic to the congressional budget office which just yesterday said of the president's latest proposal, a panel, magic silver bullet to constrain costs maybe save $2 billion over four years beginning in 2016 and that's a rounding error on the gm bailout. >> i think i should say something about the cbo thing which surprised a lot of people. >> because it was important, interesting timing. >> also because most of the health care economists i

you saw in bill clinton's experience, he probably had more sucks sesz. even though he passed his agenda with the democrats in the first year, '93. after republicans take control in '94, his political comeback begins in '95. >> well, george was saying earlier, george will, that republicans were never actually that disciplined. they simply -- they looked very disciplined, compared to democrats. as will rogers famously said, i belong to no organized political party. i'm a democrat. having 60 votes doesn't mean a great deal for the democrats, as it turns out. >> they've been pretty disciplined so far this year. >> you remember, george bush got those 60 republican senators to march in lockstep with him. throughout most of the time that they had those votes. even as his popularity with much of the public was beginning to decline, he still got republicans to march in lockstep. >> tony blakely, 15 seconds left, can barack obama get the same discipline? >> i think they're pretty disciplined right now. franken is a decisive vote. it means that collins is less deci

had neither the experience nor the wisdom to manage our foreign policy and safeguard our national security. we can't let that happen again. >> we're still waiting to hear senator clinton what precise foreign policy experience she's claiming. chris: they did patch it up of course and this week, secretary of state clinton spoke of their goals, joint goals in the first major foreign policy speech. >> i believe we have the right strategy, the right priorities, the right policies. we have the right president. chris: wow. she looks good and seems happy. maybe we should put that to the matthew's meter. we asked the meter who got the better deal out of the arrangement so far? ten say the president has, including all four of you here. two on the meter say it is a tie. david, you say win for obama. >> he won the election. chris: in the deal. >> well, i think because he's a self-confident guy and the most self-confident guy in history of humanity. he controls foreign policy making from the white house. we've seen it in russia and the middle east. that said, i'm not sure you see a big policy difference between the two. i have not seen any daylight between the two. there have been

. >> harry and louise helped save us from hillary clinton's health care experiments in 1994. this year harry and louise have been replaced by another couple. harry reid and nancy pelosi. >> actually it's not the '90s anymore and even harry and louise know it. >> it looks like we may finally get health care reform. >> it's about time. because every day more and more people are finding they can't afford health care. a little more cooperation, a little less politics. we can get the job done this time. >> joining us now is pennsylvania governor ed rendell. thanks so much for joining us tonight. really appreciate your time. >> hi, rachel. how are you? >> great. thanks. i got to ask you. you've got a great political compass. you can predict things well. is this finally the year after decades the stars will align to fix health care? >> absolutely. i think the people in the senate and the house, democrats and a lot of republicans, too, understand barack obama was elected to make change and the primary domestic change that the american people want is accessible, affordable health care

let's hear what hillary clinton said today about her experience then and now about health care. >> it's different because i think everybody's now convinced there is a problem. back in '93 we had to keep making the case over and over again. well, now we know, costs will continue to rise. we know that our system left unchecked is going to bankrupt, not just families and businesses, but our country. >> in the face of all of this today, the prevailing wisdom in washington is that even though the chips are down in congress, they expect by the end of the year the obama administration is going to have a health care plan on the president's desk sent to him by congress. the question is will it be a watered-down plan or will it embody the principles that the president set forth over and over again over the past several weeks. >> okay, mike viqueira, thanks so much. >>> to follow all the developments on health care reform efforts, go to our website, msnbc.com. >>> let's go now to a crime in suburban boston caught on tape. the weapon of choice -- a hammer. the suspect using it to hold up a convenie

i think it was a wise decision, because hillary clinton does have a breath of experience working withinhe clinton administration, and was on a lot of foreign trips and brings that to this job. i think that she is a forceful advocate, very outspoken, i think can carry the message of the administration forward. i think she was hung up with a couple weeks with an injury and now she is back in action. >> jason, what do you think? was this a brilliant checkmate making her secretary of state after the contentious campaign they boat went through? >> well, i think it is much better for the obama administration to have a hillary clinton somewhat muzzleed by being in obama's cabinet rather than having hillary clinton in the united states senate as a critic. the reality is i don't think this was a motivated thing specifically to shelf hillary clinton. i think it is part of an agenda that you can see across his cabinet, and that is creating all of these special envoys and czars that dilute the power of the cabinet. just in her case, in particular, you know, the four big hot spots around the world,

