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the real rahm emanuel is no mystery. of staff is often referreds as to the chief of gaffe. he has a foul mouth is old news. the story is old news. i mean it is kind of amazing that sarah palin -- i don't think she has ever said there is anything "the wall street journal" hasn't picked up on. haven't they got better things to do? >> you think this is over with, john? >> well, i don't think it is over with in one sense. i think that the long knives will be out for rahm emanuel from the left for quite some time. >> yeah. >> they strategically disagreed with where they want to put the country. i think for rahm iman use i think he is very close to the president. i don't think he is going anywhere any time soon, but this is going to be an internal brawl that is going to continue to happen for quite some time. >> external because if that is how he feels about health care reform from the liberal perspective, he just did not endear himself to the liberal base of the blog go sphere. great to have you on tonight. >>> one final page

and republican number three who can use the word not once like emanuel, not privately like emanuel buttedly on national television, a national radio, laughing about it and it's perfectly fine with sarah palin would be fox news host glenn beck whose uses of the word were literally too numerous to present in their entirety in our time allotted tonight. but to whom ms. palin gave a lengthy interview just last month after a year of beckian commentary including the following. >> governor schwarzenegger attempted a huge bluff by saying that firefighters and police and teachers are going to lose their jobs and rapists are going to be roaming the streets of california and all of the california children are suddenly going to become retarded or something like that. >> we know now she wasn't retarded. >> but i also like painting of retarded children and paintings of the sane. so -- >> how much of the painting of the retarded children -- >> who's laughing in the background? >> we're not laughing. we're just imagining that those would be nice. what do the paintings of the retarded children go for?

he wrote, sacking emanuel is the last thing the president should do.ecause he didn't follow his staff's advice on crucial matters. arguably, emanuel is the only person keeping obama from becoming jimmy carter. give us your assessment. >> well, wolf, you know, if your chief of staff people call for your head, that sort of goes with the job description, don't you think? we've seen this with lots of chief of staff. what's interesting is both the white house staff and the national securities team enjoyed very close relationships, there were very few leaks and very few tensions. but when they hit the wall with the health care at the end of the year and then lost massachusetts, there was a rumbling that started outside the white house that changes ought to be made with the inner circle and a lot of that criticism is now being directed at robert emanuel because he is the chief of staff, he is the man in charge of the white house, and dan milbank, in this very controversial piece in the washington post, seemed to be channelling the response, if you would, the

and he is in an unenviable position. >> you are saying rahm emanuel figured it out. >> rahm emanuel,ten, i have known him long years and get along with him and we don't agree on a lot but he has a great political mind and knows the american people are against it unlike the rest of the echo chamber in the white house which is liberal and nobody -- nobody consider there would be this type of uproar and rahm emanuel would and realizes also, i believe that the attorney general should not be prosecuting former cia officials, and the trial should not be in civilian areas or courts and, rahm emanuel gets it, unfortunately, unfortunately, for the white house, they'll rely -- they relied on eric holder and the president abdicated responsibility to him which was a terrible mistake, by him as commander-in-chief. bill: peter king, thanks for your time and thanks for hustling and getting up early and we had a computer issue but everything is okay now. >> thank you, glad to help out. bill: appreciate it. uma: a big scare involving vice president biden's motorcade at' winter olympics, a van carryin

white house correspondent wendell goler reports on rahm emanuel's attempt to clean up his own men. >> the president's blunt-spoken chief of staff rahm emanuel apologized to call the liberal threat threats ""f"ing resaturdtarretarretarde" >> the comments made to pit one group against another don't do anything to further political discourse, for that, rahm apologized and we're looking to move forward. >> it occurred in a private meeting when the president's healthcare reform was grinding to a halt. when the "wall street journal" reported it last week, emmanuel phoned timothy shriver in what he called a general apology. today, shriver and other advocates if for the disabled community came to the white house to explain the sensitivity of the issue. former alaska governor and fox news contributor sarah palin, mother of a special needs child, compared the "r" word to the "n" word and said emanuel should be fired. on her facebook page, ms. palin said, "mr. president, you can do better and our country deserves better." there is a website devoting to e ending this. >> words are powerful. heari

rahm emanuel has joined an effort to remove that word from everyday speech. he made the comment last year. today he met with tim shriver, ceo of the special olympics. shriver said emanuel told him he was sorry for the pain his remark caused people living with disabilities. >>> still ahead, a deadly shark attack in florida. >>> firefighters in the district rushed into an apartment filled with smoke and carried out three young children. >> a final good-bye to tai shan. >> winter olympics is trucking snow in. >> what's ahead in sports? >> wizards trying to get back on track. virginia cavaliers corralled the wolfpack in theouth florida bulls thunder into verizon center. >>> a man attacked by sharks along the south coast of florida died. he was kite boarding in an unguarded area near west palm beach when attacked. a group of sharks encircled the man. he was reportedly bitten several times and was unconscious when pulled out of the water. he later died at the hospital. >>> the death of a virginia tech student was officially ruled today a homicide. the state medical

