gwen: mitt romney and barack obama square off. the primaries may not be over but the general election has begun. we examine the battle lines tonight on "washington week." >> the republicans running congress right now have doubled down. and proposed a budget so far to the right it makes the contract with america look like the new deal. >> what exactly does president obama intend to do differently once he's no longer accountable to the voters? gwen: fighting words as the leading candidates for president visibly shift tactics. mitt romney is no longer running against republicans. >> mitt romney has already pivoted to the general election campaign. that whether rick santorum stays in or not is now basically irrelevant. gwen: and president obama, like all incumbents, is defending his own policies. >> under president obama, domestic oil production is at an eight-year high. so why is big oil attacking him? because he's fighting to end their tax breaks. gwen: the economy, the voter, the supreme court, the candidates, all caught up in one

>> so there is nothing wrong with professor west's critique of barack obama -- president barack obamaroblem was the style in which he offered to critique and which clearly resonated with most folks as being something that has less to do with policy and more to do with the personal rant between the two of them. so i think that is why they can't reject it. i think what is very real if we think about mainstream media in this country, they have absolutely neglected what has been a very significant of critique of barack obama that is just as substantial as the critique we hear from the right and the tea party, but the critique is invisible. it wasn't for folks like black agenda report as an example, we wouldn't know that with the left making a critique of barack obama. that said, the same way any of these folks make politicians accountable. the facts and come e-mail, great letters, show up in their office, right? you consciously tell them i am not giving you money this month because you're not representing what we do. this is the thing that white folks to buy the time. we think about ralph

i am both inspired by barack obama, but i'm also reminded that barack obama -- his administration isof hatred and the tree all and disrespect that makes me want to defend him. i think it is a complicated relationship that we have with brock obama. i think it is very nuanced. i think it is a mistake, as you said, to avoid the voices of people on the left -- the organizers, the nationalists, the people who are doing community work and are concerned about issues that are affecting us on a daily basis. i think it is a mistake to ignore those voices, and i think it's a mistake to for barack obama not to hear us. the last thing i want to say is that mark talked about how teachers and schools are racist and are enacting their racism against our young boys in school. based upon how they have been trained and socialized and how they have been conditioned to see black men is dangerous and criminals -- write? barack obama is being treated the same way. in congress, among his peers, on capitol hill, the governor of arizona wagging his -- her finger in his face. the public displays of disrespect

>>> hoy es viernes 13 de abril del 2012, estos son los titulares, el presidente barack obama llegÓ hastacolombia para la cumbre las americas, y hablÓ con univisiÓn. tambiÉn en colombia varios explosivos de bajo poder fueron detonados esta noche, tenemos las imÁgenes quien no sabe si irÁ a la cumbre es el presidente hugo chÁvez y tenemoun estudio que pone a honduras de primero en la lista de paÍses mÁs violento del planeta [ ♪ ]. [ ♪ ]. >>> muy buenas noches, el presidente barack obama llegÓ hoy a cartagena colombia para participar en la cumbre de las americas, a su llegada hablÓ con su compaÑero enrique acevedo, la lucha contra el trÁfico de drogas, enrique, buenas noches, adelante. >>> hola, ¿quÉ tal?, ilia, muy buenas noches, el presidente barack obama llegÓ a eso de la 4 a cartagena colombia, la ciudad se encuentra, por supuesto, con mucha seguridad, no obstante, recibimos informaciÓn que se escucharon la explotaciÓn de 4 petardos. [informaciÓn en pantalla] donde se realizan los trabajos, regresando al te del presidente barack obama, hablamos con Él... platicamos tambiÉn con el de est

. >> el presidente de los estados unidos barack obama habla con uno sobre las expectativas de la cumbree las américas . >> honduras padece la violencia, dicen que es el país más peligroso, acompáñenos con esto y más . >> se llama estereosol, puro méxico, así que te invitamos a que empieces el día con pura diversion. >> con piolin en la mañana . >> así que ya lo sabes, es una estacion para hombres . >> a ellas les encanta . >> estereosol, puro méxico . -si tiene planes de compar una >> si tienes planes de comprar una casa, quizás sea el mejor momento para tomarse el paso, debido al déficit del mercado, los intereses bajaron casi un puinto, puede pedir un préstamo a 30 años con un interés de 3,1 porciento . >> este fin de semana es de estrenos en la pantalla grande, para decirnos cuáles películas debutaran está con nosotros carolina ramirezs . >> este fin de semana tenemos varias alternativas para disfrutar en todos los cines del país, ciencia ficcion terror y una comedia . >> esto es hola hollywood. >> nuestro primer estreno es knock out . >> nos relata la historia de un ex agente del go

