. >> stephen: president bill clinton, everybody. ( cheers and applause ). thank you so much for joining me. >> i want to thank you, stephen, forgetting me started on twitter. >> stephen: you're welcome, sir. thanks for the colbert bump at prezbilly jeff already has 170,000 followers. that's big. i mean i have almost five million followers but who is counting? >> sounds like you are. tephen: you bet i am. if you don't mind me asking, why haven't you tweeted more? >> well, stephen, i'm not sure i have room in my schedule to tweet. >> stephen: sir, there is always room for twitter. it's the jello of human expression. you can do it during any down time like when you're standing in line at the bank or when you're waiting at a drive through or when you're going through security at the airport. and as i'm saying this, i realize none of these things apply to you, do they? >> not really, no. stephen: okay. well, regardless. you've got to get on there. but a warning, mr. president. you may have been the leader of the free world but twitter has its own super powers. f

president at bill clinton, everybody. we'll be right ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: hey, welcome back, everybody. thank you very much. nation, you know, if you watch the news as much as i do, you know that everywhere you look, there's bad news: tv, internet, newspapers, even on the comics page. last week garfield finally succumbed to his chronic depression over mondays. he is survived by odie, jon and a lasagna. but, nation, i'm going to give you some good news. this is tiny triumphs. humanity has accomplished so much over the years. we split the atom. we mapped the human genome. we put pizza on a bagel. now we can have pizza any time. but all this achievement raises the troubling question: is there anything left for us to conquer? and it also raises the troubling answer: yes. because we have now found a bold, new frontier on mars. we've been sending probes there since the 1970s, most recently the curiosity rover which in search of evidence of life has been driving across the harsh martian sands with its eight sturd

bill clinton -- you're a phony, bill clinton. you're a phony. >> stephen: yeah, what a phony. t bill o'reilly's no phony, and that's what's shaken me to my core. [laughter] 'cuz if bill o'reilly is now pro-gay marriage, and isn't a flip-flopper like bill clinton, then back when he said gay marriage was like marrying a goat, he was really telling us that he's pro-goat marriage. [laughter] goat, this is bill. [laughter] goat. now, before any of you judge the [laughter] [cheers and applause] i know this shocking but before any of you judge the o'reillys -- i, too, used to condemn man-goat love -- the love that dare not "mehhh" it's name -- but, like so many americans, i now know someone who bypassed match.com and went straight to the petting zoo. [laughter] and please don't reduce this to just a sexual relationship. don't make this ugly. though i'm sure they do have sex. and i bet it's pretty ugly. [laughter] but that's just a small thread in the rich tapestry of bill oreilly's relationship with a goat. no one should be denied the right to visit his sick lover at the vet. [laughte

we're at the clinton global initiative university with the namesake president bill global. ask you this, when you these people's age you were getting into politics. would you advise people at this age to get into politics now or would you advise them to get into ngos? >> first of all they are not all going to get into politics as candidates. but if they have an interest, i would advise them to do it. i feel very prif leblged to have -- privileged to have had the life i have and i think it's very important. i also believe that even if they get in ngo work they should be involved in election work. a big part of the last last, for example, was turned by people part of vast social networks that operated in the real world, too. this campaign was the highest point yet in our politics in america on the democratic side of using the social networks to activate people who worked door to door face to face with people. >> stephen: i understand that you don't use all of the internet. you don't e-mail, you don't facebook, you are not pinteresting. >> i do facebook. >> stephen: do you twe

that's bill clinton's library. at's not hillary clinton, not to say she didn't have influence but bill clinton's. >> let me say something about the keeper of the flame. no better keeper of the flame than nancy reagan. >> and she's not here today. >> she's watching right now. couldn't get her. hi, nancy. i know she's watching this because she really cares about the presidency. keepers of the flame, it tends to be the wife who keeps that flame. remember jackie kennedy who lit the flame literally for jack. >> let's not assume it's all -- >> i'm very careful. >> go ahead, david, excellently careful in saying spouses until you interrupted me. bush spouses is the right word. go ahead, david. >> i just think it's so striking as we're still taking in this image. think of the historical firsts that you've got the elder president bush with his son. they are both now former presidents, and in our history john quincy adams, of course, following john adams, but john adams was too old and died very early and john quincy adams pre

