a stop by john bush. butchivas win. >>> nhl playoffs. tampa bay goes on the road and avoids being eliminated by the penguins. 8-2 forcing a game 6 monday in tampa. >>> alex ovechkin and the top seeded capitals became the first team in the east to advance to the second round. alex ovechkin scores his third goal of the playoffs as the caps beat the rangers 3-1 to win the series in five games. >>> let's come back and check out the giants highlights. and it was former a tim hudson, cody ross his first of the year. there is pat burrell. makes it around to score from 2nd and he beats the throw 1-0 giants. the braves would tie it in the 3rd. single up the middle. 3 r.b.i. day for him. tim lincecum walks a career high six batters and leaves with the bases loaded in the 7th. brian mccann making it 5-1 braves. tim lincecum's record drops to 2-2. hudson ends his afternoon by striking out nate schierholtz for the second out in the 9th. final out. braves beat the giants 5-2. last year the giants had don't stop believing as their anthem. it appears th

braun turned back by john bush. quakes lose 3-1. at 1-3-2, they are second-to-last in the western conference. >>> and it's the as against seattle again tonight. just under way. we'll have that all the rest of the day's sports tonight at 10:00 on sports wrap. see you then. >> thanks, joe. >>> that's our report. i'm ken way. >> and i'm jana katsuyama. good night. >> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com

secretary powell for the book, and he said that he did discuss some domestic issues -- ronald reagan john, george bush the sun, she mentioned how in the case of the l.a. riots at after the famous incident with rodney king he did try to explain to president bush the father why so many people were upset in the african-american community by the traffic stop and the sort of thing to exploit in that situation profiling, but he felt it was something president bush didn't understand what he tried to keep out of the domestic issues. now, if we fast forward to condoleezza rice, she also tried to keep out of domestic issues. she was of course very much an expert on foreign affairs and international relations. but she was by her own comments and president bush almost like a sister to president bush, she was very close to him. she accompanied him and his wife to can't david to their residence in crawford and was with them on lots of social occasions, so there was a real connection partly because president bush felt for civil she worked for his dad which he valued very much, and also, during the campaign since the

and so reagan stopped in force in the sherman act in one thousand nine hundred two and george bush for john roberts on the supreme court because of these two guys we've entered another gilded age in america and with this latest move by tennessee to legalize the wholesale purchase of our color of our politicians by corporations but for other states to follow suit just to prove that they can be more favorable to big business the irony he'll of corporate power has descended once again under the throats of the working class unless we wake up and do something about it soon we're all going to be screwed. that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories covered check out our website it's al hartman dot com and archie dot com entire series available for free podcast on i tunes also check out our youtube page youtube dot com slash not me picture are two tea party. and no forget them obviously begins when you show up when you get active tag you're it will see i'm not. the official. i pulled touch from the.

we didn't have the love between bush's father and john major. but we have the love between reagan and thatcher. so there needs to be genuine affection. the chemistry at the top needs to work for everything else to click in. otherwise the point about schizophrenia is right. we tend to swing fromed alation to revulsion. chris: revulsion, ok. just to correct one thing, i think that tony blair was much closer emotionally and politically to bill clinton, that's what i thought. >> no. and that surprised brits a lot and disappointed brits a lot. chris: it disappoint mess. >> i think the british have a combination of resentment and complacency. on both sides. and i don't know, do you remember the film "love actually"? that wonderful theme where you have billy bob thornton as the american president -- chris: the worst of clinton and bush in the same person. >> he comes over and bullies the british prime minister. chris: and tries to pick up the secretary. >> and hugh grant turns around and says, no and we fight back. and i watched that physical film in l

president obama also wants to end the bush era tax cuts. house speaker john boehner has said any plan that raises taxes will not be welcomed by republicans. they call one president obama to not make any cuts to social security. social security does not contribute to the federal deficit and the group is also calling on mr. obama not to raise the retirement age. >>> this morning college students will once again rally against budget cuts. this shows the community college students rallying against the cuts. similar rallies are planned for this morning at csu east bay and san jose state. other rallies are expected in colleges and universities across the country. >>> the city of hercules is preparing for major budget cuts. they swarmed the city to discuss the $6 million deficit. and for the first time in 20 years the city is considering laying off city employees. >> from what i hear this friday there will be pink slips going out effective may 1st and i think it will be 30% less reduction in city staff. >> the city has also been going through a financial scandal tha

