only one in six independent voters have a problem with bill clinton at this point. >> bill clinton, remember, he famously triangulated in 2006. dick morris said it wasn't better before, you haven't seen anything yet. the economy is humming well. dick morris said don't talk about specific issue, don't mandate anything specific in the second term, just tell everybody things are getting better and bill clinton did that. he kept some distance from the democrats and obviously some distance from republicans. he said the era of big government is over, remember that? and so before monica lewinsky and most people are prepared to forgive and forget to that score, before monica lewinsky, bill clinton was doing very well. the economy, as i said, did wonderfully well. and so independents like bill clinton. >> well, he was doing pretty well in the polls afterwards, too. i think that a couple of things that you failed to mention, one is, balancing the budget. it goes over very well with the centrists who tend to be fiscally conservative and free trade. he was a free trader. let's look at part of the exchan

our new nbc news/wall street poll ranks him, bill clinton, as the most popular political figure in america. clinton faced the democrats' collapse back in '94678 can he help president obama avoid the same kind of collapse this year? >>> also, why are republicans covering up for bp? duh. and who is denying subpoena power to the president's commission investigating the gulf oil disaster? same response. what's wrong with putting the oil folks under oath? >>> and let me finish tonight with the important lessons the current president can prance learn from a former one. all that is ahead. but first, let's check on the latest polls, the "hardball" scoreboard. let's start with the senate race in colorado, where a new poll by the democratic senatorial campaign county has senator michael bennet up by two points over republican ken buck. that is a return there next to ohio, where republican rob portman has an 11-point lead over democrat, lee fish. now to a couple of governor's races, starting with ohio, where things are tightening and democrat incumbent ted strickland is now back in a dead heat to rep

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pick bill clinton. >> yeah. will. you know, i agree that jerry brown is a really resourceful, canny, wily politician who can't be written off. whitman with all her money and with considerable skill has done a really good job of kind of defining herself as more of a centrist figure and she's tough. it will be a great race. >> let's talk about washington d.c. we've made no secret of the fact that we've been fans of what the mayor has done on education reform but it looks like he's going get thrown out by d.c. voters today if the polls are to be believed. why? >> well, you know, all of the polls say -- my first job at "the washington post" was covering marion berry in his first term. strange things do happen in d.c. elections. this would be on the outer edge of that. my sense of the past few days has been that gray, vincent gray, the challenger, chairman of city council, seems to be gaining strength. people seem to be accepting that he's likely to be the new mayor. and fenty it's a matter of style and personality a

now to bill clinton's advice for president obama. john harris is editor in chief of politico -- let's look at something that happens in our network in morning. let's look at some of the advice the former president gave. here's bill clinton when he said obama should do to nationalize the midterms, the way newt gingrich did in '94. ask the country for patience to get the country moving again. acknowledge voter disappointment and anger, explain how our economy's doing better in the world and show optimism. let's look at the quote from the president. >> i think that the democrats ought to put on one card, no more than five and no fewer than three things that will be their priorities. i know how easy it is to lose control of the debate. happened to me in '93 and '94, but remember the gift newt gingrich gave america. political science gift. he proved with that contracting for america, that you could nationalize the midterm elections. so, i think that the president and democrats even if at this late date, should do this as an opportunity an

than bill clinton. your thoughts, john harris. >> it's very, very hard to communicate in a country as divided as this one with so many different information channels. it's harder frankly than when ronald reagan was doing it in the midterm in 1982 as chris mentioned. it's harder than the environment that bill clinton faced during the 1990s. i don't think there's any doubt that obama is frustrate. fee feels like his message is not getting through. his own policy is being charactered by republicans and not fully appreciated by the electorate and that's what his job is about. >> you know, chris, it's not an easy job or anybody would have it. >> his best advice is to do what he did. feel their pain. >> look, chris, i agree, but remember, bill clinton was good at that because it came from who he naturally was. that is not -- i don't believe, i spent too much time studying barack obama, that is not who barack obama is. i'm not saying that he shouldn't take a little of bill clinton's vaerks pour it over, do the

