i have steve palle the brand who served as barack obama's -- i have steep hildebrand who served as barack obama as strategist. he was at the forefront of all strategic decisions and helped crack the campaign. to my left, i have robert willington. he was a political strategist for the scott brown campaign in massachusetts. he was executive director of the massachusetts republican party where he expanded the gop. i want to thank you both for being here. let me start with a softball question. what have you all found is the key or silver bullet to engaging young voters? >> we have to listen to young voters. the candidates to understand the needs and wishes and desires of young of voters3 . young voters are paying more attention to the nuts and bolts details of these campaigns than most of the other voters. you cannot bs them. that is a critical thing. politicians?kc, especially bely politicians, tend to be full of political rhetoric that they live and breed here in washington, d.c. if they use that rhetoric and continued to espouse what the talk is here in d.c., they will perform pretty poor

barack obama. >> why you think that? look a little bit like him and that's it. -- in that suit. >> that part of the is a side note, but what is the connection between this young fellow and barack obama? >> i think it's obama's presence in the film and in harlem his understated until that moment. it is very important. for these kids, to see his picture in the classroom and have the calendar in their apartments. gregg jr. would dress up like him sometimes in go to school and work around the apartment. >> and what is barack obama's position on charter schools? >> he is pro-school choice. his race to the top fund is a really historic stance on the need for more options for parents, and that includes charter schools. he is very positive in that regard. >> we will not show the very end because they give away what happens in the lottery itself. what is the procedure? we've got the official. what is the procedure about finding out whether you are chosen? jayden is a random, computerized process. but they ask that the parents go

>> it helps in terms of momentary view of americans of barack obama but two years from now presumably he'll run for re-election. i guarantee you all that all of us will have a pretty settled view of how barack obama did in this crisis. if he didn't do very well from that perspective, he could give the speech of his life tomorrow night and it wouldn't help. >> woodruff: we are going to leave it there. we thank you all three. michael beschloss, jonathan capehart, kathleen hall-jamieson. >> pleasure. >> thank you. >> woodruff: we will have live coverage of the president's address tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on pbs and online. >> suarez: still to come on the newshour, the discovery of large-scale mineral deposits in afghanistan, and the hunt for rare earth metals in the u.s., canada, and china; and the real- life story of justice thurgood marshall. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: the central asian country of kyrgyzstan was in turmoil today after days of ethnic rioting. officials reported at least 138 people dead and 1,

ok. >> that is a side bar but what do you see is the connection between this young fellow and barack obamaence in the film and in harlem is understated until that moment. it is very important. he is a really important person for these kids. they see his picture in the classroom. the parents of his calendar is in their apartment. greg jr. would dress up as him sometimes and go to school and around the apartment. >> what is barack obama's position on charter schools? >> he is pro-school choice. this is an historic stand on the need for more options for parents and that includes charter schools. he is very positive in that regard. >> at the end of this and we will not show it, what is the procedure? what is the procedure about finding out whether you are chosen? >> the parents are required to go. it is a random computerized process. they asked that the parents ago in order to show their support. they say to the parents of the information sent -- session that we sent letters home public think it is important for them to be there to prove to people that you want something better because your vo

barack obama was going to take office.s going to change the world, and we would just go home and hit the couch. [laughter] he was going to be in charge of changing our financial system, of defeating special interest in washington, ending unnecessary wars, and congratulations, it worked out great. have a great trip home. i am just kidding. surprising though it may seem to hear that, all elected barack hussein obama, which many of you worked hard to do, amazingly, and that was the easy part. the hard work remains to be done. and if we have learned one thing over the last year and a half, we have learned that democracy is not a spectator sport. the other thing we have learned is that, by partisanship is not the way to fundamental change. [applause] so far, bipartisanship has brought us a no strings attached bailout. it has brought us the freedom from the burden of an affordable public option. which is fantastic, isn't it? and it has also brought us an ongoing war in afghanistan, which is depleting our treasury and unnecessari

