they were doing, they would tell you who they are. >> earlier sean hannidy would say good old bill clintonis clinton more conservative than obama? some ways, yes. he passed health care reform, nafta and the deregulation of the finance industry, which turned out to be very conservative and proved the disastrous. but financial bill has huge loopholes that leaves the bank still in charge, as we'll explain more later in the show. the health care bill was a gift to the drug industry, and left the insurance industry as the only option for health care. obama is struggling to get tax rates back up to where they were under bill clinton. and clinton wouldn't have dreamt of doing wireless tapping or ordering predator strikes on u.s. citizens abroad. so it's not obama or clinton is more liberal than one or the other, it's that the times have changed. ten years ago, 48 out of 54 republican senators voted for disclosure of campaign donors to clean up politics. when that was proposed about a month ago, none of them voted for it. washington has become enormously more conservative, pushing politicians like

it's the case bill clinton is town. bill clinton is getting me energized?hey have got to turn out that base. if you look at voter enthusiasm, it favors the republicans. >> so let me ask you this seriously. do you think people -- somebody who is going to show up at a bill clinton rally and be excited and be energized would otherwise just not go to the polls? do you really think that people who go to see bill clinton who make a trip out to see bill clinton speak would have otherwise just stayed home? because i certainly don't. look, he is not going to hurt the democrats right now. is he making an argument that other people aren't and he is connecting with democrats that president obama has a difficult time connecting with. including some of the very same democrats who president clinton's wife connected with so effectively in the primaries. he is not going to sway the election. it's just immaterial. >> juan: wait a minute, you are contradicting yourself. you say he connects with people who might not connect with president obama. don't you see a contradiction.

bill clinton. >> bill clinton absolutely did. what did bill clinton know?e probably thought the same thing would happen to him. >> i thought the worst prediction had to be whoever whispered to meg whitman a while ago, don't worry, we can muscle through this illegal manny thing whenever it explodes becauwas c. they didn't look like they had their act together. it's audacious not to figure this out in advance. >> we need to figure out nanny eruptions. >> it was so bad on so many different levels, but when the story came out, she was willing to cut her loose. i think the worst prediction was the one we just talked about of hillary clinton and -- >> really? >> you don't think it's going to happen. >> no, god no. >> you're really scoffing at that one. >> it's crazy. >> it was just spinning, it was just him sort of laying on thick some idea that he had. >> actually it wasn't a prediction, he was just reporting that someone -- >> it didn't look that he was reporting that. >> the tables are really, really big. >> my prediction, the worst one i think was either mart

that's what bill clinton's great at. he campaigned on connecting with moderates in the middle class so he can help the democrats connect to the center in swing states like west virginia where obama has a 29% approval rating and get out the -- >> kentucky, one of the places the president was today, this is the 2008 election. i'm going to go back to the democratic primary. that light blue, that would be senator hillary clinton beating barack obama 65% to 30% in the state of kentucky. i just want to go back in time to a different presidential election. 1992, bill clinton, 45%. he won kentucky. he has a bit of a history in kentucky. let's come back to the '08 map and move to west virginia. mccain wins easy. 56% to 43%. if west virginia voted for al gore, al gore would have been president of the united states. this state trended red lately. let's look at the democratic primary. that's all hillary clinton. blue collar whites. these are not barack obama states these two. that's one of the reasons you see bill clinton out making

tony blair formed half of that famous special relationship with bill clinton. i asked the former british prime minister how clinton was able to unite progressives in our country and also political centrists behind him and why the clinton brand has remained an enduringnorse our politics and around the world. my one-on-one interview with tony blair at the top of the show. >>> plus, big trouble for meg whitman. we find out her husband knew their housekeeper had immigration issues. whitman, paladino and o'donnell, are some republican candidates this year, just not ready for primetime? >>> and president obama's at it again, urging young voters not to quit on him, after taking a whack at his liberal supporters earlier in the week. is this like the coach blasting the team at halftime and will it win the game? >>> also a sad story about america came to light today when the u.s. government apologized for intentionally infecting people down in guatemala in the late 1940s with venereal disease. a wellesley professor investigating the experiments on african-american men mad

