f.d.r. to learn from their mistakes of the first term is what made them successful in the second term. what do you think the lessons have been that might guarantee success in a second ferpl if that happens? >> i think that's your -- i think that's your question. pretty clearly. (laughs) >> you know, i -- when i think about what we've done well and what we haven't done well, the mistake of my first couple of years was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right. and that's important but the nature of this office is also to ll a sty to the american people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times. >> it's not just a matter of finding the right words, although sometimes i think he needs to figure out how to talk in shorthand. like theodore roosevelt was so good with the square deal, speak softly and carry a big stick. he could compress everything in shorthand. but more importantly, the reason our great presidents communicate well

nominating wallace and kept moving in such a progressive direction that f.d.r. even proposed a second bill of rights although he died before he could see it through so president obama harry reid nancy pelosi is your party the party of jefferson roosevelt and kennedy or is it the party of joe lieberman erskine bowles and joe mansion is a progressive or blue dog is the american people are solidly behind progressive policies from education to health care to taxing corporations on the rich now president obama in the democratic party leadership must decide if they're with the people or with the banks toure's. something to keep in mind with the so-called fiscal cliff looming now for more on this joining me is tom hayden former state senator from california author activist and director of the peace and justice resource center tom great to have you back senator great to have you. thank you tom nice to hear from you great outlined there of our history well thank you what lessons do you think the democratic party should take from last tuesday's election moving forward int

combustor william brandon who fills memory of f.d.r. as a leader inspired him to spearhead the completion of the project funded by the state in the city as well as private donors franklin roosevelt was the person who changed the nature of our government so that it became an instrument of social justice and help people who were in need the key challenge for modern america split on how active a role government should take in helping its citizens are we going to have medical assistance how we're going to have social security are we going to have a government computer committed to peace instead of the war questions tackled by f.d.r. to be addressed again by america's leadership today. or to new york all right everyone coming up next on capital account let's check in now with lauren lister to see what is on the agenda well lauren we made it is friday what you got cooking for us we made it to friday christine we made it through the elections but we have not made it up to the fiscal cliff yet so that is what we're going to be hearing about for

vote and reagan did in one thousand nine hundred eighty he has a huge mandate right up there with f.d.r. eisenhower and reagan but some republicans haven't gotten the message they carry things waterfall except for those pesky minorities and urban whites who live in the big cities you know the people who've seen their cities ravaged by reaganomics seen their jobs shipped overseas by so-called free trade who see their families slide into poverty as the rich of seeing more than two hundred seventy five percent increase in income and wealth since reaganomics began with the republicans it couldn't be about any of those things just about race paul ryan for example had this to say. i don't think we lost it on those budget issues i think people especially on medicare we clearly didn't lose it on those issues we knew this was going to be a close race we thought we had a very good chance of winning it i think the surprise was some of the turnout some of the turnout in certainly in urban areas which definitely gave president obama the big margin to win this race. to help us decode ryan's language

f.d.r. brought in the head of chrysler and sears and roebuck. he had two top republicans in his cabinet, and i know c.e.o.s don't like to come to government because they have to give out all the stuff they have, those taxes. those are the people i think that want to help their country. the country has been so good to them. arlet them try to figure out how to get our country moving again. >> and i think obama has to realize the moment. for a re-elected president there is so much good will out there, even among his opponents. now, we had an election which i think was decided but not decisive. there were, what, 57 million people who voted for romney. and there is a way that obama can kind of step forward and say, "these are the ideas. this is the method we're going to do this." he can-- i mean, you know, you talk to this man-- i mean, you don't get to talk to the people you write about. i get to talk to obama and say, "why did you do this? what happened here?" and he has good answers. he equips himself very well, and he needs to say, this is the th

where the civilization supports so the question we begin working today is hard as f.d.r. did with the dust bowl in the one nine hundred thirty s. to solve the problem of too much carbon in our atmosphere or will it destroy us and everything we've built with ten thousand years of what we call civilization gentle or some drawings we know she's the director of research of the earth policy institute but you're not welcome thank you thank you so much for joining us we now have the world bank paul wolfowitz is organization for goodness sake it was a one time talking about global warming about about this potential disaster why is corporate america so unwilling to address this issue when you have even you know the world bank talking about it now you stablish once establishment parts of corporate america are certainly worried about climate change if you want to find out what's happening with the global environment with climate change you often have to read the business papers and because they're looking forward at the bottom line and what economists are now telling us is climate c