e hoy en telemundo, el presidente barack obama, responde sobre migraciÓn economÍa y el en cuadro de caroeta, cumbre los amÉrica, canciller ponen sobre la mesa temas que no quieren dejar fuera de la agenda. >>> 100 aÑos de recuerdos una familia mexicana revive con orgullo la hazaÑa del Único mexicano que muriÓ en el titanic. >>> noticiero telemundo con joÉe dÍaz-balart, desde tampa flor a florida. >>> hola ¿quÉ tal? muy buenas tardes, hoy transmitiendo en tampa donde el presidente hablo sobre comercio, hablamos con presidente barack obama antes que viajara a cartagena de inned dÍas, migraciÓn, polÍtica y con mÍa, estuvieron entre los temas principales pero hoy, un punto obligado corea del norte tras el fallido lanzamiento, sobre este tema y reportes que este paÍs estarÍa intentando construir un misil con armamento nuclear, comenzamos la entrevista con presidente barack obama. >>> corea del norte lanzÓ un misil, hay reportes que estarÍan diciendo que estarÍan intentando construir un misil. >>> esto es un tema preocupante y una violaciÓn del consejo de seguridad de la onu (organizaciÓn de l

amÉricas sin documento final, pero con un creciente escÁndalo sexual en estados unidos, el presidente barack obamala del tema en el congreso anuncian investigaciÓn. >>> devastador el paso de los tornados por el paÍs, entre las 5 vÍctimas mortales hay 3 niÑ. >>> controversia en el salvador por la desmilitarizaciÓn de las cÁrceles. >>> 100 aÑos despuÉs el titanic retoma el rumbo, vamos con la informaciÓn ♪. >>> este es >>> buenas noches, bienvenidos al noticiero univisiÓn del fin de semana, cuba y las malvinas bloquean cualquier posibilidad de acuerdo entre los presidentes en la cumbre de las amÉricas, en estados unidos, la reuniÓn, tendrÁ consecuencias diferentes, el escÁndalo sexual de los agentes del servicio secreto llegarÁ al congreso. >>> hola, fÉlix muy buenas noches, como muy bien lo dices, dos lunares, tendieron a opacar la sexta cumbre de las amÉricas, en cartagena, colombia, por un lado, el escÁndalo de@ agentes del servicio secreto y por otro lado que no haya un documento oficial, esta ciudad poco a poco vuelve al a normalidad, tenemos los detalles del encuentro del presidente barack oba

amÉricas sin documento final, pero con un creciente escÁndalo sexual en estados unidos, el presidente barack obamala del temafseman en el congreso an investigaciÓn. >>> devastador el paso de los tornados por el paÍs, entre las not uni-fsemana late rptunivisis >>> buenas noches, bienvenidos al noticiero univisiÓn del fin de semana, cubanot uni-fsemana estados unidos,t uni-fsemana la, el escÁndalo sexual de lost uni llegarÁ al congreso. >>> hola, fÉlix muy buenas noches, como muy biennot lofse dosfsemana late rptunivision@@nn >>> para el gobierno de colombia la cumbre de las amÉricas fue un rotundo Éxito, mÁxime despuÉs que el presidente de colombia, juan manuel santos se reuniera con el presidente barack obama, para dar fecha de un tratado que colombia esperÓ por aÑos. >>> que el 15 de mayo, exactamente en un mes, entra en vigencia, en tÉrminos prÁcticos el tratado de libre comercio con estados unidos. >>> incluso el tiempo de las visas que eran dadas por estados unidos a los colombianos fue duplicado. >>> la vigencia de las visas que estados unidos da a los colombianos serÁ por 10 aÑos. >>> para l

to republicans, the great unifier in this race is barack obama. care not just because we think it's bad medicine or bad economics, but it changes freedom in america. other areas that we're very concerned. i will tell you, i'm very troubled about his attacks on the supreme court this week. that's not the first time this president did it. two state of the unions ago, he went after the supreme court when they were sitting in the audience. you know, i think that's an issue. i think that will become a big issue in the fall. >> it has been sort of standard operating procedure on the right to attack the supreme court as not just godless but unelected and tyrannical. >> and tear wrong to do that. >> so you think that's wrong on both sides. >> i do. we have to respect the constitution. it lays out how our country is governed and not to have that respect is wrong. both sides do work hard to get their nominees on the supreme court. let's not doubt that. one of the reasons rick santorum will tell you he worked so hard to support arlen specter is he had specter

