if you go to -- this bookstore website for example robert smalls and you can find books like henry white. certainly the textbooks are getting better in the reconstruction, and again it isn't fair to pick on the textbooks in the 1970s. one doesn't want to know what is in the current textbook because of course it's kind of rewriting your own standards. part of it is popular memory and culture and the last part of the book talks about gone with the wind where they try to write the early 20th century call troll bore and that is kind of a classic image people have theirs a scene in gone with the wind there is a carpetbagger and a black activist sitting in a carriage and at least they are allowed to kind of your dress with dignity but they are dressed in this outlandish way and what i found interesting as my students have almost never seen gone with the wind but if you ask them what happened in atlanta, they will all tell you that it was burned. not really com really, the waree burned and a few warehouses and of course in the movie because they are building the king kong set in southern califo

if you go to -- this bookstore website for example robert smalls and you can find books like henry white. certainly the textbooks are getting better in the reconstruction, and again it isn't fair to pick on the textbooks in the 1970s. one doesn't want to know what is in the current textbook because of course it's kind of rewriting your own standards. part of it is popular memory and culture and the last part of the book talks about gone with the wind where they try to write the early 20th century call troll bore aha

reconstruction is it's a very long era. 1864 from that syracuse convention to 1901 when george henry whitejust walks away because he's had enough. what happens here is a reminder that history is not this kind of steady march of progress from the bad old days to the allegedly better modern times. americans who are very optimistic creatures like to think that tomorrow will be better than today, today is better than yesterday, and sometimes that's true and sometimes it's not. robert smalls certainly would have argued that south carolina and america was a better place to live in 1875 than it was 20 years before when he was still a slave in south carolina. but smalls lived until 1915, long enough to see the rise of jim crow in the south, the emergence of segregated school, underfunded schools for black children and, of course, the loss of voting rights for people like himself. smalls in a lecture to congress once estimated that 53,000, 53,000 people like o.k. tawf yous cato, teachers like poll workers and assemblymen were murdered during the wars of reconstruction. in some ways, what you see in

ed henry works the white house for us live there this afternoon.else are republicans saying about this whole thing. >> they're jumping on it because they say it suggests that the law is a job killer as they've long contended, although the white house is pushing back hard by saying actually the cbo report does not say employers are shedding jobs because of regulations from the new law, instead it's suggesting as you just noted that people who might be in full-time work without health insurance might be willing to go into part-time work if they can get these government incentives and get health insurance coverage. the problem according top arep paul ryan, though, is that means some people on the lower income scales may end up being blocked because they're no longer having full-time work from getting into the middle class. >> not to get on the ladder of life, to begin working, getting the dignity of work, getting more opportunities, rise in their income, joining the middle class, this means fewer people will do that. >> reporter: now the reason why th

natural history, but we have discovered that a growing number of es perts are worrying that henry's gleaming white tusks could draw the wrong attention. >> anything that a museum or collector has that involves a rye noe horn or elephant ivory, you need to be aware. >> reporter: and dozens of museums have been hit by organized gangs stealing rhino horns. and a display case shattered in south africa, and in ireland, they tried to hide theirs by putting them in storage, but the thieves got them anyway. >> and what we are seeing now is large sophisticated and syndicated criminal networks. >> reporter: this is the director of the national fish and wildlife service. he says that in d.c., expert perts are warning that the city could be next. the two animal tusks were given to the museum from ethiopia, and he says that the one tusk could go for as much as $500 an ounce on the black market. >>> and having a rhino on the premise. >> reporter: and having a large rhino like this one is worth as much as half a million. >> and if you think about it f a rhino horn is worth more than the weight in gold, it is lik

ed henry live at the white house for us. ed, is the red line threatening the white house. >> their defense, there are no easy solutions here with this crisis in syria, civil war that's gone on for three years now. you're right. they are under pressure and have for some time. it's been year since they drew the red line and said if assad uses chemical weapons, there would be enormous consequences from the u.s., from the west. he did threaten after those chemical weapons were used last year, the president did walk up to the line of u.s. force, pull back in part because there was an agreement from the syrian dictator he would turn over his chemical weapons. as we all know now, they have not turned over chemical weapons and continued killing their own people with conventional weapons, something i pressed jay carney about. >> turns out assad is not? >> you're conflating the two things. the red line -- >> said he was turning them over but he's not. >> first of all, no question the assad regime has money some deadlines. >> blowing d

