is asked to testify, and bill clinton is asked the question did you ever have sex with a woman named monica? and he said no, i never did. no, i never did, clinton claims he was telling the truth because from his point of view sex is intercourse. regardless, the scandal breaks. scandal breaks. bill tells hillary clinton it's breaking and he said i didn't have sex with her. i tried to do whey could help her. and hillary stands by him 100%. first of all, she doesn't believe it. given the surveillance in the white house she doesn't think it's possible. she believes that the marital therapy they had done in '89, '90 '91 had been sufficient to restore the relationship. bill is very insecure that the point. the first thing bill clinton does after the charges are made, he asked dick morris to do a possible poll on whether the american people will accept infee dellty. and he reports back and said they'll accept it but not perjury. lying under oath. bill said he's going hang in there. you will all recall the first time he's confronted with the question by jim on the evening news and asked abou

in his later years he was an adviser to bill clinton. ident clinton eulogized him at his funeral in 1994. let's listen. >> for the past year, even in the final weeks of his life, he gave me his wise counsel. one thing in particular left a profound impression on me. though this man was in his ninth decade, he had an incredibly sharp and vigorous and rigorous mind. he made mistakes and they like his accomplishments are part of his life and record. but the enduring lesson of richard nixon is that he never gave up being part of the action and passion of his times. >> for more on richard nixon's very complicated, in many ways, dark legacy, we've got two men who studied him intensively. the author of the president's club, inside the world's most exclusive fraternity. let's just start with i love these relationships in politics. i love to write about them and think about them. what was the relationship between dick nixon, republican, scandalized by his own hand and bill clinton was coming on as a young, fresh face out of the ivy league schools.

bush and bill clinton. of our coverage and behind the scenes photographs are available on our website c- span.org. let's take you back to january 2009. [crowd chanting "obama"] >> thank you. thank you. my fellow citizens, i stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. i thank president bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. 44 americans have now taken the presidential oath. the words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. yet, every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. at these moments, america has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents. so it has been, so it must be with this generation of americans. that

yeah, remember how much republicans loved bill clinton? remember how the clinton era was defined by eight long years of harmonious bipartisanship? >> william jefferson clinton has been impeached by the house of representatives on at least one article. it will go to the united states senate. ♪ kumbahyah those were the constructive bipartisan days of the clinton presidency. even if republicans were not exactly kind and welcoming toward president clinton as president, he did at least make a sort of gesture of bipartisanship in their direction. he had a bipartisan cabinet. he appointed one republican to one job in his cabinet. former republican senator william cohen he appointed to his defense secretary. and president george bush did the same thing, he pointed one democrat, norman mineta was chosen by george w. bush to serve as transportation secretary. in george w. bush's second term, norm mineta stuck around. he did not leave until close to the end. so president bush never appointed another democrat, but he did have that one democrat, norman

that was hillary clinton's husband. >> that was bill clinton. >> that was bill rodham clinton. >> that'sbill robin clinton. >> wow. many of the movies nominated reflected an american because this movies shows our system may be messy, but most time it works. mark malkin is eonline senior editor. thank you, gentlemen, for joining us tonight. i love themes. i love award shows. i think the golden globe is always the best because you're allowed to drink, which is always an impressive fact of the evening. and inevitably somebody gives a long winded almost inexplicable speech. this year it was jodie foster. last year it was warren beatty how these other guys like jack nicholson and clint eastwood could keep going so late in life. your thoughts. what was that speech about by jodie foster, ted? >> i do think it was coming out. i think she made it -- >> is that what it was? >> yeah, i think it was coming out. but it was also i think a lot of talk about why she has really guarded her privacy for so long. >> that's an argument we'll have the rest of our lives. privacy versus telling everybody who yo

the poor president is still regularly criticized for not as being soberable as bill clinton. as to live with that forever. given that the obama story is basically over as far as presidential elections go and that the clinton one is still continuing, i'm not sure how much sense it makes. >> potentially for another four years. that is a perfect segue as we end this block to the interview that the president sat down with hillary clinton last night wroosh your read on the dynamic between those two people at this point in time? >> first of all, i really recommend watching it, because it's almost like performance art. it's not that they said anything that we haven't really heard before. watching them go from being the little awkward in the beginning of the interview to settling in more and getting to the sort of warm chumminess that i don't think we've really seen them telegraph before in public. the most interesting line to me is that they agreed vihamently that the 2008 primary battle had been much easier to get over for their spouses than it was for them, so it was essentially hi

