they shot that down it would even bring it out of committee i mean over and over and over again harry truman what tried to get things done but he kept trying he kept fighting and he never compromised and he defined himself in the public eye that's why we saw that headline dewey defeats truman where even though he was expected to lose he was able to pull out a victory by being a clear person that people may not agree with him on the specifics of every policy but they said there's a guy who knows what he stands for i trust that guy i'm going to stand behind that guy so here's my concern in. in the in the middle with with obama it seems to me not so much that obama is like some wishy washy neville chamberlain although i know there are many on the left who are portraying him that way i think what happened was that they that that he and his campaign over learned the lesson of hillary care you know and when bill and hillary clinton or hillary clinton basically superman put together this thousand piece piece of page page piece of legislation without any input from progress and then dropped it on th

members of your base are asking when are you going to get your harry truman on. >> well, look, harry truman ran against a do-nothing congress. this congress hasn't done much so far, but it still has an opportunity over the next several months to do something that helps the american people. and i want to give them a chance. i'm pleased to see that so far speaker boehner and some of the other republican leadership have said that some of the proposals i put forward deserve serious consideration. and i'm going to be open to any ideas they have in addition to how we are going to grow this economy, but what is not an option is doing nothing. >> did you come to a decision that what the country needs is in large part a good old public works bill? >> what i came to the conclusion is that given all the headwinds we have been seeing this year -- high gas prices as a result of the arab spring, the tsunami in japan which disrupted supply lines but probably most significantly what's been happening in europe and the turmoil that's taken place there, financial markets that are affecting what business

i think it is possible for obama to turn it around. >> colby, i knew -- harry truman was a friend of mark, barack obama is no friend of truman. not that conflict -- complicated. obama is over his head. a great orator, he came out of nowhere. he has never run anything. never enacted anything even in the legislature. he had not run a state, not run a city, or a business. he is running the biggest enterprise in the world and he has not succeeded. and that is why all of these independents, all of those who believed in a soaring rhetoric, including probably a couple who swooned in the aisles as he spoke in 2008, are now waking up and realizing he is over his head. >> i think this like for obama is getting away -- in the way of sound analysis. week after week it is a personalized attacks. -- attack. then a great orator who is a very smart man and would be a good professor. he argues -- when the united states, he can't. -- run the united states, he can't. been an argument that answered the analysis and not an ad hominem on your part. >> will we one day see barack obama holding up a newspaper

members of your base are asking when are you going to get your harry truman on?sean: did you see rick santorum's face? little bit of a difference here? >> let's go to the republican one first. we counted in the republican debate, 26 ideological questions, questions from the left or right with an ideological bent. out of 26 questions, how many do you think came with a left wing ideological bent? >> sean: none. >> 25. 25 out of 26. >> sean: all right perfect. >> now, that is fine, if you are going to play devil's advocate. tim russert was good at that. that's not what these questions are. they are not hardballs, they are spitballs. designed to trip you up. they are designed to make you look bad. if you are going to do that fine, then do it to the democrat. he turns to obama and asks him, when are you going to get your harry truman on? isn't time for a good old fashioned jobs work bill? he doesn't ask the republicans are you going to get your ronald reagan on? isn't it time for a good old fashioned tax cut this is a good snapshot of the two-sided news media. >> sean

harry truman's famous policy of the (bleep) stopped here.laughter) >> years later under president ronald reagan the pentagon issues a directive stating that homosexuality is incompatible with military service. >> jon: so the military needs disciplined well-groomed individuals comfortable in crisply pressed colorful uniforms. no place for gays! (laughter) tell 'em, boys. ♪ the people ride in a hole in the ground, new york, new york... ♪ >> jon: go out there and enjoy some vagina. (laughter) and then, of course, there was "don't ask, don't tell." >> in 1993, a compromise emerges. >> the joint chiefs of staff have agreed to remove the question regarding one's sexual orientation from future versions of the enlistment application. and it will not be asked in the interim. >> jon: (as bill clinton) i mean, it's nobody's business where you're sticking it, right? (laughter) i mean, who are we to judge, you know? >> jon. >> jon: (as b.c.) jon? >> emmy? >> jon: did sunday night mean nothing to you? (cheers and applause) it was a wonderful evening, it m

