they figured out how to play the rules much more effectively than the clinton campaign. florida is one exceed the caucasus or another example. when it mattered the most, the obama campaign operated very skillfully and the clinton campaign didn't. later the clinton campaign became better but by then it was too late. i will turn back to haynes for some further -- [applause] >> i just want to follow up on some of the things that dan was singing and talk about what we weren't watching this extraordinary campaign. and he has alluded to obama's personality. what you saw in the public was this confident, strong note worry about where he was going. in fact, he went through the times of frustration and that is the whole character part that we didn't know. number two, there were things that happened in this campaign particularly between hillary and bill clinton and ted kennedy that were extraordinary, contentious, and it's like shakespearean stories, these things. they really were the elements that played back and forth. i will just talk to you about when ted kennedy finally endors

did not dance later the clinton campaign became better but by then it was too late. i will turn it over to haynes [applause] >> i went to talk about what we learned watching this historic campaign. he alluded to obama's personality. what you saw in the public was a confident and strong no worries about where he was going and in fact, he went through deep times of frustration and that is a whole character per we did not know. number two, there were things that happened in this campaign particularly between hillary and bill clinton and ted kennedy there were extraordinary, a contentious, like a shakespearean story, they really were the elements that play back and forth for gore will talk about when ted kennedy finally endorsed obama's, there haven't been, the clintons will talk about how their passionate to get his endorsement they called and realized he could not endorse at a certain point* but when it was time they've put on the pressure and of all, also did but the calls became the ted kennedy and bill clinton but also hillary are part of a novel itself. they are ang

clinton win the white house twice. but there was something about the internal structure of that campaign that collectively they could nothillary clinton is partially or significantly responsible for that, because she put the people in those positions. but when it counted most, they were not performing up to speed. the obama campaign in that crucial period, really from sort of late november until the end of february, outperformed the mighty clinton operation. and only after it was too late did the clinton campaign come together, did she become a really effective candidate. but when it was most important, they had a breakdown. >> and john mccain, haynes, the choice of sarah palin, you write that mccain's search for a running mate had started in the spring with about two dozen names, palin was not a serious candidate, one person said she was not even on the initial list, one person said she was barely. it was only later in the summer when the campaign team became alarmed at obama's lead among women that she was added to the list of potential contenders. >> just a year ago, we were about to go to denver, democrats were havi

campaign. he beat the clintons. does he have the fighting skills to win against all the organizations on the right, the kato institute, dick army's army. >> people exaggerate their grassroots power. there's no doubt they have good power on op-ed pages and things like that. i think this august is crucial. i think obama is bleeding on health care. i think the blue dogs are going home. some of it may be orchestrated, but you can't get guys out to every single one of these meetings that outraged and that angry. this just doesn't have that kind of cloud. they can't get anybody out when it came to their amnesty bill. >> i have a strategy bill. could the right strategy for the president to get through this summer, because the unemployment rate is going to be horrendous again tomorrow, it will be horrendous for months and months, lower the temperature, get through a bill that passes muster with a few republicans, three of them certainly and the moderate democrats. get the bill through, jam it through conference, lower the t

bill clinton was furious to b-2s that he was injecting race into the campaign. if you look at bill clinton's history, you can see that he has always tried to bring together the races, but ted kennedy was convinced that it was destructive. he kept asking clinton to stop this topic and they even argue about the war and other things. ultimately, the clintons apparently concluded that hillary was not going to get the endorsement. then they tried to convince kennedy to stay neutral. in the end, kennedy decided he went to endorse obama. in the final scene of this episode, the day after the south carolina primary obama has won a huge victory after a nasty contest. it is beginning to leak that kennedy is endorsing obama. bill clinton calls and wants to know why. kennedy briefly explains. clinton hangs up and calls that minutes later -- i want to know exactly, give me details. as kennedy is on the phone he can hear bill clinton making notes on exactly what he said. he was concerned at that time that the clinton campaign would cast it simply as racial politics on, kennedy'

