♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello, i'm llewellyn king, the host of "white house chronicle" which is coming right upa few thoughts of my own. i am one of many journalists at the white house who are puzzled by president obama. we listen to him. we say he is very smart. he is very articulate. he handles himself well. and when he has left the room and we leave the room after a press briefing, we wonder what did he say? we start looking at our notes. what did he say? my feeling is that the president has achieved something unique. his presidency reminds me of somebody who gives a party and then comes as one of the guests, not as the host. there is some sort of disconnect. i think many of the problems come from bad advice. he intends to get enthusiasm and then to undermine his own enthusiasm for something. i will give you two examples, just two, but there are many. they are both in the energy field. one is the keystone pipeline. why did he do what he did with it to get the enmity of the oil industry but to provide an enormous cadre for the republicans of the oil industry to beat him with. canada is going

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> hello, i'm llewellyn king, the host of "white house chronicle " which is coming right up. today, i continue my intriguing conversation with john rowe, the retiring chief executive officer of exelon corp. john rowe is just -- not just a utility executive. he is a man of history, a man of enormous interests outside his professional industrial career, which has been hugely successful. in a time when we tend to look and measure people only by the success of their businesses, it is absolutely fascinating to hear john rowe talk about those things that led him to business success and those things that are simply a great passion with him. we will be right back. >> "white house chronicle" is produced in collaboration with whut, howard university television. now, your program host, nationally syndicated columnist llewellyn king, and co-host linda gasparello. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> hello again, and thank you for coming along. i promised you the extraordinary john rowe and here is the e

♪ ♪ ♪ captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> hello, i'm llewellyn king,ost of "white house chronicle." you're going to meet one of the interesting man in america. in an age when industrialists are treated as celebrities, i have for you and industrialist who is a scholar, man of letters, as well as somebody who has done extraordinary things for his company and community. you will be delighted when we come back and you meet john roe. >> "white house chronicle" is produced in conjunction with whut, howard university television. and now nationally syndicated columnist llewellyn king and coast linda gasparello. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> welcome back and thank you for coming along guerrilla i promised thieu john roe and serious, the chief executive officer of exelon who is now retiring after an incredible career in the electric utility industry. the thing about electric utilities is so long as they keep the lights on and so long as you can keep watching this television, you don't think how important electricity is. john roe is. how did you get into electricity? you were a lawye

>> hello, i'm llewellyn king, a host of "white house chronicle." first, a few thoughts of my own. actually, a demonstration. i apologize on -- for my radio listeners because they will not see this but i have in front of me a bowl of water and then another bull without any water and a sponge. not terribly sophisticated. but you heard a lot about the future of oil in the u.s. there are those, and they included newt gingrich, that believe we can become a great will producing power -- oil producing power. this very week i interviewed jack girard of the american petroleum institute and he said there is going to be plenty of oil in the u.s. for our children and grandchildren and i believe their children. that is 100 years, i imagine. the thing is, traditionally we got oil out of a pool in the ground sort of like this ball of water here. and we put a pipe into wit and drill a hole and put the pipe down and suck it up. the new oil that is changing things, that has changed north dakota into a boom state is rather different. the oil is contained in tight formations and they have to be squee