9 percent of republicans said that the media wants barack obama to win, 90%. we expect that. but 62 percent of democrats and coincidentally another 62 percent of independents said the exact same thing so just about everybody gets it -- just about everybody out there understands that the media was in the tank over barack obama. this doesn't mean by the way that everybody cares that the media was in the tank for barack obama, the more you supported him and the more passionate you were in wanting him to be elected, the less you care about the fact that the media was corrupt this time around. and every now and then when i'm on a radio show and a liberal caller calls in an even if he or she acknowledges a bias, expresses a lack of interest and doesn't care, i come on up with this analogy that let's imagine we have to college football teams -- let's say usc and notre dame, and for whatever reason the refugees -- the referees wanted another game to win. what ever reason noted game had higher academic standards, notre dame had more players who overcame the physical hardships, i don't

but barack obama did not create this movement.this movement created the opportunity for barack obama. and the best thing that we can do is to keep on moving. keep on fighting. nexium o more green, more inclusive, a better begin than it is right now for the right way forward. and if we do that work, of light and well, we will not only be inspired by barack obama, we will inspire the best in him to deliver on the great promises. thank you, seattle, very much. [applause] >>> our special presentation of book tv continues "after words" featuring joe scarborough, host of msnbc morning show on his thoughts of the bush administration in his book, "the last best hope: restoring conservatism and america's promise." this is an hour. >> host: >> coming up next book tv presents "after words" an hour-long interview program where we invite a guest host to interview the author of the book. this book from expo america joe scarborough on his book, "the last best hope: restoring conservatism and america's promise." the former republican congressman

i'd like you all to give yourselves and president barack obama a big round of applause. [applause] >> for progress siffs taking back -- for progressives, taking america back was just the first step. during our years in the wilderness, progressives kept our eyes on the prize. we worked creatively to build strong new coalitions to advance bold economic vend agendas for prosperity and democracy. and in the process, we built a strong progressive movement. in 2006 and 2007, candidate barack obama came here and spoke at take back america, and after putting his own stamp on what we were talking about here, candidate obama took our progressive change agenda into the election contest, and with your help, he won a powerful man date to take our -- mandate to take our country in a new direction. i want to note that candidate obama and his team also learned from our organizing techniques as well as our message. the campaign fueled the organizing instincts of barack obama with the activity of such groups as moveon.org, so we had quite an interest change, even early on. and now with th

now barack obama said he is against this. you watch, liberals in congress are going to -- they will not let this go away, they will, and from a different direction and color of local content which means after a conservative show a local group can come on income and their liberal opinions. can you say a corner by the way? [laughter] in this will be the exact same thing as the fairness doctrine will have a different name. now, here is why they don't really want fairness, they want to stifle conservative voices. the only place in the media landscape and you get right down to a that is nominee by conservatives is talk radio. if they really wanted fairness and the fairness doctrine applies to the public airwaves, they would say, well in this book for instance there are lots of impartial studies that show that the media was far more favorable towards barack obama then john mccain. does the fairness -- and that they envision mean going to abc, nbc and cbs and saying if you have to battle -- balance or pro obama dealings with promise

if you try to find an american hero barack obama would be at the top of the list. this has nothing to do with barack obama as a person. i am literally very impressed by this man. my view is and then share it with my two co-authors, i think he is wrong on every single issue and it is not because he is not a good guy. he is a good guy but my view is ultimately economics will take over. there are lots of examples, but the what i want to do with you is very simply what it the appointment on the energy and environment issue. fox as me to be there correspondent to respond to the appointments that obama was making to energy and environment, so i was the guy sitting there and the president came up and announce them and as you know chu was elected as head. chu's portfolio is beyond belief. he is professor stanford university in high energy physics. use thought only professor, he is chairman of the physics at stanford where i got my ph.d.. not only that, he is go to nobel prize in physics. this guy as credentials to the end of the earth. he introduced chu and then chu was fo

bush did but especially because what barack obama is doing. the spending is remarkable. he has admitted we are out of money, he has admitted his own budget creates deficits that are unsustainable but even as he admits that he is talking about spending more money. it is insanity. george w. bush may have been a radical with tax dollar is above barack obama is actually making him seem like a flea the new england miser. in. >> host: you have been quoted as saying george w. bush that the french and the conservative coalition, damage to the republican party, heard to america's image of the world. i think a book party you call that the big trifecta of. the republican party, however, it is my impression is not in love and with hearing such criticism of george w. bush. what is that about? what is the position of bush now with regard to the comeback of the republican party. and what do you do -- how does the republican party get away from bush? >> guest: i don't know. again i wrote a book five years ago predicting that george w. bush spending was going to wreck the american majori

