but lucinda robb was born.on a different scale, your father has been vindicated by history for pardoning richard nixon, but at the time there was a lot of popular blowback. overnight, his approval ratings fell from i think the 70% to below 50% certainly. what was your perspective from that time about -- and did you encounter people who would mention their displeasure at that point to you? >> i did. even though i was on the third floor, my room was on the same side of the white house as hers was, and i heard the demonstrators, too. you cannot believe how thick the windows are at the white house but you can still hear the demonstrators from 1600 pennsylvania avenue which is the north side of the white house. is the demonstrators were more about the pardon and that sort of thing. the people would come up to you. here is another example. two women try to assassinate my father, and here was my mother tried to get the equal rights commission passed. my mother was going, i do not understand why women are trying to kil

robb has served for 44 years and is now the chairwoman. put her own career including as a contributing editor on hold to work with her husband on his successful virginia gubernatorial candidacy. she launched and chaired the virginia women's cultural history project to research and document the history and contributions of the women of virginia. she is here with her husband chuck robb and her daughter and grandchildren. chief speech writer for the new york city mayor rudy guiliani, john is a senior columnist for newsweek and the daily beast as well as a cnn contributor. they were responsible for writing the eulogies of all firefighters and police officers who died during 9/11. the author of "independent nation." and "wingnut." also the editor of america's greatest newspaper columns. now, ladies and gentlemen, let's listen to a conversation on growing up in the white house. please join me in welcoming susan ford bales, lynda johnson robb, and john to the stage. [applause] >> by way of beginning, last night, we were sitting up late talking ab

robb is in a town with a status report. >> here is the latest. the people who are asked to leave when this happened are back in their homes. city officials say some people in the area could see some dirty water or some low pressure but they do not expect people to actually lose water because of the main, because of the break. here is the situation. you have this 60-inch water main and under that you have a gas line. >> it is bad. i think it is real bad. they are going to shut our water off. no water at all. >> it was quite a sight to see this morning. >> it is a mess. you have to go around to catch the bus. >> water began gushing out of the ground at around 8:00 a.m.. a 60 inch water main had ruptured, sending thousands and thousands of gallons of water down the street. this parking lot was full of water. it looked like a pond. >> there are cars that are literally half under water. it is sad. >> bge was brought in because there is also a gas main. >> working with the city to make sure that the gas main that as underneath the break is actually not

but lucinda robb was born. so that was something good about the year. >> susan, on a different scale, your father has been vindicated by history for pardoning richard nixon, but at the time there was a lot of popular blowback. overnight, his approval ratings fell from i think the 70% to below 50% certainly. what was your perspective from that time about -- did you encounter people who would mention their displeasure at that point to you? >> i did. even though i was on the third floor, my room was on the same side of the white house as hers was, and i heard the demonstrators, too. you cannot believe how thick the windows are at the white house but you can still hear the demonstrators from 1600 pennsylvania avenue which is the north side of the white house. his demonstrators were more about the pardon and that sort of thing. the people would come up to you. here is another example. two women try to assassinate my father, and here was my mother tried to get the equal rights commission passed. my mother was going,

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around 4:30 daly city received a robb call that there was major water. what we are seeing is that there could be a potential water storage facility that could be impacted. if the facility busted or a pipe from it. that is what we're trying to determine hopefully in the next 30 minutes the public information officer is expected to come out and give us more information. what we do know is that the water, the mod amount was sole intense that a-mont this m ud...was so intense that it impacted cars. you see the amount with the evacuations were poured in place.were part p and i know that will tran is on his way to the hillside park neighborhood. >> what i am trying to envision is that if it is a large water tank. could it be more water? >> you can see that this is mud a tremendous amount that has come down from somewhere we believe there is a water storage facility at the top of the hill that could be impacted one way or another. it is still a developing story. as we can confirm this. >> thank you. >> other headlines this morning we want to check out the weath

robb has served for 44 years and is now the chairwoman.ing as a contributing editor on hold to work with her husband on his successful virginia gubernatorial candidacy. she launched and chaired the virginia women's cultural history project to research and document the history and contributions of the women of virginia. she is here with her husband chuck robb and her daughter and grandchildren. chief speech writer for the new york city mayor rudy guiliani, john is a senior columnist for newsweek and the daily beast as well as a cnn contributor. they were responsible for writing the eulogies of all firefighters and police officers who died during 9/11. the author of "independent nation." and "wingnut." also the editor of america's greatest newspaper columns. now, ladies and gentlemen, let's listen to a conversation on growing up in the white house. please join me in welcoming susan ford bales, lynda johnson robb, and john to the stage. [applause] >> by way of beginning, last night, we were sitting up late talking about today's talk. you are

to gender she leads battleground states and we start with pennsylvania women 53 percent voted for robbma 45% voting for mitt romney. and then you can see 48% and 51% and then let's move on over to ohio. 46 percent of men voted for obama. and the last one is pennsylvania or sorry, florida. you'll notice everything you were saying is pretty much the same in all the states we're seeing the president do better with women than he did with men. we look at the battleground state we already know where pennsylvania came out keep in mind for the effort went in this campaign. the analyst always breaking down this data and the demographic i'm wondering how effective or how accurate they have been where they accurate than in 2008? the candidates learned from them how to use this data to go forward for future elections. >> paull lisneck breaking down these numbers for us tonight. >> thank you for joining us. also we should sit on the telephone right now is the rev. jesse jackson, hello sir. >> i am in columbus ohio tonight and... you push away blacks you push away labor and they stayed away. sir i'm