is white house chief of staff, rahm emanuel-- there is not, as the word for rahm emanuel because welby was working on the campaign is a chief fund-raiser he was getting paid by goldman sachs as a consultant at the same time for some nondescript worked so he might even being paid for bills-- goldman sachs. he worked at-- so investments, mergers lapook i.t. the listen the layout in the book callista bowls clients there were people and lead business before the clinton administration so what was emanuel's beil. for too smart, very hard-working and very effective but $1.62 million and half years is what he made. i have got to imagine his real skeel there was no wing who to call in the clinton white house in getting done what he wanted to get done. he makes $1.6 million by milking his former administration contact and uses that money to run for congress and now he's in the obama white house. so the revolving door is still spinning. there is a lobbyist now pew is an ex-obama administration official. already, less than one year in somebody has gone into the obama administration, left in becomi

rahm emanuel was cited for calling liberal activists retarded.s apologized and will meet with members from the special olympics. >>> four days until the big game. and the saints and colts will practice separately today. yesterday, it was question and answer time, as reporters from around the world descended on sun life stadium. with more sports, here's steve weissman of espn news. >> good morning, america. the night after kobe used memphis to set a record, lebron makes the grizzly his target, as well. cavs up 12. lebron, finds anderson varejou. o.j. mayo thinks he has an easy lay-in. later in the third, james to j.j. hickson. he had a career high with 15 dimes later, cavs up early. lebron had 22. cavs. >>> how about kevin durant, coming off of 45 points. thunder hosting the hawks. hawks down three. mike bibby for the tres. he had 12. tied at 89-89. thunder up two. durant doing his thing. 33 points. thunder up four. less than two to go. westbrook, give and go with durant. k.d. scoring 25 points for the 22nd-straight game. oklahoma city, the victor

former alaska governor sarah palin is calling on president obama to fire chief of stay rahm emanuel.d the word "retarded" in a strategy session back in august and apologized for the remark last week. palin, whose youngest son has down syndrome, compares the comment to using a racial slur. to hollywood now. the oscar nominations are out and the cop contenders this year are the sci-fi blockbuster "avenue tar" and the gritty iraq war movie "hurt locker." each dot got nine nominations, including best picture. ten movies in all will be competing for that category for the first time since 1943. coming up next, the stars align again for "we are the world." ar. i've had asthma forever. i never knew why my asthma symptoms kept coming back... ...kept coming back... ...or that i could help prevent them in the first place. the problem was that my controller medicine... ...was treating only 1 main cause of asthma symptoms. but there are 2. airway constriction. and inflammation. unlike most controllers, advair treats both main causes. advair treats both main causes. and that helps prevent symptoms

today rahm emanuel met with tim shriver who runs the special olympics.nked emanuel for the meeting and said his goal is to remove the word from everyday speech in this country. >>> a big boost in the obama's administration plans to allow gays to serve openly in the military. it came from retired general colin powell. during the clinton years powell backed the don't ask, don't tell policy. he now says, "attitudes and circumstances have changed since those years." >>> the u.s. air force academy in colorado springs has now set aside a new outdoor worship area for followers of earth-centered religions, that includes pagans, druids, witches and wiccans. it's a double circle oones on a hilltop. one of the chaplains there calls it, quote, another example of celebrating the freedom we enjoy as well as the freedom we as airmen have pledged to defend. there's been one desecration incident since its opening. officials are repeating that message of tolerance on campus. >>> money i tight these days, but apparently not at sotheby's and london where an anonymous bidder

rahm emanuel talked to me a couple times about it. but it did get dropped in the cutting room floor because it was just the opposite of -- >> so you don't sense any new life in it given where we are today? no. and that doesn't surprise me too much. where we are today is on the path of a reliving area. unfortunately, where we are today is we have a government we can't afford and they're proposing to expand it radically. and at some point, we've got face up to the fact we can't afford the government we have much less expand it. >> you're not going today, are you? >> no, i'm not. >> i think you said you're not sure how will your ideas will be received. >> well, you know, i sort of look at this like a game between the pittsburgh pirates and the washington nationals in september. it might be fun to watch, but it isn't that fruitful. >> coming up, we have much more on our agenda today. if you've got more questions, e-mail us at squawk@cnbc.com. >>> when we come back, we've got the picture from the futures pits. we'll be back right after thi