barack obama cannot do anything without people singing critical about him. i want to ask a question, sir. do you think he will become a great president? >> guest: it's tough to say. look, whether he is or could be a great president is something he thought about at the earliest stages of trying to decide whether or not to run and again this is the second chapter of the book where he and his friends are discussing what makes a great president and in his opinion, he has a sort of mixture of the person and the time and that is why he thought ronald reagan and was a great president even though he opposed every single one of his policies. the character, the leadership of the individual with a time when the country was ready for that kind of change. he went public with that approach and observation around the time of the nevada caucus and south carolina primary and frankly it drove president clinton crazy. crazy is a figurative crazy. it prompted him to react in ways that were not disciplined and distracted the clinton campaign. coming back i think you can only tel

barack obama clearly agreed with the agenda of acorn. he worked for them for free and represented them in court. that makes him their employee as their attorney. if that's not compelling enough, madam speaker, we'll take another component of this. barack obama headed up project vote. project vote is a subsidiary of acorn. that's not disputed. they are the get out the vote machine in chicago. that's not disputed. the head of acorn in chicago hired at that time barack obama to train the people that were going to work under project vote to get out the vote and also those that would go into the banker's offices and encourage them to make bad loans in bad neighborhoods. part of this enterprise that has all of the trappings of a criminal enterprise, headed up in chicago by, check the name, but i believe it's margaret talmadge, who hired barack obama o to head up project vote and he got paid. the canceled checks exist. he worked for project vote as an employee. hired by the head of acorn in chicago to work for their subsidiary to get out the vo

i would like you all to give yourselves and president barack obama a big round of applause [applause]for progress is taking back america from the radical right wingers were taking the country in the wrong direction, that was just a first up. during our years in the wilderness, a progressive scanning our eyes on the prize. rebuilding our country. we worked creatively to build strong new coalitions to advance bold economic agendas for prosperity and opportunity and democracy. and in the process, in the process we build a strong progressive movement. in 2006 and again in 2007 candidate barack obama came here and spoke at take back america and after putting his own stamp on what we were talking about here, candidate obama took our progressive change agenda into the election contest in with your help he won a powerful mandate to take our country in a new direction. i want to note that candidate obama and his team also learned from organizing techniques as well as our message, the campaigns used the community organizer instincts, barack obama with the inclusive technology and activist energ

i would send a copy of those letters to barack obama and timothy geithner. host: what are other countries in similar situations doing right now? guest: the chinese are pursuing, correctly, a very infrastructure oriented stimulus. there are a lot of unmet needs around the cuff -- country in the government sector, schools, things like this. that would have generated a lot more jobs than obama will generate. the chinese are focused that way, and they have not been shy about saying this is being spent for chinese jobs. us putting in that kind of language in our legislation, we are spending it on chinese jobs. they spent much more on infrastructure. in europe, a lot of governments didn't spend as much as we did, and the question what is going on here. when you consider how liberal europe is, and the kind of lessons learned from adventures like ours that we are about to embark on with gm, i would listen to them closely. host: long island, new york. caller: think you for joining us commune of the ability to be able to make clear so many complex topics. you had spok

barack obama stimulus bill spent 5 percent of america's gdp. 5%. the spending -- i wish i could come up with a word other than radical to describe the president obama has done domestically. there is no other weren't. in his radical. >> host: are you more inclined to be support and then to proving that a new president's foreign-policy agenda? i know a lot of conservatives criticize him for going on an apology to offer air to been i don't know if it is dissident or holding back toward the world? in terms of foreign policy i think so far so good. i think it is a difficult world. the challenges are most extraordinary but i like him trying to put it on the foreign-policy just by showing up by now that in foreign policy things get started now and then somebody shows up in merced up a little bit. i am not against american foreign policy. >> guest: i'm not myself. he is a realist so far. he is the opposite -- you want to talk about radical foreign policy, george w. bush promising to end tyranny across the globe using the united states army and marine corps