the basic case against barack obama. >> the case against barack obama is his record. that cannot run for reelection on his record and normally presidential elections are referendum on the president. in this case the policies are not only unpopular, they make it harder to create jobs when the government sucks owl of the money out of the economy. when potential employers are told that the president is going to stick them with the largest tax increase in american history, $1.5 trillion of new taxes how do potential employers say well, gee, i think i will hire some more people even though i'm going to lose all of that money. when they don't know what their obligations are going to be for healthcare for their employees but they know that the cost of healthcare has gone up under the obama administration how are employers expected to have more jobs? we talked about bad energy policy. if this election is about obama's policies he is going to lose and the democrats will try to do neglect they can do to keep it from being about his policies. >> chris: we will leave it there. go

that's right, president barack obama is here. welcome to chapel hill, everybody. >> steve: from the university of north carolina at chapel hill, the national broadcasting company presents "late night with jimmy fallon." tonight's guest is, president of the united states barack obama. musical guest dave matthews. and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is, jimmy fallon! >> jimmy: how's everyone doin' tonight? ♪ how are you guys doing? welcome to late night with jimmy fallon. i'm so excited. tonight on the show we have the president of the united states, barack obama. unfortunately, though, a lot of people aren't able to get tickets, that includes students, professors, joe biden. it was a very hot ticket. we also have dave matthews performing tonight. [ cheers and applause ] >> and he -- he wasn't originally the musical guest, but we had a last minute cancellation by the tupac hologram, so -- [ laughter ] >> this is pretty awesome, the graduation here at unc chapel hill is 19 days away. [ cheers and applause ] >> so it

to republicans, the great unifier in this race is barack obama. e think it's bad medicine or bad economics, but it changes freedom in america. but it's not just limited to that. it lays out how our country is governed and not to have that respect is wrong. both sides do work hard to get their nominees on the supreme court. let's not doubt that. one of the reasons rick santorum will tell you he worked so hard to support arlen specter is he had specter guarantee his vote for whatever judges came up which happened to be roberts and alito which right now we see why that's so important to conserve tifs. >> here's a campaign issue which is about your candidate, but it's a question about how he has handled your campaign. i have criticized your candidate on the air including last night for a couple of things that he has said that seemed to please his audiences very much that were very blatantly not true. he said this week that at the university of california, there's a number of campuses that don't teach american history. it's not available. he had also sa

where has that barack obama gone? he once promised to hold themselves accountable, but now he spends time making excuses -- hold himself accountable, but now he spends time the excuses for his failures. he blamed the arab spring. he blamed atm machines and earthquakes in japan and even bad luck. excuses will not pay the mortgage. his class warfare will not create a single job. like all of our candidates, our next speaker understands that. we're grateful, honored, and blessed to have governor romney with us today. the governor is running a remarkable campaign, unlike president obama. governor romney is not afraid on running on issues, solutions, and an incredible record. and what our record he has, as senator mccain just laid out, turning around companies, turning around the olympics, and turning around a state. if there was ever an entity that needed a turnaround, a new direction, it is the united states under barack obama. throughout his career, governor romney has been a fiscal, responsible, conservative leader. he

the basic case against barack obama. >> the case against barack obama is his record. that cannot run for reelection on his record and normally presidential elections are referendum on the president. in this case the policies are not only unpopular, they make it harder to create jobs when the government sucks owl of the money out of the economy. when potential employers are told that the president is going to stick them with the largest tax increase in american history, $1.5 trillion of new taxes how do potential employers say well, gee, i think i will hire some more people even though i'm going to lose all of that money. when they don't know what their obligations are going to be for healthcare for their employees but they know that the cost of healthcare has gone up under the obama administration how are employers expected to have more jobs? we talked about bad energy policy. if this election is about obama's policies he is going to lose and the democrats will try to do neglect they can do to keep it from being about his policies. >> chris: we will leave it there. go

