i think jimmy carter in this book argues is not necessarily up front, jimmy carter and a great kind of moral vision that had a great deal of clarity to eds. what he did not have it was in the capacity to govern, the capacity to push things and those concrete solutions and that was also getting back to the first question probably one of his biggest troubles that he can never really over,. >> [inaudible] >> [inaudible] >> [inaudible] >> [inaudible] >> absolutely, i think that jimmy carter i would put it this way, jimmy carter lightning in here and skills of politics to put bluntly, he was not lbj. he was good at campaigning absolutely and some people would criticize him to read this time of the speech which was that it struck them that he went to go back to campaigning rather than governing the country which is i think attention they seated out his presidency but he was no lbj in the sense he couldn't put a lot of weight on people and couldn't get them to move behind things. but i have seen with ads we a greenwood, one of the things you can say jimmy carter was a critic irving but the qu

up next, 30 years ago, president jimmy carter gave his malaise speech which actually opened the door for his successor ronald reagan. we'll look at that episode with carter speechwriter rick hertzberg and talk about how the things presidents say can dictate who succeeds them in office and what that means for president obama today. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. >>> capitol police say they shot and killed a man who had a weapon near the capitol building. police say they tried to pull the driver over in a routine traffic stop but he refused, hitting an officer with his car as he tried to flee. police confronted him a few blocks from the capitol. he was shot after he showed a weapon. that weapon has been recovered. the sixth time was a charm with space shuttle endeavor. endeavor is on a delivery mission to the international space station. on wall street, a day-long rally on better than expected economic reports. stocks wracking up strong gains. the dow jones industrials added 256 points. the s&p 500 up 26 and the nasdaq ended up 63 points higher. now back to "hardball." >>> w

also, it was 30 years ago tonight that president jimmy carter gave what has come to be known as the malaise speech. as an aide to former president carter at that time, i remember watching the speech at home and wondering why he was saying what he was saying before i became a carter speechwriter myself. there's still a lot about that speech that's relevant to the challenges president obama faces today. the question of energy independence. we have -- or dependence we have from foreign countries. the threat of nuclear weapons getting into the hands of dangerous countries and, of course, human rights violations around the world. i'm going to talk to one of the men who wrote that speech later on in the show. >>> is we'll debate sarah palin and sotomayor. by now you've probably seen the president giving his first major league toss at last night's all-star game last night in st. louis. how does that compare to the strike from the man he was sent in there to relieve, george w. bush? we'll compare the two arms in the "hardball" side show. we begin with the president and how he's doing. chuck todd's

up next, 30 years ago, president jimmy carter gave his malaise speech which actually opened the dooruccessor ronald reagan. we'll look at that episode with carter speechwriter kent hurtsburg and talk about how the things presidents say can dictate who succeeds them in office and what that means for president obama today. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. so, 's the problem? these are hot. we're shipping 'em everywhere. but we can't predict our shipping costs. dallas. detroit. different rates. well with us, it's the same flat rate. same flat rate. boston. boise? same flat rate. alabama. alaska? with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. dude's good. dude's real good. dudes. >>> i'm julia boorstin with your market wrap. a day long rally stau stocks racking up strong gains. the dow jones industrials added 56 points. the nasdaq gained almost 3.5% to finish 62 points higher. economic reports helped fuel a sense the economy is on the mend. industrial production and mortgage applications proved better

but reagan knew what we need it after jimmy carter showed weakness across the globe. reagan knew we needed to talk tough. but reagan was a realist. he only send our troops into battle to times. >> host: you talked about the evil empire. he had a small revolution of candor. he was speaking truth as an american president for the first time about who the soviets work, etc.. but let us remember he didn't in the eastern europe, you know what i mean? ki new diplomacy, honesty, words, the force of going forward and explain the way to go. >> guest: he was a realist in the foreign policy despite the fact that his rhetoric was pretty heated for the time. the establishment was shocked. you look at reagan over eight years he wasn't a neocon, he wasn't a radical. he was down the middle. this is >> guest: >> host: he can to his conservative in the 40's 50's and 60's. >> guest: but when you look at how he used troops and diplomacy -- barack obama on the other side would use rhetoric of the left while in electability his policies like reagan's more realist. >> host: on foreign policy