chief white house correspondent ed henry live at the white house.n legitimately take from the jobs report? >> reporter: well, gregg, good morning. jason fuhrman, one of the president's top economic advisers, has said there are some hopeful signs. they still see the fact that over 100,000 jobs overall were created in january is, obviously, better than heading in the opposite direction. they also see some hopeful signs in the manufacturing sector. the p be going to michigan as well to sign the farm bill and try to promote some hopeful signs in the rural economy. but you're right, it's certainly lower than expected, and they put out this statement saying about the rural l economy, quote: >> r eporter: a lot of what we heard from the president in his state of the union, frankly, but the bottom line is when you mentioned, for example, the labor participation rate, yes, it did go up just a bit, but it was of about .2% in terms of people looking for jobs. that's a paltry increase, and it's sort of a reminder of what we've seen month after month. some hopef

but look, ed henry, the white house correspondent in fox was elected president of the white house correspondent's association. most of them are probably liberals unless they think you're favor. >> these interviews coming after the state of the union which draw a 14-year low in the ratings, it got tepid reviews. but since we're talking about something that's going to take place, the super bowl being in new jersey, i'm going to pivot to another new jersey story, since a member of chris christie's inner circle turned on him on friday in the george washington bridge scandal, his claims getting very different treatment in the media. christie said that he was angry at david wildstein. now, wildstein's lawyer says evidence exists, as well, tying mr. christie to having knowledge of the lane closures during the period when the lanes were closed, contrary to what the governor stated publicly in a two-hour press conference. the "new york times" which broke the story, nightly news cast, msnbc and cnn have been all over it. fox news has been more restrained and more skeptical. >> the state's leading newspaper

2 million full-time workers over the next ten years and now the white house is scrambling to respond to another very different ad. ed henryhe white house. >> i'm glad you didn't call me mr. ed. this was a surprise and fresh blow to the health care law because specifically going after the economic impact, the impact potentially on jobs, suggesting that there will be over two million less full-time positions, 2.5 million less. the cbo, which is nonpartisan and respected by the white house and republicans, saying people who will choose part-time work instead of full-time work bus they'll now get generous government subsidies to stay as part-time workers. one of the president's top economic adviseers was on defense, insisting this will be good for the economy, using the example of somebody who cut their work hours down from 60 hours a week to 30 hours a week, and was insisting that this would be a good thing for people because they would have more time with their family, which could be a positive impact but not admitting that this would also mean a drastic cut in their paycheck. take a listen. >> we just described that exampl

>> ed henry reporting from the white house. ed, thanks. >> thank you. >>> sticker shock has not limited to obamacare. some medicare patients are now getting bills much larger than they expected because of a loophole that favors the government. chief national correspondent jim angle tells us about that tonight. >> reporter: ruth felton is a real fireball, even in her 90s. >> how long have you been coming? >> several years. >> and you feel it really helps you? >> i do. >> reporter: when she was 95 she fell late one night and was taken to the emergency room in an ambulance where doctors found she had broken her pelvis in three places. >> they said that she would have to go to rehab and learn to walk again and to learn to function again. >> reporter: but her daughter was told that would mean a skilled nursing facility, which is expensive. >> she did indeed stay three full nights, and we were told that that was the criteria for having medicare pay for the rehab. >> reporter: there's a nasty catch, however. many people in the hospita

chief white house correspondent ed henry looks at the latest job numbers and what they mean. >>> still struggling on two of the issues that will be front and center in the midterm elections. jo jobs and health care, president obama was back on the road in michigan, campaigning not for votes but for credits for an economy that has not regained full speed. >> our unemployment rate is the lowest it was since before i was elected. >> while the unemployment rate did tick down slowly to 6.6%, and wall street responded positively, the president did not mention this was the second straight month of weak jobs numbers. the meager december increase of just 74,000 jobs followed up today with news that a lower than expected 113,000 jobs were added in january. republican kevin brady, chairman of the joint economic committee wrote, the economy is plodding along, neither encouraging or terribly disappointing, unless you're looking for a job as millions of americans are. there are 3.6 million more unemployed americans. he called on congress to step up the action. >> we have more work to do to potential