if you like bill clinton you forgive him. if you like somebody, you make that decision after you see him a few times, you know, he's me. in some way he's me and i get it and i'm with him. i think a lot of people made that decision about sanford. i'm with him. i may be wrong. >> well, i'm not sure. >> your views. >> there wasn't a lot of turnout in the -- in the special -- in the primary or in the runoff. i'm not sure if people are that enthusiastic about voting for him. i think a lot of republicans believe he let them down. he kind of abandoned the state while he was governor and he was off, you know, it was his not a family values kind of situation. and she's foreign. you know, she's from argentina. >> he's marrying her. he's getting married. this isn't some roll in the hay if you will to use an old phrase. he's fallen in love. he didn't use the phrase but he's fallen in love. she's his fiancee now. there she is right there off to the right there. i mean, obviously attractive. don't have to be complicated about that. he's in

and the question is whether or not the republicans can produce their version of a bill clinton in '92ge bush in 2000, a governor perhaps, maybe a senator, maybe somebody outside of politic who is is willing to take those centrist positions. >> rubio is certainly not trying to tamp down on the far right. you know if you look at his votes so far, he voted against the violence against women act. he very much i think is seen as this conservative, or this establishment envoy to conservatives. and is not -- >> let me say one thing. there's a difference -- there's a difference between what happened in the democrats in the '90s and what's going on with the republican party now. and that is everyone wanted to circle the wagons in the '90s, democrats agreed we have to rethink where we are. settle there was a lot of rear-guard fighting. >> at the end of the day, bill clinton did what he did. there's a huge question about whether republicans will rally around a leader, whoever that is, i don't know. could it be chris christie? could it be marco rubio? you still have these incredibly warring facti

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. >> you know, bill clinton and george w.ush as well, they decided to pass on the humor in the wake of tragedy. what will this president do. >> i wouldn't be surprised if he did pass a significant portion on the humor given everything that's happened. at the same time, this week you also had the george w. bush library dedication and there were some quips as well. this isn't like this is a period of time we can't joke, but i wouldn't be surprised if he set aside time to mark those who have passed and talk about those tragedies. >> we are just getting started. coverage will continue until the president speaks, until conan o'brien speaks as well. much more on the presidential humor during the annual events. but one year it wasn't the president getting the laughs. >> i have been attending these dinners for years. and just quietly sitting there. well, i've got a few things i want to say for a change. [ cheers and applause ] i am married to the president of the united states and here's our typical evening. 9:00. mr. excitement here

. >> estuvo ex presidente, jimmy carter y ex presidente, bill clinton . >> ex presidente, george bushpana . >> se presentaron dibujos y cuadros, ex presidente, bill clinton dijo que esperaba un dibujo pero después que lo vio, ya no. >> un presidente controversial con biblioteca. >> sin duda . >> los dejamos con el noticiero nacional. >> buenas noches un tercer

>>> bill clinton said it was daughter chelsea that changed his mind on same-sex marriage. he accepted her for the advocate change award from glad. >> chelsea and her gay friends and her wonderful husband have modelled to me the way we all ought to treat each other without regard to our sexual orientation or any other artificial difference that divides us. >> and that's your morning's dish of scrambled politics. >>> well, mai-mai be next week, but check out the snow falling in colorado. at least three denver highways were closed last night because of the icy conditions. more is expected this morning into the afternoon. now, for more on the weather nbc news' bill karins is here. we all hold you responsible for this. what's going on? >> the complaint box. >> i'm sure it's overflowing. >> especially in the mid-west. it snowed last night in minneapolis. it's snowing right now in duluth. it doesn't want to end. it's ridiculous. right now, we have snow that stretches in the white there from denver on i-70 all the

bill clinton, brand-new to the scene, sent out this today.re is one of just the first ladies attending. up next, a big decision for president obama. the syrian regime uses chemical weapons. something the president said would be a game-changer. so what is his next move? you're watching "hardball" the place for politics. xç >>> here is what is happening, president obama spoke earlier at a memorial for victims of last week's deadly fertilizer plant blast in west, texas, paying tribute to the many first responder responders who lost their lives. >> together, you answered the call. you dropped your school work, left your families, jumped in fire trucks. rushed to the flames. when you got to the scene you forgot fear and you fought that blaze as hard as you could knowing the danger, buying time so others could escape. and then about 20 minutes after the first alarm, the earth shook and the sky went dark. and west changed forever. >> 14 people were killed in that explosion, more than 200 were wounded. the mother of the boston bombing suspect spoke t

