state and former dallas mayor who served as the united states trade representative in president barak obama's first term. he's ambassador ron kirk. this is overheard. (upbeat music) let's be honest. so is this about the ability to learn or is this about the experience of not having being taught properly? how have you avoided what has befallen other nations in africa? i don't mean to say that he'd made his own bed, but you caused him to sleep in it. you saw a problem and over time took it on. let's start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. are you going to run for president? i think i just got an f from you. (upbeat music) mr. ambassador, welcome. - i'm thrilled to be here. thanks for letting me come home. - very nice to see you again, sir. - thanks for letting me come in this building. you know, i've been by here millions of times. i don't think i've been here in years. - welcome to this great stage. we're happy to have you here. you've spent more than 20 years alternating between public life and private life. you did a stint as secretary of state, seven or so years as mayor of dallas

the overwhelming majority of people supported barak obama. he was elected president.o, one scenario that peek talking about trump this way are essentially going to come around eventually. we're watching a historical fissure of the republican party. which is it? are these people serious? >> they're serious but based in my reporting the fissure is not as historic as it is sometimes presented because there's a sense among many in the party, even among grass roots republicans, that once trump assumes the role of the nominee or is close to it, much of the party will rally to him, donors party officials, many elected officials because they believe he could be a strong foe against secretary clinton. his ability to hammer her on issue after issue will excite the group. the only group that will not be excited and is ready to stay out, be on the sidelines is that movement conservative. the ideological conservative who wants purity on issues, likes cruz and just totally suspicious of trump. >> you basically think -- what i'm hearing from you is that the people to whatever sense

but don't turn out at the same rate of enthusiasm and that is what barak obama was able to do. he was able to win despite the bad economy and approval ratings below 50 percent. hillary's problem where she won big, she's losing, voters under 45. she's losing single woman. the unmarried women and a growing key demographic to bernie sanders. when you see republican enthusiasm and turn out doubling in the key battleground states of ohio, florida and north carolina and virginia several weeks ago, they are indicators when you go in a general election match up, enthusiasm is on the right. and in the year there is a toxic attitude toward the establishment. hillary will run into a problem when it comes to people galvanized to turn out for her. >> emily, can hillary excite the obama coalition the same way he did? is >> i think it is there, but the striking numbers in the primary is is the millennial voter she lost with high margins to sanders. they are now very engaged in the process and would turn out for her if she is the nominee against trump or cruz. so i think it is it an assumption

-is it turning out new voters as barak obama did as turning out dream accurates. democrats. the odds for a brokered -- >> trump not releasing his tax returns, we heard it on super tuesday and we certainly heard it again with mr. romney today. >> he did. he said if there wasn't something embarrassing in them that we probably would have seen them by now. >> okay. we will see them tonight at 9:00 tonight. and you won't want to miss it. we go over to producer danielle and she is finding out a lot of social media. jim waynecock all i can think of was mitt romney all over donald trump saying he was incredible. more like gop embarrassment. as a republican mitt is right trump will not only destroy america but the party as well. and trump is a joke. the republican party is really messing this up now. who are they to stop our choices to stop our representative. >> now another interesting online reaction is what people are searching for on google. canada is top of mind these days. a data editor at google tweeted that searches for how can i move to canada have spiked 350%. it happened a

when we look at rankings of prosial greatness, we're going to put in the same system barak obama andeorge washington. but their tasks of leadership, the resources that they had to lead, they were very different. those premodern presidents, presidents before franklin roosevelt, were more clerks than they were leaders. the 19th century, the main job of the president was to distribute patronage. they would appoint people to government offices. it was a thankless task since a president even gets assassinated for his role. james garfield assassinated in 1881. there's no instin institutional support for the president. it's not until 1857 that congress appropriate aides money for the president to hire a clerk. they wind up paying thur own staff, the few staffers they have, out of their own pocket. george washington hires his nephews to copy his letters. presidents have to take loans like thomas jefferson. it leads to andrew saying being president was a situation of dignified slavery. it may be very unfair to compare premodern presidents to modern presidents. off the was different, challenge

