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he's worked for the clinton white house, the state department, two members of congress, and many other organizations promoting peace and human rights. he's been a big brother for over 25 years as well as the youth counselor and basketball coach and he is the co-author of ten boo books. his first little brother is also on our panel today. michael maddox is the coauthor of the unlikely brothers with john pendergrass. he emerged from living in a homeless shelter and dealing drugs as a teen and becoming a husband and father of five boys, often working two jobs at once in order to support his family. he also helps coach his sons on their football teams. we'll then hear from dr. katherine gallagher, the director of the cochran collaboration college for policy where she's the associate professor of criminology in law and society. her research focuses on improving the intersection between health care and justice systems to better address the needs of adverse populations in public health in larger communities. she also provides guidance to numerous federal agencies. then we'll hear from dr. geo

politics for more than 20 years now and served in the same capacity in the second term of the clinton white house, if memory serves, was the negotiator of the budget deal of '97. i think that cheryl sandberg, formally of treasury, now of facebook, said i've seen heads of state cower before this man. maybe you can tell us a couple of those stories. and "the washington post" referred to you as obama's jobs creator. which is a pretty mighty responsibility. so i thought we might as well start there. there have been signs lately of what seems like a slow and steady recovery. i think that's been the view on this stage today. yet we remain in a very deep jobs hole, consumer debt remains very high. what is a realistic range for the unemployment rate in six, seven months now? >> it's a great idea for people in government jobs like mine to make projections where the unemployment rate will be. it always works out well. and there are never any unexpected consequences that get in the way. so it's a great idea. but i'll probably take a pass. so here's what i would say. i think people here know the basic story,

john prendergast worked on africa policy in president clinton's white house. now he runs a group called the enough project, that exposes war crimes. what keeps this war going? >> well, you know, follow the money. it's good old-fashioned greed. we got kings and corporations and countries that have been plundering the congo for the last century. and today's version of armed groups, rebel groups, militia groups, the government army-- they're all fronts for mafia organizations, basically, that extract these minerals and profit from their smuggling and export back to the united states and to europe for our jewelry, our cell phones, and our laptops. >> mafia organizations? what do you mean by that? >> because they don't have an ideology. they're not trying to build a government institution. the rebels are not fighting for any particular cause. they are extracting these minerals--like gold, like tantalum, tin, and tungsten--in order to sustain themselves as predatory organizations. >> is the violence increasing, decreasing? >> it spikes. it comes in phases, and it's

. >> reporter: william galston served in the clinton white house and is now at the brookings institution the court decides to strike down even a piece of the law, we will see a replay of a political debate that we haven't seen for three-quarters of a century. this is a game for extremely high stakes not only for the president, not only for the 2012 election, but also for the institution of the supreme court itself. >> reporter: the obama administration's justice department plans to vigorously defend the new law in court against a coalition of 26 states that the president told american public media's marketplace, was motivated by politics. >> because, frankly, these lawsuits that were filed were basically uniformly filed by republicans who wanted to score political points. >> i'm calling in support of president obama's campaign. >> reporter: meanwhile, the president's re-election campaign and the dnc are defending health care reform in battleground states like ohio through mailings, online and with phone banks. >> i'm helping them to understand the good things the legislation does. >> rep

here is former clinton white house aide keith boykin. pr dump doso, and a former bush white house aide. why so many republicans going after this? custom built for that. >> it is politics. paul ryan doing a lot of good things. corporate tax rates cut, and businesses to prosper, and want them to hire folks this is about politics, the fact that two candidates certainly -- certainly congressman paul running for the presidency and want to win the louisiana primary, want to certainly galvanize the two behind them. and they are coming out against paul ryan's budget plan. very realistic and some members of congress up for re-election this year. >> my goodness, politics playing into the budget plan? i'm shocked. >> absolutely. >> what does ron paul hav gain? we had him on the program last night. talked to him about vilified it. why not embrace it with tweaks? >> i don't know this has political benefits. it is purism. and i would admit to being some of a purist. it's hard to complain that budget doesn't balance fast enough when 90% of revenues righ