host: and that, of course, is diametrically opposed to what john mccain and george bush talked about08. guest: absolutely. and as i said, i met with several of the republican candidates. and none of them have been as strong, if they've taken that position at all, as barber. but we've had pawlenty, santorum, etc. it's getting closer i think our primary schedule for early february. people are testing the waters. but one of their concerns is ms. palin, that you had on the screen a little while ago, and whether she's going to get in and whether huckabee will get in. so it's still an unformed field. host: we check in with you from time to time. on camera enoff camera. this year florida trying to move its primary potentially to january 31. what is in the state constitution in new hampshire? and what would an earlier florida primary mean for new hampshire in 2012? guest: well, state law pretty much gives the secretary of state, a gentleman named william gardner, the ability to set the primary wherever he thinks it is -- needs to be set so that it doesn't jeopardize the first in the nation's

biggest cases was brought against the bush six six officials within the bush administration the top legal minds people like john yoo and james by the but of course second tier in comparison to the president and vice president but the legal minds that created a justification for torture the architects of the torture program if you will now this case was originally filed in two thousand and nine numerous requests were sent to the obama administration asking whether they were doing their own investigations or which of that administration never applied later of course it came out in a week the leaks cable but although the obama d.o.j. had never responded in legal language diplomatically they were pressuring spain to drop the case but then this year this january we thought of second with hope papers were filed again we thought that maybe this time its case would go somewhere but guess what it didn't this week spanish judge lloyd the last go dropped the case and you want to know what his reasoning was in the four page ruling he said that the united states had informed spain that it was carrying out its own investigat

as vice president alongside -- >>> the president is expected to call on ending the bush era tax cuts. house speaker john boehner said today any plan that raises taxes is a nonstarter. >>> the director of the livermore lab announces he plans to step down. he was instrumental in the recent completion of the world's largest laser that's been used to explore research. >>> in sacramento, democratic assembly speaker perez said today any effort to close the state's $15 billion deficit with cuts would be an exercise in futility. instead perez says he will push lawmakers to approve taxes. those taxes wouldn't be put into effect until taxpayers ratify it. which means two republicans in each house would have to say yes to a deal. >>> the bar that's been here for decade, >>> we are getting laid word into the ktvu newsroom about a hazmat incident on the way right now. we just got off the phone with alameda fire. they said two separate alarms sounded at the plant about 8:35 indicating the presence of chlorine gas. about 25 employees evacuated on their own. fire officials say they are on the scene right now and are in

. >> it was very interesting, a republican adviser to president bush and to john mccain, mark mckinnen, was quoted in "time" magazine saying the following about your budget outline. i want to put it on the screen. "it will completely transform the fiscal debate. it will either be the brilliant blaze that illuminates republican courage or roaring fire that immolate the party in a spectacular political suicide." how's that for choices? we've heard this before. >> i've heard this before. it didn't really matter to me. what matters to me is we fix the country's problems. this is the debt the cbo says we're going to have. we're giving our children a lower standard of living. our plan pays the debt off. we believe we need to own up to the fact that the country is on an unsustainable path and we've got to do something to fix this. >> but you're the budget chairman and you have your charts, i understand -- >> i have more. >> i know you do. but you also have a reality. you heard david plouffe say this is not going to pass. it might pass the house, it won't pass the senate and certainly not beco

as vice president alongside -- >>> the president is expected to call on ending the bush era tax cuts. house speaker john boehner said today any plan that raises taxes is a nonstarter. >>> the director of the livermore lab announces he plans to step down. he was instrumental in the recent completion of the world's largest laser that's been used to explore research. >>> in sacramento, democratic assembly speaker perez said today any effort to close the state's $15 billion deficit with cuts would be an exercise in futility. instead perez says he will push lawmakers to approve taxes. those taxes wouldn't be put into effect until taxpayers ratify it. which means two republicans in each house would have to say yes to a deal. >>> the bar that's been here for decade, now it's slated for closure. we tell you what makes it special and why there's a fight to keep it open. >>> and cameras will be going all over the bay area. but what will it be watching? i'll explain coming up. >>> we are getting laid word into the ktvu newsroom about a hazmat incident on the way right now. we just got off the phone with alameda fi