but what do you see is the connection there between this young fellow and barack obama? >> i think it's obama's presence in the film and in harlem is sort of understated until that moment. but it's very important. i think he is a really important person for these kids and you see his picture in the classrooms and the parents have his calendars in their atment. and so greg junior would dress up as him sometimes and go to school and work around the apartment. >> and what's -- i didn't mean to -- >> no. >> what's barack obama's position on charter schools? >> he is pro-school choice, i think. i mean, his race to the top fund is a really historic stance on the need for more options for parents and that includes charter schools. so he's very positive in that regard. >> now, at the end of this, and we're not going to show the very end because it gives away what happens in the lottery itself. what's the procedure? we've got a little bit of video to show, but what's the procedure about finding out whether you are chosen? >> well, the parents aren't required to do so they do send

he was seen it with the same language as they used to describe barack obama.e seemed on the quick path to the governor's chair in the montgomery state house. they are skeptical that he could win, but he shot ahead by double digits in the poll. then came last tuesday. it was yet another dispiriting performance by an alabama democrat. they see themselves all around -- democrats control the state legislature, but the reflection is cast by republicans who hold most of the top tiered collected offices such as governor and attorney general. it talks about why one of the reasons he did not succeed in the primary is because he did not seek the support of african american groups within his state. the article talks about how that may have ultimately hurt him in the end. let's go to nevada. william, republicans like. will you vote on tuesday? caller: yes, i will. host: why? caller: because i think they should be litigating -- mitigating damage down there and the gulf and freeze that water out. if everything is frozen up solid they will save the wildlife. they are taking

democrats if they're going to have a lot of political polls on the supreme court and if president barack obama appointed her. obama appointed her. he doesn't have a very good track record. host: who doesn't have a good track record? what do you mean? caller: obama with his decision-making and cabinets appointments and stuff? host: all right. guest: well what kind of influence does a president have on appointees once they're confirmed to the supreme court. history show, not much. in philosophy they tend to share the president's philosophy but when specific issues come up that involve the president the record is somewhat different. president clinton had two nominees. ginsberg and briar but when the paula jones case came, he wanted that stalled until he left office they both voted against him. nixon has four appointees on the court and water gate came up and he resisted turning over tapes to the special prosecutor his appointees voted against his interest as well. once they're on the court, they do become their own people, even if it's likely they'll share the general philosophy of the president

it also fits pretty losely to barack obama's message who has said, that elick trissity costs will necessarily skyrocket under his plan of cap and trade. so what are we doing? we vn have an administration and the on for tunists in the senate and house that are looking at the oil slick over the gulf coast, which is an environmental tragedy, and seeking to capitalize on that environmental tragedy by pushing cap and trade legislation which will cripple american industry. for example, and i don't think, mr. speaker, that i can give the data on this, but i would just suggest that those that are interested should take a look at the american kiln sfwristri and understand that where we have kilns, it might be a dryer, you heat up asphalt and crank it through a barrel with heat in it and brings it through the other side kind of likeea cement truck cylinder, comes out the other side hot mixed asphalt. takes a lot of heat to do that, there's a lot of co-2 emissions. . it takes a lot of energy that emits co-2 and this would take the aluminum industry to look at the cap and trade proposals out there. indus

e best thing we can do to support barack obama is to make him do the right thing.] >> thank you. now i am proud to introduce the winner of last year's citizen leadership award and. [applause] as you all know, she is the executive director for the center of community change -- he is the executive director for the center of community change. and he is an organizer. he is also an electoral -- and intellectual. he has are real power to bear in the fit for health care reform, jbs, racial justice, and you know the big march down on the mall on immigration reform? she was at the lead. please welcome hi [applause] >> fir, i want to sithink you to roger and -- to say thank you to roger and bob. [applause] i also want to appreciate darcey who is a magnificent leader in this progressive movement. i thought about this debate, and reflected on the fact that i have been arrested at the white house for criticizing the administration for the lack of leadership on immigration reform. i have been an early in a consistent critic for the white house on that figure to articulate a big

barack obama, someone who attacked hillary clinton from the left and went on to win the general electioncomfortable margin, he is an ideal case. baracc obama has not ended the war in iraq and has escalated the war in afghanistan, so i think you can see this playing out with the tea party, where scott brown in massachusetts was he is somebody the tea party backed but who had bipartisan appeal and was a sophisticated politician because of his folksy persona, but then scott brown goes to washington and end of disappointing the tea party in all sorts of ways, so your other alternative is rand paul or sharon angle. can she, who haa been publicly quoted saying both medicare and social security needs to be phased out over the long terr -- is she goinn to be a potent force in national politics? it is hard to say. this is the problem the anti- war movement's founders upon. they won national elections, but they did not get their ultimate policy goes achieve. i think it remains to be seen whether there is a tea party candidate who will provide the kind of success that has eluded their anti-war para

