bill clinton's legacy was a factor in hillary clinton's campaign. >> guest: no question.it cut both ways. he obviously was president for eight years. she was first lady for eight years. that gave her the stature and name recognition to run for senate for new york and when she was running in the primary this time she talked about clinton cleaning up after bush. is part of her fund-raising network, the fact that she and her husband had been a team for so long. of course the downside and by the way not just male voters like the caller earlier but i have heard from young female voters saying we were taught to get places on our own and we want a candidate who was a woman that out there on her own, who didn't see her rights as being part of her own attributes but was due to her husband and obviously as the campaign wore on ingressive husband maid increasingly inflammatory remarks in a lead it and not of the democratic base he became a liability as well. >> host: maxes kerry from oklahoma. >> caller: good morning. it has been and while since i talked with you. after this morning

the clinton campaign had heard so much, and when senator clinton heard about this, she was very upsetxpected. host: we have john joining us this morning. caller: hi, give me one second to get some perspective. i am a world war ii trooper, i jumped in normandy and jumped throughout, so i know what war is like. hillary clinton is not president today because she voted for the iraq war. she showed us what we have in politicians today. all they care about getting reelected. she didn't care she was voting to see g.i.'s to iraq to die or maimed for life. she only cared about precluding the -zvrepublicans from attack her from being soft or terror or not voting on the war. and today this is why she's not president today and deserves not to be president. i was a supporter until that blatant cover-your-[beep] vote. guest: i would say that in every career there are those votes. i wouldn't get in her head about her emotions when she voted to authorize the nñwar in iraq. i know from her advisors that she's naturally hawkish on defense. we saw in this most recent afghanistan review policy, she % wa

the clinton-bush haiti fund. i went to thank both of you for returning to service and leading this urgent mission. this is a model that works. after the terrible tsunami in asia president bush turned to president clinton to lead a similar fund. that effort raced resources for the victims of that disaster -- that effort raised resources that helped rebuild communities. that is exactly what the people of haiti need right now. every day that goes by we learn more about the scope of this catastrophe any. the suffering that defies comprehension, families sleeping in the streets, injured and desperate for care. many thousands feared dead. that is why thousands of american personnel are on the scene working to distribute clean drinking water and food and medicine, and tons of emergency food supplies are arriving every day. it will be difficult, it is an enormous challenge to distribute this ate quickly and safely in a place that has suffered such destruction. -- distribute this aid quickly. we are working with many orga

clinton was a survivor to use the title of john harris' excellent book on the clinton presidency. he would have done almost anything to get reelected. something fascinating that obama said the other day, he said "i'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president." i think he means it and i think last night showed that he did. >> woodruff: reihan salam, this one term/two-term statement, what do you make of that and how does that affect your view of his performance last night? >> i think that it was a very powerful and very telling statement. one of the key aspects of president obama's appeal has been this idea that he's not an ideologue, that he's profoundly pragmatic and that he's not terribly interested in partisanship and what have you and he's perfectly willing to embrace good ideas from the republican side. and i'm not sure that's actually true. i think the president is someone who has very deep core convictions, very deep ideological convictions and i actually believe him when he says that. i believe that he wants to achieve certain broad polic

the clinton campaign had heard so much, and when senator clinton heard about this, she was very upsetcall. one saying she cried. but it was one incident fairly late in the campaign, that got her emotions started. and that was not something i expected. host: we have john joining us this morning. caller: hi, give me one second to get some perspective. i am a world war ii trooper, i jumped in normandy and jumped throughout, so i know what war is like. hillary clinton is not president today because she voted for the iraq war. she showed us what we have in politicians today. all they care about getting reelected. she didn't care she was voting to see g.i.'s to iraq to die or maimed for life. she only cared about precluding the -zvrepublicans from attack her from being soft or terror or not voting on the war. and today this is why she's not president today and deserves not to be president. i was a supporter until that blatant cover-your-[beep] vote. guest: i would say that in every career there are those votes. i wouldn't get in her head about her emotions when she voted to authorize the n

