-- waco was a way for the clinton administration to prove the ban for assault weapons and sue myrick, in a book, the underworld to islamize america, and in 1994, andrea seastrand who proposed commerks rocket facilities saying children living in the ghettogh mist like the idea of being launched into space so they could live out there. all right. second bunch of republicans elected to congress in that golden year of 1994 the credits who stood on the family values plat norm and slipped off. mark foley who gave up his florida seat after a congressional page scandal. jim bunt of oregon left his wife and five kids for his 31-year-old chief of staff. item, mark sowder of indiana resigned after an affair with an aide. and ohio steve latourette divorced his wife and married a lobbyist. and that congressional class also famously included mark sanford, later governor of south carolina. his extramarital dalliance took him to argentina. >> i'm here because if you were to look at god's laws, they're in every instance designed to protect people from themselves. it is indeed to protect us from ourse

and that was a very reassuring decision, but why the clinton administration-- why? why did you do this to us, bill? why he had to appeal this to the supreme court, and this supreme court is-- you know, i don't know. it's for the psychic friends network. it's really out of my bailiwick to say why he did this. well, the case did, in fact, go to the supreme court to resolve, really, one issue, and it had to do with language in the enabling legislation, the funding legislation, that said the n.e.a. should take into account standards of decency. it was an advisory piece of guidance from congress. and then the supreme court had to decide whether that was an infringement on the first amendment of the constitution. and the supreme court decided... well, the supreme court decided-- actually, they decided, because the statute read "they may take into consideration"-- they could but they didn't have to-- general standards of decency, that that was constitutional and that if the supreme court-- or if they were required to take into consideration, that that would be unconstituti

pointing in a new direction on drug policy different from the prior bush administrations the clinton administration nixon administration what have you they have they are for example speaking about drug problems as health issues rather than criminal issues they are pushing to reduce the very harsh mandatory minimum sentences which have had an extraordinarily disproportionate impact on african-americans in america they did finally support federal funding for needle exchange they have allowed the states that have legalized medical marijuana greater freedom to implement those policies so in all those respects the obama administration is a breath of fresh air on drug policy but on the other hand if you look at the federal drug war budget the same two to one ratio in favor of throwing money down the drain on enforcement and interdiction remains in place you don't see the increase in interest on rehabilitation right they are resistant to speaking the language of harm reduction so if there's a real mix story right now ok sebastian if i can go to you are you satisfied with i'm first of all why did why is it

you know, just had a very strong background in both the clinton administration and obama administrations. but she didn't give the republicans much to fight over. we had that -- we had the skirmish over the military recruiting policy at harvard. but it didn't really take off. so the republicans who tried to make her an issue found that there was no traction there. the obama administration have all these other things going on. so they didn't want any real attention on her except for -- to say look for putting the forth woman in history, the third woman for now. gwen: now that she is about to arrive, and she takes the oath of office at the supreme court chambers, justice roberts will swear her in on saturday. so that happens. what are the first things coming down the pike? the supreme court, past several years, as you well know, has been just a hotbed of incredible consequential action. we were going to talk in a moment about gay marriage. >> oh, look what's coming their way. we have a fight over the health care overhaul. that's percolating up. we have a fight over the arizona immigration l

national economic council panel they took a $237 billion offering surplus inherited from the clinton administration left us with a $1.30 trillion deficit in the process quadrupled the national debt all before we literally turned on the lights in the west wing. >> the vice president wants us to look back to the previous administration. what the voters heard this week is that on president obama's watch, sales of new homes plunged in july and sales of existing homes dropped more than 27% and that is a record. >> it is. i think john behner is now hoping there will be economic recovery in this country and that we will get unemployment down to 4% he hopes to get the manufacturing sector going. he wants to see economic recovery more than anything in the world. do you believe that? this is good news for republicans. they want to keep it just like it is through the election. >> the gdp was much lower than expected, 1.6%. >> this has been an awful week. you are getting a return of fear. what we had for a year-and-a- half is bad economic conditions which hurt incumbents. we had a panic in 2008 with the collap