. >> republicans firmly believe that extending all the bush tax cuts for the entire population was the way to go. johnder of the republican effort to convince congress to extend all the bush tax cuts. >> think extending all the current tax rates and making them permanent will reduce the uncertainty in america and help small businesses begin to create jobs again. >> however, democrats were at a stalemate. some sided with president obama and others endorsed republican ideas. one thing everyone in congress was concerned about was middle- class families, 98% of the population. if the republican plan have been realized, middle-class families would have gotten fiscal relief now that after several years, the deficit would skyrocket to $3.30 trillion. the obama compromise provided relief for middle-class families but let's the cuts at speier 42% of the population. >> think about the percentage of income that is earned by the top small percent of the population. it is a large number. the top bracket is responsible for the vast majority of taxable income. >> they talk about saving $700 billion over 10 years. it

. >> it looks like bush was out of control and out a gre -- abu ghraib and guantanamo -- >> john mccain had the same position. it sounds good until you confront the reality of how to do this -- >> just to hold people at nauseam without a real fault where you pick them up on the battlefield -- >> as we did in world war ii. >> at the question of trying people for whom you are believed he of committed a horrific crime against the united steinitz -- the united states. it is reasonable to do the latter in a military commission. the former is different. >> one of the most important races in 2008 wa -- 2006 was in virginia, where jim webb decided to take on george allen and one. george allen wants his job back, and former gov. tim kaine has decided to fight him for it. >> the democrats are likely that kaine has come back into the arena. i am not sure how eager he was, but clearly he is the heavyweight here. he is the guy who could beat george allen. otherwise, it would end of runway, a short switch overero the republicans -- it would have been a runaway, a short-t -- a sure switch over to the

bush and john mccain when he said the wedge has lost its edge. at varying times in the last decade we have seen wedge issues like same-sex marriage issue being put on the ballot by the -- raised legislatively by one side or the other because they perceive they can achieve legislative victory for to motivates a certain group. let's not forget defense of marriage act was signed into law by president bill clinton in large part because the numbers at that time were pretty strongly anti same-sex marriage. even look at president obama who in 2008 was supposed -- came out in support of proposition 8 who has changed his position and said his position is evolve thing. what we have said is an indication, as the young people in america age they're more receptive to and willing to be tolerant of same-sex couples marry in. and i think what barack obama is doing for political but also because i truly believe he does believe it, he is loosening up his script that he had done this issue because he sees the population moving on it. from a republican perspective,

democratic view, republicans firmly believe that extending all of the bush tax cuts for the entire population was the way to go. john boehner was the leader of the republican effort to convince congress to extend all of the bush tax cuts. >> i think extending all of the current tax rates and making them permanent will reduce the uncertainty in america and help small businesses begin to create jobs again. >> and you can see this entire video and all the winning documentaries at studentcam.org and continue the conversation at our facebook and twitter pages. >> this year's studentcam competition asked students from across the country to consider washington, d.c. through their lens. today's second prize winner addressed an issue that better helped them understand the role of the federal government. ♪ >> december 31st 2010 was a very important date for the federal government and the people of our country. major changes in the tax policy would be made. these changes could possibly increase the amount of money paid by the citizens to the federal government. the bush tax cuts were set to expire on december 31st, 2010, and c

iraq destroyed virtually everything so softening the concrete for bush and cheney to take over he deserve that. give us a break ok john what about it what about former politicians foreign policy look at jimmy carter because jimmy carter a lot of people criticize him for some of his thoughts since spread his presidency but he i think it's fair to say that even his detractors while he was president say he's done good he's done the best job of former president could ever do for peace and helping. poor people in general all the way to recognizing different issues around the world that sometimes the media forgets or sometimes gives a certain view on that maybe is very. for american and western interests ok what i'm saying about the middle east but is that a case of maybe a former politician has done well because one of my thesis is that politicians probably shouldn't get it at all go ahead john. no i think there's a lot of value in giving them to former politicians that sets an example for others who leave office and can do good works even though their power base no longer exists in a political sense but let's you know so