bill clinton had. bill clinton knew how to bounce back after that defeat. if the republicans win this time, the president will have a very steep learning curve. >> not only that, but unlike bill clinton and jimmy carter, former governors of southern states, barack obama has never really had to deal, in his political career, with conservative constituents or voters or arguments. it was not a factor in being as state senator from the south side of chicago. it mattered not at all in the walkover election for the illinois senate seat in 2004. that sort of arsenal of instinct and understanding that clinton could bring to the situation in 2004, it is not going to be there. it will be harder. >> thank you. >> i have a question. >> could you make your way to the microphone? >> sure. on the historical level, this may be a landslide year for republicans. i went up -- i would like you to address the local or micro level. each of these 435 elections are really individual elections as well as the senate elections. they may have local -- local issues may have an impact a

zarchlgts bill clinton is certainly a powerful influence around the world, on everything from politics to disaster release, to peacemaking. more on my interview with the former president at the annual clinton global initiative meeting in new york. >> this is the sixth cgi that you've hosted. did you see the piece in "the daily bee sting." it's become much more important than the annual united nations general assembly. >> i didn't see that. >> it's amaze whatting you have accomplished over these six years. >> thank you. >> what are you proudest of? >> i think -- i'm more proud of the phenomenon than any specific thing. i'm proud that we proved there was a hunger over the world without regard to region, income, religion to go to a meeting where you actually talked about the real challenges, but then you had to do something about it so that i think it's amazing. now we have raised over $60 billion worth of commitments and already helped almost 300 million people in well over 170 countries because people were dying to be asked to do something, and to be given enough information and enough

let's go to bill clinton. he knew how to handle the bible belt. according to this new poll, he was liked by more than half the voters overall, very good numbers relatively, and he cleans up among independents. overwhelming numbers among independents. your thoughts, and then roger. >> i think that's absolutely startling. what's amazing is how it contrasts with barack obama's numbers among independents. roger was talking about the overall shape of this election, roger is absolutely right. the reason why he's right is because of independents abandoning barack obama in droves. it's like they have a residual feeling for the democratic party, but right now it's not for obama, so they transferred it back to bill clinton. clinton -- in a way bill clinton is leader -- it's he's still the leader of democratic party, and barack obama who got elected as an outsider is once again an outsider in his own party. >> well said. roger? >> i agree with that except one small point. one reason bill clinton is doing so well now is that he's not view as a political figur

this week bill clinton joined hands with obama, touting him in advance of the big midterm elections. could there be a stronger role for the clintons after the election? we have arianna huffington. is the quote still taboo? we're talking witchcraft. we're talking christine o'donnell. our friend bill maher rebroadcast a clip of o'donnell from the show in which o'donnell said she once dabbled in witchcraft and went on a date with a satanic altar. what will the voters of delaware make of that? republican dale peterson of alabama said things like president obama hates america. you know, the usual stuff. this unthinking hatred of the president by right wingers and tea parters has gotten pretty far out. so far, how the democrats going to fight with it? speaking of screwball talk how about newt gingrich? he's out with the craziest chug-a-lugging the kool-aid and sounding like a paranoid or is he or talking a joaquin phoenix right now by pretending to be wild to fire up his brand-name. and let me finish tonight with what i saw today with president obama in today's town hall with cnbc. we begin

and i would advise the president to be in touch with bill clinton after these elections. is going to be similar for the democrats. democrats likely to hang on to the senate if the election were held today. clinton is somebody who has dealt with that. right now, doug mentioned a series of issues but it is all about the economy. everything else matters only as it feeds into the economy between now and november. >> sean: there's nothing that can happen between now and then doug that can change the narrative that their policies failed? >> i don't see anything that is going to change it other than a state by state campaign to try to hold seas like washington and california which to -- told seats like washington and california which is the difference teen republican takeover and democrats staying in control. >> sean: thank you. the liberal obamamania media is at it again. republican women its target. "saturday night live", even "saturday night live", even bill clinton took shots t t ready to try something new? campbell's has made changes. adding lower sodium sea salt to more so

but first, bill clinton on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. we're going to welcome first to our broadcast former president bill clinton. but before we begin our interview this morning, some of you may have seen in your morning paper that we'd be talking also this morning with christine o'donnell, the surprise winner in the delaware senate primary. well, she canceled on us yesterday. she said she had scheduling conflicts and couldn't be here. we're going to have more on that later, and we're going to play the tape that began making the rounds friday night in which she said she once dabbled in witchcraft. i'm serious. but first to former president bill clinton. mr. president, thank you for coming. welcome to the broadcast. this week, you're bringing together business leaders, world leaders, thinkers from 90 countries. i think the last i heard 40 sitting presidents and