>> no, i think that is probably just bill clinton being bill clinton. he loves this is like another opportunity to resurrect himself not unlike what jerry has been about for years. i think bill clinton is doing that but he is focused if he does something for you he will not hesitate as was the case with the god father to come back and say i need a favour. >>> bill clinton the god father that is a good one. >> there is a lot of that in politics. one reason bill clinton came out not so much for jerry brown they don't get along but gavin newsom. when he needed him when running for mayor bill showed up final week of the campaign. when hillary was running. gavin was there all the way to the end. he stayed with her. >>> democrats figured they have bill clinton as a figure head. is it really just sarah palin? is that their only option? >> do you think rudy giuliani can get much of a crowd down in san jose? could mitt romney, jeb bush? they don't have the star power. you have barack obama and bill clinton after that who could you pull out. it is tough to get a

we spent a lot of time talking about bill clinton. i began by asking him what makes the former president, bill clinton, such a dominant politician even today. >> i think he is the master of the trade really. i mean, i think he's the single most extraordinary apt and confident politician i've ever met. and that's not because he's simply good at communicating, good at the art of politics. it's because he's actually, and this is the thing i think people don't understand about him sufficiently, it's all anchored in very strong and well worked out convictions. people sometimes see him as the great communicator, but that's, you know, he was just a good politician as it were. he's not -- he has a core of beliefs that are very, very strong and that completely define where me years back, a very sort of strange in way old seaside town in the uk, and we were supposed to meet him after he'd spoken. we found him eventually down in the local mcdonald's. you know, holding court with all the people happened to be in there a bit surprised to see bill

bill clinton hits the road for the democrats. nine states to rally for his party. we begin with the chilean mine rescue. kerry sanders joins us with the late latest. everything looks like tremendous preparation to do this just right. >> reporter: everything has been set to make this all come off without a hitch. all that said, they do recognize it could still be dangerous. what they're going to do, if everything goes according to plan, is in the next couple of hour, they're going to take an escape capsule and drop it down the mine and bring it back. it won't go all the way down that shaft. 240,000 feet. they'll bring it up. then they're going to get one of the paramedics to get inside that capsule and they're going to send it down to the bottom. he'll get out. he'll greet those 33 miners who have been trapped down there and then the first miner will get in and take a journey of about 15 minutes to the surface. they have special designed clothes. much like a fighter pilot. it will keep the blood flowing so as they stand in that tiny little capsule like this for 15 m

we spent a lot of time talking about bill clinton. i began by asking him what makes bill clinton such a dominant politician even today. >> i think he is the master of the trade, really. i think he is the single most extraordinarily ept and competent politician i have ever met. that's not because he is simply good at communicating, the art of politics. it is because he is actually -- this is the thing i don't think people understand about him sufficiently. it is all anchored in very strong and very well worked-out convictions. people sometimes see him as the great communication, he was just a good politician. he is not. he has a core of beliefs that are very, very strong. and completely define where modern progressive politics has got to be if it is going to be successful. >> how did and does he tie together this centrist-leaning liberalism, if you will? somehow he has positioned himself close to the center but on the progressive side in a way that grabs the loyalty of working people, as we say in our country, working middle class peop

bipartisan figure is bill clinton. can you explain that? >> i would not explain it because i don't agree with it. i don't share nina's rapture at seeing him reappear on the scene. he is a great politician and i am not sure he will make a difference either way. what we heard a set -- we heard and say that if you are mad, you don't want to make a decision, because you are likely to be wrong. the democrat said this week -- the president said this week -- they are trying to create a narrative to explain the upcoming democratic collapse -- that the brain is hard wired when you are afraid to not think straight. that is his explanation. what they are preparing this report is that the country is either in panic or is angry, and this is going to act rationally -- he rationally in rejecting the democrats. it's an odd proposition, and a reflection of the unbelievable intellectual arrogance of the democratic leadership. >> we went from bill clinton to unbelievable evidence. he is the only bipartisan figure who gets favorable ratin