paul ryan, when he talked about bill clinton, he did not mention george w. ly irresponsible president in history until president obama came along. thank you, gentlemen. mo and former hillary clinton spokesman and former bush adviser, dylan glenn. cheryl: long term health insurance and whether you should buy it. assumptions about the cost are likely wrong. dennis: maybe it was not those new batteries that forced regulators to ground the dreamliner. we'll tell you what may have been the cause in "west coast minute." first, a look at ten-year treasuries. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] this is karen anjeremiah. they don't know it yet, but they' gonna fall in love, get married, have a couple of kids, [ children laughing ] move to the country, and live a long, happy life together where they almost never fight about money. [ dog barks ] because right after they get married, they'll find some retirement people who are paid on salary, not commission. they'll get straightforward guidance and be able to focus on other things, like each other, which isn't rocket science. it's ju

chris: biden's candor pails in comparison to bill clinton when he first surfaced in that same year. clinton had a big spotlight, keynote at the convention when they nominated mike dukakis and clinton bombed and had to go on the carson show for damage control. but he still wasn't shy about his huge ambition. >> you are governor of arkansas until 1991? >> that's right. >> yeah. where were you looking beyond that politically or are you? >> depends on how i do on the show tonight. [applause] >> would you entertain a running for higher office? president? >> i would like to do it sometime. we decided that we would wait. until my daughter was old enough to kind of abuse me with the same facility you do. the political life. chris: talk about long shots. contrast that with how hillary clinton addressed the question with barbara walters several weeks ago. taped before she got hospitalized for had a blood clot. >> i really don't believe that's something i will do again. >> your husband wants you to in 2016. what do you say to him? >> he wants me to do what i want to do. right now, i have no int

it was the next night that bill clinton ended up giving his speech, not al gore. , in between al gore silently doing the macarena on wednesday night and everybody in washington waking up on thursday morning, overnight, that overnight the clinton campaign had a political disaster. it was the day of president clinton's acceptance speech at the democratic convention, and out of the blue, with no warning on that day that the president of the united states is due to address his party's convention to give his big acceptance speech, on that day, this long-awaited thing and the suspenseful campaign, the crowning moment of the reelect, what happened that day to overshadow the president? what happened all of the sudden that particular crucial day? hooker scandal. >> tonight the man widely credited with bringing president clinton back from a political near death experience is gone. he has been forced from the campaign by a tabloid newspaper's claims that he had a long-standing relationship with a washington call girl that included sharing with her inside information from the

it happened to ronald reagan, it happened to bill clinton, george bush. and that is, obama fatigues. three years from now, people will be writing columns about obama fatigue, just as they did about clinton fatigue and bush fatigue and reagan fatigue. franklin roosevelt only gave 30 fireside chats in 12 years. he understood instinctively the dangers of overexposure. he also controlled the media to an extent that modern presidents could not hope to. host: looking back, fdr broke the unwritten code of serving more than two terms. wetoday's modern age, could have more than two terms for any president? you worked for ronald reagan. if his health was better, of third term? guest: i doubt it. he talked about it after he left office. he was going to campaign for appeal of that amendment. he thought the american people should be able to vote for anyone wanted to vote for. it is very difficult to imagine after eight years of office -- we've used up our presidents. that is why this string of two- term presidents is really so unusual. we have a string of one-term pres

it was the next night that bill clinton ended up giving his speech, not al gore. and overnight, in between al gore silently doing the macarena on wednesday night and everybody in washington waking up on thursday morning, overnight, that overnight the clinton campaign had a political disaster. it was the day of president clinton's acceptance speech at the democratic convention, and out of the blue, with no warning on that day that the president of the united states is due to address his party's convention to give his big acceptance speech, on that day, this long-awaited thing and the suspenseful campaign, the crowning moment of the reelect, what happened that day to overshadow the president? what happened all of the sudden that particular crucial day? hooker scandal. >> tonight the man widely credited with bringing president clinton back from a political near death experience is gone. he has been forced from the campaign by a tabloid newspaper's claims that he had a long-standing relationship with a washington call girl that included sharing with her inside informat