he knew what we needed after jimmy carter showed weakness across the globe. reagan knew we needed to talk tough but he was a realist. he only send our troops into battle to times. >> host: talk about the evil empire. the evolution of candor he spoke truth as the american president for the first time in one generation but we need to remember he did not save eastern europe. he did diplomacy, honestly when fourth explaining was the way to go. >> guest: he was a realist with his foreign policy despite the fact that his rhetoric was pretty heated. the foreign policy establishment was shocked. if you look at reagan over eight years, he was not a neocon he was not a radical, he was down the middle. >> host: a modern 20th century conservative. >> guest: but he was a realist. when you look at how he used troops, diplomacy labeouf barack obama on the other side in actuality his policies like reagan were more real test on foreign policy. we have already established the unrepentant and radical for domestic. >> host: quickly to which it do you belong? >> i belong to the c

jimmy carter was president. >> host: you were a young man. >> guest: i was 17, 18. my senior year you know, we had the iranian hostage crisis, inflation was at 21%, america was in that. and i talk about this in the book, where ron dellums, the liberal -- the liberals little from berkeley california actually came up to me and said man, you know what i don't understand? why is it that all of you cats, is what he said, you cats with your energy are conservatives? back in my day you would have been on my side. i thought of that and i said when you think of the republican party you think of vietnam, you think of watergate, you see conservatives as opponents to civil rights. i understand if i grew up in your time perhaps i would have been a little teaching in berkeley i said when i think it dacca's i think of hostage crisis, mali is, why the hell would i want to be democrat. and then of course reagan came in and there are a lot of fuss. i plead in band with guys with hair down to their belt who smoked pot as much as i drank milk and these guys like reagan. and it was beca

jimmy carter was there and clinton as well.e is also a portion that has emerged between the u.s. and donnghana. he wants to recognize democracy and could government, which ghan a has achieved. >> a 27 year-old man has been gored to death in spain. it is the first death from the running of the bulls their in 14 years. the group of polls is let loose every morning to charge through the streets. it is as famous as an image of britain, the eiffel tower. -- is as famous as an image of britain as the eiffel tower, big ben is 150 years old today. [bells clanging] >> of their burdens spells for 100 -- they are britain's bells for 150 years. a new day, under your -- a new year. the westminster clock tower has come to symbolize london and britain are around the world. but the bells have had a checkered history. for one thing, big ben itself cracked soon after its installation. >> they did not know what to do with it. eventually said it had become an embarrassment. so they turned the bell about 90 degrees to get it away from where the ham

this is jimmy carter time. people are going to be very, very upset if this administration doesn't get an effective jobs program, and that means the opposite direction from the energy tax, health tax, big government model that trapped him. the second challenge they have is the one that you kept talking about all last year where you were right and some of us really underestimated how much you understood this. this is not a radical left country. this country

it is the first 60-vote advantage for either party since jimmy carter's presidency. >> a lot has beene of this number 60. the number i'm focused on is the number two. >> as in the number of senators minnesota will at last have now that the 8-month recount is finally over. franken has landed some key committee assignments. he will sit on the judiciary i committee that nexts week starts confirmation hearings on sonia sotomayor, and he will be on ted kennedy's senate health committee, which hopes to draft the president's national healthcare reform plan by the end of this month. >> minnesotans want a rational healthcare system that provides healthcare for all americans that is accessible and affordable and gets the costs down. >> reid tried to downplay the democrats' advantage in the senate. >> the democrats are not looking at the nomination of senator franken to help with the minority. >> minority leaders say it is up to the democratic majority to set the bipartisan tone, and as for mr. franken, it is perhaps worth noting that in his previous job as a radio talk show host he had to apolo

i'd heard him say myself several times that he thought jimmy carter, if you gave the s.a.t. sts or an iq test, that carter might well score the highest of any president he had known, but i think it's very important to note here, chris, that walter cronkite dominated television news. he helped invent television news as we know it to a very large degree. that he was of that generation of americans who always pulled for the president, whoever the president was, and he was always honored to sit with any president. he felt that it was a privilege to talk with a president or interview a president. he always found himself pulling for a president. a lot of that changed in the '60s when as a people and as a society we began to question more and question more carefully. but walter cronkite never walked into the white house gates a single day he wasn't proud to be there and feel it was important in his role as a journalist in our system of freedom and democracy. >> love to hear you say that, dan. so well said. thank you, sir, for coming here tonight on this big night for us. >> always g