they do not look like rahm emanuel comes out and says we're not doing health care reform anymore.n't like it. and it does not look like health care reform fails in a vote. it will die in either of those ways, i promise you. here's what it will do. if it dies. number one, rahm emanuel and other congressional democrats will come out and say we are as committed to health care reform as we always have been. this is a key priority. that's why we are in washington. we're just not going to do it right now. that's number one. and number two, is pareback. we get some magical -- your insurance company, there are no more rescissions and this is a great victory for the american people. but that article scared me much more than anything else has so far. because the way this goes down is that it grows old and it dies. like other organic matter. and i think this needs to be called out. if emanuel is saying that it needs to be called out by people in the base and people who care about this as the death of health care reform. because you can't run that timetable. you can't deal with jobs. and i do

i think rahm emanuel would have liked to take back that word, but he can't.i ran a nuclear power millions of people don't have jobs. more than half the mortgages are under water. b why are we fretting about it? we have such big things to fret about, why are we involved with this p.c. bologna. we're finished with it. we don't regurgitate the food. when i do repeats, i get nasty mail from people, and i say, they're right. but we have to occasionally throw in a case twice. >> larry: have you ever finished a case where you said later on, maybe that night at dinner you say, maybe i was wrong? >> i don't like to think of being wrong. >> larry: in 700 weeks have you ever been wrong? >> i probably have been wrong, i probably have. not in the 700 weeks, but probably as i sat as a judge in the family court i'm sure there were cases that should have been decided the other way. but i really give it my best shot. i try to get the information. i'm not motivated by anything other than trying to do the right thing at the end of the case. so i'm able to sleep comfortably at n

emanuel brought in as chief of staff because he comes out of congress. close to obama. he had longstanding ties to others in congress. he was basically brought into this job to be a close tie between the white house and the lead such a branch. he knows how to twist a lot of arms. he has done some of that effectively. when you look over the course of the last year, the collapse of the obama presidency on health care, on captain trade, on so many of the big agenda items, he was supposed to be the point man. megyn: what they say about him in the reports is that he is more of a centric and not an ideologue. he does not mean hard left. he is the one who urged the president to abandon the public auction. is he more of an ideal maker than an ideologue? what would a replacement looks like? >> reporter: the answer to that, if he steps down valerie will replace him. i don't think that is a big improvement, but i will say that you have to judge by results. you are absolutely right that he went in and twisted arms. doesn't things done. on the big legislative agenda items, namely he

mike emanuel is at the pentagon tonight.s about the united states saying about those plans to build nuclear sites in the mountains? >> well, that it makes the point that the u.s. is making that the iranians are not serious when they are talking with the west about their nuclear intentions. here is white house press secretary robert gibbs. >> it is clear that the continuing announcements and pronouncements that are made in iran demonstrate that they have no interest in building international confidence. that their nuclear program is for peaceful means. >> and gibbs did go on to say that time and patience are running out, shep. >> shepard: yeah. i have heard that for a while. what was mahmoud ahmadinejad ranting about today? >> well, he threatened israel once again saying that he has spoken to the heads of states of israel's neighbors saying if the israelis make a mistake and attack iran that the nations in the region will attack israel and, as he said, destroy them and uproot them, shep. >> shepard: you know, china's key for

mike emanuel is live at the pentagon tonight. did this work?hat more do we know about iran's ambitions here? >> well, shep, u.s. officials say that the launch did work but did not achieve orbit. so u.s. officials say it does not appear to move the ball forward in terms of technology. as you mentioned, the white house is calling it provocative. the state department says: >> iran has an aggressive missile program. obvious it's of a regional concern to us. it threatens countries in the region, potentially threatens europe as well. >> now the concern for u.s. officials is this technology in terms of getting to space is quite similar to long range missile technology and so this is something clearly the u.s. officials are watching very carefully, shep. >> shepard: all right. you know this announcement comes a day after tehran said it's willing to cooperate with the united nations over its nuclear program. and, at the same time, the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad said he is willing to swap the three american hikers detained in iran for iranians

i think rahm emanuel would have liked to take back that word, but i think, again, you know, iran is a nuclear power. millions of people in this country don't have jobs. more than half the mortgages are under water. why are we fretting about it? we have such big things to fret about, i don't see fretting about this pc baloney. something's real, something's not real. >> larry: but your show is involved with daily human events, not iran. >> yes, yes. yeah. we do it and we're finished with it. i mean, we don't regurgitate the food day in and day out. when i do repeats, i get nasty mail from people. listen, i saw that case before. and they're right. sometimes i don't apologize, but we have to occasionally throw in a case twice. >> larry: have you ever finished a case where you said later on, maybe that night at dinner you said, i was wrong? >> i don't like to think about being wrong. >> larry: in 700 weeks have you ever been wrong? >> i probably have been wrong, i probably have. not only 700 weeks, but in the 15 or so years that i sat as a judge in the family court. i'm sure there were cas

