por la propuesta del presidente barack obama, y que la jueza de origen puertorriqueño sea la próxima la corte suprema de justicia. >>> nuestro corresponsal lourdes desde washington nos habla de la última etapa en este procesoe confirmación. >>> se comenzó a debatir en el senado sobre la integración de sotomayor que sería la primera jueza r jaouz hins rhys pana. >>> viaje de la jueza sotomayor es realmente una historia norteamericana, dijo al iniciar el debate quién lo controlara cuenta con el peso de la mayoría demócrata pero de 40 republicanos, la gran mayoría está en contra, solo un puñado la respalda hasta ahora, desafiando a líderes y poderosos interés. el debate volverá a enfrentar posiciones. me siento decepcionado con colegas del otro partido que no van a votar por esta extraordinaria candidata, a pesar de su récord y calificaciones. a su vez el líder republicano, re conocía la impresionae historia de la jueza. pero una jueza tiene que dejar su agenda personal y política afuera de la corte e impartir justicia. es una prueba que la jueza sotomayor no pasa. >>> algunos republica

barack obama is a different ce inspiring. personality, but it's a different set of circumstances. i don't know if we can see the torch in exactly the same way. >> the people around the kennedys, like greg ted and ted sorenson. they're just as aspiring to me as public servants other the years. they're the ones who gave me the sense there was something there with barack obama that was politically and nationally special. what did you think about the fact that those people backing him so early in this race for president last year? >> well, i certainly think that both figures, both senator kennedy and president obama engender intense loyalty from the people who work for them. you never got the sense that barack obama's top people, like ted kennedy's top people were hired guns. there are a lot of hired guns out there and they go from candidate to candidate. they don't really care about the people so much. they care about the people who pay for them. that will help him a lot. it says something good about them. it also says something

why i hate barack obama. that's my sermon. barack obama is coming to town tomorrow morning. barack obama is coming to town. he is going to be here. who knew that he was coming to town? with his health care and everything like this. i'm going to tell you something, i hate barack obama. you say, well, you just mean you don't like what he stands for? no, i hate the person. you just mean you don't like his policies. no, i hate him. >> there is more and it is much worse. first, i want you to know the voice you heard there was that of pastor steven anderson of the fai faithful word church in arizona. he told his parishioners that he hates barack obama and wants him dead. this is anderson from the pulpit saying the president deserves to die for supporting abortion rights. that is what he means when he uses the word violence. here is some more. what goes around, comes around. you love violence. you hate that which is right. you love to harm others. you love to hurt or kill the unborn or the innocent or the righteous. he is saying, god is going to bring that upon your own head, becau

that was a major turning point in barack obama's campaign. this was very important for the president. there was a lot of, as we were coming here to martha's vineyard, there were a lot of rumors circulating as to whether or not president obama would go over and meet with senator kennedy. in fact, there were some reports circulating he would be over there yesterday, but the obama team has said time and time again, that, no, there is nothing -- it has no been set up. there was no such meeting. i can only imagine this is very, very difficult news for mr. obama because certainly he has to credit at least in part senator ted kennedy for the job he now has. >> dan lothian, thanks very much for your comments. let's return now to ed henry. ed, the kennedys really are regarded pretty much as royalty. they're almost regarded as a royal family within the united states. what will be the national reaction to his passing, do you think? >> reporter: oh, i think you're going to see several days of mourning in the united states. i think there has already been t

>> barack obama will require you to work. barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed. glenn: then barack obama has to be tickleed pink with all the people being involved and getting informed. yet here is his reaction to the healthcare protests. >> but i don't want the folks who created the mess -- i don't want the folks who create the mess to do a lot of talking. i want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. i don't mind cleaning up after