i -- i mean, she's -- all the things that bill clinton did during the campaign, all the work that hillary clinton's done, they've never had a dinner at the white house with them? >> i think this is something outsiders find difficult and surprising. the obamas can be vivacious, charming they have great public personalities. what people in washington see -- but i think people all over the country don't necessarily see it, there's an intro version there, a self-protectedness. the obamas said both when the president became famous in 2004 and again when they came to washington, no new friends, which is the opposite of what we expect from politicians. they generally succeed by making everybody their friend. >> some people like to be president because they enjoy the office, other people relish power. >> and isn't it true, after meeting with people, he likes down time by himself. >> absolutely. if we are looking at when this presidency happens, in some sense this presidency take place at 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 at night, the second floor study in the private residence when the president sits for hour

bill clinton came thinking he could change it. st person who began to sense there were greater possibilities was reagan, that was almost a different political age. >> you also think about, had the clintons and how bill clinton -- he seemed to revel in politics, the reaching out to people. in the article, i found it fascinating that the obamas haven't had bill and hillary clinton over for dinner. i -- i mean, she's -- all the things that bill clinton did during the campaign, all the work that hillary clinton's done, they've never had a dinner with them at the white house? >> i think this is something outsiders find confusing. the obamas can be vivacious, charming they have great public personalities. what people in washington see -- but people all over the country don't see, is that there's an introversion there, the obamas said both when the president became famous in 2004 and again when they came to washington, no new friends, which is the opposite of what we expect from politicians. they generally succeed by making everybody thei

it was the next night that bill clinton ended up giving his speech, not al gore. in between al gore silently doing the macarena on wednesday night and everybody in washington waking up on thursday morning, overnight, that overnight the clinton campaign had a political disaster. it was the day of president clinton's acceptance speech at the democratic convention, and out of the blue, with no warning on that day that the president of the united states is due to address his party's convention to give his big acceptance speech, on that day, this long-awaited thing and the suspenseful campaign, the crowning moment of the reelect, what happened that day to overshadow the president? what happened all of the sudden that particular crucial day? hooker scandal. >> tonight the man widely credited with bringing president clinton back from a political near death experience is gone. he has been forced from the campaign by a tabloid newspaper's claims that he had a long-standing relationship with a washington call girl that included sharing with her inside information from the w

and bill clinton's attempt to sweep away hillary clinton's health problems.he hump day gaggle joins me next. but first, white house soup of the day, it's chicken noodle. i'll be honest, i think a lot of us could use some chicken noodle with the way this flu is beating us all up. i don't have the flu, i don't think. don't forget to check out our website, rundown.msnbc.com. we'll be right back. so if you have a flat tire, dead battery, need a tow or lock your keys in the car, geico's emergency roadside assistance is there 24/7. oh dear, i got a flat tire. hmmm. uh... yeah, can you find a take where it's a bit more dramatic on that last line, yeah? yeah i got it right here. someone help me!!! i have a flat tire!!! well it's good... good for me. what do you think? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >>> just about two hours from now, president obama will unveil his proposed package on gun control. opponents, though, already promising a tough political fight. let's bring in our wednesday gaggle here, from "the washington

about children with alcoholics and people in that kind of family dynamic is that a child like bill clinton begins to feel like he has the responsibility of bringing healing to that family, of redeeming it, of creating honor where there's dishonor. and he's so, he basically sets out to be the person who's going to rescue and redeem the family. he is an incredible student. he's front of his class. he becomes very active in boys' nation which is kind of a junior american legion. gets nominated to go to washington as the quote-unquote boys' nation candidate for u.s. senate. goes to washington. he's already six feet tall. he strides to the front of the line when they go to the white house to see president kennedy, and then when kennedy finishes his speech, bill clinton lopes forward and gets his picture taken with, alongside of john f. kennedy. he's so proud. he's so proud. and he already is dedicate today the idea that he is -- dedicated to the idea that he is going to be the person who is going to bring complete honor to the family. he already, by the age of 17, is planning to be elected atto

> but part that have reduction, no, normally, it's about 18, 18 1/2, and it's popped up under bill clinton's presidency above 20%, if you have economic growth. the 16% is because the growth-- >> their policies are going to guarantee, in my opinion, 2% growth for a long period of time. they will never get tax revenue back up towards 20%. >> paul: kim, let's talk about another tax that's on the table. dick durbin, the number two democrat in the senate this week said raise the prospect of an energy tax in addition to this and this reflects part of the point that mary made, you can go after the rich under the current tax, but you can't begin to finance the government we have. so ultimately you've got to find new ways to get the revenue. is this energy tax actually going to be a live prospect in the next couple of years? >> oh, they're going to try it and i think we all owe dick durbin a degree of thanks for what they want to do. mary says you can go after everybody who is rich, you can't get it, you have to go up through the middle class. the problem for democrats they vowed they're not going to

