the clintons were a bust. all the problems they had in the white house they had those problems and white house because they didn't understand the white house. and creating enemies and things of that nature. the governance of the country they didn't understand. >> host: good afternoon and welcome to booktv's index. this is a monthly program with one author and his or her body of work. this month, r. emmett tyrrell jr. is our guest, editor and chief and founder of the american spectator magazine as well as the author of nine books and editor of a couple more. here are r. emmett tyrrell's nine books. 1977, "public nuisances" came out. the liberal crack out in 1984. the conservative crackup in 1992. "boy clinton: the political biography" 1996. you're best seller. the impeachment came out in 1997. >> guest: that was close to a best seller. >> host: at 4 "madame hillary: the dark road to the white house" in 2004, "the clinton crackup" in 2007, the best of the american spectator and continuing crisis in 2009, and his

the clintons were a bust. the clintons, always problems they had in the white house they had those problems in the white house because they didn't understand the white house. they understood shaking hands and creating enemies and things of that nature, but the governance of the country they didn't understand. >> host: good afternoon and welcome to booktv's "in depth" program. this is our monthly program with one author and his or her body of work. this month r. 'em -- r. emmett tyrrell junior, he is the founder of the american spectator magazine as well as author of nine books plus the editor of a couple more. very quickly, here are r. emmett tyrrell's nine books. in 1977, "public nuisances" came out. "the liberal crack-up" in 1994. boy clinton, 1996. your bestseller? >> guest: yeah. >> host: the impeachment came out in 1997 -- >> guest: that was pretty close to bestseller. >> host: madam hillary in 2004, the clinton crack-up in 2007, the best of the american spectators: the continuing crisis in 2009, and his

clinton did not. so i'd like to hear that. >> host: before we get that answer, emily, can you tell me what book you're reading right now? >> guest: the big sword. >> host: by michael lewis? >> caller: yes. >> host: should nixon have been impeached? >> guest: i remember looking into his behavior after he left office. i don't recall much about it during the presidency. and i was appalled at the intelligence-gathering operation that he had set up. they weren't roughing people up or anything like that. clinton's people did stuff like that. my people were threatened down in little rock. i don't know that the president put 'em up to it, i don't suppose that he did, but they were roughed up probably by little rock police officers off duty. but president nixon did things that i think were wrong. i think he probably did step above, beyond the law. in the last, in this new book i'm preparing i point out that there are, there's formal and informal politics. and in informal politics you don't break the law. of in

years, the clinton vs.ut they were also the clinton-gingrich years, and the gingrich years, period. he's a major player here too. he is swept into power in '94 at the midterms by the american people who buy into his contract with america, and he is swept out of power just as decisively in 1998--the other midterms. and that coincides with this whole period, and you can't help but conclude: this was the opinion of the american people on the whole episode. - yes, it was. newt gingrich bet the farm on the fact that they could make president clinton the issue in the midterm elections, as we were in 1998 before the impeachment proceedings gear up. and he lost that bet, and clearly the republicans lost just decisively in the midterm elections, and so he was swept out of power, then bob livingston is brought in to replace him, and larry flynt outs him in terms of his relationships. he called larry flynt, i think, a bottom-dweller, and larry flynt said to me, "yes, and look what i found down there on the bottom". so

bill clinton was a peacock. when he lost his temper with me in the jockey club in '96, '95, in 1995, he started -- he exercised about a piece that we did in the american spectator. came over and wanted me to talk and schmooze. he turned the whole conversation to my daughter 'cause he thought he could kind of chat her up and get past this difficult moment. and i asked him instead, what did you think about the airport piece, he went off like a rocket and he immediately called out of his card catalog of his mind -- he called back l.d. brown. l.d. brown was an arkansas state trooper involved with the airport and he had -- he went through the whole litany of criticisms he had of l.d. brown. and i was astonished at how the president of the united states could bring back this crisis of 10 years before and bring back the talking points that he had on that, on that particular crisis. and also i was astonished that the president of the united states was screaming at me in public and yet i wasn't the least bit alarmed. i d