it is one that president-elect barack obama campaigned on. the details were well-understood by leaders of both parties in the house. host: the president expressed doubt about the tariff provision in the bill. does he go into this negotiation with political capital and getting out of the bill once it goes to the senate? guest: he gave an interview yesterday and it was an effort to influence the senate debate. they want to take out what they see as a protectionist item in the house compromise. hopefully, they will have help doing that. there is still room to strengthen the senate bill for it is far weaker than the house bill. there has to the effort made to make sure that the global warming emissions targets are raised. host: nashville, go ahead. caller: i have a comment than a question -- my comment is, i feel that capt. trade is important because the united states has been the leader in the world and with china as an upcoming power with millions and millions of people going to get cars in the next decade or so, we need to lead the world. my q

so really, it is a pleasure to work with barack obama. we work regularly together.knows that france is a friend of the united states. we basically coordinate on all major issues and we are determined to continue that. barack, welcome, welcome to your family. >> it's wonderful to be back in france, particularly on this day because this day marks not only the triumph of freedom, but it also marksow the transatlantic alliance has allowed for extraordinary prosperity and security on both sides of the atlantic. the fact that france fully reintegrated into nato this year under president sarkozy's leadership is just one further indication of the degree to which u.s.-french cooperation can help to underpin not only security in europe but also a more secure and prosperous world beyond europe. world beyond europe. i very much appreciated president sarkozy's leadership on a whole range of issues. he mentioned a number of them. france's leadership within europe and understanding the need for us to have tough diplomacy with the iranians, to reach out to them but also insist that

caller: no, i do not believe there's a media love affair with barack obama.'m not surprised that because a republican wrote that article -- i would like to make a comment, and i don't want to sound rude to anyone, make a comment on an african-americans -- the person from pennsylvania who talk about the distance with you live close to african-americans are far away, i think there was a racist comment. getting back to the question, i think the media is having difficulty talking about anything. it is like they're trying to find something that is newsworthy. if obama makes a mistake i am sure the will start talking about it. nonstop host: thanks for calling. here is one of tweet. it's as the present obama once walked into window at the white house and if there was no coverage by me. bush tried to open a locked door 1000 times. host: eric on the republican line from virginia. caller: every time that i turn on msnbc it is like watching the three monkeys, hear no evil, see no evil -- all you have to do is turn it on a prime-time. host: how about just one example? ca

here is the concession speech by barack obama. . the yes, we can speech. a critical moment of testing for his speech writers, too. fascinating seeing them react and seeing him react. when they realized that the numbers weren't coming in, especially around the man chester area, there's this obviously stunned reaction inside his circle. and a handful take the long walk through the hotel to obama's suite where he and michelle obama were staying. david axel rod, the senior strategist, his campaign manager and otherors. and they knock on the door, david says, we've come up short. it looks like we're not going to make it. and they're all looking to see how he is going to respond. and they were surprised themselves. now, these guys were not exactly short of respect and adulation for their candidate. but they were surprised. his reaction was, what happened? what do you think happened? so they go through it and they say, well, there was a massive flip roonched. the undecided voters went for her. he said, well, let's pretty much give the same speech. obviously we ne

have been unpalatable to my little friends to find that barack obama wants to continue george bush'sicy of faith based initiatives, is in keeping with his sense, that is not necessarily a reactionary move. to cut a long story short, the desperation parts, trying to write a book that would explore stories with you, with the american public, but also try to educate out of these simplicity's. the biggest interest is they are in europe, a dispassionate way, as one of my friends said, the long, dark years of dubya, there are no medieval knights in north dakota. we call it harley-davidson riders. history doesn't play a part in the formation of contracts. one of the cleverest things, of the most misleading things to describe the united states, the united states of amnesia. the impression that history doesn't matter to the american people is derived by the mind numbing phenomenon of social studies textbooks. can we, philadelphia, famous for firebrand causes, tonight in this room, at this moment, launched a campaign to abolish the dreaded word social studies? yes! [applause] we are going to c

obama and as a gesture i think of friendship and he gave barack obama this book, open veins of latin america. he gave it to him by understanding in spanish which was a little difficult because obama doesn't read spanish but i think the intention was to give him a book that if you were treated was open his eyes about latin america. there was a lot of discussion about that. what was your reaction when you heard that anecdote that chavez had taken your book to barack obama? >> it's better to be, how is it, young and healthy than old and sick. obviously happy about it but i was quite unhappy when i was walking on the seashore. everybody -- we are selling so while. this was terrible for me. we are living in a world in which each one of us is becoming a commodity and fuel cell, you do not sell, you are sold or not sold. >> host: the bbc i think did that to you because they mentioned after he gave your book to barack obama it rose to number two on the amazon rankings. and i checked it because of originally it was about 57,000. my books are in the 100 or the 200,000. but they bounce up and d