they're honorable people who care about public service and their political interest is aligned with barack obama being successful. that's the best path for her, to line herself up for 2016 if she wants to run again. and it shows how brilliant obama's move here was. because bill clinton was always going to be a bigger problem than hillary clinton ever could have been. to get back in the senate. and he got two for the price of one. chris: and the economy stays stagnant he will have the clintons on his side and not on the other side. big question. 50 years from now, 2060, who will be seen as the more significant president, the bold print president, richard millhouse nixon or william jefferson clinton? who is the biggest in history? >> i think clinton. >> remember, clinton always used to lament that he didn't govern during a time of turmoil or war because those are the presidents that are remembered. nixon did govern during the cold war. and in fact, because of that, he probably will be remembered as more significant. >> i would have to say nixon as well. and not least because he opened up china for

we can meet these challenges with barack obama. yes, we can, and finally, yes, we will. >> dan ball stz national political reporter for the "washington post" who has written extensively about the obama campaign. thanks for joining us. you've reported a lot on the relationship between ted kennedy and barack obama. as we look back, what stands out about the most about '0 and that relationship. >> a couple things. first of all is simply the significance of the kennedy endorsements of barack obama. it came as you all noted just after the south carolina primary, the mostdy veesive of all the primaries during the long battle between hillary clinton and barack obama. there were very difficult and angry phone calls between ted kennedy and bill clinton about the endorsement process. in the end, kennedy decided that barack obama would offer the country the kind of hope, change, and possibility of moving to a new politics that he admired. he obviously felt he was in the tradition of his two late brothers, john and robert kennedy and so the mom

in washington, caroline and ted kennedy passed the torch to barack obama. did he go with obama instead of hillary clinton? >> i think it was stated during that stirring speech. he recognized the country was ready to go in a new direction and change was the watchword. he saw that in obama and what he could bring to the presidency, to the country. it was a good appeal for the clintons, but they represented the past. and kennedy saw the need to move for. >> if not for ted kennedy would barack obama be president? >> i do think he would. massachusetts in the primaries for barack obama. i think it was psychological, an important moment, but that is all it was, an important moment. >> could barack obama become president with just 18-year-old boats? ted kennedy's monument, an enormous appeal among young voters, carried them to 21. -- 2 to 1. i think two things, ted kennedy's support for obama over clinton, and he also said that his the most important vote that he cast in the senate was his vote against the war in iraq. second, bill clinton had, in fact, been quite d

tonight, we will begin with the marxist roots of president barack obama. hello, america. t the end of the six months, we have all read this, president obama looked at all that he created and said, "it is very good." and so, he declared the seventh month amounts of rest. yes, the messiah is going on vacation. barack obama is going on vacation. he must be tired. he spent the last six months to reforming our country, and most people will not recognize it. he told us he would do it, and he is. no one is paying any attention to it. if you give me the next minutes, and please, please, parcher politics aside. open up your ears and eyes and watch with a fresh perspective -- put your politics aside. if i am wrong, you are more than welcome to show me where i am missing it. i would love to be wrong on this. barack obama has revealed his game plan to transform america it in his deeds. the transformation was marketed to america as "change," and, boy, was america it eager for change. >> i will not have to worry about putting gas in my car, or worry about paying my mortgage. glenn: now,

barack obama, and john mccain, any association? >> i think barack obama is brilliant at packaging and we should watch it closely. i don't think he has reinvented who he is to the extent that carry tried to and bush did. this is a master of the media that we have, now. mccain, one of the refreshen things about mccain is that he was impervious to packaging. they would try to get him to the set regions and he for the word maverick rebel tom, but what you saw was what you bought. bob dole was like that. they can't be slick. they're either too old or too stubborn and i think that is refreshing. >> have you ever met barack obama or senator mccain? >> i met them both. i met them as a journalist. i interviewed barack obama and i was in a group of columnists that he talked to just before he was inaugurated. he came to the editorial board and did not get the endorsement. mccain, i met in passing, including a delightful if vaguely ridiculous party that he did during the republican convention in new york were a lot of journalists went during 2

