as a hero, henry clay looms large, as does george clinton and--i'm sorry, not clinton--george clinton; his nephew dewitt clinton, because he was the one who championed the--the erie canal. so those figures in my generation are important. interestingly enough, andrew jackson doesn't figure as a--as a great hero. i'm sure he was to people, but he doesn't seem to be to the people that i've read. but jefferson was important because he so clearly articulated a different conception of what a republic could be, and a d--and he had a different vision of how human beings--how--could participate in their society. and this--people refer to him throughout this period. c-span: where are you from in the country originally? guest: omaha, nebraska. c-span: how long'd you live there? guest: seven years. so... c-span: where from--where did you go from there? guest: i went to dallas, texas, and then to kansas city, missouri, and then to evanston, illinois, and then to phoenix, arizona, and then to pasadena, california. c-span: why all the moves? guest: my father was with a large corporation, and they we

george bush had one of them. bill clinton -- george h.w. bush had one. had three, george w. bush had ten and the home run hitter here obviously is president obama. is it the idea of a czar you object to or more than 30 of them you object to? >> i have to admit, it's a little bit of both. presidents have used the title of czar for special task force type people. you start getting 34 czars and you've only been in office seven or eight months, it get worrisome to me as a part of congress. why do you need a secretary of energy if you're going to have an energy czar? and the list goes down the line like that. they seem to be duplicating the existing political infrastructure for the president and the executive branch. so, i just want to know who these people are. why does a 31-year-old with no automobile background, for example, why is he the automobile czar? he doesn't know a lug nut from a spark plug. why is he going to turn around detroit when none of the gm executives were able to? >> i think that's a -- i can't wait for the answer to that question. congres

under presidents bill clinton and george bush, the bilateral late shipping the united states and colombia has grown in lead some bounds. we expect this expectation will continue. the president's tenure as president caps a distinguished career in public service. 1976, he served as the head of the real-estate office of the public works department. he went on to serve as secretary general for the labor ministry. two heralded terms as senator and governor. he holds a law degree from the university as well as a postgraduate degree from harvard and is an associate professor at oxford university. he is married, has two sons. mr. president, thank you for coming to the wilson center and we look forward to your comments. after he speaks, there will be an opportunity for questions and answers. [applause] >> my government, ambassadors, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, this is a great honor for my colleagues in for me to be here this morning in this very important think-tank. i want to express my gratitude for this invitation. every day, by a repeat before my fellow citizens one very simple frame.

the big bills get done by the august recess , whether it was lyndon johnson, bill clinton, george w. bush. that's when the presidents have momentum, and they fear if congress goes home, they won't have the support in september. >> and they are worried that lobbyists, who may support interest groups opposed to this will pick it to death? >> reporter: what they're going to try to do is not give the lobbyists a target, and the members will go home talking about principles in the month of september, and doing what the president is going to do tonight, warning about the consequences of nokt acting. >> george stephanopoulos, thank you. and abc news will have live coverage of the president's news conference. it will begin at 8:00 eastern, 7:00 central time. >>> the government today asked for thousands of volunteers to roll up their sleeves to test the first h1n1 swine flu vaccine, beginning next month. there have been more than 40,000 confirmed cases of the flu in the u.s. 263 people have died. and there is growing concern about what will happen this fall when flu season begins. so, here's

under president bill clinton and george w. bush the bilateral relationship between the united states and colombia has grown by leaps and bounds and it is our expectation this trend will continue under president obama. the president's tenure caps a distinguished career in public service. 1976, he served as head of the real estate office of the public works department. he went on to serve as secretary general of the labor minister, head of the civil aviation department, the mayor and two terms as the senator and governor. he holds a degree from the university as well as postgraduate degree from harvard. he's also an associate professor. he was at oxford university. he is married, has two sons. mr. president, thank you for coming to the wilson center and we look forward to your comments. after he speaks there will be an opportunity for questions and answers. mr. president. [applause] >> mr. lee hamilton, president wilson center, mr. hakim, president of inter-american dialogue, my colleagues in government, ambassador, distinguishe