bill clinton was furious to b-2s that he was injecting race into the campaign. at bill clinton's history, you can see that he has always tried to bring together the races, but ted kennedy was convinced that it was destructive. he kept asking clinton to stop this topic and they even argue about the war and other things. ultimately, the clintons apparently concluded that hillary was not going to get the endorsement. then they tried to convince kennedy to stay neutral. in the end, kennedy decided he went to endorse obama. in the final scene of this episode, the day after the south carolina primary obama has won a huge victory after a nasty contest. it is beginning to leak that kennedy is endorsing obama. bill clinton calls and wants to know why. kennedy briefly explains. clinton hangs up and calls that minutes later -- i want to know exactly, give me details. as kennedy is on the phone he can hear bill clinton making notes on exactly what he said. he was concerned at that time that the clinton campaign would cast it simply as racial politics on, kennedy's part. ken

it prompted him to react in ways very undisciplined and a distraction for the clinton campaign. so coming back to the question, i think that you can only tell the greatness of a president in hindsight and we are living in the middle of this tumultuous event. he's obviously a historic figure. there's no question about that. i would say he is an iconic figure. the the world reaction and images associated with him. we haven't seen anything like its sense i would say probably princess diana. >> host: there were many other democratic candidates but the third candy to touch on briefly john edwards. did the obama administration have any indication there were stories of their about the former north carolina senator? >> guest: if you're talking about his personal life, i don't think so although there were plenty of rumors buzzing around everywhere. the rumors were kind of dismissed out of hand by most people. a lot of reporters and political operatives. they were deeply concerned about john edwards to tell you the truth. the projection in on why is the but come in a good second after it

on that day he endorsed barack obama, a terrible blow for the clinton campaign.joe klein of "time" magazine. joe, you've already written so eloquently about that day in 1980 when you witnessed really the end of his presidential hopes. there might have been a chance four years later but back then he was challenging an incumbent president jimmy carter and you wrote today, i was with him that day. he was liberated from ambition. finally, it was february 26th, 1980, the day of the new hampshire henman. he was losing, an unimaginable event for a candidate, losing in new england. his campaign up to that point had been in fact dreadful. he had famously been unable to answer a simple question posed by roger mudded of cbs news, why do you want to be president? take us back to those days and of course to that really tense and emotional convention at madison square garden when he gave one of the greatest speeches of his life and refused to hold up his hands with jimmy carter? >> andrea, i have to take you back beyond that. i knew the guy for 40 years. he was the first major

so far that the clinton campaign is a textbook perfect and tightly disciplined was surely buried for good by the president's seemingly panic-driven blunder last week. >> this was a steady stream of mind. -- theme of mine. >> we kept been told -- what the bell when mr. gore gas often was the policy. >> it is amazing. in one of the debates he said we might have to go into pakistan that was considered a big cat, when actually it was his policy. it may still be to some extent. the other half of that is that the clinton machine was unbeatable and was taken as a given. to cook this was april 12, 2009. what, if anything, have we learned from this decade's man- made economic disaster? certain american values crumbled and vanished. rather than investing -- term in new products, innovations, technologies or services that might grow and then that america and the world, became the holy grail in the upper exons of society. those institutions are not merely the met -- the beneficiaries of the taxpayers' bailout since the crash. you can see -- i sense that you like barack obama and you are on that

administration and what happened to his wife during the course of the campaign. >> mike allen, barack obama should be grateful to bill clintony. >> of course he should. i think this is showing how quickly the campaign is fading. this is a great new chapter for president clinton. his wife had been ascendant. the democratic faithful have been going with this young new president. in direct mail pitches the president clinton has been drawing much less well than he had from either side. now he has pneumo jne new mojo. even though he doesn't work for a government or he's not a formal diplomat, he can do the job. >> susan molinari, do you think bill clinton exchanged e-mail addresses with kim jong-il today and figured out a way to keep the conversation going? >> be on each other's twitter pages, tweet together? >> yeah, think they might have found a way to keep the conversation going between our two countries? >> i don't think so. i think that, you know, president clinton respects the line between being sort of the ambassador that helps save lives, like jesse jackson had, and governor richardson in the past. in terms of closing tha