that wherever bill clinton arrives it is an event. a happening, to be experienced and remembered. >> he is i superstar, isn't he. >> you can do it here, i can figure out how to put it everywhere and get it funded for you. i will really help you. >> did you ever have a pause where i thought i don't know what i'm going to do next. and then this began to develop this almost glob role you play now? >> it is global. >> well, in the middle of my second term as president i began to think about what i would do. and in general, i thought the two things. i thought number one i want to keep being very active in the things i cared about as president, where i can still have an influence. and the second thing i wanted to do was to try to explain the world we're living in to my fellow americans and the people around the world. >> so everything is sort of grown out of that. >> this special on bill clinton airs on msnbc on monday february 21st at 10 p.m. i'm pleased to have chris matthews back at this table, welcome. >> right before charlie rose. we s

in 1993, remember the clinton health plan? president clinton came to the robert wood johnson university hospital. be ready for receive visited to talk about health care reform. what happens when they did not advance? employers stroke change. it is very clear and that we need health care reform. there is a need for this. they must help that change. thank you very much. i look forward to questions from the panel. [applause] >> i am glad to be here this afternoon. it is very rare that you have an opportunity to speak at the podium. there are a couple of points i live like to make. in my job, i work with a lot of providers and health plans. i hear what each of you have to say about the redeeming qualities of the other. that will have to change. we are talking about today are the tip of the iceberg. it is a first step in trying to do some of the things that are described. when you look at the population, you talk about medicaid. medicaid follows medicare. what about large employer sells bonds? what about geography? what about thing

in 1993, remember the clinton health plan? president clinton came to the robert wood johnson university hospital. be ready for receive visited to talk about health care reform. what happens when they did not advance? employers stroke change. it is very clear and that we need health care reform. there is a need for this. they must help that change. thank you very much. i look forward to questions from the panel. [applause] >> i am glad to be here this afternoon. it is very rare that you have an opportunity to speak at the podium. there are a couple of points i live like to make. in my job, i work with a lot of providers and health plans. i hear what each of you have to say about the redeeming qualities of the other. that will have to change. we are talking about today are the tip of the iceberg. it is a first step in trying to do some of the things that are described. when you look at the population, you talk about medicaid. medicaid follows medicare. what about large employer sells bonds? what about geography? what about thing

>> i think the dayton period and frankly the leadership of president clinton was unique. inevitably, america's relative position in the world was going to decline. i think the previous administration accelerated that decline with some very poor choices in terms of places that it pursued issues. i think one of the other lessons of bosnia and the wars in the balkans is just how interconnected we are as people on this planet. there was a hope on the part of policymakers, the first bush of administration that didn't want another foreign-policy venture in an election year that they were in trouble, the beginning of the clinton administration on the part of many who wanted to focus on other things, that we could set this aside. and in that interconnected world and christianity christian armand porro who was going to be originally be the moderator i thought to some degree she and colbert might share the peace prize because she exemplified a press that put what was happening in bosnia in our faces. we saw the people who were being shot at i snipers were not some faceless people.

clinton was okay, but with a little bit overwhelming. there was so much he couldn't tease out, you know, what with him. so i don't have an answer in terms of a favorite, but again if i had to pick one, it would be the card or diaries. again, that's what they think the benefit most from a real-life on the spot assessment of how presidents are thinking about what they were doing. >> host: tevi troy >> guest: i agree strongly with julian on this one. it's not the best from the historical or literal active. and when i'm much more interested in at the age memoirs and other staff members. i'll give you two of my favorite, on the republican and democratic side. george stephanopoulos, all too human really puts it all out there. there's reasons why the clinton white house was not happy after that. second favorite of mine is marty andersen, who wrote a book called revolution. marty not only talks about what it was like inside the reagan and the station, but he goes and proctor and talk the ruling ideas and economic difficulties going on at the tim

up in clinton, iowa. yeah, man. hey -- that's for you, man.en me selling chicken wings out of his brother's restaurant. my brother's restaurant. at a place -- anyway, sell me some chicken, he said flav, this is going to be big. i'm going to go back to my town and build you a restaurant. two weeks later, the guy told me, hey, flav, i just bought the building. you what? well, i said, let's get it in. and guess what? can i tell you something -- can i tell you something? your boy flavor flav is so fly. i opened up my chicken spot right next door to kfc. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you did? that's a bold move, flav. >> i don't know of anyone who has a spot right next to the colonel. i love the colonel. >> jimmy: how busineis business? >> people driving 4 hours to come see me. they're back five, six times already. people telling me, flav, this is the best chicken have i ever ate in my life. >> jimmy: this is your recipe? yeah. >> jimmy: we're going to make some chicken. >> there's a new kid on the block, his name is ffc. you all heard of kfc.