barack obama sobre la recuperaciÓn en nueva oleans. ando smá faló, ifer pó la p esperanza que le quedaba. pero usted puede ayudar. porque una vez apadrinado, un niño como jennifer tendrá ceso adado médicucación.h@h@tañyfwoyo@ luego, si decide apadrinarle, su contribución será de tan sólo 72 centavoh@ día,que solop su paquete informativo. ♪ [♪mÚsica♪] >> el presidente barack obama recordÓ el cuarto aniversario de katrina prometiendo que se asegurarÍa que ni las luchas territoriales ni la burocracia reduzcan la recuperaciÓn. anunciÓ que visitarÍa la ciudad a fin de aÑo. mientras, en esa ciudad cientos de residentes conmemoraron el paso del huracÁn con una ceremonia y un discurso del alcalde de la ciudad. [♪mÚsica♪] >> la tormenta tropical disminuyÓ su fuerza y se convirtiÓ en depresión tropical. en bston, la lluvia se abatiÓ sobre las miles de personas que hacÍan files al paso del cortejo fÚnebre. una advertencia de inundaciones sigue vigente para varias partes de ese estado. >> seguimos con mÁs de la madre naturaleza. el huracÁn que pod

president barack obama overall grade "c" plus. foreign policy during the second 100 did is, "c" plus. health care handling during the second 100 days, a "c" minus. that's the scientific approach to all of this. we can break it down state by state with our unscientific poll where people could register their own opinions about this. this is "c" minus. that's what the green means. 100 days ago, look, it was all in the "b" range. a huge change there. i want you to take note of one thing. i'll circle part of the country right here and look at this part of the country. i'll tell you in a moment why that's important. one of the signature issues throughout this entire time has been health care. here we have every single day of the second 100 days of the obama administration. i want you to listen to what he said just about 3 1/2 weeks ago when he was still insisting we'd get health care done and get it done on time. listen to this. >> i want to put everybody on notice. there was a lot of chatter during the week i was gone. we are going to

-- could barack obama becom president with the 18-year-old vote? wo things, ted kennedy said support obama over clinton. obviously, he was drawn to obama. one, he said that it is most important vote that he ever cast as a senator was to vote against the war in iraq. bill clinton, had in fact, from good sources been quite disparaging in conversations with ted kennedy of barack obama. ted kennedy was offended by it. >> there is also a political, ideological component. the clintons represented centralism in a way andennedy was more on the left. i think that was part of the reason. iraq is one example of that. also, clinton is the one you abolish welfare, which kennedy opposed. -- is the one who abolish welfare, which can be opposed. although, i am not sure that the endorsement of obama release wait a lot of folks, but he used that symbolism. -- really swayed a lot of folks, but he is the symbolism of the torch. he spent the gap between 19th ceury to his. it is a passing of an era and a change. >> let's talk about health care. you did some reporting on

yet, under president barack obama, business as usual is booming. the collapse of the era of hope and change demonstrates the first and last lot of political physics. as government grows, corruption and flows. this is true whether a democrat is an office or a republican is. massive new federal spending + tens of thousands of pages of new regulations that no one has ever read, plus unprecedented new powers over taxpayers on the economy due course limitless new opportunities for sleaze, favored trading, deal cutting and influence-peddling. they may still cling to the belief that he can work miracles, but no one, not even the miraculous barack obama can drain a swamp by flooding it. [applause] just weeks ago, the prognosticators pronounced the tea party@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ h@á never mind that others have taken to the streets since february and the numbers continue to grow. [applause] >> they wanted you gone. they wanted you silenced and out of sight. they wanted you marginalized, demonized and demoralized. but you prevailed. you have shown the spine and

and he insisted they compete to that made south carolina at a crucial battle in the race and win barack obama one by 29 points and astounding victory which nobody anticipated somebody in the obama campaign said i think we will win by about 18 points that person said you are crazy. claiborne by 29 and gave them an enormous crews heading into super tuesday which for the obama campaign was the most difficult day on the of calendar. what if the florida primary had counted? and not delegitimize by the dnc? immediately after the election said in florida had been a real primary hillary clinton might be the nominee and might well be president at that point* but the rules were the roles in the obama campaign understood that and willing to take those roles and they figured out how to play those much more effectively banned the clinton campaign florida is one example, the caucuses are the other when it mattered most the obamacare of paine operated very skillfully and the clinton campaign did not dance later the clinton campaign became better but by then it was too late. i will turn it over to haynes [ap