chief white house correspondent ed henry life at the white house with more on this controversy. ed?you, jon. the president today again talking about executive action. he was at a retreat in maryland with house democrats, sort of of an election year rallying cry, repeating what he said in the state of the union that he'll try to work with congress, but if republicans block him, he's going to go around them with executive action. as you noted, there's been a lot of that on health care, and it's a bit of a flip from what we saw in the 2008 campaign where then-candidate obama said this: >> the biggest problem that we're facing right now has to do with george bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through congress at all. [applause] and that's what i intend to reverse when i'm president of the united states of america. >> reporter: the president talked about reversing that as a candidate. look at this poll, new fox poll this week, is this how government is supposed to work? only 23% saying, yes, 74% saying, no. i pressed jay carney about this revers

the white house has a different story. ed henry is our chief white house correspondent. ed? >> a devastating report for the white house because of those numbers you just laid out. republicans pouncing on them and saying, this proves their long claim that this new law is a jobs killer. the white house begs to differ, they know this is a difficult report, so they immediately try to stop the bleeding, went on defense and basically said, look, this proves that republican claims, employers are going to set jobs. what the cbo is saying, employees on their own, because of the new choices they have, are going to decide that maybe it's better to keep a part time job instead of a full time job, because if they stay part time, they'll get these generous government subsidies to get health insurance. and one of the president's top economic aides used this example, you may have a worker working 60 hours a week with no health insurance, may decide on their own if they work 35 hours to get health insurance. if you cut your hours like that, won't you have less money in your pocket? >> less m

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$800 billion bill, the obama administration is trying to put a positive spin on things, to ed henry at the whitehouse with the latest positive spin. ed? go for it. >> what the house is saying today is, look, unemployment has come down. there's been economic growth for many months now since the stimulus was enacted into law. they believe those are signs of hope in the economy and that the president stopped the nation from falling into an economic depression, something worse than the recession that we actually faced. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell clear today in charging that the president fell well short of that promise, you'll remember, when the signed the stimulus into law that 3.5 million jobs would be saved or created by this new law. conservative economists even moe went on to say he thinks this was the worst bill ever passed in washington because of how it turn out. >> in washington it was free money. i call it tooth fairy economics. the money comes from the tooth fairy. you have to pay those bills. >> the bottom line is, senior advisedder dan fiver at the white house took to twit

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jenna: ed henry live at the white house, thank you.are unpopular with so many americans will play a key role in november's midterm elections. but while republican candidates are already on to offensive, many democrats and pro-democrat groups are shying away from defending the president's health care law. meantime, president obama ramping up a fundraising push for his fellow democrats, but with his poll numbers sagging, the president might do them more harm than good by hitting the campaign trail. one democrat facing a tough re-election fight, alaska senator mark begich even saying, quote, i don't need him campaigning for me. joining me now, the chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner. interesting piece out this morning, susan, pointing out the fact that, you know, there are no pro-obamacare campaign commercials or anything like that being run other than those, you know, from the department of health and human services, the government-funded ones, urging people to sign up. >> well, there can't be. it's been such a

ed henry live at the white house. stimulus was the dreaded s word on capitol hill for a long time. will the president's new plan fly? >> well, gretchen, it's going to be a hard sale for republicans. you know that. it's part of the president's new budget that will be unveiled in about a week. he's going to turn away from deficit reduction, go to government spending. he doesn't call it stimulus, spending but instead calls it investment. infrastructure, highway repair issues will create jobs and help obviously in terms of rebuilding the country. the president in the blue state of minnesota rather than going to red states, more republican states where health care may be unpopular. interesting. bill clinton as you know was in kentucky trying to help out alison grimes, a democratic senate candidate trying to take the seat currently held by republican mitch mcconnell. when senate majority leader harry reid was pressed on why president obama isn't going out to red states, he had an interesting answer. >> we have one president that's been going every place and that's clinton. he's traveling

ed henry is at the white house story. ed?icked off with david axlerod telling the "new york times" today he is worried, kind of finding a wakeup call, if you will, to fellow democrats that he is deeply concerned they're focused too much on the 2016 presidential race, not enough on these mid-term elections where not just the house but the senate is up for grads. washington, the republicans are likely to hold control of the house and the senate could flip from democrats to republicans.k+ that would have massive implications. david axlerod never mentioned hillary clinton but we spoke to other democratic strategists today who say their fear, like axlerod, there's too much focus on 2016, not 2014 among democrats and too much focus on hillary clinton. >> there's excitement for her and presidential elections are just sexier than mid-term elections. people are excited to look forward towards it. but we can't be missing there is still an agenda to get forward, and we have to hold the senate to be able to do it. >> now, why all this ma