. >> president barack obama promised he would not stop fighting to open up government and that he would have the most transparent administration in history. it is one thing to keep that promise when you think it will help you politically. the real test of a man's word is if he keeps it when it is inconvenient, embarrassing, or potentially damaging. on this test, the president has failed. we have a law that prohibits federal officials offering things of value to people for political gain. it is called transparency. white house efforts to use political appointments to entice candidates out of contentious primaries goes against the obama's administration's claims of openness and transparency. congressman joseph sestak -- efforts of the white house to mislead. the clinton white house offered a job in return for dropping his challenge against arlen specter. the white house denied it. the white house finally conceded that some conversations happened but their message was "trust us. it was not inappropriate. move on -- nothing to see here." this did not pass the test. it is not up to the white

the best thing we can do to support barack obama is to make him do the right thing. [applause] >> thank you. now i am proud to introduce the winner of last year's citizen leadership award and. [applause] as you all know, she is the executive director for the center of community change -- he is the executive director for the center of community change. and he is an organizer. he is also an electoral -- and intellectual. he has are real power to bear in the fight for health care reform, jobs, racial justice, and you know the big march down on the mall on immigration reform? she was at the lead. please welcome him. [applause] >> first, i want to sit think you to roger and -- to say thank you to roger and bob. [applause] i also want to appreciate darcey who is a magnificent leader in this progressive movement. i thought about this debate, and reflected on the fact that i have been arrested at the white house for criticizing the administration for the lack of leadership on immigration reform. i have been an early in a consistent critic for the white house on that figure t

caller: i am a fervent barack obama supporter. some mainstream journalists -- one said he felt obama was not political enough. another said he does not believe obama does things for political reasons. guest: i knew both of the men that you are speaking about. i do not know if you are quoting them correctly. this is an enormously political administration. it is something you can defend. it is politics after all. [unintelligible] host: peter orszag will be leaving this administration. what does that mean? there are reports regarding how long rahm emanuel may last. guest: [unintelligible] as for the rahm emanuel question, it is amazing the degree to which the story always becomes about him. in the inauguration of bill clinton, i was here. rahm emanuel had his own car with his own name on the side in the parade. i am not criticizing him. that is impressive. it is very bold. he instinctively calls attention to himself. it is amazing he can get away with that. his job is to serve the president. he is a servant. yet he is on the front pag

barack obama was going to take office.was going to change the world and we would just go home and sit on the couch% [laughter] he was going to be in charge of changing our financial system, the feeding special interests in washington, ending on necessary wars, congratulations, it has worked out great. [laughter] i am just kidding because we realize that surprising as it is to hear about, electing barack obama which many of you thought worked -- was hard to do, amazing though it was and continues to become a was the easy part. the hard work remains to be done. if we have learned one thing of the last year-and-a-half, we have learned that democracy is not a spectator sport. the other think we have learned is that bipartisanship is not the way to fundamental change. [applause] so far, bipartisanship has brought us a long string of catastrophe. it has brought us the freedom from the burden of an affordable public option which is fantastic, isn't it? it has also brought us an ongoing war in afghanistan which is depleting our tr

barack obama is an idiot. he is incompetent. everyone that is out of work because they voted him into office deserves what they get. host: this is an article in "the washington post." you can see that a congressman there. according to other newspapers, they are reporting that these lawmakers are saying they did nothing wrong. host: richard on the democratic line. and caller:two things on the oil spill. one is, why don't they get of big enough pipe? the other thing is i think they could use of liquid nitrogen and go down into the hole and freeze it down there and poured concrete on top of it. host: bill from mobile, alabama. caller: mike, obama speech. like most people, i was pretty disappointed. -- my comment is on obama's speech. every dollar the government gets, they taking from other industries. therefore, it is an insufficient way to create anything new. the one thing he could do, which of course he is not doing, which to be some sort of cap on the amount the trial lawyers will get. if you had $100,000 loss but ppl agrees to