here is rahm emanuel, his first act of congress to come back and open our open house.has been with us from the beginning. this is our artists sky floor where the dance room is. we painted over the lockers. anything that was ugly we painted. hi am mostly an artist and this is the fabric project on have done for the past five years. we are on the gay pride roots. we were in policetown. we made it more explicit and we were the first school, the first gay pride parade. we are on every 8 blogging in the country. we even had a crazy klan from kansas protesting which was a real treat. that is my little world. [applause] ♪ >> let's give jacqueline another round of applause. [applause] i think it is safe to say more of us know something about community school than we did 35 minutes ago. one of the golden rules is never give up the microphone. but cnn -- c-span has made that kind of hard. why don't we go ahead and if you have a question please come up to the microphone. great. a am here to bodyguard the mike. >> people who would rather speak than ask, you said the neighborhood s

and from rahm emanuel from the white house meeting dismissed liberal activists as expletive retarded.n the faceback page governor palin whose son as down's syndrome said the use of the word was as bad as the "n" word and was, quote, unacceptable. it was not prompted by palin. and abandoned house in detroit is suddenly getting a lot of second looks. check out the run-down home totally encased by ice, by two artists calling attention to the housing crisis. they spent weeks spraying layer after layer of water on the home. a home that had been slated for demolition. >>> and we mentioned last night, deja vu in a hollywood recording studio overnight. 74 stars coming together to remake "we are the world" 25 years later this time for haiti and quincy jones, again, leading the voices. ♪ ♪ ♪ the choice we're making ♪ ♪ saving all our lives ♪ we'll make a better day for you and me ♪ >> then and now. and coming up next the five most interesting things about the oscar nomination or so we think. , and symbicort is already helping significantly improve my lung function. so, today, i've noticed a sig

our mike emanuel is live from the pentagon with the latest.ll right, mike, first off, what do we know about this review of don't ask, don't tell? >> reporter: well, we expect defense secretary gates to announce two names, the senior defense official, also the senior military official who are going to look into all the issues involved with the idea of changing the controversial don't ask, don't tell policy. he's going to give them until the end of the calendar year to look into these issues and to make sure it doesn't impact the force. there are great concerns about with our military serving in wars in afghanistan and iraq and being asked to do so much around the world, great strain on the force, they want to make sure that if they change this policy about gays openly serving in the military, that it's done as smoothly as possible. so we've heard over the months that secretary gates feels like it has to be done very, very carefully. so he's going to lay out for the members of the senate armed services committee, the steps he's going to take gra

but there are defenders of the r-word, and rahm emanuel's use of it. >> i think that if it's one democratling another democrat an idiot, a moron, retarded, it's fine. there's a create song, "crazy," do we not sing that anymore? of course not. >> reporter: it's usually the offended group that gets to control its label. gay leaders dlibryly embrace the word year, the n-word was taken from common to taboo in a single generation. >> another one is going to pop up in its place. it is all about the attitude toward that group and the culture. >> reporter: language may evolve faster than behavior. but advocates hope one less word may lead to a lot less pain. bill weir, abc news, new york. >>> and let us know what you think. weigh in at our website, abcnews.com. >>> coming up, startling new insights into the brains of unresponsive patients. and, language lessons for a panda? for joint pain. for joint pain. [ female announcer ] most people make resolutions... based on what they see on the outside. ♪ this year, focus on what's inside... and let cheerios help tackle your cholesterol. now you could wi

rahm emanuel, the chief of staff, has caused a bit of a stir, ladies.ng to an article that was in "wall street journal," in which he supposedly used the "f" word and spoke about some democrats liberals as being f-restarted. sarah palin wrote this on facebook. we're told by a white house official that he called to apologize and the apology yus accepted on to the special olympics. let me go to donna first. what do you think about sarah palin's response and the white house's reaction? >> first of all, realm has apologized and, you know, i also believe that it was the wrong word to use, and i'm glad his apology has been accepted by so many people. i hope governor palin will accepted his apology in the spirit he has given it. i don't know about liberals and whether or not they will accept it, because it's clear to me based on the article that she read that realm was upset with some people in the liberal community that wanted to really go after centrist democrats, but not fully backing the president's agenda. that appears to be the reason why realm said that,