chief white house correspondent ed henry is live on the north lawn with that part of the story. >> good evening. a senior u.s. official told us this truce is a glimmer of hope. they're only cautiously optimistic. the u.s. just revoked the visas of 20 top ukrainian officials that they think ordered the violence. shortly after arriving in mexico, president obama turned his attention to ukraine, condemning the violence and putting the onus on the government to pull back it riot police. >> we're going to be watching very carefully, and we expect the ukrainian government to show restraint, to not resort to violence in dealing with peaceful protesters. there will be consequences if people step over the line. >> a threat hinting at u.s. sanctions against ukrainian president victori iayanukovych its associations. they're declaring of the ukrainian government, quote, it's refused to take meaningful, timely steps to resolve the country's political economic crisis through dialogue while making opeaque deals for russia fnlsing as a means of avoiding necessary reforms. john bolton is warning both pa

he had just written a very big book on henry kissinger called kissinger in the nixon white house the price of power a vicious attack on his -- henry kissinger and probably prevented kissinger from becoming secretary of state again in the reagan administration which he very much wanted but when this book came out it was really over for kissinger. so the book was published but it had not yet came out and when it came out a become a bestseller. he did a thousand interviews for it so we booked him before the book comes out. the book comes out and he is as proud as a pistol and he comes to college in new paul in the fall of 1983 and i am his host when it comes to the college. i wanted to read to you one short section of the book that describes hersh's visit to the college and i think in some ways it captures hersh's personality. i first met sy hersh and the fall of 1985 when he was 40 years old. i invited him to speak at my university a small college 70 miles from newark city near the hudson river right taught journalism for 30 years. my office was located in a remote part of the 257-acre

ed henry has news from the white house.he president just spoke. >> it's pretty much a mixed bag for the president because they're looking at the big picture here and saying the good news is that you have had 47 straight months of private sector job growth. that's obviously good for the president. a total of 8.5 million new jobs. on the negative side, this is the second straight month that the jobs numbers have come in lower than expected. that's novelty the way the president wanted to head into this critical mid-term election year where democrats are trying to hold on to the senate. defending a controversial health care law. now the jobs numbers are weak. the about presidency in michigan, signed the farm bill, and said it's time for congress to take more action to help the economy. >> we have more work to do to potentially make sure that unemployment insurance is put in place for a lot of folks out there who need it. we got more work to do to pass the minimum wage. we got more work to do to do immigration reform, which will

tonight we will analyze with presidential senior advisor valerie jarrett and chief white house correspondent ed henrye or your daughter, how you can think her work should be valued less in the workplace? >> the democrats keep saying american women are getting hosed by the american economic system. maria will weigh in on that. >> come here. come here.

chief white house correspondent ed henry has tonight's top story. >> health secretary kathleen sebelius gave conflicting signals today, first suggesting he hopes the administration will meet its health care goal of 7 million enrollees. >> i hope so. >> before repeatedly hedging on specifics. >> we have millions of people and we'll have millions more by the end of march. >> sebelius also ducked on whether she agrees with vice president biden revising the numbers last week. >> we may not get to 7, but we're going to get to 5 or 6, and that's a hell of a start. >> while at the white house, spokesman jay carney would not give any numeric goals. the the important factors here are there's a substantial number of people in the millions who enroll. >> sebelius is now insisting that 7 million enrollees would never even her goal. >> first of all, 7 million was not the administration. that was a cbo, i'm not quite sure where they got their numbers. >> except the secretary seemed quite sure when she told nbc news this last september. >> what does success look like? >> i think success looks like at

chief white house correspondent ed henry is live with this very complicated topic. so ed, the president still defending this health care law, but break this down for us because i think people watching at home are going to be really concerned about what this means as far as government intervention into private business. >> well, gretchen, the uncomplicated part of this, we've counted it up and it's the 2 227th time that the -- 27th time that the president has unilaterally changed his health care law. you have republicans on the hill changing noise about how he has been rewriting the bill with all the delays. the president insisted this gives folks more flexibility to transition to the new law, but republicans on the hill say this is about politics and about another delay until after the mid term election. take a listen. >> we understood from the start that there were going to be some challenges in terms of transition. you know, when you've had one system where a whole lot of people did not have any health insurance whatsoever, for a very long period of time, an we fi