george washington and f.d.r. in the top three and lincoln is number one, and fourth, thomas jefferson. i'm so impressed that you got to write the book. what gives thomas jefferson, the author of the declaration of independence, the right to be up there with the top three? del there are three things. one, he doubled the size of the country with the louisiana purchase, seizing a moment that might have slipped away. napoleon rethought this real estate deal and jefferson moved more quickly, got it done. i think he ratified in his political career, in his presidency, the promise of the declaration and the spirit of the declaration by turning the country in a republican direction aftered federalism of washington and adams. he believed that the revolution of 1800 was as significant as the revolution of 1776. and i think his essential understanding of the politics of the personal relationship he left as a model of socialability, of retail politics, that really has endured. chris: michael beschloss, do you think he's ther

to push democrats and push the party in a direction that's more back to its roots to remember what f.d.r. was about what the new deal was about the moral obligation we have as democrats to take care of just not the middle class but the poor we're in the spirit of those democrats whether it be beginning with f.d.r. coming all the way up through stevenson and george mcgovern bell labs or truly chairs of the insurgent democrats the transformation of bobby kennedy took from the brother of the president to the only politician that really could stand with dr king and cesar chavez at the end of his career to take about our and bring it inside the democratic party to transform the party to be that voice we wanted so desperately to be to defend the program so that be so sturdy medicare medicaid these are democratic programs we shouldn't be in the halls of congress today defending them and telling democrats to stand up we should be proud of them we should be talking about not just this whole question of austerity but prosperity what are we going to do to move this whole debate away from this bogus

you want to be f.d.r. you want to be roosevelt. and i think he sees himself as a figure in history.'s a good thing. it means he wants to be remembered in time for having done things that matter, for having changed america in a good way. you want a president in there to do that. you don't want him to float around to "hail to the chief "and go out after four years, right. the expression on your face says no. >> stephen: i want obama to go out after four years for any reason at all. >> are you really sad? >> stephen: well... ( laughter ) i don't know. i'm disappointed in, you know, them. the they. >> the people. >> stephen: the people, that they voted for him. they bought lie. >> can i sing a song to make you feel better? ♪ happy days are here again . >> stephen: that's a democrat song. >> ♪ get on a raft with taft ♪. >> stephen: isn't? that song, isn't taft the raft himself? >> he weighed 330 pounds so it would be racketer scary to be on a raft with him. >> stephen: it would be a dangerous raft, exactly. >> i don't think i'm making you happy, though. >> stephen: you always make me hap

f.d.r. never bowed to foreign leaders. (laughter) he never even stood for them! (laughter) but obama -- (cheers and applause) -- obama, obama will bow to anyone! hell, after the debate he bowed to romney's grandson! (laughter) and, folks, great points by romney but it's not just what romney said it's the way he didn't say it. >> the president had a very intent look on his face. i wouldn't describe it as a mean look, i would describe it as a man looking for opportunities to strike. >> governor romney, it seemed to me, had this kind of benign default expression in which he appears to be interested most of the time, he has a slight smile on his face but not a smug one. i wonder if hi his was not the more attractive default expression. (laughter) >> stephen: yes! romney's face totally kicked obama's face's ass. (laughter) jimmy, put up romney's default expression. see? see? that's nice. that reminds me of a benevolent angel watching me shower. (laughter) hi! (laughter) that guy can watch me all day. and, of course, of course, of course mitt was smiling! because he kn

you have to go back to f.d.r. for the numbers president alabama is looking at -- obama is looking at. most in the polls blame george w. bush more than barack obama for the way conditions were when he came in. when ask you are we better off now than four years ago, people remember four years ago the economy was going off a cliff and largely don't blame the president for that. and i think the second part is back to what john was saying. demographics is destiny. a lot more now than it has been in the past. and we have to almost throw out the conventional wisdom that it's things like the jobs numbers that matter. when you look at the demographics of this race, the president has such a commanding lead among african-americans. among hispanics. that it counterbalances mitt romney's lead among older white voters. and it makes it very difficult. if the electorate is still something like 26% minority, barack obama -- chris: i got to get the romney side. the burden, the remoteness, the fact that not even 30% of the people th

