brewer was the one jabbing her finger in the president's face.ants us to believe that she felt threatened. here's president obama's side of the story. >> i think it's always good publicity for a republican if they're in an argument with me. but this was really not a big deal. >> were you tense? >> you know, diane, i'm usually accused of not being tense enough, right? too relaxed. >> so you weren't? >> no. >> i'm joined by dr. james peterson, director of africana studies and associate professor of english at lehie university. good to have yo with us tonight. >> how you doing, ed? >> good. >> she said she felt threatened. two questions. first of all, what's your reaction to the picture and what's your reaction to her saying she felt threatened. >> first, the picture is absurd. it's pretty offensive. this is not the way that you interact with the president of the united states. and we know the context of this. we haven't seen this kind of disrespect directed at any of the presidents during my lifetime. and let me say one other thing about the pictur

well, brewer's book tells a different story.he president condescending and pratronizing. so which one do you believe? >> someone here is lying and it's not the president of the united states. >> she's lying? >> yes, clearly. she came out and said that it was cordial, that the interaction was cordial. she repeated that there, but she had to write something different, because her book is more about policy and politics than about the truth. >> and do you think that she actually used this moment to get visibility and to sell a book? >> well, i think that all people in the public eye, especially those folk on the right, but the folk on the left do this as well, use books as leveraging tools to promote themselves. they use photo opes like these as leveraging opportunities to promote themselves. this is just a little bit more seedy than what we normally see. because, one, she's playing on issues of race and that's completely unnecessary, and two, she's not telling the truth. she didn't tell the truth in the book about the interaction.

brewer handed the president an invitation to talk about the brewer. the president told brewer he was unhappy about her portrayal of their last meeting. the president then walked away in the middle of brewer's sentence. brewer defended herself on fox news channel. >> i want our borders secured. i want our nation protected. he wants

obama versus brewer.e's on his tour supporting his four or five pillars, can't remember how many pillars were in the state of the union, but things got tense because the two of them got into it about her book. she said a few things in her book about the meeting she had with the president in the oval office and the president doesn't recall the meeting the way she described it. >> the verbal confrontation triggered by brewers' book, "scorpions for breakfast." brewer called him "thin skinned" to reporters. listen. >> had a little hand-written note for him. he wanted to know what was in the envelope, i told him exactly what was in there and he changed the subject to my book "scorpions for breakfast" and was a little disenchanted. a recollection of what exactly took place at the whoush. the bottom line is, i wanted to be there to welcome him, to come and see first hand what arizona has done in regards to our sx economic recovery. he wanted to talk about the book and i thought he was very thin skinned. they alw

during the exchange, brewer was seen pointing her finger toward the president's face."i was not hostile. i was trying to be very, very office of the president and i would neeer be disrespectful in that manner."brewer says she invitee the president back to arizona for a meeting on arizona's economy.the white house says president obama would be glad to meet again, but that brewer, quote "inaccurately described" their last meeting at the white house in hee book.i'm ninette sosa, reporting. president obama is visiting five states on his tour to talkkabout the plan for the u-s economy he laid out in his state of the union address. emotions run higg as congresswoman gabrielle giffords officially hands in her resignation. resignation..(applause)) speaker john boehner her letter of resignation. gifforrs' announced sunday she planned o resign to focus on her recovery.she was shot in the head last year when a man opened fire at a political event in tucson, arizona. a public memorial will be held today... in honor of the late joe paterno.the former penn state coach died sunday...

president obama had an encounter with jan brewer while visiting the battleground state. he's in the middle of a three of this day tour through three king swing states. he was in arizona to visit the intel facility in chandler to reiterate his message about manufacturing and job creation from tuesday's state of the union address. when he stepped off air force one yesterday he and brewer, who is a republican were seen exchanging words behind a limo that was in the president's motorcade. brewer says the president took offense about how he was portrayed in her new "scorpions for breakfast." >> i welcome him and thank him for being here. we proceeded in a little conversation and told him i had a little hand-written note for him. he wanted to know what was in the envelope. i told him what was in there. he changed the subject to my book. >> brewer says she invited the president to arizona for a meeting. the white house says the president will be glad to meet again but brewer "inaccurately described the last meeting in her book." today president obama will be in las vegas and co