and some unhappiness she reports within the white house especially, chief of staff rahm emanuel by theattorney general to do that. was that a mistake? >> no. the attorney general was responding under the protocol that was developed between the department of justice and the department of defense for the prosecution of terrorists. and he made the decision on that basis. rahm has the perspective that's different. he's the chief of staff. he looks at things from a legislative perspective. he looks at other perspectives that the attorney general was ruling on his view of what the law commanded in that point. but we have, believe me, we have disagreements all the time within the white house, within the administration. that's as it should be. people have various perspectives and various points of view. >> let me ask you also on the same subject of detainees. part of senator scott brown's election hinged on this idea. he made the case that the united states is now giving new rights to terrorists. is, a, that true? and, b, how is that going to affect the 2010 mid terms if that's a narrative tha

this moves or it doesn't move. >> we all know rahm emanuel. is a very smart guy.read that as what they're going to do is just for a few weeks, take this off the front page. while the deal is negotiated behind the scenes. there's no lack of will in the white house to do this and to push this forward. i thought that was all about transfixing, you, transit is a politically deeply calculating animal. and very effective because of a. and he is saying we are going to yank this off the front page. we're going to put jobs on the front page for the next three weeks. shift the conversation, while pelosi and everybody else behind the scenes figures out how to do that. that's what i took away from that. >> my understanding, from my reporting on the white house is that rahm wants to cut paste. there is argument in the white house good on right now. rahm wants to tear back. the reason there was not a clear a duration of intent and the white house for a while after massachusetts, when all those were screaming for direction, was because the white house was divided about how to mo

[applause] the general problem is not what rahm emanuel said, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. what they think, a crisis is a lovely thing to create. the crisis being created before our eyes is the crisis of the exploding deficit, which they hope will put us in a position to have to have a stampede toward an enlargement of the government's, perhaps justified by this or that commission. that is the object. çófinally, the greatest stampede of all they have in mind was the stampede that would be brought about by stimulating a synthetic crisis with regard to the climate, which would be driven by our ultimate dependency on supposedly unchallengeable clarity of scientists that would justify ever more serious government supervision of the most minute aspects of our lives. i want a show of hands. how many of the honestly know that in 2014, we began outlaw and the incandescent light bulb? before you, that is why you are here. it was understood 100 it the years ago when it dittoed milk decided he could see over the horizon in the soft despotism could become -- the soft despotism would be

rahm emanuel criticized upholstered -- a pollster. yet again, president obama found some way to make this about george bush. [laughter] considering the recent concerted that elections --conservative elections, when you are 043, stop talking and start listening --when you are 0 for 3, stop talking and start listening. we have some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle. this is what got you into this mess. the obama-pelosi-reid agenda will leave us more under the thumb of big government. it is out of touch and out of date. if scott brown is any indication, it is running out of time. [applause] from virginia to new jersey to massachusetts, voters are sending a message. in places like nevada, connecticut, colorado, michigan, north dakota doss the liberal left is running scared. the bottom line is that it has been a year now. voters are going to hold them accountable. out here in the cities and towns across this great country , we have some big problems to solve. we have gotten tired of looking backwards. to look forward --we wa

last week she demanded that rahm emanuel step down because he used the word retarded but rush limbaughid the same thing on his radio show and that, she said, was okay. unfortunate lip she's been able to respond to the criticism because she's wearing mittens, so -- it's very cold. cold all over the country. [ applause ] i want to say congratulations, not that they need mine, to the new orleans saints on their first ever super bowl win. they beat the colts. they had a big victory parade today. the city of new orleans has not thrown a parade in almost 48 hours, so this was huge. they say half a million people were there to celebrate. this is funny. the police asked women not to flash their breasts. which pretty much guarantees they're going to flash their -- maybe it was reverse psychology. do not under any circumstances show me those large, round, beautiful breasts of yours. i'm plugging my ears. i swear to god. this was -- this to me was kind of surprising. the super bowl was the most watched tv show in american history. 106 million people watched, which beat the previous record, held b

bill: mike emanuel at the pentagon watching the hearing taking place on capitol hill, thank and we'lltails on assessing the threat of a terrorist attack in america, we are waiting for a key senate intelligence hearing to analyze the current and future threat to the united states and you might call this a star-studded line-up of witnesses, today. the director of national intelligence, dennis blair, cia director leon panetta and fbi doctor robert mueller all set to testify at the hearing in the wake of the would-be christmas bomber, as thing get underway and catherine herridge is covering all of the action for us, once things get heating up there and we'll bring it to you. bill: in the meantime on the economy, martha, the president hoping to reassure anxious americans about what is happening with their money and taking the message to main street and later today town hall meetings, nashua, new hampshire, and like the one he had in wayne county, west of cleveland an proposing $30 billion from the bank bailout fund to give the small community banks for loans -- loans so banks can turn arou