views of the clinton administration to the tenth power i'm going to tell you right now for the record i will never take nationalize socialistic brock obamacare ever and if he wants to come and arrest me tell him to come on i'll give you my address because i'm not taken i don't want to be speaking to him any time soon but he's watching our scene he's sure that you're watching this this is one of the best news agencies around i want to ask you specifically about the uprising that is being seen between local and state officials and federal officials that are now entering states and you know what i call that i call that finally state local officials doing their jobs it's how it recently happened in nevada and a sheriff from one of the counties there posted a you tube video and said himself that that a civil war could break out in this country due to the tension. and the conflict that is growing in the between local officials and federal officials yet isn't that scary can a civil war break out i think it can i don't think that for us no i don't think it is but my message is is if the sheri

. >> they took a $237 billion operating surplus, inherited from the clinton administration, and left us with a $1.3 trillion deficit. and in the process, quadrupling the national debt, all before we literally turned on the lights in the west wing. >> now, it doesn't take a polling expert to tell you the economy is the number one issue for pretty much every american out there. i had one observer tell me, if 2008 was the hope election, 2010 may be known as the fear election, as both republicans and democrats are playing on the fears of voters about the future of the economy to try to win votes in november. brian? >> chuck todd in washington, thanks. >>> one part of president obama's huge stimulus bill that passed last year was a grant program for public school systems to reward them for trying to turn themselves around and reverse poor performance. the education department ran it as a competition, and they called it race to the top. today the winners of the race were announced. our story from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: it's back to school week in prince georges county, maryland.

they were not interested in abortion, they have done nothing on guns, which dominated the clinton administration, and things like gay-rights, while they have made progress, they want to put them on the back burner. it is a party audacious decision. it is one thing to overturn a legislature's act. this actually overturns a vote of 52%, something like 7 million californians, the banned same- sex marriage. it is a stark collision between judicial power and the power of the people. >> let's be clear, the judge did not intervene. it was given to the judge by plaintiffs. the judge was faced with looking at the constitution, looking at the arguments, and making a decision. he acknowledged that there was the vote for proposition 8, but that was trumped by the constitutional presidents before him. -- precedents before him. the arguments i hear against what the george did a the same ones against the supreme court in brown v board of education. it is inevitable that you look at that kind of -- the courts did the right thing. >> this was judge vaughn walker, a reagan appointee. "marriage in the united state

taxes on the highest earners are likely to go up to where they were in the clinton administration.d idea? we're in such a fragile situation, a fragile economy, or good idea? do we need to close that deficit? >> i think the following. i think that if we allow the bush tax to expire on the top -- the top richest americans, we will end up with $36 billion or so of extra revenue next year. i think that extra revenue should be spent on job creating programs in the united states. i mean, for example, again, the emphasis on infrastructure. we need to really invest. the rest of the world has been using the recession, particularly in asia, to modernize and build every form of transportation, and we have not been doing that. so my position is, yes, let the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest expire on schedule, take the $36 billion and spend it in ways that make meaningful investments in the economy. i would focus on infrastructure and education. i think those are meaningful investments where the long-term growth of the economy is going to depend upon what we do with those funds. t's always won

they took a $237 billion operating surplus inherited from the clinton administration and left us with a $1.3 trillion deficit. in the process quad droolled the national debt, all before we literally turned on the lights in the west wing. gwen: now it was a wedged over a distance by two men who clearly were prepared, reading off a teleprompter their attack lines. why are they having this fight now? >> this is a battle for the soul of the stimulus going into the elections. both boehner and biden want to present a narrative about whether the stimulus worked or not. of course, biden is claiming and has been out all week with various statistics and offerings saying this thing kept us from having a depression. it would have been so much worse if we hadn't spent all of this money. boehner, on the other hand ecks is portraying the stimulus and all of the federal efforts since the obama administration came in as really an assault by government on the private sector causing all kinds of uncertainty and all kinds of fear to the private sector. and that's what's holding back growth in this countr

