the lowest number of balls for an inauguration since the eisenhower administration.ight of the day, however, took place on the steps of the capitol where the president offered his second-term challenge to the nation. joined from the principles of the founding fathers in pivotal moments from america's history. president obama delivered an impassioned call for equality and unity. >> we, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths, that all of us are created equal is the star that guides us still, just as it guided our forbearers through seneca and stonewall, just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung who left footprints along this great mall to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone, to hear a king proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every sole honor. >> organizers estimate as many as 1 million people filled the national mall as president obama offered a preview of his second term. four years ago he was the first president to mention the word "muslim" during an inaugural address. the presiden

and they began to really successfully start chipping away at them in the 1950s during the eisenhower administration. in 1962, the cd published a report that was prepared by 50 influential business leaders and 18 economists from leading universities. it was called an adaptive program for agriculture, and it laid out his plan to drastically reduce the number of farmers and to create this large labor pool. and it would be accomplished by getting these boys out of agriculture before they really established a career there. so it recommended things like the promotion of agriculture and reeducating jobs and industry and providing relocation were skills could be utilized. and it allowed farmers to make a living on par with urban residents. usda had already begun thinking of ways while. the report noted that 2.5 million existing farms didn't meet the production criteria. it stated that 84% of farm products come from one third of u.s. farms and their goal was to direct it into nonagricultural activity. in this 1962 report, it also had a vision for a globalized food production system and free trade. so they f

if i recall correctly, i believe it was the eisenhower administration that put in the interstate highway system. i might be mistaken, but -- >> that's right. they started it. >> is there a way, or she think there is a way in which the federal government could provide an infrastructure such that the automobile industry could shift to natural gas, for example, or even batteries? if people wish to have the, on a national level. >> so, the government already provided grants to battery companies, and lastly another one went bankrupt, a 123 battery company. compact power run by lg -- battery company that is laying off workers. i'm not sure the government has a role. as far as natural gas goes, gm and chrysler have announced, gm and ford have announced they will be making dual fuel pickup trucks using natural gas and gasoline, and many fleet of trucks, and buses now run on natural gas. .. the wrong technology will be a drain of the taxpayer and will add to our trillion dollar deficit. [inaudible question] >> thank you. i would like to know, to which to greedy peak says the united nations look i

it's been going on sint the taft and eisenhower administration. the midwest and the -- >> john sununu for instance for the comments that perry referenced. did anybody say anything to newt gingrich? >> msnbc and the democrats referred to that performance in reference to them. >> stand up and say this is outrageo outrageous, why does her party speak this way? >> lots of republicans do. >> who? >> mitt romney, paul ryan, chris christie. there's a whole slew of them who have made this clear that they have r. not racist. to indict an entire party is really beneath -- >> after watching the golden globes you know that when they start playing the music, it's time. shameless plugs. >> louisville cardinals won ten in a row. could be number one. >> they are going to be number one. and now acc team. >> oldest son is 16 today. happy birthday, sweetheart. >> did you get him a car? >> fantastic. >> my second daughter is a member of the national cathedral debate team and they had their second debeat this last weekend. very well. very pleased. >> do you debate pre

. >> fine, look at the past three years, spenting grew at the slowest pace since the eisenhower administrationthe idea that spending is out of the control is false. neil: whether you want to argue with fast, it's not fast, it's big, it's not big, it's $16 trillion in the red, and trying to pay for the relevantly low interest rates, i fear the moment that comes -- >> neil -- >> neil: careful, i fear the moments when interest rates pick up a little bit, that that manageable debt, supposedly, becomes a strangle hold. >> neil, you hit the nail on the head. neil: what do you think? >> neil, hit the nail on the head. there's a report, and the grass is stark. it shows that spending without interest is just increasing slightly, same thing as revenue, but with the interest paymentses that's the problem. look right now, each taxpayer pays $3,000 per taxpayer to service the debt every year, and in ten years, that number numbes over $10,000 per taxpayer. the question they need to ask themselves is can i afford $7,000 more a year to pay to china and the other people that have our debt and get nothing in re