it was the first time that a lot to the issues of bill clinton's personal life, whether the clintonsr they were too loose with the truth, was laid out. the one-two punch of it being laid out by david geffen, a pillar of a hollywood establishment, via the maureen dowd column, was devastating. host: i am sure that many people are eager to ask your questions and make comments. sylvia, democrats like, you are first. caller: i saw you all on another show and you are talking about that bill and hillary were upset during the iowa caucuses that the obama campaign had cheated. from what i read and what i heard, the reason they were so upset was because the obama campaign bussed in lots of young people from illinois with the help of a corn -- of acorn, and they showed up at the caucuses early and they locked out the hillary voters. host: john heilemann? guest: a caller is exactly right about what the clintons believe. that, to the letter, what we report in the book -- hillary had been concerned about the caucuses for awhile, that they were to lose, and that he was the state senator from illino

it was the first time that a lot to the issues of bill clinton's personal life, whether the clintons were old politics, whether they were too loose with the truth, was laid out. the one-two punch of it being laid out by david geffen, a pillar of a hollywood establishment, via the maureen dowd column, was devastating. host: i am sure that many people are eager to ask your questions and make comments. sylvia, democrats like, you are first. caller: i saw you all on another show and you are talking about that bill and hillary were upset during the iowa caucuses that the obama campaign had cheated. from what i read and what i heard, the reason they were so upset was because the obama campaign bussed in lots of young people from illinois with the help of a corn -- of acorn, and they showed up at the caucuses early and they locked out the hillary voters. host: john heilemann? guest: a caller is exactly right about what the clintons believe. that, to the letter, what we report in the book -- hillary had been concerned about the caucuses for awhile, that they were to lose, and that he was the

it's a tax at clinton era levels on income added to $250,000. i think most people making that amount of money will go out and try and earn more even if it is being taxed at a clinton era level. >> and you make the same point, we did well during the clinton era, when tax were higher and going township there. but there are many other tax that will be instituted. we have the new excise tax come into play, lord knows what tax we'll have when cap-and-trade and health care get passed. in addition, to all the other stuff worries me, a pile on. >> a pile on with obama's new agenda and i can see the argument. go back to '03 for a second and reimagine the decade and the -- let's say the bush tax cuts never happened -- >> what do you think would have happened. >> we would not be prostrate in front of our lender china. i think we'd be in a stronger place in the world. and we have to fix that, unless you -- >> vickie. go ahead. >> well, mike you just dodged the question. this is for investors, this is death by a thousand tax hikes and they are little tax hik

the reason i compared the clinton and bush administrations is because under the clinton administration you said the policies wouldn't work. i didn't mean you personally, but your party said they wouldn't work. it's not the only administration, not the reagan administration, not the first or second bush administrations that produced surpluses. after eight years, they had a net surplus. no administration in your lifetime has had a net surplus in eight years other than the clinton administration. not one. so from that perspective, i will tell you here and again these statistics, you don't like, you prefer that i simply look at the problems that we are confronting now. why are we confronting these problems? because your economic program did not work and plunged us into the deepest recession we have had in 75 years. i raise my voice only because you simply ignore that. you say, we don't want to look at what happened or look at what our policies produced. we want to look in the future. we do, too. what we have been doing, as i pointed out to you, is trying to bring this economy out of the di

the clinton-bush haiti fund. i went to thank both of you for returning to service and leading this urgent mission. this is a model that works. after the terrible tsunami in asia president bush turned to president clinton to lead a similar fund. that effort raced resources for the victims of that disaster -- that effort raised resources that helped rebuild communities. that is exactly what the people of haiti need right now. every day that goes by we learn more about the scope of this catastrophe any. the suffering that defies comprehension, families sleeping in the streets, injured and desperate for care. many thousands feared dead. that is why thousands of american personnel are on the scene working to distribute clean drinking water and food and medicine, and tons of emergency food supplies are arriving every day. it will be difficult, it is an enormous challenge to distribute this ate quickly and safely in a place that has suffered such destruction. -- distribute this aid quickly. we are working with many orga

