tonight denis mcdonough chief of staff for president obama for the hour. >> you've done a great disservices achieve of staff if an easy decision gets to the president. his time should be reserved for the hardest decision, that get in there because they're hard. and you should make sure, my job is to make sure those decisions are squared up, keyed up to him square. not kind of uneven. it's been developed transparently, anybody ho has a view on the matter, an equity in the matter has been heard on it. >> denis mcdonough for the hour next. >> funding for charlie rose is provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> so 11 days, today is january 9th. january 20th, a new president takes over. when i say that, 11 days left in the obama administration, what do you think? >> i think there is still a lot of work we've got to get done in these 11 days. i think that i'm glad it's just about that and not many more. and i think that th

. >>> president obama's chief of staff denis mcdonough told charlie rose that he believed the reasonocrats lost the election was because people believe they're not getting a fair shot and the deck is stacked against them. >> you had the capacity, the bul bully pulpit to say that's not true? >> we're here to change things and if you're to stack up, charlie, the fact that we're now last friday the 72nd month of in a row of job growth, we changed the health care system. 22 million changed health care. we changed the way we did foreign affairs. we changed the way wall street did business. we feel like we made a lot of changes. nevertheless, the american people still don't feel that. >> well, ahead on "cbs this morning," more of charlie's interview with denis mcdonough. >>> an hour's long case finally came to an end early this morning in l.a. the attempted murder suspect taunted police, at one point firing several shots during a slow-speed chase, eventually, armored suvs cornered the car and the k-9 unit finished up the arrest. >>> master sergeant deborah clayton was shot and killed yeste

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he spoke with white house chief of staff denis mcdonough in washington.talked about tonight as speech and the relationship to the president. what are the themes that this president knows so well, almost like a brother. feels like he's that. >> you know, i have seven brothers. >> yeah. >> and four sisters. >> that's right. they're my -- so, my job with the president, my relationship, i'm his staff guy. i've always been there. i've always understood that. i hope one day i'll be his friend. >> but he calls you his friend. >> yeah, i aspire to that, believe me. he's still working the speech. but i think what you'll hear tomorrow is part of what he said. it's partly why he wanted to go back to chicago to give the speech. this is a place, where working on the south side of chicago and the neighborhood under the shadows of the steel mill, and a community organizer of people who have been knocked out of jobs that had been real middle class. that he recognized that he had a gift for organizing. he had a gift for getting people working together toward the same goal

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. >> and denis mcdonough, the national security adviser, maybe the most relieved man in washington, because that is maybe the most -- >> the worst job. >> -- nonstop job, in the post 9/11 era, this president, this white house staff kept the country safe, a hug for his chief speechwriter there. that is hard work. the hard work has already started in the west wing for the new administration, what members they do have, have hit the ground running. if they all do their jobs correctly t means the boss can continue to enjoy lunch at the capitol. you see trump's son-in-law with senator sessions, trump's daughter there, justice alito in the foreground. what a mash-up of pictures. doris kearns goodwin, what does history tell us about the first night in the white house and the realization that settles around you, that you indeed are the new president of the united states? >> at least from some of the memoirs that we've read and heard about presidents there, i think it doesn't settle in, until they go to bed that night, and suddenly they're sleeping in a bed, and they're in the white house, oh my god,

responsibilities for part of their formal job description but tend to help me out every time i asked for it, denis mcdonough and susan rice and ben rhodes and i've only been able to do this job because i have an incredible team around me. my assistants jeff tiller, antoinette rangel, now desiree barnes, all patiently supported a guy who let's face it, sometimes isn't so easy to assist. the white house stenographers, dominique dansky-berry, beck dori sine, amy seans, indicate mccor mick and peggy ntam. th work as hard as anybody at the white house and complain as less as anybody at the white house. [ applause ] applause is appropriate at that point. i think the only team that may contend with them might be the research department here at the white house led by alex plotkin and kristen bartaloni. i hope you get a chance to thank the stenographers for their work. they make your life easier. others stretched as thin and at least as effective as any team of press wranglers we've ever had at the white house, nsc colleagues, carl wook and d du tiontowat patiently explained to me things i didn't know so i could in

. >>> we'll have more with our interview of white house chief of staff denis mcdonough.id the president's work rate cuts him apart. >> president obama, you know him so well, this man, who you have said we might not know. you have seen his successes, you have seen his failures. what do you want the country to know about barack obama? >> i am routinely amazed at how hard this guy works. this president works. i just told you -- >> grace under pressure? >> i think so. or, recognition that there is a right answer outside there. and he is bound to get it. >> he goes up to the residence every night. where a stack of binders, and he doesn't come down until they're read. or he doesn't go to bed until they're read. like until 3:00 in the morning. the point is this is a really hard job. and the problems that land on his desk are really hard problems. and he takes that really, really seriously. and to be witness to that and party to that is not only extremely interesting intellectually, but i think speaks to his dedication to making sure that he lives up to the expectations of the a

>> kennedy: denis dennis mcdonough, he believes that freely elected president, he does however say that the concerns raised by lewis are not trivial, he says that the president-elect should reach out to the west and have a conversation, is that how they should go down? >> kennedy: i would not be surprised if that is how it goes down. in fact we have seen the president-elect do that with various people past foes, "the new york times," i would not be surprised at all. if representative lewis if calling this the pastor presidency, he is also saying that the constitution is a bastord document. that is how we elect have the event. and i think that rand paul actually sort of or echoed what megan said, he has a very impressive aaron important past. aarons as harris says, our history has to lighten the way to a better future. because of his past and the fact that he was bloodied in that summer marched, and nearly beaten to death somewhat say, that does not mean that he is immune to present criticism. if you are going to go out and say that this is that presidency, i think it is fair for people

bernie sanders would not go there when he was pressed about it and the white house chief of staff, denis mcdonough there. a lot of democrats do not want to be involved in any of this illegitimacy top. stuart: do you think it's all about race? is that the issue at the heart of this divide russian mark >> that the main part of it just because of john lewis' history and martin luther king day in all of those things. you talked about the people, the members of congress who are going to boycott the inauguration. that's not just members of the congressional black caucus. i wrote last night at john lewis' ratings than he has the six most liberal lifetime voting record of anybody. all 435 members of congress right now. there are 41 democrats who have perfect liberal voting records in the last year. my guess is the group of boycotters will come out of that as opposed to any single group like the black caucus. stuart: i just wonder how it turns out. it will play out at some point. thanks for joining us. we will see you again later. president-elect trump treating about the divided country. for many years the