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brewer and the president could be seen in a finger pointing conversation. the issue is arizona's controversial anti-immigration law. which the president opposes. brewer says the president was upset about a description in her book of a meeting they had at the white house. >> i felt a little bit threatened, if you will, in the attitude that he had. i was there to welcome him. >> brewer had handed the president a letter inviting him to discuss the immigration issue. in her boom, she says the president lectured her like a little kid in a classroom when they met at the white house. >> bottom line is that he generally wants to talk about amnesty and i want to talk about securing our border. >> the white house says brewer inaccurately described the meeting. brewer says she would never be disrespectful to the president. >>> a strong system that swept through texas and oklahoma threatens portions of the gulf coast this morning. damaging winds are the main concern but heavy thunderstorms and possible tornadoes cannot be ruled out in mississippi, louisiana and florida

brewer said she invited the president back to arizona for a meeting. the white house says the president will be glad to meet with brewer again. the president will be focusing on the economy for the remainder of his tour. today he'll be in las vegas and colorado. >>> former presidential candidate michele bachmann plans to run for re-election in november. as the minnesota lawmaker seeks a fourth term in congress. she suspended her presidential bid earlier this month. >>> it was an alarm of a different kind that firefighter james wills, engine 162 in staten island answered in 2008. the call to save a life of a 3-year-old in iowa who needed a bone marrow transplant. almost 7 now and elise williams met her firefighter hero for the first time at a special ceremony at the headquarters in brooklyn. >> there's no words to tell him how grateful i am. >> seeing my little girl die twice and it was not for this man here she would not be here today. >> elise needed the transplant after the discovery that she had a rare blood disorder. >>> looks like a scene from a h

democratic officials believe that law and the brewer confrontation show republican overreach. help turn out the hispanic voters in three critical battleground the president is visiting on this tour. arizona, colorado, nevada. where mario menendez told us the white house approach to immigration reform is on the march. >> i like that there is a path to citizenship for people that are here already for lon long-term. the ones that are protective to society. >> reporter: president brewer insists the president is soft on illegal immigration and suggested the spat shows he is defensive about it. >> he wants amnesty. we will never agree on that we will agree to disagree on the subject so i don't know why he was surprised by the book. evidently he is and he is thin-skinned in regard to it. >> even though he had her finger -- he is had her finger in the president's face brewer said he is felt threatened. the president said it's overblown and they'd rather talk about the prouder tour. >> bret: ed henry traveling with the president. thank you. 2011 was the worst year for new home sales on

as for governor brewer, there is a history here.f 2010, she met with the president at the white house to discuss the arizona immigration law. here's how she described the meeting immediately afterwards to the press. >> it was a very cordial discussion. >> what was the tone like? >> very cordial. very, very cordial. >> i feel that it was a successful meeting. i'm encouraged by that. >> a very cordial and successful meeting. but then in november, she released her book "scorpions for breakfast" and described the meeting in a different light. "after a few minutes, the president's tone got serious and condescending. he proceeded to lecture me about everything he was doing." so governor brewer, when were you telling the truth? when you just walked out of the meeting and told the press in front of the white house with a smile on your face how it was cordial and how the tone was very good, positive, or when you wrote a book saying it was condescending and he was lecturing you? what your trying to sell? books or were you acting in front of t

the president told brewer he was unhappy about her portrayal of ote about in a book.hich brewer as the two reportedly began talking over each other, the president then walked away in the middle of brewer's sentence. brewer defended herself on the fox news channel. >> i want our borders secured. i want our nation protected. he wants amnesty. we're never going to agree on that. we agree to disagree on that subject. so, i don't know why he was surprised by my book. but he evidently is, and he's r it.gihe president said sometime news/"wall street journal" poll. would be glad to meet with the governor again. >>> mr. obama is receivingv@er the economy now.bw1tof americane the president is doing a good !c economy will get worse. that's a seven-point jump over for the first time in a half year, more people surveyed think the president is doing a good job than a bad job. >>> now to the race for the white house. mitt romney and newt gingrich are neck and neck in florida, just seven days before the state's primary. rick santorum and ron paul are a distant third and fourth in the poll. the candida