with a 55% approval rating, president barack obama fares better than bill clinton and george w. bush six months into the presidency. the number of americans who believe the president can fix the economy is down about 19% since the inauguration. >> people are concerned that the steps he is taking will hurt the economy in the long run. >> the number of people who think he can remove troops from iraq is down 15%. >> it looks to me like people expected to much too soon. how long has it been? >> and six months, president obama has tackled a long to do list. today, health care reform was on the agenda. >> we're close to the reform that the american people need. we will get the job done. >> to get the job done, he requires bipartisan support. the >> is a challenge given the enormity of health care. >> is not going the happen overnight. >> he is not doing more or less than any other president has. >> the biggest concern for the obama administration is that many of these changes are coming from democrats and independents. live tonight on capitol hill, abc 7 news. >>> it the president is

clinton. george w. bush. bara obabama.. >> wow.> but that wasn't backwards. >> it was not backwards. can you do it backwards? no, you don't want to do that backwards. what day of the week was july 6, 2002? >> july 6, 2002, july 6, 2002 was a saturday. >> that is right. it was a saturday. and what color socks was i wearing on that day? [ laughter ] i was born on november 13, 1967. who was presidenon that day? >> that day, lyndon johnson. >> that is right. and what was his first name? -- an what was his birthday? >> august 27, 1908. >> that is absolutely right. what is your favorite planet, just out of curiosity. i know you want to be a astronaut. >> my favorite planet is mars. >> why do you like mars? >> because it's red and red is my favorite color. >> do you think when you get there it will be red though? >> yeah. of course. >> do you want to go to mars one day? >> yeah. >> what would you do once you get there? >> um, well, i can look at the volcano. >> the volcano. that would be fun. did you know what i wanted to be when i was yo

from george washington to bill clinton, we put this government into $1 trillion in debt. we want accountability and common sense restored to our government. we should not add a penny to the debt, to our government, and it has to be paid for. it will require some difficult decisions. the american people -- if everyone benefits from this. if there is a share been a fit, there should also be a shared sacrifice -- a shared bennett that there should also be a shared sacrifice. -- a shared benefit, there should also be a shared sacrifice. i am giving you several ideas on how we believe that we can do that. medicare part d, we can negotiate with a drug meant there -- we can get rid of the doughnut hole by negotiating with a drug manufacturers. in the house bill, they took a different approach. i know that there are a lot of people who want this marked up and rushed to the floor for a vote before the august break. maybe it can happen. maybe it cannot. we should not have an artificial deadline. we should take our time and do it right. we can do it right in the month of july, and t

other musical greats like george clinton and prince and curtis blow, earth, wind and fire and a host of others also helped black music grow to phenomenal levels. so what is the impact of black music? the impact of black music most notably is its -- it told mainstream america that it's ok to express your feelings and your emotions as you see them. black music informed america what was going on in african-american communities and it broke barriers that allowed black people to further integrate into america's society. so, mr. speaker, i want to urge all of my colleagues to support the 30th anniversary of black music month, and i yield back the remainder -- oh, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california reserves the balance of her are time. the gentleman from georgia. mr. westmoreland: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. westmoreland: american music reflex the culturally diverse heritage of the united states. it is almost impossible to envision american

it took george washington through bill clinton to put this country $5 trillion in debt, it took the last president to double it. we're for fiscal accountability and common sense being restored to the government. we believe it should not add a penny of new debt to our government and at the end of the day, it's god to be -- got to be paid for. it that will require difficult digs. if everyone benefits from this, all 300 million people in america, if there's a shared benefit, there should also be a shared sacrifice in how we pay for it. before we even get to the revenue that's required to pay for this, we've got to first squeeze every -- every cent we can of savings out of the current system. i've given you several ideas of how we believe we can do that. medicare part d, remove the doughnut hole by negotiate twheg drug manufacturers to bring down the high cost of

but the last couple of presidents, bill clinton, george w. bush, and barack obama we've seen the first few months hovering in the 40s. bill clinton dropped lower below that. some of that reflects the partnership going on in washington. politics has become just a sport and it's really hard for a president to have approval ratings in the 60 and 70 percentage point just because you have one political party that's always against you. >> i imagine with this administration, they're taking on some big things like the stimulus and, of course, health care, and that, again, opens the door for divisiveness with party lines and even a response from those at home. >> exactly. president obama has spent his capital so far on the stimulus and now health care. obviously things he's making very big gambles that pay off in the long run for him. >> mark, it's great to see you. thank you for professionali and keeping your clothes on. check out first read first thing every morning. it's updated throughout the day. check back often and for the record i'm closing my