but his concerns were dismissed by wall street, by the clinton white house and most of his own colleagues in congress. but on the day of the vote, the senator from north dakota gave one of the most prescient speeches in our political history. >> i worry very much that the fusing together of the idea of banking which requires not just safety and soundness to be successful but the perception of safety and soundness to merge it with inherently risky speculative activity, is in my judgment unwise. i think we will in ten years' time look back and say we should not have done that. >> ten years later, 2008, your prophecy came true. our financial system came crashing down, and taxpayers, as you had predicted, had to bail out the banks, just as you said we would. what did you know that no one else knew? >> i don't know that i knew something. i felt something very important about all of this. i you know, i had read what went on in the great depression, kind of understood what caused a collapse back then, and the unbelievable heartbreak and pain for this country. closing of the banks and people losi

joining me today, today's power panel, julianna goldman, white house correspondent for bloomberg news. former clinton white house staffer david goodfriend, around former rnc communications director doug high. it's great to have you here. i want to do a quick lightning round to get your responses to our first question, which is what does today's jobs report really mean and what happens to president obama and his hopes for another term if the economic momentum were to slow? julianna i want to start with you. >> thomas, more than 200,000 jobs a month, this is a good number for the president, but this is the kind of numbers that the president needs to have just to keep the unemployment rate hovering around 8 thr%. in november of 2012, that's not a great number for the president. he needs to show the trends are going in the right direction but this adds momentum to that. there are a lot ever unknowns out there, europe, iran, gas prices, and we're just reminded of the fact that tomorrow is the one-year anniversary since the earthquake in japan. >> david, republicans like house speaker boehner, cantor, they

. >> i tell you rob, this all reminds me of when i was a younger man working in the clinton white house when health care was lot of atestimonied, bill craftal, wrote a famous memo in '93 saying do not let this pass because the political benefit that are down to democrats once people realized that they can get help from government in solving a major problem like health insurance will be something the gop can't allow. i think the litigation strategy is the same thing. they don't put out a single plan. even when obama was developing his thing. outer limit of what the republicans would replace it with is something that would cover 3 million when there's 50 million uninsured. >> they have to be careful what they wish for here. strike it down, beat it up, get it declared unconstitutional. the republicans do that. that is the supreme court and we've got a month or two to ponder what they might do. basically, this is right, matt. they can win and deal with 15 million uninsured people. with no plan. good luck. >> well, we'll be back for more of that. the panel will stick around. just ahead, our

: chris lehan is one of the -- he earned master of disaster for doing damage control in the clinton white housent opposition research campaign industrial complex. you have huge entities that are extremely well funded. in fact at many levels more well funded than the traditional parties. >> the way that we look at our role is to find the truth. it needs to be grounded in some sort of fact, because the american people are not stupid. voters are not stupid. >> reporter: rodell mollineau is president of american bridge 21st century, a democratic super pac devoted solely to doing oppo research. >> we have 50 people working for us. they sit in a war room. they are putting together research briefs. they are putting together research documents. they are looking at the video that our trackers send back from the field. >> reporter: the most effective way to slam a candidate is to hang him with his own words. >> i am a-- i have an objection to it. >> rick does this a lot. >> reporter: capturing the words in the field is the job of the video tracker. american bridge employs 17 trackers who blend into the c

he is former clinton white house aide.g in jennifer rubin, first time, author of the "washington post's" "right turn" blog. and our pal david webb is back, syndicate the talk show host, co-founder of teaparty365. david webb-d mitt get the right argument out? i didn't hear the tax cut thing. i was waiting for the 20% tax cut. >> we'll all waiting for the tax cut. >> i kind of missed that. >> he's playing on the jobs especially down in the south with a lot of right to work states. he's going to play toward that. this is good, but non-farm payrolls, those aren't up as much as they should be. so he's going to kind of tailor his message down there. but all of america is waiting on a tax -- it's taxes. what's coming up next year with the expiration of the bush tax rates? what's coming up with potential obama care tax effect and cost factors on businesses on main street? >> i get that. but jennifer, you heard that clip. the clip's not the whole story. we're not in mississippi. so we don't get the whole speech. but did it sound li