the headline on it was "who's afraid of barack obama?" >> this was a steady theme of mime. >> in one of the debates worries that we might have to go into pakistan, that was considered a big gaffe when actually it was his policy. it may still be, to some extent. of the other half of that, -- that the clinton machine was unbeatable was taken as a given. i could go on. i sense that you like barack obama, but you have been taking regular shots at him geithner and bob rubin. >> i am very disturbed by what got us into this mess. there is no evidence that it is ending. what we have seen for the past few weeks is what had nothing to do with a value. it had to do with getting rich quick and not building the country. to me, it is an open question about the barack obama the administration. the people that help get us into this mess now on the other side of washington helping to make it better. >> we are recording this on the monday of the week that it goes on the network. predict to us what you will be writing about when the sunday new york times co

seed raids -- he was very much a player in helping barack obama get seed money for his 2004 u.s. a good factor in helping obama when that 2004 u.s. senate race. >> thank you. >> -- to win in that 2004 u.s. senate race. just 30 years old, with the backing of his good friend barack obama, he ran for straight treasurer, a position that people in the downstate position of springfield had already slated to be filled. >> that rankled some of the party leaders. they were not looking for a democratic primary, but he got in, with a commercial with barack obama endorsing in, and his endorsement was crucial for him to win that primary. >> he is one of the most outstanding it young men that i could ever hope to meet. he is somejoey that cares deeply about people. he got that from his family. the really embody american dream. >> i think is fair to say that by using obama was a very big factor in him becoming the youngest state treasurer in the country at that point. sean: but during the campaign, some troubling things came back to haunt him. >> the bank had given out some loans with ties to o

these are all the prototypes that barack obama condemd and michelle obama for that matter and yet they fully embrace them in their administration and those who had knowledge the hypocrisy there. >> host: you hav me fpom the east coast to colorado springs. how does that affect the way you feel this town? >> guest: i have always had sordid the the logical detachment from the beltway. that is obviously just an outgrowth of my own political views as a conservative but i think it is much easier to do it from the outside to have my ear to the ground in the grassroots, in the mountain was. i feel really liberat out there. and, at the air is literally and figuratively fresher. >> host: mali is joining us very clearly from oakland california, republican line for michelle malkin. >> caller: god bless you dear michelle for putting up with the incredible abuse. one quick thing. i just read year-- bought your book and i haven't had a chance to read it but at drives me crazy is democrats, i want to cite obama's saying everything, you get to keep your own insurance. under or persilian grandfather in

he knew barack obama was the real deal. so throwing his weight behind obama was a way of continuing his... ted kennedy's legacy and also latching on to the legacy of an extraordinary phenom. >> schieffer: a very short time left. how will the senate be different now that he is gone, senator? >> there was no other democrat who could carry the base of the democratic party and get them to do what really has to be done in a compromise situation. you see this in health care. the base doesn't want to give in on what's called the government plan. that's a big part of it plus they want the mandates on employers or employees plus they want to move more people into medicaid so they can gradually get on to a single pay-or system. kennedy would know a number of those things can't be done in a bipartisan way. >> schieffer: i want to thank both of you. we'll be back with the final word in just a minute. to do business on a smarter planet... ...you need to open your business to the world. invite customers into the design process. work with

we all think we are very familiar with barack obama. he's certainly been in our lives a lot since he started running for president and since that remarkable speech at the boston convention in 2004. what we found and what we think you will find as you go through this book is a deeper understanding of barack obama both strengths and weaknesses, the type of character that he is, some of what he went through and we think that there is as you go through and digest this some relevance to what he's going through right now. obviously one thing important always remember about barack obama in addition to envision nobody runs for president particularly if you've only been in the senate for 12 minutes. [laughter] if you don't have a lot of ambition that he is also very competitive and i think one of the best stories we heard came from robert gibbs about when obama's book, the audacity of hope was published in full, 2006 which as you remember helped create the build up for his candidacy. obama of course wanted this to be a big seller and so the book