bush, president bill clinton, president george h.w.immy carter. ♪ [cheers and applause] please remain standing for the invocation by the reverend mark craig followed by the presentation of colors. >> let us pray. we have gathered here today, oh, god, to offer thanks for the life and the legacy of president and mrs. george w. bush. we thank you for their distinguished leadership to our nation. moreover, we are grateful for their moral courage and commitment to public service. oh, god, our lord, creator and sustainer, today we honor a man who genuinely believes in your quest of freedom for all. we ask that president bush and his family continue to feel the prayers and support of people all over the world who recognize his past and continued work for the expansion of freedom. we ask your blessings upon the george w. bush presidential center and all who will walk through these doors. we pray that it will serve as a beacon of hope and freedom throughout the world. we pray that it will remind each and every one of us of our nation's heroic p

but look, newt was speaker when bill clinton was president and we got to a balanced budget. and they did it by talking with one another, working with one another and ultimately compromise. and i think the style -- >> look, newt's style was different than bob michael's style. but in the end they did what was good and right for the country. >> when did you first meet bob michael and how did you become chief of staff? >> well, i grew up in peoria. when i was growing up as a young boy, bob michael was our congressman. he served for 38 years. and so i had known him. i had known no other congressman during the whole time that i was growing usm but i got involved with another congressman tom railsback who was a few miles away. worked for him and then worked for bop and then ultimately gravitated towards the top of the staff and became chief of i was fortunate enough to succeed bob. >> what did he teach you? >> what he taught me the only way you ever get anything done in this town is by people talking to one another and compromising and working things out. that's the only way big th

i was oblivious to it really. >> you preside over the impeachment president bill clinton. is that something that you wanted to do? >> the way that it happened and the way i heard about it is one of speaker gingrich's staff was if he is going to preside. and he said no that he wanted ray lahood to do it. and i think steve, over that period of time of five years, i had developed a reputation for fairness for doing it by the book, for making sure that everybody was treated respectfully. that everybody got to say what they wanted to say within the time frame within which they were given to say it. and there was a respect on both sides. and because of that the style that i used that speaker gingrich decided. it was his call. >> looking back at the impeachment of bill clinton as a member of congress was it the right thing or was it a mistake? >> henry hyde was the chief of staff in the judiciary committee. a colleague of mine from illinois. he and i were both from illinois. i knew henry very well. i believe that he was a very fair person. i feel that the hearings that he held, t

. >> well, when bill clinton was president, i went over to north korea because we were faced with a war between north korea and south creal. i noilgted with the seen -- south korea. i negotiated with the senior kim who was worshiped like jesus christ and george washington combined. they would do anything he said. we negotiated for a number of hours. he agreed with everything i proposed. i brought that back with to president clinton and he got it in wright. we got a firm commitment between the united states and north korea that they wouldn't build nuclear weapons and we would sign a peace treaty with them. when president clinton went out of office and we had a different president he threw this agreement in the waste basket. >> jon: you don't know who he is talking about could be anybody. >> he threw the agreement in the waste basket and declared that north korea was an axis of evil. they are paranoid people to start with and they don't have anything to fall back except intelligence and their ability to build nuclear weapons like now. now we have a deadlock over there and this new leader

you have bill clinton now being very active in endorsements in local city government races. endorse someone for mayor in the city of los angeles. this is all i predict a way to get their bodies in motion. >> if you're asking me, are you ready for more clintons? hell yes. it was the longest peacetime expansion in our economy's history. he balanced the budget. and, by the way, plenty of secretary of states have become president. jefferson, madison, monroe, quincy, adams, van buren. i personally think she's too old. i don't think it's a good idea -- >> oh, you're going to be in trouble. >> i said that about romney. i said that about mccain. it's not a fe mail thing. >> did you vote for reagan? >> did i vote for reagan? >> i'm just saying, he was older. >> of course not i didn't vote for reagan. >> clearly know, the president and the first lady kind of set a cultural tone for the country. their marriage has been anything but the average marriage. echbl their relationship now, that's a partnership thought. i worked on the clinton campaign. and i saw some things up front. >> no, n

that was bill clinton's description of what bush was running on. right? nton saw it early. >> except he didn't admit also marital stability. >> didn't mention that. >> every one of these guys, what i liked about how they got along, they didn't bs the whole day. they only picked out what they did like. picked out the truth. cherry picked. the iron of our two of party system. it really comes down to each party taking eight years to think about how they can exploit the shortcomings of the other party to come back into power with it. if the clintons have marital confusion, me and laura, really steady. jimmy carter was clean as a whistle but didn't know a lot of stuff. reagan comes along and says, carter, i can beat him. it's always knocking guy who's in there. they come out here today, hold hands. they love each other. basically each depended for his personal career and success on bashing the other guy's weakness. punching him in his bad eye. >> that's politics, though. >> here's clinton. let's take a look. here's clinton and obama paying tribute to the recent