bill clinton was actually much lower. these are two presidents that came into power having to deal with a very difficult economy. when ronald reagan came into office, we are one oin one of te worst recessions we had seen. we saw unemployment rate, high interest rates. this economy is very very bad. both of these presidents had to say that we are dealing with the economy. for both reagan and for obama, the economy was not turning around. in fact, we saw one of reagan having problems going well into the next year. we can expect obama to have his polls fall. he needs to tell at the american people that it is a difficult job to deal with the economy. he will turn around, stick with him. >> with regard to the job picture, the president will say it is time for democrats and republicans to bridge their differences and work on a jobs bill. will that work? >> we will see. this is a way to have a vote on health care bill. that is a good beginning. he said that he would like to bring change that we have not seen. we don't want the k

before joining bill clinton's 1992 presidential campaign and later the clintons' white house staff, she was executive vice president of people for the american way. she is a co-founder and was the c.e.o. of the non-profit vital voices global partnership, a flourishing organization that encourages and trains women in the developing world, including iraq and afghanistan, to gain leadership posts in government and in commerce. it is rumored that in her white house years, melanne used her computer screen to post thickets. today she never leaves home without her two blackberries. friends report that she is a marvelous host, and also a world class shopper. called back to asia days after exhausting travel, she remarked with a smile, "it's a great opportunity to take care of the christmas shopping." summing up what melanne believes and strives mightly for all to understand, she said, investments in women have the greatest positive correlation to enhancing a country's general prosperity and poverty alleviation. would you all please join me now in a warm welcome, a very warm welcome, to ambassado

new details about bill clinton and hillary clinton and why hillary clinton's people formed a war roomlinton. >>> plus on the terror trail tonight. the exclusive interview with the father of a radical cleric. he says his son is an all-american boy and not a terrorist. we'll have that exclusive interview, and those stories and more ahead tonight on 360. soledad. >>> thanks. to the phones in atlanta, georgia tonight. what's your question? >> caller: my question is to the panel. if you had an opportunity to advise sarah palin, based on what you know, what's happened in 2008, if she were to run in 2012, how would you advise her and what suggestions would you make if she decided to run? >> how about a democrat answer that one. >> lanny davis, why don't you take that. >> first of all, shock everyone. i really like sarah palin on a personal level. i like the way she projects. she has energy. i think she is pretty sharp and the best speech i've seen for a first timer at any convention in my lifetime, maybe other than barack obama in '04 but pretty close. she impressed me pa greatly. she lacks

in speaking with president clinton, he and i immediately agreed that a joint effort of the clinton global initiative, the world economic forum, together with the united nations, should be a powerful partnership to effected meaningful change. let me be clear. we are not here to try and coordinate and address issues related to the short-term disaster, relief and recovery. there are many agencies already doing great work, and here, i know many of you have already generously contributed. i would also like to mention that many of those who have done such great work at a very short notice and have engaged personally in a very deep way into the help for haiti are sitting here in this room. and i would single out particularly the former prime minister of haiti, who has come all the way from haiti just to be here today, together with us. please, let's particularly recognize the work and the presence, not only of her, but of all those ngo's people in the room who have done a fantastic work. [applause] i would like to introduce someone who has become a real friend of the world economic forum and who

clinton. the secretary of state came over and -- i see the former council general is here so he will remember this. there was an understanding reach between the israelis and the palestinians in relation to a forward looking economic viability for gaza. which included a port, which included an airport, which included access and egress from the country and movement between gaza and the west bank, bus service, and all the things that we had hoped for. in the event at that moment of agreement in which the secretary made the announcement and then moved on, the tragedy of the situation was that none of it lasted for very long. and the situation collapsed with violence on both sides, and essentially the creation of what now exists in worse form the closing off of gaza and the isolation of the residents. it's now at a peak, as you know, with very high unemployment and with little or no activity, with access and egress for goods, basically through tunnels, it is a very unhealthy situation. and, worse t