. >> certainly has gone from rod my king, can't we all get together to harry truman. i don't know about superman. something dramatic. that thinking, where did it come from, the go on campaign mode? >> he made this. this is a conscience decision that the white house made, president obama made during the summer. he was going to come out with his economic package. woe have enough things in there to say this is -- republicans have supported in the past but he knew before he even presented it, that this had no chance in congress and his plan was to hang it. he put forth the branch and hang the failure around the neck of the republicans in congress. i was with him this week in new york when he had a huge, very glittery fund-raiser at gone that many theater in front of 400 really, really rich people. alicia keys was singing. fabulous affair. he tried out that line. if they call, you know, standing -- making a rich guy pay as much of the same tax rate as plumber or teacher, then i'm a class warrior and he got standing ovation for that. >> bottom line, he came up with the idea

if the report and on the other hand if the republicans say no he can he can he can play harry truman and run against the republicans but he's got to do the right yeah and that's a question of whether he's willing to do that i guess on the third hand the third third option is he gets this passed a republican say ok fine go along with us we'll give you everything you want and it doesn't pick up the economy as much as it could or should things take time they do and then they he can't run against congress anymore he can't play harry truman he got what he wanted unemployment still is you know seven a half percent whatever it is you know and and and they say you know we tried which way do you how do you think it's going to play how do you think the republicans are going to play well you know i hope for the good of the country and that they're going to play and they recognize that in some point the american people really just want to see things happen in washington that are going to benefit the working families at home and really really get this economy going we don't know what will officer

a big bedrock of the democratic party and in one nine hundred forty eight when it looked like harry truman was going to lose he he recognize israel eleven minutes after it provocatively. declared its independence which the arabs didn't want and so he famously said well i have no arab constituents but i have a lot of people who are for a zionist i'm i'm paraphrasing there but and i think obama is in the same. boat he's a democratic president and now i think both parties the fundamentalist christians are also big proponents of israel on the republican side so i think it's even more locked up than it was in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight when harry truman had to do that for it to get reelected or did it in part to get reelected i think obama really is his back is to the wall the economy's down and he needs every vote he can get it doesn't look good for him to get reelected right now so i think you'll see him tilt toward israel heavily here in this the rest of this year and next year before the election despite its stance towards the u.n. bid the u.n. the u.s. is giving money to both i

so i think it's even more locked up than it was in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight when harry truman had to do that for it to get reelected or did it in part to get reelected i think obama really is his back is to the wall the economy's down and he needs every vote he can get it doesn't look good for him to get reelected right now so i think we'll see him tilt toward israel heavily here in this the rest of this year and next year before the election despite its stance towards the u.n. did the u.n. the u.s. is giving money to both israel and to the palestinians do you think there is a way for washington to keep this balancing act between the two sides after a possible vote. well it's not really a balanced policy that gives aid to both but the. aid to the palestinians is dwarfed by the three billion dollars that military aid that the us gives to israel so and in fact. the netanyahu the israeli prime minister just intervened with the with the republican congress to get them to pass the palestinian aid because that goes to police officers that works with the peace in the west bank so i t

harry truman, blueprint, 1947. complete and utter contempt by the republican congress. 1948.hey had no use for him. he went out. he ran against a do-nothing congress. nobody expected him to win. that was the famous tribute -- the famous chicago tribune, this may be barack obama's best chance to run against the do-nothing congress. >> awe know, the harry truman thing, obviously, is interesting, because harry truman represented a couple of things that the president is clearly trying to do now. fight back. throw a punch. stand up for what he believes, and yet the biggest difference in this -- this occurred to me last night, not for the first time watching the speech. had did so many people in public life, in congress, lose respect for the presidency? this idea of one side sits, the other side stands to applaud. it's ludicrous. they're like children. did it begin with bill clinton? did it start then? because reagan used to -- he'd get bipartisan support. >> richard nixon. i don't think the democrats treated richard nixon with the greatest of respect. >> and the democrat s certain

the answer, harry truman. and a friend owned a men's clothing store also known as a haberdashery in kansas city, missouri from 1919 to 1922. fascinating. you learn something new every day. we'll be right back with gene sperling. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. we're centurylink...a new kind of broadband company committed to providing honest, personal service from real people... 5-year price-lock guarantees... consistently fast speeds... and more ways to customize your technology. >>> today's jobs report comes less than a week before the president is set to offer his plan to get more americans working again. how might this latest report impact the president's plan? gene sperling is the director of the national economic council. gene, thanks for joining us. let's get immediately your reaction to these numbers? zero jobs gained or created in the month of august. >> there is no question we need faster growth overall in the economy, stronger job growth to get the kind of recovery this president w