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name. >> we are happy to present glaad advocate change award to president glib -- bill clinton. >> it happens to all of us, you know. it comes up, you're a little nervous. >> this is where she got glib from. >> don't you think glaad? i don't know. >> maybe. >> clinton. yeah. i'll work on that. i'm richard lui, and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> leading the news this morning, "usa today" says the boston bombing suspect opening up to police. the 19-year-old suspect who remains hospitalized in serious condition began responding to questions in writing because of a possible self-inflicted gunshot wound to his neck. >>> in politico, a fascinating story. ted cruz versus marco rubio on immigration. first-term senators are both having cuban roots and potential presidential rivals differ over immigration and the path to citizenship. >>> now back to our continuing coverage of the terror attacks in boston. today a moment of silence will be held at 2:50 this afternoon one week to the moment two terrorists tried to shatter the spirit of boston

bill clinton is the big dog in politics. he goes around state by state my home state of pennsylvania. he decides that altmire is finished because he wouldn't make a decision for hillary. then he went up to kathleen cane who ran for attorney general up there, loves her to death. she gets elected. he's with her. all over the place. chasing after poor bill richardson. he goes out to california and picks the mayor's race in a primary. he is like the late jim farley. the big democratic boss going around the country. it seems to me there's only one purpose for all of this. her. >> there's no doubt bill clinton would love her to run. i mean, he believes she should have got it last time. he's passionately behind her. he's making sure the options are oiled, ready to go and in place. i do think it's genuine. i don't think she's being coy, that she hasn't yet made her decision. she is extraordinarily passionate about her entire -- >> why can you say that, tina? can you report anything on that? can you give me hard reporting why she wou

is it a missed opportunity to change people's opinions, people even who don't like maybe what bill clintonmy carter admire building houses, admire the clinton foundation. >> i think they do, but, for instance, jimmy carter has been called the best ex-president in history. he takes that as a rank insult because it's sort of like best restaurant in a hospital or something, you know, not something that you'd want to be if you were a good president. that has not particularly blown back on his presidential career so i think george w. bush, if he wants history to remember him well actually it may be good for him to sort of step back and let the process work its will. >> how big of a challenge is it, you know, for the president, do you think, wayne, who has, even as george w. bush has not spoken of him, has said some not flattering things about his presidency? what do you think we'll hear from president obama today. that's a little tricky line he may be walking. >> look, this is the bush crowd. this is the bush house. obama will be i think if not effusive certainly gracious in his discussion of h

now, bill clinton is just like that. everybody's got to likhim. >> how often was she married? >> four times. she had four husbands. she was actually married five times because she married clinton twice. and bill clinton's father was killed in an automobile accident before he was born. so that was a very, very brief wartime marriage, very brief. >> what was her relationship with her mother? >> hated her. hated her. really did not like her mother at all. and says so in her book. all of these girls were daddy's girls. all of them. and she loved her father. i mean, just -- they were just so close, and she was ginger to him. they were such -- there was such a bond between them, as there was a bond, a special bond with every one of these women and their own fathers. and i think that's where their self-confidence came from. that's where their sense of independent thinking came from, which enabled them to feel confident about bringing up these boys without a dr. spock. they just did it on their own gumption. but it was the father to the daughter to the son. >> how many children did she

i think the point of bill clinton was that's fine. i've forgiven bill clinton, too.e he was your president. fact of the matter is i still didn't want him being president after that incident. still, mark is having a lot of problems down here. there's no big shift. i want this duly noted. i don't think there's a big shift in the electorate. i think it's just an ob stengs, saying, look, we know mark sanford. we've worked with mark sanford. we've seen him in action. i just don't necessarily know i want to put my name or neck on the line for a guy who -- who really did a poor job of shepherding his personal life or his professional life as governor. >> you know, it's a strange thing, ron, trying to figure out how the voters go on these things. you had vitter down in virginia involved with professional sex workers. both in d.c. and in louisiana down there. voters like him. out in nevada, which it's legal to have those kind of businesses out there, sex workers, and more john -- without making a valid judgment, he gets picked out of politics. what are the rules as bill maher