congresswoman and the vice president and everyone has to take into account, if you look back in '94 when bill clinton the ban on assault weapons through, he did that as part of a big crime bill with a lot of stuff the conservatives wanted like expanding the death penalty. if you do it bit by bit or if it's a bill just about gun safety or gun violence prevention, it may be harder to get through. >> let me ask the congresswoman. do you think we can get a government -- something through the congress that doesn't get encased in some big right center left package which includes some things liberals won't like? >> well, i think anything that does pass is going to have to have something appealing to the right and to the left. and certainly the interests of those who are hunters in terms of making sure that the conservation dollars are there is there's plenty of ducks to be shot at has appeal as well. so i think we've got to make very clear to the american people though, we're not talking about taking guns away from anyone. the second amendment is very clear, the heller supreme court decision made it very cl

bill clinton, what he have been without a second term?ot a big budget surplus and ronald reagan, i think iran-contra is overblown and historic gorbachev diplomacy and margaret thatcher said reagan ended the cold war without a single shot and the spth feeling good about the second term. he doesn't have the curse mentality. >> what are the priorities, what would you like to see the president focus on? they say in the second term you get a maximum of about 18 months to really shove through the agenda that you want to do. what should he be looking to do? >> there's the stuff on the table, you know, talked about in the media, immigration reform. you know, gun control. a couple of other issues but i would like to see him work on the great ideas he's put forward in terms of linking education with workforce development. making the united states more economically competitive in the 21st century global economy investing in community colleges, improving the education system and linking that with the business sector. if he can do that, he can leave f

but this is followed by the same house of representatives voting to impeach bill clinton. obviously an extreme example of the age-old conflict between congress and the executive branch of government. and yet, bill clinton is listed among only seven reelected presidents who were successful. there are lessons to be learned from the clinton second term that might offer guidance to obama, were he reelected. some of the presidency face hostilities from congress filled with majority of their own party, included washington, jefferson, monroe, grant, theodore roosevelt, johnson and bush. andrew jackson was censored by a congress controlled by his own democratic party. a fight he never forgave. franklin roosevelt had a constant battle with southern democrats in congress who oppose his new deal legislation. he suffered his greatest political defeat as a democratic-controlled congress refused to support his plan to pass the supreme court. eisenhower, a republican, filed legislation drafted by a fellow republican, victor of ohio, who thought it was the way of presidential power. what

president lyndon johnson, john kennedy, bill clinton, or george w. bush? >> bill clinton?inner too. >> yes, you are. >> all right, kim kardashian gets my book. so the correct answer here, president lyndon johnson. >> lyndon johnson. you might remember that famous, famous picture on air force one after president kennedy was assassinated. he was sworn in by a dallas judge, sarah hughes. >> okay. well, thank you so much. that was -- we learned a lot, and kathie lee is going to come back across the street now, and we're going to talk to a woman who knows a thing or two about money. our good friend suze orman is with us. we're going to speak with her after this. ♪ ng, and teaching it took to earn it. so we give you the power to keep as much of your hard-earned money as possible. our customized interview covers everything from a service member's deployment, to a student's loan interest, right down to a teacher's crayons. you've worked hard to earn your money. we're here to help you keep it. turbotax-- the power to keep what's yours. try it free at turbotax.com. i have a cold, an

host: bill clinton's reference to the bridge.more from his second inaugural address. >> at this last presidential inauguration of the 20th century let's lift our eyes to the challenges they await us in the next century. it is our great, good fortune, the time and chance have put us at the edge of a new century but on the edge of a bright new prospect in human affairs. a moment that will define our course and our character for decades to come. we must keep our old democracy forever young. guide bid the an chents vision of a promised land let us set our sights on a land of new promise. the promise of america was born in the 18th century. out of a bold conviction that we are all created equal. it was extended and preserved in the 19th century when our nation spread across, save the union aabolish slavery. then in turmoil that promise exploded on the world's stage to make this the american century. and what a century it has been. america became the world's biggest industrial power. saved the world from a long cold war and time again