. >> as a consultant secretary clinton about health care and her experience? -- has he consulted the secretary clinton about health care and your experience? >> i have not heard such a discussion. >> a surtax on the wealthy may be necessary, and some say that the bill can be financed for savings. does the president believed that he can finance this through savings? >> i do not know what representative clyburn has in mind about the full panoply of savings. we have outlined a number of what people round here called kaine changers in terms of the direction of federal spending -- kaine changer gam>> game-- as ge changers. i don't have in front of me what mr. clyburn has in front of him. >> you have mentioned the number growing sentiment that they do not want to to the tax increase. what it your sense of politics -- what is your sense of politics? what about those above $350,000? >> we addressed this liked week of little bit. when you talk about those numbers, they have tended have a pretty good time of it for quite some time. without getting into this tax for that

. >> they helped save us from hillary clinton's health care experiments in 1994.another couple, harry reid and nancy pelosi. >> reporter: nowhere is there a mention of the democratic proposal to give americans the option of joining a government-run health care plan, because a cosponsor says through a spokesperson, it is too early to tell whether it will support the public option. jim acosta, cnn, waugs. >>> a reminder about the presidential news conference at 8:00 p.m. eastern. watch it right here with the best political team on television. >>> new developments in the michael jackson investigation. ted rowlands working that for us. what do you have? >> reporter: pretty dramatic change in this investigation. you have seen the images of that houston clinic being raided by the dea agent exercising a search warrant. that's the clinic of dr. conrad murray. we just got a statement from murray's lawyer and it says, talking about this search, it says that the houston police department is conducting it along with the dea. law enforcement concluded their search at 12:30. th

reluctance and many say, maybe he doesn't want his fingerprints on it now because of the experience of bill clinton. it became clinton care, because they put together such a detailed plan and sent it up to congress and when it failed, he suffered the big price for it. is the president too timid to get involved here? >> no. people are reacting too much to the ebb and flow of what's happening on a day-to-day basis. this hasn't happened in 50 years, it's complicated. i think people are making judgments on who's going to win the marathon based on who's ahead at mile 19. not a good way of judging things. >> much more to discuss with peter orszag including his take on whether the economy is beginning to bounce back or still heading deeper into recession. stay with us. i felt amazingly boxed in. (announcer) joe uses the contour meter from bayer. (joe) my meter absolutely adapts to me and my lifestyle. i'm joe james, and being outside of the box is my simple win. (announcer) now available in five vibrant colors. (announcer) now available you have questions. who can give you the financial advice you need? w

harry and louise helped save us from hillary clinton's health care experiments in 1994.s year, harry and louise have been replaced by another couple, harry reid and nancy pelosi. harry and nancy aren't really doctors, they're just trying to play one on capitol hill, by experimenting with health care and insisting on a big and insisting on a big government takeover. grocery business or office store or a hardware store. imagine if the u.s. government knocked on your door and said, hi, we're opening up a business right across the street, and it will be a government-run store, we came here to compete with you. and we're going to have to lower prices a little bit cheaper than yours, because we're the government, and quite frankly, we don't have to pay our bills. we'll just leave them for your children to pay later on. how do you think your store will survive? how long do you think you will stay in business? how long would you have your job? when big government competes, one congressman said, it's like an alligator competing for a chicken. and the health care you have now is t

when president clinton's cabinet met at camp david they were asked to share an experience not on their stories how he was teased about his weight as a kid and everyone cries. the tissues get passed around and hugs for everyone. >> we're concerned, obviously, about the quality of the work. we want to get maximum efficiency and maximum yield of everybody there because there's so many important things. >> right. >> to be dealt with. we actually have asked an individual responsible for running these types of policy retreats. her name is rebecca tilly. to walk us through some of the exercises she thinks would be most suited to help our cabinet members deal with some of their weaknesses. we all have, obviously. i want to run through some of the names and perceived weaknesses and you tell me what the exercise you're suggesting for them this weekend is maybe to help them work on this. we'll begin with the secretary of state, tends to be frozen out by others and not a very good follower and perceived not to be a very good follower. how do you deal with somebody prone to be fairly isolated like

hillary clinton brought chelsea along through asia and africa. >> imagine that opportunity. those are experiences lifetime. and they also are images that are sent around the world. >> reporter: in their own way, they're all america's little diplomats. yunji de nies, abc news, rome. >> wouldn't we all like to do that for our kids. >>> and that's "world news" for this thursday. i'm charlie gibson, and i hope you had a good day. for all of us at abc news, have you had a good day. for all of us at abc news, have a htodig. n captions by vitac