i was there to welcome him. >> bret: republican governor jan brewer of arizona.dent is traveling to five states doing a post "state of the union" push. today he talked energy but overshadowed by an emotional issue of immigration and meeting on the tar mac with governor brewer the president brought up her book "scorpions for breakfast" where he is described a meeting at the white house he is said did not go well and describes in the pages there. this is what the president said about that on abc a few moments ago. >> i think it's always good publicity for republican if they are in an argument with me. it was not a big deal. >> were you tense? >> i'm usually accused of being tense. >> bret: what about this? >> it's probably good politics for her and good politics for him. it's he said, he is said literally. nobody knows exactly what happened on the tarmac. we saw her pointing at him. he is says he walked away. maybe he thought they were done. it's pretty silly. to stand up to obama is good politics for any republican governor and make him out to be less than graciou

according to brewer, mr. obama was displeased with how she depicted him in her recently published burke scorpions for breakfast. >> i had written a handwritten note to him welcoming him to arizona. he immediately took umbrage if you will with my book that i wrote and was somewhat disgruntled about i way he was portrayed in the book. >> reporter: officials say the president objected to brewer's description of a meeting the two had the white house. >> i said oh, you read my book. he said i read excerpts from it. the bottom line is the book is factual. the book is true. >> reporter: the governor goes on to say conflict between the two stems from different ideas about border control and illegal immigration. she says the president lectured her. >> i want our borders secure. i want our nation protected. he wants amnesty and we agreed to disagree on that subject. i don't know why he was surprise bid my book. but he evidently is and he is very thin-skinned in regards to t. >> reporter: the white house counters brewer

jan brewer, what was going on there? she said you were tense. she is all over the airwaves right now. >> what i have discovered is that i think it's always good publicity for a republic if they are in an argument with me. but this was really not a big deal. >> he was a little uncomfortable, a little unappreciative, if you will of my book and the way that he was portrayed in it. and i felt a little unnerved by the way that he spoke to me about it. >> bill: all right, joining us from fort worth texas radio host and from los angeles leslie marshall. governor brewer saying president obama was condescending to her after arizona passed tough immigration law. that's what this was all about, correct. >> we weren't in the room with governor brewer and the president. we don't know if he was condescending and perception is reality. but, i find it interesting, bill, that after the meeting at the white house, she didn't say that. it was after she wrote the book. and you know this better than i, somebody can write something about you

. >>> we are covering the brouhaha between president barack obama and governor janet brewer, here is more with their heated exchange, allison? >> reporter: dave, president barack obama continues his campaign swing in las vegas but it was his stop in arizona that every one is talking about. you can see here president barack obama getting off air force one in phoenix arizona, governor janet brewer there to meet him, the two got into a heated exchange and she said the president was upset for describing him as patronizing. brewer said she was not trying be whose sill -- hostile when she was pointing her finger. >> i felt threatened because i was there to welcome him. >> brewer said she was in the middle of a sentence when the president walked away. for now we are live, allison brewer ktvu channel 2 news. >>> police have arrested a murder suspect in florida who was wanted in connection with a case, we have a warning this story is graphic. 35-year-old tie reece smith is accused of using an axe to kill a homeless man and he ate some of the victim's body. according to an arrest warn, smith b

the president told brewer he was unhappy about her portrayal of their last meeting, which brewer wrote about in a book. as the two reportedly began talking over each other, the president then walked away in the middle of brewer's sentence. brewer defended herself on fox news channel. >> i want our borders secured. i want our nation protected. he wants amnesty. we're never going to agree on that. we agree to disagree on that subject. so, i don't know why he was surprised by my book. but he evidently is, and he's t it. in í the confrontation that. >>> president obama may th looking for a new treasury secretary if he's re-elected in november. current treasury secretary timothy geithner told bloomberg tv that he doesn't think the president will ask him to stay on for a second term. he considered resigning last summer after congress and the president reached a deal to raise the debt limit. >>> our time is now 6:06. ahead, the department store that ahead[ male announcer ]tore that this was how my day began. a little bird told me about a band... ♪ an old man shared some fish stories... ♪ oooh