bill clinton and george w. bush both visited ghana. the reception president obama is getting is frankly in another league altogether. anderson back with a "360" dispatch. tomorrow the president will be at cape coast castle. what more can you tell us about that site? i know you were there today. >> yeah. we spent a lot of time there today. we will be there tomorrow interviewing the president. it is a haunting visit. there are a number of castles, fortresses that were used for hundreds of years as a holding place for slaves before they were sent to the new world, to america, elsewhere in the new world and europe. you go into these holding cells. we followed one african-american lady who whenever she visits it is a moving experience. we followed her and we are going to tell her story next week on cnn. this is where president obama and his wife and kids are going to be going tomorrow. i will talk to them about the experience. donna brazil came to the cape coast a while ago and had a remarkable experience here that she told us about. here i

i served on the under rond reagan, george bush, bill clinton. every president says thing in the heat of the moment that they back off from. that's normal, going to always happen but for him to take this and to play it in such a way to suggest, well, you know, you've got to watch out because these black people are getting ready to take over, that is offensive. >> let me ask you, joan about, this question of the birthers. you and i have talked about it before. i have thought there's an attempt by some people, not the republican party per se but people on the far right who have tried to delegitimize our election and can't live with the fact that barack obama won so they're trying to say basically he wasn't a legitimate american, therefore it wasn't a legitimate election. this guy needs to be picked up and taken out by ins beak. if you follow their lonl i can to the extent that it exists, he ought to be picked up because he doesn't have a green card. >> lou dobbs came very close to that. >> if you listen to them as if they were logical, this is what

prosecutor and going on to be selected by president george herbert walker bush to serve in the federal judiciary and then promoted by president bill clinton a rare occurrence of that someone receives a bipartisan support for their judicial service which she had. and each time as those facts are recounted i watched her mother nodding. recalling what her daughter had achieved. what a great story is for america. when a great star is that president obama would give us a chance to consider judge sotomayor to serve as the first hispanic woman on that u.s. supreme court. for many who opposed judge sotomayor her life and achievements of her judicial record are just not good enough. after poring over 3,000 court decisions and hundreds of for speeches judge sotomayor's critics focused their opposition primarily not exclusively but primarily on one case, the ricci case, and on one senses from one speech.

george w. bush had 13. president bill clinton had 9. president george h.w. bush had one czar and president ronald reagan had three. at the moment, president obama has dozens. and some folks are asking, some of thinks critics, of course, county president really keep track of all these people? wendell goler is live at the white house tonight are there are quite a number of them. >> it depends on how you defe we auto industry instead of restructuring it. but as i said, depending on how you define the term, there are as many as 32 czars in the obama administration manages everything from closing the detention facility at guantanamo bay to ending the genocide in darfur. by another definition only 10 reporting directly to the president and not subject to senate confirmation which is what wrangled some critics of czars. >> almost like the president is building a parallel government, one that's in the constitution and then one that's outside of the constitution and the authority of congress. >> now some experts think president obama is following a trend of the past

george w. bush could not have made it, bill clinton could not have. >> he has had an amazing effect. when you look at the elections in lebanon, everybody had called the election for his the law. >> i think sean hannity said it was an apology speech. >> i did not think he did hear the speech. but the ripple effect of that speech i think will be felt for a very long time and it will really encourage people who have not really had a chance, whether they are women, people of color, it is an amazing thing that he has done and it will certainly -- >> it is a great statement. speeches are very important. down through history -- churchill's speech is in the second world war, the berlin speech of kennedy, and of reagan -- >> which leads me to speeches. >> you have made easily 3000 speeches in your lifetime. >> i have not change the world. >> at the commencement, what did you tell young people? i rather like talking to high schools and it is something i have only done recently. i have done universities, most of the big ones -- now in this point of my life, more and emphasize what -- empathize