and they began to really successfully start chipping away at them in the 1950s during the eisenhower administration. in 1962 the ced published a report that was prepared by 50 influential business leaders and 18 economists from leading universities. it was called an adaptive program for agriculture, and it laid out this plan to drastically reduce the number of farmers and to create the this large labor pool l. and it would be accomplished by getting these boys out of agriculture before they really established a career there. so, you know, it recommended things like stopping the promotion of agriculture and vocational training, reeducating rural young men for jobs in industry, providing economic help for young men to relocate in places where these new skills could be utilized. and it advocated the removal of programs that prevent overproduction and that allow farmers to make a living on par with urban residents. and the usda had already begun thinking that way as well. usda report noted that of the existing farms, 2.5 million didn't meet the agency's production criteria. it stated that 84% of farm o

in the early days of the cold war the truman administration and eisenhower administration didn't take the attitude we don't care of communists come to power in france or italy or japan as long as the host the elections that's all they care about. that was in their attitude and they were willing to do things such as pouring american funds into the political campaigns which on some level may be seen as prejudicial to the interest of free and fair elections which they understood correctly to actually be in the long run interest of preserving democracy in those countries. as agreeing to rethink through some of the -- some of the self-imposed checks we've put on our behavior today where we are terrified of having the cia, for example, be involved in covert funding of the elements of the muslim world in part for some good reasons because we are rightly concerned that cia involvement is almost impossible to keep secret in today's world of wikileaks. but all i -- unfortunately our enemies showed no self-imposed limits and the saudis and qataris are practicing dollar diplomacy that are not in

in the early days of the cold war, the truman and eisenhower administration did not take the attitude, we don't care if communism comes to power in france, italy, or japan, as long as there's fair elections, that's all we care about. that was not their attitude. in fact, they were willing to pour covert american funds into political campaigns which, on some level could be seen as prejudice to the free and fair elections, which i think they under correctly to be in the long term interest to preserve democracy and freedom in those countries. we have to rethink the checks we put on our behavior today where we are terrified of having the cia, for example, be involved in covert funding of modern elements in the muslim world, in part, baa we are rightly concerned that cia involvement is impossible to keep secret in today's world of wikileaks, but i, you know, unfortunately, our enemies show no self-imposed limits on them, and out there practice active dollar diplomacy on interests not congruent to our own, and we are standing on the sidelines. it's a lesson that -- this is just one example

the true administration in the eisenhower administration did not take the attitude we don't care if communists come to power in france or italy or japan as long as they have fair elections. that's all we care about. that was not there today and that you are willing to do things such as covert funds and to those political campaigns which on some level might be seen as prejudicial to the interest of free and fair elections but they understood directly to be in the long-run interest of preserving democracy in most countries. i think we need to rethink some of the self-imposed checks we put on our behavior today where we are terrified of having the cia for example be involved in covert findings and elements in the muslim world in part for some good reasons because we are rightly concerned that the cia involvement is almost impossible to keep sick and in today's world with wikileaks. but, unfortunately our enemy show no such self-imposed limits on a rainy and and qataris or others are out there practicing active dollar diplomacy for interests that are not congruent with their own and i feel we are

last night that went quite late and the first lady holding just two, the lowest since the eisenhower administration. >> i don't think ike liked natural balls anymore than president obama. >> do you like natural balls? >> no. they're miserable. >> there's another tradition i think we started here, the natural hangover coverage at our favorite watering hole. another fantastic crowd, hi, everybody! what are you doing awake? ion what to say. it's packed, the other room, too. >> i know. >> they are drinking like fish. >> i know. they are drunk already. of course, if you're a conservative this morning, you really want to be drinking and drinking hard. it's tuesday, january 22nd. with us on set we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle and msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national party when there was a republican national party and al hunt and anchor for world news, america katty kay. the reviews are in. >> the reviews are in. >> it was a liberal speech for a liberal constituency. the left is saying that, the center is saying that and the right is saying that. the only thing i'