obama and as a gesture of friendship, he gave barack obama, this book, "the open veins of latin america" i understand he gave it to him in spanish which was difficult because obama does not read spanish but i think the intention was to give him a book that if he were to read it it would open his eyes about latin america what was your reaction when you heard that anecdote that chavez had taken your book two barack obama? >> to be on rather than the old of course, i was happy about but i am a walker. i was walking on the seashore. they said it is selling so well. this was terrible for me. each one of us is becoming defensive you sell, you are not selling you are sold or you are bought a. >> host: the bbc i think did that to you the cuts after he gave your book two barack obama it rose to #2 in the amazon ranking spry checked it because originally it was 57,000. negative and a one or 200,000 but it bounced up and down bride notice this week is 17,000. so you could be a little more humble. [laughter] it is not important at all in some fields of life there is what quantity and quality may be

. >> so you think having a long primary helped barack obama the calls keep in mind in 2004 john kerry wrapped up shortly after a couple of early primaries and caucuses. >> guest: i think given the choice i am sure any of the obama folks would say they prefer it shorter but he needed the time and this is something they discussed early. he needed the time to get known and raise the money and build the organization and they needed time to be a better candidate. they tested his personal skills and his management. remember this is the biggest operational he had ever run and undertaking of his life and not only was it important for the voters to see this person being tested but it was important for him to understand the kind of pressures just in a sort of laboratory form, the kind of pressure you get as president absolutely i think it was necessary. >> host: baton rouge on the independent line with richard wolffe. good morning. >> caller: good morning. how are you this morning? well, i have heard a lot, and the only thing i hear is how great he is, which may be he is, i don't know but there

obama and as a gesture and i think a friendship he gave barack obama this book. "the open veins of latin america". and he gave it to my understand was a spanish which, of course, is a little because obama doesn't read the spanish but i think the intention was to give him a book that if he were to read it to do it opened his eyes about latin america. there's a lot of discussion about that. what was your reaction when you heard that anecdote to that chavez had taken your book two barack obama? >> guest: a generous act, the young and sick, and obviously i was happy about it, but i was quite happy when i was walking in my walker in my neighborhood and the seashore and everybody was saying we are selling so well. we are living in a world in which each one of us is becoming a commodity and you are sold, you are not sold. >> host: the bbc i think did that to because they mention that after he gave your book to barack obama it rose to number two in the amazon rankings. and i ejected because originally it was about 57,000. my books are in the 100 or 200,000. but they boun

barack obama, welcome.wonderful to be back in france, particularly on this day, because this day marks not only the triumph of freedom, but it also marks have the transatlantic alliance has allowed for extraordinary prosperity and security on both sides of the atlantic. the fact that france fully reintegrated into nato this year under president sarkozy's leadership is just one further indication of the degree to which u.s., french cooperation can help to underpin not only security in europe, but also a more secure and prosperous world beyond europe. i very much appreciated president sarkozy's leadership on a whole range of issues. he mentioned a number of them. france's leadership within europe in understanding the need for us to have tough diplomacy with the iranians, to reach out to them, but also insist we cannot afford a nuclear arms race in the middle east. our close collaboration on a whole host of issues with russia. france's willingness to accept a guantanamo detainee, but more broadly to help us as

barack obama is known by his deeds with a comes to china just as george bush was. we are getting new numbers friday on on employment in the country. it will be about 9.6. it will be 10 before we are done. host: what does that mean? is there a psychological aspect associated with that number? guest: it will largely be felt on the political side. it will not have a real effect on the economy. at some point, the obama administration will have to stop blaming president bush for our problems. if the unemployment rate stays above 10% for a long time, the republicans will get traction other arguments the rea scene with government spending and other things that do not work. it is how we spend the money not if we have government spending. this stimulus package demonic -- unlike the chinese stimulus package does not do a lot to create jobs. there were a lot of bold claims about jobs being created. economists and abc news started taking a hard look at this. people started fact checking. we discovered that those job claims were based on anecdotes and things that are hard to ve