. >> harry and louise helped save us from hillary clinton's health care experiments in 1994.this year harry and louise have been replaced by another couple harry reid and nancy pelosi. >> reporter: nowhere in the harry and louise spot is there a mention of the democratic proposal of giving americans the option of joining the government run health care program. that's because pharma says through a spokes person it's too early to tell whether it will support the public option. >> jim acosta, pretty interesting, isn't it? >> absolutely. >> they changed their tune. it's coming up on 7:00 here in new york. good morning, it's wednesday, july 22nd. glad you're with us on this "american morning." i'm kiran chetry. >> i'm john roberts. the big stories we'll be breaking down in the next 15 minutes. was it murder for hire? a new shocking developments in the brutal murders of a florida couple. a source telling us there was a second safe in the billings' home with more than $100,000 inside it. our susan candiotti has the latest for us this morning. >> it's an all-out blitz from the white

harry and louise helped save us from hillary clinton's health care experiments in 1994. this year, harry and louise have been replaced by another couple, harry reid and nancy pelosi. harry and nancy aren't really doctors, they're just trying to play one on capitol hill, by experimenting with health care and insisting on a big government takeover. now say you have a job in grocery business or office store or a hardware store. imagine if the u.s. government knocked on your door and said, hi, we're opening up a business right across the street, and it will be a government-run store, we came here to compete with you. and we're going to have to lower prices a little bit cheaper than yours, because we're the government, and quite frankly, we don't have to pay our bills. we'll just leave them for your children to pay later on. how do you think your store will survive? how long do you think you will stay in business? how long would you have your job? when big government competes, one congressman said, it's like an alligator competing for a chicken. and the health care you have n

there is no doubt in your mind that the obama health care reform will not experience what happened to the clintonhealth care reform program? >> i don't think so. i think time.... >> rose: and how do you know you've learned the lesson? >> well, i think there are a few very hopeful signs. first, the alignment of outside forces is much different.Ñi you have major providers and major groups behind the reform effort instead of running advertising against it. the president has avoided the potential mistake of... let me put it this way. the president recognizes that we immediate to... this is a collaborative process with the congress and there's give and take on bothÑi sides and if we t 80% or 90% of what we want, that's success. i think the best way to get at it is not to have such strong incentives always to be doing more stuff even if it doesn't help. so, again, i'm going to just say none of us would want either ourselves or our family members to spend days in the hospital that are unnecessary. or to have tests done that are unnecessary. i'll give you an example. 20% of medicare beneficiaries are rea

maybe that's not a good comparison for her but hillary clinton would, if she were to succeed barack obama, have the most foreign policy experienceof being first lady, u.s. senator and certainly secretary of state. look, i actually agree with what's been here so far. you never count out the clintons. but i don't nersly think it's a bad thing she has these ambitions. i kind of admire the clintons for their tenacity. i don't agree philosophically but they're tough and keep fighting. so i wouldn't be surprised to see her run again. >> how much of this has to do with the lack of confidence we're seeing in the polls from independents, democrats and even some republicans towards governor palin to have such a strong fae male politician as a secretary of state clinton there? to compare and contrast some believe. but some people would say there is no comparison. >> yeah. i think there is an interesting contrast there. philosophically, again, i am much more in line with governor palin. but i have to say politics at the end of the day is about substance. it's not about looks, not about charisma. my hero, ronald reagan was a good-looking guy

sixth clinton said maybe it is the mother in me, the experience i had with small children and teenagers and people who are demanding attention. don't give it to them. north korea did not appreciate the secretary's comments, firing back this response, we regard her as a funny lady as she likes to utter such rhetoric, unaware of in the national community. sometimes likes like a primary school girl and sometimes like a pensioner going shopping. funnfun words. >>> a turkey in new jersey has survived one too many thanksgivings and finally snapped. it chased a mail carrier and made other residents run for their lives. the local nature center thinks people have been feeding the bird and associates humans with food. clap, stop and yell to make the bird go away. or just scare it with stuffing and gravy. i didn't make that one up. it is understandable if all of us are frustrated by the tough economic times injur. for all your iphone users, we have squash the street. in the game, players squash and flick economic villains as they run for their lives in buildings in new york. the more people you sq