tony blair formed half of that famous special relationship with bill clinton. i asked the former british prime minister how clinton was able to unite progressives in our country and also political sent trysts behind him and why the clinton brand has remained and he during force if our politics and around the world. my one-on-one interview with tony blair at the top of the show. plus, big trouble for meg whitman. now we find out that her husband knew that their house keep her immigration issues. whitman, pal din know and o'donnell are, some republican candidates this year just not ready for primetime? >>> and president obama is at it again, urging young voters not to quit on him after taking a whack at his liberal supporters earlier in the week. is this like the coach blasting the team at halftime and will it win the game? also, a sad story about america came to light today when the u.s. government apologized for intentionally infecting people down in guatemala in the late 1940 oz with venereal disease. a professor researching the infamous tuskegee experiments on

. >> with democrats on the vote, bill clinton to the rescue? >> it is true that we did not get you out of this hole in 21 months. at least be stopped digging. >> and the wife of a clarence thomas telephones anita hill 19 years later to ask for an apology. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> hello, i'm mark shields, sitting in this week for gordon peterson. if the pollsters are correct, a republican wave is cresting and the gop is poised take the house. the spotlight is shining on the senate. races are tight everywhere. jeanne cummings, what it is coming for november 2? >> hung jury and the senate, republican win in the house. >> colby king? >> i agree with jeanne. what is surprising is that this stage a week and half before the election, they're playing defense, with the president trying to establish a fire wall in states that should be saved. >> nina? >> there is some evidence that democrats are coming home, but it is not enough. i agree with jeanne, it is very tight. >> charles? >> the peasantry will rise and

from bill clinton -- >>> you're watching cbs5 eyewitness news. ates to sacramen >>> a political heavyweight arrives in the bay area. the message from bill clinton to send two local candidates to sacramento. >>> the bridge back in business, the repairs made and the monitoring required to keep the san mateo bridge open. history re- born tonight... >>> a stroll down musical memory lane, a bit of bay area history tonight. good evening. i'm ann notarangelo. well, he is the democrats most effective campaigner. former president bill clinton in san jose tonight lending his support to the top of the ticket in california. don knapp is in san jose where mr. clinton campaigned with jerry brown and gavin newsom. >> reporter: of course, it was a political rally, but the big draw was a political rock star named bill clinton and this audience was really primed for him when he took the stage, the crowd going wild. here's how it went. gavin newsom and jerry brown are the californians running for office, but bill clinton was still the big draw and i think tonight w

the tea party's surging, and bill clinton is back. all that tonight on "washington week." it is getting hot out there. >> how ridiculous are you? you embarrass this race. >> and who says, if elected, he'll ask voters for more new taxes? jerry brown. governor jerry brown again? hide your wallet. >> i don't know that all of you are latino. some of you look a little more asian to me. >> i really don't know what my opponent was talking about, because you all look like nevadans to me. >> meanwhile, labor unions and corporations are pouring money into key races from coast to coast and both sides say they'll win. >> we don't work for you anymore, nancy pelosi! you're fired. >> their whole campaign strategy is amnesia. >> countdown to election day with the reporters covering the story -- charles babington of the associated press, doyle mcmanus of the "los angeles times," karen tumulty of the "the washington post" and kate zernike, of the "new york times." >> this is "washington week with gwen ifill" produced in association with national journal. corporate funding for "washington w

former president bill clinton is there campaigning for jack conway. it looks like the live picture is frozen somewhat, but there are tough races nationwide. conway is trailing his republican opponent there. so former president bill clinton is out lending a little support to the democrat jack conway. >>> less than an hour ago president obama said the crumbling infrastructure is one of the greatest challenges we falls. fixes bad roads and bridges will also help to fix the economy. >> nearly one in five construction workers are unemployed and needs a job. over the next six years we'll rebuild 150,000 miles of our roads. enough to circle the world six times. we will lay and maintain 4,000 miles of our railways. this plan will be fully paid for. it will not add to the deficit overtime. >> the president will shift focus later to the upcoming elections. he'll travel to florida to