for president clinton another battle was just beginning. the president pledged to send 20,000 troops to help make to implement the agreement. most americans opposed the idea. many in the military were skeptical. much of congress was dubious at best. dick armey declare that winning the support of the house would be like pulling teeth to the back of your head. in fact, the house refused to take action in support of the mission. the president moved forward because he knew it was right. we have helped end the terrible war and now we would lead for peace. it has been said that courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue as a testing point. to be sure, president clinton showed political courage in seizing the initiative to stop the bloodshed. he did what needed to be done to enforce the peace that had been so hard to secure. bosnia was also a reflection of his values. his abiding belief that prosperity and progress must be ruled in unity, not division. he had a vision for europe and a transatlantic alliance at a time of

the fact is, clinton left office with a surplus. newt gingrich rewrote history. he passed over the 1993 debate when clinton was able to get our fiscal house in order. he was tough on the tax issue. not a single republican voted for it. that sets the stage for the later budget surplus. -- set the stage for the later budget surplus. >> i have a question about a government shutdown. it is an issue in the forefront for a lot of your constituents. how would a government shutdown now compared to the 1995-1996 shutdown. ? a lot more of what the government does is on the internet. there are a lot more government contractors. would it be more disruptive or less disruptive than the other time around? >> that is a good question. nobody knows. a fair amount of discretion is left up to the president in terms of what is essential. there were some things that might have got to shut down last time because of automation and there might be less disruption. on the other hand, as you point out on the security side, there is a lot more in terms of government efforts to protect our ci

now, clinton, president clinton had already had a discussion with general gary luck who was in charge of u.s. forces in korea. luck had come back to washington to say to the president a few months prior to this close call that we could win a war with north korea but that the cost would be a million and a trillion. and when president clinton said meaning what, he said a million south korean lives and a trillion dollars from their economy because of the destruction and the disruption. so those were the stakes, and they were pretty terrible stakes. but clinton had kind of backed himself into a corner. it was going to be a series of ratcheted-up restrictions on north korea, and north korea's response had been to threaten to turn seoul and south korea into a sea of flame. you probably remember that phrase. so both sides were kind of ratcheting up into a conflict that neither side seemed to have a way to pull back from. it was just at that point that former president jimmy carter decided he had better step in, and he took advantage of the fact that for the previous three years he'd had an i

they are immune to that, and bill clinton, i went with him to gaza and beth lee ham -- bethleham and jerusalem and the israeli sides get people to do what they would not do on their own. he has an incredible ability to move public opinion, and right now we have to change opinion on the palestinian side and on the israeli side. you have to change policy here, but you have to change opinion there, and if you can change opinion and bill clinton can do it, jorge mitchell, that's not the style he brings. they would actually be a great team. clinton levins the -- doe, and mitchell brings people together. >> host: back to the book and a couple things that surprised me. just things that, you know, even covering this that kind of went right by me. i didn't realize during the 2006 lebanon war that it was a u.s. official, a state department official -- sorry, not the lebanon war but after the asis nation when you saw the demonstrations in beirut that they called it the cedar revolution and that was the actually lebanese calling it the independence which doesn't ring as well because of its assoc

las declaraciones de obama y hillary clinton sobre un paÍs que vive una guerra civil no declarada.por este hombre. >> acceda a la comunidad internacional a que nos ayude, serÍa el ex ministro de justicia. en trÍpoli las fuerzas de seguridad abandonan. hablan de 3000 muertos durante el mes de febrero. >> las comunicaciones estÁn cortadas explicaba este hombre, hay poblaciones sin agua y comida. ha habido enfrentamientos entre personas dispersas. el presidente reconociÓ hoy que abierta la puerta a todas las opciones intentaba ganar tiempo. >> tres cuartas partes del paÍs estÁn en calma, todo ha sido cubierto por la prensa. por su parte hillary clinton viajarÁ a ginebra por la reuniÓn urgente y esta noche las naciones unidas acordaron congelar las cuentas del presidente y su familia. se estÁ acordando enviar al presidente o no a una corte internacional. >> la situaciÓn de libia sigue siendo confusa, desde la tercera ciudad del paÍs no se ha confirmado si cayÓ cuando el poder o si fue atacada por mercenarios al servicio de gadafi. el barril de petrÓleo estÁ a mÁs de $ 110, sobre esto s

