. >>> hill larry clinton will live a key note speech today where she talks about increasing opportunities for women that is crucial for the empowerment of women. that address will start this morning. >>> some bay area schools are working to get students vaccinated for whooping cough. nurses will give the vaccination to those with signed consent. they have 30 days to enforce the rules at school and students that don't comply could be asked to leave. >>> a group of city leaders will work together to fight eviction from pier 58. they think it is after the city officials received a petition. they were given until the 30th to leave. >>> a circus dinner theater is being forced to relocate because of the cup race in 2013. they are negotiating reopening at a different water front property. >>> stock at net flick is taking a hit. shares were down about 19% yesterday. the decision to increase the monthly sub scryings for the monthly service by up to 60% was causing an up roar. they said that they think that the changes will make the services better in the long run. >> if they act quickly to make it

we'll be right back with larry clinton of the internet security a license. now on your screen as larry clinton, president and ceo of the internet security alliance. mr. clinton, for to start by finding out what the isp pays. >> guest: the internet security alliance was created back in 2000 it represents virtually every aspect of our nation's critical infrastructure , aviation, banking, two indications, financial services, if better. our mission statement is to take advanced technology and blend it with public policy and economics to create a sustainable system of cybersecurity. so we are a security organization and represent our company security interests. >> host: when you look at the sabre security proposal put out by the white house, was too generous reaction? would you support it? what concerns do? >> guest: during number of things in the administration's proposal that have broad support drifting such as providing cybersecurity education, developing a much better system within the government to manage their own cybersecurity research and development on n

tavis: people like larry summers said that bill clinton would not have made these kind mistakes after walking out of a meeting. you have larry summers on the record here. you have timothy geithner their, you have romer talking about sexism in the white house. you have dunn talking about how they could be in court over some of the sexes and. what i want to get to is that you expect the white house now to push back on this text given all the stuff that i just laid out. i have noticed over the couple of days that some in the media are starting to push back on you. how do you explain the media push back versus the white house? >> there are a lot of folks going in a different direction. some folks have said, i am an expert on the president and dianne covered some of these things. this is -- and i uncovered some of these things. some people have seen some of these clear pieces of evidence and they're saying, while, i don't know what to think about that. that will cause some frustration and some action. tavis: some of the things that are getting the most press. i want to be fair to you and a

in the book itself. >> excuse me. >> larry pushes back. clinton would have made the same mistakes. ery one of the major characters, including tim geithner. they respond in the pages of the book. readers are saying they're responding here. a seasoned response saying this is what was really going on. when you get to the political environment, the white house say you were on venus that day. as people read the book, the responses are clear and revealing. >> the first thing they did was called you a liar and found out you had tapes. >> then they said oh, boy, trouble. this morning in "the washington post," there are reporters left in washington who are saying this is a big story. there was a real women's crisis in the white house, not this was no big deal. it's in ron's book. he reported it this morning. anita dunn's quote, yes, it was. valerie jarrett is saying essentially my book is correct. it was much worse than people understand. >> i don't think jarrett would agree with your book. >> jarrett cooperated with the book and said many things that affirm everything in the book as did ani

went to kansas city, missouri the only time i flew on air force one with president clinton had long discussions with larry air force one before and after there was talk about doing something with investing social security trust funds in nongovernment bondses away of growing the rate of return -- maybe personal accounts. we were looking at different things, all interesting. men monica lewinsky happened and the president collapsed. the reform never happened. >> greta: as i understand -- those are targeted at younger people not people getting the social security now or in the next 10, 15 years. if we allow young people to opt-out and have private accounts now, how in the world are we going to fund social security? we need their money in the income stream. great, we let them opt-out what happens with those on social security now, where do we get the money for them? >> that is a big problem now. when i was advocating for personal accounts, as i did for 10 years. we were running a 3% surplus. we were collecting three percentage points of social security tax more than we needed. what my plan was to take that 3%

clinton. $150,000 speaking fee. what's your fee, larry? >> just under that, raj. >> thanks so much, larry gerston, for joining us tonight. >>> a political party where a everyone invited wants to be a "g." but in this case the "g" stands for government officials. state lremakers loosening their ties and raising eyebrows with the end of session old school kick back. it's thrown by seven democratic assembly committee members who call themselves the d7 crew. some folks at the state capitol says it reinforces negative stereotypes of latinos. the lawmakers say it's all in good fun. >> still to come at 6:00, a vandalism spree in an east bay city. how it will hurt the cash strapped city. plus who investigators suspect are the culprits. >> also why getting where you need to go on time could be easier now in san francisco. no kidding. >>> also the woman behind one o valley. the google doodle sure, pulling the mold, mildew, and grime from out of the porous caverns of grout takes the right tools, but it also takes a gentle, caring touch. before you ca