host: you write, barack obama has been able to make his actions live up to his words. healthcare is being gunned to death. he has done nothing to pass card check provisions, he has capitulated uncap and trade from the budget outline. next call is from maryland. good morning. caller: basically, we have the senate and the executive and the judiciary. i don't think anyone thinks obama is responsible. we have the speaker of the house that is not holding forth for the democratic body. guest: i am critical of these other bodies. one of the sad things is tell little constructive support the president is getting from the other parts of the government, from the democratic party. we have elected this genius, now we will sit back and watch while he solves everything. that is an infantile way of fixing democracy. at the same time, he will have to make his mark with the congress, and get it to respond to his initiatives. host: this is one of the drawings from inside her print -- harper's bazaar magazine. callercaller: i am the owner ofs corporation. somebody has to pay for all of t

first of all, i don't think barack obama is an ally of the lgbt community at all. i think that we need to stop being advocates for both of these major parties and come out and start advocating for the third parties, the libertarian party and the green party. i think that just from, like saying things like you know that these people are allies like barack obama. the guy is purely for banking interest and lobbying interests. he is not our ally. he didn't stand up and speak against the defensive marriage act after the department of justice called us in the lgbt community peedo fillaction. and things of that nature. and i'm tired of that. and i don't think that guy is an ally of ours. host: who in the political realm do you feel speaks for you and your community? caller: both dennis cuse niche and ron paul. but they never have a huge voice. but also, in a third party, mckinny and the green party. and michael bat anywheric of the libertarian party. guest: that's a recipe for disenfranchise. sintsdza mckinny right after 9/11 was peddling conconspiracyy theories accusing

-- as nelson mandela and house bill clinton who to me i still think he's a better politician than barack obama. i'm not trying to make comparisons, but what i am making the point on is with all the tools you give them, with all the frame work, with all the testing and a manipulative way what is the best way to say it? they -- it's something else they bring. >> look tony blair was very articulate. and he also had i right in the book he had an underlying religious faith which was central will was driving his purpose. it led to a kind of chaotic politics within britain because britain is so uncomfortable with the notion of religious faith and expressed publicly. and so it wasn't something he could actually give voice to on till the miami 11 when he was able to then speak about the kind of fundamentalist right and wrong, you know, the fundamental threat facing the space societies. and she was able to speak in religious terms and found his voice and that is when you particularly dealt with in the post-9/11 period and in the iraq period. but, you know, he listened to advice. , i write about th

that president barack obama signed. lilly had the satisfaction to know that this congress and this president would not allow the injustice created by the supreme court decision to continue. some have said we do not need judges with empathy. if we told her, she missed it and she was out of luck, that is not a fair and just resort -- results. i want to know the particle decisions -- practical decisions that are made. i think empathy brings someone who is in touch with the world. the nominee of president barack obama for the supreme court, sonia sotomayor, broker ankle -- broke her ankle. many senators came into meter she says -- many senators came in to meet her. she has met with about 60 senators. she is doing her level best to introduce herself and answer any questions they may have. i told the president when i saw him that he has made an extraordinary choice. she was first selected to serve on the district court by president h. w. bush. she was promoted by president clinton to a higher court. now she is nominated for s

one of the earlier caller was saying that she did not like barack obama because she thought he had a muslim part. it seems to me like we still do not get it over here that these are people like our fellow christians that have extremists as well. i got to know a muslim working for the audit department and he was a wonderful gentleman. he just had a different faith in may. i think we need to bridge the gap between understanding what muslims are about. guest: the caller is absolutely correct. the issue of terrorism exists in every faith. it has existed in every phase, including christianity in various phases of history. in fact, even more recently, if you look at what happened in the issue of northern ireland in recent decades, one thing that always raises my concern -- that is how the issue of israel /palestine has fed into a discourse that basically goes to say that you have jews and you have christians on the one hand and then you have muslims on the other hand. president obama did talk about this in his speech yesterday. there are a lot of christian minorities. throughout islamic hi

he is talking about barack obama being in the white house and he said things are in such a mess, he is probably sitting at my desk wishing he was john mccain. he won the election but boy. [laughter] he won and now he has got to deal with all of this. it is a very interesting campaign to cover because amongst other things barack obama is the best speaker we have had, certainly since jack kennedy and maybe sense-- i don't know who i would list. in the beginning of this country the founders were all great speakers. they were all great idea people. they knew how to communicate and we are saying that again. people during the campaign said, he is just an orator and i thought that was not something to be laughed off. i thought it was kind of in the spirit of tradition in this country, so it is very interesting and as a reporter, it is fun. >> hello, welcome to close-up at the newseum. >> my name is amman and i am from michigan. my question is oftentimes in the news media every election is portrayed as being the most important of our lives and i was wondering which in your career defined the m