clinton told stories.ittle story about a child being prevented from getting insurance because of a pre- existing condition goes a long way compared to a long explanation about cost and quality and access and finance in this bill. i think he has listened to that and has included in his speeches since then. his statements are about dot investing innovation and infrastructure. i think that is what leadership is in this system. now we have some confrontation over the budget. it is going to be pretty brutal and hard to communicate issues on either side about what we should do about it. host: you said in that answer that nobody is in the middle anymore in washington. what does this mean? guest: in political science we study who is a moderate and who is not. we have a database of 1.3 million observations, how people vote. and we distribute people to the left, the ride, and the middle. when i first worked on capitol hill in 1973, one-third of the senate and house were moderates by this measure of how they vote. no

to be a bike -- bill clinton to be responsible for me, i advised bill clinton, but not on libya. colonel gaddafi and his regime after his decision to yield his weapons of mass destruction did become an ally in going after al qaeda. the colonel himself was on the hit list of al qaeda and hundreds of people were arrested in islamic fighting fronts representing al qaeda who were imprisoned by gaddafi. he was an ally of the west against al qaeda. i don't think it is true to say al qaeda has much to do with what is going on now. it might be natural for him, as a revolution me -- revolutionary founder, to claim we are ganging up against him. when we are dealing with gaddafi, we are not dealing with mubarak, a third-generation bureaucratic general, but a first generation revolutionary leader on the level of castro. he has memories of himself as a revolutionary founder and as somebody who has taken on the fight against islamic fundamentalism and al qaeda. to that degree, there is a kernel of truth in the colonel's fears of al qaeda and that al qaeda might somehow be involved in an uprisi

that was said in '01 as the clintons left the white house. the end sodic -- end sodic apologists as i call them had once again turned their back on the clintons, and they were in high dungeon over the misbehavior of the clintons. in a very short period of time, the new york observer and new york times were calling for hillary to stay in office and run for president, as a matter of fact. so the fortunes change repeatedly. as for eric holder, he's moved on and become attorney general. who knows what waits him next. but it could be investigated and perhaps it should be. >> host: an e-mail, i have enjoyed ben stein's diary in the american spectator for decades, could you tell us how ben stein came to be a writer for your magazine? is. >> guest: yes. he was a speech writer for richard nixon, and i admired him immensely. i admired him for representing the values and the views of the middle class. and by that i meant that as high regard. and he wrote thoughtful but also down home pieces, pieces that were in touch with the american people. and i invi

his msnbc special on bill clinton's post presidency airs monday night. we're all looking forward to that. welcome to today. and with us "the washington post"'s howard fineman, kelly o'donnell, constitution cynthia tucker and politico's jon harris. first up, america broke? the urgency of our debt crisis is long talked about but now is really hitting home. on the state level we seen the face-off between governors and public employees. most dramatically out in wisconsin. on the federal level, there's a growing sense of the fury that brought in the tea party might lead to a bipartisan deal on entitlements. here's a graphic that shows the urgency. lovente edge you see the current year, social security, medicare and medicaid are still below total federal revenue. but look at what happens every year from now on. every cent of annual federal revenue will be engulped by entitlements by the year 2050. is the time right to find a fix? one of the biggest voices on the republican side is their new house budget chair, paul ryan, who said this to politico's mike allen

the president has taken a strategy like bill clinton done with republicans when newt gingrich was the speaker. bill clinton came out, the question is not whether we're going to balance the budget it's how fast we're going to balance the budget. >> president obama says -- said the question aren't cuts that damage the ability our future. the question of tax increases and health care are likely to comb punted in the next two years. >> does that play out in the presidential field? we're relatively late for people to decide whether we're going to run especially against an incumbent president. do you see these same arguments or is it different? >> you see most of the same arguments but the dynamic that exists in the presidential nominating battle is one that pushes the candidates more to appease the tea party side of the party as opposed to tea party leadership here in washington. i was in iowa talking to a lot of different people and one person who was a local activist volunteered the idea. we do not want our people back in washington cooperating with president obama. that's not what this

