shore up white supremacy. for example, african-american leaders embraced the causes of respectability and adhered to a culture of silence as a matter of political necessity during the brutal white backlash unleashed by the 1954 supreme court decision outlawing segregation in public schools. for many supporters of segregation, integration always meant miscegenation, or as mississippi judge and founder of the white citizens' council, tom brady, put it, amalgamation. headlines in the citizens' capital newspapers warned whites that the incubus was coming. mixed marriage, sex orgies and accounts of black men raping white women were, quote, stories filtering back from areas where integration is proceeding. in fact, here the citizens' council leader espousing these theories. >> don't you ever give up that gun. that's all you've got heft to protect that little -- left to protect that little baby in that crib. because these dirty devils will be in your home. that's what they want, they do not want equality. you know th

we know how angry the white house is. >> very. >> we were just talking about the white house put out a statement calling senator demint's threat which apparently is a very real threat to read the entire treaty on the floor. this is a new low says the white house putting political stunts ahead of our national security. the washington game playing the american people are sick of. part of the white house's lashing of senator demint. do they think they can get by this? will it stay on the floor if they continue to read it? >> i think they are hoping demint is overplaying his hands. by forcing the clerk to read the bill, i think they are hoping somehow other members of the republican caucus go to mitch mcconnell and kyl and say this is getting ridiculous. this is going to hurt all of us. this may be good for jim demint's politics but is it good for senate republican politics? that is something the white house is hoping could happen if demint goes through with this. look, let's see what happens. as kelly pointed out, you hear these threats and they can get started and suddenly someone back

used to be in the white house and she had a lot of people understaffed or in the white house going back and forth. hogan hartson, timmons which is a small firm in and out. he used to be head of legislative affairs. these other triangles are just one individual in and out. so you can see that there was a pattern. a significant pattern of people in and out of the white house. the president thought there was a huge conflict of interest. and so one of the first things he passed, the executive order was for the first time in the history of the united states, he said no federal registered lobbyists can go into government, into the white house as mentioned, but also into executive branch level appointments, unless they go through a process of exceptions. now, the exceptions are up to 26 the last count, out of several hundred, that really stop people going in and out of the white house. there's some consequences for that which i will talk about later, this gives you a graphic description of what the president was trying to stop. if you look at reform in 2006 to the president, i'm not going to t

he will stay at the white house. at the end of the day, i don't know how much of a huge reshuffling we're going to see. chris: remember the song "this could be the start of something big" could they be bringing big shots in, heavyweights into the white house? is it possible? >> it's possible. look at the pentagon and defendant department with gates going as well. chris: heavyweights going in? >> particularly in the economics, this they are going to create a bipartisan team, they need big powers. >> they are bringing in an economic spokesman who can talk to wall street. he is going into the devil's den. chris: pro business? >> he is going to try. >> they may bring somebody big in, but robert gibbs and the people who have been with him in the gipping are going to remain in t ihenn chris: welcome back, michael, tell me something i don't know. >> how many executes have approved a constitution convention for a balanced budget. 31. 11 new states, this sounds like black helicopter stuff, 11 new state legislatures are in rep

times we had at the white house. we flew over the canal this afternoon, as you know of william douglas, one of our great justices of the supreme > court. that is where used to run in the afternoon. i was running about 40 miles a week, which is a lot in washington, around here and at camp david on the weekends so i just think about the good times we had and when i fly back to congress and half thankful i am now that i had the super bipartisan support that existed back in the 70's, which doesn't exist anymore, so i think about the similarities and often the difference is. >> host: is there a republican in congress that the senate that you personally learn to enjoy working with the you became friends with? >> guest: senator baker from tennessee was in charge of the republican side and he was a great personal friend of mine and i got wonderful cooperation from the republican side and of course michael in the house was a minority leader in the house of representatives and michael was also a great supporter of mine, so the