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barack obama has the tower. we will be lucky to escape catastrophes into which other countries have been led. -- barack obama has that talent. that is right on the money. host: jacksonville, florida. caller: ok, my opinion on this -- this question has come up sometimes during the election until the present. there is a love affair with him, but not a positive one. i get a lot of my news from watching you all or maybe cnn, or talk radio, but my point is, i cannot understand a country who is so upset that his not lashing out of another country about how the people feel about the president, but in this country, look at the lack of respect that this president gets. several of your callers you may ask them to give an example on how that feel the media is in love with him but you never correct them that he is liar. i think that is a rude, bold statement, but these american citizens to lash out at the president -- if only have one who can read and they are upset with that. the have a president who takes his time to spea

to the fear barack obama? --do they fear barack obama? >> i think this is a case of about off protest too much. -- of thou dost protest too much. it is almost like is delegating the hard work out their. he did not do that because congress has some great power. he did it because he does that is the way to get passed quickly. the hill would pick it over for months and there was not being -- and there would not be a stimulus bill. everyone thinks of it as his bill, let those guys fill in the details. >> will he do that for health care? >> it to a degree, he will have to because he wants to get it passed, but it will be his bill in the end. he is someone who does not have to have every dotted i and crossed party -- crossed t. he wants something that will be his bill. >> adding he is a student of the presidency and as an offer from inside his administration what went wrong with health care back in the clinton administration. it is that it was all engineered by a secret task force at the white house. the only people allowed in that room from co

president barack obama meet with german chancellor angela merkel. the house is in session with energy and climate change bills. in "the new york times," obama and congress clash on how to pay for health care. and immigration reform returned. "the washington times" headlines, pushing for action. the federal reserve chairman ben bernanke appears thursday in a contentious. -- a contentious hearing on capitol hill. on the republican line, you can call 202-737-0001. on the democratic line, 202-737- 0002. and on the independent line, 202-628-0205. you can also send as a comment on twitter. we start this morning with the front page of "the wall street journal," "bernanke blasted in house." "setting aside the deferential tone usually reserved for fed chairmen, members of the house committee on oversight and government reform repeatedly interrupted mr. bernanke at thursday's hearing to review the fed's role in engineering and government aid package. for bankamerica corp. it was the harshest public grilling since the late 1990's. also in "the washington post,

"the wall street journal" called him "barack hussain bush." "mr. obama missed a chance to remind his audience that no country has done more than the u.s. to libri muslims from a question -- from oppression. his insistence on calling iraq "a war of choice" is a needless insult to mr. bush that diminishes because for which over 4000 americans have died. guest: well, i have seen that, and the case could be made that as the editorial points out, america has done a lot to help muslim nations that have been under attack. something that he could have brought in. he was basically not trying to challenge. i think some of the narrative that is out there, but to urge them toward action. but there was another missed moment, frankly, even though i think on the whole it was a remarkable speech. he was also in cairo on the 30th anniversary of the egypt-israel peace treaty, anwar sadat electrified the world on his trip to jerusalem. it may have been good to make that point as well. we can do a lot of second- guessing on what could have been there, but i think for

and bill clinton who i still think he is a better politician than barack obama. i think he is a thoroughbred. i'm not tried make comparisons but i am making a point that with all the tools you give them, with all the framework, with all the testing and in a manipulative way what's the best way to say. they -- it something else that they bring. >> guest: tony blair was particularly articulate. and he also had, you know, i write in the book, he had an underlying religious base which i think was very, was central to what would drive his purpose, and let you kind of a chaotic politics in britain because britain is so uncomfortable with the notion of religious parliament and expressed publicly. and so it was not something he could actually give voice to until 9/11 when i think he was then able to speak about kind of fundamentalist right and wrong, you know, the fundamental threat facing the democratic society. and he was able to speak in religious terms and really found his voice. that's when you particularly elegant in the post-9/11 period and the iraq period. but he