. >> reporter: that same year, president jimmy carter presented cronkite the medal of freedom. in one of his last contributions to cbs news, cronkite leapt his voice to today's broadcast. >> this is the cbs evening news with katie couric. >> reporter: no matter how many people occupy that chair walter cronkite will always be viewed as the one who made it comfortable. >> old anchormen don't fade away, they just keep coming back for more. i'll be away on assignment, and dan rather will be sitting in for the next few years. good night. >> reporter: cronkite's family was by his side when he died tonight. funeral arrangements have not been announced. again, the man who was the face of cbs news, walter cronkite, dead at the age of 92. live in new york, i'm drew levinson. >> thank you very much, drew. we invite you to stay with eyewitness news for complete coverage of the death of walter cronkite. for a look at his career and to share your favorite memory of mr. cronkite go to our website, wjz.com. and then this sunday tune in for a cbs prime time special. "that's the way it was -- re

i'm among the people who think that vice president -- former vice president cheney or jimmy carter or any president or vice president has the right to say what he wants, express his views in public. that, you know, there's no obligation to shut up. but we're now going to give people access to new security information on which they can say my reading of the national security is that the new administration has weakened national security, i just see a lot of problems there. the president -- the new president who chooses the people for these positions is himself faced with a dilemma, okay, so if we're going to have four new federal officials in the line of succession, above most of the cabinet members, first of all, this downgrades the existing cabinet members. do you choose someone in line for a top federal job to run a cabinet position or maybe they'd rather stay in the home state and be sixth in the line of succession. and above all, i'm not sure i see the need for this. we have a system now which is carried out as fran townsend has said -- there are procedures that take -- that are in

and amy carter, when jimmy carter was president, the talk show hosts went after her because jimmy carter said that he even talked to his daughter, amy, about the possibility of war with iran. she certainly wasn't off the lift. so i think children of the -- off the list. so i think children of the presidents or candidates do come into fodder, especially with a party that asks for votes based on family values. you would kind of start looking at their family a little bit more, and maybe that's the reason that the press was a little bit more intense about the governor of alaska. >> how does the editorial page staff go about setting the line as to what you will write about, what you won't write about and what you will critique and what you won't critique >> let me answer the question from the caller first, if i may. first of all, i think that the attention paid to jimmy carter's daughter, amy, yes, amy came into 1978 into public life and criticism. but amy herself wasn't being criticized. president jimmy carter was for a ridiculous speech in a sweater on live television, in which he said he c

. >> you went when jimmy carter was president? neil: actual, eisenhower. >> gave you coke and a bag of peanuts. neil: actually just food, and i stayed because it was free. but my point is that rarely do you turn down a white house invite, right? so should he have? >> he should v. i mean, again, we go back -- i said the other day about trance parents simple i mean, does it look good he tells -- he summons him, first of owl. who does not go to the white house this when they're summoned? practically no. john gotti called the guy in, he didn't come in, this guy wound up gone. they don't do that in government. yeah, sure. neil: it's the appearance thing for you? >> it's the appearance there's no trance parents sifment >> it's horrible. neil: this drake's cake deal i just signed is not looking good. let me get your thought on what happens from here, because we know he's going to be before congress again, being called occupy pricing for any initiative. that's what the c.b.o. director does. they crunch the numbers, and they have to see if