host: and that, of course, is diametrically opposed to what john mccain and george bush talked about in 2008. guest: absolutely. and as i said, i met with several of the republican candidates. and none of them have been as strong, if they've taken that position at all, as barber. but we've had pawlenty, santorum, etc. it's getting closer i think our primary schedule for early february. people are testing the waters. but one of their concerns is ms. palin, that you had on the screen a little while ago, and whether she's going to get in and whether huckabee will get in. so it's still an unformed field. host: we check in with you from time to time. on camera enoff camera. this year florida trying to move its primary potentially to january 31. what is in the state constitution in new hampshire? and what would an earlier florida primary mean for new hampshire in 2012? guest: well, state law pretty much gives the secretary of state, a gentleman named william gardner, the ability to set the primary wherever he thinks it is -- needs to be set so that it doesn't jeopardize the first in the na

bush and john mccain when he said the wage has lost its edge. i think at various times over the last decade we have seen wedge issues like same-sex marriage issue being put on the ballot or being raised legislatively by one side or the other because they perceive the they could achieve either some legislative victory or to motivate a certain group. let's not forget that the defense of the marriage act was signed into law by president bill clinton. -- let's not forget the defensive marriage act was signed into law by president bill clinton. even look at president obama who in 2008 came out in support of proposition 8 and now has changed his position to say his position is devolving. i think if what we've said on this panel is any indication, as the young people in america age, they are more receptive to and willing to be tolerant of same-sex couples marry him. i think what barack obama is doing for a purely political, and also truly does believe it, he is loosening up his grip on this issue, because he sees the population moving on it. you also l

john spratt is our guest. good morning. caller: good morning. the first bush tax cuts did not create jobs.nd allowed the corporations to pocket their tax cuts and make one worker do the job of two. corporations and republicans have succeeded in having union and non-union workers fighting among themselves. men and women are divided over who makes a better salary. this is a great divide and conquer strategy and it is a diversion away from the real culprit, the corporate power structure and the republicans who have kept the minimum wage low ever since reagan allowed our jobs to be outsourced overseas. wake up, people. we are being led like sheep to fight among each other while publicans and corporation leaders are laughing their heads off. guest: the overriding point, the one we are discussing this morning, is where is our economic future if we do not rain in some of this debt accumulation that we are experiencing and have been for the last few years. it is absolutely critical for the future of the dollar and the strength of our economy that we begin to cut back the accumulation of debt in th

bush as a speech writer. what do you think this fits together? you have tea party people behind -- they said they have a blow torch behind the back of john boehner forcing him off to the cliff. and you and i know regular republicans who get elected year after year tend to be compromisers. >> i agree that barack obama has played this very well. i think he has a terrible budget record. he went into this negotiations taking the initial republican stand, 33 billion in cuts. that cut the legs out from under the republicans, made him look like the moderator but fed that division between the two participates to have republican party. one part the pressure freshmen but also leaders like pence and michelle bachman, who want to establish themselves as rebel leaders and set them against every committee chairman who thought this was a pretty good deal, even at the beginning of the debate. >> here's the thing that john boehner understands that a lot of his new members don't. you can't overinterpret your mandate when you're elected. they were elected to get things done, not because people were in love with republicans, not because people were in love with the

john quincy adams so we showed -- >> did he explain his interest? >> well, he didn't beyond the point that he was fascinated with the father son aspect of this adams senior -- bush senior, bush junior. >> i see. did he comment on anything like transparency of his from the documents? >> well, we tried to explain that we're an access agency and that americans are entitled to see the their country. i think in fact that i've been invited to come to bag dand see if we can't bring a delegation to advice them on organizing the archives which we may do. >> you've had an awful lot of expeence before the archives with the arrival of measure of freedom to russia. the yeltsin and earlier in fact when you headed up the center for democracies, is that correct? >> 18 years you. >> are kind of an expert on freedom. >> not an expert -- >> you know that the iraqis -- did he bring any of this signing a constitution this year? >> i think all that i would say, john is they seem very determined on the score. he talked to the press in the archives when we were. there i wouldn't at this point bet against them, but i should point out that we have a program of hosted distinguished citize

as opposed to the democratic view, republicans felt that extending the bush tax cut for the entire population was the way to go. john boehner was the leader of the republican effort to convince congress to extend all the bush tax cuts. >> i think extending all of the current tracks rates and making them permanent will reduce the uncertainty in america and help small businesses begin to create jobs again. >> you can see this entire video at a studentcam.org. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> throughout the month of april, we will feature the winners of our competition. watch the winning videos every morning on c-span at 6:50 a.m. eastern, just before "washington journal." during the program, meet the students who created them. stream the winning videos any m.org.nline at studentcajl9 >> a program today on the 40th anniversary of the center for american farmers. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the center for american progress. we are quite pleased to be holding this event. in the wonderful book about the fire, it was the chalk -- t