bill clinton's done a lot too.ed to the presidents before him and near him, he's done a lot more. now, whether you say that to brian williams or not is a whole different matter. >> to me it's so jimmy carter. it's just, the truth, raw truth, as he sees it. your thoughts. >> i think that he absolutely meant what he said. >> i think so, too. >> the first thyme he said it. >> i don't think no correction. i think that that was pr. thank you, people are going toed there book. michelle bernard, thank you. polite note, correct but not polite. again, tomorrow night we'll have much more on christine o'donnell as bill maher himself will be our guest. maybe i'll show us some tapes. >>> up next sarah palin goes to iowa and talks about running but that's not what you think. check out the "sideshow" she's doing a little tease out there. hey what's going on? doing the shipping. man, it would be a lot easier if we didn't have to weigh 'em all. if those boxes are under 70 lbs. you don't have to weigh 'em. with these priority mail f

so, if i'm jerry brown, why do i want bill clinton, why do i want to stand next to bill clinton? >> brings up bad memories of this ad. >> if you're jerry brown, the first thing you do is zip it for what you said because you need bill clinton badly. clinton offers two things for brown, both very important. first of all he's got that huge roll low deck and that has lots of names in it and those names have lots of money, especially the hollywood crowd. you want to see that very important. brown needs money in case you don't know it, he's being outspent about six to one. now, secondly, of course, it's to energize the democratic base. everybody's been worried if you're a democrat at least, the democrats aren't coming out. they're just not enthused. they have a candidate they're not excited about, not only here but nationwide the same problem. if you can energize that base with the most popular democrat in the country, bill clinton, that can go a long way toward offsetting some of that malaise. >> interesting. let's switch talk national for a second. let's talk tea party. some more suc

jerry brown and bill clinton. let me finish tonight with the inspiring sight i saw this weekend in front of independence hall. let's start with newt gingrich's tribal attack on the president. "newsweek's" harry fineman is an msnbc political analyst. i think you have to go back to almost pagan rights to find this kind of commentary by a major american official. talking about obama basically being a kenyan, anticolonial-type who's operating as his father's pawn. he's accusing him of conning us to elect him president. what do you make of newt, howard? >> i've been covering newt for many years. he's a bomb thrower. he's a guy who knows the weak point to attack. what's interesting to me here is he feels free to say anything at this point. it's a kind of free fire zone within the conservative movement. and newt, who's always trying to say the most outrageous thing and that goes back many, many years, now has moved from saying outrageous things about the ethics of the house members in the democratic leadership 15, 18 yea

it pays to discover. >>> when i sat down with former president bill clinton this week in new york cityon and world affairs, but the part of the interview that grabbed so much attention was about the dramatic weight loss and the diet that helped him shed two dozen pounds. >> and i live on legunes, vegetable, and i drink a protein supplement every morn, and no dairy and i drink in almond milk, and protein powder to start the day out. it changed my whole metabolism and i dropped 24 pounds and i got back to what i basically weighed in high school, but i did it for a different reason. i mean, i wanted the lose a little weight, but i never dreamed this would happen. i did it because after i had this stent put in, i realized that even though it happens quite often that after you have bypass that you lose the veins, because they are thinner and weaker than arteries and the truth is that it clogged up, which heen nmeans that the choll was causing problems in the vein to cause the bypass and thank god i could take the stents. i didn't want it to happen again. so i saw with research that people s

eastern, the full interview with bill clinton. thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." "john king usa" starts rights now. >> good evening, everyone. we begin with troubling numbers, new numbers for president obama and his democratic party. this is important, with the goal of better understanding just why things are taking a new shift in the republicans favor. 54% of americans disapprove of how president obama is handling his job. that's a new low for the president in our cnn polling. 53% tell us they plan to vote republican for congress. don't try telling that to the house speaker, nancy pelosi. >> i feel confident our members are the best spokespersons for their constituents. they know how to communicate with their districts and they are doing just that and they're doing just fine. >> don't believe the numbers, then how about this? remember that, the now iconic image of hope? it's the work of art irs shepherd ferry, who told people they wanted somebody who was going to fight against the status quo and i don't think obama has do