george county. looks like clinton, this is moving south of you, waldorf and will move to the east. heavy downpours out there this evening. max hd forecasts for this evening, still the potential for a shower or thunderstorm in here at 11:00 tonight. i think they will be spotty by 11:00 and will be drier at 11:00 tonight. the temperature in the middle 70s. tomorrow morning, early fog. temperature in the lower 70s. partly cloudy at noon. however, there will be another chance for showers and a few thunderstorms again tomorrow afternoon before we dry out around here for saturday. temperatures now in the lower 80s to mid-80s just about everywhere. a couple othings to look at here. this morning we had a lot of rain to the east of us. storms moving up and just east of i-95. then we were watching the thunderstorms that were dying out to the east of us along a frontal boundary. this particular coastal feature goes to the north and stays primarily east of us. with the heat and humidity and unstable atmosphere ahead of this frontal system, we are forming the showers and thunderstorms this even

of circumstances where ronald reagan might have been succeeded by tip o'neill, bill clinton by newt gingrich, or george w. bush by nancy pelosi. so we think there are a number of reasons why it is unwise to have congressional leaders and the line of succession, and i would say those two plus the in migration center are big recommendations. you can read the others in our report. for those of you reading to read it on line is continuity government.org. and with that, with those facts on the table, what i would like to do is then do a more general discussion of the issue of presidential succession. our panelist will say something about the report, their reaction to it. but mostly they have come to this issue by thinking about it for a long time regarding the 25th amendment, regarding the question of congressional leaders in the line of succession. in the case of jim may and looking at the planning for continuity of government operations that surround these sues. so let me introduce our panelist. i will start with our panelist in absentia and i want to make sure he is year. is akhil amar here. >> good morn

clinton, the secretary of the united states -- host: secretary of state. caller: she was supported by george soros. he spent millions and millions of dollars to support her reelection. i hope the american people realize he is a socialist progress of communist. he wants the united states turned around and upside down and run by a socialist government. host: this is the front page of "the hartford courant." this official testified yesterday in front of a senate ethics committee. new york city on the democrats line. caller: thank you for c-span. it came to me, the name of a flat health care, like the flat tax. host: how does that work?

george w. bush. and bill clinton? your part of the newt gingrich class of 1994 and part of the impeachment process with clinton but looking back 10 years later did the republicans go too far? today we smirch themselves of all? >> guest: i am reminded of jesus christ superstar. mary matalin sings i don't know how to love him i still can i get my arms and around bill clinton but i do know i was driven to run by a anger, rage at bill clinton. i thought bill clinton represented everything that was wrong with america. i love with him i had no use for hillary clinton. it was visceral and i think it goes back to being a kid raised in the atlanta suburbs looking at the 60 radicals and looking from my parents side. 10 years later i read about this and i am embarrassed of some of the things i said about bill clinton that my goal at 46 as opposed 231 started to campaign to understand that everybody has something to bring to the table and to understand that while we could not stand bill clinton and he could not stand as we hated

she is a retrained and moderate jurist who was put on the bench by george herber walker bush and promoted by president clinton. she's an exceptional person. let me tell you george, give her high marks. she's met face-to-face with 89 senators. answered all of their questions. i think she's done an exceptional job. >> we'll go straight to "the roundtable" as the panelists take their seats. take a look at these moments from confirmation hearings. >> i'm not going to be pregnant anymore. >> this is a circus, it's a national disgrace, and from my standpoint, as a black american, as far as i'm concerned, it say high-tech lynching. >> no hints, no forecasts, no previews. >> i have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background, because of religion or because of gender. >> and with that, let me bring in "the roundtable," i'm joined by george will, donna brazile, walk woodward of the "washington post," sam donaldson and cokie roberts. george, we just heard senator kyl talk about the republican strategy right there. he had surprising numbers that i haven't seen abo

points are in the upper 60s, low 70s, it's just very humid. 73 in the beltway, 72 in prince george's county, clinton 69, 68 in springfield. dew points are in the upper 60s. it's very humid, but these numbers will start to drop as northerly winds start to bring in some less humid weather. this is the air that will be dropping down into the region today. you can see it's much less humid around buffalo and up towards the great lakes. this air will be coming down on northerly winds. even though we have the northerly winds, temperatures won't warm up. temperatures will warm up. temperatures won't cool down. temperatures today will be climbing into the mid-80s and we still have more warm weather off to the west and this will start to make its way toward the mid-atlantic as we head toward the middle of the week so it's going to slowly start to warm up a bit. so there's the frontal band that's coming across the area. really fizzled out in new england. that's where we had a ton of rain with some really nasty storms. as the front makes its way southward, bring us mostly cloudy skies and the northerly winds be