. >>> an update from the white house on president obama's struggle to stop smoking. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television . >>> good evening. tonight in london, prince charles and his wife, camilla, were attacked by protestors in their car en route to a show in london's west end. they were traveling in a lavish and highly visible rolls-royce limousine, and the protestors apparently knew they were coming. the car was dented, hit with a paintball gun, a window was broken. tonight's attack was part of something much larger, massive cutbacks in great britain that could triple college tuition, and cut way back on social services. and something even larger still. a growing wave of economic downturn across europe, including here and the discontent that can often bring. we begin tonight with our own stephanie gosk in our london bureau. stephanie, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. today, the future king of england was subjected firsthand to the back hash over budget cuts. demonstrators pelted prince charles' limousine and smash

there's the carter white house and then there is dealing with the hostage crisis white house. in retrospect is their something you would have done different for about the course? i know you said on extra helicopter on a mission, but can you -- with a drawl and look at the polls situation would you wish you would have done something differently? >> guest: not really. if i had known completely what was happening and what had been in the future i might have done something different but i don't think so under the circumstances because that was the last holdout on my top management team in letting the sharnak come to new york infrequent of his terminal cancer. and henry kissinger and dr. brzezinski and all of my advisers let him come. it's a humanitarian thing to do, and so i contacted the president and the prime minister of iran, and i told them i was contemplating in having the shawl, free treatment, and i wanted an assurance from them that they would protect the americans over there and at that time there were about 8,000 americans in iran working in different forces including 6

there's the carter white house and in dealing with the hostage crisis white house.n the retrospect is their something you would have done different throughout the course? i know you have set an extra helicopter on the mission but can you withdraw back and look at that whole situation and wish you would have done something differently? >> guest: not really. not knowing if i had known completely what was happening what happened in the future i might have done something different but i don't think so under the circumstances because i was the last on my top management team and letting the shah come to new york for treatment of his terminal cancer. and henry kissinger and dr. brzezinski and vance and all of my advisers were saying let him come, it's a humanitarian thing to do, and so i contacted the president and the prime minister of iran, and i told them i was contemplating having the shah come to have treatment and i wanted assurance from them that they would protect americans who were over there. at that time there were about 8,000 americans in iran working in differ

>> as you pointed out, a lot of people believing this is a blow for the white house. the white house dun playing any major setbacks saying this is all part of the legal process and in the end, they believe that they will prevail because the merits to this case are strong. they point out there have been two other similar cases in federal courts. one in michigan, the other also in virginia where the courts ruled that the law is constitutional. the big question, though, being asked now is if this ruling will give any ammunition now whatsoever to critics out there who believe this law should be repealed white house spokesman robert gibbs says he doesn't believe it will have any impact whatsoever. but already incoming house speaker john boehner was reiterating that republicans had planned and pledged to repeal the health care law and he says that's exactly what he'll do. >> dan lothian at the white house. a ruling that reignites the political debate. now the perspective of a man who challenged the law and won. at least this first round. what do you think this makes this de

>> you think white socks are easy to find? >> with the blood stain. >> everything's falling apart. >> i love your shoes. those are wonderful. >> willie, what have you learned? >> as if you didn't have reason to watch the new year's eve special, special appearance by jimmy "the rent is too damned high" mcmillan. >> i learned that you have a great dance floor that i don't know if you're using, and you made me freaked out about all the debt we're in to china. so i freaked out. >> wrap it up. show's over. >> show's over? i guess it's over. willie, if it's way too early, what time is it? >> it's "morning joe," but stick around for "the daily rundown" with chuck and savannah. >>> the final vote on the tax compromise is today in the senate, even as democrats say that estate tax provision is still a deal breaker. >>> plus, mending fences? the president meets with top business leaders today. a live statement from the president in 15 minutes previewing that meeting. >>> and live video captures a crazed gunman taking florida school board

and what astonished white people, i don't think there was echoed necessarily, but what astonished white people when they got there was that indians would fight to the last breath, every single one of them. the white man eventually learned why because if you got captured allied it was really not pleasant. it is thought that even though this was not written widely about, always save one bullet in the chamber for rangers. it was the same way. it was just the version for the indians. you could not possibly be taken. torture is one of the things that i devote kind of a big piece of a chapter to. it is something that we all have to come to terms with when we look at indians. although, you know, i swear that i just read a memoir of the war in the pacific. what the japanese did would have been fully in line with the koreans. and then, obviously, singling out japanese, but things that are going on in africa today are just as bad or worse. anyway, yes. ma'am? is it not on? >> how would i know. >> there it is. >> you can hear. what was it like to be a comanche woman? >> a comanche woman? yes. this