>> you have forgotten of course it's all the fall of barak obama as well. >> that's the other argumentyes. >> none of it is true. there are a lot of things that brought about a donald trump. and certainly the way the immigration issue has been a flash point for a lot of unease and concerns of working class white voters out there, displaced in the economy and feeling as if they're losing their place in the society, that's a part of it. but i really do believe that the leadership of the republican party, the strategy that it's pursued over a 20-year period but especially since obama became president, trashing government itself, delegitimizing not just the president but the entire process leads to the two candidates that we have that are the dominant ones now. people who have stepped as far away from politics as we have known it with the republican party, within the republican party, and as its approach the democrats over the last number of years. and as tom and i wrote in the first edition of the book and the new one coming out as well, a party that's contempt chews you of science, of fa

if there's no barak obama, i'm not sure that story line would hurt him. republicans believe barak obama moved up the chain way too fast and that's why we got what we got. >> chris christie effect right now, not being in new jersey, he is suffering at home. want to play a little bit of orin hatch about merrick garland. this is 1997. >> i support the nomination of mr. garland and i encourage my colleagues to do the same. to my knowledge, no one, absolutely no one, disputes the following -- merrick garland is highly qualified to sit on the d.c. circuit. his intelligence and his scholarship cannot be questioned. >> that, of course, those kinds of things will be replayed, the biden rule brian williams was speaking of it earlier with pete williams. the biden speech which was contradicted, of course, by the judiciary chairman at the time, strom thurman, we should be confirming and they went on to do it. >> it's nothing personal. it's just business. the business right now is they move forward and get the business done in the senate and put this aside. maybe they

. >> it's sort of reminiscent of 2008 where charlie was the chief surrogate against barak obama, nicee house. little off message. i think it is important to their campaign to continue to keep bernie sanders in the conversation. they don't want to look like they're dismissing him outright. it's important that they still talk about him, but you can see and your setup was just perfect, andrea as a function of the campaign, they are as the campaign has said to me, cautiously optimistic about wisconsin, but they're really focussing on trying to put this away in new york. i think that's really important to them. >> i think they're trying to run up the score. chris cillizza, they see new york as the great pivot to the april primaries to come, looking towards pennsylvania and, connecticut and the other northeast prooe primaries. >> right. brian fallon on your show yesterday repeatedly pointed to new york and pennsylvania as if bernie sanders can't win there, what does that say? big, big states that have a lot of diversity, have a lot of different kinds of voters in them. that would suggest th

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back in 2008, the corrigan brothers penned a song called there's no one as irish as barak obama. this is true. as the lyrics go from kerry to cork, let's hear it for barak. from old montegal. somehow that line did not result in cries for my birth certificate on the campaign trail. now, to paraphrase something president reagan said. on st. patrick's day, you should sp spend the day with saints and scholars. we have two more stops to make after this. i want to thank speaker ryan for continuing this tradition. it's a welcome break from politics as usual. a moment when we all trade in our red and power blue ties for our green ones. i always imagine everyone leaving marveling at how cheerful and bipartisan washington is. while i may not possess the power of saint patrick, i hope the phospitality extended here s similarly extended to my nominee of the supreme court when he or she arrives. there are two things at least on which democrats and republicans in america, big heartedly agree. one is that we take seriously our responsibility to be good to ireland's sons and daughters, because s

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usually in the end upon of the convention think of hillary clinton and barak obama. they are in unitty and campaigned together. these guys just plain don't like each other. >> and the trump super pac buying ads in wisconsin and pennsylvania to support any candidate but trump. >> who ever wins the nomination at least a thousand or 200 delegates are going to go home unhappy. hillary clinton if she is the nominee can be a mobilizing force. that's the feeling in the clinton camp. each if the sanders people are not happy about her, they will support her against trump. i believe the republicans will feel the same. who ever the nominee is, that person will give republican support because positive distaste for clinton. >> clearly they are trying to appeal to trump supporters. kasich in new york city had to say this. chris? >> i want to make clear to all of you here, for those people who are fervent trump supporters, their frustrations and expressions do not fall on deaf ears for me. i know many of the trump supporters fear for the security of their jobs and believing that po

