jumped in after barack hussein obama, i do not had said solemnly swear would be in that first stanza, but .. obama didn't know that so they were off kilter from the very beginning and then you saw roberts really just sort of lost his place. >> rose: and had a bit of -- there was some worry that the new president was not officially the new president? >> well, that is the next day story. of course in the -- all the excitement of the inaugural balls, no one thought much about it, the next morning, a young lawyer in the office of legal counsel, harvard law professor on leave named david barohn starting looking into this and he said, you know, this is potentially a problem here, because we live in an age and here is where, you know, it relates to the larger story, where justices like anthony scalia and clarence thomas, they call themselves texture list, they believe in the letter of the law and they may say if the oath is not executed exactly right, there might be some defect with it, and david barohn suggested to david craig the first white house counsel, maybe you ought to redo it, and b

. >> until an audacious young man named barak hussein obama pointed america to a newera of hope. and now four years later, that man can proudly say -- >> it could have been even worse. >> as obama took the oath of office the economy was in freefall. so he quickly assembled a team of fresh economic and financial experts. one of whom actually couldn't even be linked in anyway to the original problem. they put in place an economic stimulus package that definitely didn't ruin the country, and the results spoke for themselves. >> people say well, you know, the stock market didn't fully recover. yeah, but it's recovered more than people expected last year. things are still tough, they just aren't as bad as they could have been. unemployment is still at 9.6, yes, but it's not 12 or 13. or 15. >> or 19, or 80. there's no limit to how high numbers can go, by helping to make things less bad, the recovery act is helping. >> it was the obama doctrine. that less bad was better than more bad. and so the president would use the power of his office to listen badness. so just as america began to t

>> thank you, president barack hussein obama. he has helped jump start a new ottoman empire. you look across tunisia, libya, egypt and iraq and iran and syria, lebanon, you look and you go, oh, my gosh, this is the makings, this is the beginnings of massive beginnings of a new ottoman empire that president obama can take great credit for. >> stephen: you heard him right. the ottoman empire. it ruled the middle east for over 600 years until it finally collapsed in 1922. or did it? (cheers and applause) (laughter) it did. (laughter) but according to gohmert the ottoman empire is making a comeback with the help of barack obama. and we don't stand a chance, folks! the ottomans were known for their formidable weaponry. razor-sharp scimatars that could lop off your head and comfy padded foot stools that could trip up dick van dyke. (laughter) so get ready to go back to the days of suleiman the magive in sent and mepl mehmed the meh. our young men will be conscripted into the janissarys to guard the circumcision pa civil von at topkapi pal lals. mark my words. also, look them up on

>>> i, barack hussein obama -- >> a candidate of hope -- >> on this date, we have chosen hope over fear. >> -- inherits a nation in crisis. >> the briefing was absolutely chilling. >> my fit job when i came into office was making sure we didn't get into a great depression. >> a leader driven to make history. >> health care reform cannot wait. >> he doesn't want to just be another president. he wanted to be a great president. >> cool under pressure. >> it was a huge risk that the president took. >> the united states killed osama bin laden. >> his presidency marked by political division. >> speaker boehner, he says you flinched. >> i'm sure that's his version of events. >> i think the biggest failure is the president's unwillingness to listen to the american people. >> a man whose style would both help him and hurt him as a leader. >> when i'm making decisions, i try to not get caught up in the emotions of the moment. >> "obama revealed: the man, the president." >> i can't wait to tell my children about it. >> watches, belts, keychains! >> it was an historic moment. >> prepare to take the

the most part it's gone on challenge because we have a black man in the white house and barack hussein obama perpetuated these these whisper campaigns of being some sort of crypto muslim manchurian candidate to the point where you know even today there are nearly a quarter of republican voters who believe that barack obama is a muslim and so you know we've seen the obama campaign to this day not set foot inside an american mosque yet you know we see you know the research center came out with a study early as this year that showed the most despised demographic groups in america today are gays and muslims so if you're a gay muslim you're doubly screwed you know obviously you know we had to create you know these myths of the bogeyman and i think that you know right now arabs and muslims are the proverbial whipping boys and girls and not to mention the f.b.i. sting operation trying to provoke muslim communities the spying on muslim neighborhoods totally you know on regulated and also just the sikh temple shooting where this guy you know nine eleven tattoo and he's shooting out things that really