bill clinton and ronald reagan and george w. bush and so on. they have all serve add number of terms. they were not dropouts and did not act like victims of the press. >> rush limbaugh had a different take on. this take a listen to this. hold on. >> i don't think this precludes her running for office down the road, the presidency in 2012 at all. i think these people saying that she is an instant target because she quit is just -- it's just inside the beltway formulaic, and she's not that ." >> i'm inside the beltway! >> look, i think she has a future. if she does want that sort of thing. my advice is to run for the house and senate, be a legislator here in washington, a congressman from lass scassments she would learn a lot. she is only 45. if she were in the house, she could run in 2020. there is one thing she has that nobody else has, and that is this magnetic charismatic personality. she is exciting. no one else is. bret: juan, what about the facebook posting? >> it just invites derision. i don't want to join in or play into her argument tha

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george h. w. bush and bill clinton from 1990 to 1997. dr. kessler is a graduate of amherst college, harvard medical school and university of chicago. really rodale books is the publisher. to find out more, visit rodale.com. >>> pulitzer prize-winning journalist alex jones discusses what he sees as the demise of hard news and the diminished nature of journalism role as a government watchdog. this interview taped and new york city at the 2009 book expo america last about 15 minutes. >> outlook jones, and "losing the news" you refer to the first amendment as fragile. why? >> the first amendment is great bulwark in this country but it's only been the great bull word since the 1930's. for most of our history that a great bull work as we think the protections we think of as absolute have been very, very on certain and they are uncertain because in times of great national stress, they get in pinched upon and our supreme court determines what the first amendment really says before world war i for instance in fact during world war i it was against la

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face to face with four presidents and even managed to persuade two of them, william jefferson clinton and georgesign their entire names >> it's very difficult to tell the president of the united states to sign something the way you want it. it's not a card show are you can go and ask pete rose to ask something and say will you sign this to jim or whom ever. the presidents are going to sign the way they want to sign. >> reporter: the most expensive cost him 50 grand, the one signed by our heaviest president, 300 pound william howard taft, who began a grand american tradition back in 1910. >> no other president had thrown out first pitch at a baseball game before. he was the first one to attend a baseball game and he was the first president to throw out a first pitch. >> reporter: so when obama throws out the first pitch this year, what are you going to be doing and thinking about? >> thinking i'd like to have that baseball. thinking i'd really like to have that baseball added to my collection. >> and he says he will never sell it, he will auction it when he passes away. there's a special provisio

bill clinton started that deregulation. and george bush went along with it whenever he got in there. seemed like the rest of the media forgot about that. and i do appreciate his comment on that to remind the people of the united states who actually started derg -- deregulation. i am not saying that bush made mistakes but bill clinton did. ncaa. host: thank you. greg from indiana. independent line. go ahead, sir. caller: i am an independent and i like to say i appreciate your views on the government. i have a question about those bond rating agencies. they racesed the most need than anyone on that whole process of $2 trillion going down the tubes. it seems to be there is going to be some suggestions made about that but there seems to be a seller-buyer relationship and what the rate is. without doing due diligence, geez. so is that too constrictive? are these, you know, guys that are slicker than mules and a barrel of hogs' head here? how do you write? how do you make a bonding agency tell the truth? and one more question. i was watchin

>> on april 16 of last year in a presidential debate, george stephanopoulos asked obama and clinton whatswered very strongly, would retall kuwait. we would retall kuwait with nukes -- we would retall kuwait with nukes and extend that umbrella and obama answer ed weakly and cluelessly, and she repeated that idea a few times in the campaign as a way to show how tough she was as opposed to him. i think what happened today is this show in thailand is that she was repeating that theme inadvertently. it is one thing to do it and to say it as a candidate as a hypothetical, but once you say it as secretary of state, you are implying, as everybody thought she was implying, that america already accepts the reality of a nuclear iran and is thinking about containment and deterrence, as we did in the soviet example in the cold war. i think it was -- if it was obama policy, it is a hell of a way to actually announce it or imply it. i think it was a gaffe that she later tried to walk back. bret: israeli leaders piped up right away. >> that was not helpful at all. a gaffe in washington is when somebody