chief white house correspondent ed henry on what some see as a very real power struggle. >> reporter: aides to president obama today took any u.s. military option off the table for dealing with the chaos in ukraine, the signal they are on the edge of following the european union's move to impose sanctions. >> given the violence that we saw overnight in ukraine, i think it's fair to say that the options available to the president are being considered with some urgency. >> reporter: this follows a stern warning from the president to his ukranian counterpart on wednesday, as kiev was engulfed in flames. >> there will be consequences if people step over the line. >> reporter: critics quickly noted the president has talked of lines before, particularly the red line over syrian president bashar al assad's use of chemical weapons and did not follow through. >> i think vladamir putin fully understands that barack obama's rhetoric will continue, but there will be no substantive u.s. actions that have any effect on what's going on in the ukraine. >> reporter: what binds the situations in ukrain

chief white house correspondent ed henry on what some democrats are trying to do. >> as president obama the road again today to push his policies, while office positionin midterm elections -- >> i said this would be a year of action, and i meant it. >> an increasing number of his allies expressed fear. democrats are not acting aggressively enough to stop republicans from taking the senate. amid concerns party activists are too focused on 2016, and electing former secretary of state hillary clinton. >> there's excitement for her out there, and let's face it, presidential elections are sexier than midterm elections. people are a little bit excited to look forward to it, but we can't be missing that there still is an agenda to get forward, and we have to hold the senate to do it. >> buzz keeps building among some on the left for a race where even if she runs, it could end in defeat just like 2008. >> she's being positioned again as this unstoppable juggernaut who is going to win the nomination and then win the presidency, which, of course, we have heard that story before. >> without using

chief white house correspondent ed henry tonight on what really happened. >> president obama celebrated the fifth anniversary of the american recovery act quietly, playing golf for the third straight day in california, leaving his staff back in snowy washington to play some defense over his economic record, amid a barrage of attacks from the right. >> the most expensive policy mistake ever made in washington. i call it tooth fairy economics, that the money comes down from the tooth fairy, but you have to pay those bills. >> dan pfeiffer tweeted back by saying just say so wasn't an agenda five years ago and isn't today. gop attacks are a perfect example of the dilution al message that makes them appear out of touch. the stimulus was the president's first major domestic achievement and like health care, which came later, it's still generating controversy years after he signed it into law in denver. >> it will create or save 3.5 million jobs in the next two years, including 60,000 plus here in colorado. >> mitch mcconnell said today those lofty projections have fallen well short, declaring

henry, did they let you guys inside the white house for little while to see the photo op. you get a view of it? >> bill, i just saw pictures and it looked pretty elegant. it didn't look like income inequality event or minimum wage hike event it looked pretty elegant. >> it looked like louie the 14th. >> these state dinners cost hundreds of thousands of dollars democrats and republicans do them when they are in the office. i was standing outside the gate in the tux. i guess my invite got -- super bowl sunday to issue view the president. >> did they send a plate out or anything. >> nothing. i had to do a cold shot with ms. megan. >> it was better that you weren't there. the dinner was 2500 calories beginning with caviar. you don't need that henry. beginning with caviar and quail eggs. that was first one. second one was winter garden salad with baby carrots and merlot lettuce. >> dristled on it? >> then they had ribeye. peter will be happy to hear that and paul mccartney will be proud. rib buy beef jasper farm bleu cheese. they got three different wines, was anybody plastered

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chief white house correspondent ed henry tells us tonight, the president is not backing down one bit. >> offering an election year rallying cry to house democrats today, president obama repeated he'll work with congress sometimes, go around them with unilateral action other times. >> we have put forward a range of executive actions that are going to make a difference. >> a 180 from what he promised in the 2008 campaign. >> the biggest problem that we're facing right now have to do with george bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through congress at all. and that's what i intend to reverse when i'm president of the united states of america. >> confronted on that today, spokesman jay carney said the president as a candidate was targeting specific moves then president bush made regarding the war on terror. >> why the change of heart on the idea of pulling back executive action? now he seems to be full steam ahead. >> let's be clear what we're talking about. there's no question this president has been judicious in his use of executive action, execu

