bill clinton needed to have one of his blood vessels re-opened six years after his operation. after getting the stents to open up that blocked artery in 2010, former president clinton says he decided to make changes in his diet. this time around, he decided to get much more strict, radical even in his approach. no more meat. no more eggs. no more dairy. almost no oil. the mantra is, eat nothing that has a mother or a face. talked about the fact that you loved to eat. >> you know, i like the stuff i eat. i like the vegetables, fruits and beans, the stuff i eat now i like. >> do you call yourself a vegan now then? >> well, i suppose i am if i don't eat dairy or meat or fish. >> so you've cut all that out. >> once in a while, literally in well over a year now, at thanksgiving, i had one bite of turkey. >> you're doing this for your health. >> yes. >> is that why you're doing it? >> absolutely. >> reporter: clinton's dietary guides, dean ornish and this guy, caldwell esleston at the cleveland clinic. >> apparently he read my book. i've never met the man. >> he has written him thoug

normal deviants of bill clinton which had nothing to do with sex but that law enforcement officer of the united states engaging in perjury and a charge of justice. evidence of this is he was the h first president to lose his license because of his perjury and obstruction of justice. the way of novelizing himself. >> i would say that is notor accurate. we were telling an important story in the case of bill clinton in which this child, this national saga captivated the public mind and distractedrr us from serious threats to american, one of which was out kayak. the commissioners flat out lead out that monica lowlu wednesdaya distracted the administration and kept us from doing what we h should have been doing which wae protecting the american publictt rather than focusing on coceone's sex scandal question never going to convince everyone on bill clinton. thero everyone is going to have pros and cons on why he was a greathy president all why u.s. this. people will be arguing that he >>t: >> host: in the political sects to page you left out because they cannot be substantiated?so >> gues

bill clinton needed to have one of his blood vessels re-opened six years after his operation. stents to open up that blocked artery in 2010, former president clinton says he decided to make changes in his diet. this time around, he decided to get much more strict, radical even in his approach. no more meat. no more eggs. no more dairy. almost no oil. the mantra is, eat nothing that has a mother or a face. talked about the fact that you loved to eat. >> you know, i like the stuff i eat. i like the vegetables, fruits and beans, the stuff i eat now i like. >> do you call yourself a vegan now then? >> well, i suppose i am if i don't don't eat dairy or meat or fish. >> so you've cut all that out. >> once in a while, literally in well over a year now, at thanksgiving, i had one bite of turkey. >> you're doing this for your health. >> yes. >> is that why you're doing it? >> absolutely. >> reporter: clinton's dietary guides, dean ornish and this guy, caldwell esleston at the cleveland clinic. >> apparently he read my book. i've never met the man. >> he wrote me a letter saying i was ev

and bill clinton agrees. as he celebrates a milestone birthday, the former president says he's slimmer, fitter and feeling more energetic than he has in years. >> are you intrigued? >> reporter: i tried a vegan lunch and it tasted great. >> so, one lunch at a time for ron claiborne >> reporter: just a start. >> okay, thank you, and happy weekend to you. >> reporter: thank you. >>> coming up, watch as one of our biggest neighbors in the ocean says thank you for saving his life. mosquitoes or mosqui? huh. [ female announcer ] try the new design of off!f!lip-on repellent.. lab tests show this sprayless repellent really repels. in minutes, its fan surrounds you from head to toe with effective, odorless proroction. [ mosquitoes buzzing ] so don't spray it on. clip it on. off! clip-on. keeps bugs off. sc johnhnn. a family company. off! clip-on. keeps bugs off. a mouthwatering combination of ingredients...e for you! i know you're gonna love. [ barks ] yes, it's new beneful healthy fiesta. made with wholesome grains,