barry mccaffrey when he was the drug czar and i worked with him in the white house in the clinton administration created a plan colombia what we need is a plan afghanistan plan colombia stop cocaine by fifty percent from coming into the united states and crime is down by fifty percent in the united states it's a cause and effect eighty percent of the rest these test positive for illegal drugs it's a shocking statistic and that's what's happening around the rest of the world we're creating crime we're creating addiction we are creating terror but it is a mission that can be achieved it's not going to create happy afghanistan formers at first until they had to develop alternative economies but do they really want an economy that's a narco state do they really want an economy that's building dramatically the addiction in their own country and around the rest of the world is that the mission that we want or do we want to achieve an economically successful afghanistan pakistan and at the same time stock the drugs that create the terror the crime in the addiction that should be the mission that should

rock obama's policies he took the abuse of the bush administration he took the abuse of the clinton administration to the tenth power i'm going to tell you right now for the record i will never take nationalize socialistic brock obamacare ever and if he wants to come and arrest me tell him to come on i'll give you my address because i'm not taken i don't want to be speaking to him any time soon but it is watching our scene he should get your eyes to his this is one of the best news agencies around this rising tension that is taking place right now between local law enforcement officials and federal officials do you think it's going to get worse no i think it's actually going to get better i think the states just as arizona is doing now with the immigration issue going to put the federal government in its place the federal government has overplayed their hand they have made it very clear they're not going to do their jobs to protect our borders. don't you find it in the a pit of me of hypocrisy that the federal government claims that we need to risk lives in afghanistan and iraq because we have a w

they say such written brainstorming sessions are how washington works >> i worked under the clinton administrationbush administration as a civil servant and these are the kinds of things you were asked to do. figure out, interpret, see what the actions are. >> it was on a list of options. it does not mean it's going to happen. the fact that they would even consider it is frightening. >> reporter: the obama administration has commented on the memo saying it has no plans to grant permanent residency to the country's estimated 11 million illegal i am grants. >>> you've probably seen her in commercials on tv, the laura accused of swindling clients. julie haener has a look at some of the other stories we're working on. >>> the first muslim four year liberal arts college anywhere the united states is opening up tomorrow in a bay area city. >>> also ahead two people arrested today for carrying weapons on campus at a bay area community college. and police say they had some serious fire power. >>> plus new regulations for credit cards go into effect today. our consumer editor tom vacar explains what they'l

the commitment that was made by the clinton administration and the bus administration and now by president obama to fight this scourges of only intensify in paris since 2000 when we modernized our federal anti slavery statutes and achieve the adoption of an international anti-adoption protocol, we have prosecuted and killed thousands of traffickers and prevented this crime from occurring in the first place. almost all the states and territories have passed modern gloss. laws. while these legal policy tools help drive the successes, we have more work to do. each year, the state's department releases the annual trafficking persons report to provide the local assessment of the anti-trafficking efforts around the world based on minimum standards that are outlined by the trafficking protections act. this year, the report for the first time diagnosed the united states efforts to meet the minimum standards and provide recommendations to strengthen our efforts at home. this is not meant to be a rebuke of the good work that people are doing in the field but rather as a road map to guide our efforts

the clinton administration decided that every minority should have a house whether they could affordor not. host: no question there, but comment. we'll go to greenville first. earl, independent? then we'll go back to our guest. go ahead, earl. caller: yes. that caller is just talk. that's one of the problems trying to blame this on minorities and low-income people. the problem was these people who has a lot of money is trying to buy five, 10, 26 houses an then can't sell them and that's where the problem came from the wealthy folks that messed the thing up. host: response to those two calls. guest: first to the first caller, it's important to remember that in the beginning of the clinton administration a lot of good work was done by the department of housing and urban development and as well as the federal reserve of boston and there were significant gaps in the minority of households to get access to homeownership when you took all the characteristics like income, age and so on that you would think might explain the difference, when you took out of the picture you couldn't explain i