. >> coming up, secretary of state hillary clinton and u.s. strategy in afghanistan. a little later at 9:00 a.m. eastern you will hear from the head of the new consumer protection bureau on new credit card rules. industry executives, academics and consumer advocates will join her for this live coverage on c-span2. then more live coverage with a look at retirement and the future of social security at the woodrow wilson international center in d.c.. .. >> welcome. i am jack wadsworth, a trustee and vice chair of the asia society. i'm standing in for chip kay, our chairman, who is out of the country today but sends his very best. he's sorry he can't be here. i spent over 15 years building morgan stanley's business in asia, and i have to say reflecting bang on that -- back on that experience, the asia society was one of the great sources of knowledge to me for understanding the culture of the region. first, let me welcome everyone on behalf of the board of trustees and the staff to this very special program with the honorable hillary rodham clinton, secretary of state, to

the political leadership in the congress, hillary clinton, bill clinton, john kerry, one after another, al gore, were in support. now, when things did not go well, obviously they shifted their positions somewhat. you can go back, the record is clear. the intelligence agencies of the united kingdom and france and other countries all were in agreement. it's terribly unfair to suggest that anyone was pulling the wool over anyone's eyes. it is just flat not true. >> we were talking about major combat operations. there was nothing inaccurate there at all. i don't know how many times i said that anyone who tells you how long is going to last, how much it's going to cost or how many lives will be lost is making a mistake, because people almost always are wrong. >> maureen dowd. >> you have got to be kidding. >> his memoir is like a living breathing version of himself. >> she must not have read it. anyone who has read it knows that i tried to talk about things, disappointments or things that one might regret, and i did or do regret. i think what i have done is to try to set out not only my rec

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clinton charges as much as $350,000 a speech. >>> 4:35. the east bay narcotics officer arrested on drug charges has his first court appearance this afternoon. norman wielsch is head of the contra costa county narcotics enforcement team, accused of stealing and selling drugs confiscated by his officers. a private investigator is also under arrest. wielsch's attorney says he is in isolation to protect him from other inmates. >> it's a difficult time for him. you can imagine allegations like this are devastating, especially to an officer that's had such a stellar career. >> both suspects are former antioch police officers. the public defenders office is starting to review contra costa county drug cases now, questioning the credibility of arrests by that unit headed by wielsch. >>> a walnut creek police officer has turned in his badge after being accused of having sex with an underaged girl. sean wallace was arrested february 3. cbs 5 has learned that the girl involved is 16 or 17 years old. wallace is also accused of trying to dissuade a witn

crisis is the word of choice in the forces of the order to the clintons of the world because cosmetic change can end a brief crisis but the revolution. i say as a historian my future quality will call this a revolution in we should too. another remarkable difference is today's revolution is above vote work of a specific group. we should call them the liberation generation. in honor of those who have fallen. it is judged not on immediate results but on long-term structural changes which is what set them apart. in 1848 in europe, the short one that is true. the main goals, it came to pass almost everywhere and goes back to the middle ages. in 1381 they fought against serfdom, abolished serfdom, reestablished serfdom, the revolt is crushed bird we but serfdom disappears in tyler's region within 25 years. the same happened in germany when 87 peasants were massacred in reprises for revolt against serfdom and then serfdom had disappeared. you see other examples in the nineteenth century. deliberation generation in middle age in 2013 and 2014 will remember what they fought for. egypt in 2000

secretary of state's given her reaction to the situation in the middle east hillary clinton said the bloodshed across the region is unacceptable let's cross live to washington d.c. we're joined by to postpone the. speech so what we have today. well kevin first of all the situation in libya has been critical for more than a week now the protesters there turned out to be the protests there turned out to be a lot more violent than they were in egypt or anywhere else in the region for that matter but washington's reaction has and only point out has been as slow and cautious as ever only this tuesday did secretary of state hillary clinton come out to the press and call for leave it to stop the bloodshed she also called for leaders in other countries including bahrain to show restraint when handling the protests what analysts point out despite the cautious words of concern expressed by the administration there is no more of that democracy chanting that we saw little more than a week ago when obama delivered all those passionate speeches on people of egypt making their voice heard and and b

president clinton would say that when you sleep in clinton taking looking at into history that you are going to face gave a tough time in which to govern but history will be kind to him he said well you know he was acting on and she was in order to that movement and he feared not relating to the interviewer i would also had a wonderful sense of humor i guess to my memory he was the only leader to always deliver speeches without a script he would never has a tate's to poke fun at himself but it helped him in a crucial moments. already know this but he used to read a lot and he had a brilliant memory when on board the plane i would give him some documents and after the flight he would break the local governor of a figure he had not even bothered to learn about his own region this is one of your options unique traits. but because every leader wants to live in dignity yeltsin resigned under his own volition where the way was what made the movie unique he had analysed the roads had he been preparing for that for a long time i believe since the surgery all throughout one nine hundred ninety