bill clinton was an example. you've been a governor a long time, there'sality of things to point to it to say i should be elected. there's stuff in his record that will cause both the right and the left some concern. >> well, as someone might say, it's kind of an inconvenient truth. susan page, ron fournier, cynthia tucker, stick around. we're going to talk about the president, iowa and jobs next. trivia time though, we asked, how did the first-ever heisman trophy winner jay berwanger leave and indelible mark on the u.s. president ji in 1943. a game between the university of chick achicago and the universiy of michigan. berwanger got tackled by a future president. gerald ford. left him way bloody cut and a permanent scar left eye. we'll be right back. [ male anno] this is coach parker... whose non-stop day starts with back pain... and a choice. take advil now and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. way to go, coach. ♪ photo center prints and... two htc sensations from

of bill clinton, with monica lewinsky, of michael jackson.er one that gets talked about a lot in that scheme of humiliation. what is the potential benefit? >> for them, they lose their false self. they lose their brittle poses. they can integrate their personality, perhaps, but for us watching, i think there's the benefit of pity, terror. what spectators felt. >> marketable -- >> yes, marketable. i'm not for exposing public figures. there's a point in my book that says we should not shame those in power or even those not in power. you should never scapegoat. that's bad. >> what of the benefit that comes through humiliation which allows you then to see another way? >> well, you have gone through hell, and everything after hell is a skeeth lounge basically. first class. >> once bill clinton makes it through monica lewinsky. >> it's just coasting, hang gliding for the rest of his life. >> and is there a lesson for all of us in that? in other words, we need to humiliate ourselves in some way such that we can have that free pass? >> a stenographer

bill clinton is perhaps the world's best kploen r known heart patient. he had bypass and stents. he opens up about his health in a new documentary. dr. sanjay gupta reports the last heart attack. joins us is sanjay gupta, our chief medical correspondent. sanjay, it's really looking forward to your documentary, but this is an amazing story you have to tell about a lot of people, but the former president of the united states particularly. >> i think, wolf, the thing that was strike suggest arguably he had access to the best health care in the world. certainly for all the time he was president and then afterward as well, without his knowledge really, he was sort of developing significant heart disease to the point where he had to have surgery. how could that happen? if he had access to the best care in the world. what is the lesson for anybody who worriys about heart disease? i asked these questions of former president clinton and doctors and what he is doing to stay healthy now. >> i was lucky i didn't die of a heart attack. >> former president clinton lik

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around the corner richard clarke the former white house counterterrorism czar under both presidents bill clinton and george w. bush unveiled some shocking allegations about the cia soon to be released radio documentary clarke alleges that the bush administration's cia and. the leadership george tenet purposefully withheld information about the nine eleven hijackers from both the white house and from the white house both before and after the terrorist attacks clarke claims the cia not only knew the were about seven to nine eleven hijackers but actually tried to recruit them prior to the attacks and kept the white house in the dark about it after the recruitment efforts failed but this bombshell contradicts what clarke said in two thousand and four about george tenet and the cia. george tenet was saying to the white house saying to the president as he briefed him every morning a major elec fact is going to happen against the united states somewhere in the world in the weeks and months ahead he said that in june july august so what's behind clark's new take on nine eleven and could it be true for m

does he listen to bill clinton? they're saying this, i assume. >> i was at his births day party, and we talked briefly. he knows the severity of the situation. all i'm saying, chris, is let's not panic. let's do it right. let's have a jobs plan that makes sense, that involves a private sector, infrastructure. i'm with what everyone is saying. all i'm saying is let's do it right. he needs new creative ideas and listen to ordinary people out in the midwest about how to do this. >> all i'm saying is every time a job opens in a big city, the line goes around the block of able -- another old phrase-able-bodied men and women who want to work. they may not have enough money for a cup of dove, but they wait in line for hours to put their name on the list. they want to work that much. you go through a big city people are up at 6:30 catching a bus if they're lucky to have a job. this country likes to work. and this president has to do the thing. same sorry i'm sorry. i agree with bloth you guys, but we've got to move. thank y