but while bill clinton campaign >>> president bill clinton. >> democrats get a jolt of election season energy tonight. but while bill clinton campaigns in the bay area, the momentum seems to be riding with the republicans. >>> wet weather causes more dangerous conditions on our roads. how long this rain is expected to stick around. >>> and emergency repairs have caused major slow downs on this bay area bridge. what you condition expect for tomorrow morning's rush hour. >>> the 1-2 hole. that is a base hit. >> the giants pull off another big win. highlights from game 2. good evening. well, he is the democrats' most effective cam paperer. former president bill clinton lending his support to the top of the ticket in california. >> campaign it was. it was built as a political rally but the main star was really a rock star named bill clinton. of course when he took the stage, the crowd went wild. [ applause ] >> this is how it went. gavin knew -- newsom and jerry brown are still the -- now running for governor. the newsom started it off by -- he made an observation which was simply this. i'

positive as bill clinton is. >> i think that there will be more democratic voters who turn out than people think in part because of the president, michelle obama's out on the campaign trail, bill clinton. i think they will probably still lose the house but i don't think it will be a huge wave of losses. >> i think this guy is doing what he always does. he hangs back, he hangs back, he hangs back and then pounces. i think the expectations are so high for republicans. they could have a wipeout according to everybody, that if they fall short of that, the whole thing shifts. chris: you have the rope-a-dope theory, right? >> that's what he does. chris: before we break, the senate race that keeps on giving. this moment came on tuesday. >> the reason we're in the mess we're in is because our so-called leaders in washington no longer view the indispensable principles of our nouppeding that's truly -- founding as truly that. >> one of those indispensable principles is the separation of church and state. >> where in the constitution is separation of church and state? >> excellent point. >> ho

did bill clinton ask a florida democrat to drop out? >>> red flags. bp knew there was trouble weeks before the oil rig explosion in the gulf. >>> and judgment day, a mixed verdict in the death of anna nicole smith. this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, october 29th, 2010. good morning, everybody. thanks for joining us. i'm betty nguyen. we begin with politics and democratic efforts to maintain control of the senate. this morning, the democratic senate candidate in florida kendrick meek is denying reports that he was asked to drop out of the race by former president bill clinton. preeti arla is in washington with much more on this. good morning. >> good morning. if the rumors were true it would be political drama. and strategy edits fast. former president bill clinton said last night meek talked with him about the possibility of dropping out but he told meek to do what he thought was best. meek, on the other hand, is flatly denying those reports. democratic representative kendrick meek isn't walking away from florida's senate race anytime soon. >>

from campaigner in chief, bill clinton trying to bring back the magic on intense push in the midwest making stops in michigan and minnesota. >> federal investigators in a drug bust. what was being made in a suspected drug lab which forced evacuations of hundreds. >> julie: one of the nation's top military leaders charming go the man behind wikileaks putting lives in danger but how can they prosecute julian assange and stop him from doing it again. >> gregg: we begin with the battle for political power. it is heating up in homestretch to the midterm elections. the is house and the senate and the direction of our nation. the leaders of democratic and republican national committees both making predictions who will control the house of representatives when all is said and done. steve has more live in washington. >> reporter: the two party leaders seem to be looking into different crystal balls. one is democratic losses will be kept to a minimum while the other predicts republicans will do very well. sarah palin was on the campaign trail in florida yesterday. she is one of many trying to

bill clinton got hit hard by newt gingrich in that particular movement and it has forced the clintonthe narrative of this to party midterm, there is no -- just like newt gingrich's track with america was historic, the question will be if the democrats can hold on to the senate. if harry reid and barbara boxer can hang onto their seats, it will not be seen as a slaughter. if a hold on to congress, the democrats could hold off the tee party wave. there is a book coming out with harpercollins and i guarantee it will be number one. there is a reality show coming out called sarah pailin's alaska. she is possibly running for the republican nomination using the tea party. >> was there any other election? >> just the one in 1994 that newt gingrich wonder that as the one that is the closest to. it is a democrat that comes in with a feel of a mandate. clinton did not have a mandate. he have the ross perot factor. this time, obama was able to win states like indiana, north carolina and virginia. i do nothing that he can win those states anymore. we are being told that we are still living in the