jane: mike emanuel, thanks, mike. >> reporter: sure. jon: in israel police are on high alert searching for barrel bombs off the coast. three explosive-laden barrels have washed ashore just this week. militants in gaza claim to have sent out a total of eight such bombs. this is a new technique. why are they using it, mike? >> reporter: you know, jon, you could label this latest effort on the part of the palestinian militants as either creative or desperate. they want very much to lash out following the death of mahmoud, aha maas operative killed in dubai they say by israeli mossad agents. the rocket fire hasn't been effective for them, so they needed to come up with something, and the barrel bombs are what they came up with, jon. jon: well, how effective is it? i mean, you wouldn't call this an advanced weapon, would you? >> reporter: no, it's really not. you're talking about 22 pounds of tnt inside of these barrels which is enough to blow a hole in a fishing vessel, not really enough to blow a hole in the side of an israeli naval vessel

but i think right now they're sort of heeding the advice of rahm emanuel who said never let a crisis go to waste. they're trying to score points for gm. >> peter brown, what's your take on this? >> they have no incentive to dump on toyota. i think what's happening is ray lahood has proved himself to be a crazy loose cannon. that is not appropriate behavior for the guy who's ahead of the transportation department. this is a very serious regulatory issue and he's been saying goofy things and wrong things and he quickly acknowledges a wrong. he's just doing a terrible job. but there's no government conspiracy to help general motors in this case. >> there are lots of other things. >> i love a good conspiracy theory, so i plead guilty to that. peter let me ask you finally one. as a long-time expert of the car industry, people who own toy as the, okay, people who own them today, what advice do you give them? i mean mr. lahood says get out of the car and run for your life. what advice do you give them? how serious is this safety problem with the excacceleratord the brake? >> well, it's fair

let's see it's almost not the right word for rahm emanuel regarding the revolving door because while he's working for bill clinton's 1992 campaign as a chief fund-raiser he was getting paid by goldman sachs has a consultant at the same time for nondescript work so he might have been getting paid by goldman sachs to work for bill clinton for all we know. then he worked in bill clinton's the five white house to read a couple of years before clinton leaves he works for a private equity firm so you know investments, mergers. if you look at the list and i laid out in the book the list of all of his clients they were people who had business before the clinton administration so what was his skill? first he's smart, hard-working and effective. about $1.62 million and a half years is what he made. i've got to imagine the real skill was knowing who to call in the clinton white house and getting done what he wanted to get done. he makes the 1.6 million by milking the former administration confecting uses the money to run for congress and now he's in the obama white house. so the revolving door

jim, deputy chief of staff, you don't hear nearly as much about him, as you hear about rahm emanuel,a key player among all legislative battle it is white house has been having and looks likes he will be the guy to take charge of this reelect effort in 2012. the trouble here for the white house, beginning to talk about 2012, it will give democrats up on capitol hill the -- they are all focused like a laser beam on their own pace in 2010 and don't want to be -- they don't want to have the white house 'attention wandering to obama's re-election when they are concerned about their own re-election coming up now. they are a little wary of having this discussed too publicly at this point. >> you think? the -- conventional wisdom over any in congress is that the white house is more concerned about barack obama and his future than their own re-election. certainly doesn't help to see that they have already gain -- office space should be, chicago. they are worried about their own political survival. >> that's right. one of the issues that -- in any presidency where you have democrats on the hil

her husband thinks it would be great for, rahm emanuel, joe biden, all lobbies for to take the job.he finally called him to decide that they will not -- that she will not take the top, and had this incredible late-night phone call where she tells him why she does not want the job and he accept ththat those are all good reasons -- she is burdened with debt, she is tired and wants to go home -- he understands all that, but he says, "i need you to take this job. with the economic crisis will be a huge part of my first term might need someone who understands foreign policy whose hand i do not have to hold, and i need you and the country needs you." after everything with this at the arc of their relationship, it is an extraordinary moment. the moment she admits her husband might be a problem, something she never did in the campaign -- anything bill clinton did something considered politically detrimental, and she defends him. she never takes any other side, totally loyal to her husband. now she is not saying not disloyal, but admitting to barack obama that there is a political vulnerabil

and nancy pelosi she blamed the senate democrats and rahm emanuel he criticized a pollster. and then again president obama found some way to make this all about george bush. you know considering the reason conservative elections sweep, it is time to stop blaming everyone else. when you are 0 for 3 you better stop lecturing and start listening. the only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda. so some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle, that's where you've got to look because that's what got you into this mess. the obama/pelosi/reid agenda will leave us less secure, more in debt and under the thumb of big government. that is out of touch and is out of date. and if scott brown is any indication, it is running out of time. because from virginia to new jersey to massachusetts, voters are sending a message up and down the east coast and in good places like nevada and connecticut and colorado, michigan, north dakota, they've got the liberal left, that establishment running scared. the bottom line is this. it's been a year now. they own this now