clinton says its provocative acts pose no threat to the united states and so the u.s. has intentionally moved away from strong condemnation. >> maybe it the mother in me or the experienceve had with small children and unruly teen-agers and people who are demanding attention. don't give it to them. >> clinton concludes her visit to india today where the two nations signed a series of economic and security agreements. she's on her way to thailand now for security talks later in the week. >> a key vote on the nomination of sonia sotomayor by the supreme court is expected to be delayed in the is that the today. republicans on the judiciary committee want the vote delayed until next week. sotomayor's nomination is still expected to come before the full senate by early august. >> the "boston globe"'s largest union has approved a contract that includes $10 million in concessions. the deal is similar to one the 700-member union voted down last month. it cuts salaries nearly 6% and includes unpaid furloughs, a pension freeze and benefit reductions. the newspaper is projected to lose $85 million this year. >> cyclists on the tour de france get back on their bikes today after a d

more judicial experience than any nominee in the last 100 years, support of law enforcement groups, she has a compelling life story. she is replacing a person promoted by president clintonhe'll do very well. >> she has advocated a view of personal experiences, even prejudices, she uses that word, and expected they wouldn't influence the decision you make, which is a blow, i think, to the american ideal of justice. >> they are expected to focus on topics like abortion and gun rights. >>> president obama's health care overhaul may have to wait. the debate has hit a snag over how to pay for a public health plan. democrats don't want to tax health benefits, republicans don't want to raise taxes on the rich. both the house and senate seem to agree that any bill won't be ready before they go on recess next month. >>> we heard that wine is good for your heart. well, it might be good for your brain, too. new research finds people 75 or older who had one or two drinks a day reduced their risk of did he men s-- demen sha by 40%. people who had more than two drinks a day increased their dementia risk. apparently there is a fine line with all types of alcohol. >>> 33 minutes past t

harry and louise helped save us from hillary clinton's health care experiments in 1994., harry and louise have been replaced by another couple, harry reid and nancy pelosi. harry and nancy aren't really doctors, they're just trying to play one on capitol hill, by experimenting with health care and insisting on a big government takeover. now say you have a job in grocery business or office store or a hardware store. imagine if the u.s. government knocked on your door and said, hi, we're opening up a business right across the street, and it will be a government-run store, we came here to compete with you. and we're going to have to lower prices a little bit cheaper than yours, because we're the government, and quite frankly, we don't have to pay our bills. we'll just leave them for your children to pay later on. how do you think your store will survive? how long do you think you will stay in business? how long would you have your job? when big government competes, one congressman said, it's like an alligator competing for a chicken. and the health care you have now is the

when president clinton was looking for a supreme court nominee, he tried to get governor cuomo because he wanted someone who had experiencepolitics as opposed to getting everyone from the ivory tower. i mean, that's what this is about. this is bringing a diversity of experience. she really does have it in her personal background and in her legal training. >> john, you asked what she gains by answering the question that way. she gains senate confirmation to become a supreme court justice. look, she wasn't -- >> without controversy. >> without controversy. she wasn't gonna answer that question in any other way, but let's face it, when president obama made that statement about empathy, that was one of his criteria for a nominee. and look, frankly, i lack empathy for empathy on the bench. that's not what the law requires. >> too bad mario didn't make the bench. >>> exit question, is judge sotomayor a shoe-in, pat buchanan? >> 60 democratic votes and i think she'll get more than 10, i would guess around 15 republican votesp. >> so what does that come out with? >> that's a question. >> that's the definition of a shoe-in. >> con

. >> when you think of your experience in the clinton white house, would you describe it as disciplined and focused? >> yes, in this sense. president clinton discovered when he got to the white house that the best organizing principle for his agenda was the state of the union. our entire effort every year was organized around that speech. for months ahead of time, as the white house prepared the president's budget we had the state of the union in mind. that is the one that chance where the president gets to do what he could do in a campaign, which is set the agenda for the year. our state of the union ended up being quite long as a result. it was important, because it was a chance to speak in and of filtered way directly to voters. if he can make a connection to the voters on the ideas, that is something he can sustain for a long time. the advantage of the state of the union is that congress is generally down, they don't have starkly have done much work in january and february. we always see that as our greatest opportunity. >> one of the greatest innovation in the clinton years was the