i know you like barack obama.s attacking -- attacking the american people as a strategy, independents move away from him 2-1. >> he did not attack anybody. there were remarks made by members of congress. sean: shut up, get out of the way, we will clean up. >> not barack obama. that is not barack obama. let's talk about health care reform. you have an opportunity where 70% of what is being talked about on capitol hill, people agree with the business community, health insurance industry. insurance reforms, cost spending, those things people are concerned about, they want them addressed. they want health reform and they want it now. >> they do not want government health care. that is restructuring insurance companies. i am for that. >> that is a talking point. >> that was an election -- campaign promise by barack obama. sean: let me quote him. in 2007, he wanted to get rid of the employee benefit system if it takes 10, 15, or 20 years. >> can you do the whole context? he said it you are starting over from the ground

. >> barack obama dijo que es justo una reforma migratoria, predijo que en este momento no puede. >> o al mismo tiempo dijo obama, que espera que para principios de 2010 se discuta el tema de la inmigraciÓn. >> el primer ministro de canadÁ justificÓ porque la decisión de imponer visas a los mexicanos. >> el presidente de mÉxico rechazÓ esta medida. >> ante la posible apariciÓn de la influenza dijeron trabajar juntos para minimizar los riesgos. firmaron un plan para defender libre comercio. respaldaron la posiciÓn de barack obama ante la crisis en honduras. barack obama dijo que los que lo critican, son los mismos que critican a estados unidos de intervencionismo en el mundo. >> mientras el presidente felipe calderÓn asistirÁ a la cumbre en guadalajara, autoridades mexicanas arrastraron a un supuesto sicario que querÍa matarlo. >> la secretarÍa de seguridad pÚa federal detuvo en sinaloa a quien le habian ordenado cometer un atentado contra felipe calderÓn. raÍz de la guerra declarada contra crimen organizado. >> luego de una serie de detenciones y aseguramientos de grandes cantidades d

in comes ted kennedy and endorses barack obama in the speechl ands barack obama is ready on day one to be a great president. changed that campaign. >> these narrow streets. we were there this morning and yesterday. this is a hometown. this is where he would walk the d dog, splash, and go for his sails. we saw the nantucket light ship lum naturing his boat the mya last night. another sad -- >> and so eager to come back and vicky so eager to have him there this summer. interesting thing is hyannis port then and pretty much now is a very republican town who voted overwhelmingly against john kennedy and oftentimes against ted. the other thing was when rose kennedy died in the mid 1990s, she had the idea that the house should be left perhaps to the catholic church, and ted kennedy said absolutely not. i've been waiting all these years to be the master of my house and bring my family in, which he did. it looks as if the future may be a museum. >> it's no accident that the first location that they will pass this hearse, this sad motorcade, is the birthplace of rose kennedy at st. stevens wher

barack obama, why don't you take care of your own brother? scripture to try to pass this bill is a discussing political move -- discusgusting thing. they went to the moral imperative, then the economic imperative. then they went to the political imperative. now they're back on their knees. i think that people will see through it even though that added% believe in a higher power, they are very smart. -- even though 90% believe in a higher power, they are smart. mike: what do you think about this, is this desperation by the obama administration to get people to go to the pulpits to support the plan? >> in any major american city, a good number of the hospitals and health-care entities that exist in those cities emanate from religious institutions. this is a natural connection that people of face would have. the imperative of this issue is something very much -- mike: many of those are opposed to abortion and then when republicans tried to amend the bill to make sure that there is no portion in this bill, those attempts are suspended. why can't