a person's looks can change quite a bit over eight years >> take a look at george w bush and barak obama at the beginning and end of their presidencies. >> what happens is the president almost ages two years for every years in their office. you can see in the color of their hair and you can see it in the risk of dying. >> wellness expert dr. michael royson says the high stress can make you appear much older if you don't manage it and the good news is when the commander in chief leaves the office, the aging process can be reversed. >> until you are 6 feet under you get a chance of reversing the aging and make yourself much younger. >> dr. royson says this can be accomplished through healthy diet and better management of stress. >> i love that guy. his energy is contagious when he is phenomenal. >> he is the wellness expert. i hope he has the energy. >> maybe if you give me the tips of the stress of being a meteorologist in cleveland. >> that's right. if you get to wrong, they're after you. >> well, you know, a bit of a bust because we're not going to get as much snow as i was thinking yes

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bush for invading iraq and blame barak obama for heading to the exits, but 80 percent lie in a dysfunctionalious radical ideology with muslim groups have created a toxic miss where isis feeds. it has now morphed. and one additional point, the so- called international coalition never did merge. great powers of grit britain and united states is unwilling to deploy forces on the ground if that could answer the problem. the only power that is prepared to act is mr. putin, russia. and russia intervenes in syria not to destroy isis but strengthen the poster child for recruiting isis, and the turks are the same way. they are more interested in hammering the kurds in northeastern syria than dealing with isis. and so it is a long- term problem without a simple fix. with with all due respect to republican and democratic candidates on this issue. >> in world war ii. we were dealing with soldiers and armies that were swearing for hitler and mussolini. they are fighters not wearing uniforms and swearing loyalty to a religion, does that make it harder to stop them? >> it does. isis the paradox. even thoug

clinton very much needs the obama coalition and minority and women voters that helped barak obama. >> but that seems to be for bernie sanders. >> and so she has to fight for that. >> but with minority voters she lost ten percent on south carolina. >> the question is would it go for donald donald trump. but there is cross over with the independents. >> it is a question mark and if you can't predict the past getting us here, we should be skeptical about the future. >> also you mentioned seven months away a lot can happen. and brussels and paris attacks. that seemed to benefit donald trump. >> and christie for a while. >> but who for the general election? >> i would think it would benefit mr. trump if that happens. it is it a horrible thing to say. but his rhetoric sounds tougher, but i am upon not sure his policy is. >> it is hard to say. >> who knows. >> bill, thank you for joining us. jon? >> we have more presidential politics ahead and disturbing information about the bombing in brussels. officials failed to see signs pointing to the deadly attack. and then this. >> oh, my god. light

she will not get the young voters like barak obama did. she could say i am -- i am better than the other guy that is running. >> in this political year, people might make that mistake. and what about the e-mail server, that is an issue that is dogging here and if there are more revelations from the fbi investigation or perhaps something forth coming from the justice department, it could trip her up? >> this is what i think is hillary clinton's biggest opponent. herself. the e-mail scandal is hanging out over her like the black cloud. until the justice department does or doesn't indict it is it a potential problem for her. that is the only thing that stands between her and the nomination. not bernie sanders. if you look at the delegate count and she's paying more time to donald trump who is the most likely republican nominee at this point. and when you look at the what gets in her way, herself. we will not know about this until there is some resolution. david drucker, thank you. >> u.s. operation take the number two isis leader out. what it

that changed this week, with the arrival of president barak obama. the president met with cuban leader raul castro. this is the 3rd time the two have met since 2014. both talked about improving relations, which could lead to stronger business ventures. president obama says he hopes to learn more about the cuban lifestyle, and help strike deals with economic benefits. >> for the first time ever, air force one has landed in cuba and this is our very first stop. this is a historic visit and historic opportunity to engage directly with the cuban people and to forge new agreements and commercial deals. jim: the last president to visit cuba was calvin coolidge in 1928. he arrived on the island by battleship. it' s tax time less than a month before the filing deadline. that also means it' s busy season summer: con artists and hackers are apparently working over time this year. this weekend the irs issued the warning that phishing and malware schemes are up 400% this year. wesh 2' s michelle meredith looks at what you can do, to keep your cash safe. the irs