two white house correspondence fnc henry and jonathan karl are exceptions to the rule.hey do ask hard questions. the president seemed to be fine with the interview and posed a picture afterward in front of the american flag. but i do know that some of his advisors were not pleased. one of them sarcastically saying why didn't o'reilly ask him about his birth certificate? that's the mentality some have that he is not to be challenged. that's not the mentality here. brit hume covered the white house for many years, interviewed a lot of presidents. so, hume, i submit to you this is the most docile national press corps we have ever had in this country with the possible exception of the jfk folks. am i wrong? how different the at no, sir fear was in the briefing room at the white house and the chomp prable places on capitol hill. most' much more adversarial at the white house much more aggressive. this was still the hangover atmosphere from the watergate era when the white house press corps photo it had been badly embarrassed by the fact that it failed to pick up on that stor

here is chief white house correspondent ed henry. >> while control of the senate will be decided in severaltates where democrats are vulnerable, president obama today visited the safely blue state of minnesota, pushing to spend more taxpayer dollars, $302 billion, to be precise, to rebuild america's roads and bridges. >> these are competitive granlts we created as part of the recovery act, also known as the stimulus, which actually works. despite what everybody claims. >> yet backlash on issues ranging from the stimulus to health care has left the president not so popular in red states like kentucky, where democrat allison grimes is trying to take senate republican leader mitch mcconnell's seat, so she's instead turning to surrogates like former president bill clinton. >> it makes a big difference who wins this election. >> and when pressed yesterday on why the current president is not out there helping vulnerable senate democrats, even harry reid suggested the former president may be a better asset. >> we do have one president who has been going everyplace, and that's clinton. >> today, se

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chief white house correspondent ed henry has tonight's top story. >> as president obama plotted strategy on policy and politics today with senate democrats at a baseball stadium in nationals park, ahead of the crucial midterm elections, the chief of budget office was on capitol hill, taking a swing at a central issue in the campaign, health care. >> by providing heavily subsidized health insurance to people with low income and then withdrawing the subsidies as income rises, the act creates a disincentive for people to work. >> douglas elmendorf continues to give them campaign fodder by declaring the law will smark some lower income americans to lower their work hours to avoid losing government subsidsubsidi leading the positions to drop by 2 million positions. >> rise in their income, join the middle class. this means fewer people will do that. that's why i'm troubled by this. >> yet after a day on defense over the report, democrats went on offense today. pushing back hard on republican charges the cbo was confirming the law is killing jobs. >> when the media immediately takes the republ

chief white house correspondent ed henry has the story. >> standing with socialist french president francois hollande today, president obama was pressed on a domestic matter and he downplayed the significance of what is now the 27th majter delay of his own signature health care reform. >> we're smoothing out this transition. giving people the opportunities to get right with the law. but recognizing that there are going to be circumstances in which people are trying to dethe right thing and it may take a little time. >> on the question of time, republicans say the president is simply running out the clock. so vulnerable senate democrats do not have to defend unpopular parts of the law until after november. >> why does the democrats' signature legislative accomplishment have to be repeatedly delayed so it can save the jobs of the people who voted for it. >> the latest change delays fines until 2016 for employers with 50 to 99 full-time workers. while firms with over 100 employees can push off some penalties in 2015 if they're covering at least 70% of their workers. the president insisted this

but ed henry, he was elected president of the white house correspondents association. you do not get honor from mostly liberal colleagues unless they think you are fair. >> this come after the state of the union which drew a record low, 14 year row in the ratings, and got tepid reviews from the liberal commentators. we are talking about the super bowl in new jersey i will by have the to another new jersey story. a member of chris christie's inner circle town on him in the george washington scandal his claims are getting very different treatment in the media. christie said he was anger over the high school acquaintance he named to the agency that runs the bridge and now the lawyer says in a letter that and i quote, "evidence exists, as well, tying mr. christie to having knowledge of the lane closures during the period when the lanes were closed contrary to what the governor stated publicly in a two hour press conference." the not not and msnbc, they have been all over and fox news has been more restrained and more skeptical. >> the state's leading newspaper is saying, i

chief white house correspondent ed henry has more. >> reporter: megyn, good to see you, it is importanthat is driving all this action and potentially more tweaks to the president's health care law. it is the election coming up. and there is a lot of pressure on democrats particularly in the senate if the president were to lose control of the senate. then he likely would have neither chamber and his final two years in office would be that much harder to implement this law and deal with other issues like immigration reform. bottom line, i spoke to an insurance industry official, a top one, who said in private conversations the officials are saying they're concerned when the president tweaked the plans late last year, it was only extending them. if you like your plan you can keep them for a year. so what will happen in september, october, right on the eve of the elections those plans will run out again and people will get the rate charges that tell them what they cost if they want to keep the plans. the rates could be going up. that is one reason it is driving the potential exchange, exten