anecdotes, including one in which suskind quotes larry summers as telling peter orszag, you know, peter, we're alone. there's no adult in charge. clinton would never have made these mistakes. analysts say there's a larger reason why the white house is working this hard to discredit this narrative. >> once there tends to be a cartoon of a president, especially a president where the nation's got awfully big problems and it's an election year, that tends to take hold and is very hard to get rid of. >> reporter: the white house has drawn blood even for sus does kind on the "today" show to admit larry summers, in the quote we had in our peace, that summers had denied it, but then said he still meant the meaning of the quote that he used. >> for them right now, it's all about timing. chuck todd covering the traveling president, traveling white house here in new york. >>> another flurry of activity here in new york, afghanistan's president made an early and tearful departure from the u.n. meeting. left here to go back home to afghanistan after word came of a big setback there. a suicide bomber packed explosives in his turban. killed the man l

a top economic aide, larry summers, is quoted as telling a colleague in 2009, quote, "we're home alone. there's no adult in charge. clinton would never have made these mistakes." and two female members of the president's senior team sound off about a white house they depict as a boy's club. "this place would be in court for a hostile workplace," former white house communications director anita dunn says. another top economist, christina romer, said she was sometimes treated like she didn't matter. quote, "i felt like a piece of meat." the white house push-back has been fierce. summers, dunn and romer say they were misquoted and claimed that suskind exaggerated incidents. others who were there say the book doesn't ring true. >> you put a bunch of economists in a room, we're going to argue and we're going to squabble. substantively, and we did a lot of that. but at the end of the day, we typically came up with a unified recommendation for the chief. >> and rick klein, our senior washington editor, joins us now from washington. and rick, this obviously comes at a very challenging time for the president. got the economy, jobs

i got to ask you this, bill clinton and the book, one of the things larry summers is reported as sayinged, this economic mess we're in, if bill clinton was there because there were no adults in the room. that stings and that's what a lot of democrats are thinking, i imagine. >> it might be something -- it might be those inside thoughts that maybe you shouldn't voice. i am a little suspect of all things ron susken when tmz it c to his thoughts. a lot of senior administration official said that's taken out of context and not what i said. it's a little bit overdone. do i think a lot of people think this probably wouldn't have happened under a bill clinton or hillary clinton? easy to say. hard to prove. impossible to prove. >> let's talk about donald trump. for a while, he was actually leading in the polls as you looked at the g.o.p. field. then he met with sarah palin over pizza in midtown new york and then he recently met with rick perry at a fancy french place. >> michelle bachmann. >> exactly. now it looks like he's going to be sitting down with mitt romney. has donald trump become some

clinton would never make these mistakes. he says this a lot leaving meetings in the oval office with the president. lots of people hear this and they're troubled by it, they say is larry about this or not? and they wrestle with it through the period of this presidency. >> but you say everybody hates summers but obama. the one thing you keep coming back to is his judgment necessarily on the people that he has around him as advisors. this isn't necessarily the iraq war, he's got a situation he has inherited but he is responsible... you can't sit back and say he's not responsible for bad advise. >> with larry there's a seduction. obama loves these high i.q. guys larry is the top of the heat there and he sort of ends up in what i call the larry summers debate society. i think obama felt he'd sit above it and judge who's the winner. he's just another guy at the table. larry saying i'll go first, you go after me. it troubles people who are sitting there saying wait a second, is that being disrespectful to the president? eventually you see the president's confidence sort of bruised and, frankly, that's why confidence men is the title. it's all about confidence. the coin of t

larry summers is quoted assess saying in 2009, we're home alone. there's no adult in charge. clintonuld never have made these mistakes. we couldn't reach him for comment but in "the washington post," it's a combination of fiction, distortion and words taken out of context. >> i lived the reality, and the reports i've read about this book bear no resemblance to the reality we live together. >> reporter: treasury secretary timothy geithner referring to a passage saying president obama decided early on to restructure several troubled banks but discovered nearly a month later his directive had been ignored by the treasury. >> absolutely not. i would never do that. i've spent my life in public service. >> reporter: gloria borger says in books like this former officials try to bolster their own legacies or settle scores. would it lead to some kind of finger-pointing behind the scenes and people looking over their own shoulder, i've got to watch what i'm saying to everybody. >> i mean, this is washington. people are always going to try to figure out who was the source for that? who was the