and what she really thinks about secretary of state clinton. and talking about her son trigg and cruel rumors spread about him. and tonight governor sarah palin answers your questions. governor nice to see you. >> thank you you too. >> governor, do they read in alaska? >> yeah, we read in alaska, we stay in touch with the real world. >> i'm just teasing. >> that's funny. you have an army t-shirt on to set the stage where are we today? >> heading to ft. bragg can't wait to meet the troops. the book is dedicated to patriots who serve our country and have served in the past. a grit event. >> i heard on the radio that the -- since you are doing the army visit today, employment for people returning home from the war is at 15%. >> an -- that's atrocious, huge numbers. not just military returning home, they deserve the employment opportunity more so than anybody else. making sacrifices, putting careers and education opportunities on hold so they can serve something greater than self. to be essentially punished by this lacking economy right now by not

in speaking with president clinton, he and i immediately agreed that a joint effort of the clinton global initiative, the world economic forum, together with the united nations, should be a powerful partnership to effected meaningful change. let me be clear. we are not here to try and coordinate and address issues related to the short-term disaster, relief and recovery. there are many agencies already doing great work, and here, i know many of you have already generously contributed. i would also like to mention that many of those who have done such great work at a very short notice and have engaged personally in a very deep way into the help for haiti are sitting here in this room. and i would single out particularly the former prime minister of haiti, who has come all the way from haiti just to be here today, together with us. please, let's particularly recognize the work and the presence, not only of her, but of all those ngo's people in the room who have done a fantastic work. [applause] i would like to introduce someone who has become a real friend of the world economic forum and who

go in there and keep you can find a paper from bill clinton -- by bill clinton.and that's a sure, i'll do it in a call you back. i said no, i'm going to hold on. he comes back quite upset because even before katrina we use to flood all the time. the basement has flooded a few times and assorted destroyed those things in your mother throughout all those papers. i was actually secretly release because i didn't know what i would do if i had a paper in my hand that would derail the candidacy of bill clinton. kathy, my wife and i., when years later to see 52 in retirement and he pulls out a scrapbook and there is a paper there's also -- does anybody know who betsey wright was like she was in charge of bimbo eruptions, damage control. there's a telegram that he got from betsey wright saying, do not release paper. let her to follow. i tell him he should send the paper, which he did to the clinton library because i believe those of us who are historians should at least have the right to that paper even if it would was a journalist during that time is a good idea not to.

clinton believes that the country can come back stronger in the future. bearing so, bottled water and other supplies, secretary clinton flew into the battered capital and told the haitian people that the u.s. will be here today, tomorrow, and in times ahead as the u.s. struggles to organize a relief effort for a barely functioning haitian government. mrs. clinton said she was here at the invitation of the country's president and came in large part to hear what was needed by the people. you can also send us a tour comment. you can send us an e- mail,jopuranl@c-span.org. caller: i think long term commitment should not be there. is this going to be a land grab with all these people coming inde? i don't think the united states should be there but the chinese or what ever could come in there. but fake with the closures and layoffs, more money should be thrown into our governments and our country first. that sounds selfish, i am sorry. i think there are many people, detroit, michigan, they have been really hit hard. in my city, there is a lot of foreclosures go

clinton handled himself with class. he went over and he took the bumper sticker off the rear of the plane. this was all business and i admire him. bill: john bolton said, look, if you are going to do this and legitimize this dictator who kidnapped these women, they will keep doing it, escalating it. what say you to that? >> nobody can touch us except -- accurately, the parents, the families, the girls. it is easy to say that, but you are missing the point. you get your kid home. the only person who feels bad in this whole thing is biden. they have him playing fredo, sending a mountain to the backyard because he can open a beer bottle with his teeth. clinton gets to be errol flynn. i do not see anybody having a beef with it. bill: clash fort -- cash for clunkers. it looks like the auto industry got a bump on this. what do you think? >> the foreign auto industry got a little bump. most of the cars were four models. i guess i am happy. it seems low-rent to me. they're on the front yard of the sanfrods. -- sanfords. you put