if the leader -- let's take barack.e begins a process -- he believed it is essential for security that israel achieve peace with palestine, lebanon, and syria. he wants to achieve this in a fairly short period of time because he thinks it can only happen when president clinton is there. and arafat -- and before assad would become ill, too ill to do it and arafat so he wanted to move. he thought it was critical for israel's security to move. two-thirds of the country were against dividing jerusalem and then over a -- but over a two-month period, you know, he educated the public. he opened up the debate without this question about a final settlement and, you know, the end of the conflict. and the country moved. over actually during the two week period of camp david. the majority at the end supported an agreement with a divided jerusalem. now, as a leader who was listening, if you just said two-thirds opposed, i don't go there, but you had a leader who was acting what he thought as a patriot. he was the most decorated sold

. >> he's barack obama. he has come to save the day. ♪ ♪ >> there, we got a situation. >> pirates. >>♪ >[laughter] [applause] thank you for evan and great. they are here with us along with members of the team. a stand-up. thank you, there are dvd's on your table. please enjoy your first course 3 will be back in just a minute. -- we will be back in just a minute. >> one of the longstanding traditions of our association is to toast our special guest. so, please stand and join me in the executive committee in that tradition. >> to the president. we're very honored to have you with us tonight. thank you. please be seated. >> he had the most appropriate name for a journalist >> we call that the chicken noodle network in those days. of all people thought that when bill left one of the networks to go to work for this newfangled deal that nobody thought was going to go very far, we all wondered if he had something along with him. he saw something that the rest of us did not see. he did a great job. >> tony left near

it is my pleasure to welcome the president of the united states barack obama back to chicago. we appreciate that he has been able to make time out of his busy schedule to come here today to speak about health care reform and to make it as open as possible. we are glad we are included in your efforts. you have said that a test of the american ideal is whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by the events in history or whether we act to shape them. america's physicians want to help shape a better future for our patients and our country. [applause] we know firsthand the that change is needed and the status quo is not acceptable. [applause] we appreciate the investment you have already made to help physicians in four areas. first, to purchase equipment and we look forward to standards of enter opera ability. -- inter-operatability. in your budget, you used realistic numbers about the cost of treating medicare patients. you charted a course to replace the senseless medicare physicians payment formula. you are the first president to do that, and we thank you for that. [applause] you

barack obama goes abroad and talks about democracy. i find it fascinating because you do not have democracy in the united states. there is an issue in terms of the treatment of african american people in america. i wonder why al jazeera does not deal with the injustices for african-americans in the united states. guest: there is the issue of hypocrisy in the issue of what al jazeera covers in the united states. as far as democracy is concerned, i'm speaking as a non-americans living in the united states. the american political system is an amazing political system treat it is capable of redress corrections. it has checks and balances, freedom of speech, the first amendment. it is obviously not the perfect political system. it does have its failings. we, in the arab world, clearly have a big deficit -- a big democratic deficit. while there is some hypocrisy in the u.s. president going to preach democracy in the middle east while there are problems here in the united states, that does exist. but to compare the state of democracy in the a

. >> barack obama announced today a step in changing the health care system. drug companies have pledged to spend $80 billion over the next decade to help reduce the cost of drugs for seniors, to pay for some of the president's health care plans. he is introduced by the new head of aarp. >> aarp is proud to stand with you, chairman max baucus, chairman dodd to announce the gap in medicare, the drug coverage gap known as the doughnut hole will be substantially filled for millions of middle income americans as part of health reform. i want to applaud chairman max baucus, senator dodd, who have been champions in this issue. we are honored to stand with both of you. senator max baucus, with your strong leadership on the senate finance committee, with the creativity that led to the development of this very unique solution. we will also support the process and look forward to -- with optimism to the next up. the bottom line, without you chairman, we would not be here today. we offer you all of our thanks. when the president issued his call for all parties to come to

he spoke the dreaded name barack hussain obama. that particular week in the campaign, the pundits had decided this was beyond the pale. calling him by his middle name was not correct. they took john mccain to task. john mccain said, i don't know this guy. he is just some guy from cincinnati. the next morning, this talk show host bill cunningham was on the today show saying what does he mean he has never met me? i met him three or four times. they told me to warm up the crowd. i knew it. i knew that the machine had developed some serious operating efficiencies. the conservative movement works in a very integrated way. people knew what was being set off stage. suddenly, you have to talk about trust. the power of people testing each other, and being able to struggle and sacrifice together, and maybe even be willing to step aside cannot put aside one's ego for the sake of a greater cause. conservatives don't have that anymore. this guy, bill cunningham, was no longer willing to fall on his sword and take a bullet on behalf of the cause