going to be in the war, then other priorities ought to be postponed for a while, and that's what harry truman did when we went into korea, what f.d.r. did when we went into world war ii, and it's very fair to say, republicans were in congress, i got nowhere with that argument. you're quite correct. the costs were added on. i'm just saying that when you look forward at the problems that alarm me, and i really believe should alarm every american who cares about the american promise of upward mobility that's at the heart of this country, then relit gaiting that is not going to get us very far. the real question is what steps can we take to... >> jon: that's a fair point. when we come back then we'll talk a little bit about the steps that we can take and we won't re-litigate. we'll be well, thank you both for coming. oh, thank you so much. i love the vermeer collection. vermeer? dutch painter? only painted, like, 34 paintings? oh what an odd name. you've got like five of them in your hallway. those were actually in the attic when we moved in. we just both really love the color yellow. uh... [ hos

marshall who served only a year during the korean war had previously been secretary of state under harry truman and then came back. he was close to truman. -- those are the ones that come to mind first. i looked at the list i might add one or two others. >> how would you assess the lack of military experience with members of congress and how it affects their ability to provide oversight? if you look at the members the do have it, the experience in the navy in and secretary of the navy, mccain, senator reid, a little bit more aggressive. they have a platform and understand the institution, but it allows them to have on trade to be a little more critical. whereas some of the members, i think, feel a little bit more sensitive. to you think it has been a factor in the ability to provide effective oversight and understanding? >> not really. military service as a plus, certainly a political plus. the more women we elected to public office the more the percentage of folks with military service is going to go down, just because women are not drafted, and have not served in as great numbers as men. that

i whispered in his ear and i said harry truman 1948. he smiled. i think that's what you have to have with barack obama. i think he has to be feisty, give his vision. if the republicans won't go along with it, then he runs against the do nothing congress as harry truman did in 1948 when they said he couldn't win and he won because he took it to the american people. >> i don't think we have to remind any of our viewers that you have an aisle seat at every presidential address to congress. we saw you that night as we do every night. i want to read to you a paragraph that appears, as i'm sure you read it already, above the fold on the front page of today's "new york times" about this election. representative debbie wasserman-schultz of florida, the chairwoman of the democratic national committee, said the district's large concentration of orthodox jews made it unusual and meant the race had few national ramifications. congressman, i was shocked to read that as the democratic party explanation as to how you lost this very traditional democratic distric

going to be in the war, then other priorities ought to be postponed for a while, and that's what harry truman did when we went into korea, what f.d.r. did when we went into world war ii, and it's very fair to say, republicans were in congress, i got nowhere with that argument. you're quite correct. the costs were added on. i'm just saying that when you look forward at the problems that alarm me, and i really believe should alarm every american who cares about the american promise of upward mobility that's at the heart of this country, then relit gaiting that is not going to get us very far. the real question is what steps can we take to... >> jon: that's a fair point. when we come back then we'll talk a little bit about the steps that we can take and we won't re-litigate. we'll be an airline's job, is to take you from where you are... to where you need to be. and we're not just talking about points on a map. with a more intuitive delta website and mobile app... and the most wifi equipped planes. we let you be everywhere at once. innovations like these are extending our reach so you can extend

c, gerald ford, d, harry truman. the answer is richard nixon. awww! all right. now you win again.ittle smug, mcdowell there. >> i'm smug? i'm sitting in doocy's seat, what do you expect? i have cooties. >> bill: you win. we'll send her nice stuff as well. a pleasure, ladies. back with pinheads and patriots ahead. a medal of honor winner. we hope you stick around for this incredible story. >> bill: starring medal of honor winner in a moment. >> if you sign up or renew you will get one of these three spends, you maybe the call. great deal but it ends monday. and the mail: >> bill: i appreciate that frank. signed copy of pinheads and patriots the paperback on its way for your loyalty. >> bill: herman cain wants a bigger tax that i do it is called fair tax. congress regulates spending not mr. obama. >> bill: they know the american workers are bleeding in congress some don't care. >> bill: again congress regulates the tax rate i support a small national sales tax only if the rates come down. it is a collection issue. >> bill: i can't win on this. >> bill: of all ages jerome. miller ton