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many seniors voted for robb may even though they thought the ryan plan would drive them away. he won enormous margins. democrats want to prevent cuts for programs and in the process short changed the same per. >> the issues on health care and tax reductions and health care and medicare, etc, the issue is beneficiaries. the president was specific about beneficiaries. >> is there a generational -- there's an older population that is still 80% white and a younger population that is very diverse, what do you think about the dead issue? how is the generational lens apply to the fiscal consolidation text some people said it lowers the bird and others say that paul ryan is saying we will leave medicare the way it is but one younger people get there, it will be different theme that question is more interesting. >> i'm not sure it is sustainable >> it is more sustainable today than it was. >> there is certainly far more interest today in the broader question of the debt burden. does a question that all economists are worried about, debt to gdp ratio, in terms of a backer question. but

you're in trouble now. >> now, from "the wall street journal" ceo council, ohio senator robb portland talks about the 2012 elections and the future of the republican party. it's 35 minutes. [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] -- what was arguably governor romney's finest moment of the campaign. the first debate. it's a thank you very much for being here. our title today is the future of the republican party. that assumes of course that has one. [laughter] and let's start by talking about the election because he played obviously a crucial role in ohio. i want to get a sense of you're now seeing reports that the campaign was very surprised by the outcome, even right up to the evening of election day because the polls were showing something different. your polls are showing something different than everybody else. if thatcher and how surprised was the campaign? >> will first, it was a very close election in ohio. ohio is one of the key states. even if we want it turns out the electoral vote count would've gone to president obama. we lost by two points in ohio and recall back in 2004, when j

comments on the election and the future of the gop are a little more than a half hour. >> senator robb portman of ohio. he is, he is a first-term senator from ohio but before that he served seven terms i believe in the house of representatives before he was import tuned by president bush. >> nice way to put it. >> a couple of jobs thankless jobs, including white house budget director and united states trade representative. and of course most of you know that he served as sparring partner, debate prep leader for mitt romney in the recent, in the recent campaign and led to that what was arguably governor romney's finest moment in the campaign. the first debate. so thank you very much for being here. our title today is, the future of the republican party. this assumes of course it has one. [laughter] and let's start by talking about the election because you played obviously a crucial role in ohio. and i want to get your sense of, we're now seeing reports that, you want me to use this? we're now seeing reports that the campaign was very surprised by the outcome, even right up to the evenin

right now we're hearing from politicians including senator robb portman, republican of ohio and whatis proposing, today, is he wants congress and the president to agree to extend all of the bush tax cuts for everyone, for, six months and then, use that time to try to get comprehensive tax reform which he says will create the kind of tax revenues that the president and democrats say they want from republicans. now there are 80 ceos here and some of them are giving clear warnings to the politicians here in washington. you mentioned aetna's mark bert toe lien any, who is one of those going to the white house tomorrow, to talk to president obama. some of the companies here have created backup plans that include layoffs should the politicians here not resolve the fiscal cliff. and he said also that obama, the president, needs to improve his relationship with the business community in order to get the economy growing again. now we have two more politicians coming up to give their takes on all of this. democratic congressman chris van hollen. he is the top democrat on the house budget commi

robb is the director of the institute center of innovation and securities sector reform and is a specialist in this field with many, many years of involvement and work on security sector reform not only in the arab world internationally to discuss what is the securities sector reform to discuss a baseline that we can build on in the for their presentations. they will be followed by querine hanlon at the center for conflict management peacebuilding here at usip who will be focusing on army and the police into tunisia. daniel brumberg and the center for conflict management and hesham sallam who works on the web sites in the agenda media, and in particular its work on egypt will be joining dan on this base in egypt and the final speaker joining us is manal omar, the director of the institute programs on iran, iraq and north africa and who has been perhaps the most active usip senior staff person involved and has spent an enormous amount of time in the ground on libya and will be addressing the topic of militia forces the state in libya a topic of considerable significance. let's get started. t

the scenes look at life as a teenager in the white house with susan ford bales and lyndon johnson robb. just after one, how scientists are using gain skills and gaming theories to solve world problems. >> a quick reminder that at 12:30 we'll hear from julius genachowski discussing policy. that's about 10 minutes away. right now "wall street journal" reporter andrew grossman talks about the latest in hurricanes and relief efforts from today's "washington journal." >> andrew grossman is a reporter with "the wall street journal." good morning. thank you for being here. you cover the new delegation, new york politics and you were just in the region on vice president biden's trip up there tell us about the damage that you saw along the coast of new jersey and new york. what's the situation like a couple weeks later? >> we spent a lot of time on the jersey shore and there i haven't seen that yet. it was really bad. there's entire towns, a lot of these are beach communities, on a barrier island. they are still streets that are covered with sand. it looks like snow essentially. the our houses

about the crisis so i want to think of the first panel who is with us today but i also want to thank robb but jim pinkerton and stan greenberg for thank you for what you did not only on the panel but you're serious thinking that you do on these topics day in and day out so on behalf of laszlo strategies, thanks for coming. [applause] is a mandate in yesterday's results for us to find a way to work together on the solutions to the challenges that we all face as a nation. it's not one of confrontation with but one of conviction we face a series of tremendous challenges and a great opportunity. the american people want us to work together, republicans want must work together and democrats must work together they want a balanced approach to everything but especially this situation that we have news from capitol hill this afternoon ahead of congress returns next week south dakota senator john thune announced today that he will seek reelection for the chairman of the senate republican conference. the third highest ranking republican position. he served as conference chairman since january of th