platicamos con el presidente barack obama. y hablÓ de muchos temas. o es algo que nos dijo el presidente obama. cuando asumiÓ la presidencia. >>> esperaban una nueva era en relaciÓn con estados unidos 3 aÑos despuÉs, muchos expresan de excepciÓn. >>> que pudo haber hec mÁs para xbmejorar las relaciones c latinoamÉrica. >>> la verdad, es que lo q hemos logrado en los Últimos 3 aÑos es notable. hemos expandidol comercio en la regiÓn. hemos suscrito acuerdos de libre comercio con panamÁ y colombia. lo cual es parte de un proceso integral de expansiÓn del comercio entre los estados unidos y latinoamÉrica. por 46% dde que asumÍ la presidencia. >>> lo que es cierto, es que siempre podemos hacer mÁs. y creo que las expectativas son altas pero cuando uno mira, nuestro concepto bÁsico. que Íbamos a cambiar la dinÁmica entre los estados unidos y latinoamÉrica. de manera que se fundamentara en intereses mutuos, en el respeto mutuo. y en la idea que somos socios iguales, para mejorar las oportunidades de las personas por todo el he mmisferio creo q hemos superado

tendrán como rumbo final la alcaldía de eesa ciudad ♪. >>> la campaña de reelección del presidente barack obamaaña para el voto latino para noviembre, ya está declarada, bajo el nombre de latinos por obama, la campaña de reelección del presidente barack obama comenzó, y republicanos como ileana ross lethinen creen que elo presidente barack obama no ha cumplido con la población hispana. >>> creo que los ataques del presidente barack obama contra el partido republicano, contra mitt romney y contra todos, es un chiste cruel contra la población hispana, porque él piensa que somos tontos, que no nos acordamos de las promesas que ha hecho. >>> robert menéndez responde que los republicanos no ayudaron en la crisis financiera. >>> los republicanos no dieron ni un voto en la reforma migratoria, ni un voto en el dream act, incluyendo las personas que fueron autores del dream act republicano,úmero 2, se les olvida que ellos bajo 8 años del presidente bush, dieron una crisis económica que no habíamos visto nunca antes. >>> el presidente barack obama intercambió ataques con mitt romney, mientras el mandatar

mÁxime despuÉs que el presidente de colombia, juan manuel santos se reuniera con el presidente barack obamar aÑos. >>> que el 15 de mayo, exactamente en un mes, entra en vigencia, en tÉrminos prÁcticos el tratado de libre comercio con estados unidos. >>> incluso el tiempo de las visas que eran dadas por estados unidos a los colombianos fue duplicado. >>> la vigencia de las visas que estados unidos da a los colombianos serÁ por 10 aÑos. >>> para los jefes de estado, atrÁs quedaron las Épocas en que era simples aliados comerciales. >>> somos aliados para un nuevo orden mundial. >>> el hecho que hayamos realizado la cumbre de las amÉricas que haya sido de gran Éxito, es un reflejonot unemana transformaciÓn en este paÍs. >>> el de trabajar juntos, para ayudar a los paÍses de centro amÉrica en sus problemas de lucha contra el crimen organizado y el narcotrÁfico. >>> el presidente barack obama dijo que los agentes del servicio secreto implicados en un escÁndalo sexual seran investigados. >>> el presidente barack obama dijo que apoyarÁ a colombia en su intento de entrar a la ocde, la organizaciÓn

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romney can hold his own, is he likely to defeat barack obama. that's because mr. obama's leadership is in question. the economy is still shaky, oil prices are hurting working americans and the president's vision of an entitlement state funded by wealthy americans is controversial to say the least. but governor romney has problems of his own. he is perceived as being out of touch with the regular folks, has not been able to convince conservatives he is one of them and his personality is kind of laid back. he hopes to defeat the eloquent barack obama, his rhetoric has to become much sharper. romney shoulding studying tapes of ronald reagan who was laid back guy who put together some devastating one liners that pinned president carter to the wall. romney will have to do that with president obama. as talking points has been saying, the election is the most important one in our lifetimes because it offers a stark contrast between big government income redistribution and small government self-reliance. vice president biden puts it this way. >> i think this is going to be

that was of course hillary clinton and her concession to barack obama four years ago. her standout job as secretary of state has set her up for a run next time, of course, but is she better off or -- if obama loses or wins this fall? >> some predictors say yes, belter off if he loses. kathleen, this is a question that just have come to the minds of the clintons as they considered these questions? >> gosh, do you think? [laughter] >> the you think hillary would be more likely to run and win both if he is re-elected. >> if he's re-elected, will she have a chance of winning better? ing hillary clinton, first of all i want so much for her to have a nice little break and cap much on her rest because she's done a fantastic job. if she ran today against mitt romney, she would win. i can't tell you how many people on both sides would rally for her. they like herks admire her, respect her and would put her in. chris: 2016? >> she's going to be 68 years old. i don't know if she would want to run then. we clearly have a different standard for men and women. chris: younger than rea