they helped us save us from the hillary clinton health care experiments in 1994. this year, harry and louise have been replaced by another couple, harry reid and and nancy pelosi. harry and nancy are not doctors, they play one on capitol hill. they are experimenting with health care and insisting on a big government takeover. if you have a job in the grocery business or an office door or a hardware store, imagine if the u.s. government knocked on your door and offered to open up the business across the street. they say they will lower prices because they are the government and they don't have to pay their bills. how do you think your store will survive? how long do you think you will stay in business? how long would you have your job? when bidding government competes, one congressman said, it is like an alligator competing for a chicken, the health care you have now is the chicken. experts tell us that president obama and the congressional plan could lead to 190 million americans being dumped out of their private coverage into a cheaper, government-run program. th

many individuals whose experiences i have seen over the last decades, that this is a guarantee for our future. there could be no stronger chairman of this dialogue then secretary clinton and secretary geithner on our side, and i am confident that we are at the beginning of another extraordinarily creative year. vice premier qishan wang mentioned deng xiaoping and one of the most moving experiences in my life was one evening when deng xiaoping-- return to beijing in 1979 and explained to me at a banquet what his plans were and what he understood. i mention that only because it was a very unusual approach and it brought us to this point because of the combination of courage and vision, which characterized him and then its successes. it is my privilege this evening to introduce state councilor binnguo dai. the most difficult problem of foreign policy is that one always has to act on assessments, which cannot be known when one makes them. i know nobody who has better judgment, more thoughtful preparations, more patients and more commitment to the central importance of the china american relationship and state councilor binnguo dai i and many of the interlocutors have lear

and that is one of those areas where a combination of experience plus distance might have served the clinton white house very well. >> i would like to bring some more people into the conversation and to sort of put another ball out there in the air. i would like to talk about how the politics of an issue and political advice mixes with mauer substantive advice. what bruce reed has soon to be famously called the wants and hacks trade-off. to break it out further, the policy wonks are those who have ideological commitments or maybe practice additional partisan views and those who have relatively objective information. how is all these types of information integrated in your experience? we will go to bruce first. >> look, i think the definition of success is not what most of the political world thinks. it is not just winning elections, though you can't do anything unless you do. it is not ledge slave victories. but even when you pass a law, the work has just begun. the real definition of progress is actual results, actual progress for the country. and i think that is the hardest thing for a whi

hillary clinton brought chelsea along through asia and africa. >> imagine that opportunity. those are experiencesso, you know, are imageshat are sent around the world. >> reporter: in their own way they're all america's littlest diplomats. yunji de nies, abc news, rome. >> and there's of course been lots to look at during this trip, which is why this photo caught our eye. it's president obama and a lot of people are talking about it. >> busted. >> that's a 16-year-old brazilian girl. some reports are saying she's an activist from unicef. you can see he certainly looks like he's giving her the once over. >> that's nicholas sarkozy next to him and silvio berlusconi was there looking as well. here's another look at all those world leaders who got an eye full in italy yesterday. >> i mean, tact, guys, a little bit of tact. but there's no shortage of people ogling you around this place either. >> i'm all aware of this? >> ooh, she wants to dust it off for you. >> it's everything i can do to keep the women away. >> they were screaming in this picture. he made his first appearance in the newsroom and al

from formerresident clinton and he speaks of her being able to make a unique conibution to her experiences as arosecutor an trial judge, to the bench and hopes that wwill speedy confirmation r her. i'll put at in the record. one of the things tt -- i'm rying to make sure that everybody gets banced time, but a lot of us has served as either chairman or ranking member of this commite, we know how important that . and i use at to yield to nator hatch who has had als the problem of having to schedule how things go, but, thank you, jeff, i appreciate tht. >> well, thanyou mr. chairman. i echo jeff's statement here. udge, you have been great throughout th process, and i apeciate it. but i have some questions i'd like to ask that i ink you can ansr yes or no. of urse,you can qualify them if you'd like. i'd like to get through tem because th're important to me a millions of oer peoe that i reprent. judge fm 1980 to 1992 you were actively part of thivil rights oganization in our countrand it files briefs in supreme court caes. you served in nearly a dozen different leadership potions there incding