the it was talked about during the clinton administration and it was about to go into effect.came into effect just in july of this year after being pushed by this administration. the reality is that they're really guidelines to try to tamp down the volume of salmonella in the flock whether they are small or large. the egg rule goes into effect to farms that have 50,000 or more chickens as of july of this year. 3,000 to 50,000 go into effect two years from now. just a set of common sense guidelines of checking and testing that at least help give consumers a sense that the eggs that they're feeding their kids are as safe as they can be. >> larry: another question from twitter. we buy free range organic eggs. are those safe, david? >> not necessarily. i wish i could say they were. most studies show they are less likely to carry disease than factory farmed eggs. with these eggs in a small sustainable farm if you have an outbreak of salmonella, you're going to have a few hundred eggs that are infected and not half a billion. it's the scale that's much of the problem and feed and qu

we can go back to 1993 to the reinvention of government under the clinton administration where vice presidentore lead that effort to in fact 250,000 jobs were jettisoned off the federal government payroll and $40 million for say because there was a recognition in the private sector that they can do certain things better. this is not a political issue we should not turn it into that. the democratic administration, the last one was the one that talk more about the value of the private sector. if we don't have that, if we don't recognize that, if we don't involve the private sector, there will be redundancies. if we are not allowed to think about long-term strategies and planning down the road, we will not have the stuff ready for you when you needed. community, government, what ever. i am told by my members that the materials needed for hospitals or vaccines are being produced outside the united states. let's say that all of the equipment we need for a hospital today is in all the hospitals but if the generator goes, it will take weeks to get it shipped in from china or wherever it comes from.

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now, secretary of state hillary clinton on the obama administration's global health initiative. she talks about the six-year $53 billion investment that focuses on improving the health of women, children, and newborns around the world. this event is hosted by the johns hopkins university school of advanced studies. it is about one hour and 15 minutes. >> welcome, madam secretary, honored guests. this is the school of advanced international studies, a division of the great john's hopkins university. this is a special greeting from me to our first-year students, whom i have not officially welcomed because they're just starting their orientation this next week. students come from more than 70 countries, and even with u.s. cabinet officials of national standing, it is our custom here usually because -- to find out the stepping stones in the careers of every speaker as a school, but secretary clinton needs no such introduction. her fame extends around the world and across generations, so let me offer and said to brief you on why it gives me such pleasure to welcome you here today. fi

the most credible economists who don't attribute the success of the job growth under the clinton administrationn the tanking of the economy under the bush administration to tax cuts that focus on the wealthiest 1%. what we are going to be seeing,

we started on a bad road around 1999 which is under clinton's administration and i take full responsibility- happy partner in that. the fact is getting rid of glass steagal was a terrible mistake for the american community. it was good for the banks. >> charlie: separated commercial from investment banks and insurance companies. >> yes, it took away the responsibility and gave the banks the opportunity to take money at very low interest rates, guarantee the government and lend it out indiscriminately. it was a bad thing -- >> charlie: we have been on a deregulation trend for a long -- since reagan. >> but it doesn't work. it has not worked in this country. >> charlie: we got too much deregulation and therefore we had to come through in 2010 with a new financial reform which looked anew at regulations. >> in 2008, the government was called together in a small -- the congress -- called together and given a 3 1/2-page document -- >> charlie: by hank pahlsson. >> by hank pahlsson, said if we don't do something by monday morning the system will crash. >> charlie: was he right? >> of course, he w

on the newshour tonight, former bush administration official michael rubin and former clinton administration official brian katulis discuss the u.s. pullback amid continuing violence and ongoing political stalemate. >> ifill: then, tom bearden reports from a ship playing a key role in the effort to contain the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. >> the process of killing the well winds down. it's almost done. >> woodruff: u.s. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is here to talk about the latest developments on health care reform. >> ifill: jonathon miller of independent television news has an update on the floods in pakistan that have killed more than 1,000 people his weekend. >> woodruff: and jeffrey brown has a book conversation with ocean explorer jean-michel cousteau about his famous father, jacques cousteau. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by cont