and we have bill clinton scheduled today. t virginia, 11 states coming up, and these are states where people are running away from barack obama. >> look, as democrats we are lucky president clinton, former president clinton is popular and able to get out there on the stump for democrats. i do still notice that republicans don't seem to have george bush out there on the stuff for them. so again, it is great to have clinton out there because he reminds people what it is like to have a president to balance the budget and have more money in their pockets. >> i think this. i think bill clinton -- the electric charge is out of bill clinton, both the positive and negative. people don't attack clinton for everything anymore, he is just a figure out there and sort of a positive figure. nobody goes after him. popular, but you notice -- >> very popular according to the polls. >> but he doesn't get the huge crowds that sarah palin can get or the huge negatives that sarah palin can get. clinton himself used to getç them. >> but in energiz

. >> former president bill clinton is back on the campaign trail.gton state last night, to support senator, patty murray. as karen travers reports, mr. clinton can still draw a crowd. >> the 42nd president of the united states, bill clinton. >> reporter: he's been called the comeback kid. and now, former president bill clinton is trying to help democrats rally to keep their majority in congress. he's hit the campaign trail for more than 80 events this election season, pleading with voters to stick with democrats. >> all we're asking is for four more years. >> reporter: over the past week, the former president has crisscrossed the country, stumping for democratic candidates in very tight races. >> the only reason this is a tough race is this is a tough time. >> reporter: clinton appeals to moderates and independents. but he's one of the best at pumping up the base. >> bill clinton on the campaign trail reminds people what it was like to have a president where we had a balanced budget. they had a little more money in their pocket. >> reporter: a recen

former president bill clinton is always a big draw here in the bay area and last night was no exception as he campaigned in san jose state for bay area democrats. clinton is hoping his popularity will help elect gubernatorial candidate jerry brown and gavin newsom who's running for lieutenant governor. he urged the crowd to vote election day which is now just two weeks away. >> if you know anybody anywhere in america who tells you they don't think they're gonna vote, they can't are bothered to vote for jerry brown and gavin newsom, ask them what planet are you livin' on? are you really willing to compromise your future? do you understand the decisions you're gonna have to make? >> brown is behind in campaign funds and needs the support of his former rival. mr. clinton and brown faced off on the 1992 nomination for president. their attention was highlighted in an ad by meg whitman. >> before the san jose really, mr. clinton appeared in napa at an event for congressman mike thompson. members of the tea party rallied in favor of lauren hanks outside the theater where the former president s

there's a reason we saw bill clinton campaign for jerry brown. early in the campaign meg whitman, jerry brown's opponent, was using tv ads having clinton attack brown back in the bid for the presidency. after that he made a joke about monica lewinsky and quickly apologized. one of the reasons he has bill clinton on the campaign trail is to make that a non-issue. any criticisms from jerry brown in the '92 election, voters want to say there's no problem there between the two men. but bill clinton is going into places where president obama really can't. we have seen former president bill clinton go into arkansas, more rural states, state that is obama did not do well in in 2008. president obama is going to campaign places with younger voters and minorities. democrats are trying to cover their bets and sending bill clinton to some areas, president obama in other areas, joe biden is in working class areas and michelle obama is hitting the campaign trail, too. >> give us the races to surprise us election night. >> one race is in kentucky. democrats thin

you see republicans saying nice things about bill clinton now? does he still fire up the republican base? >> lord the republicans these days think fondly of the clinton years compared to the obama years. i don't know it will help jerry brown out in california. this is partly why so many people get cynical in politics. you see guys, republicans and democrats alike, stand on stage and point fingers at each other and bash each other and sing kumbaya together. it make for great comedy. >> kumbaya happened today in the state of delaware. the vice president of the united states, the president of the united states out, joe biden held that senate seat that is up for grabs this year. as he began his remarks, the president of the united states talked about what he believes his best move. >> the single best decision that i have made was selecting joe biden as my running mate. single best decision i've made. i mean that. >> we even get a little bit of a hug there. >> had to say, it's true, didn't he? >> well, remember, remember there has been this talk in rec