jimmy carter and gerald ford have both tried without success. we were preparing a state of the union address. reagan wanted to have him there that he was going to go for fundamental tax reform. you mentioned the word taxes, and people think you are trying to raise taxes, because we had gone through the 1982 tax equity and fiscal responsibility act which was a major tax increase in wake of the deficits that emerged. reagan ended up raising taxes 12 times while he was in there. reagan said, i get to give the speech. i will modify its so that the secretary of treasury will deliver a plan to meet a december 1 of 1984. after the election, and then we will do it in the second term. he was relentless in the first 10 years of his second term in talking about tax reform. he was going everywhere like north carolina. one person said my people down there to not care about tax reform. i want to come talk about this or that. a pulled the political system kicking and screaming to the notion -- the plan that he advanced was dramatically modified ultimately. he

yeah, yeah. >> steve: classic 3/4 carter. >> jimmy: 3/4 carter, there he is. 's got peaceful sounds of the orient. then he's got east asian melodies. [ laughter ] then he'got number one hits in japan. >> steve: do you think he has another one? >> jimmy: he's got one more. yin in my yang. [ laughter ] yin in my yang. >> steve: wow! >> jimmy: classic b.c. >> steve: that is so -- >> jimmy: classic benny carter. >> steve: oh, benny carter! >> jimmy: all right, lastly, let's do one more. is chet morgan here? there's chet. how are you, buddy? hey! you got a nice smile there, chet. how are you doing, buddy? [ laughter ] yeah, you got -- well, you got -- [ laughter ] you're a country fan. that's cool. you got country hits. classic country jams. you got merle. you got one more there, twang in my yang! all right, that's insane! [ laughter ] all right, we're all out of ipods. thanks to everybody for donating them. [ cheers and applause ] we'll be right back with the two spocks! come on back! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ if you're taking 8 extra-strength tylenol... a day on t

course, obama has a cache in africa, unlike any other president that visited that continental, jimmy carterlinton, and george bush. >> have we seen this president, president obama, capitalizing on that cache as you just put it? >> i think so. i think so. i think that's part of what's going on both in his private discussions as well as his public statements. >> now where else -- you talked about the private conversations, public statements, but that cache, you said he's going to capitalize on it but have we seen anything else publicly you can point to? he's only been in office a short time. >> exactly. he's been in office six months, so that's a question that may be more appropriate two to three years from now. >> do you think because there is so much excitement on the continent about president obama being there and speaking today in ghana, but as you look at the realities of it, once he has come and gone, is there a sense of people thinking too much is going to come from it? overexpectations? >> yeah. you know, ghanaians said and some have been quoted in the newspapers in the last day or so

president's average approval rating in the second quarter in office is now actually lower than jimmy carter's numbers were at this time in the same time in his presidency. another survey from public strategies and politico shows only 54% of those polls say they trust obama, and that is a drop of 12 points in just a few months, and the news for the president's party is not much better, only 42% of those polls now say that they trust the democratic party. joining us now is the author of the "new york times" best seller "guilty," liberals, victims, and their assault on america. ann coulter, good to see you in new york. how are you. >> fine, thanks. sean: this is new ground, eight out of ten -- this is a big change. eight out of ten -- the big issues facing this country now, republicans, are in the lead over the democrats. >> right, right, it's not that big a change. historically this has been the pattern, certainly in my lifetime, which is to say stins the republican party has -- since the republican party has been the conservative party, what happens is americans are more conservative than libe

laura: that brings me to -- >> we are talking about the jimmy carter administration. laura: you think that is sustainable? 55% tax bracket. there are only a few countries with higher tax rates. what does that mean for america, penalizing the people who employ and expand? >> the number of people we're talking about is so small that the census does not recognize them. it is less than 0.1%. they do have an impact on the economy. when we are realistically speaking about what will happen to their lifestyles, it is nothing. laura: directly ahead, radical islamic group is gathering in chicago this weekend. we will have the details. . it can be tough living with copd... but i try not to let it slow me down. i go down to the pool for a swim... get out and dance... even play a little hide-n-seek. i'm breathing better... with spiriva. announcer: spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled maintenance treatment for both forms of copd... which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. i take it every day. it keeps my airways open... to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not