. >> bill clinton didn't have teleprompters. >> bill clinton did not use the teleprompter. every now and then, for big events. >> at a convention. >> the teleprompter has become drama during the obama administration. to jessica's point, we're laughing a little here and it's good to have humor after this partisan awful debate, messy debate we've had for a few weeks. you mentioned the president's birthday party. he will celebrate, raise money, he's heading into his re-election campaign. this is a deal of divided government. nobody loves it, which does that make it just right or just awful? we will see how this debate plays out as the super committee gets going. but what a nonbirthday present for the president. the conversation that lower box on the screen there. the president wants to sign this deal because he thinks further disruption, default, uncertainty would make the economy even worse. but look at these numbers. it's bad enough. he's the president of the united states. let's be clear. as a citizen, as the president, he didn't want to be the first president to default, h

bill clinton. why do i say bill clinton? >> why, yes?hree of the people that used to work for him, jack, james sperling and bruce reed, with essential figures negotiating this deal for president obama, so the legacy of bill clinton. >> bill clinton, the teflon man can even win in a crisis when he is not involved. >> major garrett, thanks. >> thanks. >>> a top aide to president obama says the u.s. has the chance of a lifetime to take out al qaeda once and for all and needs to continue predator drone attacks in pakistan. >> you need to go for the knock-out punch. i would not adjust programs today that are designed for the knock-out punch, especially with this window of opportunity we have got against al qaeda that was delivered to us by way of bin laden's death. >> i am joined by nbc news national investigative correspondent, michael isikoff. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> lute says there is a limited opportunity to deal the knock-out punch. what does the government need to do? >> he said in the next six months if we cou

flynt to normal ize deviance of bill clinton. his deviance had nothing to do with sex, it had to do with the chief law enforcement officer in the united states engaging in perjury and obstruction of justice, and evidence of this, of course, is that president clinton was the first president to lose his law license because of his perjury and obstruction of justice. so this attempt will, you know, just be a way of larry flynt of normalizing himself. >> well, i would say that's not accurate. what we were doing is we were telling an important story in the case of bill clinton in which this trial, this national saga over sex captivated the public mind and distracted us from a serious threat to america. one of which was al qaeda. in the 9/11 commission report, the commissioners flat out lay it out that monica lewinsky scandal distracted the administration and kept us from doing what we should have been doing, protecting the american public. rather than focusing on the silly sex scandal. >> but you are never going to convince everyone on

copy of the good samaritan act which was signed into being in one thousand nine hundred six by bill clinton and that encourages grocery stores to donate food and it protects them from being sued so i'm just asking him to consider moving trader joe's into the next step of simply not wasting as much food and getting it to people who need it i figured the c.e.o. of trader joe's probably wouldn't get back to me after one letter so i've decided to send him. a letter a day for the next month a letter went out to t.j. c.e.o. dan bain every morning and we continued diving as normal time passed dumpsters swelled with food and then suddenly the landscape changed we began seeing more people at the dumpsters and not your typical diverse people that seem to need the food a lot more than we did. as i waited to hear back from trader joes about all the food in their trash cans the world spiraled into a food crisis a kid kurdish leaders. meet again and again the key to. try. to be. comfortable to come. to. pan good he. came to meet shoot to. injure shane. and to meet. to a sandwich board for someone. to. co

bill clinton got 43% of the white votes back in 1996. al gore got 42%, john kerry got only 41% of white votes in 2004. obecause meas' 24% was on the high end. last november's she lacking of democrat -- shellacing of democrats beat a retreat. democrats got only 37% of white votes last november. 37%. it's all very worrying for the obama re-election campaign because in the most recent nbc poll, he, the president, is down to just 36% of whites. there you see the drop, helene, why the fall off? >> and you're asking me? i thought it was interesting what you said right now -- just now about the white house and obama's re-election campaign worrying about this. trying to get these guys to talk about race, is one of the hardest things to do as a reporter covering the white house. they always tell you, we don't look at it that way. they've tried so hard to present barack obama as a candidate who is not thinking race, race, race all the time they've don't present him that way. but of course they're worried about that. i think that's definitely an is