experience. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton refuses to rule out another run for president.n an interview during a visit to thailand today, she said the presidency is not anything she's thinking about, but when pressed on the issue, she said, and i'm quoting now, "i don't know but i doubt very much that anything like that will ever be part of my life." jack cafferty right now has "the cafferty file." jack? >>> what message does it send that the surgeon general of the united states is overweight? barack obama's nominee is estimated to be about 40 pounds overweight, and abc news is saying that she's coming under some criticism because of her weight. susan in idaho writes -- if you didn't see your e-mail here, go to my blog at cnn.com/caffertyfile. >>> to our viewers, you're in "the situation room." a surprise search for evidence in manslaughter. police raid a clinic of the doctor who was with the pop star at his death. >>> a senate turndown over an amendment that would let people carry concealed guns across state lines. we're on the front lines of the battle. >>> and a cnn exc

actually, as president clinton went to senegal had a chance to see that up close. it is a very emotional experience for everybody who goes there, who actually takes a look at the door of no return and imagines perhaps their own ancestors going through that kind of tragic journey. that is something we'll see later in the afternoon and obviously the president will be making some remarks about that, because we imagine that he's going to have a lot to say and a lot of emotion will be behind it. >> definitely going to be emotional, yet possibly even a chilling tour. suzanne malveaux, thank you. we to have live pictures of that tour and the remarks afterward. when we get those we'll bring them to you. >>> after decades of political strife, really, a durable democracy in the 1990s. accra, the capital of ghana. >> reporter: from welcome poster, painting, t-shirts, trinkets, clocks and flags, ghana is spellbound by president barack obama's visit. his pictures are posted almost everywhere you turn in the capitol accra. while people here celebrate, others on the continent are asking, why ghana? mr. obama firs

clinton acknowledged today there has been a significant shift away from strong condemnations of north korea from the administration, a tactic the secretary said she learned from parenting. >> maybe it's the mother in me or the experience that i've had with small children and unruly teenagers and people who are demanding attention, don't give it to them. >> reporter: as for iran, despite the eyely disputed election and deadly crackdowns on demonstrators the obama administration is still willing to talk. but clinton warned time is running out. >> we said repeatedly we would work for international support for what i described as crippling sanctions. >> is there a red line in your mind when that time limit is up? >> the president spoke about the fall, the end of the year. it's just clear that we're not leaving it open forever. >> reporter: the secretary made a point how involved she is in the daily foreign policy decision scoffing at reports she's been marginalized. >> it's so ridiculous, there's no basis to it. i laughingly said to somebody and repeated it at a press report i broke my elbow not my lair ings. >> she was out of the spotlight for more than a month because of that shattered elbow but seems more than ready to

i think that -- and that is one of those areas where a combination with experience in the distance may have served the clintony well. >> i would like to bring some more people into the conversation. to put another ball out there into the air, i would like to talk about how politics of an issue and advice from a political demise, mixes with more sensitive advice? also, i think to kind of break it out further, think about the policy wonks as those who have a ideologically committed to partisan views and those who have relatively objective information. how is all of these varying types of information integrated in your experience? since bruce has his hand up, we will go to him first. >> look, i think the definition of success is not what most of the political world thinks. it is not just winning elections. it is not just let it -- legislative victories, but this certainly beat legislative failures. even if you pass a law, the work has just begun treating the real definition of policy and political progress is actual result, actual progress for the country. i think that is the hardest thing for a white house youn

clinton is seen by many as a response to this remark she made in india on monday. >> well, what we've seen is this constant demand for attention. and maybe it's the mother in me or the experience that i've had with small children and unruly teenagers and people who are demanding attention. don't give it to them. >> this week's acrimony has left some wondering if the two countries will ever be able to resolve their differences diplomatically. >> if this continues, we could have a situation escalating out of control, which would be a real disaster for the whole region of northeast asia. if both sides are able to come back to a negotiating point, then we might be able to resolve this peacefully, at least in the short term. >> vice president biden also has been on the road this week on an assignment that the kremlin no doubt is watching carefully. earlier this week, biden was in the former soviet republic of ukraine. today he visited another former soviet republic, georgia, which has been trying to get admitted to nato. a move the kremlin strongly opposes. today, biden spoke before the georgian parliament and offered reassurances about washington's recent overtures to russia. >> l