there were black and white ambulances and black-and-white taxicabs and there were black and white bibles. a black bible and a white bible in many courthouses to swear to tell the truth on. tavis: same bibles. >> different bibles. >tavis: one black and one white. >> yes. tavis: is there black bible? i thought there was just one. these 6 million negroes were going to work north? >> that is what i wanted to get a grasp on. it was not one migration. it was multiple and there are three main ones. one was up the east coast up to washington and the new york. there was a middle one from mississippi, alabama, western georgia up to chicago, detroit, cleveland. that was the middle one. the one that is least known about which i really enjoyed writing about was the one from louisiana and texas to california and the west coast. >> what made you devote so much time and attention to this study? >> i am a daughter of the great migration. the african-american to meet our products of the great migration. it is that massive. many of us owe our existence to the fact that people migrated. my mother migrated t

this is about the bush white house. you can't talk about changing the way we do business in washington and bringing about a spirit of bipartisan cooperation and ram through a tax bill in the house. that's the old way of doing things in washington. that's why we're not getting things done. that was march of 2001. i imagine quite a few senators of either party could utter a vote like that and claim they had the high ground on this dealing with this white house. >> well, you got the process and you got the final product. i think we can always complain about the process. probably the house today i think you would agree is probably not very happy about having to accept what the senate is going to pass some time today. so the process is not always very pretty. but you have to look at the final product. what's the end result? is it something good for the country? is it something that the majority of people in the center can support? i think the answer is yes. is it perfect? far from it. but you have to take the good with the b

♪ i'm dreaming of a white christmas ♪ >> reporter: for more than 50 years, bing crosby's "white christmasng by a christmas crooner. not far behind, mel torme. ♪ yuletide carols ♪ being sung by a choir >> reporter: and there's gene autry. ♪ here comes santa claus ♪ here comes santa claus ♪ right down santa claus lane >> reporter: but this year, some new comers are needling their way in. ♪ noel >> reporter: two christmases ago, no one had heard of susan boyle. ♪ joyful and triumphant >> reporter: but this christmas, she's had the number one album both here in the u.s. and in the uk. ♪ and then there's the 10-year-old from pittsburgh, jackie evancho. ♪ the little girl with that giant voice. ♪ o holy night >> reporter: and here's the thing, neither jackie or susan ever won on their reality shows. but they sure are winning over hearts this christmas. ♪ >> really incredible the voice that comes out of that little body. some new competition, but bing crosby is still decades ahead in sales, so for all of you tweeting me this afternoon, it's bing crosby's "white christmas," the top seller of all t

organized labor was lily white.lter ruther, although he was talking about white membership, there was no white membership in the uaw at this time. he had -- i don't want to say he had clay feet. he didn't. but he had not come through on his promise to integrate the labor movement. it was a hard thing. but he hadn't come through at this point. and a lot of labor was really conservative and much of it was racist as well. is -- anything else or? yes. up here. up front. got to wait for the mike. >> okay. i'll wait. you described yourself as a seven-year-old white kid from suburban philadelphia. >> actually, at the time of the march, i was a 2-year-old from chattanooga, tennessee. >> that doesn't matter to my question. it is what made you so interested in the subject? >> you know, i really don't know. i'll tell you about something. i was already interested when this event -- when this incident happened. when i was young, i was born in hamilton county hospital in chattanooga, tennessee. and i was born in the white persons

that connection in the white community -- can you see that connection in the white community. it ties to the race or ethnicity. he african-american who is the striking example of that. the black church has played a crucial role in american history. that shows up at all of these statistics. african-americans are two or three times likely to say grace over meals that white folks. they are more likely to go to church -- use of guns get people that are not about religious ha, but in the black community, you get well-educated people that are very religious. tavis: it is a deep and dense texture. because there is so much data in this book, what is the home front for you and mr. campbell that americans will take away? >> we try to provide a description -- tavis: you did a very good job of that, by the way. >> we hope to have not a distorting mirror, but an actual mirror. we are all americans and we are much more tolerant of what each other -- of one another is that we might think. tavis: if your of all fascinated by religion in this country, it is called "american grace the " good ha