. >> bill: there is still axelrod and emanuel and valerie jarrett, they are not bouncing up and downnd saying man, that was a big win. that's not what's happening. let me go over to jim angle. do i have to call the or kin guy, the exterminators for the spiders? so, nancy pelosi gets out there and nancy pelosi says there is no way we are going to tamp it down. we're not going little. we're going big. you have to give it to the speaker. she is very consistent. >> absolutely. >> bill: what's behind the scenes? are they going she is crazy? she has no clue or what? >> no. she has a lot of people in the house behind her. and, of course, have you got the liberal base in the party, 100 people in the progressive caucus in the house who are behind her. they are a all a little disappointed that the public option is not going to be part of a final bill, which it appears it will not be. their problem, bill, is that they have got to figure out how to get something passed in the house. the house bill has been set aside. now, they are trying to figure out how to get the senate bill through the house

her husband thinks would be great, rahm emanuel, joe biden, she finally decides on what we did take the job and she calls obama to take her to become -- stila she's not going to take the job and they have this late night phone call where the two of them -- she tells him why she doesn't want the job and he accept this those are all good reasons to doubt on the job, she's burdened with debt, tired, wants to go home, she thinks her husband will be a difficult distraction negative takes the job and he said i understand but i need you to do this job. the economic crisis is going to be huge and consume a large part of the first term and i need someone at the state department who is competent and understands foreign policy into his hand i don't have to hold. your country needs you and i need you to be a success as president and after everything that happened between them in this epic art of the relationship it's an extraordinary moment because the moment she kind of had met her husband can be a problem, something she's never done through the campaign. every time bill clinton has done anything

or rahm emanuel and barack obama. our cable news cycle which shows us that they would go for these horseback ride or skinny dip in the potomac or they would vigorously hike through -- and they say roosevelt burned up $2000 before noon and a cup of coffee with sugar as well. but that's with a conversation id came from. pinchot said a came on one of these. that he brought the idea to rosa. it's a very simple idea. they didn't call it environmentalism. they didn't public safety or that basically said we're a nation of 92 million people. what will it be like when we are i nation of 300 million people. by the way, we are a nation of more than 300 million. will that be anything left for our great grandchildren. it was so the idea, let's not consume it all in our generation. we owe something to future generations. that was a simple idea around conservation. so they set up this public land and they set it up for the little guy. remember, they're not taking private land and putting it in the public domain. they are taking over

. >>> representatives of the special olympics are meeting with white house chief of staff rahm emanuelay over his controversial choice of words. at a white house meeting in august he dismissed some liberal activists as expletive retarded. on her facebook page, former alaska governor sarah palin, whose son has down syndrome, says the use of the word was as bad as the "n" word, calling it unacceptable. the white house says emmanuel has apologized to groups with disabilities and was not prompted by palin. >>> the latest storm to hit the east coast is making it treacherous on the roads and off. wow. good thing you weren't standing under that. a huge chunk of ice and snow crashing down on a glass canopy at richmond, virginia, city hall. thankfully, nobody was hurt there. a block of ice from the roof also hit the same spot during a storm in december. there are now plans to install a heating system on the roof to melt the built-up ice. wow. >> good idea. >> bad architectural design i'm guessing. >>> here's a look at your forecast for today. up to 5 inches of rain from texas and louisiana into

here is rahm emanuel, his very first act of congress was to come back and open our open house.ginning. this is our sky floor where the dance room is. so we just painted right of the lockers. anything that was ugly we just painted. ♪ i am mostly an artist and this is the fabric project i've been with the kids the past five years. the tide their attentions on to the fence at the end of the year. but we are on the date right route. i told you we are in boies tons of this year we made it more explicit and we were the first school to walk in chicagos gay pride parade. we are now on every heat blog in the country. we even had the crazy plan from kansas protesting which was a treat. ♪ so that is my little world. [applause] [inaudible] >> let's give jacqueline another round of applause. i think it is safe to say more of us knows something about community schools than we did that out 35 minutes ago. so they see one of the golden rules of the meeting is never give up the microphone. but c-span has made that kind of hard. why don't we go ahead and if you have a question and would like to