and she was so excited to meet president barak obama. waited for him to arrive before he gave his speech, she was filled with anticipation. everyone around just looked at her beaming. and when he walked through the door and kneeled down and touched her hand, he held her face -- she held his face in her hands and said, i know that i am president of the united states because of you and to say thank you was not enough. [ applause ] but i'm saying thank you. i'm about to give a speech as the president of the united states of america in a few minutes, and it's all because of you. well, at 104 she looked up and said, make it a good one. it better be a good speech. so i say in closing, let us all make it a good one by remembering the sacrifices of the foot soldiers. let's make every day a good day. and we in congress should give you the gift of strengthening the voting rights agent s act . [ applause ] and i hope -- [ applause ] and i hope and pray during this black history month that we make each and every day a good one. thank you. [ applause

kevin, is donald trump a creation of barak obama? >> no, he is the creation of mitt romney.if mitt rom no had won the scomplekz just had a chicken sandwich one at a for lunch he would probably been president. right now, you are seeing a splintering because people are angry and don't want to take it anymore. it is little misguided. obama had a role to play with it, but not what the democrats have done to the the republican party p. it is it a civil war inside of the conservative alternative. >> he could have had a bar-b-que chicken sandwich? and what do you you think about this? jindal said this is a contrast. >> i have done a lot of campaigns, you are outside of the box. kevin is right. there is a phenomenon happening in the general public. all over the country that political consultants say run your campaign in this trump and what happened with trump and sanders, too. and they got outside of the box. and trump said things that makes consultants crazy. but there is unease in the population because people are sick and tired of being sick and tired and looking for an outlet. >

in 2008, there was a lot of concern about barak obama when he was running. concerns that he was not prepared and he was too young and naive. and so if we want to talk about the foreigners and foreign diplomats talking about the u.s. presidential election like most people in the world, the presidential election has caused a lot of people to come out with opinions. and this is nothing new and should not be a story dumping on donald trump. >> so our viewers get the gist of what they had to say. here is the sentence. foreign diplomats are expressing alarm about what they say are insulting public statements by donald trump. according to senior u.s. officials. officials from europe, and latin american and asia complained in private conversations about p the xenophobic nature of trump's statements said three officials that declined to be identified. they don't want their names associated with the story? >> these reporters know better p. this is their agenda, trying to quote an anonymous source from the the state department that they are concerned about trump. if it

you guys, it actually reminded me of the crowds that i saw for president barak obama in late 2012 during that campaign. here in osceola county, bernie sanders spoke for the voters. bernie sanders has arrived in central florida and notice the fact he's tailored his take on wall street message for hispanic message. >> latino, brothers and sisters are telling us, is that they are tired of living in the shadows. they are tired of living in fear. they are working hard, often exploited. >> sanders delivered the campaign speech that's won progressive promises, some of the biggest are universal health care and free public college to tuition, and one on one interview. he told me he thinks it's his yl idealism that brings big crowds and i asked him if he should bring that -- >> why should we have the highest level of wealth in equality in several mayor countries? why should we not have medical and family leave and why should we have the highest rate of major poverty -- and the people on top are very greedy. they want more and more. i intend to fight that. >> sanders trails hillary clinton by large

. >> tomorrow barak obama leaves for a three-day visit to cuba. president in 88 years. in these few months left of his term, mr. obama seems to have entered a hall of mirrors, where his every move is magnified and distorted. 15 months ago he insisted it was time for normalization with cuba. and he then set about insuring us that our new communist friend is good for america. does he mean cigars or baseball players? both of which will be more available. to sweeten his trip, the administration has announced a series of regulations that include making it easier for americans to visit cuba independently, establish as routine direct flights from here to there, and perhaps most important, allows banks to do business using u.s. dollars. don't get any idea that the embargo established by john p. kennedy is gone. to do that, mr. obama will need congressional approval and that's not likely. meanwhile, he trims the embargo here and there to accommodate cuba. that much has -- not much has been said about the imprisonment of political dissenters, although it's r