in the making because the story of that speech was for the first 15 years republicans treated bill clintonike he was the worst thing that ever happened to american politics. he was the villain in chief and even at the white house they were afraid of the clinton restoration. republicans decided, wait a minute, no. bill clinton is this bygone symbol of an era of cooperation and good government and moderation and sang his praises for four years. said about the good democrat against obama's bad democrat and what happens? the good democrat steals the show at the democratic convention, vouches for the bad democrat and disarmed an awful lot of republicans were saying about barack obama. >> you made a great case. chris hayes? >> the mvp for the obama campaign was rick perry. and it was rick perry's entrance to the race that pushed mitt romney to take a tactically wise but strategically stupid step of going full out anti-immigrant. >> tacticalliwise for that moment. >> for that moment. >> the republican campaign. >> it totally destroyed rick perry. he dispatched rick perry with that rhetoric of the

bill clinton came thinking he could change it. erson who really began to sense there were greater possibilities was reagan. that was almost a different political age. >> you also think about how the clintons and how bill clinton. he seemed to revel in politics. they haven't had bill and hillary over for dinner. they've never had a dinner. >> i think this is something outsiders find difficult. they can be charming. they have great public personalities. what people in washington see but i think people all over the country don't see it if there's an introversion there. there's a self-protectedness. the obamas said both when the president became famous in 2004 and when they came to washington, no new friends which is the opposite of what we expect from politicians. politicians generally succeed by making everybody they friend. >> some people like to be president because they really enjoy the office. other people relish power and exercising power. >> is it true that president obama after meeting with some people he likes down time by hi

the real tension is bill clinton and barack obama.t's like the big chill turned into the deep freeze. >> okay. hold that thought because your idea of putting clinton aside which is unimaginable. >> at least for a few minutes. >> he was on tv when george w. bill was speaking at andrews on a separate screen. let me ask you because i thought of this and howard did give me credit for it in the green room. >> where all the important work is done. >> he put the secretary of state on television with him as an equal, a peer. they talked about each other being partners almost. was it ameliorated, softened, the lack of any woman of the top positions the president has named for the second term and it did shut everybody up in a very nice way. it's smart, cosmetic politics i thought. your thoughts, joy. >> definitely. it puts her in the buddy act. you have seen a lot of him and joe biden together. him and his new chief of act. there's a buddy act he's got going on with all these guys. one of the things -- >> boy/girl buddy act. that's new. >> if y

that was bill clinton at the sum malgs of his career.hat was everything he learned about how to make a case for the president. >> you wonder why barack obama could rnt do it? that's probably because the kind of case he had to make, somebody other than the president had to make. if the president himself says, you know we were in a terrible situation when i came in, it doesn't sound as compelling. >> i had a moment like that up in new hamp chir when clinton was running the first time. he had the problems with the girlfriend way back when. that was all behind him. and then he went out in front of these field houses in high school gyms and he spoke in the round. and he would go on the last question in the room he'd answer. and rick hertzburg said to me nobody in our generation can do that. only he can to that. >> what also impressed me about that, i was covering that very same series of events was his will. bill clinton's will to succeed. >> that's what separates. you take the worst falls in the world and come running back. anyway, another t

and again i'll compare it with bill clinton. you have these two young people, born essentially not nowhere, but very provincial settings. hawaii thousands of miles from the mainland, southwest arkansas. both without knowing their father's spirit will clinton sisco before he was born. barack obama's never lived with the family. both with alcoholism is part of the internal family secret. but having to resolve a lot of contradictions they did in completely different ways. bill clinton's way this point forward, we can up every morning, forgetting himself, forgetting the world, reinventing himself, not dealing with the problems of his own life, but pushing past them. he became the ultimate survivor and surely unlike any politician in being able to move past them succeed again and get in trouble again. so that ability got him to the white house that got them in trouble because he hadn't result a lot of things. survival skills got them out of trouble. he's leaving the white house and now is the most popular guy in the world. i hate to s

and bill clinton saying politically you need to be careful with this. >> bill clinton grew up in arkansas and knows this kind of stuff in his bones. he knows the danger that it can present to the democratic party. they have lost mid terms in the past because of the gun issue. al gore, clinton talked specifically about al gore taking an unpopular side of a gun issue in colorado, lost colorado and lost the presidency. also democrats are concerned about this issue for 2014. in the senate you have red state democrats up for reelection in alaska and arkansas and montana, in south dakota. and in laz. a bunch of red states and they are very worried about taking positions that will lose the seats. >> take a look at a couple of polls because the numbers are interesting. this one says in the debate on guns which is more important to protect they asked the people that were polled. 51% said the constitutional right to own a gun and 40% said citizens to be protected from gun violence was more important to them. take a look at one more of these. and this one is the newspapers publishing the names and a