but bill clinton, instead of demonizing them, what did he do? he brought in dick morris and tried to appeal to him. mark halprin, my memory is a little fuzzy because of all the witch craft going on in the 1990s, but what happened in 1996. >> bill clinton reached out to all those people and got the center back which was inconceivable in 1994. barack obama and his people spend their time demonizing the tea party. bill clinton is vfollowing the dick tim, what's mine is mine and what's yours we'll negotiate over. >> exactly. in this case again we have a real-life case study, bill clinton wins them in '92, wins them in '94, brings in dick morris. he says i don't want you advertising in new york and l.a. -- i want you advertising in panama city. we have to win those people back. they did and they got re-elected. >> dick morris said one other thing, he said abracadabra. >> he did. that's the '90, right? >> it's good. it's good. you go too far with the joke, it's boring. >> we're going to test this theory out of yours, mika. >>> next a first look at the

listen, you never wanted to get into tit for tat, but this president, former president bill clinton, ividuals' lives are affected by what the clinton global initiative does. everyone will leave here, you've got commitments. teams of people follow up, lots of commitments are being made to help people all over the world. it's great. >> how do you help? break it down for people that are watching it that hear about cgi all the time but don't know anything. >> what is it? how can they get involved? >> i can tell you, recently president clinton went to africa, tanzania, malawi, maternity hospitals where there'd been no maternity hospitals for women at all. malawi, now with the clinton global initiative with the projects there, we went to a place in tanzania where they have forests new, gives people opportunity to make money, pediatric aids clinics throughout the world. goes to places where people don't have hope and gives them hope and makes their lives better. but the goal is to make them self-sufficient, to better themselves. it's not like they just get money. >> you don't just write a ch

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he questioned whether bill clinton told the truth. >> bill clinton was an excellent president. it was wrong of me to make joke about an incident from many, many years ago and i'm sorry for that. >> in that footage from 1992 bill clinton quotes a cnn report saying jerry brown raised taxes as governor of california. it's been discovered that the cnn report was inaccurate. brown campaign has called on meg whitman to stop running that commercial but they have refused. >>> the sick out is in response to recent changes including new requirements to work schedules, a new fee to parking and changes to the rules for calling in sick. >>> sal has breaking news. a water rescue is happening now. >> reporter: that's right. we've heard of a vessel this morning in richmond that was taking on water. this is a picture of richmond bridge. it's somewhere in the richmond bay. coast guard is out there looking. we have news chopper 2 on the way to see if this is still going on. we'll let you know more as soon as we know. traffic looks good. westbound bay bridge traffic also looking good getting into

and bill clinton is talking solutions. a speech in which i sometimes say, are you experiencing clinton nostalgia? people start to say yes. >> oh, my. >> this is conservatives into liberals. >> republicans. >> yes, conservatives, too. you know, this is a former president who is doing some very good in the world, the clinton global initiative. i thought your interview was great. >> thank you. >> we don't always need fist to cuffs, do we? >> also, i'm not really interested in talking about what happened in 1999. i want to know how we grow our econo economy, 2019, we're soaring again. >> did you see, by the way, clinton the other day was asked about newt gingrich who said something rather wild. >> we noticed this. >> his emotion. >> and clinton sort of baited, what did you think of what newt said. laughed it off. oh, that's just newt. you know -- >> he's the smart guy. he knows what he's doing. >> it was very adept. very centered. i thought, this is a master. >> we need answers from masters, which is why -- >> joining the tabl

the former prident, bill clinton. we'll talk about his global initiative conference that's under way in new york city and a lot more. stand by for that interview tomorrow in "the situation room." thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." "john king, usa" starts right now. >>> thanks, wolf. good evening, everyone. the newest sensation in american politics, the tea party senate candidate, christine o'donnell, is making her case to voters in delaware as her supporters complain loudly that she is being held to a different standard than democrats who have said or done controversial things in their past. in o'donnell's case the latest controversy involves a brief dabbling in witchcraft. she is joking about it now but we'll debate whether it's a lasting campaign issue. first, though, a rude awakening of sorts today for president obama. his team thinks the more he can talk directly to average americans about the economy between now and election day, the more he can make the case that things are slowly get

bill clinton isn't waiting. listen to this. >> i think we should just play it straight. if they got a tea party opponent who says something weird like the guy running for senator from alaska says unemployment compensation is unconstitutional, or the man running for senator from arkansas who says we should have a 23% increase across the board snef inco instead of income taxes or the guy running who says denver with the united states. do you miss him -- >> no. >> james, we're back with james carville, mary matalin. gloria borger. james, should the democratic party adopt the strategy and go after the tea party? >> making a point he actually went more after the funding than the tea party members and he was going after the candidates but what he does that's very smart is, saying, well, activists out there trying to do something. you notice in the part that you showed, look, if they're candidates say something really dumb like the guy in alaska. although they're unconstitutional, he's now far from it. >> he doesn't want to make the tea party seem cooky. >> he says, i'm going t

