in 2008 would have dished stuff out there. >> sean: the clinton campaignas backdooring me because they were happy i was doing the vetting everybody would ignore. interesting. >> tells you there are opponents out there that would have done it if they had something. they don't. >> sean: they were afraid to. there is a long story there. but guys, good to see you. tucker, you have a mission. >> i do? >> sean: and coming up, time magazine's latest issue features a 26-year-old brother breast feeding her nearly 4-year-old son right there on the cover for all the world to see. we will debate the controversial image. howard dean and al sharpton take politics to a new low. much more, straight ahead. bobby. it's me marty. no way. marty doesn't have a big hole in his head. i got mixed up with some bargain brand cooking spray. look the only way to go is pam. works 70% better than the bargain brand. why you gotta rub it in, pal? pam helps you pull it off. so how much do we owe you? that'll be $973.42. ya know, your rates and fees aren't exactly competitive. who do you t

in 2008 would have dished stuff out there. >> sean: the clinton campaignooring me because they were happy i was doing the vetting everybody would ignore. interesting. >> tells you there are opponents out there that would have done it if they had something. they don't. >> sean: they were afraid to. there is a long story there. but guys, good to see you. tucker, you have a mission. >> i do? >> sean: and coming up, time magazine's latest issue features a 26-year-old brother breast feeding her nearly 4-year-old son right there on the cover for all the world to see. we will debate the controversial image. howard dean and al sharpton take politics to a new low. much more, straight ahead. ♪ [ male announcer ] you get in the zone long before the race. get your head right. and focus. on race day you don't leave anything to chance. get set every morning with gillette fusion proglide. its microcomb guides hair for its thinner blades to cut close. ♪ great starts begin with gillette fusion proglide. ♪ >> sean: all right. there is a war on women, and poor people and rep

in 2008 would have dished stuff out there. >> sean: the clinton campaignas backdooring me because they were happy i was doing the vetting everybody would ignore. interesting. >> tells you there are opponents out there that would have done it if they had something. they don't. >> sean: they were afraid to. there is a long story there. but guys, good to see you. tucker, you have a mission. >> i do? >> sean: and coming up, time magazine's latest issue features a 26-year-old brother breast feeding her nearly 4-year-old son right there on the cover for all the world to see. we will debate the controversial image. howard dean and al sharpton take politics to a new low. much more, straight ahead. [ male announcer ] capri sun has 25% less sugar than leading regar juice drinks. because less sugar is a better way to fly. ♪ just not literally. capri sun. respect what's in the pouch. you walk into a conventional mattress store, it's really not about you. they say, "well, if you wanted a firm bed you can lie on one of those. if you want a soft bed you can lie on one of

he had discussions with hillary clinton's campaign too. edwards' goal was to be a supreme court justice. >> he was constantly in the game to find some role for himself in politics. >> he's charged with scheming to use illegal campaign contributions to hide his affair with hunter. the prosecution wrapped up its case without calling her. the question tonight is, will edwards take the stand in his own defense? >> he comes to that jury box with a lot of strikes against him. asking someone to resurrect their own credibility under these circumstances will be quite a challenge. >> if edwards is convicted of violating campaign laws, he could spend up to 30 years behind bars. >>> a passenger tries to open the cabin door in mid-air. the commuter flight was going from maine to philadelphia when the passenger got disoriented and tried to open the door. other passengers helped subdue the man. >>> with the baltimore grand prix race weekend in jeopardy, a new leader takes over. working with two local businessmen to organize the event. they made deals with

clinton. this is not going to be that kind of book. the point of that story is, president obama's 2008 campaign was largely fuelled by this amazing life story, and this biography of himself that he was able to control, being the personification of the american melting pot. i remember the hillary clinton folks telling meet they were not running against a man or a resume, they were running against a memoir. again, these are not great and new revelations. because of the credibility as a historian, he is able to challenge the vision that obama has projected of himself as being this organic force, somebody who was above calculation and politics. the portrait we saw initially shows that he was far from it, that he was somebody who, in the view of the people who were close to him, was somewhat aloof, somewhat calculating, and someone with a steely eye on the future. while that is not a game changer, that does bump up against the perception that obama has projected of himself being a creation of intellectual and spiritual forces. >> glenn thrush's work can be found at politico.com. >> thank you. >> that was an interview from earlier about the

she was senior adviser her on hillary clinton's campaign and cocollaborater on clinton's white house memoir living history. next to her we have sam is the director of he began his publishing at harvard. university of california. he's worked a number of best selling authorities including el wilson and ohio oliver sacs. representing authors and agents is raphael "rafe" sagalyn, who runs the bethesda, md.-based sagalyn literary agency some of the authors he represents down here in the dc area include dan pink, rick akndson and simon johnson. with all that said. i'm going to start off with a few remarks. tell you about the over view of where things are. we'll hear from each of the panelists. we're start off with the question that every publishers ask at every convention. how many people read their books on a kindle? how many people read their books on an ipad? how many people read pint books? okay. that's encouragerring. that's where we are in the publishing industry today. i've been around, you've seen a lot of changes nothing like the change that is going on now. at the end of 011, --