but the growing fall di of those weapons -- what president bush was faced with when making his decision on iraq was there was a study by john hopkins university called "dark winter," and if my memory serves me correctly what a series of experts got together, and they said what if we took smallpox and put it in three locations in the united states of america, and in a relatively short period of months, the dark winter exercise done by john hopkins university concludes, and i'll be wrong by a bit, but concluded that something in the neighborhood of 800,000 americans would be dead. someone here knows that exact number. is that -- where's keith? no keith. that's close enough. [laughter] something, a multiple of that would be infected with smallpox. imagine in our country if that happened, think of the marshall law if that happened and the inability to move from state to state. free people, that's what we are. we are people who want to get up in the morning, go where we want, say what we want, think what we want, and the purpose of terrorism is not to kill people but to terrorize, alter your behavior, and imagine this country if

because i think -- there are a lot of people who assume, right, bush made it impossible for john mccain you know, to win the election because of the economic collapse. in fact, that's not the case. if you look at the dynamics of public opinion during the campaign, people were already really settled on candidates. they had already really settled on obama in large part because of the state of the economy prior to the actual economic collapse. so it's, you know, i think that in terms of, you know, the criticism that, you know, bush has heard, particularly from tea party types. he kind of made brawl the -- made obama the winner on the access. >> i want to jump in two communities, not bailing out lehman brothers probably was a mistake. there was a serious moral hazard if you are too big to bail, we're going to bail you out. we're going to get more responsible on the part of corporate ceos and traders. that is disturbing. second, i find fun to watch. when the bush administration was doing bailouts, democrats were appalled. now they are doing the same thing, the republicans are appalled. i'm e

the majority democratic view, republicans believed extending all the bush tax cuts for the entire population was the way to go. johnoehner was the leader of republican effort to convince congress to extend all of the bush tax cuts. >> i think extending all of the current tax rates and making them permanent will reduce the uncertainty in america and help small businesses begin to create jobs again. >> however, democrats were in a stalemate. some sided with president obama while others endorsed republican ideas. one thing everyone in congress was concerned about was middle class families, 98% of the population. if the republican plan had been realized, middle class families would have got fiscal relief now, but after several years, the deficit would ski rocket to $3.3 trillion. obama's compromise provided relief for middle class family, but once the cuts expire for 2% of the population. experts on the subject saw this as a problem. >> the thing about percentage of income earned by the top 1% or small percent of the population is a large number. the top brackets are responsible for the vast majority of the country. >>

but what president bush was faced with when he made the decision on the iraq, it was a studydy john hopkins university called dark winter. if they memory serves me correctly, what if we took smallpox and put them in three places in the united states of america. in a relatively short period, the dark winter done by john hopkins concluded i'm going to be wrong by a bit, concluded that something in the neighborhood of 800,000 americans would be dead. someone here knows that exact number. is that? where's keith? no keith. that's close enough. and that something -- a multiple of that would be infected with smallpox. and imagine in our country if that happened. think of the marshal law and inability to move from state to state. free people. that's what we are. we are people that want to get up, go where we want, say what we want, think that we want. the purpose of terrorism is not to kill people. the purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. to alter your behavior. and imagine this country if we had 800,000 people dead from smallpox and marshal law imposed on the country. and that study exists, it's

john kennedy never apologized four dwight eisenhower. nor george bush for bill clinton. they each did so based on the view that our power and our greatness was what was most important not our own domestic political victory. each understood the long term virtue in value of america both here at home and abroad. with a cause she very dangerous things on the world stage, confusion and doubt. we have freedom fighters all over the world to doubt our time honored commitments. i have focused my time and attention to national security centers. it promotes america's freedom. they talk about the great threats that continue to face our country. we are focused on two countries. that thing has illustrated the failure of the foreign policy more. it has been at war for 30 years. there is a chance to end that. there is a chance for freedom. i've been a believer for that possibility. i offer the support act. it provided millions of dollars. the employment of their provisions. rather than supporting this, and asking for our help, the president continued his policy of engaging in supporting