it was the first time that a lot to the issues of bill clinton's personal life, whether the clintonsere old politics, whether they were too loose with the truth, was laid out. the one-two punch of it being laid out by david geffen, a pillar of a hollywood establishment, via the maureen dowd column, was devastating. host: i am sure that many people are eager to ask your questions and make comments. sylvia, democrats like, you are first. caller: i saw you all on another show and you are talking about that bill and hillary were upset during the iowa caucuses that the obama campaign had cheated. from what i read and what i heard, the reason they were so upset was because the obama campaign bussed in lots of young people from illinois with the help of a corn -- of acorn, and they showed up at the caucuses early and they locked out the hillary voters. host: john heilemann? guest: a caller is exactly right about what the clintons believe. that, to the letter, what we report in the book -- hillary had been concerned about the caucuses for awhile, that they were to lose, and that he was the s

softens on hillary clinton. could it be? him for a lifetime of all kind of experiences (laughter) >> we're debating on the radio factor, whether that was an intentional zing or just was an ad-lib that just happened kind of naturally? what do you think? >> i love that sort of stuff. good for her. you know, i've said in the past on this show that if hillary does want a zing she has, you know, plenty of right to. i mean, for god's sake she's been cheated on more frequently than a blind woman playing scrabble, but if it was a zing or if it was just sort of pillow talk in front of the nation, i found it endearing and i've ground fonder of hillary clinton since she ran for the presidency. i think it's emblematic of the rolling stones song, you can't always get what you need. getting outside the bubble, getting outside this have man's shadow not quite the job she wants, but a great job. i think all has led her to a place where it's quite becoming, i find her very gracious and funny and i thought it was charming. >> bill: do you fee

hillary rodham clinton. [applause] >> thank you. wonderful being back here at georgetown in this magnificent hall and to give you something to do during exam week. [laughter] it is one of those cause i- legitimate reasons for taking a break. -- is one of those quasi- legitimate reasons for taking a break. [laughter] clearly, those of you who are in the foreign service school heard reflections of the extraordinary opportunities given to study here as he spoke about the culture of human rights. it is also a real honor for me to be delivering this speech at georgetown because there is no better place than this university ito talk about human rights. the president and the administration of the school embodied the university's long tradition of free inquiry and the cause of human rights around the world. i know that he has taught a course on human rights. as well as on the ethics of international development, along with my longtime colleague carol lancaster. i want to commend the faculty who are helping to shape our thinking on human rig

and what she really thinks about secretary of state clinton. and talking about her son trigg and cruel rumors spread about him. and tonight governor sarah palin answers your questions. governor nice to see you. >> thank you you too. >> governor, do they read in alaska? >> yeah, we read in alaska, we stay in touch with the real world. >> i'm just teasing. >> that's funny. you have an army t-shirt on to set the stage where are we today? >> heading to ft. bragg can't wait to meet the troops. the book is dedicated to patriots who serve our country and have served in the past. a grit event. >> i heard on the radio that the -- since you are doing the army visit today, employment for people returning home from the war is at 15%. >> an -- that's atrocious, huge numbers. not just military returning home, they deserve the employment opportunity more so than anybody else. making sacrifices, putting careers and education opportunities on hold so they can serve something greater than self. to be essentially punished by this lacking economy right now by not

we just heard from bill clinton.e been here from some years. in the 1980's, we were talking about whether america will continue to compete in the world, with the germans and japanese are moving ahead of us at a rapid rate. in the 1990's, we adopted a program. we passed that in a partisan fashion, with no republican votes. we solve the greatest economic insurgents the piscine mi time. -- that i have seen in my lifetime. jobs were created. problems were addressed. a few months ago, we confronted the worst economic crisis since the great depression. we heard from president obama yesterday. many of you have observed that we have just gone through one of the most productive sessions in the history of the house. that we have just gone through one of the most productive sessions in the history of the house. confronting the issues that the president said he was going to confront, we said we were going to confront and the american people knew it needed to be confronted. we needed to confront the economic crisis. we did so. th

i mean with bill clinton could do. i mean the people of this country are going through a time of terrible, terrible pain, uncertainty, anxiety. and i think the president has to identify with that. i agree on his appointments, certainly don't suggest that this is an andrew jackson of the 21st century. >> let me defend myself from the maria antoinette charge. listen, populism and elitism are the same thing. they are class prejudices. crude class prejudices that so-and-so because they are uneducated is less worthy or so-and-so because they are richer or more educated is unworthy. they are both crude, crass class prejudices which people can play into or not play into. redistributing money down is not necessarily populist. but saying all bankers are evil is populist. and so it's the crude class prejudice that i think that people are now beginning to play into. and the only people, by the way, who play into it are phoneies. people who are genuinely coming from the working class or representing or feeling their bone, working

