the the most solid way i mean the last president to try the we're going to regulate the court was f.d.r. when he was going to change the composition the court didn't work out so well although there are some scholars who think that it could have do you think that all obviously the wait wait and see move is nothing that we can do other than trying to keep a democrat the white house but do you think that the the congressional strategy is one that should be pursued as well. well absolutely i think that what we need to recognize is that this is a movement and movements have multiple tactics so yes to elections yes to lawsuits yes to protests and demonstrations and tom i'm glad that you're bringing up and reminding us of the fact that the constitution gives congress the authority to set the parameters of how the supreme court operates you know i am a believer in the old adage a switch in time that saved nine because f.d.r. so called court packing scheme created a political context where the supreme court all the sudden began to find it legal the new deal legislation did not violate the consti

in one nine hundred forty or forty one this is what f.d.r. said about the world war two take it. here president emergency and a common sense of decency make it imperative that no new. million is come into being in this nation as a result of the struggle of doing. the american people will not really the idea of any american citizen growing rich in fact in an emergency of blood and slaughter and human suffering and yet now it's it's just standard operating procedure all these offices all around the pentagon so what. how do we cut half a trillion dollars out of the left loves to rail against the business of war but they seem perfectly content to go into the business of solar energy and a business a car batteries i think what we have to because they don't kill people they save people i think what we need to understand is that defense accounts for twenty percent of federal spending it's accounting for fifty percent of the deficit reduction so if everybody is so focused on a balanced approach to all this let's take a balanced approach on it not go over and do the fifty percent thing on

obama needed he needed f.d.r. had a you know been over in a way. yeah well no the hoovervilles yes but in a way obama had the misfortune to be elected at that point in a great recession when hoover was president and the great depression he is the better comparison is for the first term at least i hope the second term is different to that in the in the in the in the minute i'm sorry we're coming up on just a hard break here in the in the one minute that we have left what's your greatest hope in your words concern. my greatest hope is that occupy flourishes that at length arms with community groups with you have millions who are struggling to regain some of what they lost and then we'll have to struggle to reform american institutions so that. travesty of the last thirty or forty years just not occur again and what is what my greatest fear. is that the movement will be stamped out that it will be crushed and without that movement i see no hope for the future of the united states by an extraordinary analysis professor francis fox proven thank you so v

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remember, no president since f.d.r. has been reelected with unemployment above 7.2%. however, the trend lines are good with unemployment going down so that's why the president said today now is not the time to put the brakes on. >> there are a lot of people still hurting out there after losing more than eight million jobs in the recession obviously we have a lot more work to do. >> reporter: the president credited his jobs agenda for reversing the job loss. he claimed 3.2 million new private sector jobs were created in the last two years and he said last year's payroll tax cut has helped. >> and when congress returns they should extend the middle-class tax cut for all of this year to make sure that we could keep this recovery going. it's the right thing to do. there should not be delay. there should not be a lot of drama. we should get it done. >> reporter: even if congress does get it done, there's a lot of analysts who say that may not be enough. even the president's advisors acknowledge that this this economy is still extremely vulnerable to the instability in euro

with his stock market crash in one nine hundred twenty nine so by one nine hundred thirty two when f.d.r. came in the american people finally had enough to kick the republicans out of. office and as roosevelt said it is not alone a war against want and destitution and economic demoralization it is more than that it is a war for their survival of democracy we are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world. to roosevelt our democracy hung in the balance in one nine hundred thirty six and he referred to the enemy trying to destroy us to destroy our democracy as economic royalists they were the banks toure's the corporations the industrial giants of agriculture and machinery they were the forces that screamed that roosevelt's new deal with the things like social security were communism yes they literally called social security was communism and they fought to stop the development of a middle class through the union movement they explicitly wanted a nation made up of the very rich and the working poor these economic royalists even recruited a few

which says that the supreme court shall operate under regulations and stablished by congress and as is f.d.r. tried to do or amend the constitution why are you exclusively going for the latter . i think actually the work that we're doing is part of a range of efforts so to begin with we're pushing for some measures that would shine a spotlight on some of the new spending we're seeing with some of the super pacs that would slow the wheels of money down a little bit by forcing corporations to disclose their spending to their shareholders and other investors but ultimately we need constitutional reform as a long term solution simply because the court's decision itself says in the united actually tied our hands in many ways it's difficult to litigate our way out of it we've seen in past efforts to wait for the court composition to change or to mobilize enough people around that effort that's a pretty long waiting game we're not saying that's out of the question but waiting for that composition change and to be able to mobilize people around it those are efforts that public interest groups and pr

by obama but more importantly there were no sweeping prosecutions you know one when f.d.r. came in after the after the great depression you know and one of the first things it is that when they dance he did stronger reforms in the end they cleaned up wall street obama did exactly the opposite of that and his treasury secretary tim geithner has said openly that if they had pressed too many fraud prosecutions that it would have created quite a run in the bank in other words other. investors around the world would have fled the american markets because they would have been frightened off by all the corruption so i think they they intentionally did not press forward with with sweeping fraud prosecutions because they were protecting those markets and that's so wall street got what they what they paid for they got a guy who did not put them in jail and let's talk about the prospect the potential of even more people getting what they paid for and what we saw recently with citizens united the u.s. supreme court case that you know in a nutshell found that that corporations can be pe