some in gop finds soft spot for bill clinton. which i don't think he would've necessarily see maybe 10 years ago. and they talk about peace in the interview all these republicans claim these nice things about president clinton's legacy. and i ask one of the people quoted was cumbersome and paul ryan, who is a rising star in the gop. and they say what about the fact to impeach him? and ryan says, i try not to think about that. so i think this is a good lesson for barack obama to be having right now. and the reason why i wrote this book is because i had covered a little bit of it before, but really the 2006 and 2008 present presidential campaign and in a lot of uncrowned in-depth reporting. i was fascinated by the ability of democrats. one was to bring in a lot of new people into the party. and she was to compete in all these traditionally conservative states that nobody thought they could win. faces like indiana. places like north carolina. places like virginia. you guys that arkansas had that for a while, but i think that was som

. >> reporter: the crowd at the san jose event center was fired up and ready to go as bill clinton rallied for jerry brown and gavin newsom start night. >> i have watched the assault on the american dream for 30 years, and i'm sick and tired of it. >> reporter: clinton and brown have been fierce political rivals in the past but stand together as democrats looking toward the future. newsom inspired optimism that the clean energy could lead to job growth. >> don't listen to the nay sayers, and don't let them tell you we cannot lead the way in the new green economy. >> reporter: the economy, education, and environment were among the most well received scenes of the evening. and when gubernatorial candidate brown took the stage, he also took the shots at the lavish campaign budget of meg whitman, accusing her of trying to buy california. >> no one has ever spent so much money to run for governor in the history of america, since the revolution. no one ever thought they could spend $170 million. that's what she is spending. >> reporter: all three of the rallies who spoke new their audience was p

bill clinton campaigned and raised funds in the bay area yesterday. >> clinton is hoping his dark powerill help democracy. gubernatorial jerry brown and gavin newsom. he urge the the crowd to vote on election day, now over two weeks away. >> if you know anybody anywhere in america who tells you they don't think you're gonna vote, they can't vote for jerry brown and gavin newsom, ask them what planet are you living on. are you willing to comprises your future? >> senator john mccain campaigned for carly fiorina in san diego while former alaska sarah palin capped a three-day swing in orange county. it's crunch time now that undecided voters are trying to pay attention. >> got their sample ballot and maybe absentee ballot and trying to make the political junkies that haven't paid attention for months, now is when a lot more californians are paying attention. bring in the heavy hitters. >> brown behind in campaign funds can use all the help they can get even if it's from his former rival bill clinton. tonight brown and clinton appear to get along just fine. >> frank lynn roosevelt, one of o

president bill clinton that slammed russian immigrants in israel for being an obstacle to peace with the palestinians off talks to mark levin from the national conference on soviet jewry about the diaspora and how it responded to the accusation spotlight is coming your way next here on r.t. . hello again and welcome to spotlight and today my guest in the studio is mark levin . the recent verbal attacks on the immigrant jews by former american president bill clinton have added to the rising nationalist divide in israel he accused them of not willing to find common ground with palestinians that bring peace talks in the middle east what do the serbian born jews have to answer here is mark levin executive director of and c s j which advocates on behalf of jews in russia ukraine the baltic states and. the world appears to be fostering a more tolerant attitude towards jews and vice versa the new exhibition in berlin on hitler and his power over the german people has been welcomed by the country's jewish community they see it as an important step to a greater understanding of the holocaust

> well catherine, at this one really well i'd just wrapped up this rally were former president bill clintonke to hundreds of voters is wrapped up about 10 minutes ago. you see supporters of jerry brown behind me, not up pactel is nonetheless quite a few people in there. now mr. clinton is very popular in the democrats in the state of california, he delivered to messages. both apathy as well as conservative anchor could cause democrats' victory this december and november excuse me if you do not like things are going right now, if the republicans take over congress things get worse. the other purpose is to drum up some support for jerry brown pollster just that brown is running a close race against make when it meant. clinton placed brown is a cabinet for the future. >> he made california the very first day in the country to have new appliance standards for energy efficiency and rebuild their in energy efficiency standards. >> this is the second time in the week that former president is campaigning for jerry brown. they have an interesting history, they were biddle rivals in 1992 when they we