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we spoke to governor brewer today about the meeting on the tarmac. chief cbs white house correspondent norah o'donnell has that. she's traveling with the president in colorado tonight. norah? >> reporter: scott, immigration is always a hot-button political issue, but it got personal when the president met with the republican governor of arizona. it's this picture, with the republican governor's finger in the president's face, that has jan brewer on the defensive today. >> i don't believe i was disrespectful. i went there, again, as i said, i was happy to share with him what arizona has done, the arizona comeback. >> reporter: the confrontation happened on the tarmac after air force one landed just outside phoenix yesterday. >> he wants to talk about amnesty, i want to talk about border security, and we are just going to have to agree to disagree on that. >> reporter: the president has never advocated for blanket amnesty for illegal immigrants but does support a path to citizenship for some. the president and the governor have a history of strained re

>>> take a look at this picture of jan brewer. brewer jamming a finger in president obama's face. latest example of right wing nastiness toward the president. you're watching "hardball." >>> we're back. we were talking about body language. here's a picture that tells a thousand words. the photo captured last night of republican arizona governor jane brewer pointing her finger in president obama's face. it's an image that doesn't connote respect for the highest office in the land, does it? a white house official said the governor gave the president a letter. he thought she mischaracterized in her book a meeting the two of them had two years ago. here's the governor's response last night. >> i wanted to be there to welcome him to come and see firsthand what arizona has done in regards to our economic recovery. he wanted to talk about the book. and i thought he was pretty thin skinned. >> wow. but as this image capturing something else, the disdain among conservatives for this president. arizona republican congressman trent franks is a newt gingrich supporter and former congressman j

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according to brewer, mr.d him in her recently published books, scorpions for breakfast. >> i had written a handwritten note to him to deliver welcoming him to arizona and he immediately took umbrage, if you will, with my book that i wrote, scorpions for breakfast and was somewhat disgruntled for you will about the way he was portrayed in the book. >> reporter: the 2 leaders could be seen in what looks like an intense conversation. officials say the president objected to brewer's description of a meeting that he and brewer had at the white house. >> i asked him, oh you read my book? and he said i read excerpts from it. the bottom line is that the book is factual. the book is true. >> reporter: the governor goes on to say conflict between the 2 stems from different ideas about border control and illegal immigration. she says the president lectured her. >> i want our borders secure. i want our nation protected. he wants amnesty. and we're never going to agree on that. we agree to disagree on that subject. so i d

brewer didn't. but the incident might backfire on brewer. harsh immigration law. one arizona lawmaker says, quote, for the incident alone, 85% more latin people will gravitate toward the president. so governor brewer, in a year hispanic vote is more important than ever, thanks for that letter. we'll see you in november. >>> welcome back to "politics nation." after wrapping up his five-state tour today, president obama headed back east to maryland where he talked to democratic lawmakers about what they've accomplished together. >> we righted the ship. we did not tip into a great depression. the auto industry was saved. and over the last 22 months, we have seen 3 million jobs created. the most jobs last year since 2005. more jobs in manufacturing than we've seen since the '90s. and now they are thinking, gm's number one again. and chrysler is on the move again. and ford is investing. >> that's right. the economy is doing better. the economy grew by 2.8% at the end of 2011. the fastest growth in nearly two years. 196,000 manufacturing jobs were

the first of which he got more than he bargained for when greeted by arizona governor jan brewer. corrine redmond has new reaction on their heated exchange and plans for today. >> reporter: president obama is in the middle of a three it was day tour through key swing states to talk about the economy but much of his talk so far has been with the arizona governor that some are calling hostile. obama was in arizona to visit a facility in chandler and read his message about manufacturing, jobs and crease from the tuesday state of the union address. he and brewer, who is a republican were seen exchanging words behind a limo in the president's motorcade. brewer says the president took offense with how he was portrayed in her book on immigration. >> i welcome him and thank him for being here, and we proceeded in a little conversation, told him i had a little thing written for him. he wanted to know what was in the envelope. i told him what was in there. and he changed the subject to my book. >> reporter: brewer says she invited the president back to arizona for a meeting. the white house