forgiven bill clinton, too.e was your president. the fact of the matter is i still didn't want him being president after that interdent. mark is having a lot of problems down here. i don't think there's a big shift in the belief of the electorate toward something colbert-bush is doing. i don't necessarily want to put my name or neck on the line for a guy who really did a poor job of shepherding his personally or his professional life as governor. >> it's a strange thing, ron, trying to figure out how the voters go on this thing. you had witter in louisiana involved in professional sex workers, in d.c. and voters like him. they're talking about him for governor. in nevada it's legal to have those businesses out there, sex workers. and poor john gets picked out of politics. what are the rules, as bill maher would say, what are the new rules these days in. >> i don't know about david witter, but it seems to me that mark sanford's issue here has always been one of character. and the perception and a well-founded one

let me sd you thiask you this, tricia, bill clinton, will he be a major factor and something that theyo go against mrs. cloent if s clinton if she decides to run? >> we will have revisiting of various scandals associated with clinton's presidency and we'll have a kind of critique i think of a number of his program revisions at the time, some of which i think are fair and legitimate and some which will be exaggerated. but what is interesting is that bill clinton's support of the second obama presidency and campaign, particular flin relatn to the debate will hold hillary in good stead. when you combine that with her connection in the white house, it really gives her another level of stature and separates her from wife/senator in training and puts her on a whole other level. so i think there could be quite an interesting bill clinton effect in this regard. >> i'm going to have to leave it there, patricia murphy and tricia rose, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you for having us. >>> ahead, 45 years ago tonight, martin luther king jr. gave his mountaintop speech. how

north korea became a nuclear power when bill clinton was president. bill clinton tried negotiating. george w. bush tried the tough line, then tried negotiating. and nothing has worked. in fact, we have sent them fuel, sent them food, in exchange for them blowing up that reactor that's the cooling tower. and now we've seen they're ready to restart it. or at least they claim they will. this is a real fear and it's a fear of proliferation because south korea and japan are talking about trying to get nuclear weapons. >> that's what makes this situation so dangerous. andrea mitchell part of our coverage tonight. andrea, thanks. >>> back here at home double-edged sword on the u.s. economy tonight, promising signs of life that millions of americans aren't feeling yet. but we can say there are more indicators that conditions are turning around. first, there's wall street. today the dow and the s&p both set record highs. an up day across the board, in fact. but there's also spending to look at. it's always good for the american economy when people start buying cars. nearly 1.5 million cars a

jennifer lawrence presented bill clinton with a glaad media award and actually ended up flubbing theresident's name. >> we are happy to present glaad's advocate of change award to president glib -- bill clinton. >> it wasn't that bad. >>> kim kardashian is no longer a married woman. her divorce was finalized friday and according to e! news, she isn't paying that guy a penny. i'm betty and this is "first look" on msnbc. stay tuned. "way too early" starts right now. >> we believe may have actually traveled on an alias to get back to his home country in that 6 and a half month s or so become important. he had some radicalization before he left and didn't travel on his own name or some variation and when he comes back he has a renewed interest in that radicalization belief process and would lead one to believe that's probably where he got that final radicalization to push him to commit

if bill clinton -- >> if bill clinton said it, everybody would have rolled their eyes.ongue by michelle obama. >> believe me as a busy, single mother, or i shouldn't say single, as a busy mother, sometimes when you have the husband who is president, it can feel a little single, but he's there. >> is that a big deal? i meant she does a lot of single parenting when the guy is on the road? >> that is not a standard i want to be held to because i have slips of the tongue all the time and if we are going to jump on everyone for every little word that they misspeak, we're doomed. >> you know, the media often complain that our politicians are so scripted and everyone is saying off the cuff and then we savidge them. before we go, roger simon, we'll talk about roger ebert in the next segment. you said no to "chicago sun-times" and you got a call from. >> roger ebert. he took me to a newspaper bar and it was like a scene from usa. i said, i got it be a part of this. ebert said, look, nobody turns down newspapers. the best writing in america is being done at newspapers. and you ou