. >> lehrer: we'll talk with former president clinton-- the u.n. special envoy to haiti-- about the catastrophe that came just as haiti seemed to have turned an economic corner. >> woodruff: plus, we get first hand accounts of the relief situation on the ground. >> lehrer: and some perspective on the global humanitarian effort from the president of care, helene gayle. >> woodruff: then, president obama's new plan to tax big banks to reimburse taxpayers for the federal bailout. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "pbs newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: ♪ we see beyond cars. >> this is the engine that bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> chevron. this is the power of human energy. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station fro

secretary clinton and i talked about it this morning. we are in touch with the governments in islamabad and pakistan. you are quite right about the agricultural components here and it was rather interesting to us that about three weeks ago with great fanfare in afghanistan, the ministry of agriculture air shipped 12 tons of apples to india and afghanistan been famous for its apples. that was a very interesting harbinger of what is possible. your second question was about crop substitution. we phased out our support of poppy crop eradication, although individual governor's of afghanistan may continue to do it. the idea that we would spend money to victimize farmers who are growing the best cash crop for them in the area, instead it was only alienating them, driving them into the hands of the taliban. we know from much information we receive that we have heard the taliban recruiting and we did it by doing this and we did not hurt ourselves at all, because it was accompanied by an integrated plan with general mcchrystal and general petraeus

what about secretary clinton as secretary of state this year?> well, hillary clinton was not a terrific candidate, but she has been a terrific secretary of state. all the predictions about how she and her husband would muck up the policy agenda and become a big political story were wrong. it was shrewd of president obama who is very good to keep his enemies closer than close to have her in the administration. it was a smart move. she has proven her. she is a real homework doer and she apply herself and has done a good job. >> i agree it's not been the same clinton drama but i don't see the achievement. she was cut off with holbrook in charge as a czar and mitchell, and also obama taking control of the major issues himself. she had her embarrassing issue on russia on the reset issue. but most important when she went on the first visit to china and she actually played down human rights, a message for the obama administration through her it would apply across the board. the administration has been weak on this. it hasn't received anything in return

president clinton built a wall to try and stop it, and president bush tried to tackle the problem with technology, initiating an ambitious program that he called a "virtual fence," that would allow the u.s. to visually monitor most of the border. the bureaucrats at homeland security changed the name of the program to the secure border initiative network, or s.b.i. net, and after three years and a billion dollars, we decided to see how it was going. this 80-foot tower near sasabe, arizona, is just one of a network of electronic observation posts that dot the landscape along the mexican border south of tucson. >> playas cop lima 210. >> kroft: they're part of a system that homeland security intended to be the eyes and ears of the u.s. border patrol... >> it's looking like it's going to be a white s.u.v. >> kroft: ...scanning the southern frontier for migrants, drug smugglers, even international terrorists trying to enter the country illegally. >> lima 210-- vehicle is intercepted. >> mark borkowski: these towers are located based on geography, terrain, and what the border patrol knows ab

in speaking with president clinton, he and i immediately agreed that a joint effort of the clinton global initiative, the world economic forum, together with the united nations should be a powerful partnership to effect meaningful change. let me be clear. we are not here to try and to coordinate issues related to the short-term disaster relief and recovery. there are many agencies already doing great work and here i know many of you have already generously contributed to that end. i would also like to mention that many of those who have done such great work at the very short notice and have engaged personally in a very deep way into the help for haiti are sitting here in this room and i would single out particularly the former minister of haiti who has come all the way from haiti just to be here today together with us. please let's particularly recognize the work and presence not only of her but of all those n.g.o. people here in the room who have done fantastic work. [applause] i would like to introduce someone who has become a real friend of the world economic forum and who we owe a lot