bringing in bill clinton and reminding people how great it was we had it under bill clinton. regardless of the personal problems, there is no question that his presidency was a successful one. >> gregg: rick, i mentioned martha, she lost to scott brown even though the president was campaigning for her. she was able to win ted kennedy's seat. is barney frank actually vulnerable here especially since many americans blame him and chris dodd for forcing lenders to make risky subprime mortgages to trigger the financial crisis and ensuing recession? >> clearly the strategy of the democratic party is deciding what they want to do with bill clinton. he reminds people about welfare reform about lower taxes that occurred under his watch with a republican congress. i'm sure that the democrats needed to put bill clinton that is willing to do this to make a difference. the idea he would be called to help barney frank who is always been a solid democratic seat tells me that there is a tidal wave that we have to go out and preserve frank's seat. >> rich masters, as unpopular as president ob

bill clinton had. bill clinton knew how to bounce back after that kind of defeat.f the republicans win this time, the president will have a very steep learning curve. >> not only that, but unlike both bill clinton and jimmy carter former snorts of states, barak obama never had to deal in his lill -- political career with arguments. it was a 0 factor as being a senator from the south side of chicago. it matters not at all for the election of the illinois senate seat in 2004, so that sort of arsenal of understandings that clinton could bring to the situation in 2004. i don't think it's going to be there. it's going to be harder. >> yes, please, thank you. >> the microphones are there. >> oh, will you please speak into the microphone? >> sure. you made a case at the historical level that this may be a landslide year for republicans, but i'd like to ask you to address the local or microlevel because each of these 435 elections are really individual lengses as well as the senate elections, and they may have local issues may have an impact as opposed to just the national

still, former president bill clinton acting like a man on a mission.is party maintain control of both houses of kong. today, president clinton hitting the campaign trail in the northeast. he's making a squeeze through blue states looking at voting red in november. and one of those places we'll find molly line. >> this is all about former president clinton rallying the pace and getting the democrats out in the fall where the republicans are expected testify a banner year in the elections in the fall and the democrats have a lot to contend with and he spent time campaigning today with barney frank, a 30-year incumbent, in a democratic strong hold state. once thought to be one of the bluest among the blue until of course january when republican scott brown stepped in beating democrat martha coakley and signed of changed the landscape here. analysts say the frank camp is taking nothing for granted and president clinton addressed the anger issues, that the economy hasn't been turning around quicker and urged voters to give democrats another two years and to

this week, bill clinton joined hands with obama touting him in advance of the midterm elections. could there be a stronger role for the clintons after the election? we've got arianna huffington to help with the alliance. is the quote still taboo? we're talking christine o'donnell. our friend bill mahr rebroadcast a clip of o'donnell from the show in which she said she once dabbled in witchcraft. what will the voters of delaware make of that? that said, extremist rhetoric was the official language this weekend. dale peterson said things like, president obama hates america. you know, the usual stuff. this hatred has gotten far out. so far, how the democrats going to fight with it. how about newt gingrich? he's out with the kool-aid and sounding like a paranoid, or is he, or just pretending to fire up his brand name. let me finish with what i saw in the town hall. we begin with the obama clinton coalition. arianna huffington, her new book, and howard fineman. let's go to arianna. it's enormous. everybody goes there. >> i thought you were going to congratulate me on bringing howard on

bill clinton ran in a recession, said things can be great.epublicans are at their best when they're like reagan, hopeful, and this not a hopeful ad. i'm not being partisan. i would not run that -- >> i'm not sure the president sounds hopeful what i've heard him say -- >> well, that's the point. >> -- roundtable, whatever he's been doing, little get-togethers. he doesn't sound hopeful. the two biggest issues, health care reform and the stimulus, no one wants to talk about. and that's put him in a real bind. i mean, you saw the woman, the cnbc thing, talk about how she was disappointed with him. you see that with in thes. >> this was her saying she was exhausted defending his record when she knows he's done some thing, made some progress. people like her, middle class american are not feeling the joy yet, that's what she's saying. >> it reinforces the pessimism people are feeling right now. >> to that point, you heard the economic part of it at the top of the ad, mourning in america, all the unemployment. these guys doing this are called the ci