chief white house correspondent ed henry updates us tonight on the fight over new sanctions against the islamic republic. >> as president obama gears up for sensitive talks monday with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on thorny issues from syria to iran, republican lindsey graham today charged that under political pressure from the president senate majority leader harry reid is jeopardizing america's security by not lining up new sanctions against iran. >> this administration i think is going to allow the iranians an enrichment capability and you're leading down to the road to armageddon so i'm trying to reset this before it's too late. >> reporter: reid insisted if iran fails to follow follow through on the interim nuclear agreement the senate will move quickly to pass new sanctions, and he claimed even the influential american israeli lobbying group apac wants to hold off on a vote over the iran sanctions bill that now has 59 bipartisan supporters. >> what they said, and i quote. stopping the iranian nuclear program should rest on bipartisan support, and there should not be a

chief white house correspondent ed henry says that much of that talk is tinged with more than a little regret and plenty of doubt. >> reporter: while insurance industry officials today raised fresh questions about whether the obama administration's new enrollment numbers rin flatted, vice president joe biden proclaimed the health law is finally on track, even as he acknowledged that a stop in miami last night there have been stumbles. >> i talked about how a slow start, not being able to, you know, get on the internet, the website, but that's moving along. still occasionally get a glitch and slow up, but people -- it's not so slowed up they get up and leave. >> reporter: and an increasing number of americans wish they could leave president obama's signature achievement all together. a new fox poll out tonight showing 55% wish the law had never passed. 37% are glad it did. asked if we knew in 2009 what we know today would congress have passed it? 64% said no and 28% said yes. >> the obamacare snafus, all this stuff is hurting -- and his approval rating is declining and his credibility p

joining us from washington what's white house correspondent ed henry.n't have done that i said all along president obama wants to play golf. fine with me. i have no problem with that i wouldn't come out here and play golf using a million gallons of water on these courses. am i wrong. >> i think you are right. i don't want to be a hypocrite. i like golf nevada, probably guzzle a lot of the water. i don't go out there and give speeches before the round and say would he go have to be worried about the drought and help people. i think it was a communications miscue if you think about it this white house a week before the healthcare.gov rollout allowed the president go to go out there and say it's going to be as easy as booking travel on kayak.com and buying a tv on amazon.com. talking about the drought and playing on courses guzzling water not a communications. >> do you think the president knows it and cares? everybody would know. i think he is in his second term. >> he wants to play golf, is he going to play golf. the reaction is if i don't play it other

chief white house correspondent ed henry live with this part of the story. ed, republicans have been using the five-year anniversary of the recovery act to attack the state of our nation's economy, correct? >> reporter: that's right. basically the republican line is that, you know, five years later, the economy is not doing that much better. steven moore, the conservative, the economic guru, was on fox a short time ago saying spending nearly $1 trillion while the country is deep in debt is sort of what he calls tooth fairy economics. >> i'd make the case that the stimulus bill, which was nearly $1 trillion exactly five years ago to this day, was maybe the most expensive policy mistake ever made in washington. >> reporter: so it was the president's first major domestic achievement, even before the health care bill. and like the health care bill, still generating controversy, gretchen. >> so what is the white house's case for the stimulus? how are they saying it worked so well? >> reporter: they say it was clearly not perfect. there was some money wasted. but

. >> chief white house correspondent ed henry joins me on set today. fresh off of anchoring as well. and bringing me girl scout cookies. >> yes, my daughter. >> the president obviously spinning it in the direction that he wants, which is most americans according to president obama want to see this hike. >> what he's doing is jumping on this congressional budget office report from a few days ago. they're nonpartisan, they're seen as the umpire here. they said, look, if you raise the minimum rage to 10.10 an hour that will help 16.5 million working families have more money in their pocket, they'll put that in the economy. yes, fact, that's a good thing. but the negative side the report went on to say is it will kill about 500,000 jobs. you ask any small business person in the country, they often say, not every single one, but many will say, if i've got to do that because the federal government's telling me to do it, i might have to lay somebody else off or i won't be able to hire someone else. there's plus and minuses. yes, there are facts on either side