we bring back keith boykin, clinton white house aide. jennifer ruben, the author of "the washington post" blog and my pal mark simone, radio talk show host. mark simone, i don't know if it was a bailout of detroit. bailing out unions? what's so good about that? >> you could go with the romney organized bankruptcy. that might have been a good way to go. but as far as this movie, let me put this very politely. it was shovel ready, if you know what i mean. >> shovel ready! >> it's unfair to call it propaganda because propaganda is disguised as a real movie. this didn't even try to look objective. this was just an out-and-out infomercial. it was ridiculous. >> keith boykin, i didn't hear in the movie -- i acknowledge all i got was eamon's report, but i got a little more than that backstage. why this is really the worst economic recovery going back to the 1930s where it should have been the strongest, what goes down is supposed to spring back up. this one didn't spring back anywhere. we got a little improvement, as i said earlier, but it ain'

our guest is a chief strategist for the santorum campaign and deedee meyers former clinton white house secretary. you're in this fight. this newt gingrich obnoxiousness of saying you're a moderate, what twinkie on his campaign thinks he gets away with calling your guy a moderate? a single person watching this show, not a single person, right, left, or center, nobody thinks that rick santorum is a moderate. why are they calling you that dirty name as far as you guys are concerned? >> well, ron paul a couple weeks ago called him a liberal, which in my mind a lot of people probably thought for a long time we should have drug testing, random drug testing in congress and i think it gave him a little more evidence or proof that we should. >> why are they calling you those bad names? you guys are hard right conservatives on cultural, economic, every issue. you're hawks on foreign policy. where are you in any way vulnerable to the nasty charge of moderate? >> well, obviously rick santorum is seen as a trusting conservative, tea party supporter, so you have somebody that is sympathetic to their

. >> reporter: william galston served in the clinton white house and is now at the brookings institution court decides to strike down even a piece of the law, we will see a replay of a political debate we haven't seen for three-quarters of a century. this is a game for extremely high stakes, not only for the president, not only for the 2012 election, but also for the institution of the supreme court itself. >> reporter: the obama administration's justice department plans to vigorously defend the new law in court, against a coalition of 26 states that the president told american public media's marketplace was motivated by politics. >> because, frankly, these lawsuits that were filed were basically uniformly filed by republicans who wanted to score political points. >> i'm calling in support of president obama's campaign. >> reporter: meanwhile, the president's reelection campaign and the dnc are defending health care reform in battleground states like ohio, through mailings, online, and with phone banks. >> i'm helping them to understand the good things about the legislation. >> reporter:

clinton. he became a white house chief of staff and a crucial point in our political history and congress and the president are able to pass needed and meaningful reforms in an era of divided government. after his congressional and white house service, no one could have blamed him if he had enough of public life. but the secretary believes public service is an honored calling. out of government, he and his wife created the institute for public policy based at california state university, monterey. much like the center here, the institute's goal is to instilling in our brightest and the passion -- a passion for public service. we have known each other for many years. i know one thing we have in common is a belief that it is important to find the imaginations of the next leaders, regardless of how the party -- of the party. he has great respect of both sides of the aisle for his confirmation vote last year to become secretary of defense. the tally was 100-0. every single senator, democrat and republican, were enthusiastic about his selection. he used to be a republican. [laughter] i guess some

a great leader in the clinton white house and a great leader in this institution. like many in the administration including i suspect the dozens of alumni currently serving, we look to cap for sound analysis. it is good to release try to return the favor by showing you some of our thinking about iraq. sunday, this marked nine years since the start of the iraq war and three months since the last american troops crossed the border into kuwait and in one of our nation's longest conflict. the wisdom of going to war in iraq is something that is going to be debated for years and i believe that debate to the historians. what is beyond the debate and what news coverage too often fails to acknowledge is that iraq today is less violent, more democratic, and more prosperous , and the united states is more deeply engaged, that at any time in recent history. those of us who have been working on iraq for a long time. we know that this progress, while far from complete, is also far from inevitable. it was the result of the extraordinary sacrifice of our troops, the resolve and re

he has worked for the clinton white house, the state department, two mens of congress -- members of congress and many other organizations promoting peace and human rights. he's been a big brother for over 25 years as well as a youth counselor and basketball coach, and he is a co-author of ten books, and he co-authored "unlikely brothers" which he has a copy here today. "unlikely brothers" which with his first little brother in the big brothers program, michael mattocks, who is also on our panel today. michael mattocks is the co-author of the "unlikely brothers" with prendergast. he merged from a homeless situation as a child, then becoming a husband and father of five boys often working two jobs at once in order to support his family. he also helps coach his sons on their football teams. we'll then hear from dr. catherine gallagher, the director of the cochran collaboration college for policy at george mason university where she is the associate professor of criminology and law in society. her research focuses on improving the intersection between health care and justice systems to better ad