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president to raise the taxes of the wealthy and the federal tax rate has not been this low since harry truman was president. the average pays 15% relative to 1950. >> the problem is not state and local taxes and businesses are overwhelmed with regulations which is a cost and with the existing tax burden. >> now economists say taxes must go up to pay for social security and medicare costs. a super committee is considering simplifying the tax code as part of a deficit reduction plan. >>> well with just a few days to spare, senate balanced a spending mess to your avoid a government -- measure to avoid a government shut down. they will vote on the measure next week. it goes to disaster aid that goes to filibuster the new regulation. it was made after federal emergency officials told lawmakers that they have enough money to make it through friday which is the last day of the budget year. >>> new details are emerging here that caused a patient's death at a medical center in oakland. judith, a cancer patient died. the nurse who made the mistake is reportedly a 23-year-old from new orleans. she is am

he has to go back to your old obama, or more harry truman. >> charles? >> it certainly is in the policy. he pretends he has a jobs plan and a debt plan, but you could tax warren buffett o on t what, confiscate everything you want, everything that every billionaire in america owns. it will not make a dent on the debt or jobs.. it is about differences between liberals and conservativesivn taxation, but that is not the issue on hand. he pretend the republicans are doing politics and he is doing policy to help jobs. this will have no o effect on jobs. everyone knows it. it is a campaign speech. >>ncome inequality in the united states is greater than any time in the past 80 years before the great d depression. >> the past decade, o of the top 10%, they have received 90% of the increased wealth. quite frankly that does suggest a disparity, widening of the gulf between the very few are very well-ofoff. when youave 13,000 millionaires in this country paying taxes at a rate of 4.6%, it is unjust and unacceptable that firefighters and nurses and teachers and gunne

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. -- a la harry truman. >> why would he call for this -- >> they are props. that is what he wants them for. >> in his own personal history, great speeches, a great moments that created them, the one at the convention in 2004 treated him, and that he had the jeremiah out right problem and he delivered the speech on race, and i thought it was an awful speech, but it was welcomed like lilioln at cooper union. he has these speeches were he has rested its of work treateded himself. he thinks and his own mind that he has an unlimited capacity to do this again and again. i think he has debased the currency, the same way the federal reserve is debasing our real currency. he is the basic the currency of the presidential authority and presence. think of all the speeches he made on health care. every time he made one, the numbers on obamacare declined. this will be a chance for him to show he still has the magic. i will be extremely surprised if he dies. -- if he does. >> this is my second flight in five years. >> over 600 homes destroyed, six towns inundated. 150 major

i went back and looked at harry truman's labor day speech. the president talked about this in a preview this past weekend. the way that harry truman gave them hell back in 1948, it was blunt. i tried to help her out in this terrible crisis situation. i got absolutely no help from that do nothing republican congress. that was give them hell harry. give them hell barry doesn't sound like that. you know what republicans? let us reason together. you are better than this. you don't believe that america should give up for partisan gain. you don't really think these things that you have been claiming as a means of getting over on me in politics because you know that america needs you to be bigger than that. he's not telling them they are bad guys. he's not telling the country that republicans are the reason that we've got the problems that we've got. he may start doing that over the next six weeks. at this point what he's doing is saying republicans, you ought to work with me on this. i'll make it as easy as possible and take on your ideas when i ca

is he smart to go harry truman's route, give 'em hell harry, not left wing, but partisan as hell. three, like franklin roosevelt did, unite the hard left with the center left and say, this is where i stand. we're going to win this left versus right. where does he go, if you had to call it? >> i think he's going roosevelt, chris. look, he's been sort of in the center for a little while now, and i think the whole country wants to see him fighting. vis-a-vis, his comments at the cbc this weekend, where he said, look, we've got to keep fighting, it was a call to arms in many respects. i think the quote that everybody's been showing is get out of your bedroom slippers and start marching. >> well, wait a minute, now that you bring it up, let's show it. here he is challenging members of the black caucus down here on their weekend. >> i don't have time to feel sorry more myself! i don't have time to complain! i expect all of you to march with me and press on! take off your bedroom slippers. put on your marching shoes. shake it off. stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. we are goi