eisenhower would not be that aggressive and anti-communist but wanted to win. to keep this reasonably concise but to finish the thought because it is important, rusher believed that moderate republican administration under dwight eisenhower, was president for eight years, just wasn't ideological enough, wasn't anti-communist enough either at home or abroad, believed there was a significant communist threat in the united states, more documentation of that has come out in the last 20 years after the ex soviet archives. buckley also a couple years younger than rusher, all of you know that he wrote god, man and yale after graduating from yale. he has two beasts with yale and rusher was a graduate of princeton prewar and during the war. insufficiently respectful of religion despite religious heritage and religious heritage, most elite academia, they don't present the free enterprise side of economics. they're too keynesian and claw the socialist. "national review" -- rusher agreed with all that, but the greater affinity with buckley can be seen in buckley and his brother's 1954 book mccarthy and his enemies in which they say mccarty has been a little too rough, made some errors of judgment, but that ca

eisenhower wouldn't be that aggressive and anti-communist, but he wanted to win. well, to keep this reasonably concise but to finish the thought because it is important, russia believed the moderate republican administration under dwight eisenhower was president for eight years just wasn't ideological enough, wasn't anti-communist and have either at home or abroad, rusher believed there was a communist threat within the united states. more and more documentation of that has come out in the last 20 years after the opening of the soviet archives. buckley also a couple of years younger than rusher all of you know probably that he wrote god and man and yale. rusher was a graduate of princeton before the war and during war. bulkeley says it is in respect of religion despite their religious heritage of the academe in america. also they don't prevent. their cause i socialists. rusher agreed with all of that. but, i think a greater affinity with buckley can be seen in buckley and his brother-in-law's 1954 book mccarthy and his enemies she's made some errors in judgment but that cause is really important and he is being treated unfairly. that is exactly where rusher is in 1954, 55, 56. in the years where he turns

eisenhower would not be that aggressive an anti-communist. but he wanted to win. well, to keep this reasonably concise but to finish the thought because it is important, rusher believed that moderate republican administration under dwight eisenhower who was president for eight years just wasn't ideological enough, wasn't anti-communist enough either at home or abroad. rusher believed there was still a significant communist threat within the united states. more and more documentation of that, you know, has come out in the last 20 years after the opening of the ex-soviet archives. buckley also -- a couple of years younger than rusher. all of you know probably that he wrote "god and man at yale" which came out in 1951 after graduating from yale. he has two beefs with yale, and rusher shared them. he was a graduate of princeton prewar and during the war. buckley says yale is, um, insufficiently respectful of religion despite its, you know, religious heritage can the religious heritage of most of elite academia in america. also they don't present the free enterprise side of economics. they're too keynesian, they're quasi-socialist. okay, rusher agreed with all that. but i think the greater affinity with buckley

sounds better than what the eisenhower administration pretty much launched us with potato puffs and chickenr: hey, diane, i think i might be the only one that didn't get an invitation for lobster and bison. look at the national mall. it is completely empty. it shows how much they focus their attention on the next part, the parade back from the capitol once lunch is finished in statuary hall. down on the ground with the camera down here, if we could show the capitol behind me, this is something that we couldn't kind of point out earlier, one of the things they're commemorating on this inauguration is the very top of the dome if you come to washington what a glorious city it is with its blue sky behind the dome that is the statue of freedom put atop the dome 150 years ago. there was an american sculptor who sculpted this beauty 16 feet high over in italy and passed away and they had to ship the statue in pieces in crates back to america and once it got here, sort of fascinating about how they had to -- in washington, d.c. it stalled because were in the middle of a civil war and fipp reed cont

and hagel would be to this administration what eisenhower was in the '50s and what colin powell was inhe 1990s. the guy who has seen war really up close and doesn't allow any of his colleagues to imagine that once you launch a war, that you can control what happens afterwards. that's what eisenhower used to say again and again. you're a student of history, chris. you know that's why he kept us out of vietnam. that is exactly -- >> kept us out of suez, too. >> exactly. that was eisenhower's greatest sense of pride was at the height of the cold war for eight years he kept us out of a ground war. he ended the war in korea. this is the kind of guy that hagel is. and he will bring the very dark lessons of iraq and afghanistan into the iran debate, and i think that's fundamentally what the republican foreign policy establishment fears. >> i had a couple middle eastern fellows on both sides of that line over there. add into that list of people who have seen the face of war and became peace fellows rabin, the great martyr in israel. throw in the aim anwar sadat. throw in the name of the presid