>> guest: one thing you can rely on barack obama. hing is wrong it is someone else's fault. oil prices are high. he said is the oil companies and republicans part. we have more despite obama's policy. we in the gulf knew there didn't need to be a moratorium and the president's own expert panel said don't have a moratorium but politicians in the white house slipped into their report have a moratorium. almost every single policy of the administration sent a signal to the world market. americans are not going to produce abundant energy we are blessed with and that is has helped to drive up the price of oil. >> chris: governor, i want to switch. everybody thought going into the last six months that the economy would be the big issue in the campaign and a bad issue for the president, but the economy keeps getting better and created more than a million job and unemployment down to 8.3 percent even though half million people entered the work force last month. can't the president make the argument. look. unemployment is still too high. i inhe

the president of the united states, barack obama is here.the front man of one of the most popular bands in the world, dave matthews is performing tonight. brand new song he'll perform tonight, it's just beautiful. you'll love the song, it's fantastic. so tonight the president of the united states will be out here in a few minutes. just so you know, one of the reasons he's here is to talk to you guys about student loans. you may have seen this, but president obama has asked congress to stop the independent rates on stafford loans from going up this summer. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: yeah. i was going to make a joke about this news, but i don't think it needs a joke. you know what i'm talking about tariq? >> tariq: yeah, jimmy, i think you're saying you want to slow jam the news? >> jimmy: yeah, i want to slow jam the news, and i'm not the only one. [ cheers and applause ] >> hi, i'm president barack obama. and i too want to slow jam the news. >> jimmy: hit it presidential style. ♪ [ laughter ] >> on july 1st of this year, the interest

are they ready to compete with barack obama? the new fashion and the old fashioned way? is no they are not. it is one of the reasons that the obama campaign opened doors for business exactly a year ago because they had work to do to reenergize that army. republicans concede they have to start rebuilding specifically the state parties. we heard about the health of the rnc but the state parties. ohio has had a massive civil war inside their republican party. at the end of the day one outside influence or one different influence this year is superpacs going to do a lot of that stuff on television. i remain skeptical that it has to be the state parties organizing. right now democrats have an advantage. >> a close race that old fashioned stuff. the hard work of politics matters. >> lisa sylvestor is with us now with the latest news you need to know. >> north korea says it is nearly finished preparations to launch apsatellite using a long range rocket. tells cnn he doesn't have high confidence that he is not preparing to test a nuclear device. >> i think be able to make a good

. >> leggs barack obama? who is in his corner? -- who likes barack obama? was in his corner? >> women, african-americans, latinos -- >> younger voters. >> part of the challenge is to get them out but he had huge enthusiasm in 2008. clearly that is not there in the same way now. the registration of latino voters is actually down, and that is a problem for democrats. >> what about in a patent -- independents? >> let it be said about rick santorum, he won 11 contests, 11. in 1976, ronald reagan won at 12 and a = emerged as the leader of the conservative party. he has a chance to emerge as the leader of the conservative leader within the republican party. >> let it also be set about rick santorum that this is the guy who said that barack obama was is not running -- was a snap for wanting children to go to college, and that listening to kennedy's speech about having no religion in politics made him want to throw up. in the first debate, and a year when it debates were more important than ever, rick santorum was a non-combatant. >> in fairness to him, he was marginalized because he

barack obama, 1961. both came into the world under circumstances which made it surprisingly unlikely that either boy would grow to be president of the united states. one sentence i will respond to -- among the characteristics, the young clinton and obama shared, a competitive will. guest: as far as i understand it, david is writing a book about the young barack obama. he is an expert on that. what i found in doing this book was the image we have a barack obama the we get from the media, from interviews and from observing, is a little different than the true barack obama. i do think -- he has gotten a bad rap from being a bad negotiator, equivocating, looking for compromises. but i do think he has this fierce competitive well, which is tempered by a real pragmatic streak. the sort of burden of office in terms of government responsibly. so there are times when he is in deep sort of try to cut the best deal and not looking for the big fight. there are other times when he is willing to throw the dice. a good