a top economic aid, larry summers is quoted as telling a colleague in 2009, we're home alone. there's no adult in charge. clinton would never have made these mistakes. and two female members of this president's senior team sound off about a white house they depict as a boys club. this place would be in court for a hostile workplace, former white house communications director anita dunn says. another top economist, christina romer, says she was sometimes treated like she doesn't matter. quote, i felt like a piece of meat. the white house pushback has been fierce. summers, dunn and romer all say they were misquoted and claim suskind exaggerated incidents. others who were there say the book doesn't ring true. >> you put a bunch of economists in a room, we're going to argue and we're going to squabble substantively and we did a lot of that. but at the end of the day we typically came up with a unified recommendation for the chief. >> reporter: the coming days of pushback will be critical for the white house. the president can't afford a perception he couldn't control his own economic team, much less the economy as a

clinton advisers working in this administration. here's one piece of the book that i'll put up on the screen, over the past few months, national economic council chair larryers has said this in a stage whisper to omb director peter orszag and others as they left the morning economics briefings, i mean it summer stressed, we're home alone, there's no adults in charge. clinton would never have made these mistakes. >> well, what governor granholm said i think is the key to our current substantive problem, not political problem. which is the economy has changed and we need a president who can direct the country, lead the country to some place and say here's how we're going to have jobs in the new che. there's no one better at that than bill clinton. president obama has shown one weakness throughout his time in national life is he has not been a great explainer in chief about the new economy and how his policies will actually make things come about. it's the same on this jobs bill. if you break it down, the individual elements are popular in most cases. it doesn't have, though, the public support it would need and the congressional support it would need if the

. >> larry summers alleged to have said to peter or zag, we're really home alone. there's no adult in charge. clinton have never made mistakes. here is what he said. you spoke to so many people from the obama administration past and present for this book. are you surprised by their reaction? >> not really. i'm surprised by some of the personal qualities of it. what i did in this book was tried to go back to ever body prior to publication and say here is what's going to go next to your name, give me your response. larry summers does give a response to the home alone response in the book. that's the real response. he's sober, talks about overwhelmed, five times as many problems, not five times as many people. essentially we're a victim of circumstances. who knows what any president could have done. i think that's the appropriate and accurate response. importantly tim geithner responds in almost two pages of quotes, all from a transcript of a final interview i did prior to publication with the treasury secretary. people can judge for themselves. >> it comes at a tender moment politically for this presid

. >> here's what larry summers said to one of his colleagues, peter orszag. "we're home alone. there's no adult in charge. clintonave made these mistakes." summers told politico today the account in the book is a combination of fiction, distortion and words taken out of context. also quoted in the book, paul volcker, the great former fed chairman who headed the president's economic recovery advisory board. said "obama is smart but smart is not enough. leadership is another thing entirely about knowing your mind enough to make real decisions, ones that last." that's a profound criticism of the president. that's not really about this book. that's a profound charge about the need for a president to have a firm grip on his own thinki i or her on thinking, the ability to stay the course. he's saying obama doesn't have that. that's probably a more profound comment that we're talking about here. >> in some ways if you read near the end of the book, president obama also admits that, himself. this whole idea of it's not enough to be confident in the chair in the oval office. part of leadership is also transmitting that se

larry summers told peter orszag -- >> that's right. i'm not alleging it. >> we're home alone. there's no adult in charge. clintoner have made these mistakes. was it peter orszag who told you that? >> peter orszag is quoted in the book. you should look at it. >> i have. peter orszag told you -- >> you bet. peter orszag is quoted saying that. summers said it not just to orszag. he said it to many people. it was called the home alone riff. many people heard it. when peter heard it for one, he was unsettled with it. what is larry saying? is larry right? what's interesting is orszag meditates on the larry summers home loan quote on a good page or two pages, is larry right or not? >> is it possible that mr. orszag who was hardly garlanded with praise when he left the white house, and he may have seen this as an opportunity to seek some kind of revenge. >> no, not at all. >> why not? >> the fact is the home alone quote from larry summers comes from many people. many people heard it. it was something i taub etalked larry about at the end of the day. >> isn't it interesting mr. orszag is the one individual who has not wa