he has got to do something different, go back to the old obama, or be more harry truman. >> class warfare, charles? >> it certainly is from the policy. he pretends he has a jobs plan and a debt plan, but you could tax warren buffett, you could confiscate everything that every billionaire owns and america, but it would not make a dent on the debt. it is the difference about liberals and conservatives on taxation, but that is not the issue at hand. he pretends that the republicans are doing politics and he is doing policy. this will have no effect on jobs. he knows it, everyone knows it. it is a campaign speech, not a plan. >> mark? >> income inequality is at the greatest that it has ever been since the great depression. the top 10% we see a 90% of the increased wealth. that does suggest a disparity, widening, between those very few who are well off. when you have 13,000 millionaires in the country paying taxes at a rate of 4.6%, it is unjust and unacceptable, that fire fighters, nurses, teachers, gunnery sgt have to pay a higher rate than these private interest dies and hedge fund managers

talked to a lot this week who want him to be more aggressive towards republicans, and 1948- style harry truman campaign against the gop in congress. we are hearing on-the-record quotations from democrats in congress, clear frustration towards the white house. >> colby? >> james carville put it best with a one-word reaction -- panic. it is time to panic. that loss in that congressional district -- they made it from the outset a referendum on a barack obama, unequivocally. not just with respect to his jobs program with the economy, but also on the treatment of israel. he has got to decide now what to do a good james carville says to fire people. >> fight. >> he has to show something, because this is a really bad and -- >> and execution. >> a democratic president cannot campaign in a new york city district for the democratic -- that is not a good sign. >> at a georgetown fundraiser, the president saw to reassure supporters who fear that these growing economic headwinds are going to reain danger his reelection bid he says the odds of his being reelected are higher than his being elected in the fir

waller, dean harry truman was a captain in world war i and mr. onovan was a colonel in world war i, wouldn't that be same reason for relationship between truman and donovan? >> guest: good question. you would think they would be because both served honorably in the war. truman also had particular affection for medal of honor winners in world war i and world war ii. one of the most pleasant duties he had as president was spinning on for medal of honor to recipients of the lord appeared that these were two guys that had different personalities, different approaches and there is just bad karma between them. they were never going to get along and even after the war, truman continued to hold a grudge against donovan. at one point truman was given a st. patrick's day speech, where his aids had put donovan's name in the speech as one of the heroes, one of the irish-american heroes. treatment cross that may not put another person saying they appeared >> host: what was his relationship with fdr? >> guest: it was a complicated relationship in roosevelt had

a dog's breakfast -- pick and choose in there and give him something, don't do had they did to harry truman, give him nothing and enable -- >> it's a dog's breakfast but it's a liberal's feast because it's clear and something he'll for for and take to the country. and it's more than half tax cuts. the republicans are going to be shamed into going along with it. so he's going to get something out of this. >> i got a question for you. >> not people at the upper end like you, but -- >> no, i'm with john among the rich? >> your famed leader said after stimulus one, this would keep unemployment under 8%. >> they've got lots of -- >> now it's 9.1%. >> minimum forecast at the time. >> why should we believe the jobs act will lower the unemployment? >> it's not going to work,. >> not going to work. >> no, it's not going to work. >> it's not going to work. >> no, if you think it's going to work -- >> but the centerpiece is more money for working people and a tax cut for businesses, small businesses. >> you got five seconds, mort. >> the reason is because that's going to affect -- computation by two o

in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight when it looked like harry truman was going to lose he he recognize israel eleven minutes after it provocatively disk declared its independence which the arabs didn't want and so he famously said well i have no arab constituents but i have a lot of people who are first zionism i'm paraphrasing there but and i think obama is in the same boat i think obama really is that his back is to the wall the economy's down and he needs every vote he can get it doesn't look good for him to get reelected right now so i think you'll see him tilt toward israel heavily here in this the rest of this year and next year before the election. on our website r.t. dot com we're asking you what will happen if the palestinian bid for statehood is vetoed by the u.s. so far most people taking part in the poll think the u.n. will lose credibility if it blocks the move thirty five percent think the veto might spark a violent uprising in palestinian communities ten percent say it'll encourage peace talks to resume in about the same about think palestinians will be satisfied with an