in other bush activities, there was also an impact of john bolton working actively to undermine european negotiations in 2004. in the second bush term we have softening of the position, but bush put preconditions on direct talks about the nuclear program, and see also air -- revised his democracy agenda, anians interpreted asians intending to change the regime. it is my view that bush policies, particularly in his first tomb boosted the new conservatives and helped give rise to on a dijon -- ahmen denijah. i am going to let him describe in detail the five categories of foreign policy practitioners. just wanted to make a couple of other observations where i agree with her. one is that national then defines foreign policy more than it is long or any other third- world ideology. we see this project early in the pronouncements of the aid and relatives by marriage. who has also tried to improve relations. the other point that i like a lot better made that are about a conflict between conflicts projections and fundamental strategic loneliness. as she points out, unlike turkey and israel, the o

bush to obama. he had the nerve to keep patraeus. next is john from cape cod, massachusetts. good morning to you. caller: good morning, steve. host: how are you today? caller: i'm good, thanks. i would like to call for a transformation in our culture. if we got on a program of early retirement so that over 10 years you would have a complete change in people who work in governm t government. that way i think with the great employment opportunities for people who are now unemployed. you would transform the voting patterns so that people with be much more receptive to the ryan proposal. because everybody would be basically dependent on the private sector for their lifetime overall economic well-being. i think the times call for a radical transformation like t s this. host: another twitter comment from mick saying the president has disappointed by leaning way right continually but i'm not bad mouthing. we weaken him and you get a war crazed wacko. we have a couple of viewers who have sent in e-mails including every-clark. am i missing something? we speak about mexicans and poor people but no comments

bush tax cuts. they want them to remain in place across the board. johnoehner also weighing in on the president's speech. he will be at the white house later this morning. because any tax increase, from a tweet sent out overnight -- next is jake joining us from providence, rhode island. on the democrats' line. caller: they are questioning about not reelecting him. let me remind them, a republican president will not be sympathetic to our cause. obama is pretty good because he is fighting against these idiot republicans who are trying to somehow say you want to balance the deficit by simply cutting spending, without trying to raise taxes on the top 2%. regards, even if you go with the paul ryan. , he wants to slash health-care. that does not help the budget. obama is doing a great job. and at the end of the day, the democrats will vote for obama whether they like, not. fight the devil republicans. host: thank you for your calls and your comments. obamget no still open, torture prosecutions. the house and the senate will take up the budget for the current fi

john allen will replace petraeus and ryan crocker will be named u.s. ambassador to afghanistan. robert gates who started the job under george w. bush wanted to retire. he has been on a farewell tour. but this is not going to be without controversy. i spoked to a former top military intelligence officer who says panetta does not have the military experience for the job and has done a questionable job as cia director. he will have to be confirmed by the senate. >>> we are also following developing news from afghanis thunderstorm warning. an afghan military pilot killed eight nato troops and a contractor during a meeting. cnn is reporting at least six of the troops are americans. reportedly the afghan pilot opened fire after an argument. >>> a uc berkeley graduate is wanted back in iran now. the iranian foreign ministry issued a subpoena for sarah shourd. she was arrested along with shane bower and josh fattal during a hike in 2009. both bower and fattal remain in jail. >>> funding for some after school programs in san francisco will be reduced because of declining attendance rates. the examiner reports marin that medical will lose $150,000 the most in

john f. kennedy pay any price bear any burden to assure the survival and success of liberty we all remember that one we should it's a good saying george w. bush had his own to the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in the world now mr obama a few days ago had the following to say let's discuss of this is his doctrine. americans should not be expected to police the world particularly when we have so many pressing concerns here at home is that a doctrine should it be a doctrine should it be embrace and is it being acted out through us but i don't think that's a doctrine i think it's a statement of lowering expectations i also think that one of the problems with all of these documents is that it bases the whole of u.s. foreign policy on the military so if we say should we intervene should we help it's assumed to mean should we send troops in my analysis that's almost never the case we should intervene with a whole range of other things but not with military force and that question of how are we defining intervention is an ongoing challenge in the particular for president obama i think what he faces right now given that the arab spring has turned up