he's also seen in photographs with al gore, hillary clinton and joe biden. liza miller says she was once a believer too. >> when i found dahn, i felt like, this is it. now, liza is one of the 27 former employees filing a lawsuit claiming dahn yoga is a cult. >> i feel it's my duty to come forward and share my stories so that people are aware of the truth about the organization, because having been in the organization, you know, people that are still in believe something completely different. they are being deceived. >> the attorney for mr. lee says the only deception involved is on the part of the former employees who filed the lawsuit, he insists all they want is money. the next legal step in this case comes toward the end of the month, when the attorney for the former employees has to file a response in federal court opposing dahn yoga's attempt to dismiss the lawsuit. we will keep you posted. >> you struck a nerve. there has been an outpouring about the story on the internet on both cnn.com and here on our blog. >> i talked to you about that after the fir

i mean, back to the clinton administration.were sending those people back to haiti to get murder when -- to get murdered. and even when they said they were going to let them come here, there were going to send them to guantanamo bay. when the cubans were leaving, we went and got them off of boats and got them out of here. and aristide, he was one of the only elected president that he ever had. though clinton said he had to go and when george bush got in there, he really told him he had to go. our policy and run the world is to put people in power that benefit us. this is what the american people were looking for when we voted obama in, is to change this policy and get out of this imperialists dick way of thinking. thanks host: for the input. -- this and realistic way of thinking. -- imperialistsic way of thinking. host: thanks for the input. any thoughts? guest: we need to the about long term, bipartisan support for construction. we need to be cognizant of the fact we have a large haitian american population and they will be ve

keying as a fierce urgency of now and senator clinton said hold up. it took a president to sign that bill. she was invoking the notion that our politics still run it a top down way even though keying was the seminal figure her point* is that you still need a president to transform this nation and really i think the most transformative part to our history when you think of the civil-rights movement and the power movement of the '60s and '70s and the postwar period, it is people who transform this point* it is seamstress. it is regular people who would converge of these people who become iconic. >> host: one of the things i loved about your book is the complexity of its and to try a complex portrait. martin luther king, jr. for instance was a critic of racism and protested and called attention to rural poverty and he had a different actual life than is often described and remembered. it is a figure that some had zero who a figure who gave the "i have a dream" speech but there are hard edges of his portfolio. >> guest: but especially when worth mentionin

and much like president clinton and he then accomplished a wealth of things. i hope president obama is in a learning process and we soo a change for the good of the country. forget partisan politics. i would like to see him reverse his decision on the trial in new york. and i would like to them treat them like enemy combatants. if he made corrections like that that would show great leadership. >> larry: you are in the security business. what do you think of the newark airport. the breach last sunday. we learned cameras were running and not recording. how do they let that happen? >> these things happen and they shouldn't happen and we need more kons administration on it. and i think maybe one of the good things that can come out of the situation that just happened in detroit, which thank god didn't involve the loss of life, it can be a wake-up call for us. the threat to this country is just as great now it is then. september 11th is not part of history yet. it's part of present. the same ideologicals things are present now and then. and we have got make ourselv

king and the fierce urgency of now and hillary clinton thing senator clinton said hold up a minute. it took a president to sign that bill so she was invoking this notion that look at politics are still run in a top-down way even though king was a seminal figure her point was you still need a president to transform this institution, transform this nation. and really i think the most transformative parts of his streak especially when we dig up the civil rights movement and black power movement and social movements of the 60's and 70's and post war period it is ordinary people who transform this period. it's sharecroppers, seamstresses, people who were in prison. its students come its regular people who then converge with these figures become iconic. >> host: one of the things i love to buy your book was the complexity of it and how you have taken the history of african-americans and have drawn a complex portrait particularly of the iconic figures that you cite. martin luther king, jr. for instance also was a critic of racism and protest against the imam war and called attention to the