tuvo el regalo del tiempo que no tuvieron sus hermanos, dijo hoy el presidente barack obama.enterio nacional, univisiÓn. >> antes de ser llevado a su Última morada en el cementerio nacional, personalidades de la polÍtica y otras esferas de la sociedad estadounidense le rindieron tributo en una misa. veamos. >> una hermosa misa presidida por el cardenal. [♪mÚsica♪] >> fue aquÍ, en esta basílica catÓlica apostólica romana, ubicada en un sector obrero de boston, donde kennedy rezÓ frecuentemente. sobre todo en el aÑo 2003 cuando su hija se debatÍa entre la vida y la muerte debido a un cÁncer del pulmÓn. kenny por tradiciÓn irlandesa y familiar, un ferviente catÓlico. en existente desndo 1874, la iglesia tenÍa especial significado para Él. bajo el impresionante domo y magestuosos arcos, su hija fue la primera en leer un salmo, el 72. >> diez de sus nietos, sobrinas y sobrinos leyeron sus mÁs cÉlebres frases. >> arrancÓ lÁgrimas ted kennedy junior, su hijo mayor, al recordar cÓmo tras perder una pierna por cÁncer de hueso: >> su padre, en alguna ocasiÓn, tratando de subir una loma

he stepped out there and endorsed barack obama.the buzz created from that back in january of that year. he sort of got to see it through to fruition he was behind a keptdy he truly believe in getting the democratic nomination and possibly becoming one step closer to becoming the african-american president. >>> so many said how did he find the energy? how did he come to the health care summit? if you knew that kennedy. he dealt with so much, the deaths of his brothers. family tragedies. it sounded like it was cliche but he would live to the last day, fight for the last day. the tenacity he showed throughout his political career, you knew in moments like that if there was anyway you could get there, he would get there. that's how you knew how much in decline he was in recent weeks when the health care debate was collapsing and washington was having so much trouble that senator kennedy could not come back to washington to help nor deliver any kind of a public statement. told you about the decline in his condition. a sad chapter played

on barack obama's side, here we are in mid-to-late-august, and there is no clarity in the barack obama position. tell us what he wants. does he want a public option? would he sacrifice both for the rest of the bill? with the tax health care benefits like max baucus wants? will be taxed as billy netflix and nancy pelosi wants? -- will he just acts of billionaires like nancy pelosi what? is he willing to do reconciliation? will he fight a filibuster? on and none of those three critical points has there been any clarity? ->> there is a good reason for it. when you start out with health care, you have to know where everybody is on the issue. you have a five part of 35 members up there. you have to know where they stand. -- 535 members up there. you have to know where they stand he is taking time to flush them out. you need to know where your votes are on the public option. that is before you then -- time is on his side. >> i don't think so. >> we will be talking about this next january and the primary when you counted them then. >> it has been a long and costly flush if that is the case. >

i think he passed that torch rather almost religiously to barack obama and now it's barack obama's honorlso his mantle to carry. i mean, he has yet to be able to show that he can handle this. we'll see in the months and years ahead if barack obama is able to pull that weight the kennedy brothers gave to him. i think he is the new brother if you will in this family of american life now and as an african-american he's always had that burden of challenge but now he's got it all alone now on health care. all alone. >> well, a big picture from you, chris matthews, "the kennedy brothers" a "hardball" documentary tonight at 9:00 on msnbc. congratulations on a great piece of work. we all look forward to seeing it in full. >> you'll love it, andrea. you're going to love it. >> i know i will. >> thank you. >> and joining us on the phone now, we've talked about kennedy, senator kennedy as a bipartisan legislator, someone who reached out across the lines. he also could be very partisan, fiercely partisan as we know and quite liberal but joining us now on the phone, a republican, a conservative, but

it isn't so that barack obama gets a "w" next to his name. the question haas bothered the american people since teddy roosevelt's time is, some people have health insurance and some don't. how do we recognize that with our sense in this country, of looking out for each other, to some extent? to some extent? >> i think that with young people especially, a lot of it is encouragement. i've got a kid who is going out of the home now. and he think he's bulletproof in many ways. >> i got kids like that, too. we can encourage them to do it. because i know when i was in my 20s until i got married, i didn't go out and get insurance. that was a foolish mistake i had. i could have had a catastrophic occurrence that would have wiped me out financially and put the burden on other people. so i think education for young people is the law. they're the biggest bloc as i understand it, looking at the numbers of uninsured. >> i hear someone like you speak, and i know you worked on the hill like i did. here's my problem with you guys, the conservatives talk reas