it's about the clinton campaign, the palin campaign, and all the other women who are in office. >> io read it. let me ask you about this rudy giuliani. he's running for governor of new york it looks like. >> that's pretty amazing. what's really incredible about this -- and i don't know if jonathan will agree or not, is he can't really run on 9/11. i mean, that was sort of his gambit when he was going to run for president. it was his gambit when he was new york and still in office. that's a long time ago now. i think he will have to figure out what he's going to run for, what kind of republican he's going to be. >> right. >> and develop a flu platform. >> is he the fonz of american politics? as he jumped shark as they said on "happy days"? jonathan, i want you to say yes or no. has he jumped the shark, as the fonz did? >> only time will tell. >> who are you? hugh sidey? i'm sorry. he was one of the old pros. >> if david paterson is the governor of new york with the numbers he has now, than rudy giuliani or anybody who has an r after their name and spacing head to head on the ballot an

to know what i'm going to do for them and will i be there for them tomorrow. >> i watched the clintons campaignjob for him last time. i wonder why you see there's a conflict, why the clintons don't owe you -- not owe you but feel they should help a guy who's been so loyal to them. always being a hillary clinton person, a bill clinton person. it seems, i'm not going to ask because you think it's a conflict. >> if i could answer that -- if i could, though, is i didn't do that because i wanted something back. i did that because i believed in mrs. clinton. as i believe in president obama today. look, i understand president obama. it's tough down there. he probably just wanted the assurance of an extra vote. but that's for 2009. we pennsylvanians have to worry about 2010 through 2016. we need new ideas and new energy. going around these 67 counties in three weeks, i have to tell you, somebody in washington, d.c. forgot about them. else we wouldn't have needed an economic slim husband bill. >> your trouble is you're traveling around this state to 67 counties and nobody knows until you tell us. arlen

became a part of the clinton/gore campaign in 1992, serving as deputy campaign manager for policy, and then for eight years of clinton's presidency, serving as domestic policy advisor or close to domestic policy advisor during the first term and particularly associated with the clinton reforms in the area of welfare reform. and then finally and finally republican in this group today, margaret spellings in terms of this conference, part of her service that's of greatest relevance is that she was bruce reed's successor, if you will, in the george w. bush white house a domestic policy advisor during the first time later, of course, went on to be appointed and customed as secretary of education and in both jobs involve very closely in the development and the enactment and the implementation of a no child left behind act. now, at this point, i'm going to turn things over to the gentleman to my immediate right who's going to conduct the discussion. and that is my great friend and colleague, andrew bush. this is a homecoming of sorts for andy. he got his doctorate in government from the unive

here a form ser advisory to hillary clinton's campaign scott and brad blake.just got incredible video in, senator chuck grassley talking about this issue that came up first with sarah palin of these death panels. here's what he had to say. >> there is some fear because in the house bill, there is counseling for end of life. and from that standpoint, have you every right to fear. you shouldn't have counseling at the ends of life. you ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. you ought to plan these things out. you know, i didn't have any problem like livings will but they ought to be done within the family. we should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma. >> we heard the president say yesterday that you're not pulling the plug on grandma. what do you say to senator grassley telling this crowd of 300 people they should be concerned that "you're going to pull the plug on grandma"? >> there's a lot of things the president said yesterday we know are not true. he said aarp supported his plan. th

to be fascinated to read to the entire book because again i am a big believer that hillary clinton's campaignn 2008 was every bit as transformative as president obama's. but without further ado, gail collins. [applause] >> thank you, it's great to be here, this is so exciting. thank you, joe. it this is really my first time out with this book. i'm very excited to talk about how it came to be. i'm beginning to think about myself and the first time. this really all began in 1999 when of the millennium was approaching and i was working at "the new york times" which was preparing his millennium coverage and those of you who read the times known that when the times decides it's really going to cover something there is no stone unturned, you really go at it all the way, so we had a staff prepared on diseases over the last thousand years and the war's over the last thousand years and religion over the last thousand years to my dogs over the last thousand years and trees and everything coming and the magazine decided they were going to do entire special issue on women of the last thousand years. i ha