. >> at f.d.r.'s case they were getting better at a remarkable rate. >> we'll see.s, thanks so much. be sure to watch tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. and sunday at 8:00 a.m. for "up with chris hayes". >>> how damaging has this race been for republicans? just ask rick perry. stay with us. >> this is such a great state. live free or die. bring it. ♪ ♪ ♪ what started as a whisper every day, millions of people choose to do the right thing. there's an insurance company that does that, too. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? spark card from capital one. spark cash gives me the most rewards of any small business credit card. it's hard for my crew to keep up with 2% cash back on every purchase, every day. 2% cash back. that's setting the bar pretty high. thanks to spark, owning my own business has never been more rewarding. [ male announcer ] introducing spark the small business credit cards from capital one. get more by choosing unlimited double miles or 2% cash back on every purchase, every day. what's in your wallet? this guy's amazing. i had[ designer ]

. >> rose: inerms of a safety net has been a principlef americsince f.d.r., right? >> right. >> rose: we covered in terms of where the united states is and the crisis of global power. your essence-- and this is the interesting thing to me, you know, the chinese now are trying to build up their economy as much as they can, and engage in contracts around the world to provide them with ahe resources they think they need. the big question, it seems to me, is in 2025 and thereafter, once they havebeen able to do that to their own satisfaction, will they become a country that wants to play the vital role around the world because some argue that's never been part of a chinese mindset? >> well, it's never been part of the chinese mindset because the chinese have always viewed themselves as the inner kingdom with a tributary system. much depends on what happens during those 15, 20 years. if we can strike a balance in our relations with the chinese, if we can emphasize the common interest properly understood in having a stable relationship, if we can promote concillation betw

to the is a tradition begun under f.d.r.ns and daughters in far off places. i love america, we love america. i'm convinced if we've leaders who will tell the truth and who will live with integrity and who know how to lead, have had the experience of leadership and know how to lead, if they will draw on the patriotism of the american people we can overcome any challenge we have. i intend to be one of those leaders with your help on tuesday. thank you, guys. thank you. thanks so much. great to be with you. thank you. ♪ >> good to see you. >> i know this guy. hi. thanks for your help today. how are you. thank you. >> how are you. thanks for being here. how are you this morning. i appreciate your being here. how are you? >> good. >> you got up early on a saturday morning. it is so nice of you. >> good luck, sir. >> thank you. i may need that. >> 4:30. >> 4:30? my goodness. i appreciate your help today. >> how are you doing? appreciate your service. thank you. >> we are going all the way. >> thank you. thank you. >> thanks for ru

sunday at 7:30 ob on "the presidency" f.d.r.'s military advisors and their role in fighting the world war. american history this weekend on c-span3. >> on "road to the white house." >> every time you turn around, this is an administration against american jobs, against american energy, and then they seem surprised that they are putting people on food stamps and they think it is an accident of nature. >> there is no reason we can't compete making cars. you are doing it here. are you making b.m.w.'s here and selling them around the world. [applause] this idea we can't manufacture, that's wrong. we can compete. foreign companies are coming here in right to work states. by the way, you want states to have more jobs, make them right to work. i support right to work. >> and as candidates get their message out. >> i have some people that are artistic, have gotten their eagle scouts. there is a role for every one of us in life. it is just finding out what that is. >> and find more at c-span.org/ campaign 2012. "washington journal" contin

and this weekend on book tv, did f.d.r.ld war ii to create a more powerful executive branch? saturday at 11:00 p.m. sunday night at 10:00, the new privacy is no privacy and how your rights are being eroded by social networks. book tv every weekend on c-span2. >> senate energy and commerce subcommittee held a hearing today on the obama administration's decision to deny a permit for the construction of the keystone x.l. pipeline that would have carried oil from canada to the u.s. there is legislation introduced to give approval to that of the federal regulatory -- energy regulatory hearing. >> the north american energy access act. i would like to welcome those members of the referee training class, i didn't realize you were going to be with us this morning but we are delighted you are here and hope you'll enjoy the hearing as well. today's hearing gives us the opportunity to learn why the obama administration denied a permit to build the keystone pipeline from canada through parts of the united states. how could the obama adm

f.d.r. was quite an impressive. >> no! it was teddy roosevelt! [laughter] >> did i make you mad? not making that up. [laughter] >> is there a particular moment you remember most either a moment of humor, a poignant moment, a moment where you learned something that you hadn't known or was driven home to you in a different way? >> well, i'll never forget waking up the morning of the 27th of january at the taj hotel. and the water had frozen. we couldn't take a hot shower or shave. i had to heat my water in the microwave. and there was something -- i said something didn't feel right. this was not a good omen. but it came together, and there was just a lot of these great moment trying to get used to -- on the refrigerator there was pictures of every democrat that had ever been on there and there was no space for my picture. so i was, like, ok. >> so many house parties where something funny happens. people open their homes and the stories of the kids are always wonderful and the journey. there's so many of them. you can't even pick between them. but it's a life-changing experience. i