former clinton white house aid, keith boynten. thanks. ed klein, do you think that romney ought to apologize? do you think he was wrong the way he went through the 47%? >> i think he shouldn't complain. i think he has to move beyond this. look, i would like to see mitt romney president of the united states. i would also like to see mitt romney reach out to these people these 47% that he's been talking about. whom he disparaged in these remarks and make it plain that these policies are in their benefit. that by creating more incentives. by moving the country away from it's dependdency -- >> wait, we are going to come back. give everybody an opportunity. reach out for everybody. what is your take? >> you call this a dirty trick. using somebody else's own words is a dirty trick. >> they have had it since last may. that is the thing. and now the other side by the way is going to use another dirty trick because they have this type of obama saying i'm a redistributionist. >> those are his own words. he said it. don't deknny it. if robert costa

so let's talk here now with keith boykin, former clinton white house aid and president of the kings collegehe film maker and author behind "2016: obama's america." danesh, people are trying to stop the movie and putting it for free on youtube. why are they doing this? >> well, the first strategy on the left, hoping it goes away. you can go into an entire network and not even know the film existed. then the obama campaign came out swinging, that was strategy two, blast the film. >> well, they basically said this film is full of errors. obama never said he was against american exceptionalism. obama has not given money to brazil to drill for oil. point after point i refuted this and showed wrong, wrong and wrong again. so now strategy number three is you can't discredit the film, lowball it. false rumors, blast e-mails out saying the film is coming out for free and hackers breaking into sites and putting, uploading the whole film on youtube. so we've taken it down. it's still on some of these peer-to-peer sites, but it's a way of saying don't go see the film in the theater because you can look

former clinton white house aide who says selling now does not make sense. good to have you on the program. james, you say the government needs to get out of the auto business. explain. >> the taxpayers have already taken the loss. government's shares are worth considerably less now than when they bought them. whether or not you recognize the loss by selling or not doesn't make that much of a difference. what does matter is having continued government oversight and control of the company. this is america. we don't want the government owning the means of production. >> i get that but if you're an investor and at a loss right now, as the government is, look at the profit they made on aig when they sold shares recently. why not just wait it out and if you believe that gm is going to grow from here, wait it out, and when you have a profit, you sell. what's the harm in that? >> that's what we call speculation. a lot of people are looking at gm and saying there's a lot of headwi headwin headwinds. coming out of the recession, the sales of the volt are not doing we

of the road, and she is facing a very strong opponent in sean patrick maloney, who was a clinton white house aide, and has raised a lot of money after moving to the district. in gibson's district, he has gotten rave reviews. he is a very middle-of-the-road guy. he has not focused on cup captain balance. he focused on lyme disease and roll broadband and issues that are more bread-and-butter to his district -- role -- rural broadband. but his district changed a lot in redistricting. president obama will carry it. a prosecutor who is a democratic nominee there will be very competitive against gibson. it will absolutely be one of the bellwether races. >> all right. i want to thank you all for being here and stopping by national journal's daily policy briefing. [applause] [inaudible] >> thank you all very much. great panel. hope you all enjoy it. tomorrow morning, same time, same place. we will have ron brownstein of our team, editor of "the atlantic,", and they will be interviewing people from the mitt romney campaign. it is going to be a pretty top line program. let me also invite you tonight if you

matt miller is a columnist for "the washington post" and a former clinton white house aide.th of you. >> sitting very close together. is this going to be okay. >> it will be okay. >> we will not come to blows. >> this is a pretty tricky situation. i've watched all kinds of coverage about what happened, when, how you go through all this. matt, why don't you go ahead and play off the president's remarks coming out of this? >> i think romney was trying to inject himself into the issue to try and get something to happen, to shake up what seemed to be a bad trajectory in the polls and i think it looked very unpresidential. i think the -- the reason i think he hurt himself as a lot of republican analysts also said yesterday, his strong point has been if you're worried about the economy and you're anxious, he looks like a plausible alternative. he's a credible man. when you see somebody trying too hard to inject themselves at a moment when american diplomats and people are dead, it just feels off. i think it's jarring and it's diminishing. >> matt, was that the first time you ever

our war room, a former pennsylvania congressman, joe sestak and bill clinton and romney surrogate and george w. bush white house aide afternoon to you. congressman sestak, let me start from you. i want to play another clip of that "60 minutes" interview set to air tomorrow night when he was asked about the campaign and the video 47%. >> that's not the campaign. that was me. i have a very effective campaign, doing a very good job. >> peggy nounen writing in the "wall street journal," i called it in competecompetent, i was b polite but really meant rolling collam ca l ca lamty. >> what is it you're trying to say? >> mitt romney is the campaign. you represent that ship and how well it does. he's made these gaffes on his own both about the egyptian embassy and 47% of americans he spoke about that he said didn't have personal responsibility. i really truly believe mitt romney is a decent man. but he's twice shown by these gaffes, if that's the word you want to use, as commander in chief, is he willing to be a resolute type of leader that's thoughtful when he speaks about our crisis overseas. second, when he said about 47