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i was an original member of the clinton campaign back in 1990.worked in the general election and was aroundi when wassm was really for -- when clintonism was formed. for those of you who do not know, my organization back in 2003 and 2004 was the first mainstream political organization to host a guy ran a small plot in northern california. i had the temerity to flight marcos all the way to washington in the spring of 2004 to speak at his first gathering in washington. in the year that netroots nation was launched, they invited me to write the foreword to their first book called "crashing the gate," which i was honored to do. i have been around from the clinton presidency and this remarkable event. i just wanted to reflect on these two things tonight. one of the things that has been very clear to all of us who have been laboring in this movement in recent years, in the first half of the first year of the obama presidency, is that our work is not done by just having elected barack obama in the fall of last year. the idea of what a movement really is

i was an original member of the clinton campaign back in 1990.d in the general election and was aroundi when wassm was really for -- when clintonism was formed. for those of you who do not know, my organization back in 2003 and 2004 was the first mainstream political organization to host a guy ran a small plot in northern california. i had the temerity to flight marcos all the way to washington in the spring of 2004 to speak at his first gathering in washington. in the year that netroots nation was launched, they invited me to write the foreword to their first book called "crashing the gate," which i was honored to do. i have been around from the clinton presidency and this remarkable event. i just wanted to reflect on these two things tonight. one of the things that has been very clear to all of us who have been laboring in this movement in recent years, in the first half of the first year of the obama presidency, is that our work is not done by just having elected barack obama in the fall of last year. the idea of what a movement really is, so

those are from the clinton campaign in 1992.his signature line was, i still believe that a place called hope. i think we all know where clinton goes a place called hope is -- clinton's place called hope is. [applause] any place where hillary isn't. they finally won a presidential election after 12 years after clinton's last election. they are proclaiming the end of the republican party. i would not be hanging out the mission accomplished sign just yet. besides obama having lower public approval ratings that even president carter at this stage in his administration, look at how obama 1. -- obama won. he had the european union and abroad on his side. in a poll in germany, 80% of germans said they supported obama. we all know how infallible the germans are at picking great leaders. [applause] meanwhile, obama was running against john mccain. it is amazing mccain lost by only seven points and not 75 points. beating john mccain is the equivalent of george foreman, in his prime, beating helen thomas in a twelfth round technical knocko

as for sherman, hit the clinton campaign was largely carried by thomas the did the heavy lifting on it for sure. thomas said devised the strategy to win it at the outset, which sherman failed to heed. in brief, thomas had discovered a way to outflank joseph johnston's army by moving in force through an undefended pass known as snake creek gap. instead sherman and jills in coolidge frontal assaults against the nearly impregnable precipice known as rocky face cliff where the rebels were intrenched. he later claimed his attacks were mere faints. when he moved to the gap it was too late for him to do so effectively and he did so in any case within an adequate force. johnson escaped, sherman blamed his subordinate commander and so the atlantic campaign went on for months until atlanta fell. but the campaign's main object, johnston's army, lived to fight another day. in the second big campaign sherman marched through georgia to the sea. in so doing he marched away from the army, now under john bell hood, he was supposed to destroy, thomas was left to protect all of the union army's western g

be controversial, but this is what he has to say -- richard goodstein was an advisor to the clinton campaignwe also have legislative director under george bush. what the former vice president is saying is that this puts our country in danger. >> for the vice-president, who insisted we would find mass destruction weapons in iraq, that we would be greeted as liberators, he made hamas stronger, al qaeda stronger, the u.s. image around the world was tarnished, and we took the hardest hit on his watch. this is a bit much. it was one thing if the bush- cheney record was clear on defending the country. i do not think the record supports that, and politically, let's be honest with ourselves, i think vice-president cheney is held in enough disregard by large segments of the u.s. public that to have him on one side of the debate frankly only helps the administration. jane: we also were quite safe under his watch for years now. >> yes. i think what is happening is the further we get away from 9/11, and now we approach eight years, we are allowing ourselves into a false sense of security. the heightened