several of those senators up for re-election are from states won by barak obama in 2008 and 2012.om illinois are now breaking not just with the presidential candidates but with their own senate leadership. the plan to block the president's supreme court nomination. >> we should go through the process the constitution has already laid out. the president has already laid out a nominee who is from chicagoland, and for me, i'm open to see him, to talk to him. >> i believe you should, in fact, advise and consent on the nominee. and if you should vote it down, you vote it down. then it's back to the president. >> right. it's just man up and cast a vote. >> speak with someone who is in a state, not illinois but another state, where this could matter the most next. pet moments are beautiful, unless you have allergies. then your eyes may see it differently. only flonase is approved to relieve both your itchy, watery eyes and congestion. no other nasal allergy spray can say that. complete allergy relief or incomplete. let your eyes decide. flonase changes everything. what body aches?-gels,

firmly on the side of congress who say they are not going to validate any of barak obama's nominees. take a listen. >> i think they should do exactly what they are waiting. wait for next president and let the next president pick. >> that way he is firmly on the side of the establishment. he believes everything should co-aless around him. that is what is happening with former governor rick scott. he came out on facebook endorsing donald trump and believes the gop party needs to get behind donald trump and that it would be pointless not to because he clearly has the majority of support among republican voters, at least for right now. that's what the trump is campaign is saying. they say they are turning people out, new voters, inspiring p em to come to the party and inspiring people to vote for him and it would be ruinous if the gop decided to mess with that. >> let me ask, it he was pressed on this this morning, there was a question about what point would he make a turn towards looking more presidential and less confrontational, after so many wins last night and feeling more confident

seamlessly and thee atticly became the nominee of the republican party and went on to get thumped by barak obama in the general. but just under the placid surface of that convention and the nominating process overall, there really was chaos and controversy and screaming fits and police action and violence, actual violence. and i should mention what appeared to be cheating and certainly swearing. people were arrested. people were injured. and it is a credit to the romney campaign that they were able to keep most of this off the news and out of the major headlines for the nominating process. but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. and we've got that story next. ♪ the roles you play in life are part of what make you, you. and you're not going to let anything keep you sidelined. that's why you drink ensure with nutritious calories, 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. come on grandma! giving you the strength and energy to get back to doing... what you love. from the #1 doctr recommended bran. ensure. always stay you. >>> even if you weren't paying super close attention, you didn't have a

somebody that at least would sort of give a wink and a nod to the base that elected barak obama. that was one way to go. the other way to go is this, which is to say, if you won't seat this guy, you are advocating your responsibilities. one interesting thing, mark kerr, the most vulnerability senator, said he will look at judge garland. >> we cobbled together the senators who voted to confirm him in '97. merrick garland nominated '95, confirmed in '9 7. here is a look at the current republican senators who voted to confirm him back then, of course, john mccain, senator collins as well, senator orin hatch. it will be interesting to see over the next few weeks and months how they justify not even giving the guy a fair hearing this time around. >> mccain has a re-elect. look at the senators who are up for re-electiore-election, mcca johnson, so there are some really vulnerable people. mitch mcconnell has to make a decision, does he want to hold on the the senate or make the senate in play as part of the presidential race? that is what the white house hopes is that they can make the

seamlessly and thee atticly became the nominee of the republican party and went on to get thumped by barak obama in the general. but just under the placid surface of that convention and the nominating process overall, there really was chaos and controversy and screaming fits and police action and violence, actual violence. and i should mention what appeared to be cheating and certainly swearing. people were arrested. people were injured. and it is a credit to the romney campaign that they were able to keep most of this off the news and out of the major headlines for the nominating process. but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. and we've got that story next. ugh! heartburn! no one burns on my watch! try alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmm...amazing. i have heartburn. alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. myand a partly sunny mode.de. and an outside to inside mode. transitions® lenses automatically filter just the right amount of light. ask for transitions xtractive lenses. extra protection from light... outdoors, indoors and in the car.

barak obama was only 100 plus delegates ahead of hillary clinton. she never overcame it. yeah. >> if you look at the map of primaries and caucuses, it turns out that the early states really do favor secretary clinton because a lot of those delegates came from the deep south. where secretary clinton was first lady in arkansas for many years and had a lot of contacts in that region where bill clinton in fact is very popular. he was governor of arkansas. but as the map moves forward and we move, for example, into the west, california, washington, arizona, oregon, wisconsin, you're going to see a lot of states where we believe we have an excellent chance to win. and here is what i also think, andrea, a lot of these super delegates were pledged to hillary clinton way back when probably before i got into the race or just shortly afterwards. and when they begin to look at the reality of politics today, and that is virtually every national poll and almost all of the state-wide polls that have bernie sanders against donald trump, we do better and in some cases much, much better th