john podhoritz. a look at barbara bush, jacqueline kennedy, and eleanor roosevelt.u can find the complete schedule online. >> president obama and vice president biden joined the first lady and joe biden tuesday to launch their initiative to honor service members and their families. from the white house, this is a little more than an hour. i became a volunteer when my son is squadron was activated in deployed to the middle east. my son jason deployed the following year. just like in many other states across the country, there is a network of national guard spouses 1 myspace to abolish supported one another, especially during deployment project to support one another, especially during the women. but we wanted to do more. in 2007, my friend kathy and i performed boots on the ground. a nonprofit organization that supports members of the military, their families, and veterans. especially in times of separation or need. with the help and expertise of individuals, local businesses, and community groups, we have stopped christmas stockings for soldiers, fixed broken air co

bush but that's what we're engaged in here bus he knows that no-hitter outcome will be very band for the united states, but i don't think they're prepared for any of the outcomes, john. and this administration has not talked about libya in the greater context of what is going on in the broader middle east. >> what about nato just dropping a bomb right on gaddafi's compound? >> they did that. >> they've tried that. >> what do you mean they tried? >> yes, missile on his head. >> i'm talking about over the head flight. >> anything is possible. i don't think that that -- that happens in the international -- [everyone talking at once] >> he will not be letting you know where he is sleeping from night to night. >> is libya a sovereign state? >> yes, of course it is. >> at what point dog barack obama have so seek a declaration of war? >> that's a good question. quoted we're near that. >> you don't? >> new york i don't. >> at what point does i have to cross before he -- anticipating he has to get a declaration? >> my recollection is he 4 something like 30 or 60 days -- >> 60 days. >> but this was is an attack on a country that didn't attack us, didn't threaten us. he's figh

we ship permanently extend the bush tax cuts for all families making less than to under $50,000 a year. that is 98% -- $250,000 a year. that is 98% of the population. >> john boehner was the leader of the republican effort to convince congress to extend all the bush tax cuts. >> i think extending all the current tax rates and making them permanent reduce the uncertainty in america and help small businesses and began to create jobs again. >> however, democrats were at a stalemate. one side endorsed president obama while the other side endorsed republican ideas. one thing everyone in congress was concerned about was middle- class families -- 98% of the population. it's the republican plan would have been realized, after several years, the deficit would have been at $3.50 trillion. bet that obama wanted to let the cuts expire for the top 2% of the population breeder >> if you think about the percentage of income by the top 1% of the population, it is a very large number. they are responsible for the majority of the taxable income in the country. >> they talk about saving $700 billion over 10 years. it does not release citing the $700 billion. it is choosing t

bush and reagan clans. he owns tv stations and founded the politico newspaper. elton john is also coming, though probably not singing. and mr. bean, he's coming, too. hopefully not in character. and let's just look at kate one more time this morning. remember, this is the last we'll see of her until the wedding day. and the wedding is two weeks away, come friday, so the next time we see her, she'll be getting out of that car in front of westminster abbey. robin, we'll finally get to see that dress. >> hopefully, it will not be raining. what is the significance of this being the final appearance before the big day, katie? >> well, robin, as you know, the couple have visited st. andrews, ireland, it's only fair that england get a little bit of this magic treatment as well. as nick said, it's pouring down with rain here. everyone is so excited to see this couple. kate looks phenomenal. she's wearing her hair half up and half down. the rumor is she might be wearing it like that for the day of the wedding itself. maybe this is a practice run. >> a little bit of a preview. i lov

bush era tax cuts but now the battle over the budget has come. front and center on capitol hill again they've written a formal letter to president obama to harry reid and to john boehner asking for taxes to be raised on those earning over one million dollars a year and they write it as quote loyal citizens it's not something we hear every day in this country so we wanted to find out more earlier i caught up with one of those patriotic millionaires entrepreneur ron barrett i first asked him why it is that he wants to pay higher taxes. just wants to be higher taxes i don't believe this is for the next person but we have only three options we can cut spending and raise taxes or we can go bankrupt. in study that just doesn't seem to be working and i don't want to see just to go bankrupt do you think that we really started to cut spending and we may feel like only now we're starting to see this debate at least happen in our government but no real austerity measures have been placed upon us yet those are. not yet here any of the kind of rhetoric. i would expect to hear is really we're going to be on a tour through the kind of cutting edge to be consistent. and then