and that tension then came out when eisenhower made some early appointments in his administration and picked some classy people, like chip bowen to be ambassador to the soviet union, and the mccarthy crowd fought it. and so seems to still play itself out in different ways now. if you look at the new start treaty on arms control, which everyone in the military was passionately for, and yet it was very, very difficult to squeeze out current republican votes for that. so we still find different ways that this expresses itself and may have implications of -- for the next four years on foreign policy questions. >> you look at who romney wants to appoint, it's pretty bold, aggressive folks who i don't think would make the break with the kind of hard right wing in his own party. i think in 1952, you're absolutely right. there's so many stories in this book that i can't do justice to. >> that's why the book should be read. i had fun reading it. >> that's one over the best stories that eisenhower finds himself faced with two senators running he feels very uncomfortable about. one is joseph mcc

now we do have a little not so much but way back then you had the roosevelt administration which is very much pro in the eisenhower instruction which was pro union and i'm excited ministration that was pro union don't even start you know richard nixon but. you know what we're seeing for strive for employees striking in this day and age is simply a bad idea you end up losing more than you get your because because the employers have all the power i don't disagree with that let's take a let's talk about pot on tuesday the u.s. court of appeals ruled in favor of the d.d.a. the drug enforcement agency and declined to change the official drug classification of marijuana currently the d.a. classifies marijuana as a schedule one drug which is reserved for the most dangerous type of drugs that have absolutely no medical benefit other schedule one drugs include heroin and l.s.d. on schedule to cocaine morphine and p.c.p. played in the case presented more than two hundred peer reviewed studies that show the benefits of medicinal marijuana governor lincoln chafee in rhode island governor christine gregoire in washington state

administration. we've never seen a president since eisenhower, a two-term president who had a smooth final two years.think the end game here is he can book end the terms two years with the majority, two years as a punching back and then two years having the majority back. >> that would be great. everybody is waiting for the obama scandal in the first administration. it never came around. he has been able to do things that other presidents have not been able to do. if he could book end it, that would be amazing. obama has had to deal the right wing noise machine and fox news and how they're trying to gum up the works. they're trying to do anything like the g.o.p. drag everything down, fight every nomination. obama is really fighting forces we've never seen unleashed on a president before. we can't just talk about congress. he's fighting very well oiled well financed attack machine and noise machine. he's doing very five years into this game. >> that pivots back to the house where the republican can control, and the president can get a vote unless john boehner said there is a majority of republicans wh

administration to kennedy's obsession. this has been true president after president. someone they love gets sick and eisenhower conservative, his wife's mother has a whole episode in all of a sudden she is mr. health care. he doesn't think that he should submit a budget to congress because they should be the budget authority and now all of a sudden we have a year of health care she discovers health care in part because his mother-in-law gets sick so that's one thing driving the president's. but there's another thing. healthcare is problematic. people get sick and the problems of health care costs access to health insurance. america's health and general this is a problem that the can't avoid so they are driven by personal reasons because people they love get sick and the are driven because it is a problem that won't go away. it is an issue more complicated and convoluted but the president can't at. we went to every presidential archive and we studied with all of the members were written and so forth and discovered lots of unexpected things that are favorite stories is the lyndon b. johnson story so when we went

administration to kennedy succession. this has been true president after president. someone they love get sick and eisenhower, conservative eisenhower, his wife's mother has a health episode. all of a sudden i guess mr. health care. he decides to have a year of health care. this is a guy who didn't think you should submit a budget to congress because congress should be the budget authority. and all of a sudden you of health care. he discovers health care in part because his mother-in-law get sick. so that's one thing driving this presidents. but there's another thing. health care is problematic. people get sick of the problems of health care, cost, access to health insurance, america's health in general is a problem that presidents can't avoid. so they're driven by personal reasons because people they love get sick and they're driven because of the problem that won't go away. the issue, boring, complicated, convoluted, but presidents can't avoid it. we went to every presidential archive and studied the memos written and so forth and discover lots of unexpected things. but our favorite story is the lyndon b.