campaign? what other sorts of factors came man? that is just a general question for people at the head of the table. >> i will jump been. in clinton's experience, we traded the campaign promises as gospel. that was the only scripture that guided us. he had -- he loved all aspects of politics. he loved the policy part of it best. he thought running for president was the ultimate job interview and the agenda he laid out represented the terms of his contract. when we got to washington, it is not how the congress regarded it. some in our party followed the campaign closely and listened to what he said. so there was an enormous amount of back and forth and a lot of pressure to selectively edit the campaign promises. from his standpoint, he felt that was the way he should keep score. for those of us who been in the campaign and have the same experience, that was our strongest weapon with debates with congress to be able to say this is what the president promised. that is a hard thing for a president possible allies to dismiss. >> i concur. i still travel with my renewing america's purpose. it informed the second campaign, as well. i think

. >> the head of hillary clinton's presidential campaign has been charged with forging documents, and he gave the forms to citibank to get a $74 million loan. mazahi's lawyer says he is reviewing the allegations. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius said today that massive school closings will not stop the spread of h1n1 flu this fall, following monday's grim report that the vie us could cause major problems for this country. live at the centers for disease control and prevention in atlanta, jonathan has more reaction to that study. good evening. >> good evening, bret. well, people all across government are responding to what some are calling doomsday scenarios. yesterday, the governor's science advisors issued a report indicating as many as 90,000 americans could die from h1n1, and up to 50% of the population could become infected. critical might be the care these individuals received. the report suggested as many as 1.8 million americans would ire hospitalization, with nearly all of the nation's icu beds being used for seriously ill flu patients. c.d.c. officials sa

he became a part of the clinton-bork campaign in 1992, serving as deputy campaign manager for policy. and then for all eight years of clinton's presidency, he served as domestic policy adviser, and is particularly associated with the reforms in the area of welfare. and finally, a republican in this group, margaret spellings, who in terms of this conference imparted her service that is that great as rollins -- she is bruce reed's successor in the george w. bush white house as domestic policy adviser during the first term. she later went on to be appointed and confirmed as secretary of education. in both jobs, she worked very closely in the development and enactment and implementation of the new child left behind at. at this point, i will turn things over to the gentleman to my immediate right who is going to conduct a discussion. that is my great friend and colleague, andrew busch. andy, this is a homecoming of sorts. he earned his doctorate in government from the university of virginia. he has gone on to do great things, in the oval things from the standpoint of admiring him. -- envia

bill clinton campaigned aze moderate. he will govern from the left. the people who pay the bills won't have it any other way. if he governs from the left, he will fail. if he fails, people will notice. if they fail, people will be concerned and rise up and you will have an opportunity to talk to the american people about an alternative approach. and he was right. bill clinton raised taxes. the b.t.u. tax was proposed. there was scandal after scandal, and of course there was a-- the hillary health care plan that crashed and burned. well, here we are again 16 years after that. notice the syncronicity. 1977 to 1993, 16 years. i say if we won the last two battles, it's time to go 3-3! [applause] and this time, in 1977, it was people like the direct mail kings that were beating the competition, then it was the television ads. this year the obama campaign basically took the pharmaceutical companies into -- the pharmaceuticals cut a deal with barack obama, the insurance companies have been on the sidelines trying to get some crumbs on the table. we all say w

were out screaming about the iraq war or were shei showi yelling and harassing hillary clinton during her campaign. i think the conservatives are the most animated about healthcare because they oppose it. most support what the president is doing. i think people tend to show up when they are unhappy. they don't when they are not unhappy. >> listen to what a sarah palin put on. who will suffer the most the sick and elderly and disabled of course. the america i know and love not one with my parents. high programs but don't i want to take this wasn't they are worthy of healthcare such as systems are down right evil. isn't it down right evil to issue a statement so full of bs. there's nothing in any one's plan as far as i can see in which ger to go to piss bare. in society that's absolutely folk conductsed. >> i g disagree with you. only caption mags care far their we are don't worry the cost won't go up. you have a despicable bau. you are not going to suddenly provide healthcare for 45 million people and tell me the costs aren't going up unless there's going to be eye lo a lof rationing. that's the co