>> i've met governor brewer several times.he president. she's been very outspoken about her displeasure with the president when it comes to addressing the issues of import to arizona. >> or scorpions for breakfast, her book. >> right. which i read and interviewed her about. she's very outspoken and vocal. that said, i don't like it when hockey players decide not to go to the white house, and i don't like it when sitting governors greet the president with a wagging finger. i don't think it's respectful. you can disagree and you can have valid policy complaints, but there's still an office there to respect. >> there is not a close call. this was inappropriate. she is there on the tarmac as a state official welcoming the president of the united states. there are many other political venues if she wants to make political points. what she is doing is inappropriately invoking the power that she wields as a state official to meet with the president, and then using that has a jump-off point to go off and complain about it. she did tal

the white house denies the president said anything condescending or was lecturing jan brewer. carney says and i'm quoting her description of that meeting was not accurate. it did not reflect what happened in the meeting in the oval office, which by the way, the governor, as i understand it, herself immediately after the meeting described it as cordial to reporters. in fact, she did describe it as cordial. as for the tarmac meeting, here is the president a short time ago talking with abc diane sawyer. listen. >> i think it's always good publicity for a republic if they are in an argument with me. but, this was really not a big deal. >> and now here is governor jan brewer being asked about the finger pointing at the president on the tarmac. >> well, you know, they always say that a picture is what it is. but i must say that i was not hostile. i was trying to be very, very gracious. i respect the office of the president. i would never be disrespectful in that manner. >> brewer says the president has ignored her on a couple of occasions, shep. the white house says that's simply no

he noted at their last meeting was reportedly different in governor brewer's book.e's focused on the issue of immigration which is why under his administration we have more boots on the ground and fewer illegal crossings. some of this is political theater says jay carney. to some degree the president noted when her book came out it got a lot of attention. her description of that meeting did not reflect what happened in the meeting in the oval office and she described, governor brewer describing the meeting as cordial to reporters. again, you'll probably get more on this tonight and tomorrow. the white house responding to some of the reports it was a testy or frostiy conversation on the tarmac between the governor of arizona and the president as he landed yesterday to campaign on his -- to campaign on his state of the union address on to focus on jobs in the economy at a speech in phoenix, arizona. this it is washington today on c-span radio. the pentagon outlining a plan today that slows the growth of military spending including the cutting the size of the army and

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jan brewer's jan brewer. barack obama's the president of the united states. i don't know that it was great for him to end up having his finger being waved at by her. but that's the way it worked out. >> any reporting on what she was saying during the finger-waving moment? >> well, the answer is, i don't know specifically, except she was saying, i think she was saying, according to the white house officials, she then got upset when he said, your account in the book is inaccurate, and she said, well, it is what it is. the book is what it is, whatever that means. >> richard wolffe, the president looks perfectly calm in that situation, as he always does, looks perfectly gentlemanly. and it looks to me to be one of those images of republicans being unreasonable in the face of the reasonable man. >> yes. well, look, for a start, to pick up on howard's rule about never punching down, the president about being president is the only way to punch is down. there is no punching up from being president. so if you are going to punch, you've got to actually try and do it in

>> that's not how brewer describes the conversation.ten to what she said said last night here on this program. >> he was a little uncomfortable, unappreciative, if you will of my book, in the way that he was portrayed in it. and i felt a little unnerved by the way that he spoke to me about it. >> sean: joining me with reaction, the author of the best seller, political analyst, juan williams and a political strategist. hang on, juan. poor president, cry-baby -- [laughter] >> sean: a bad word or two in the book. you excoriate me when you see me. you are brutal to me. he can't take a criticism in a book? >> sean! this governor -- this governor brewer is no sarah palin. she is not a dyne me personality. she is getting attention by being rude to the president of the united states. it's her only way of getting attention -- >> sean: wait a minute. you don't know what happened. you weren't know there. how do you know -- >> she has written things that were not true. this is a president who has put more boots on the ground on the border -- >> sea

brewer defended her fingerpointing. >> i probably have better photographs of me than that but i hope people will take in to context that i was talking and i talk with my hands. i was trying to explain to him, of course, why i believe that i wrote the book that way that i did. >> she later called mr. obama thin skinned but insisted she wasn't hostile during the meeting and she respects the office of the presidency. >> the oakland police department may be headed for a federal takeover. a u.s. district court judge said they failed to implement reforms stemming from the high-profile case. a civil rights attorney who represented plaintiffs said the city failed to meet three deadlines. >> of course we are looking for accountability within the department. we don't want racial profiling to take place. we want people to feel that force will not be used against them unnecessarily. >> howard jordan, you see the video there, refused to the answer our questions regarding the judge's order. in a statement released today, city officials said we take this seriously and understand the implications fo