all of the sudden, barack obama printer in, and did bring up -- barack obama brings her in , i think it is a pretty good statistic. i do not care what color you are. host: do you think the stakes are different when you're talking about a lower position versus the? supreme? caller: no, the qualification still has to be there. we are calling her stupid and she was second at prisoprinceto. host: dahlia lithwick? caller: i agree. this is a judge was 17 years of judicial experience. she is the most qualified person to be tapped for the supreme court in 100 years if you look at judicial experience. if you look at her record, as i have been doing, there is not a lot to be alarmed by. progressives will say there is not that much to be cheered by. she is an incredible, moderate, careful, scrupulous, slightly boring, hospital corners judge who sticks to their records and sticks to the facts. she reminds me, more than anyone, of david souter. she has a great reverence for the statute before her. in many cases, with the option to go beyond what was at issue, and make proclamations about what the

will china with barack? will lending start to tighten, -- will china withdraw? will lending tighten? i will take my answer off the air. guest: first, to the taliban, you can blame the united states for supporting those who fought against the soviet and occupation of afghanistan, but during the cold war, we were going eyeball-to-eyeball with the soviet union and that was a greater threat than islamic extremism is now and the fact that we do not wake up every day with the serious possibility of world discretion, not just the use of one or two weapons, but thousands, is a huge step forward. it is interesting that history has accepted u.s. cooperation with stalin in order to defeat hitler and yet a tax a u.s. corporation with the militia been to defeat the soviet union without -- with the muleta dean -- muhajadin to defeat the soviet union. as to our relationship with china, it is a non-sustainable treaty relationship. it has and, and things eventually do. their economy is based on shipping without expecting -- accepting our exports. our lifestyle and economy is bas

where they seem to like barack obama more? >> and that hurts my feelings.ughter] >> i am sorry, senator. >> i will try to go on. [laughter] he is very likable. i read with that. i do not think that your that bad. >> you are likable enough, hilary. >> thank you. [laughter] host: richard wolffe? guest: it was a backfired approach, that arrogance. people wound up switching over to the republican primary, because for many it was a done deal. it was a very volatile time. they stopped polling, which was a huge mistake that they did not repeat. as i explained in the book, they lost track of it because it was over, they were going to sail through it. host: were you there at the cafe guest: i was not. host: this was one of the many early morning events that senator clinton was conducting. here's what happened. >> it is not easy. i could not do it if i did not passionately believe that it was the right thing to do. i have so many opportunities in this country. i just do not want to see us fall backwards. you know? [applause] this is very personal for me. it is not ju

in lot of it is going to depend on how barack obama does. his success or failure will determine how successful republicans will be in the next election. it is from there that they can start to define themselves. fundamentally, it is not really until 2012, when there is a nominee for the republican party, where republicans will start to say this is the person who speaks for our party and here's the message we have going forward. host: thank you for joining us. we are going to speculate a little bit with some of you. we want to hear from republicans. curtis is on the phone from virginia. caller: i like to have gov. mitt romney with sarah palin run the next time. i like newt gingrich, but i do not think he is electable. i just think if we can get mitt romney and sarah palin in the re. a lot of the things they say about sarah palin -- she does have a lot of negatives. that is because george soros and his clan have spent so much money against her. host: we are going to hear from sarah palin. she was on the fox news channel last night. jordan is o

a thing barack obama has the right approach.ust take it easy, to get soft. -- what will that gain us? just putting them on made up lists those not achieve anything. host: back to a piece about this issue, putting korea back on the terrorism list. the u.s. waste steps for intercepting shipments. mr. obama has decided who will not offer north korean new incentives to dismantle the nuclear complex that the north had previously promised to abandon. good morning to roger on our independent line from dallas. caller: this is a failure of foreign policy by obama. when president bush was in office the democrats blamed all of our troubles with north korea on him. president obama suggested that he would be able to get along with troublesome countries better than bush did, but he has not. the north koreans are being very disrespectful to the united states. they are testing nuclear weapons, firing missiles. now the have kidnapped reporters. they are really challenging obama and making him look weak. host: on the nuclear issue here is a story