it is surprising in a certain way that a ronald reagan emerges or bill clinton emerges when you got a sitting president. is it just that or is there something more insidious going on in terms of the inability to give us a quality challenger? >> two things, the clinton example is really worth remembering, if you think back to 1992, now we think of bill clinton as the master politician, i remember when he got the nomination in 1992, every democrat in america thought he was a goner, but the economy was so bad and now we've got bill clinton as we now know him, so i think there's something there keeping them out, but if you're the republican party, you don't have any options. you're sitting near labor where you got economic conditions from a political standpoint should be encouraging everybody and the best you can do is say there's a member of the house, paul ryan and second-year governor of new jersey and sarah palin floating around and that's all you got on the sidelines. they don't have a deep bench, partly because the 2006-2008 elections went so wrong. >> you just scared me to death wh

by the way, all of these budgets -- these last four -- were the responsibility of bill clinton. bill clinton not only balanced the budget, he stopped using social security funds to finance other government operations. and he did it with the longest period of uninterrupted growth in our nation's history a created 23 million jobs. the clinton administration record on deficits, on debt, on economic growth and job creation is the best, by far, of all modern presidents. mr. president, facts are stubborn things. now, we have a tax code today that is riddled with tax expenditures, riddled with tax expenditures. we are losing to the treasury $1.1 trillion a year to tax expenditures, tax preferences, tax loopholes, tax exclusions. and guess who gets most of t benefit? 26% of the benefit goes to the top 1% of those tax expenditures, those tax loopholes, those tax preferences. here is one of the most conservative economists in america, martin feldstein, professor of economics at harvard, chairman of the council of economic advisors under president reagan. this is what he said about tax exp

[chuckles] >> although being to be clear -- bill clinton -- who knows if he likes chicks. >> if i had bill clinton on the show, i would be asking him about monica lewinsky. >> you sure would. >> absolutely. adam, her claims that this is sexual harassment are ridiculous, aren't they? >> not if you take into account the fact that she's christine o'donnell. she has the misunderstanding that she is asked to be on the show as a serious political candidate. she has graduated from that to being someone you bring on your show to make fun of them and point out how ludicrous they are. if she understood that, she would have had a better sort of understanding of what was going to happen. >> do you think she's playing the sarah palin card -- if you make the mean mediate story, then that works for you. >> yeah, yeah. villainize the media. i plan to did that later in the hour. >> by the way, we are not in the media. i don't know what your publicist told you. yeah. you have been given bad information. >> i have to look into that. >> yeah. >> i am going to form an sploratory committee to explore the p

bill clinton, 23 million jobs. george herbert walker converse, four years, 2.5 million jobs. ronald reagan, 16 million jobs. and i remind you that ronald reagan did raise taxes during his administration. guest: ronald reagan did not raise taxes. in fact, they're cut over 30%. what they did was in 1986, they eliminated a lot of loopholes. they streamline some of the things then. host: and before that, eliminating tax deductions. guest: this is an ideal time to just go to a flat tax. you have made a wealthy people that do not pay -- their tax rate is 39%, but when you look at the effective tax rate, with all the loopholes, some of them do not pay much of anything. everyone ought have something in the game. we ought to go to a flat tax, and ronald reagan's economic adviser told him to cut taxes 30%. you will see the economy explode three it took three years to get the deal done. democratic congress phased in over three years. when the full 30% one in, the economy exploded. he did not raise taxes. he tried to simplify the tax code. i would say that perot that stupid ridiculous do

spending cuts which was seen by independents who bill clinton was focused on like a laser beam as you will e careca john, independents like that sense of shared fairness and the president has a difficult hand dealt to him frankly, but i don't know that he played it very well. if you look at the last eight months, john, has been extraordinary and back of december 10th, if the memory serves the president agreed to a bipartisan deal to cut the taxes and enormous amount straight to the debt, $858 billion to pass a tax cut seen as republican priority and then in april, spending cuts were passed to continue the operations of the government and the continuing resolution and now up to $2.5 trillion perhaps all in spending cuts. if you ask me who is winning this thing, it seems to me that the party who wants lower taxes and less government spending is winning in a rout, and maybe not my party, but as an analyst, it is looking like a rout to me. >> and erin burnett, if the they winning in a rout the republicans it is not the super committee but the reform and tax changes and possible revenue in