it was first introduced by president jimmy carter and president jimmy carter recognized the influence, i guess the waldens kind of helped president carter get going in georgia in macon, georgia. of course that was james brown and there were a whole lot of folks that jimmy carter was impressed with other than the allman brothers, too, but he was a james brown guy too. i was at an event this weekend, mr. speaker, in memphis at one home honoring african culture and there was a gentleman that played the drums at the beginning of the presentation. and after he finished he made a comment. he said, without africa there would not be a beat, there wouldn't be a beat. i thought about that and thought about this resolution and realized he was correct. the beat's what it's about, a lot of folks believe. it's what makes music what it is. it's lyrics and so many things but the beat is what it is. that's what's unique about this contribution to music is the beat. it came from the mississippi river, it came from the delta. memphis' -- memphis is the home of the blues and the birth place of rock 'n' r

honor and experience to be a president, democrat or republican, and i have met them all since jimmy carter. so leave it at face value. >> again, let me go back to the campaign. where is the transparency? let me ask you this. why does this have to be done in the next two weeks? we have not had health care in this country and, when? is he worried that they will come back and they will not be as with them as they are today -- with him as they are today? neil: vincent, thank you. you can catch him again this weekend on my we can show. ssbn will be covering this at 8:00 p.m. -- on my we can show. -- on my weekend show. fbn will be covering bessette 8:00 pm coming up on -- -- will be covering this at 8:00 p.m. that went well. taxpayers have had it, and now, they are letting their senators know. we're going to hear what the specific governor haley barbour has to say. (announcer) this is nine generations of the world's most revered luxury sedan. this is a history of over 50,000 crash-tested cars... this is the world record for longevity and endurance. and one of the most technologically advanced a

popularity obama for the first time below 50 percent lower than jimmy carter way lower than george bush. >> i have not seen that f particular poll. i am not saying it doesn't exist. >> juan williams joins us also. where are you? >> in kansas city right now. >> what do you think? can you fill at the top in to politics in america? >> you can be popular. she is invasely popular especially with the republican base shoes she speaks to the values she is quite attractiatt. if you look at the numbers republican men are crazy about sarah palin. sarah palin could sell toilet water if she wanted to. the base is so small it means they literally would be closing in on themselves if they had sarah palin as a nominee in 2012. >> up on juan's point she made a big play for the second amendment crowd in the short speech but that's 25 percent of the electorate. >> keep in mind memory about political history one cycle today think of all of the people written off for years and come back big and large. rich afterward nixon who would have thought he could come back. ron in aed reagan was viewed as an over the

. >> former president jimmy carter says israel and hamas should [ bleep ]. >> i get a sense from you,reality shows that you have been [ bleep ] in your face for a long time. >> well, get the [ bleep ] out of the way, miami. new york city now is the new road rage capital of the united states. >> i have got to get my back in shape to [ bleep ] this 100-year-old guy. ♪ >> the man found guilty of [ bleep ] tyra banks was ordered to complete a treatment program for [ bleep ]. >> the dinosaur [ bleep ]. >> and this is some of the scenes from -- -- from that locker room. >> we have a good show tonight. we have music from 3oh!3. and we'll be right back with a whole bunch of lakers. kobe bryant, derek fisher, pau gasol, trevor ariza and more, so stick around. if you think geico's the cheap insurance company, then you're going to really be confused when you hear this: drivers who switched from geico to allstate... saved an average of $473 a year. confused? don't be. ♪ being smart. yep. just booked my 10th night on hotels.com, so i get a night free. you. me. getaway. really? #where? anywhere you

jimmy carter did not get reelected who was popular at this point in his presidency. what do you make of it? >> i agree with you. he is ranking no. 10, of number 12 of probst world war ii presidents -- ranking no. 10 out of no. 1 12 post world war i president. they can come to conclusions on their own, but it's as bad things with regard to his ability to achieve it says bad things with regard to his ability to do cap and trade and health care -- they can come to conclusions on their own, but it's as bad things in regard to his ability to achieve things with cap and trade and health care -- it says that things. neil: miggy markets are seeing a turnaround. what do you make of that -- maybe the markets are seeing a turnaround? maybe we are coming out of the worst part of it? >> i always thought we would come out of the recession, because we are the american economy, and that is what we do. have his policies sped up the recovery, or have the retarded it -- have they retarded it? they have concluded that the stimulus is hurting rather than helping. i think part of what the