so we -- look at barack obama, look at sonia sotomayor. they're going to protectheir interests and who is looking out if your interests, a mr. and mrs. white person. chris: bill buckley he said no anti-simentism, none of this bircher stuff. you're out the movement. is there a way to say, you're not fair. he's an american like us, stop the talk. >> if the conservative movement today was like the conservative movement then, you could do that. but not now. and there is a straight line now that i think about it, from the birthers to the birchers. there's -- part of the american political psyche that is the underside. we talk about being united and being in this together, but we also fear them, the immigrant, the stranger. chris: the mob at the feat. >> that's part of the american mentality. gina is right about the long-term demographics. but republican strategists are not looking at that, here look acing at the 2010 elections. this is low turnout elections. in low turnout locations, those that are highly motivated show up and the anger could w

>> if barack obama wants to carry the torch the kennedys have passed to him, president obama is going to have to pass health care. there's just not two ways about it. ted kennedy ran against jimmy carter, a sitting president in his own party. carter had not pushed for health care in his first term as carter had promised. and kennedy, we are told, extracted a promise from barack obama that he would, indeed, push for universal health care in his first term. in return for, not yus an endorsement, but it was a very strong endorsement. >> right, thank you. roger, he has three more years to do it. anyway, roger simon great to have you on. i'll be back for another live edition of "hardball." then the premier of our documentary. we're very proud of it, "the kennedy brothers." right now it's time for "the ed show" with ed shultz. >>> a great american, ted kennedy. the lion is gone but the fight lives on. remembering ted kennedy. >>> tonight, i'm going to take the liberty to speak to millions of liberals across america. it's been a sad day in america. we lost our man, senator ted kennedy. lost

barack obama needs a vacation. he must be tired.rackama he spent the last six months transforming our country andthe most people won't either admits it or recognize it.st p he told us he would do it and r he is.pu give me the next few minutes and put your politics aside. open up your ears and your eyeh and watch with a purchase d perspective. don't be in denial,l. do not pn your head in the sand.if i if i'm wrong'm you are more thn welcome to show me where i'm missing it. mis i would love to be wrong this. barack obama has revealed his game plan to transform americat the transformation was marketed to america as change and boy,o, was america just eager forea change. for change. >> i want change whatever happens. i won't have to worry about putting gas in my car. i won't have to worry about paying my mortgage. he is going to help me. glenn: i thought boy, that woman is stupid when she first came on. is she, or are we stupid? how is that woman feeling now as she continues to write her own checks for her own mortgage

and i think the barack obama issue is not one so much of being pollyannaish. i think african-americans understand more than most that we don't actually ascribe, you know, special political powers to barack obama simply because he's black. they understand that the job ahead of him is difficult and they're rooting for him, but i don't think they have any unrealistic expectations about that. >> just to piggyback on this, i think there is a little bit, and i'm going to tell you why. for years, you would hear parents telling their young, black children, you could grow up to be the president, and they didn't believe that. now they actually believe it, number one. and number two, i think what president obama has done is he's made it cool to be smart. he's made it fashionable to want to get educated. and that was not always the case. it was always, when i was growing up, if you were smart, if you were educated, that was like a badge of dishonor, you know? when i graduated from undergrad, when i graduate ed suma cum lau, my friends were like, what's that about? because

logró su sueño de entrevistar al presidente barack obama.nto. >>> lo había prometido muy su campaña. barack obama anuncio esta semana que no habrá reforma migratoria este año. >>> si no en el año 2010 . >>> el congreso junto con susúa r a su bio interés está poniendo una pared. >>> el pueblo lo tendrá que obligar, tanto a 0 bam como el congreso, a través del boicot y marchas, a través de protestas . >>> 3 organizaciones, que defienden los derechos de los inmigrantes reaccionan a las dec declara declaraciones de los presidentes. >>> es una táctica para asustar a la gente para decirles que van acudir a votos, que hay paneles que van a decir cuando pueden morir. esas cosas no son ciertas. >>> viene al minuto de los mitos y realidades de la reforma de salud el cantante colombiano, juanes, desató un debate, que nunca se imaginó. >>> la gente ha policía estado la cosas y he querido hablar para decirles que no soy un político. >>> juanes, en su propias palabras, reacciona a sus críticas >>> este domingo a las 10 de la mañana, o las 9 en el centro d