that the process used to pass a bill clinton increase was not transparent the american people didn't get to see anything out of this is transparent and that's what all the restaurants are all disgusted by their process going to grill that carville announce that their recall in thirty six is really the sausage for thank you can see. carville of ours that they're going to. recall and destroy thirty six million pounds of ground turkey meanwhile the republican slashed the federal food safety budget two months ago this in the house of representatives eighty seven billion dollars thirty five million dollars in the u.s. regulatory the food safety division why do republicans have a problem seafood. well to continue upon i think they are cutting pork and a lot of different areas you know have a specialist up work and you don't really know i just want to get at them but i think that you know it's not a matter of being against food safety it's a matter of who they believe is the best to you know make sure that their you know cardio should be inspected well and the reality is this is their own i

able to get it to now it's less than what i was you know i think that right claims that because bill clinton cut away the social safety net which didn't seem like a problem in the ninety's because we had your an economy and now when we get the bush recession it's a disaster for the social safety net because there's an. solve the problem that you're suggesting it isn't so closing the gap and creating parity as it is that's how it is and i'm going to resolve this that i admit when we only have two minutes left the city of aurora california or colorado rather is cutting a deal with gaillard entertainment familiar with the size of your smile this is this is this is classic the inside of agreement let me read this this with respect to any taxable or real personal property within the area proposed or whose owner is not a natural person wasn't natural person who is qualified to register to vote in the general elections in the state and is designated by such owner that is the corporation to vote for such an order that is the corporation rather such natural person resides in the area proposed or not

let me tell you something -- bill clinton, i will say it again -- bill clinton would have eaten theseepublicans for breakfast and spit them out before lunch and gone back for a second helping. >> he would have tried to emulate it. he would be sitting down with coburn doing a tax reform will do, close the loopholes, get revenues, and consider lowering rates. bill clinton would have these republicans who have not signed the grover-nor kwift pledge to the white house, and they'd be working something out. he would triangulate not just with his party but there are republicans who are willing to get something done. >> and bill clinton for instance on this policy would say, "i don't understand why republicans don't want it cut." >> exactly. >> "i want to help small business owners. why won't they let me cut the business tax?" we'd sit and people would start calling saying, hey -- >> we lower everybody's rates? >> let's wait and see what actually happens with whether -- there's plenty of time for barack obama to do that. we will see. let's not prejudge the outcome now. >> i only object to you

she comes with quite a resume including a stint working for bill clinton. amy hollyfield is live at lake merritt station, who is she? >> reporter: she used to run the transportation system in seattle and the riders have a lot of demands for her. this is what many bart officials wanted to talk to her about, getting control of these weekly protests in downtown san francisco. these demonstrators are upset about the fatal shooting of a trance gentle by bart police. board members are very concerned about these protests that have at times disrupted service. it looks like this would be the most pressing issue for the new general manager, riders say they have other ideas about what needs to be addressed. >>> i think probably like more safety around the bart station. some we have many homeless around the area. i wish they could do something about it. >> making sure bart riders are more secure on the train. cleaner train. >>> she is going busy. she worked as the second ranking person in the federal tra transit administration under bill clinton. she works as consultan

benefits and minimizing the mind-numbing affects. >> and when he was president, it seemed like bill clinton's diet consisted of junk food. now, he says he's a vegan. clinton was celebrated for putting away endless quantities of burgers and fries and doughnuts and barbecue, two heart procedures changed his attitude about food. the diet is now fruit, and vegetables, no eggs or oil, he considers himself a vegan. he dropped more than 20 pounds saying the goal is to get the weight down to 185, when he weighed when he was 13 years old. >> david letterman's comedy made him the target of terrorists. it stems from jokes that letterman made on the show, making fun about the killing of an al qaeda leader in pakistan according to a jihadist web site, even ran his finger across his neck. the web site posted, urges american followers to cut the tongue off the comedian. david letterman has not commented on the threats but the fbi is taking them seriously. >>> and usually stoic cnn host anderson cooper kind of lost it on the air last night, happening when he was talking about an actor who urinated on the car