i present to you the honorable barack obama, president.. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you, everybody. please be seated. hello, giants. it is good -- it is good to be here and congratulate you, the class of 2010. [applause] i am honored to be part of this special occasion, and i love you back. [laughter] [applause] let me acknowledge your salutatory efforts. -- your salutatory governor, jennifer granholm. superintendent wright, thank you for your inspiring words. your mayor, who i understand is a proud kalamazoo graduate himself. thanks to principal washington for that, not just a warm introduction, but his enthusiasm and his energy and his leadership and his nai singing voice. -- nice singing voice. [laughter] thank you to all the trustees and alumni and parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, everyone who has been a part of this extraordinary place. and i want to recognize our students speakers, cindy, who embodies the best of our traditions in this country. our ride four years ago and graduates as the valedictorian. t

it seems like yesterday that barack obama was going to take office.e was going to change the world. we would then go home and hit the couch. he was going to be in charge of changing the financial system. he was going to defeat interests in washington ending unnecessary wars. congratulations. it all worked out great. i'm just kidding, of course, because we realize that electing barack obama, which was so hard to do, amazing that what was it was the easy part. the hard work remains to be done. if we have learned one thing over the last year and a half, we have learned that democracy is not a spectator sport. the other thing we have learned is that by partisanship is not the way to fundamental change. [applause] bipartisanship has brought us a bailout. it has brought us the freedom from the burden of an affordable public option. it has also brought us an ongoing war in afghanistan which is depleting our treasury and unnecessarily bringing that to our sons and daughters. that is what bipartisanship has done so far. now we are also seeing bipartisanship in

i'm sure barack obama didn't know much either five, six weeks ago but he has been briefed.but apparently hayward has not been briefed. he said, i don't know, i don't know, i don't know." didn't he get briefed? doesn't he know what happened under his own command? i thought his performance was reasonably pathetic. >> lehrer: i think mark wants to defend tony hayward. >> i do. tony haywards of the alberto gonzales of international oil companies--. >> lehrer: the attorney general >> what his purview of authority was and what he was responsible for. and tony hayward looks like he's been on scholarship. i think the thing is that he has a legal problem , and--. >> lehrer: b.p. does. >> b.p. does, and i think he had to be sort of , as he was--. >> lehrer: just speaking of problems-- this is called a segue-- what about south carol's problem for the democratic nomination for the u.s. senate? what's going on? what do you think that's all about? is that -- in other words, is there a bigger message here that people voted for somebody that they never had heard of, and by a large margin,

i think the conversation with barack obama will be quite important tomorrow and i suspect behind the scenes there now a great deal of pressure on both sides of the atlantic for b.p. to at the very least defer its dividend in order to show the aware of the importance of this dividend issue. >> woodruff: byron king, back to b.p. itself, what is its ability to handle claims? how far can it go? how deep are its pockets? >> well, just getting to the dividend issue, b.p. on an annual basis pays out over $x billion of dividend money every year. now as we've discussed earlier a lot of that money is going to british pensioners and to u.s. pension funds as well. if they simply eliminated the dividend, they would have a $10 billion a year warchest to clean things up. and then also b.p. has another $25 billion or so per year that it's doing in capital investment, around the world in other oil provinces and other energy developments. so b.p. has a lot of cash flow with which to pay things. and also you need to realize that we're not asking b.p. and b.p. isn't going to pay all of its damages tomor

. >> president barack obama was in illinois monday attending a memorial day ceremony. he was about to speak at the abraham lincoln national cemetery when a rainstorm canceled the event. however, the president was able to lay a wreath in honor of servicemen and women who served the country. ♪ [ ♪ [taps] >> vice president joe biden was at arlington national cemetery honoring those who gave their lives in the nation's wars. he gave his address where he was joined by the joint chiefs chairman admiral mike mullen and the debt -- and the deputy defense secretary. ♪ ♪ [star spangled banner] banner"] ♪ ♪ [drum roll] ♪ ["taps"] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> please and gentlemen, please stand for the introduction of the vice-president, conners, invocation and national anthem. -- ownerhonors, invocation and national anthem. >mr. jack meter, arlingt national cemetery superintendent. major general carl r. horst, the united states army district of arm -- of washington. about role michael mullen, chairman, joint chiefs of staff. the hon. -- hon. william flynt iii, deputy -- wliam lynn iii,