white house aide and lewinsky coworker linda tripp has tapes of the young intern discussing her affair with the president much the united states including nine alleged sexual encounters with mr. clintonll in the oval office. >> there is going to be war. >> tripp gives the case to independent counsel ken starzz who is already investigating clinton and the controversy around something called whitewater but the president vehemently denies the charges. >> i want you to listen to me. i am going to say this again. did i not have sexual relations with that woman ms. lewinsky. i never told anybody to lie. not a single time. never. these allegations are false. >> geraldo: and just 48 hours later comes word of a stained dress and phone sex. >> this is about embarrassing the president of the united states of america. plain and simple. >> geraldo: 8 long and tortured months latinoer under escalating pressure from starr armed with lewinsky's semen stained blue dress the president changes his tune. >> indeed, i did have a relationship with ms. lewinsky that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. >> geraldo: the republican dominated house of representatives votes to impeach the president on ch

white house. >>> in the meantime, mitt romney giving a speech at the clinton global initiative this morning. romney is expected to outline his plans to rework the u.s. foreign aid system. president obama is also expected to address that same audience later this morning. >>> also today, more blame and some finger pointing for the cause of a massive fire at the chevron refinery in richmond. the manager of the refinery says the chemical makeup of a corroded pipe is to blame for that fire. the manager says that pipe had a low silicon content that went undetected during the company's test. now, at a packed public meeting last night in richmond, neighbors shouted down a chevron official and a panel of experts who came to give an update on the fire. but the people there, they were so angry about reports of a federal probe into whether chevron actually allowed pollutants to bypass monitoring equipment and then burn off into the air. >> the amount is so small that even if it were metered, a report would not be required and it presented no public health risk. >> two years ago the bay area air quality management district fined chevron $170,000 after discovering the compan

white house correspondent ed henry starts our coverage. what else are we expecting to him say? >> they're fired up here in the crowd. last night they were fired up bill clinton. we're told by the president's aides he wants to pick up the mantle clinton had last night by saying look, it's hard to turn this economy around in four years. the problem is, at the beginning of his time in office, the president said if he didn't turn it around within four years, it would be a one-term situation. now he has to explain what he would do in a second term. so look at the excerpt. one thing he'll say is, quote, it will require common effort, shared responsibility and the kind of bold, persistent, experimentation that franklin roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one. by the way, those of us who carry on his party's legacy should remember that not every problem can be remedied with another government program or dictate from washington. right there you hear a very direct deal to independent voters saying a government program is not the only solution, shep. >> shep: is the campaign trying to scale back expectations, especially now that this speech is in a different venue? >> absolutely. the

clinton white house special assistant and senior adviser. will cain, con seservative columnist with theblaze.com. >>> developing story in chicago where nearly 30,000 teachers and aides> this is the first time in 25 years teachers in the nation's third largest public school system have walked off the job. labor talks broke off late last night, having an impact on 400,000 students in nearly 700 schools. casey wian is live from chicago. school officials say they made a very competitive offer. clearly not enough. >> reporter: clearly not enough for the teachers you see behind me. normally these teachers would be reporting to their school, getting ready for the school day on a normal monday morning. this is by far from any normal monday morning. they started showing up about a-hour ago to man these picket lines after talks broke down last night. it certainly appeared all weekend that they were progressing -- both sides were progressing towards an agreement. these negotiations have been going on for eight mons. the talks were described as intense over the weekend. as you mentioned, late last night the talks did break down. the teacher -- says they are not that far apart i

national security council at the white house i should say are continuing to monitor the situation outside the u.s. embassy in cairo. aids to secretary of state clinton things in cairo and capital of sanaa are better today than yesterday despite the conclusions that the conclusion of friday prayers might usher in a new wave of violence in the muslim capitals. u.s. officials have seen positive steps from the newly-elected egyptian president, mohammed morsi, the leader from the muslim brotherhood faction. foaling a reportedly blunt phone call from president obama to morsi calling for bold action to protect u.s. personnel on the ground. this included televised appearances by him for muslims to protect the guests in their country and a statement released by the muslim brotherhood which they urged muslims to form a human chain around any embassy that might come under attack in their respective countries. my colleagues at pentagon, justin and jennifer griffin confirmed a marine f.a.s.t. team is on the ground in the yemeni capital sanaa as a precautionary measure. once again a loud plume of smoke is reported to be emanating from fires inside our embassy in