on hand to celebrate, former president bill clinton, secretary of state hillary clinton, there she is right there, michelle obama and even oprah! >>> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today" just the first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> thought to be lost forever the first half of an alfred hitchcock film from 1923 has been discovered by archivists in new zealand. the master of suspense was only an assistant director on the film "the white shadow" but he served as art director, writer and editor on the movie. it's a mellodrama about twin sisters, one good, the other evil. >>> a high flying daredevil broke a world record in the czech republic. over the course of three months the paraglider flew more than 5500 miles. at times he reached an altitude as high as 5,000 feet where temperatures fell under 60 degrees. on his record setting journey he also visited 17cc1: orphanages telling children all about his project. very nice. >>> a canadian performer mesmerized audiences in china with one bubbly extravaganza. he controls where bubbles float with his hands and can eve

bill clinton had been the only one in office between 1992 and 2000, so he built the military that actuallyrote a column saying clinton military triumphing in iraq, rush limbaugh called down his ditto heads saying it was false, when in fact he was wrong. they hadn't destroyed the u.s. military. why do we let folks like us and others who opine on these thing not be held to account when circumstances prove them wrong? >> well, that's what i find so fascinating. i think part of it is you have people that just barrel on through. the quotes i drew are out there. some people are cynical about them, but there's a real lack of shame or western. it's okay when you're a reporter, sometimes you have to run corrections. my concern is we have people advocating policies, and then they're not doing their own corrections on what they have said. >> and yet it does leave is in a situation where we're going to have both sides in sort of a kind of war over who's right, who's wrong. can that -- would that be healthy for the media to try to do a more systematic accountability watch on who's getting these things

she said as much. >> bill, you are correct that esquire did a cover with bill clinton with his legs spread. i think you have a picture? >> that's a good picture. >> are you kidding me? that's a crotch shot. that's a crotch shot. >> that's where your eyes go, bill. >> there is an arrow pointed at his twig and berries. >> it was from december 2000. it was intended to evoke the lincoln memorial. but the lewinski scandal came out. >> there is nothing memorial about that. but i did see a lincoln log. >> been movie coming -- bin laden movie coming out. it is obvious that his character on "independence day" was supposed to be an i'd logical version. >> the good thing is nobody listens to hollywood. it is like it doesn't matter what they do. >> did you see the last election? >> we won, sir. >> is that the trick? >> there is a really, really old guy running. >> professor, the last election with morgan free man finally -- freeman finally paid off? >> you said they hope they make it captain america esque? >> what is captain america? >> team america, that's what i meant. >> by the way, according to th

she is number two person at the federal transit administration under bill clinton. she will make $330,000 a year. she takes over an agency days facing several controversies. protests that forced bart to shut down several stations in downtown san francisco. they were triggered by fatal shooting of a homeless man and the agency's system on shut off cellphone service to prevent an earlier protest. >>> just ahead, a report card on the security as we approach 9/11 terror attacks. they say we are note any better prepared today. >> and kids with guns, a decision made by a santa >>> speed limits around schools in san jose could be dropped from 25 to 15 miles an hour. terry mcsweeney joins us from san jose. this has become rather controversial. >> its surprise. it sound like a good idea, lowering the speed limit because of a safety issue for children. the city of san jose can't even afford it and even if they approved it they can't deliver. >> they are on their way to trace elementary school one of three in san jose along with hoover and lincoln high school that has