they did the same thing with bill clinton. remember, bill clinton was part of a drug network and drug dealers in arkansas. bill clinton was somehow involved in the murder of an individual. when you looked at these guys, it was all about delegitimizing. >> it worked. it did weaken the clinton presidency. >> it did. but it didn't work. it ultimately didn't work. he was elected two terms. during his term we created millions of jobs. middle class folks actually saw their incomes go up. you saw a change in our foreign policy. we were respected. i mean, so, it didn't work. and it won't work this time. it will work if we're silent. >> don't miss "the rachel maddow show" weeknights at 9:00 eastern on msnbc. >>> families who believe their loved ones were in their final resting places at arlington national cemetery have just learned that's not the case. at least two people were buried in wrong graves. remains have been exhumed from the military cemetery following an army report detailing mismanagement that led to the mishandling of over

support for the peace process and to try to promote economic growth. >> and bill clinton is so popular in northern ireland they treat him like an old friend. they even bring along old family photos. >> she looks good there. what is your name? >> this was not just a social occasion. he came to give a lecture about peace. >> i ask you to be upstanding for our great friend, william jefferson clinton. >> he said the ability of northern ireland if former political enemies to work together was setting an example for the rest of the world. >> whenever people say we cannot do it in the middle east, we cannot do it somewhere else, we just throw up northern ireland. working on the irish peace process was one of the two or three great owners of my life, and i think all of you for proving that peace is possible. [applause] >> when he was president, he visited northern ireland in the early days of the peace process. he then came back again. and then again. today's visit was relatively low key. the crowd is much smaller than when bill clinton first came here 15 years ago, but it is clear that for so

barbara boxer in california, laura tyson, she was bill clinton's national economic council director so she already knows the ropes in washington and ann mulcahy, on the president's economic advisory board. go to our show page, foxnews.com/happening now, vote there, you can also leave a comment by clicking on our blog section, or e-mail us your choice and comments, happening now at foxnews.com. jenna: let's talk a little more about this new book that everyone in washington and really elsewhere is talking about today, someone who has actually seen an advanced copy of bob woodward's obama's wars is peter baker, of the "new york times", white house correspondent for "the new york times", and peter you're one of the few that has actually seen and gotten a look at this book. what can you tell us, what's the most significant thing about this book? >> well, i think it's a book that recounts in pretty vivid, narrative detail the sort of internal struggle, both within the president's teal and even within the president himself, about how to handle this war in

power as minority leader. >>> jerry brown is now apologizing for a comment about former president, bill clinton. republican was criticizing a campaign ad that meg whitman is currently airing. the ad features footage of clinton back in 1992, criticizing brown who the two were vying for the nomination. in attacking the ad, brown made a reference to whit -- clinton's sex scandal and questioned whether he always told the truth. >> bill clinton was an excellent president. it was certainly wrong of me to make a comment about something that happened many, many years. the brown campaign has stopped on -- has called on the whitman ad to stop running that ad. but the whitman camp has reduce reduced. >>> this morning's procedural vote for the $30 million allocated for small businesses. that fund would be available to banks with less than $10 billion in assets. those banks could then use that money to increase their lending to small businesses. >>> in richmond this morning, city leaders and honda will celebrate the auto company's return to the port of richmond. the honda port of entry to broke is -- entry

bush and bill clinton, two -- and you go into great detail in the book -- two very different personalitiesrspectives in terms of governing. >> yeah, i try to in my observations about president clinton and president bush. obviously i worked with them closely. they both became close personal friends. no great insight they are completely different people. but they've still got that -- you see why they won an election and why they won two terms. and they have a -- i saw both close up. bill clinton particularly over kosovo which was a really difficult decision he had to take. and of course with president bush after september 11th. the one thing that comes out to me about american presidents, and i would say the same about president obama is that there is this sense that you have, and i know this sounds odd, you would say surely yes of course politicians should be like that. i think all of them had that any the final analysis they would put the country first. you may say, of course that's what they are elected to do. when you have met many world leaders that's not always the case. >> sean: you s