. >> here's what larry summers supposedly said to one of his colleagues, peter orszag -- we're home alone, there's no adult in charge, clintonmade these mistakes. summers told politico it's an account of fiction, distortion and words taken out of context. paul volcker said obama is smart but smart is not enough, leadership is another thing entirely, about knowing your mind enough to make real situations, ones that last. that's a profound criticism of the president, nia. that's a profound charge about the need for a president to have a firm grip on his own thinking or her own thinking, an ability to stay the course. and he's saying that obama doesn't have that. that's probably a more profound comment than we're talking about here? >> in some ways if you read near the end of the book, president obama almost admit that is himself, this whole idea of it's not enough to be confident in that chair in the oval office, part of leadership is also transmitting that sense of confidence to the american people. suskind had those interviews with the president. it lasted about 50 minutes in february. you do get the sense that this was befo

martha: you've got larry summers saying things much quoted in discussions about this book that bill clinton would have let this happen, never would have let the mistakes be made. let me take a look at one quote, this is from your sit down discussion with the president. it's especially relevant right now. he's talking about the bush tax cuts and the decision to extend them at that crucial point. he says part of what was important in the tax deal was not that my mind was changed around the bush tax cuts, i still think that they were a bad idea, but i think i was able to recognize was that at this juncture the country will kneel better about itself and that will have important ramifications. the most important deficit reduction program that i can initiate is to get this economy growing again. and boy so now he's decided that the bush tax cuts should be let go, should expire, and he says that is going to make the country not feel great about itself. >> at the very end after that he's got this quote which is the confidence quote, it's called confidence is the coin of the realm in america, it alw

larry summers to omb director peter orszag is described in the book -- peter, we are really home alone. there's no adult in charge. clintonld never have made these mistakes. is this a fair characterization of what happened at the top levels of the white house at such a critical time? >> i mean, that doesn't at all describe what i saw. the episode you are describing there is ron suskind hearing what peter orszag says he heard larry say about a fourth person and so i wasn't -- i wasn't at that dinner. i saw the book. i would characterize it as the -- you would want to read the book if you are the kind of person who would like to hear from the a ten-person meeting what the one person who was upset and happened to be the one who talked to ron suskind thought. i thought that the overall characterization that somehow the president wasn't decisive or wasn't really in charge was, frankly, ridiculous. we were in the middle of a terrible economic crisis, the worst in all of our lifetimes. and i can give you many examples where the president would hear the evidence on both sides, of course there are were disagreements. if you go fin

former top economic adviser, larry summers tells another top aide, we're home alone, there's no adult in charge. clinton would never have made these mistakes. senior adviser, peter rouse. a memo criticizing how the economic team tries to relitigate the overall policy even after the president makes a decision, forcing reconsideration of the details until the very last moment, and even then, implementation by treasury secretary, tim geithner is slow and uneven. >> please, everybody, have a seat on this beautiful morning. >> reporter: behind the artifice of white house photo ops, aides fight ferociously. in one showdown, summers yells what you've done is immoral. he wrote a memo without going to summers first. some former aides say the book does not ring true. >> you put a bunch of economists in a room, we're going to argue and squabble, substantively. we did a lot of that. at the end of the day, we typically came up with a unified recommendation for the chief. >> reporter: one of the stronger charges in the book is one we covered two years ago that the president dismissed at the time. whether women in the

quotes, where larry summers basically trashing the president in a conversation -- saying, really home alone, i mean it. they're denying that, summers and others being quoted. the president clintonn my administration, things were a lot worse. in other words, from now until the election, is a long time and a lot of things can happen. give us a long view of where the president is right now. >> basically it depends on what happens between now and a year from now. you're right. a couple of days before the 2004 election, there was an osama bin laden tape that, without that, john kerry might have been a president. george w. bush, in 2000, his dui come out. anyone at this point who says, we can use numbers to predict who's going to be president next, we're crazy. >> but, i think that there's something going on now that is different. and that is the true lack of confidence among the voters. about -- about washington and the ability of washington to do anything. and it starts to become a self-fulfilling prophesy. the president says forinstance, increase the payroll tax break, what people will do with that money is save it. people aren't spending any money because they're scared to death

clinton spotted in san francisco tonight. the reason for her visit. those stories and nor one hour on abc 7 news at 11:00 over on channel 7. larry big shakeup in the giants organization. >> i talked to a number of people in the organization and they were like wow, this came out of no where. c.e.o. and general manager bill newcom will not be back next season. the team's ownership group asked him to step aside. they felt as though he didn't keep them properly informed of day-to-day decisions within the organization and the team and was spending money without telling them enough. the giants in a release are calling this newcom's retirement. he has been with the franchise for three seasons. he will stay on in some capacity but just won't be the boss. chief operating officer larry baer is expected to move up to his shoes. the giants have a news conference to explain all of this tomorrow morning. the giants going for a sweep of the pirates. mrs. lincecum with a foul ball there. carlos beltran 299. this one off of matt lehtos. solo shot and tied at one in the first. lincecum winless in the last three starts. the panda had his back toda