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jimmy carter and bob barr asked for the case to be reopened. troy davis has been hours away from execution three times. it has reached the u.s. supreme court. if the juts decide not to review the case troy davis could go to the death chamber within days. remember when i asked him if he thought he would be executed. troy davis said no. he said he has faith in the justice system, a view that ironically is shared by the widow of the murdered police officer. >> we have to believe in this justice system. >> reporter: she is still waiting for an execution. >> gary tuchman, if the supreme court says no, is that the end? >> not necessarily. the district attorney in the local county in georgia where the crime happened could order a new investigation. you might say well it hasn't been done over 20 years why would that happen? here is the crux. there is a new district attorney. the first african-american district attorney. he wouldn't talk to us. we don't know his viewpoint at all. but there are a lot of people for and against an exoneration, hopeful and

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>> well, she used to work for jimmy carter.as his campaign finance manager. >> that's a big deal. that's kind of exciting. you're right in the middle. >> right in the middle. a political family. >> and you decided not to be political -- work in politics or become a football player. but instead, to get into acts -- acting and modeling. how old were you -- >> i dabbled in modeling for like four months. but, yeah, i was 17 when i went to france. i lived in paris for a summer. >> wow. >> yeah. didn't have the best time. >> you didn't? why? >> not my first experience in paris. >> the country is beautiful, but the people -- >> great food. the men not so much. >> why, what was the problem with the men? >> well, they kind of rub up against me when i was in the subway. tried to rip my skirt off as i was going up the stairs. and they would follow my roommates an i occasionally a and -- um, pleasure themselves in front of the window. >> really? so you don't like that? [ laughter ] >> well, i didn't then. but now -- >> now it's all right?

we're going to take a walk down memory lane with jimmy carter. and who's worse carter or obama?  [ female announcer ] we were flattered when regenerist beat the $100 cream. flabbergasted when we creamed the $700 cream! for under $30 regenerist micro-sculpting cream hydrates better than 32 of the world's most expensive creams. fantastic. phenomenal. regenerist. >> this is a fox news alert, a developing story out of indonesia, two hotel explosions in jakarta. local officials are reporting nine people are dead following the attacks at a marriott hotel in the ritz-carlton. 50 people are injured. no word if any of them are american. the blast happened minutes apart. keep it right here to the fox news channel. we will update you. taking its rightful place in a long line of amazing performance machines. this is the new e-coupe. this is mercedes-benz. sean: and in "your america" tonight for months the president traveled around the country promoting his stimulus package pledging to the american people that his plan would create jobs and turn the economy around. >> my initial measure of

jimmy carter did not see that taking over from gerald ford.do we need to see that in order to do better, in order for president obama to say, all right, i have this fdr thing down? >> i think so. americans during the depression were not as instant gratification-oriented. we are oriented that way. we can e-mail people instantly. i think there's going to be a great demand for some action and change and improvement on the economic front, certainly with unemployment. i think you see that. what is good for a politician is not always what is best for the american people in terms of policy. it does not always go hand in hand in the long term. neil: fdr was good at establishing, not class warfare , but thanks to those 43 programs, they wanted to thank him. in 1936, they did. they turned out in droves to do just that. >> they looked at him as someone they knew very well because he was in their living rooms for the radio. i think that endeared him to the american people. i think that was part of his charm. neil: it did not matter that he was rich or he