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george h.w. bush, 41% for clinton at the same time. guy, your reaction?ll, from a popularity standpoint, the president gets an a plus plus in my opinion. i think from an image standpoint -- >> well, we can throw out the gallup poll. what's your reaction to the poll, though? >> well, i think overall -- >> what's causing it? >> you've got to look at the unemployment rate. we can easily say that a month ago when i appeared at your show and 8.1% and now at 9.1% and even if we all hold hands and sing, we'll probably top out at about 10% by the year end. this is a major issue for the president, something the president will have to deal with or else republicans in the long run. >> for the first time the survey shows by -- on the same issue of health care reform that there's the same right. 50% disapproved, 44% approved. your thoughts? >> my thoughts, lou, is this is a honeymoon period. but it's more than this. >> well, the honey moon's over because 50% disapprove and 44% approve. >> right, and lou, it's so obvious to me too that a lot of people are having second

you think of all the politicians who have faced lots of problems from bill clinton to hillary clinton to george w. bush and they hang in there and power through. the idea that you are stepping down for the good of your state, i don't think that washes. >> not a surprise probably that she wasn't going to run again to be the governor but the fact that she would walk away with the term, so much still remaining. how do you think that will play against her if she comes back to the national stage, either 2012, 2016 or further down the road, do you think she will face criticism that she didn't finish the job? >> absolutely. there are a lot of people who have run for president as former governors. ronald reagan was a former governor. with him it was term limits but that is a perfectly honorable thing to do. i'm not saying what she did was dishonorable. but to leave. you have been elected and to leave in the middle of the job with basically a year and a half left, look, her own republican senator, lisa murkowski and they have bad blood because palin ran against and beat murkowski's dad, i'm sorry that g

and southern prince george's county from clinton to upper marlboro. and shady side up to annapolis. couple of light sprinkles. not all that heavy this morning. rappahannock county and culpepper county, rain showers headed towards northern fauquier county. so st. mary's city, thunder down there in southern maryland. temperatures in low to mid 70s. a partly to mostly cloudy day today. showers likely in the morning and the possibility of an isolated strong thunderstorm later in the afternoon. so keep the umbrellas ready. catch a little break from the rain tomorrow, with a high near 92 and rain chances start sneaking back into the forecast by wednesday and thursday. so a little something for everybody. a lot of those plants are a little thirsty side. under the brown grass, thinking about brown grass, you don't have to mow it, right, joe? >> that's true, a good side to everything, thanks, chuck. >>> let's check in with jerry see how things are moving with the rush hour under way. >> if you're caught in a traffic jam, you don't burn that much gas. easy on your tires. >> something like tha

that's why spending under president clinton rose at 40% under the rate of george w. bush. >> rose: that's why they called you deficit hawks, you and bob rubin and others. so now these two last questions. number one, and then george bush comes in and he has the surplus. he also got a... 2001 and later afghanistan and then later iraq and all those unexpected expenditures and other thins and spent... had a huge spending program. and reduced taxes. >> yes. >> rose: ending up with a huge deficit. >> biggest fiscal swing in the history of the country. >> rose: my question is, just in economic policy, the idea that lowering taxes increases growth and is a good idea all other things being equal. >> well, look, if tax rates are 90%, as we saw, for example, in britain years ago and actually at one point in the united states 50 years ago and you reduce them, you're going to get growth because taxes at that level are stifling growth. they're suffocating growth. if taxes are where they are today, 35% for people like me at the highest rate and you raise them, for example, to 39.6,

clinton's mistake? the scooter case, we're learning more why george w. bush turned down dick cheney's employee to save little bitty. hi, i'm chris matthews. michael's w. assistant, michael duffy. and ceci connolly, are -- from "the washington post." for a president known to manage his political moves with grace, it is a surprising example why this drives the country's conversation. here is the key part of the president's conversation wednesday night. >> the cambridge police acted stupidedly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. chris: for a look at the political dust-up, listen to rush limbaugh the next morning. now white policemen are under assault from the east room of the white house and the president of the united states after admitting he had no facts . but the cops acted stupidedly. chris: why do you think? was it something personal? >> it sounds like he spoke to the gut. i knew people inside the white house that were surprised. it's probably not a good idea to use the word "stupid." and what happened