larry summers is quoted as saying in 2009, we're home alone, there is no adult in charge. clintonistakes. we couldn't reach summerses for comment, but in an e-mail to the "washington post," he said the here say attributed to me is a combination of fiction, distortion and words taken out of context. >> i lived the reality and the reports i've read about this book bear no resemblance to the reality we lived together. >> timothy geithner responding to a passage in the book saying that president obama decided early on to restructure several troubled banks but discovered nearly a month later that the direct it difference had been ignor ignored. >> absolutely not. gloria boernlg said people try to settle scores ask. does it lead to finger pointing? >> i mean, this is washington. people are always going to try and figure out who was the source for that. who is the source for that story. i bet that came from him or i bet it came from him. >> a defiant white house press secretary launched a separate offensive. >> one passage seems to be lifted almost entirely from wikipedia in the book. >>

larry somers formerly of the economic team. we're home alone, there's no adult in charge. clinton would never have made these mistakes.ave the tapes to prove it. >> of course. it's important to note as people get the book in the last two days, virtually all the key quotes are responded to in the text of the book. i go back at the end of the process and say look, here's wha what's going to be in the book next to your name, what do you have to say about it? >> paint him as extremely arrogant, larry somers, never admits a mistake. >> i'm not the first. larry has been a guy who has been his own worst enemy in a lot of ways. he's a brilliant guy. no one doubts that. he's a key figure in this book. others are as well. it's important that especially tim geithner has a very, very long, several page, two page explanation of what happened with what i call the slow walking, the administration calls itself -- he wants -- the president wanted to take down citigroup, to close it and reopen it. to take down a big bank and it's clear from what's in the book and the recite -- the response from geithner that he was slow by the treasury

larry summers quote already. when summers said he was an amateur and this would've never happened with clinton. >> just on the --'ll just say, i believe this administration from the work i've done with the white house counsel on women and girls has hired more women than any other administration and has taken more steps for forwarding the development of women than any other administration. and if you're going to hire a lot of women, guess what? you're also going to fire some in a white house. that's what happens. >> come on, man, what are you doing? >> larry summers being opinionated, being opinionated, have a high opinion of his own goal inside the white house is not necessarily necessarily -- >> maybe we should just salute our president like you. let's stop this, all this criticism. >>> up next, what do we have up next? i'm sorry. >> and ron suskind on tomorrow. up next, peter king talking about -- >> he's got a couple of quotes in this new book too. in america, we believe in a future that is better than today. since 1894, ameriprise financial has been working hard for their clients' futures. never taking a bai

particular he talks about larry summers who was the director of of the white house economic national council until last year saying we are home alone, quote, there is no adult in charge. clinton never have made these mistakes, something summers now comes out and says he was misquoted on. >> you're get ago lot of corroborating allegations by the most senior levels of the obama staff saying, and advisers saying that there is no adult supervision at the white house. clearly the failures we've seen in the economy, in social policy, look, it's all corroborated by the statements in this book. unfortunately this president doesn't get it. he's a great campaigner, seems to like being president, but hates the work, and this book, and it's beyond me why presidents invite people in while history is being made to have the white house at their beck and call. it doesn't make any sense to have a reporter come and have carte blanche while they are governing. megyn: don't discourage that. we as members of the press like that. let me ask you, dick. we haven't seen the book, it comes out this week. the biggest allegations of court of incompetent comes from larry summers the one i just read, and

larry summer, who sort of runs rough shod over everybody. in that sense it's very believable. it's what we already kind of know about how these people operate. it's how they operated in the clintontration, it's how they've operated with obama, and let's face it, they knew more about what to do than oma did coming in. so i think it is very unflattering and that's why they have to push back at it, and the question is how do we know which parts are true and which parts aren't true. well, i think some of the stuff just -- it really does sound familiar in terms of the criticisms that are made about this president. martha: very interesting. and you know, so far, it's a really interesting read, and we're going to talk to the author on thursday, ron suskind, about the book and we're looking forward to having him here. kirsten, thank you very much, good to talk to you. bill: in the meantime, jon scott is standing by down in our news raofplt what's going on on a monday, jon? >> jon: we are carrying on just as you are with a couple of busy hours today. bret baier will be along with the politics of the president's decifit plan after two deadly air show crashes this weekend, some are saying