when people campaign for the presidency, they do act on their promises most of the time. president clinton is right about that. it approaches 75%. getting that laid out is very important and when they campaign saying read my lip, no new taxes and i have to raise them, they're punished. when they campaign promising a middle class tax cut and i won't raise taxes for my new program, it's harder to say to congress. so we need to ensure that we've made it possible to govern from this campaign and i think that should be the focus, not looking back and placing blame. >> it's been second that second marriage is a triumph of hope over experience. and we've heard clinton say that i think, i'm pair grazing, but i think fairly that the stars might be aligned after the election. perhaps in a lame duck session or early in 2013. and you hear this line a lot, the argument being that enough factors are converging, the debt limit runs out, the tax

when senator obama did not embrace john edwards, he started talking to then senator hillary clinton's campaign, the former advisor said there was talk of john edwards wanting to become a supreme court justice. of court, the prosecution says john edwards knew that he used campaign cash to hide his mistress and love child from voters. john edwards lawyers said he didn't know about the cash and the aide, andrew young, spent most of the money on his own dream him. if convicted john edwards could spend 30 years in prison. and now from the courthouse in north carolina this afternoon. jonathan there is this talk of whether the mistress, rielle hunter will take the stand. >>jonathan: she is not going for do it for the recent and it is in doubt whether she will do it for the defense. testimony suggested even john edwards' closest associate didn't trust her and believed she was a loose cannon and were always afraid of what she might say publicly. one legal scholar and former u.s. attorney believes it may have been the same for the prosecution. listen. >> the prosecution wanted to end with a bang. they p

i think obama's trying to run a '96 clinton campaign. but clinton had a great economy, obama's running on a distractions campaign, but doesn't have the great economy to boost him. i think president obama's in a little bit of a perilous situation. he's tacking left on social issues and is not talking about the economy at all. >> and it was clinton who made the sale, i just said this, clinton made the sale in late 2010, in the white house press room, on a saturday afternoon. he said if we don't extend the bush tax cuts, we're going to have a double-dip recession. he did that so brilliantly, i'm soft on clinton, i always have been soft on clinton. clinton made deals with newt gingrich for welfare reform and balanced budget the issue >> obama can't make the sale to the center. obama's losing 40% to a federal inmate. obama can't win those reagan democrats. clinton was able to articulate an economic measure that connected not only with the center, but the reagan democrats. i don't see obama appealing to that part of his party at all? >> why wou

the clinton campaign needed some priding. ng clinton on pop culture venues like the arsenio hall show. i understand that many people will say these kinds of things are unpresidential. bull. this is how people get information. words that ring true two decades later. here is the experience that changed modern campaigning. ♪ >> big man. >> almost 20 years ago. joining me now is arsenio hall, former talk show host and one of the two finalists on nbc's celebrity apprentice. you were standing right next to clinton at that time. did you know how big a moment that was? >> not at all. remember, we didn't know if he would become a president. he was the governor of a small state. >> arkansas. >> we didn't know if that would happen. i remember the first joke out of my mouth. i looked at him and said it's good to see a democrat blowing something other than an election. go on. >> it was pretty historic. you had to know you were probably the first talk show host to have a presidential candidate on like that that would perform and show the pe

the obama campaign seems to be doing to mitt romney what was unacceptable when the clinton campaign was doing it to them. unacceptable to them. this is how they defended it this weekend. >> there's a difference in the roles they would play at commander in chief. i think that's fair game. >> he's managed to turn it into a divisive attack. >> i think most americans will see it as sign of a desperate campaign. >> whatever you think of the politics surrounding the killing of bin laden but it has been consistent with candidate obama's position to find bin laden. romney's position has changed. in 2007 he said it's not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars to catch one person. it is worth fashioning and executing to defeat global violent jihad. and here's today. >> even jimmy carter would have given that order. >> it took president obama less than two hours to hit back this afternoon. >> i assume that people meant what they said when they said it. that's been at least my practice. i said that i'd go after bin laden if we had a clear shot at him and i did. if there are

brilliant political strategist and you do not get to the white house without toppling the hillary clinton campaign doing rest. they must have calculate the the potential fallout from this and the possibility of losing key states they won before such as north carolina and indiana and virginia and must have crunched the numbers and figure they picked out from the base elsewhere enough to swing states they would note otherwise get. maybe this is just by accident this happened but is there that potential? they can make up for what could be losses in those key states? >>guest: yes, officials insist they have not sat down with the polls to sort this out, but, face it, this white house like the white house before it, is acutely aware of where public opinion polls are on any big issue whether it is the economy or same-sex marriage. they do have concerns. there could be fallout in north carolina. but, yes, they also blow they can make up for that with young voters, the president kicked off the rallies on saturday kicking off the campaign, two college campuses. and the college democrats and college republic