are you worried about barack obama's presidency? i mean, it has brought us so much closures to a coherent american identity of multiculturalism but if his presidency fails and if he's forced into, you know, capitulation to special interests and the financial mess, you know, what happens then? and what are your feelings about that? >> guest: well, on the comedy side i would say that i wouldn't worry much about change for barack obama, just keep giving me the hope and don't reduce to it glimmer of hope. i don't want glimmer of hope. i want hope, okay? and on the serious side, i think the impact of barack obama will be felt more on the younger generation. where there will not be a question that a black man can lead something, can be in charge of the country. when i was a kid, a black couldn't even be a quarterback in the nfl. i mean, you talk about image issues that america had with blacks as leaders. but, it will be a given for the younger generation, and will not even be a question that a black can lead at that high of a level. >> ho

bill: hillary clinton was the favorite in the beginning but barack obama overtook her. he main reason why? >> well, obama had something going for him that she did not. he understood where the country was about the war and about change. >> hello, iowa! >> and she never really caught up on that. >> i think there was a personal factor as well. there was a question about did people trust hillary clinton? she never answered that question. bill: but how do you make somebody trust you when you have a resume like hillary clinton had? >> every candidate has a problem. the story of this election in a way is three candidates with their specific attributes but each with a potentially fatal political disease if you will. only barack obama overcame his disease. >> a smart candidate -- bill: what was barack obama's disease? >> the first was the question of inexperience and strength. the second was biography. this question of was he too exotic? was his background something that people could feel comfortable with? in both cases he used the campaign to convince people -- >> all deserve a

you see it in barack obama approval rating. gallup shows him up to 58% approval rating. he was down as low as 52%. >> aren't we fickle? >> very. >> you know, chuck, you and i are friends. we know -- and so is susan, but we know i'm a churchill buff. one of the tricks of churchill in winning the war against the nazi, to make a real useful mention of nazis this week for once in this crazy world, that he understood you never give too much good expectation ahead of time. he used to say as the war went on he used to say it's not the beginning of the end but maybe it's the end of the beginning. anything to reduce expectations so people would keep their up. >> the president's spokesman said we still expect 10% unemployment. explain. >> well, here is why. one of the reasons unemployment went down, the labor force in general contracted, and so they still don't see how they're going to be creating -- how new jobs are going to get created over the next three, four, five months, and so that's why they fear that, you know, when you watch this thing and while the overall trend of job

. >> so people elect the agent of change, barack obama,, in 2008. what they've seen in 2009 has been a traditional liberal democratic approach and so i think there's some anger out there listen, it's not overwhelming, certainly not like it was with bill clinton in 1994 but certainedly warning signs are there for the obama administration. >> rose: finally, author colson whitehead. his new novel is "sag harbor." they're teenagers and there's a small span of time with they get wiser but i'm not sure it's a coming of age novel. it draw miss my personal experience, you could call it a little more autobiographical. but for me i'll call it a novel and leave it at that. >> rose: the freed american journalist, politics with "morning joe" and colson whitehead next. captioning s snsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: the two american journalists who spent almost five month december thained in north korea are back at home tonight. laura ling and euna lee were welcomed this morning by friends and family a

president barack obama turned 48 this week. he didn't get big present he'd been asking for doctor passage of health care reform in the house and senate -- but he got a few pretty good alternatives. sotomayor, his pick for the supreme court, was confirmed with the support of nine republicans, and we learned today that the unemployment rate has dropped a little bit. from 9.5% to 9.4%. there have been a few pieces of economic news like this late that, while not fantastic, have at least been not awful. john harwood, does the white house think they've turned a corner here? >> no. but they're having a party right now. the white house knows that first of all mission accomplished is the worst thing you can do in an economy like this. the unemployment rate even though it ticked down this month is likely to go up for a few months and not really come down in a serious way until next spring. consumer confidence is still low. it's true that the banking system is stabilized and that's good news. but they can't celebrate. barack obama came ou