is there anything else in the white house strategy that they could have done differently, the white house strategy, closing in in the final negotiation here? >> it would have been two months ago. two or three months ago. what would have happened is barack obama would have said, if you send me a tax bill that has upper income tax cuts included i will veto it. there's an argument the white house will make, they needed the democrats there on their side. they didn't need them there for a veto. what is missed is they actually had the wrong strategy there, too. when barack obama went into the bush tax cuts and said victory is getting most of them extended, they missed what is most important, which is stimulus. the deal he has today -- and this is the difficulty of making this case -- is a better deal than he wanted. it is a better deal than he described as a win. but because they described the exact deal they have today as a loss, it looks bad to people. they should have been arguing for stimulus then not now because stimulus is the key to the economy. and that frankly is more important than th

do you think the white house iced you out and double crossed you?i don't think they were a scam. the timing on this is important. the fact is that they were useful in terms of understanding all the different elements that different parties want to put on the table. but in terms of any trades that were being made, those were not made within that context, because those negotiations were going on at a time, number one, the white house was voting for middle class tax cuts, and a few days later, the senate was voting on the package. so in the meantime, there were the back-channel -- >> do you regret, at the end of the day, the white house wanted this debate on the taxes six months ago and you guys decided you couldn't put your moderate members through another tough vote. do you regret that now? >> chuck, some day the whole history of the back and forth in the congress and between the congress on the white house on exactly that question will be told. >> why not today? no time like the present. >> there were many in the house that were looking for a slight

white mother chapters in -- white mother merchants sold not coke just pepsi to black customers.'t know why. one night penny patch, another white volunteer and i were alone in the dark in the freedom house and an intruder smashed the window. we crotched on the floor while through the curtain, he ran his hand over our beds groping through the shattered glass trying to reach us. we called the police, but that man like many who attacked the movement was never arrested. everywhere the rural cross roads of southwest georgia were points of power rmt white men owned the land adjacent to major cross roads, and at night, they guarded those intersections, but we drove past the lynching tree and eased through those intersections on the way to mass meetings. in lee, and eventually other counties. in tents on sites of burned churches, in the charred rubble of segregation, the black south sheltered a movement that was participating, black-led, and integrated. the move. lived the future -- the movement lived the future of the pass opposing racism, sexism, and elitism. in those tents i understoo

that's the white liberal guilt stuff, right? [laughter] anyway, i'm beyond that.was what i was then. [laughter] the snicc office was on the first floor of an old building on avenue n. it had three old wooden desks. i worked the national phone line, it was called the watt line at the time, it's like an 800 number. and we communicated with northern support groups, mobile eyeing them the support what was happening in the south, whatever we needed; contact the press, raise money, send funds for voter registration and freedom schools. we spent many hours typing stencils for the mimeograph machine for anybody else in here who's our age to reproduce the wats line reports detailing all the activities in mississippi on a particular day. judy, dottie -- both of whom are editors of the book -- ed rudd and myself worked around the clock in long shifts with no particular schedule getting 4-6 hours of sleep per day. each week we received a check of $10, really it was $9.64 after taxes -- [laughter] from the atlanta office x that was supposed to purchase all of our essentials. i

chip reid is at the white house tonight. and, chip, it was a very unusual scene there today, to say the least. >> reporter: well, katie, we had been told by white house officials that absolutely this was a private meeting. we wouldn't even be getting a piece of paper describing how the meeting went. but to the surprise of everyone in the press corps, on a moment's notice, everything changed. >> ...a slow news day. i'll bring the other guy in. >> reporter: after more than an hour in the oval office, the current and former presidents made a surprise visit to the briefing room. >> given the fact that he presided over as good an economy as we've seen in our lifetimes, that it might be useful for him to share some of his thoughts. >> reporter: the president spoke for barely a minute, doing little more than introducing the former president, then turned it over to mr. clinton to defend the president's tax deal with republicans. >> the agreement taken as a whole is, i believe, the best bipartisan agreement we can reach to help the l