it was a rough moment -- rough long series of months for bill clinton in that campaign.never entirely comfortable. he was never as successful campaigning for his wife as he was for himself. but, he has stepped into a role that seems like it will be a good one for him, helping out where he can in these discrete individual missions. he can't be the person to do middle east peace. that's too complicated. that's too big and long a job. but these discrete missions i think is a perfect opportunity for him. >> do you agree with that, stephanie? >> you know, i think that this really works perfectly though, campbell. i understand what jeffrey's saying but i think this is the diplomacy we didn't see during the bush years where there was no bluster, there was no cowboy diplomacy, there was no swaggering from the obama administration. they did this very quietly, they laid the groundwork, so did hillary clinton at the state department. and then they understood international politics enough to let kim jong-il save face. to me it is a win-win. we get our american journalists back, they

>> in the early part of the campaign, hillary clinton, john edwards mandated that people get health insurance coverage as part of their health coverage plan. that was what led to be universal. obama did not. he made a pin the he would not mandate it. he was afraid people could not afford it. fast forward to today, obama is supporting a mandate. >> actually one of the most memorable clinton versus obama moments of the campaign last year. when she was waving the fliers saying, barack obama shame on you. he had ads out about her. that's what he was getting at. the idea of a mandate for everyone to have health insurance. >> exactly. he criticized her for having the mandate. that led to the big "shame on you" response. so in our view that makes this really a full flop. so that is how we rated it on our flip-o-meter. obama acknowledged that much. a full flop for this one. >> got to love politics. look at the other side. one on republicans, it's interesting. this began as i understand it, an editorial. but was picked up by a lawmaker. you are giving this your pants on fire rating. what is this about

those are from the clinton campaign in 1992. his signature line was, i still believe that a place called hope. i think we all know where clinton goes a place called hope is -- clinton's place called hope is. [applause] any place where hillary isn't. they finally won a presidential election after 12 years after clinton's last election. they are proclaiming the end of the republican party. i would not be hanging out the mission accomplished sign just yet. besides obama having lower public approval ratings that even president carter at this stage in his administration, look at how obama 1. -- obama won. he had the european union and abroad on his side. in a poll in germany, 80% of germans said they supported obama. we all know how infallible the germans are at picking great leaders. [applause] meanwhile, obama was running against john mccain. it is amazing mccain lost by only seven points and not 75 points. beating john mccain is the equivalent of george foreman, in his prime, beating helen thomas in a twelfth round technical knock

not part of the campaign and our party or the other party to selectively edit the campaign promises but from clinton's standpoint, he always felt that that was the way he should keep score and for those of us who have been in the campaign, and i sure margaret had the same experience, that was our strongest weapon an internal debate within the administration and debates with congress was to be able to say this is what the president promised. we have to keep this promise and that is a hard thing for a president's allies to dismiss. >> absolutely continent in fact i still travel with my renewing america's purpose july 99 to july of 2000, and in fact it informed the second campaign as well and i think bush did -- have a dance policy agenda with specifics more so than had been the sort of practice at least in our party particularly to the extent he talked about things about being a different kind of republican that, you know, not everybody on my side of the oil was wildly enthusiastic about the defeat could things like a compassionate conservatism, education, immigration, faith based initiatives, all of th

and the obama administration has reached out to north korea, a campaign promise by president clinton -- by president obama. and the white house was not directly involved. i'm teach handelsman. >>> there's some concern that as many as 06 people may have been scammed by a funeral home. police sayhose customers prepaid for funeral arrangements in fred riksburg, virginia, but the money they spent may have been used for something else. chris gordon is here now with more. >> reporter: fret ricksburg police say many of the victims are from northern virginia, matter land and sdwrikt. according to police, money was collected dating pack to the 1980s for what are called pre-need funerals. but the money may have been spent instead on personal and business expenses. police executed a search warrant at bailey funeral service in fred drinksburg, virginia on july 23rd collecting evidence that resulted in the arrest of the owner. he is 51-year-d ambrose bailey, a former council member and prominent business han. police tell us what their investigation has uncovered so far. >> we found a box of docum