secretary clinton has been meeting with foreign military commissioners. she also met with the human rights council. it looks like they are still gathering there this morning. we are hoping to listen in a little bit. it doesn't look like secretary clinton has taken the podium quite yet. oh she has already finished. all right. we are watching in our newsroom. we have some folks some of our producers and writers watching that. we will let you know what she said. >> we want to know what sal has to say about our commute. it's up and running. >>> it is. it's certainly getting busier around the bay area. if you are driving to the bay bridge for example there are more cars. if you are driving on the nimmet freeway showing things are getting busier. no problems on the san mateo or dumbarton bridge. no problem on 101 getting to the airport. as we go to contra costa county highway four has slow traffic. the rest of the commute looks okay. live pictures now from our camera network westbound bay bridge we mentioned it it's backed up for a 10-15 minute delay. the meter

he has a new restaurant in clinton, iowa, called "flav's fried chicken."make fried chicken. he's going to cook. the only problem is he is refusing to tell us his secret blend of herbs and spices, so this will be the first ever talk show recipe segment without an actual recipe. of any kind. then later, after we sample iowa's finest chicken, iowa's finest band. with music from this -- their new album called "audio secrecy" -- stone sour from the bud light stage. stone sour. tomorrow night we'll be joined by jason sudekis, blake griffin from the l.a. clippers, and i'm so used to there being no applause after the word "clippers" and i'm so surprised when there is. and we'll have music from keri hilson. so, join us tomorrow night, too. this weekend, our first guest won best actor at the goya awards, which is spain's version of the oscars. later this month he'll compete for best actor at the academy awards, which is america's version of the goyas. he's nominated for his excellent work in the movie "biutiful," which is in theaters now. please say hello to javier

that's former president bill clinton. he will spike this afternoon to a computer security conference at moscone center in san francisco. he plans to talk about the challenge of globalization and the growing interdependence between nations. clinton charges, get this, as much as $350,000 a speech. >> i guess we should say good morning mr. president times two. >>> two men had once worked together as antioch police officers go to court this afternoon to face charges that they worked together on stealing and selling drugs. norman wielsch is commander of the contra costa county's narcotics enforcement team. he is accused of stealing and selling drugs confiscated by his officers. private investigator chris butler is also under arrest. >>> pg&e is sharply raising its estimates of what it will cost to deal with last year's deadly pipeline explosion in san bruno. the utility may ask for permission to pass some of that cost on to the customers. christin ayers is in san bruno with a look at the numbers, joins us now. good morning, ch

secretary clinton and i just concluded a meeting to focus on ongoing situation in libya. over the last few days my national security team has been working around the clock to monitor the situation and to coordinate with our international partners about a way forward. first, we're doing everything we can to protect american citizens. it is my highest priority. in libya, we have urged our people to leave the country and the state department is assisting those in need of support. meanwhile, i think all americans should get things to the heroic work that is being done by our foreign service officers and men and women serving in the embassies and consulates around the world. they represent the very best of our country and its values. throughout this period of unrest and the people, the united states has remained a set of core principles. these principles apply to the situation in libya. as i said last week, we strongly condemn the use of violence in libya. the american people extend our deepest condolences to the families of loved ones who have been killed and injured, thid. t

it was a -- it felt like the clinton white house. it was written duringhe clinton years. the culture was right, in some ways. events move fast and it was a way to depict the constant motion of events. the one thing that was least realistic was there was aut five people that made the decisions. the sense that most people better working har trying to do the right thing every day. the fact that just whenou think you have the answer to one question, another issue comes crashing over. the kind of gravity about what people face every day and sometimes the little things that when the day or knock you off your course. all those things were realistic credit it was the characters that people related t there is a sense of idealism. there are a good patriotic americans, regardless of party. >> the panel represents two decades of media relations. what'd you think are the most salient chase it -- changes? this one touches on the technology issue. >> in some ways, we have fundamentally different jobs. reporter weiser, you've lost a lot of that senior level talents and broadcast media. t