going to senegal with president clinton, and visiting the castle from which slaves were sent to this country from that country, and it was a tremendously moving experience, and something that i will never forget, one of the joys of having this incredible job that i do is being able to experience things like that, and so, you know, i wish i was there, and i know the people who are there are working hard, but it's history that they're witnessing, rick r >> back to the policy for a moment. you know this is a president who certainly has a lot on his plate. africa and issued related to africa really are not something that we have heard a lot from this white house about in its very short time since president obama took office. is it thought that this president is now going to start talking more about africa, more about issues related to africa, ways for the various african nations to become more a part of the world stage, as a result of this trip? >> rick, i don't think that is going to become as focused. he has a lot on his plate right now. he has a supreme court nomination to get through the senate, a healthcare refox that is, a healthcare reform that is go

experience that time of success. >> mr. mayor, we only have about 30, 45 more seconds. secretary of state hillary clintonout a variety of international issues. one area that i didn't hear come up a lot was mexico, our next door neighbor. you, obviously, live there in texas and so interact in a number of different ways with mexico economically, et cetera. your thoughts right now on some of the troubles that mexico has been having in terms of the drug wars and also the question of immigration reform. should that be on the obama agenda this fall? >> oh, absolutely. and i was -- i've been so pleased to see the progress that the obama administration has made and the reaching out that has happened with secretary of state clinton to president calderon. as you can imagine, here in texas, that relationship is essential, not only because there are culture and historical ties and geographic proximity, but because our economies are so interconnected, what we do here in texas and in the southern part of the united states affects mexico and vice versa. i know we are working on continued trade and working on developing

clinton signed. when you talk about jobs, you ought to talk about the experience you've had under your program and our program. you failed and we succeeded. as a matter of fact, in the last three months last year, last year of the bush administration, we lost three million jobs-plus. during the last year of the clinton administration, we gained 1.9 million jobs. that's a five-million job turnaround by your economic program. keep talking. america knew the difference and made a decision and said what you had been doing is not what they wanted, so they changed in 2006. they changed the congress and in 2008, they changed the presidency. and let me tell you something, we have lost 200,000 less jobs per month than bush lost in his last three months in office over the last three months. is that where we want to be? it is not. but it is 200,000 better than your last three months in your administration. those are the facts. refute them if you can. keep talking. >> would the gentleman yield? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from texa

clinton health care reform, say that now there is harry and nancy pelosi. >> they're not really doctors, they're just trying to play one on capitol hill. by experimenting with health care and insisting on big government takeover. >> reporter: and without reform, the president says it will only get worse. >> this is not about me or about politics. this is about a health care system that is breaking america's families. >> legislation has already cleared two house panels and one in the senate. but another senate committee is still struggling to come up with a bipartisan agreement. meanwhile, the president will address the nation in a prime time press conference wednesday, taking it straight to the nation. >>> and a health care overhaul is not an easfix, the changes could take a decade. in 2011, the government would start to collect taxes from wealthy to pay for the overhaul. >>> maryland senator says he is receiving great care at mercy center in baltimore. she is there to have surgery for a broken ankle. her surgery has not been scheduled yet. >>> and the physical evidence in the trial of a woman accused of killing her four daughters, causing the judge to

clinton also took questions on not being president. listen to what she had to say. >> i feel very grateful that i have had the experiences i have had.k back. i am always somebody who gets up and looks forward. >> pretty good. >> good for her. >> good answer. >>> the former miss california who was stripped of her title last month, she now has a book deal. i kid you not. carrie prejean will public a memoir called "still standing." she said shea believes her crown was taken away because she opposed gay marriage. that's what she claims. her book will be published by the same company that brought us such classics as ted nugent's memoir and the chuck morris manifesto "black belt patriotism." >> those are the things we thought you should know. >> i am not going to get a copy of this -- >> oh, no, you're getting one for christmas from me. i wonder what her book cover will look like. very interesting cover, what she might put on there. maybe the pictures that got her in trouble. >>> another day, another example of president obama using what's called the bully pulpit to push his effort to reform the nation's health care system. >> today the p

law professors who have experience in the real world representing people whose rights have been violated like the dean of the yale law school who represented him during the clinton administration and the beginning of the reagan administration and is an expert on international human rights problems that have been involved representing people with international human rights problems but the professor at irvine law school is presented -- presented a wide variety of people who have had constitutional violations or other law professors to represented people in guantanamo, that is one thing but just because somebody is a law professor that does not mean very much to me in terms whether that person has developed a feeling for a constitutional rights. and a feeling for the importance of protecting civil liberties and civil rights. . .