there were middle-of-the-road middle class whites. tavis: there is a line i can dro aw to roosevelt to the news of this week. given how progressives today feel in this week so let down by this president, barack obama. there was talk about whether or not there should be a primary challenge to this president on the democratic ticket. a real progressive running against president obama for the nomination. how would you contextualize and compare that if at all to what we're talking about? >> one has to be careful about these terms, progressive and liberal. they mean different things to different generations. the word progressive now does not mean what it man then. i will say that tr in 1910, campaign for congressional candidates before he greeted this party. he suffered a catastrophic defeat. even though he was not running for office himself. all the kids he tried to help were hindered by his help. -- candidates he tried to help or hinder. -- were hindered. if it is any incursion -- encouragement, he rebounded by that defeat. in 1910, to t

he campaigned against the colorization of black-and-white movies, including his own, it's a wonderful spoke against cruelty to animals and sponsored a marathon for charity. stewart married only one at the age of 41 to a divorcee with two more sons and added two more children. friend they were inseparable. he gave credit for all of his triumphs to his directors. in 1911 the american film institute presented jimmy stewart with a lifetime achievement award. his wife and children were there. >> i am just grateful for every wonderful day in this wonderful business and i thank you. [ applause ] . >> reporter: for more than 50 years bing cosby's "white christmas," was the best- selling single in any category. to many years he lived here in the bay area and back in 200, ktvu's bob mackenzie talks to the woman who knew him best, his wife catherine, about "white christmas." ♪ i'm dream of a white christmas. ♪ is in the. >> reporter: christmas without that voice, singing that song is hard it imagine, yet there are many young people who haven't seen a bing cosby movie or heard him sing. >> the fi

the white house still believes through all of this the deal will pass by the end of the year. preeti arla is in washington with the latest. good morning to you. >> good morning, terrell. a week after the president announced his compromise with republicans, democrats are still speaking out against it. house democrats appear to want some changes but still one of the president's top advisers expect it will win passage before the end of the month. the white house's tax cut proposal is expected to pass its first key test. >> i can say that we have good cross-section of the senate democratic caucus from left to right who are prepared to accept this. >> reporter: this afternoon the senate is set to approve the maesh sure in a procedural vote before expected passage later this week. but the plan faces a much tougher battle in the house. democrats insist they won't even bring it to the floor until cuts for the wealthy are scaled back. >> we're going to change this and we're going to hopefully the president's going to back us up as we try to take out the worst in it. >> reporter: at iss

so, david kerley is at the white house tonight where details are emerging as we speak. david, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, david. the president is preparing to break one of his biggest campaign promises. he is poised to extend tax cuts to the richest americans in exchange for helping millions who are jobless. >> senate be in order. >> reporter: tonight, it appears republicans will get all the tax cuts extended. >> i think it's pretty clear now taxes are not going up on anybody in the middle of this recession. we're discussing how long we should maintain current tax rates. >> reporter: for democrats, making this deal, giving in on taxes to get unemployment benefits extended, is a tough pill to swallow. >> we're moving in that direction. and we're only moving there against my judgment and my own particular view of things. >> reporter: democrats tried to extend the tax cuts only to the middle class. >> they're demanding that the wealthiest americans get a tax cut that is 1,000 times the size of the average american. >> reporter: but the effort -- >> mr. cochran

newt at noon, a large group of anti-war activists are protesting at the white house. veterans for peace leading a civil resistance by chaining themselves to the fence outside of the white house. they are demanding an end to the u.s. wars and occupations in afghanistan, pakistan, iraq, and yemen. >>> mayor elected vincent gray will make announcements about the new public safety leader. he will reappoint the police chief. the incoming mayor will likely name ellerby as his fire chief. he is currently fire chief in sarasota, florida. >>> and best editors say a five- alarm fire that destroyed buildings in baltimore possible the entertainment district was no accident but they are not saying yet if it is arson. it damaged several other buildings. investigators believe the fire was set by a person but they are not sure of the person's intent. >>> at a metro said the committee meeting a safety officer it gave a report about another escalator incident. metro's elevators have come under scrutiny after a number of problems. we learned in november and metro employees removed a pro