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neil: jimmy carter staked a lot on the energy situation, calling it the moral equivalent of war.s he was right, but he did not make much progress in that regard and was doomed on that and many other issues since. what do you make of history may be repeating itself? >> i think a better example is the clinton health-care example. this is the same subject. as you remember, bill clinton had a heavily democratic congress. he could not make it work because while everybody is in favor of some form of health care reform generically, when you get down to the specifics, as we are right now, you find out that this group does not favor this part, and that group does not favor that part -- neil: which is why they are rushing it, right? this is the opportunity. >> this is it. a president gets big things in the first year, and unless something happens like 9/11 to renew a president's capital, generally, you do not get big things at least until you are reelected if you are fortunate enough to be reelected. neil: thank you very much. >> we acknowledge now with president obama that we have made mi

this is jimmy carter time.people are going to be very, very upset if this administration doesn't get an effective jobs program, and that means the opposite direction from the energy tax, health tax, big government model that trapped him. the second challenge they have is the one that you kept talking about all last year where you were right and some of us really underestimated how much you understood this. this is not a radical left country. this country does not want giant government. according to the gallup poll, 40% moderate, 48% liberal, and 22% conservative, so two out of every three democrats is a moderate or a conservative. in the country at large, it's 40% conservative, 35% moderate, and only 21% liberal. sean: all right. those are staggering numbers. he's got a lot to contend with if he keeps staying radical. mr. speaker, thanks for being with us. coming up president obama's infamous first pitch at the all-star game? we're going to take a look back sean: and tonight in "hannity's america," democrats ar

voted twice for the first bush and twice for the second bush and i voted for lyndon johnson and jimmy carter. i try to find the best person qualified for the highest office in the land. i think it's always best to have two strong parties, political points of view. that's what makes that country great. and they can debate those points of view. i think we're running into dangerous territory when the two ends of the political spectrum become so dug in and nasty and everything is add hom name that our positions become so hard. >> you're very complimentary of the president when it comes to community service. the message he gave on fatherhood. i want to ask you some questions about a speech you gave in 1996. >> i became a republican because i believe like you that the federal government has become too large and too intrusive in our lives. we can no longer -- we can no longer afford solutions to our problems that result in more entitlements, higher taxes to pay for them, more bureaucracy to run them, and fewer results to show for it. >> my first reaction looking at that clip is you could probably s

jimmy carter had a 75% approval rating early on. there are many stories this month the bell president jimmy carter's speech. there are some parallels as to whether president obama could go down the same path. are there parallels or is that a false analogy? guest: i think it is a false analogy. the circumstances now are so much different from that. when carter became president health care costs were not consuming 17% of gdp which they are today. the deficit was not at the level of today. there was not an economic meltdown going on. if you think about what president obama inherited an walked into, he walked into a circumstance that was far, far worse. if you look at where obama is approval ratings are, kevin is right, his turn to leverage approval ratings on two policy. that is what a president must do. he has done that on two or three occasions on big issues whether stimulus package or climate change. that is what being president is all about even if it take a toll after some time. the people in washington understand that. host: your

bill: hertzberg is comparing jimmy carter to isaiah. >> he spoke as a prophet and i mean by that note who is predicting the future but as someone who is diagnosing the national soul. this was something that an awful lot of people in the white house, vice president mondale foremost among them did not want him to do. bill: might have been a little bit better if president carter fixed the economy or the gas lines in america but fixing the nation's soul being a prophet is rather time consuming. so now we know. unbelievable. check four as you may know the fox program family guy loves mocking conservatives and religious people. >> all right. i will be the one to say it how do we know you are really jesus? you can perform miracles? >> sure. how about this. >> oh, boy. sun d.e.a.s. >> i love you, jesus. >> i love you too, fellow. >> hey, jesus, you can do something for me? >> sure, peter. what is it? bill: well, that controversial jesus show has been nominated for an emmy. reminding me of a compassionate old saying they know not what they do. check five, think being a tv weather man is easy?

the first and one and only press conference on the roof of the white house is jimmy carter showing off the solar panels. it was insenttives and tax breaks and other government programs to stimulate development of solar and wind and renewable energy, both at the manufacturer level and at the consumer level. there was this boom of people putting solar heaters on the roofs of their houses, solar water heaters in california. why? well, because we're a great place to do that and thrtk was also suddenly a financial insenttive because the government made it that way through tax breaks. so we led the world in those field by the end of the cartser -- carter presidency, and ronald reagan took office, and took down the solar panels from the roof because the felt they were unseemly, and he ended the programs programs and amerit its lead so now we're starting over again. >> host: edward to pick up there, when republicans on average are not as big supporters as the democratic party. when a president obama is elected, does the world need an ecobare ron to the same degree or do the policies democratse