-day invasion one hundred forty four had an affair with his driver f.d.r. president. roosevelt knew about it but they didn't believe it so there's something else deeper here something else that i don't think anybody fully understands that this general general petraeus may have is a critics over c.i. a lot of folks have problems at cia i'm a trained case officer trained by cia but cia but i know a lot of friends over there and you know they have a very unique structure a very unique culture and anytime it alcide or comes in such as betray us and others as well there's a great deal of resistance because all this is not an insider is not a true. an intelligence source so used techniques his leadership was different there was a lot of folks who are used to let's face it the military techniques of general he's used to doing things a military way cia and a civilian organization but i think from day one there were clashes. coming out here in our pain for the future today we'll look out the biggest shake up of k. pensions for a generation that threatens to further shrank pay

speculate from the ability to deal with depositors was important for this year at the united states and f.d.r. at the time was the president and he pushed that through but with the help of these that hers this would never happen today and that's the major difference and that's the major sadness where we are today is that there is not only know your history and how it really went down which was collaboratively and what's going on now which is the lever opposite direction where we continue to pretend that everything that the friend that means anything all right now ali we're out of time thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you so much and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert our thank my guest nomi prins look for current and new books if you want to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser reported r t t v dot ru intellects i'm exercising by. going. do we speak your language or not advance. news programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little tonnage of angles kittens stories. for you here. to

and progress is believe that the common good is better taken care of with something that looks like f.d.r.'s new deal so if you're both actually operating in good faith and trying to trying to pursue what you really believe is the common good but your worldviews are that different then you end up with a bit of a problem. and compromise makes both both sides feel like dirty like they didn't quite make it happen so tony thanks for the call jose and woodland hills hate to say what's on your mind tonight. good afternoon what i was going to talk about was . yesterday that the g.o.p. made in the elections in my opinion. because now the atmosphere is right for him to run jeb bush for president come twenty six i don't disagree with you and i appreciate your perspective and and i personally expect jeb bush is going to be the twenty sixteen republican presidential candidate george in greenville south carolina george we have thirty seconds left it's yours. ok tom and i'm going to bring up with the fact that i've been on lifetime republican and i would not support either john mccain and mitt romney b

mass murder when faced with home foreclosures when a simple solution like rewriting mortgages which f.d.r. did successfully during the great depression could put an end to the bloodshed in the misery it's because rewriting mortgages would force banks like goldman sachs to take a hit and thanks to the game they've created they actually make more money when a home they own is foreclosed on why despite mountains of evidence and banks there's a goldman sachs and other wall street institutions not been thrown in jail for the fraud in customers manipulating libel or interest rates and throwing thousands of americans out of their home. illegally in a massive robo signing scandal it's because we have a two tiered justice system in which those in power like goldman sachs executives they can slap on the rest when they still fifty billion dollars people like you and me go to jail if we walk out of a seven eleven with a slurpee that we didn't pay for now does it make sense why wall street was bailed out and main street got sold out in this post crash world were agents of goldman sachs have infiltrate

history of worthwhile investments from jefferson's louisiana purchase to lincoln's land grant colleges f.d.r.'s new deal eisenhower's interstate highway system all were investments made by our government that created enormous wealth in the long term for the nation in the form of new jobs better education more efficient transportation and they all more than paid for themselves by the increase in tax revenues that comes with that increased economic activity but concern is know that if they drag the name of government through the mud enough then they can convince the american people that our american experiment in democratic governance is a failure so they appoint loggerheads like brownie had a theme and then when fema fails they do that they pointed out to justify privatizing it whether they call it austerity or they call it starve the beast the goal is the same slash government investments and let private corporations and fat cats and all the work of building our national infrastructure caring for our sick and elderly in transitioning us to a new energy source rather than all this work being

out straight off that f.d.r. it's cool and you know i did and said that's not right suggest they have to be sitting on some fairly substantial evidence otherwise they wouldn't be so quick to jump back and go no it's not being dropped so to me it's just a function of how it takes him to actually speak or whether or not some of the evidence comes on the public before they choose to speak up ok going on for three hours let me ask you ned what was the total so over production from all the miners approximately last year i think it was sort of seven hundred fifty million ounces ok at one point i think was last week or the week before in one single day from one single bank how much so over suddenly showed up on the marketplace smashing the price down a couple well i think the number that was down around was sort of two hundred million ounces or thereabouts in a short time frame and this is not ok john i mean as of course you know this is this is this is an unacceptable degree of. depression says the vailable physical i