they won barack obama and us to fail. we are not going to fail. -- a they want barack obama and us to fail. we are not going to fail. [applause] why did we have to do something about wall street? we have to do something about wall street because if you draw a straight line from the unchecked greed on wall street to the layoffs and foreclosures on main street, it is a pretty easy line to see. i remember i had to go to mr. calenture who taught geometry and beg for a passing grade. i did not learn much about geometry. i learned that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line and it is a straight line between wall street and main street. . i spend four years of my life in the nevada gaming commission. it was an interesting time of my life. the one thing that we worked hard to do was to make sure that games of chance in nevada were fair. if someone lost their money, the lost it fair and square. if they want, they won by playing in a fair game. wall street had a fair deal. they used our money. ii they were one

this has not been addressed by barack obama and anyone else. the oil rigs, the entire process needs to be changed. and all of the mechanisms, whenever the defect, it all needs to be changed and all 33 oil rigs, to come out with a new process, possibly all underneath the ground. thank you very much. host: anthony, republican line. massachusetts. caller: thank you for having me. i think this is horrible what is happening obviously, and i think the whole conclusion that we need to change everything -- all the oil rigs, we need to change all of them. i understand that, it is a great idea. the only problem is, we are not the only ones drilling down there. the russians are all over the world in deep sea rigging, and they have -- there technology -- vera technology adding dates back to the 1960's and 1970's. -- their technology dates back to the 1960's and 1970's. but where is the outrage at the government for waiting 55 days? we want to point the finger -- fine -- find where the evil capitalists are hiding and say those are the moneymakers and they a

signed, barack obama, the white house, june 8, 2010. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the committee on foreign affairs and ordered printed. the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representate it's, madam, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the house of representatives, i have the honor to transmit a filled enelope from the white house and said to contain a message from the president whereby he submits a a notice filed earlier with the federal register continuing the emergency with respect to bell ruse first declared an executive order, of june 16, 2006. with best wishes i am, signed sincerely, lorraine c. miller, clerk of the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will read the message. the clerk: to the congress of the united states. sections 202-d of the national emergency act provide for the automatic termination of a national emergency left prior to the anniversary date of its declaration the president publishes and the federal re

speaker -- >> when you think about the optics of barack obama potentially getting elected united states theereckless and their supporters will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did odds of timber 11. >> the reforms i aa proposing would not provide -- not apply to those who are here illegally. >> you lie! >> i ammdoing a story tonight that i wanted to debunk these fema camps. if you trust our government, it's fine. if you have any kind of audio] [no6 c16 c13 >> he said he hopes he fails. we hope that -- he said that a lot. i hope every progressiie across america today, i hope those comments sink in because the right wing does want our president to fail. anything is that theseus%- characters on the eetreme right will stop at nothing to destroy this administration, to destroy a progressive policy agenda from being enacted. this is what i call the total war concept of politics being waged by the right and we have to be aware of it and ready to fight back against it. we have a fantastic panel of experts to talk about what is going on. i would like to introduce a brooklyn

we'll be joined thursday night by the president of the united states, barack obama. touch cocaine anymore. was it hard to stop doing it? >> no, it wasn't. by the time that i had stopped doing it, it was ruining my life. so no, i kind of just threw it away, i guess. >> larry: british tabloids say that you recently -- i want to get this right -- you walked into a local pub in birmingham, you had a few drinks and picked up everybody's tab when you left. true? >> yes. what's wrong with buying a few friends a beer. >> larry: all right. you're in the midst now of a massive world tour. in fact, you're coming to us from the o2 arena in london where you'll be performing. what is that pressure like, to go on that kind of tour? >> it's a wonderful pressure. it's the most amazing pressure. it's not like any other kind of pressure. it's not under pressure, it's not water pressure. it's not pressure cooker. it's just wonderful. it's miraculous. i'm so blessed. i look out into the audience and i scream and cry, and we sing and we cheer and we dance. and i can't believe that 17,000

bush and renominated by barack obama last august.is scholarly expertise is in the great depression and its causes, and that prepared him for the historic task in facing the second greatest financial crisis in our nation's history. he has been at the center of the extraordinary efforts of this country, indeed the world, to rescue us from the frightening near-collapse of the financial system in the fall of 2008 by making available literally trillions of dollars of official funds and helping us to understand better what happened and how to respond. for his work, we can only offer our appreciation, our support, and our fervent hope that he and his colleagues will succeed in enabling healthy and sustainable economic growth. the other day i saw a picture of him standing on the great wall of china. he was of course much more than an ordinary tourist. for some reason, my thoughts turn to one of his predecessors, william boardman, chairman from 1951 to 1970. and as i recollect it, his travel schedule consisted of trips between washington and