best power couple, returning champions, hillary and bill clinton. >> hillary clinton looks like a rockery bipartisan looking, very pro-american and very high marks from both republicans and democrats. >> and he played a pivotal role in getting the two journalists released from north korea. >> we express our gratitude to president clinton. >> sarah palin's resignation from the governorship of alaska. >> best counter attack? palin, again with a best-selling book. facts? who needs them. >> really brilliant because she invigorated the republican party in a way i've never seen it ever. it was like this revolution. >> a great visceral vitality about sarah palin. >> i think she's just an amazing populist. from a purely tv standpoint sarah palin is gold because she says whatever she wants to say and winds up blaming liberal media. >> she's a dynamic, exciting woman, but as president when life and death decisions for the entire world are involved i would be quite frightened of having her there. but quite frankly, i'm frightened of having mr. obama there, too. >> as to family matters, worst almo

hillary clinton, robert kennedy and others. can harold ford be a viable new york candidate?i know harold. and see him quite a bit, different things. yeah, you know, new york is a place where we have a history like that. if we were talking about some other state, i would say that's a tough -- that's a tough thing to do. that's a tough thing to come in and at least immediately run for the senate. you can't run for governor in new york. you have to have a five year residency. you can run for the senate. i guess in new york, anything is possible. >> larry: why didn't you run for governor? >> i wasn't -- i didn't want to leave my business and law firm right now. i took a lot of time off to run for president, a lot of things got disorganized. i put them back together. we're in the middle of and on the verge of doing a lot of exciting things like that thing in brazil. my firm has grown. i started the new york office of bracewell giuliani four years ago. it's gone from three lawyers to 70. we're continuing to grow. so this wasn't the right time to do it. it creates a tremendous amou

but, you kw, we were mentiong bill bill clinton a mot ago. clintowas a survivor to use the tle of john hrris' excellent booon the clinton presidency. he would have done almost anything to get reelected. mething fascinating that oma saidhe other day, h said "i'd rather be a reallyood one-term president than a mediocre two-term prident." i think he mea it and ihink last night showed thate did. >> woodruff: reihan sal, this oneterm/two-term atement, what do youake of that and w does that affect your view ofis performance last night? >> i think that it was aery powerful anvery telling statement. one ofhe key aspects of president oba's appeal has been th idea that he's not an ideologue, that he's profoundly agmatic and that he'sot terribly ierested in partisanship and what he you and he's perfectly wilng to embracgood ideas from the republic side. and i'm not sure tat's actually true. i think e president issomeone who has very de core convictions, vy deep ideologicalonvictions andi actually believe him wh he says that. i believe that he wants t ac

hillary clinton, then senator clinton said, well, hold up a minute. it it took a president to sign that bill. she was invoking this notion that our politics are still runs in a top-down way. even though the team was this seminal figure you still need a president to transform the institution and nation. really i think the most transformative parts of our history, especially when we think about the civil-rights movement and the movements of the 1960's and '70's it is really ordinary people who transformed this. it is sharecroppers, seamstresses, people who were imprisoned, students, regular people who then converge with these figures to become iconic. >> host: you know, one of the things i love about your book was just the complexity of it and how you have taken the history of african-americans and really drawn a complex portrait, particularly of the iconic figures that you have cite. martin luther king jr., for instance, you know, also was a critic of racism, and he protested against the vietnam war. he called attention to urban and rural poverty. he h

in speaking with president clinton, he and i immediately agreed that a joint effort of the clinton global initiative, the world economic forum, together with the united nations, should be a powerful partnership to effect meaningful change. let me be clear. we are not here to try and to coordinate and to address issues related to the short -term disaster relief and recovery. there are many agencies already doing great work, and here i know many of you have already generously contributed to that end. i would also like to mention that many of those who have done such great work at the very short notice and have engaged personally in a very deep way into the help for haiti are sitting here in this room. and i would single out particularly the former prime minister of haiti who has come all the way from haiti just to be here today together with us. please let's particularly recognize the work and the presence not only of her but of all those ngos here in the room who have done fantastic work. [applause] i would like to introduce someone ho has become a real friend of the world and who we owe a