campaign. so hoil clinton set off on the health security express with hundreds of reform writers.linton town halls were overwhelmed by protestors who tried to chump down at every stop and polls showed that every day hillary clinton and the health care reform went down. you should keep in mind, the more the president campaigns the more unpopular reform becomes. two, attempts to reform health care always turn into democrat on democrat dog fights. joining me now is oregon senator ron wyden. you have a health care reform plan that has been unable to get any traction so far and might we end up through a series of compromises it's going to be important to close the deal with the insured. that wasn't done in 1993, 1994. that's the big job for the summer. we give the opportunity for the republicans and democrats to get that done. we say that everybody can go into a big group like members of congress can. the insurance companies can't discriminate against you. you have a lot of leverage and will be able to get that cash in your pocket. >> so are you hanging on to the idea that might what c

[unintelligible] that allow the bill clinton to win. campaigningderate, he won with 43% of the boat. 15 years later, the democrats have the white house and both houses but of ronald reagan -- houses. in 1993, ronald reagan had one final reunion with staffers. they were depressed. he said be in good cheer. he reminds me of his old speech. he said here we are akin, the same conditions apply. bill clinton just campaigned as a moderate. he will govern from the left bur. it the government from the left, he will fail. if he fails, people will notice and get upset and be concerned and they will rise up. was the hillary plan that crashed and burned. here are again. i say we won the last two battles, we can go 343. --3 for 3. this time in 77, it was people like the mail kings who were riling up these positions. in 1993, it is harry and louise. but this year, the obama people were clever. they co-opted care providers and took them into their coalition. they cut a deal with barack obama. insurance companies have been on the sidelines trying to get some crumbs

start with the economy because i believe it is ironic james carville and 1982 had posted in the clinton campaigns in little rock a sign that said it's the economy and i think this administration today would do well to post a sign in the oval office that says it's jobs stupid and the fact is we don't focus on jobs and we don't get people back to work and we don't create economic momentum we are in deep trouble as a country. america only works when americans are working. furthermore when you're faced with competitors like china and india you have to have a strategy for economic growth and economic to filament in a period of considerable challenge. our argument is if we want to build a safe prosperous and free future we need to create the most productive most creative most entrepreneurial pro-market economy that runs on smart and effective economic regulation. let me be clear. i believe if you set out and say well what maximize their are ways to do that. you said what maximize the number of small businesses created by small business there are ways to do that. if you said how can i have the most con

clinton. he wasn't even on the white house list. some said for good reasons. after some of his comments about candidate obama during the 2008 campaign. >> give me a break. this whole thing is the biggest fairy tale i have ever seen. >> reporter: al gore told the white house the north koreans wanted clinton. president obama gave the go-ahead. >> the white house reached out as they said to my husband to ask him if he would be willing to do that. >> reporter: now a team of rivals one better, president obama and two clintons. the final step if bill clinton were to go would it be a done deal? the north koreans messaged yes. the wheels were in motion. and those wheels were pretty fancy. a private 737 owned by clinton friend and hollywood producer, and former clinton chief of staff, john podesta went along to file the paperwork of the pardon in a north korean court.

>> and he later got into quite i i have the with bill clinton in the 2008 campaign behind the scenes en former president clinton insisted it was not a vote for the war and he said "you're damn right it was a vote for the war, that's what i said at the time." which senator kennedy did. i slightly... i don't disagreen' with john, but i'm not quite sure that this sense of championing as passionate as he did the rights of the underprivileged was there as the youngest child. i think in the early years that he was a much more cautious and, if you will, centrist democrat. i talked to one of his oldest h friends who was with him in '62 today and i said "if we had been sitting around in boston in 1967--" which is when i first covered senator kennedy" "and we said 47 years from now he'll die and be thought of as one of the great liberal lions of all time and one of the most effective senators ever, what would we have said?iv and we would have said you're drunk, go get another drink. requests that's not what he wast cast as then. i think he grew. i think he really grew. i think he grew in a sens