from the president and the first lady to bill and hillary clinton, the biggest names in the party are trying to make sure the golden state stays blue. kimberly terry is in san jose where a rally for glavine newsom just wrapped up. >> reporter: bill clinton was here tonight. he was clear and to the point. he says republicans are counting on democrats to stay home on election day. he says the challenge really is to get voters out, especially young voters. >> president bill clinton! >> reporter: former president bill clinton urged democrats tonight to put aside their disappointment about the economic climate and the state of politics and do something about it. turn out to vote november 2nd. >> i am telling you, your future is on the line. you've got to show up. but you can change the outcome of the congressional elections in america from this campus if you use the social networks. >> reporter: mr. clinton ended his day in northern california at san jose state university, asking voters to cast their ballots for gubernatorial candidate jerry brown and the candidate for lieutenant governor

first was bill clinton for more normally. today it was rudy guiliani for bob ehrlich. -- first was bill clinton for governor martin o'malley. the golf buddies that have been personal and professional golfing buddies for years. >> i is governor early s an example to other governors -- i use governor ehrlich as an example. giuliani called governor o'malley of failure and said the democrat is the biggest anti- business governor in the country. his visit comes on the heels of polls showing bob ehrlich is done by 14 points in the race. guiliani is nicknamed america's mayor. >> both candidates spoke about a new poll of campaigning across the state guest today. fo>> two days ago, gonzalez had five. >> there are many examples in american history of pulsating one candidate is up and then a week later they don't succeed. i don't have a lot of confidence in anything the polls say this year. >> new fund-raising numbers show bob ehrlich has our raised o'malley by about $1 million. the voters will discuss it -- decide who will control cong

those two are probably going to win, but the fact that bill clinton has to go to their districts showshey're a little concerned. >> and, you know, john. president clinton is doing what he can to get voters to reconsider their vote for change. listen. >> i don't want to see my country make a mistake. and i'm old enough to remember that when you make an important decision, never mind politics about anything, when you're really mad, there's about an 80% chance you're going to make a mistake. and you will get the result you don't want. and every person in this audience who is old enough has made enough decisions when you were mad that you know i am telling you the truth. >> we should get that cross stitched and put in the kitchen. john, when voters are angry, they send the incumbents packing. can a veteran member of congress convince the voters while the country may be suffering, voting in a rookie is not the best thing to do? >> yeah, christine, that has been the playbook for so long. i've been covering politics for 25 years, including the campaign in which bill clinton was the comeback k

. >>> bill clinton's trip down to san jose it is a rally. we see the shots of everybody on the stain but how many people really turned out? >>> i brought my flip camera and did a 360 shot. that is beautiful there. tons of people but behind him it was empty empty stands with two thirds filled. >> that can't be because people didn't want to be there. >> well, it was a big night. >> wait a minute i mean seriously, if you have a choice between going to the giants, watching a movie or seeing bill clinton and gerry brown. >> okay the giants thing aside that is an obvious thing. >> it is difficult to get people buzzed up. >> sunday night, mad man season finale. giants game. >> down in los angeles barack obama pulled them in. >> 32,000 people but he is a kay rays mattic speaker. young -- charismatic speaker. young people know who he is. they weren't even a bad idea when bill clinton was president. he pulls in like middle aged democrats, people in their 30s and such but younger people,. >>> barack obama is the draw. >> correct. >> on one of the races

more than jimmy carter and bill clinton in the first two years in office. up correctly. we'll have a huge healthcare debate in the next two years about repealing it or not. i think that of course, being a one-term president is a cautionary tale. the other thing that will happen in the next two years, pretty soon is he has to think about his own re-election and how he sets himself up for that. does that mean ignoring some of the big problems that he wants to solve or not? and the republicans are going to be doing the same thing. >> i'm just struck by this discussion about bill clinton. i remember that so vividly, i covered that. let's remember who bill clinton was compared to who barack obama has been. bill clinton was a governor from a southern state, who had been repudiated and voted out of office at one point by the voters of arkansas. when he came back to power, he was a centrist. he was deeply knowledgeable about a lot of centricity and even conservative ideas. it was no major shift intellectually or ideologically for him to move to the center. it would