on the question of the relationships, i worked in the clinton white house. i've never seen cooperation work as well as it is between this administration and rushes opposite numbers. they have built something. this far exceeds anything i saw in bush 43 or the clinton administration. host: what do they need from us? guest: they feel they were on the losing aend. they would like to find a new role for russia in the world. what we're seeing is that russia is pragmatic. russia agreed to a series of new sanctions against iran. the process for additional sanctions looks unattractive. when russia sees a benefit, they can do wouit. putin is hamstrung. host: there were comments put up by putin blaming the west for the demonstrations. guest: i think they were nervous about where this would go and what the consequences would be. they went out and attacked protesters. they said these guys are not real russians. the idea of the foreign press and that russia is a fortress was met by foreign agents has helped to legitimize the regime. host: what do we need from russia? guest

and the white house, partly because of that pressure, decided to block it. and now you've got bill clintons particularly tied into this white house. all indications are that he and president obama don't have a very close relationship. >> he's not. >> so, you know, you can't -- this is not exactly a terribly controversial statement. i mean, he has held his tongue for the last three years. he hasn't given obama too much trouble. even when he wrote a book recently on what to do about the economy, which had some subtle jabs at the white house, it wasn't so bad. so i don't know. this is a little overblown. you've got to give clinton some credit for keeping his mouth shut, which must be very difficult under the circumstances. >> but that seems like a statement from somebody who doesn't have a political dog in the fight. this does seem like sort of a common sense solution, like, oh, yeah, why didn't everybody think about that before? and the reason is because each side had their bases to play to, and this became about nothing but politics. and a democratic congressman mentioned to me, do you know

politics for more than 20 years now and served in the same capacity in the second term of the clinton white house. if memory serves serves was the key noth tore on the bibipartisan budget deal in '97. i think cheryl sandberg of treasury, formerly of treasury and now of facebook -- >> kind of doing okay. >> once said of you, she said i have seen heads of state cower before this man. so maybe you can tell us a couple of those stories. and "the washington post" recently referred to you as obama's jobs creator. which is actually a pretty mighty responsibility. so i thought we might as well start there. there have been signs lately of a, what seems like a slow and steady recovery. i think that has been the consensus view on this stage today overall. >> yeah. >> yet we remain in a very deep jobs hole. consumer debt remains very high. where do you think, what is the realistic range for the unemployment rate, in say, six, seven months from now? >> it is an absolutely great idea for people in government jobs like mind make projections where the unemployment rate will be. it always works out well. there ar

the president, and john podesta, former clinton white house chief of staff and ken duberstein, formerd reagan, president and ceo of duberstein group. i'll start with our guest host. is the damage that has been inflicted on romney and some of the other republican hopefuls, is it going to be long lasting or by the time we get a nominee or the republicans get a nominee, it will be -- they will be able to salvage something from that? >> i think it will be a low water mark as far as the republicans coming together, but they're about to start coming together. everybody asks is this inevitable, is romney's nomination today inevitable? the answer is i think he's an inexorable march even if he doesn't wrap it up today. but there's no romney mania. nobody is just excited and enthused but there is growing excitement and enthusiasm for beating barack obama, and so while the republicans already even today is not terribly unified, george w. bush's words, barack obama is the great unifier. he's going to bring people together and energize people. the energy and enthusiasm i think comes once this nomi

visible public exceptions but you allow a system of inequality to exist so if hillary clinton had won the white house we would still have women earning a substantial or less amount we might in fact still have all these attacks on reproductive rights we might still have a mass media that entertains people by using women as objects all of that can go on with a woman in the white house so what we have to remember is that one person does not change a systemic expectation they become an exception of and obama has been hamstrung not really being able to speak about the power in systemic inequality and many whites who understand fully racial inequality are being pressed into silence because there's so much hostility do you address that who feel the era it does seem like we have a very long way to go here in america thank you so much interesting perspective that was tricia rose american studies professor at ground university. well president obama set to meet with pakistan's prime minister today as tension flies high between the two countries pakistan growing frustrated over the u.s. using drones in the count