single-day i had my break through and since then i never stopped photograph being every president from jimmy carter to currently president obama. finally i would like to start to wrap this up if all roads lead to democracy ultimately the journey would take me to charlottesville to monticello. for years i heard about the amazing new america and immigration ceremony on july 4th in front of monticello. there will be new citizens taking the oath. i heard i approached jefferson's dome i could not think of him in paris were in 1786 instead of being in philadelphia helping to write the constitution he assigned almost his buddy james madison to do so he was walking around and one single-day he fell in love twice and one single-day. once was a woman with the artist and also encountered what john and recommended seen the famous dome of the hotel. he stared and stared and stared at the dome. ultimately his love for murphy fell by the wayside over time. but the love for the dome became the first residential down in the united states when he built that at monticello. curiously it had 13 skylights and reminded m

where they were for george bush, a little better than president clinton, not as good dollars a jimmy carterll those men took place in different circumstances. barack obama won 53% of the vote, had a great transition and good honeymoon and right now, his numbers are coming back to earth. all about the economy. if the economy gets better, numbers will go up, it gets worse, the commutenumbers will . >> if you're one of the president's men are you not worried, because we started so high or are you concerned. >> you're not so concerned about the polls, you're watching them and like to see them move in a different direction, what you're really worried about is the state of the economy. the president's latest downturn came out earlier this month, job reports came out. disappointing report, gave people second thoughts how the economy is going and that's what started this number sliding down. if the economy keeps going in this direction and gm comes back and asks for more bailout money, it will be a very ugly second year for team obama. >> health care can't be helping them either on this overall pac

this is jimmy carter time.very, very upset if this administration doesn't get an effective jobs program, and that means the opposite direction from the energy tax, health tax, big government model that trapped him. the second challenge they have is the one that you kept talking about all last year where you were right and some of us really underestimated how much you understood this. this is not a radical left country. this country does not want giant government. according to the gallup poll, 40% moderate, 48% liberal, and 22% conservative, so two out of every three democrats is a moderate or a conservative. in the country at large, it's 40% conservative, 35% moderate, and only 21% liberal. sean: all right. those are staggering numbers. he's got a lot to contend with if he keeps staying radical. mr. speaker, thanks for being with us. coming up president obama's infamous first pitch at the all-star game? we're going to take a look back at more of the president's great pitches, and you're going to see who he look

watergate, the fall of vietnam, stagflation, energy crisis, gerald ford good but bumbling intentions, jimmy carter cumene is comic cubans were patrolling africa. africa? soviets occupying afghanistan, it was an awful awful time. it ended with ronald reagan. i am not saying every disaster ends with ronald reagan and. [laughter] and they don't. sometimes they just keep getting worse and worse but it is important for conservatives to remember that we have fen through very bad patches before. i hope that is another thing that this book can remind people of. the third movement of the book is a portrait of a relationship. the relationship between an older man and a younger man. i was a boy. i was a youth if that word still exist anymore but i would have been called the youth. then a younger man. and a lot of ways it was love at first sight on both of our parts but then as often happens with love at first sight, mistakes are made. as i realized as i was reading this book that bill was looking for a heir and i was looking for a idol and either of those quests could really work. and it would inevitably pro

jimmy carter personally controlled access to the white house tennis court.he first president bush, who was big on delegating responsibility, by most accounts, had the fewest number of czars. his son, who called himself the decider, had the second highest number. still, president obama's nearly 3 dozen czars probably don't all have walk-in rights, says john cammenski from the i.b.m. center for government. >> my guess is that it far fewer and he does have his chief of staff. >> in fact, the vast majority of his czars technically report to one of his cabinet secretaries or vice president biden, which raises another question according to towson university scholar martha cue mar. >> who is minding the the czars? is there a template for how they produce information and then provide it to the white house? >> even if the president is able to manage all of his czars efficiently, some of his critics are frustrated because the czars don't have to answer to congress. it's not surprising that some of those critics are in congress, as we will see in our next report. in wa