clinton's got to help with the white working class. >> notice ow often the clintons are important to obama in the clinch. during the campaignlast year, against mccain, now at this point bill clinton speaking out for the health care reform last week. and hillary clinton, they've both been very good soldiers. >> i think it's a hell of a coaliti coalition. a strong phalanx for the democratic party. thank you. join us tomorrow for more "hardball." right now it's time for "the ed show" with ed schultz. >> i'm ed schultz. this is "the ed show." >>> good evening, americans. live from 30 rock in new york, it's "the ed show" on msnbc. caving in? a lot of people are thinking that. the white house makes a very weak move, essentially dropping the public option on health care. then backtracks on it today. what's going on? the president calls it just a sliver of reform? and the health and human services secretary says it's not essential? what do you mean not essential? we've got to straighten this out. >>> the chairman of the middle class caucus says when private insurance companies control costs it's like making a pyromaniac the fire ch

clinton's got to help with the white working class. >> notice ow often the clintons are important to obama in the clinch. during the campaignast year, against mccain, now at this point bill clinton speaking out for the health care reform last week. and hillary clinton, they've both been very good soldiers. >> i think it's a hell of a coalition. a strong phalanx for the democratic party. thank you. join us tomorrow for more "hardball." "countdown" with keith olbermann starts right now. >>> which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? uh-oh. the public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform. >> no, actually, mr. president, you're wrong. it is. remember? you just said the insurance companies were holding us hostage? >> that is not the essential element. >> no, actually, madame secretary, you're wrong. it is. it is the break on the out of control engine that is insurance greed well, at least you get something of a first step, one that grandma plug puller grassley can sell to the death eaters as a good deal. >> it isn't a good deal if i can't sell my product to mor

those are from the clinton campaign in 1992.where clinton goes a place called hope is -- clinton's place called hope is. [applause] any place where hillary isn't. they finally won a presidential election after 12 years after clinton's last election. they are proclaiming the end of the republican party. i would not be hanging out the mission accomplished sign just yet. besides obama having lower public approval ratings that even president carter at this stage in his administration, look at how obama 1. -- obama won. he had the european union and abroad on his side. in a poll in germany, 80% of germans said they supported obama. we all know how infallible the germans are at picking great leaders. [applause] meanwhile, obama was running against john mccain. it is amazing mccain lost by only seven points and not 75 points. beating john mccain is the equivalent of george foreman, in his prime, beating helen thomas in a twelfth round technical knockout. come to think of it, i would pay good money to see that. i just hope republicans a

. >> secretary of state clinton today called the ongoing campaigns of rape and sexual violence against civilians in the congo, crimes against humanity. what is happening in the eastern congo and what can the united states do about it? >> well, what's happening is basically a major -- that has been ongoing for the past 13 years. so what the u.s. can do about if is basically support the peace process so that finally we can end the fighting in eastern congo. >> i'm wondering, does secretary of state hillary clinton have more presence, more power to speak on this issue? because she is a woman. and when she speaks out against the use of rape as a weapon of war, how's your message received? >> i think that she has more power just because she is the representative of the united states and, therefore, she has so much weight on the political scene. i don't think that being a woman or just calling out for an end to sexual violence means so much. i think what really means something would be concrete action to end sexual violence in the congo. so most forceful action in support the congolese gover

clinton and al gore, pals again. the unpleantness of the 2000 campaign apparently forgotten. the two women work for al gore's current tv network. we have not heard much from former president bill clinton since his wife became secretary of state. he realized his network of -- utilized his network of business and political contacts and flew to north korea to free these captured journalists. the obama administration wanted to send out more, but apparently, kim jong il wanted bubba. >> look, i commend the president, but it was not his doing. stuff like this is mired completely in advance. it was the white house negotiating through i think it was the swedes' as intermediaries, and it was that kim jong il want it to have the highest ranking american outside of the administration in a photo op to show that he is not a vegetable, and that he is actually active. if you are in a country like that, in which all power is in one man, and they worry about the stroke you have, and they worry if you are all there, showing up with president clinton and speaking and having a dinner with him is