>> i think president clinton cordage very much with the white house. the chief of staff of the secretary and the secretary. he has been the most active deputy of the u.s. efforts to help haiti. she is an extraordinary woman who serves while being the secretary of state in the world and for all foreign policy issues. she is available. we call her the haiti desk officer. at 3:00 a.m. in the morning, she's going to be responsive. there has been a great effort. there has been a great change in philosophy. i think the trade policies will be adjusted significantly to allow for what ultimately needs to be more patient exports. the power structure is a problem there. one of the issues that i would like to see the government look into is a proposition on the lotto. if i had it my way, there would nationalize the lotto. this is the only organization that has been able to successfully tax the haitian people. tavis: a couple more questions about haiti and then i want to get to some movie stuff, some fun stuff. of all the work that you are doing through your ngo, w

it's been 11 years since bill clinton left the white house and remains certainly one of the most fascinating the world. he's the most popular politician in the country. worldwide, not just in america. he inspired -- what inspired him to get into a life of politics? we've got here a guy there at the creation. thomas caplin lived with bill clinton in a dormitory at georgetown university way back then. he remains one of his closest pals. also the novel of "the spy who jumped off the screen" which has an introduction written by bill clinton. i'm going to use you for a few minutes here. great book. "the spy who jumped off the screen." a novel by you. bill clinton. i am still fascinated by this guy. he gives you the magical one or two minutes where you are totally encased in his world. >> it's completely genuine. his mother once said it's easy to remember people's names and their stories if you care. and a lot of bill clinton, of course, comes from virginia. and -- >> his mother. >> his mother. wonderfully positive attitude about life. the reason he has that effect on people is because it's genuin

he worked for clinton's campaign and served in the white house for two years before he head a charitable foundation for rob reiner. >>> supporters of same-sex marriage have asked a federal court to turn down the request for a second look at the ruling that threwout proposition 8. the three-judge panel -- that through out proposition 8. there was an appeal before an 11-judge panel. they file the paperwork and asked the judges to reject the call for a new hearing. >>> talks have broken down between the mt. diablo school district and its teachers' union. an impasse was declared after negotiations field. union leaders had proposed a one-time 3% payment with no furloughs. but the district offered less than half of that amount and only if the governor's tax proposal passed. >>> san jose's veterans memorial is getting ready to reopen. this video show esthe memorial near the city's -- shows the memorial near the city. the memorial closed down after vandals caused $25,000 worth of damage to it. but thanks to a $5,000 donation from the police officers association, the memorial is expected to reope

been 11 years since bill clinton left the white house, the most popular politician in the country.e not just america, but what inspired him to get in a life of politics. we have a guy caplan lived with him at georgetown, he's one of his closest pals, also the author of a novel with an introduction written by bill clinton. i'll use you. great book, "the spy jumped off the screen" a novel by you. bill clinton, when you meet him he gives you the magic one or two minutes, total communication. >> it's completely genuine. because he really -- his mother said it's easy to remember people's names and their stories if you care. and a lot of bill clinton of course comes from virginia. >> his mother. >> wonderfully positive attitude about life. the reason he has that effect on people because it's genuine. >> when you met him you were 17, 18 years old. you went to school like that. jesuit, coat and tie, was he look a poor kid, convertible, had money? >> none of us had cars the first year. i can't think of anyone who did. >> later on. >> he had a buick because his father worked or his adopted f

something else an example taken out of context, how you described the junior staffers in the clinton white housetaken out of context. how? >> well, only in the sense that there's another part to that chapter, which is, the fact that, over time, the clinton's junior staff and secret service did begin to work very well together. i was quoted in the book and excerpts from the book were printed that only showed the first part of the chapter, was the fact we had a lot of trouble with them in the begiing. but, not so much, later on. >> clayton: one final question i have to ask. when i was covering this, i was fascinated, walk up to a secret service agent and i saw that he was a secret service agentnd and i wanted to get close and he turned away from me and walked the other way, someone sees you are a secret service agent, walk away? >> new york not really. although, we do, when we're working try not to engage with conversations, with it anyone, it distracts us from the mission at hand, watching the crowd and trying to take care of the protectee. >> clayton: maybe the guy didn't like me. that is quite