whether ross perot or bill clinton or newt gingrich or barack obama or the tea party. that is who they are attaching themselves to and that is why our politics keep swinging become and forth. host: south carolina, a state with a lot going on today. easley, south carolina, pat on the republican lane. -- republican line. caller: i wanted to ask do you think nancy pelosi will be voted out today in guest: no. no. host: any other thoughts and perspective? what is the most important race to you today in south carolina? caller: i think the governor. i kind of want to go with nicky haley is probably who i will vo vote with. i'm not sure yet. i hope south carolina can get back to the morals that we stand for, because what our governor done was a disgrace and it shouldn't happen. i just hope that south carolina can get back to morals what we stand for. host: thank you. take us deeper. this has gotten a lot of play. guest: it sure has. whatever your position on the morals of the state are, i think everybody down there must have a desire to get back to some political comity and a

how many people here voted for barack obama? how many voted for john mccain? how many of you are pleased with the job that obama is doing? how many of you would like to see a different precedent? -- president. i am just curious. when know who we are talking with. [laughter] now we can pander a little more. [laughter] should have asked that in the beginning. >> it is a great job being a journalist. you make money -- momentary entries into peoe's lives. guess what? you get to get out when they cease to be interesting. doctors, lawyers, you are stuck with the appendixes and pains. you go into a newsroom and i thinthis is one of the reasons we love the new it is electric. whats going on? what is happening? what do we not know about it. what is our approach and methods to find out? >> the most amazing moment of my life, i was 16 years old and i walked into a newsroom. i remember that to this day. i did not get the job. i was going to apply for the job. i was a copy boy. the guy who gave me the tour and rer,was my perspective highe took me over to a cart or the newsp

it shows they are so insane about barack obama. whatever he is for, they will be against. even if that matters, if it means there a long political destruction. who would defend bp? at obama came out tomorrow and said i have a cure for cancer, the macaulay press, say, hold on. we are not sure this is the right thing to do. we get a lot of money from the cancer people and we are, this could affect jobs. what about the people who care cancer and what about the people who operate on people. they would find some argument to be pro cancer. >> larry: if she is confirmed, all nine justices will be graduates of ivy league law schools. any concern over that? they're all supposedly brilliant. >> they should all be from pace college? >> larry: remember that guy that said we should have mediocrity? >> that does not bother me. we want people from our elite institutions of higher learning. ely is a bad word but i happen to like ely people who are really in their fields. if i have heart trouble, i want an elite dr. there you go. what worries me is that there are now, as always have been in

whereas israel would face a threat from a nuclear weapons-armed iran, whereas president barack obama has been firm and clear in declaring united states opposition to a nuclear-armed iran, stating on november 7, 2008, quote, let me state, repeattwhat i stated during the course of the campaign, iran's development of a nuclear weapon, i believe, is unacceptable, unquote. and if i might interject here, this bill is drafted to be extremely bipartisan, to show that people on both sides of the aisle have the same concerns. we just got to get people signed on as co-sponsors so that we can get this to the floor for a vote. but going back to the resolution, whereas on october 26, 2005, at a conference in tehran called world without zionism, iranian president ahmadinejad, stated, quote, guide willing, with the force of god behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the united states and zionism, unquote, whereas "the new york times" reported that during his october 26, 2005, speech, president ahmadinejad called for, quote, this occupying regime, israel, to be wiped off the map, unquote

how many people here voted for barack obama? how many voted for john mccain? job that obama is doing? how many of you would like to see a different precedent? -- president. i am just curious. when know who we are talking with. [laughter] now we can pander a little more. [laughter] we should have asked that in the beginning. >> it is a great job being a journalist. you make money -- momentary entries into people's lives. guess what? you get to get out when they cease to be interesting. doctors, lawyers, you are stuck with the appendixes and pains. you go into a newsroom and i think this is one of the reasons we love the news, it is electric. what is going on? what is happening? what do we not know about it. what is our approach and methods to find out? >> the most amazing moment of my life, i was 16 years old and i walked into a newsroom. i remember that to this day. i did not get the job. i was going to apply for the job. i was a copy boy. the guy who gave me the tour and rer,was my perspective highe took me over to a cart or the newspapers had just come. he sa