he seems to be doing to mitt romney what was unacceptable to them when the hillary clinton campaign was doing it to them. >> there's a difference in the roles they would play as commander in chief, that's fair game. >> he's managed to turn it into a divisive, partisan, political attack. i think most americans will see it as a sign of a desperate campaign. >> whatever you think of the politics surrounding the killing bin ladin, president obama's actions as president have been consistent with candidate obama's position to make his capture a priority. it's not worth with heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just to catch one person. it is worth fashioning and executing an effective policy to fight global jihad. and i have a plan for doing that. now, here's mitt romney in new hampshire. >> you would have given the order? >> even jimmy carter would have given that order. >> took president obama less than two hours to hit back this afternoon. >> i assume that people meant what they said when they said it. that's been at least my practice. i said that i would go after bin ladin if

and more importantly do you see the attitude in the romney campaign that you guys had in the clinton campaign honestly the romney campaign and i pointed it out, i think they're bad and i mean today this auto bailout thing, that was an onion headline when i first saw that and i don't know that the campaign comes up about this, i mean some of the things that romney's done are completely perplexing to everybody. having said that you got to figure at some point he will get better or they will get better, not demonstrated by anything that happened today. i think sometimes when you're an incumbent and you've been there, there's a tendency to defend everything that's happened, and i just think that, and it's not just, i don't want to single out the obama campaign. all across i think among democrats is just a little too much comfort here and what i'm trying to do, and you capitalized it just right, i'm trying to create some discomfort here to say look, we're a long way from having this thing in the bag. in fact, being tied in the polls is bad right now, that they have more money and momentum is going

bush campaign decided they wanted to run on bill clinton being a draft dodger, a womanizer, not a good governor of arkansas and all sorts of things and the bill clinton campaign kept the focus on the economy. and the question for me is will mitt romney be able to keep the focus on the economy this time around. >> well, you know what, i think -- i remember that campaign fairly well. and when we had the draft dodger story, we had a press conference and took out an ad in the paper, bill clinton went on "60 minutes." we dealt with it and compare this to jeremiah wright story and president obama goes right out and deals with it. every time it is something comes up -- if a democrat did this, i would still vote for them. this is not like a voting issue. what it is is i don't remember it, but if it did, it didn't happen, and could have done something along the lines of what gloria talked about, something that joe talked about in his column, everything -- it is everything is so weasely and parsed and political. and that's all. it is not the kind of event itself, you know? >> remember george w.

first of all, during the 2008 campaign for exxon-mobil and possibly a lot of corporations the clinton campaignore accessible. the administration had raised money across eight years tdnc was out in every fortune 500 corporation's suite raising money. they had networks all over the business map. the obama administration came out of nowhere, they raised a lot of money in hollywood, on wall street and in silicon valley but didn't have the breadth of relationships in industrial america. and ordinary americans, from the bottom up. when the administration came in there wasn't this continuing set of relationships that could be imported into the first round of policy discussions. there was also an awkwardness. obama had run against the oil industry exmiss sidly. he pledged we must end the age of oil f. you are a president who is conscious about what you said and who you are negotiating with your first sets of meetings are probably not with oil executives. >> he has not gotten us any further away from the age of oil during his time in office though there are many reasons probably to explain that. other

for the president, and invokes president clinton in a 2008 primary by what the obama campaignmble as well because it sort of unleashed the loose cannon part of bill clinton's personality and political persona, and romney is baiting that as well. we'll see how bill clinton responds to it, but i would manage he will come out even more strongly for obama in the coming days. >> maybe romney didn't read the paper that day, that bill clinton was campaigning for president obama. erin, steve, thank you for your time. saying goodbye to the king of disco, donna summer, that's next. ♪ so let's dance, lets dance, let's dance ♪ ♪ let's dance, let's dance tonight ♪ >> donna summer whose songs were the sound tracks to the '70s died today after a long struggle with cancer. she went from the gospel choir to welcome the queen of disco floors ushering in a new way of music with her hit anthems racking up five grammys and a slew of chart toppers. ♪ i work hard for my money. hard for my money ♪ ♪ so you better treat her right ♪ ♪ ♪ i like to like you baby. i like to like you baby ♪ ♪ looking for h