many democrats are speaking out against the white house compromise with republicans, the white house predicted today the package will pass in the end. wyatt andrews has the latest. >> reporter: despite the relentless pounding from democrats over the tax cut deal, the white house projected confidence the deal will survive both houses of congress with very few changes. >> i believe that this will pass. >> because as david axelrod said on cbs's "face the nation," in the end very few members will want to vote against it. >> i don't think anybody wants to be responsible for taxes going up on january 1st because we couldn't come to a resolution. >> reporter: but even if that's true, it tbloses over the anger of many house democrats, who argue the president got rolled by republicans and gave away too much to high-income taxpayers. >> open pra winfrey and santa claus, everyone gets a tax cut. >> some house democrats have vowed a challenge. >> we're going to change this and hopefully the president will back us up as we try the take out the worst things that are in it. >> the worst thing to de

house. >> suarez: the book is "white house diary."lease thank the 39th president of the united states, jimmy carter. ( applause ) >> ifill: that conversation took place last week in >> ifill: that conversation took place last week in front of live audience at the lincoln theater in washington, d.c. >> brown: finally tonight, the sound and the spirit of gospel in an unlikely arena. it was a mix of spiritual and spectacle. ♪ church revival and american idol style competitions. >> y'all did a phenomenal job. >> brown: 14 flyers from churches around the nation recently competed in the "how sweet the sound finale" a celebration of gospel music started by verizon and held in the verizon center in washington d.c., a venue usually hosting major sports and pop music events but on this night filled with close to 11,000 gospel fans. ♪ outside the main hall, a youth choir displayed its talents as people arrived. and concert goers, young and old, took part in some gospel karaoke. ♪ on stage a wide array of modern gospel styles from the traditional

here now is "white christmas." ♪ i'm dreaming of a white christmas just like the ones i used to knowleigh bells in the snow ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm dreaming of a white christmas just like the ones i used to know ♪ ♪ where the tree tops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow ♪ ♪ i'm dreaming of a white christmas with every christmas card i write ♪ ♪ may your days be merry and bright and may all your christmases ♪ ♪ and may all your christmases and may all your christmases be white ♪ >>> kenny rogers has been bringing joy to the world for decades with his music. kenny's current tour is scheduled to go until june of 2010. to see if he's coming, by the way, to a venue year new, check out his schedule on our web page. he's here tonight from the fox theater in detroit. he'll sing the beautiful christmas standard "joy to the world." >> the interesting thing about all of the songs, some of them written hundreds of years ago, is that they were written for the single purpose of keeping alive the greatest story ever told, the story of the birth of the christ child. ♪ jesus was born

that's what he did at the white house podium.rstand why this was the deal that the united states needed at the time. megyn: why can't president obama do that? >> he's doing it day in and day out. but you know that when you have a difficult initiative to sell, you want everybody on your team to be able to help you. it's nothing new. presidents have done this in the past. when you are in a difficult position you bring in the big guns. president obama is confident enough in his own position that he can bring in somebody like bill clinton. megyn: a former president coming into the white house briefing room and taking over while the president leaves? >> he wasn't taking over. megyn: when has that happened? >> you are asking me when that has happened? what i'm say can is it's nothing new for presidents to help former presidents when they are trying to do something difficult. megyn: that's true. i'm not going to challenge you on that. what's unusual, jason, is to see the former president come into the white house briefing room and the c

to white house is. the carter white house and they were dealing with the hostage crisis.in retrospect is this something you would have done differently in europe that course? and their he said an extra helicopter. can you withdraw back and look at that whole situation is and wish you would have done something differently? >> guest: not really. if i had known completely what was happening and might have done something different, but i don't think so under the circumstances. i was the last holdout on the top management team in letting this come to new york for the treatment of the star of cancer. and henry kissinger and all my advisers were saying let him come. is the humanitarian thing to do. so i contacted the president and the prime minister of a wrong. i told them that i was contemplating letting him come to new york for treatment. i wanted assurance from them that they would protect americans. at that time there were about 8,000 americans in iran on working in different forces including 66 members of the embassy staff. they sent me word that they would guarantee that n

wilson was the white house, right?but he had a small wine collection in the white house, which he did not want to leave behind for warren harding. warren harding with his republican successor. and harding was a known heavy drinker and also considered to be the most corrupt president in american history. so wilson had to go to congress to get special dispensation -- a special act had to be passed, allowing one person on one particular day to go into the white house and =tranfour wilson's wine collection from the white house to this location here. so one person was a lot to do that not so wilson got his wine collection at the white house in early 1921. it's really fascinating to actually see the wine cellar because it's actually right behind me and below me, about 20 feet behind me. so it's got all these old bottles from a prohibition era. there's a few but is there from 1928 better champagne bottles. edith had good relationships -- relations with the french embassy, which is close by. of course the embassies can import