i, barack hussein obama -- >> so help you god? >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr.ew day with towering expectations. >> he looked at me and said, it's been an incredible ride, hasn't it? i said yeah. he said, it's just beginning. >> on this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear. unity of purpose over conflict and discord. >> for many, barack obama and his presidency symbolized much more than political change. >> for the sons and daughters of slaves, their offspring, for people who have build a capital. it means so much to every human being that live in this country. >> may god bless the united states of america. hope is what led me here today. >> candidate obama ran on a message of hope and change. it's not just the size of the crowds but there's something different. people come and wait for hours for him. sometimes they start crying when he talks. >> barack obama! >> i need you to stand up! >> we want change! we want change! we want change! >> do you think people saw in him what they wanted to? >> there was some projection on to him perhaps morthan a

points is a strategy to determine the outcome of a national election to stop president barack hussein obama in his tracks i mean why would you all of a sudden know voter fraud manufactured crisis a net. you know we're rolling out of legislation right now for a manufactured crisis and then people already show id the utility bill. there's already a process in place right pins on the state but there's a process in place that is so identification and so this is obviously about something else this is not about voter fraud this is not about voter integrity it's about disenfranchising the forty seven percent of people who vote for president barack obama so that we can get leverage in an election and so just like in two thousand we saw what happened with gore where my fear is that we don't see something like that happening this year and this week ahead we have basically four groups who find it hard to get voter i.d.'s and that is people who live in urban areas you know who are poor who wouldn't have never had who never owned a car and so never never need a driver's license i live here in d.c. i don

>>> i, barack hussein obama -- >> a candidate of hope -- >> on this date, we have chosen hope over fearerits a nation in crisis. >> the briefing was absolutely chilling. >> my first job when i came into office was making sure we didn't get into a great depression. >> a leader driven to make history. >> health care reform cannot wait. >> he doesn't just want to be another president. he wanted to be a great president. >> cool under pressure. >> it was a huge risk that the president took. >> the united states killed osama bin laden. >> his presidency marked by political division. >> speaker boehner, he says you flinched. >> i'm sure that's his version of events. >> i think the biggest failure is the president's unwillingness to listen to the american people. >> a man whose style would both help him and hurt him as a leader. >> when i'm making decisions, i try to not get caught up in the emotions of the moment. >> "obama revealed, the man, the president." >>> history in the making. >> i can't wait to tell my children about it. >> it was an historic moment. >> are you prepared to take the oa

say anything think if anyone did what we declared we're going to bury president barack hussein obama the first african-american president of united states of america and we look at the agenda of romney and ryan that want to see what middle class one is obviously for equity in the tax code one is obviously for making sure that people have access to health care and the other is just for the rich getting richer no roof while the rich no fuel for the poor we must at some point in this country does. that we're going to strengthen the safety net and stop american citizens from falling through the cracks that's president obama so laughlin you you look like you are about to jump on our beat i don't i don't like questioning the motives of people people's policies you know i think republicans democrats both think they have policies that they feel are best for the country i don't you know i don't think anyone's out for. this isn't so massive you know the republican party is not just out there to screw over the middle class and poor people like you know there's an ideology i guess there's a back

you have barack hussein obama who is not a muslim but he has an understanding of the culture having livedn indonesia and his father who wasn't around very much was a muslim. he understands it he goes to cairo. he does a massive outreach. okay. they basically are giving him the finger all over the world. that's what they are doing. >> yes. it isn't all of them. >> no. but it's enough to make the american voter stand up and say why are we wasting our time? what kind of policy is it and what kind of successes are we having when we have an ambassador murdered particularly one who was certainly a friend of the liberal uprising. that is shocking and distressing to americans and when they hear the administration saying as it did as recently as yesterday and some respects still today, this is really the result of ugly crude little movie trailer. activist use to the foment trouble in the middle east. that doesn't compute. >> it doesn't make sense, bit argue. i don't know who would that was the match that lit the fuse. >> you are basically looking at a policy of three and a half years that really h

. >> barack hussein obama do solemnly swear. >> i barack hussein obama do solemnly swear -- >> that ioffice of president to the united states faithly. >> that i will execute -- >> faithfully the -- the office of president of the united states -- >> the office of the president of the united states faithfully. >> before we talk about the redo what happened? >> i have to say, i'm the first person to find out what really happened. it is a story about how you have to read the whole e-mail because what happened was the chief justice's assistant e-mailed precisely how he was going to divide up the words to a secretary in the office of the congressional committee that was handling the inauguration. with an attachment explaining precisely how the oath would work. that secretary either never opened it or never forwarded it or deleted it, so obama didn't know how roberts was going to divide up the words and obama kind of jumped the gun and roberts became flustered. that's really what happened. >> then they have to readminister the oath, you have the picture in the book from sometime later in the