last night house republican leaders sent a letter to white house chief of staff rahm emanuel asking him several questions, and as you know, questions can be used to make hostile points. among the things that they say are that the government should get -- go back to square one. that they should start with a blank slate. host: there is also a report that john boehner, leader in the house for the republicans is asking there be some conditions set for this meeting and that he once, or republicans possibly want reconciliation in the senate taken off the table if they are going to have any kind of negotiations on health care. guest: it can't hurt to ask. and republicans are going to go ahead with this. things would go so bad if they walk, it would give the president's -- president a talking point. this is a smart move of the president was because one of the biggest objections the people have to this plan, heightened by the fact that this is being done behind closed doors. and, of course, c-span viewers know all legislation is negotiated in private. nothing surprising about that. but the presi

david axelrod and robert gibbs and rahm emanuel saying that they are populist.admire that ambition. everybody in this room remembers that president obama is the president who said small- town americans are better and that is why they cling to guns and god. now, suddenly, the white house tells us he is a man of the people. good luck with about one. [laughter] [applause] in the year that president barack obama has been in office, we have learned a lot. we've learned he is not going to govern from the center. we learn he does not believe an american ex sectionalism and he will travel the world apologizing for this great nation we've learned he will raise everybody's taxes. he will try to expend the size of the federal government until it permeates every aspect of our lives and every corner of our land. he will try to turn our healthcare system over to the federal government. we have learned he was to give terrorists constitutional rights, including the right to remain silent he has moved. terrorists from guantanamo bay on to the american homeland. that is not chang

çóagain,t( dignitaries, bill clinton, nancy pelosi, robert gates, white house chief of staff rahm emanuelt can we expect to see for people attending to that? what kind of mood are we expecting? >> i have no doubt it is going to be very somber. part of that will become of the military professionalism that takes place, and part of it will just be the personal respect for the congressman, this individual, his relationship with other folks on capitol hill. and i think you will see that reflected in the move today. >> i do not know if we can get a shot of this, but do you know what the honor guard is coming up? >> the marine corps band. >> ok. let's watch them as they go by. again, tying in all of his military experience, we can obviously see that through the day today. >> that is the kind of day you are going to see. the movement to the grave site, the very military focus, i think that is what we can expect. >> let's talk a little bit about what kind of legacy does he need to get through? >> enormous legacy. as he reflected earlier, the governor said that in his opinion it is the most influen

rahm emanuel criticized a poster. yet again, president barack obama found some way to make this all about george bush. [applause] considering the recent conservative election sweep, it is time they stopped blaming everyone else when you are over, you should start -- stop lecturing, and start listening. [applause] the only blame is on the left agenda. some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle, that is where you have to look because that is what you got to into this mess. the obama-pelosi-read agenda will leave us less secure, more in debt, and more under the thumb of big government. that is out of touch. it is out of date. if scott brown is any indication, it is running out of time. [applause] from virginia to new jersey to massachusetts, voters are sending a message up and down the east coast and in good places like nevada and connecticut and colorado, michigan, north dakota, that the liberal left is running scared. the bottom line is this -- it has been one year now. they own it now. voters will hold acco

mike emanuel is at the pentagon for us. >> reporter: the overall effort in the afghanistan is not goinging to be two steps forward, one step back. word about that attack in kabul, the taliban claiming responsibility, and hamid karzai is saying indian workers in kabul were the target. a suicide bomber and a car bomb attack, hotels frequented by foreigners killing 17 and wounding dozens more, jane. jane: some controversial language in a proposed intelligence law would have allowed for prosecution of cia agents, molly henneberg's in d.c. >> reporter: hi, jane. the overall intelligence reauthorization bill just passed the house minus that controversial cia punishment language. democrats on the house intelligence committee tried to add a last minute amendment imposing criminal punishments on intelligence employees if they used harsh tactics during interrogation of terror suspects. house republicans and some democrats objected, said this needed to be vetted in committee, and so that section was taken out. jake? jane: more information coming out today about the killer whale that ended up killi

emanuel minot is a psychiatry professor and director of the center for narcolepsy at stanford universityctor, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> is this a virus that causes this? is that what a lot of people believe? >> we're not so sure. however, we think that some people are genetically predisposed to having an infection that then doesn't clear up and seems to relax regularly, and that gives the symptoms of sleeping all the time for ten days at a time. >> so, if it lasts ten days at a time and then the person wakes up and can function at some normal level, generally speaking, what's the time between episodes? >> that's a big problem. we never know. sometimes it can be two weeks, sometimes it can be months. occasionally, people say that's it, i've grown out of it because i haven't had an episode for a year, then it restarts. >> and even during the episodes, they do wake up for short periods of time, and what are they like during those periods of times? how do they behave? >> that's the important thing. they are not normal. they are in kind of a dream-like state, sounds are muffled