this also goes back it bill clinton. bill clinton had his problems. but the effort to delegitimize him, to say he is involved with drugs, with murder, with foster coming from jerry, coming from the project be a even from congress, it was similar. it wasn't the same but it was similar. there is a real dehumananization of this man. >> the worst thing that someone can say is that he is not american. they usually accept that the other sides is american, they just usually call them idiots. the worst thing you can say about a right winger. the worst thing to say about a left winger, he is not one of us. >>> here he is talking about the president using street corner hustler term saying he conned us into believing he was a citizen. this is donald trump thought here. let's listen. >> i would like to have him show his birth certificate. and to be honest with you, i hope he can. because if he can't, if he can't and if he wasn't born in this country. which is real possibility. i'm not saying it has been. but it is possibility. then he pulled one of the greatest c

. >>> what did president obama have in centcom with bill clinton, even john adams? they've all been criticized for taking vacations. that's an open question tonight. let me finish tonight with a very simple proposition, mine on how president obama can get congress to pass a jobs bill. i call it porking out. >>> we start with the president's jobs programs. jared bernstein, a former adviser to vice president joe biden, and howard fineman. gentlemen, let's talk about this speech now. do you have an inside -- first of all, you are an outsider now. do you know what the president will come out? >> i have some ideas, mostly from the outside. >> give us the inside first. >> the president will continue to talk about what he's talked about so far, extending the payroll tax holiday. that's important. that's already in the system. if you do that, and you absolutely should, it keeps your foot on the accelerator, to let that stuff expire, as it's schedule to do do at the end of the year, that takes your foot off. >> so he's going to get payroll taxes down, and he's going to make

. >> i think back, though, on bill clinton running for the presidency in the early '90s, and the criticism of him from the right that okay, you seem to be an interesting guy, a charismatic young governor that has a lot to offer in terms of the way he talks about the country, but look at arkansas, at the bottom of the list on so many national indicators, never seemed that stuck as a complaint against bill clinton as a charismatic governor. can the complaints about texas, both in terms of its economy and its lifestyle and the way it fits into the country do rick perry any harm? >> i think it can. i think if people -- the worst thing you can do in politics is be a hypocrite, and if you're talking about cutting the size of government and government's too big and we don't like social security and medicare and you find your work force is going up 18%, twice the rate private sector jobs went up, there's a lot of explaining to do, as they say in politics, so i do think that matters, jobs are going to be a big issue in this campaign, and if people think he created jobs by expanding the state work f

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so i meet bill clinton and i'm in college applying to law school. i walked up and said i know yours already. i read about shooting magazine. i've got the same background. i want to go into politics. bill clinton took about 15 minutes or so of his time. i wasn't even a constituent. he told me, go to law school. if you're going to be involved in the process in any way, it involves riding along. who better to know about the legal process employer. i practical perspective you have something to fall back on if you're a political desires don't fall through. one of the great ironies of that meeting is that it was 20 years, not just to the very day, but to almost an hour that i was sitting in the house judiciary committee casting a vote on articles against president clinton. 20 years later a pass intercepted in a way that neither of us could ever imagine. the advice he gave me was first appreciated, second never forgotten and prove to be very good i have no doubt there's a lot to lose in terms of pursuing the first scratch. the point i made before, our expe

you know, what was so wrong to going back to the tax and spending policies of bill clinton? sperity? >> i have the answer to this one, cornell. >> okay. >> let's say we go back to clinton's tax breaks. we go back to clinton's economy, by the way, which brought more revenue into the government than any other time in american history. that was still only 21% of gross domestic product. and the government is spending 27% of gross domestic product. so, the government will have to cut 5% to equal the tax revenue. >> when the economy grows, you get more revenues, right? >> exactly. but historically, gloria, from the moment the income tax was implemented in the early 1900s until now, the most the government has seen in tax revenue has been 21%. the most ever in this country's history has been 21%. we're spending 27% of gross domestic product. >> cornell, i have to give you the final thought here. >> we can't cut away, cut ourselves to a solution here. and certainly we can't cut away our future, which is what we threaten to do when we start to cut away pell grants and lunch programs a