incredible to me, 96% of african-americans voted for barak obama in predictor of who going to vote democratic is race. african-americans have been an immovable cornerstone of today's democratic party. religion. the immovable foundation of the current republican party is made up of white voters who attend church regularly. before 1980, there were almost no differences in party identification between religious and non-religious whites as measures by regular church attendance. today the most faithful core of the republican party are the white evangelicals born again and fundamentalist christians. it's not just these groups that vote republican. the real dividing line is regular church attendance. whatever the denomination or faith. regular attendance is highly correlated with political attitudes. 54% of red state voters attend church weekly. this compares to 34% aattendanc for blue state voters. 71% of weekly white church attenders voted for george bush in 2004. 46% of whites who seldom or never go to church voted for bush. i should say those data are all for white voters. what these data about

when we look at rankings of prosial greatness, we're going to put in the same system barak obama andeorge washington. but their tasks of leadership, the resources that they had to lead, they were very different. those premodern presidents, presidents before franklin roosevelt, were more clerks than they were leaders. the 19th century, the main job of the president was to distribute patronage. they would appoint people to government offices. it was a thankless task since a president even gets assassinated for his role. james garfield assassinated in 1881. there's no instin institutional support for the president. it's not until 1857 that congress appropriate aides money for the president to hire a clerk. they wind up paying thur own staff, the few staffers they have, out of their own pocket. george washington hires his nephews to copy his letters. presidents have to take loans like thomas jefferson. it leads to andrew saying being president was a situation of dignified slavery. it may be very unfair to compare premodern presidents to modern presidents. off the was different, challenge

they point out that she stayed in the race against barak obama until june. , i think, going to start to hear them making this argument more and more that he is the better candidate to take on donald trump. they're pointing to some new national polling that does these hypothetical matchups that show him in a potentially stronger position against trump in the general election. i asked divine if he thought hillary clinton would be a lock to beat donald trump in the fall if they are both their respective nominees and he said there are very serious questions about that and in another part of the conversation, even raising what happened with walter mondale and gary hart when of course hart had that unexpected affair come to light, suggesting that you never know what might happen in a democratic nomination fight, andrea. >> that's a pretty interesting suggestion. our thanks to our whole great team in the field. hope some of you get some rest at least some time soon. >>> coming up next, about last night, record turnout on the republican side, but what did we learn fr

we'll come together as a republican party once we have our nominee. 2008 barak obama did not become his until june. didn't stop them from romping to victory. i look back at some historical data, the 2000 primary on the republican side, john mccain didn't drop out until march 17th. back in 1992, paul didn't drop out until almost april. so it's -- you still have plenty of time to then put a coalition together and win in the fall. i'm not getting too worked up about the fact that we have a good contest going on. >> matt borges, curt stiner. thank you to both of you. >> we thoroughly enjoyed these. in ohio you have to eat some of these buckeyes. it's peanut butter and milk chocolate. it sounds simple. it's not. when guests come all the way, we give them gifts. our guest to you, a buckeye. have a cup of coffee on us as well. >>> straight ahead, how does bernie sanders take the momentum into ohio? now focussed here on her home state, aknneita turner will jois on the other side. tomorrow starts today. all across the state, the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, and the

44th president of the united states, our leader for whom we are very grateful for his leadership, barak obama. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you. please, everybody, have a seat. thank you. thank you so much. well, good morning, everybody. i was in the neighborhood. so i thought i would stop by. actually, you are in the neighborhood. so i appreciate you stopping by. i see a lot of friends and familiar faces. i have visited a lot of the countries where you are serving. i want to thank you once again for putting up with me when i show up. because it's a lot of work. i know my visits are not easy. and your teams do extraordinary work in making sure that our visits are a success. and i'm deeply grateful for that. and when i depart, i am sure that you guys have big wheels up parties. i'm confident about that. i'm not here to give a big speech. i wanted to come by and mainly just say thank you. i want to reiterate what i say at every embassy that i visit, to your entire team, and that is that you are doing extraordinary work on behalf of america