as secretary clinton put it today, we are on the outside looking in. lester? >> mike viqueira at the white house, thank you. >>> this program note. tomorrow on "meet the proes," david gregory will have an exclusive interview with mohammed elbaradei. >>> beyond egypt in the middle east, many americans are focused on what's going on in dallas this weekend. we're talking of course about the super bowl. and even before tomorrow's big game, this is already a super bowl to remember, or forget, as fans and others find themselves in a battle with the weather. nbc's janet shandly is in dallas for us tonight. >> reporter: lester, they are finally coming out of the deep freeze here. after several people were hurt yesterday from ice falling from the roof of the stadium, there are still safety concerns and now the possibility for more snow. today above the largest dome stadium in the world they tried everything to remove the ice. from workers wielding axes to firefighters trying to hose it off, even repelling down the side to get a better shot at it, anything to get rid of

here is bill clinton first talking about how he saw the choices. here it is. >> had you not had that surgery you might not have been able to walk your beautiful daughter down the aisle. >> y know, wherever i get discouraged about first one thing then another i think of the enormous gratitude i feel for that. that was one of the best days of my life and one of the most important days of my life. >> and someday, mr. president, some little child may look up and say "hello grandpa." >> i hope so. cause that's my next big goal. i want to hang around here to have grandchildren. >> rose: what happened? >> well, first of all the fact that david letterman would doll this interview, you know he almost never does interviews and we've been asking him for a long time to come on specials and he did this because he thought it was so important. if it's a very personal interview. he went to the doctor to have a routine checkup and the doctor said "you're having this operation now." he said "now?" "now." and we talked to this about whether this changed his life. he

me llamÓ la atenciÓn la visita de hillary clinton a mÉxico.es. _apoyaba. >> ella fue un poco a de arreglar las cosas. el problemas son justamente los 34.000 muertos, se ha triplicado la violencia. >> en wikileaks habÍa aparecido que un subsecretario de seguridad, habÍa dicho que tenÍan el temor de los narcotraficantes. la frontera la han perdido ante los narcos? >> es cierto que en la frontera suceden cosas trÁgica astutos los dÍas. pero tambiÉn suceden muchas otras cosas. _trÁgicas todos. en sinaloa hay una agricultura muy prÓspera. y hay muchas partes del paÍs donde no hay violencia. hay que ver todo en su conjunto, porque si no nos perdemos en las tragedias que acontece en la frontera, pero son sÓlo eso. _acontecen. >> me sorprendiÓ la primera frase de tu libro, "mÉxico es un paÍs mÁs grande que Éste estÁ en la cabeza de mayorÍa de los mexicanos". _el que. >> vimos un mÉxico mucho mÁs complejo, mÁs diverso. un mejor mÉxico que el que los mexicanos tenemos en la cabeza. >> mejor que el que vemos en las noticias. >> encontramos el potencial p

regan democrats there were no carter republicans or clinton republicans. his legend grows even among non- republicans. >> but they reject the pragmatism of ronald regan he did raise taxes in california. >> he said was the biggest mistake of his political career >> but propelled him on to the white house he was pragmatic at the time, a coalition builder and that is soundly rejected by the republican party now >> i wouldn't agree it is soundly rejected but it is much harder for executives to be executives in the modern internet 24/7 age i am not sure lincoln would have survived the internet age i am not sure washington would either it is hard whether you are obama, bush, clinton, hard to survive under those circumstances and regan would have had more difficulty as well. >> where do you see his legacy going in the upcoming presidential race? and is sarah palin the inher tore? >> no, i don't think so. the most important thing republicans can do in the coming election is concentrate on prosperity. ronald regan did that quite well we have to realize lower tax ra

. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton strikes a deal with russia on nuclear weapons. how it changes the nuclear arsenal for both countries. >>> baseball's season still a ways off, but that didn't stop tens of thousands of people from showing up at at&t park today. see the big giant stars on hand today at fanfest. >>> the trial for the three u.c. berkeley graduates held by iran on charges of spying is set to get under way tomorrow. one woman was released on humidity grounds last september. her fiance and their friend remain in custody. she's not expected to go back to iran for the trial. the iranian court will likely prosecute her in absentia. the iranian lawyer said he's been denied access to the two remaining in custody until the day of the trial. >>> police in the northern tunisian city today fired into a crowd of angry protesters killing two people and wounding 17. the incident was triggered by claims the local police chief had slapped a woman during a demonstration. tunisian authorities said the chief is now hospitalized for undisclosed causes. >>> in thailand, th