she joins me now live from the white house., it's great to see you. >> thank you, thomas. >> the president has spent years hammering wall street during the midterms. heap was painted as being antibusiness. so explain to all of us that are watching this, was this meeting designed to mend certain fences with america's big business icons? >> no, the design was very simple, to grow our economy and to make sure that americans are being put back to work and that's something in the interest of the business community. so our goal was to collaborate, to have a constructive conversation about what are the opportunities for us to work together, have a public/private partnership, what the impediments to growth and investment in this country and how can we help our u.s. companies compete in a global marketplace, something that everyone around the room has a vested interest in doing. it was a very positive xhfrti conversation. it was time well spent. the president spent an enormous amount of time rolling up his sleeves and listening and look

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they met kennedy record at the white house.nd then we lose control of this thing before we even get it going. so he told stanley to go out to the most left oriented labor union and get money and to start getting out who, you know, who might be interested in doing this kind of thing. now, as it turned out it was a mainstream guy, walter reuther who is a critical part of this, and he was a big force that he was on a those affectations who were against john lewis' speech, he kind of pressured martin is looking and roy wilkins and buyer trust and philip ross and others to make sure that accommodate a catholic that you'd want to see this whole big faction lead, this whole group of whites leave. and so he was, you can't use a liberal by any stretch, by any definition, but he was also terribly concerned about having a whole faction lead because of a handful of phrases in a speech. but, you know, organized labor in these days was lily-white and it was oftentimes deeply, deeply racist. and walter reuther, although he been talking about

so is quite eventful and kept us quite busy at the white house. i do take what the caller said fiercely. he made some interesting points about that in this boat. one point he makes is that he didn't want to dump this on obama. he wanted to get this sorted out before hand. and i thought that was an important point. and the spending money has damaged his legacy with conservatives, but he thought it was important to pass on a somewhat able citizen to his successor and i thought that was important. >> host: julian zelizer >> guest: yeah, i think this is very inventive and transform presidency. one of the things we look for and how do we evaluate the president is how much did we make public policy? homage to their decisions can last over time? nle is what we're starting to see, while president obama is in the white house, is in terms of tax policy, counterterrorism, t.a.r.p. and financial policy. worst of regime change. a lot of the agenda set by president bush is very much in place, even when democrats controlled both branches of government. congress

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two years in the white house. new faces, new energy, that's important for this sort of momentum inside the white house, but it is important for the politics. we saw a flurry of the activity at the end of the section in the last congress, but coming into the new one there's all this mood of change, the sense of change, the newly-empowered republicans are going to bring that, the staff changes are a way for the white house to get ahead of that and say, we are adapting to the new environment. we are moving ahead with the voters as they wanted us to from the last election. >> so it is not uncommon for this to happen. and one of the new names coming into the house will be david plouffe. here's obama's former campaign manager. you covered that cam pan extensively in 2008. tell us a little about plouffe. what does he bring to the table here? >> plouffe has a singular focus. he's an extraordinarily disciplined person, but he also has this strategic sense of how the game gets played out over the longer term. it is east to

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from the rest of this nation thompson from the atlantic will join me with his take on it than the white house has an ounce of their preparing an executive order on indefinite detention for good movies haney's is it just me or did obama pull a complete one eighty on this one andrea prasar will join me to discuss the details of this order and what it means for those imprisoned at guantanamo and the census report was released yesterday so we're going to look into the changing demographics discuss how it affects metropolitan and suburban areas across the country we'll get some insight from seth freed wessler at the end of the program but now let's move on to our top story. and it is official the senate voted overwhelmingly this afternoon to pass the new start treaty the final vote was seventy one to twenty six with thirteen republicans joining on all the spite those desperate attempts by certain republican senators to kill the treaty so this time around and we say that it was the g.o.p. they got a shellacking we're here to discuss it with me is greg thielmann senior fellow at the arms contr