at the time, she was the presumptive democratic nominee running against some guy named barack obama. she had a guy breaking the law right at the top of a campaign. mrs. clinton's fund-raisers and staff said they did not know that this fund raiser was breaking the law, and i agree with them. the point is, someone can flout the campaign finance laws right up in one of the most important campaigns and most important candidates in recent history. it is probably happening all the time. >> this was from april 1, 2009. the headline is "u.s. news: lawmakers have long rewarded their aides with bonuses." what is legistorm? >> it was started by a man who left and founded his own web site. a lot of people in d.c. have an interest in showing a greater spotlight on campaign finances. jeff freely is one of them. his website makes it easy for people to figure out and track the money within congress. not what congress is appropriating money for, but literally how much a committee is spending on running the committee, how much a congressional office spends on flowers, transportation, on the tvs that t

an all-in counterinsurgency campaign with as much money and as many years as it will take and barack obama'sesire to put limits on our intervention in afghanistan. and all of these small things about obama not paying enough attention, that's really ultimately i think goes to this root question, which is obama is trying to limit this war because he sees a larger strategic picture in which the united states is going deeper and deeper into debt and needs to focus on other things and mcchrystal wants to do whatever it takes to win the war. >> larry: michael, you want to comment? >> no, i think peter has it exactly right. if you look at the speech president obama made last march of 2009, he specifically says, my goal is to narrow the aims of the u.s. effort in afghanistan. a year later, those aims under the command of general mcchrystal had expanded ex po nesh shully. >> larry: what do you think of petraeus coming on the scene? >> i think there's a couple reasons he was chosen. there's not going to be a change in strategy immediately. think the president did what he had to do today. every person

bush in 2006, renominated by barack obama for a second four- year term last august. his scholarly expertise is the great depression and its causes and that prepared him for the historic task of responding to the second greatest financial crisis in our country's history. he has been at the center of the extraordinary efforts of this country, indeed the world, to rescue us from the frightening near-collapse at as the financial system in the fall of 2008, by making available trillions of dollars of officials bowens and helping us to understand better what happened and how to respond. for his work, we can only offer our appreciation, our support, and our fervent hope that he and his colleagues will succeed in enabling healthy and sustainable economic growth. the other day, i saw a picture of him standing on the great wall of china. he was much more than an ordinary tourist. for some reason, my thoughts turned to one of his predecessors, william martin, the chair of the federal reserve from 1951-1970. as i recollect it, his travel schedule consisted of trips between washi

it just shows that they are so insane about barack obama and whatever he is for, they will be against, even if it matters -- if it means their own political destruction. i mean, who would defend bp? if obama came out tomorrow and said, i have the cure for cancer, i swear they would call a press conference and say, hold on, we are not sure this is the right thing to do. we got a lot of money from the cancer people. this could affect jobs, this could affect growth what about the people who cure cancer? what about the people who operate on the people who cure cancer? >> larry: if she is confirmed, all nine supreme court justices will be graduates of ivy league law schools. any concern over that? like they are all supposedly brilliant? >> right. well, they should all be from pace college? >> larry: remember that guy who said maybe we should have mediocrity? >> that doesn't bother me. we want people from our -- you know, elite institutions of higher learning. i know elite is a bad word in america, but i happen to like elite people who are elite in their fields. if i, you know, have heart t

you suspect barack obama. >> news media should do a penetrating expo save and take a look, a great look at the views of the people in congress and find out are they proamerica or antiamerica. matty likes america because we have freedom here and matty believes in patient choice health care. >> this motion does not promote life. . we hear that a lot. it is something that i hope that every progressive here today and across america, those comments really sink in. the right-wing lee does want to our president to fail. if history has taught us anything -- the right wing really does want our present to fail. if history has taught us anything, this is what i call a cold war, the politics that is being raised by the right. we have to be aware of it and ready to fight back against it coul. we have a great panel of experts to talk with us about what is going on. our guests new book has been released last week. when that has a long history of incendiary morning commentary -- eck has a long history of incendiary morning commentary. could you make the case that he is surpassing rush limbaugh as the n