. >> thank you president barack hussein obama. this will be quite a legacy for you.lped jump start a new empire and left our friend and ally israel so vulnerable in this sea of radicalism that he has helped bring to the surface. >> from the well of the u.s. house of representatives to the campaign trail, we've been hearing a lot about the relationship between the u.s. and israel. we wanted to take a closer look at where that relationship stands and what the candidates are saying about it. wolf blitzer goes in depth. >> one country was singled out by both candidates in their convention speeches. >> president obama has thrown allies like israel under the bus. >> our commitment to israel's security must not waiver. >> president obama came to office determined to make middle east peace a central tenet of his foreign policy, even if it meant exerting what some of his advisers described as tough love on israel. he took a harder line on israeli settlements in palestinian territory. >> in my conversations with prime minister netanyahu, i was very clear about the need to stop

. >> i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear -- >> but even as the new president took the oath, the grand expectations of this historic occasion were clashing with the fierce urgency of the challenges. >> starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking america. >> probably no one since roosevelt has entered office with that sense of crisis, that sense of burden. >> the problems waiting for him on the oval office desk included two wars, a broken health care system, an economy on the verge of collapse, millions facing foreclosure, a jobless rate spiking relentlessly skyward. >> tomorrow we're expecting another dismal jobs report on top of the 2.6 million jobs that we lost last year. we've lost half a million jobs each month for the last two months. >> but while all agreed on its ferocity, the crisis failed to unite a polarized country. despite a highly vocal opposition, the president managed to push through the biggest economic stimulus in history. >> there you go. it's done. >> not a single republican in the house voted yea on the s

. >> i, barack hussein obama.om there. >> you have details i've never read before about how this went down. >> this is the crazy thing about journalism. we follow these events when they happen, and then they sort of, you know, the passing parade leaves them. but i wanted to go back, why was it messed up that way? and there's actually a fairly simple answer. john roberts, a lot of people at the time, accused him of not preparing. quite the opposite. he was preparing so obsessively that his wife said to him, you know, at this point the dog thinks he's president. now, what he did was he prepared a version of the oath marking off where the breaks would be. and his assistant e-mailed that to the secretary at the congressional inaugural committee. that secretary never opened the attachment. and never forwarded it to obama's office. so what you saw there was that obama interrupted roberts after i barack hussein obama. he didn't realize roberts wanted to do i solemnly swear in the first stanza. that flustered roberts. >>

thank you president barack hussein obama. i'm not one of those who says he's not a christian. i know he's helped jump start a new ottoman empire. >> the only thing he knows about ottomans is where he puts his feet when he's falling asleep watching fox. >>> up next, conservatives want to unleash paul ryan and let ryan be ryan. we say bring it on. let's look at the real paul ryan right here on "hardball." you're watching it. the place for politics. >>> i'm milissa. >>> welcome back to "hardball." conservatives swoon for congressman paul ryan when he was chosen for the republican ticket, but he's since played the classic role of second fiddle. moderating his positions on both fiscal and cultural issues to conform to romney's views. well, now that romney/ryan campaign is coming off a bit of a couple rough weeks there. some conservatives have just got the answer. simply let ryan be ryan. that was the advice they dished to "the new york times" today. but is that really the smart move, really? joan walsh is editor-at-large of salon and author of "what's the matter with white people."

. >> i barack hussein obama do solemnly swear. >> reporter: when president obama was sworn into office a half years ago the nation was in the grip of an economic crisis at home. while fighting two hot wars overseas. >> we were essentially a triage unit when we arrived. before we got there, the economy shrunk by 8.9%, worst quarter since 1930. we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. the banking and financial system was locked up. the >> the manufacturing base of the country-- auto industry, et cetera-- is two weeks away from collapse. and america has now been nine years at war. now i said to him, i said, you know, do we have a priority? he goes, yeah, all of them. >> reporter: presidential advisors david axelrod and rahm emanuel said president obama's leadership style during those first chaotic months were vintage obama. he would gather people together, consider all options and then take decisive action. >> what he doesn't encourage is needless conversation. he know it is information that he needs to make decisions when he calls groups together to talk through those questions that he has.

. >> i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear -- >> but even as the new president took the oath, thetions of this historic occasion were clashing with the fierce urgency of the challenges. >> starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking america. >> probably no one since roosevelt has entered office with that sense of crisis, that sense of burden. >> the problems waiting for him on the oval office desk included two wars, a broken health care system, an economy on the verge of collapse, millions facing foreclosure, a jobless rate spiking relentlessly skyward. >> tomorrow we're expecting another dismal jobs report on. the to have the 2.6 million jobs that we lost last year. we've lost half a million jobs each month for the last two months. >> but while all agreed on its ferocity, the crisis failed to unite a polarized country. despite a highly vocal opposition, the president managed to push through the biggest economic stimulus in history. >> there you go. it's done. >> not a single republican in the house voted yea on the stimulus