eisenhower in 1957 was taking his second oath. >>gregg: as president obama prepares to kickoff the second concern there is growing concern over the administration'soutlined plan to rewrite the nation's gun laws. beginning with a campaign style tour to drum up support. doug, is the president's campaign-like approach to all of this a response to the tough partisan realities on capitol hill? >> that is a good statement. for example, republican senator rand paul has vowed to introduce legislation to nullify the president's 23 executive actions he signed last week. he says the founders did not want the president to become a king. senator feinstein's plan to introduce a new assault weapons and extended magazine ban is facing daunting obstacles. >> i don't think senator harry reid brings it to the senate floor because he has six democrats up for election in two years in states where the president received fewer than 42 percent of the votes. >> leader harry reid will make guns one of the earliest things we consider. chairman leahy has talked about hearings right away. we will see action quickly. >> there are 20 democratic senate seats up for grabs in 201

administration to kennedy's obsession. this has been true president after president. someone they love gets sick. in eisenhower conservative old mr. eisenhower, mamie, his wife's mother, has a health episode, serious health episode. all of a sudden ike is mr. health care. he decides to have a year of health care. this is a guy who didn't even think he should submit a budget to congress, because congress should be the budget authority. now all of a sudden he has a year of health care. he discovers health care in part because his mother-in-law gets sick. so that's one thing driving these presidents. but there's another thing. health care's problematic. it's -- people get sick, and the problems of health care, costs, access to health insurance, america's health in general, this is a problem that presidents can't avoid. so they're driven by personal reasons because people they love get sick, and they're driven just because it's a problem that won't, won't go away. it's an issue -- boring, complicated, convoluted -- but at the end of the day, presidents can't avoid it. the way we did this book, we went to every pre

of the attributes dwight eisenhower has talked about it continues to expand and president obama gives them more and more power. when people challenged it, the obama administration will come in and argue that they will keep evidence from the court. the logistical everything a state secret, which they have done. it is the worst possible situation. i think when you look back at eisenhower it should be left this way. it is a lot like our security space. host: a few questions on twitter about whose job is to push back against this -- "is it the court's duty to keep the executive from trouncing congressional powers or is it the congress's duty not to get trounced? guest: it is both of theirs. we have a wonderful system that was developed by a genius, james madison. he created a system of tripartheid branches that notably do not have enough power to govern alone. madisonian austin. or four congresses have been the worst in the history of united states of the total abandonment of the check and balance. fact he is by letting court liberal and democratic values. the republicans took that same position under bush says they are silent. the result is, we have now check on t

administration, the first four presidents had bad second terms. they ended the four years at a low opinion and the number where they began their four years and truman down 37% and eisenhower seven presidents, only two who actually improved their public opinion from beginning to end and surprisingly, they are reagan and clinton. if you look again at the second group of numbers, you see reagan went up 1% from 62 to 63%. clinton went up four and bush was down 17. obama starts at 49 to 50 or 52%, whatever poll you look at. he starts at the lowest approval rating of any of these presidents including president obama. >> i look at bill clinton's 66%. we sat there scratching our heads. through impeachment and perjury charge, he got disbar and his numbers keep going up. what's going on here? the guy, it was unbelievable. >> he went to mcdonald's and dated lounge singers and people felt he understood them. >> kids, if you are at home -- >> i want to pick up on something joe said. i think you can be realist oik or pessimistic, but you can be constructively and look at the openings. i think notably if the president does the thing that republicans want to force to do most, find a way

the eisenhower administration, and then the kennedy administration, were determined to rid cuba of fidelcastro. there was the bay of pigs in april 19611. the kennedy administration humiliated by castro because he won. they resorted to a whole series, years of very elaborate operations and assassination plots to kill fidel castro. jack kennedy did not want to go into re-election in 1964 with fidel castro still in power. >> do you think if jfk had survived, fidel castro would not have survived until 64? >> an interesting question. one of the most interesting personalities i wrote about in the book, a very senior cia officer, fits -- fitzgerald, says if kennedy had lived, castro would still not have been in power by 1964. fitzgerald, behind the most detailed, the most sophisticated assassination plot to kill castro, truly believed that. >> who is renadlod? >> he was a recruited spy by the cia, a man who had been very close to the castro brothers, a hero of the revolution, a trained assassin, accomplished assassin, recruited by the cia after a series of meetings in europe and latin america.