because i know i see democratic partisan or others saying, look, bill clinton's there an barack obama'sot. in ten years, barack obama's going to be the guy in kentucky. right? >> that definitely can be the case. i think clinton is now seen as a moderate inside of the party. back then in '94 he was not necessarily seen that way. people were not happy with his policies. he can go a lot of places where obama can't go. obama's still an amazing asset for democrats in that he can turn out a huge crowd like he did the 26,000 in madison not long ago. he can still raise a lot of money, he can fire up the base. but there are places like west virginia, pennsylvania, wisconsin, colorado, we can go on and on and on where i think bill clinton is a better asset right now because you pick it up in almost every state, there's so much frustration with obama policies which is one reason you don't hear many democrats talking about what they would do if they actually keep control of congress. they're talking about the evils of the republican theology because they know that right now their brand ain't workin

no one worked harder for kendrick meek than bill clinton.wasn't a plot all along to pull the rug out from under him. the democrats wanted to see if meek could close the gap. he couldn't. they are facing a situation meek is trading badly. wide-spread feeling, he doesn't have a prayer to win. the only way to block rubio in the democratic analysis was throw support to crist. there was a moment early on if meek had been defeated by millionaire jeff greene, that might have changed things but that didn't happen. the big question now is what is the fall-out from the story, where the african-american voters will be angry and will they stay home and urge the prospect of alex sink, who is locked in a tight race with scott, or will they feel free to vote for griffin. >> chris: we have been talking about the republican wave for a month, iceberg headed to the titanic. all of us thought something will change, it always does. the wave keeps getting bigger and bigger. now we're two days away and it's bigger than ever. >> it is. they want change with washing

nnedy. >> and bill clinton. >> and bill clinton all of them tried to pov forward on national health care, on expaing health care. nobo succeeded until barack obama. and that has been from the point of the business community, something they ve objected to for 70, 80 years, charlie, this has been a point of convention-- contentionness. >> rose: i thoht what the president did in part was to get more people inside the tent than many administration before. the clinton administration alth-care program got off to a bad start because of the way it started it wasn't transparenand all those things. about you my impressi was in this ca, thepresident was able to get more people on board and then it got lost in the political process. >> well, i think that it got lostn the political ocess partly because-- . >> rose: more ff sis on access than cost containment. >> not enough emphasis co containment and he allowed congress to take almost complete control of the over the process, to not keep iin t whus so there werepeci intests. thais wt theysaid abt the stimulus program too. do you come the table and sa

>> you go back to '95, bill clinton did two things. he found common ground on areas where he could work with republicans on the balanced budget and welfare, and on a lot of other areas he was able to look at newt gingrich and point at them and say they're nuts. that combination of cooperation and attack on their extremism worked out great for him. if obama goes the same way, it could work out great for him, too. >> you can point out the extremists in your own party, point out the extremists in the republican party. suddenly you're that centrist that everybody voted for in iowa. >> that's why it's better for obama if republicans win the house politically, only better if he takes advantage of it. he doesn't have great history of adjusting. >> i got to say this, too, mika, we've been talking about the lack of bipartisanship in washington, d.c. i don't want to even go there on whose fault it is. but i've thought -- i think every president bears the ultimate responsibility for reaching out. there is from white house memo, front page of "the

ultimately bill clinton and -- >> rick: i love it. >> i love it. >> bill clinton was willing to pass tax cuts. >> rick: gentlemen, thank you so much. always fun to talk to you both. seriously. thanks for coming in. >> juliet: president obama is not on the ballot this year and he's probably glad. a new poll showing the president facing an uphill climb to win a second term in 2012. peter doocy is live in our new york city news room and he is following this story. hey, peter. >> president obama has been in campaign mode this week, popping up in people's backyards and in college towns across america. but he does not face an election until 2012. but if it was today, only 39% of americans would vote to reelect him. a majority, 54%, would vote for somebody else. it's not all bad for mr. obama, though. 45% -- rather 46% think he's doing a good job listening to the american people. that's 3% less than february, but still more than the 43% who think he's doing a bad job listening to them. so more people think he's doing a good job listening to them than a bad job. however, 48% say if the presi