and also bill clinton campaigned for him but he lost. >> yeah, and you know, andrea i think the most important thing to do, this is a year after redistricting. these districts in texas and everywhere else are not the districts these people have run in in the past. including mr. reyes. some of what you're getting is a new district. total 43,000 people voted. whef you have a tiny turnout like that, strange things or surprising things can and do happen. very quickly about ted cruz versus david dewhurst. the runoff isn't till july. look for this as a chance for the tea party to score against the establishment like they did in indiana against dick lugar. >> wasn't sarah palin on ted cruz's side in that campaign? >> she was indeed and jim demint and the club for growth. >> another victory for sarah palin in this anti-incumbent at least tea party effort against incumbents. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> see you later, chris sa little za. the death toll continues in syria. new video showing the latest blood shed. this is disturbing. the images are from eastern syria where u.n. observers fo

we have democratic pollster, 1996 clinton campaign advise yeh mark penn.have also have former house majority leader dick armey. he's co-chairman of freedomworks. former white house deputy press secretary and cnbc contributor tony fratto joins us. dick armey, let me begin with you, my good friend. why should romney and the republicans give up some grand bargain on entitlements and spending and taxes? why should they absolutely do anything with that until the swearing in of mitt romney and the swearing in of a republican senate? why shouldn't they wait and get their own agenda through, have their own 100 days? why should they do it right away? >> well, first of all, john boehner shouldn't get drawn into another negotiation with people who don't negotiate. president obama never showed up. the senate democrats stonewalled him. we ended up with this silly debt commission that couldn't even get $1.2 trillion in spending cuts while, for example, in our shop we got $9.7 trillion in ten years just by talking to real people in america. now, if he did, if he did in f

and democratic strategist and former spokesman for hillary clinton's campaign. nice to see both of you. i want to start with you. president obama's education secretary arnie duncan echoed the vice president's comments as recently as this morning. here's what towed say on morning joe. >> do you believe that same sex men and women should be able to get legally married in the united states? >> come on. you're going to start there? >> yes, i do. >> have you ever said that publicly before? >> i don't know if i've ever been asked publicly. >> so do you think that either of these men could have said what then or had a position or felt free to go out on a limb like this if they didn't have the backing of the west wing? >> well, i don't think people are assuming that every cabinet secretary is going to be speaking for the president on an issue that is not directly related to their cabinet. so i don't know whether they had marching orders from the white house or even explicit backing, but certainly i think in the case of arnie duncan, they'll be able to argue that he was

steroids tonight. >> i promise. >> guaranteed. >> e.j., this it emergence of bill clinton suddenly starting with that campaign video on friday and then the fund-raiser is giving a lot of people signs that bill clinton is into this campaign in an even more solid way than he was in joining the obama general election campaign last time. >> i think it's true. there are several reasons for it. one, we can never say this. i think the issues matter to him. when you think back to his fight with gingrich over cuts in medicare, medicaid, education and the environment, that famous m-2/e-2, the paul ryan budget makes the gingrich budget look like something bernie sanders proposed. the issue really matters. second, hillary clinton is secretary of state he. she is implicated in this and had to make bill clinton happy she's secretary of state. i think that has something to do with it. the third is obama needs clinton right now. he needs clinton to reach for example to some of the big contributors whom obama didn't give to the super-pac. i think the fact that bill clinton knows that obama knows he needs him for stuff is a mo

clinton. we saw it friday when the obama campaign rolled out a web ad touting obama's strength. showed that to you. clinton introduced clinton. you guys get two presidents for one out of this event which is a pretty good deal. a democratic source described the event as a first date. we have ed rendell, a former mayor of philadelphia, and mark penn who was the chief strategist for hillary clinton 2008 presidential campaign. i always look to you governor rendell for anything about the clintons. you're close, it's a relationship, it's for life. so here is the question, is this a good marriage, will it last through november which is all that matters. >> absolutely, number one, president clinton's belief that president obama did the best out of the circumstances, and second out of a real respect for president obama and the way he handled the relationship with secretary clinton. they have a much value relationship and even friendship, and i think president clinton has been enormously impressed with that. i think it is all out, 100%, not leaving anything on the table. >> so i would lik

generations ago bill clinton announced that the era of big government is over even a former mccain campaignr like president clinton was signaling to his own party that democrats should no longer try to govern by proposing a new program for every problem. president obama tucked away the clinton doctrine in his large door of discarded ideas. >> it's enough to make you wonder maybe it was a personal beef with the clintons. >>> romney was campaigning in iowa a key battle ground state. the president won in 2008. >> oo before you leave the house this morning let's get your first degree weather update with maria molina. she has more on when the rain will be moving out. >> we will be seeing that rain moving out shortly later on today especially as we head into your thursday. it will be a beautiful day across parts of the northeast. before we get the sunshine we will have rain and thunderstorms across portions of new england. there is activity right now across the new york city area. that could be causing delays as you head out the door. you need the umbrella. there are pedals i saw from all of the