i know you're working hard on that. >> thank you very much, wolf, all best. >>> bill clinton brings world leaders together in new york city for his clinton global initiative this coming week. i'll be there. i'll go one on one with the former president. my interview with bill clinton tuesday right here in "the situation room." >>> what happened to all that oil? more than 4 million barrels esca escaped from that blown-out well in the gulf of mexico. now there are new clues on the bottom of the gulf. >>> and the wicked witch of the west is back. it's one of the campaign season's most unusual political ads. >> wall street bailouts. >>> efforts to permanently seal bp's blown-out well are in the final stage after drilling resumed this week on a relief well. what happened to the more than 4 million barrels of oil which gushed into the gulf? what if? what if a lot of that oil is now lying on the bottom? brian todd is looking into that. >> wolf, the scientists have been showing us samples of this oil from the sea floor in the gulf. evidence they say much of the oil from the deepwater horizon spill

bill: that is something that bill clinton would say very well. h i have to run. >> the young people are disallusioned, they were promised the moon by barack obama, it was all false and hasn't come true. bill: great panel, thanks for coming back. martha what is next. martha: president obama is now weighing in on a subject that is very hot right now, the u.s. education system, and why he and his wife opted out of it for their girls. his surprising answer to that. bill: also we showed you the video union workers at a chrysler plant smoking some plants, smoking pot and guzzling beer on the lunch break. they have plenty of time for beers now and a little something, something else. >> the government spent a lot of money bailing you guys out, and you coming out here on your lunch break drinking like this? are you going to go build some cars now after you've had a few beers? mmmmmm. mmmmmm. wow! you have got to be kidding me. 80 calories? light & fit has 80 calories versus 100 in the other leading brand. light & fit. irresistible taste. fewer calories. bi

>> no, like bill clinton and george w. bush he doesn't like us talking about him in almost any case. still, the test of the team has been the economy. the state of the union address, all of a sden we were going to shift to the economy and that's happened like six times. now we're going to shift to the economy, now we're going to shift. chris: he keeps getting off his point. >> arizona, the mosque, the mile east. all these things have gotten in the way of a disciplined message. its not been a disciplined communication. >> yeah, but you can't be president of the united states and not resond if a well explodes in the gulf of mexico? he certainly didn't want to do that but he had no choice. chris: you were peechwriter for the president, for the first george w. bush. let's get to the question earlier, he is a great speechmaker and uses the teleprompter too much, i get the message, just listen. what is the problem with communication, can hramp it up the next five weeks before the election with a hell-raising speech? >> as a form

"book tv" saturday night, bill clinton joins former british prime minister tony blair for a discussion of the years and office. tony blair has a new memoir, on c-span2. >> warren brown writes the weekly car column for the washington post. >> it is arguable, justifiable i think to say that we would not have a black middle class had we not had general motors and ford and chrysler. >> in 2008, he supported the government bailout of the automobile industry. sunday, he will talk about his life and what is ahead for carmakers, on c-span. >> the c-span network, providing coverage of politics, public affairs, nonfiction books, and american history. it is all available on television, radio, online, and social media networking sites.

our conversation with former president bill clinton. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. social conservative activists gathered this weekend in washington for their annual values voters summit, attracting a field of potential candidates. winning the straw poll for president, sarah palin finished fifth but did not opt to attend a keynote event, where she has rallied behind tea party candidates, leaving the establishment reeling. mid-term primaries are over and the tea party won. >> when the people fear the government, there is tyranny. when the government fears the people, there is liberty. >> christine o'donnell's triumph in delaware is the latest example of the purge inside the gop. incumbents, moderates, members of the establishment are gone or have left the party. the message is, stop spending, stop taxing, stop borrowing. >> we have come to take our government back. >> gop leaders in washington are riding a tiger. some seasoned republican voices fear it will cost the party. >> i've got to tell you, we --

bill clinton has done it. president obama is trying to do it. >> democratic candidates are hedging to fully embrace president obama locked in a battle with surging republican, connecticut attorney general welcomed the president's fundraisers but distanced himself on issues. >> i know mr. president we will agree, and i expect on some occasions, we may disagree. but with president clinton the possibility of looping policy differences are for got were and he points out another key advantage. >> folks, know the great think about being ex, you can say what you want. he pulled no punches. >> they got wrestling federation lady in connecticut and witchcraft lady in delaware ... so far they have gathered up about everything from the tea party but the mad hatter. >> the nation in the worst financial crisis in a generation, president obama could be a draw but he is carrying baggage. bill clinton has dumped all of his baggage and he is the star now. >> with analysts predicting a banner year for g.o.p. candidates it is up