leadership position harry reid is able to attract t biggest named democratic surgates and potentially barack obama and his wife the president has been to nevad twice. once specically with a number of campaigns fund-raisers. michelle obama was advocating for her position foromen's an children's health. but she is immensely popular with the democratic base in va

my precinct voted 80% for barack obama. there were a lot of people who live in precincts that voted 80% r john mccain. yes redistricting reform but let's not prtend that this will and polarization in politics. and i want to offer martha challenge here. because i love what she is talking about. and i have always wanted change of bars and grills t have special political evenings. you know, applebes or chili's or thank god it's friday, that would invite people i thought folks have a drink presidential debates. i would love him to invite people from both sides to have discussions. mayb you can have a half our presentation beforehand that would include a little rachel matter, a little riley, a little overman. also a letter their news are. some of my friends on npr. and then kick off the conversation that would at least try to bring people together. politics needs to be fun. i think oneof my biggest criticism of the way we deal with politics is we get so serious about that we forget in our history, politics was once a great form

. >> president barack obama: it is now clear this cyber threat is one of the most serious economic andational security challenges we face as a nation. >> kroft: four months after taking office, president obama made those concerns part of our national defense policy, declaring the country's digital infrastructure a strategic asset, and confirming that cyber warfare had moved beyond theory. >> president obama: we know that cyber intruders have probed our electrical grid, and that, in other countries, cyber attacks have plunged entire cities into darkness. >> kroft: president obama didn't say which country had been plunged into darkness, but a half a dozen sources in the military, intelligence, and private security communities have told us the president was referring to brazil. several prominent intelligence sources confirmed that there were a series of cyber attacks in brazil: one north of rio de janiero in january of 2005 that affected three cities and tens of thousands of people, and another much larger event beginning on september 26, 2007. that one, in the state of espirito santo, af

he was among a group of generals who campaigned in 2008 for barack obama. mark thompson, where do things stand right now? is mcchrystal on his way out? >> well, jim, i think it's important to note that this story hit washington this morning like an i.e.d. nobody could understand why general mcchrystal would say such things or his staff. it's important to point out that this isn't an argument about policy. it's not a general being insubordinate to a president. it has to do with personalities and somewhat sophomoreic comments that both he and some of his closest aides made to this reporter. the key question is the president might get a sense or a good feeling if he cans mcchrystal simply because this is the second time this has happened in less than a year. but on the cusp of the u.s. and nato effort toward taking over kandahar and taking it back from the taliban, it may be a decision he really can't aafford to make right now. >> lehrer: what's the best word on how in the world this happened. mcchrystal himself said this should not have happened. how did it?

problem for the united states, for the troops fighting there, but it becomes a political problem for barack obama running for reelection, having made that pledge. >> woodruff: the president himself made clear it was a soft date just yesterday. >> the president had said it was a soft date. he's trying to, obviously, get some wiggle room on it. politically it would be a problem if in the summer of 2012 there is not significant, positive progress, that there isn't some sense of a governable nation, that this isn't the graveyard of empires, which we've learned from alexander the great to gengus khan and the british and russians that that's what afghanistan has been. >> woodruff: financial reform. we're gog completely change the subject. the conference committee came out with an agreement, a consensus of sorts last nit, although it was divided on party lines. they came out with something. david what, do you mang of this? is this going to address the problem that is pretty much everybody says exists in our financial sector? >> as jeffrey's segment illustrated, it has a million working people. i guess m

and barack obama is not only a democrat but a democrat that's never served in uniform. so you can imagine the thoughts that were going through his head beyond just the question of whether mcchrystal had stepped too far over the line and whether change horses in midstream in afghanistan would be a problem for the strategy. but there's the larger perception in obama's case , and, you know, i think it's reinforced by the concern about his leadership in the gulf oil spill, that this could be a really tough decision and one fathere was a great burden on him to make the right way. >> suarez: and do you agree with brett mcgurk, this is also, maybe, an opportunity? >> i wish it were an opportunity but, again, what's happening is paradoxically, it wasn't really a debate about policy. you know, the president has basically, after the afghan strategy review of last fall, gave , you know, general mcchrystal and general petraeus almost everything they wanted. >> suarez: professor desch, brett mcgurk, gentlemen, thank you both. >> woodruff: still to come on the newshour, health worrie