mr. carville, that we're wrong.ng the base, but if you look at the numbers we just showed, overall approval rating down. among democrats down. among african-americans the president's stable. women, he's down. whites he's down. independents he's down. is there any other way to read this, james, as the president's in trouble? and why is mr. axelrod pushing back so quick -- so hard? >> well, first of all, i really like and admire and respect david axelrod top so get that out of the way. in fact, i don't think david really believes that. i think he has a job to do, and i've had the same job before, and sometimes we try to put as positive of a spin as we can on things. my point i'm trying to make here, things are not well. we're losing elections. the opposition, we can't let them win this race. let's recognize that and make some changes and get this thing on the right track. that's the solution here. let's don't defend that things are going well. they're not going well. let's fix them and make them go better. >> and rola

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mr. carville's advice? >> no, because he's got a good economic plan. i don't -- you know, the president never does the country much good by panicking. i know what james meant. james meant that we need a political turn. but the truth is, what we need is to create a climate where the american people can think, instead of just vote their frustrations. and as long as he's got a specific plan out there, and the american people can evaluate it compared to what the republicans want, and see what they do, i think that politically that's the best you can do. he's been dealt a tough hand. and the american people are not used to waiting five years for anything good to happen. but, that's what we're facing. d if you want to speed it up, we've got to do things in the government. so, now we've got -- we're going to have a real debate with real specifics. i think that's encouraging. he's going to come out with his long-term deficit redtion plan. i think that's a good idea. but he's going to make clear that you can't balance the budget on the back of no growth. so we

mr. carville's advice? >> no. because he's got a good economic plan.dent never does the country much good by panicking. i know what james meant. james meant that we need a political turn. as long as he's got a specific plan out there and the american people can evaluate it compared to what the republicans want and see what they do, i think that politically that's the best you can do. >> president clinton's hesitance there was fascinating. dan balls, "washington post" chief correspondent and author of "the take." msnbc karen finny. and pete c. visiting from indiana a former spokesman for president bush and communications director for the indiana republican party. welcome, all of you. dan, i'm going to start with you because you write about this september to remember issue. some of us think it's the august that drived the september to remember for president obama. you interviewed david plouffe who clearly felt the need he had to get out there with some sort of answer for the understand the very perilous situation we're in, but we think we have a pathway

mr. carville will join me live coming up. >>> then, while president obama is in new york at the united nationsbly meeting, then she overcame torture and cancer before becoming president of brazil. a look at her in today's "human factor." to the same challenges. but at prudential we're helping companies everywhere find new solutions to manage risk, capital and employee benefits, so american business can get on with business. ♪ >>> want to let you know what's happening right now. take a look at this live satellite picture here. thousands of people need to get out of the way of a typhoon that's about to hit japan. chad myers has been watching this thing swirling. he'll explain where this massive storm equal to a category 3 hurricane is aiming for hours from now. we'll get to chad momentarily. >>> first, james carville has a lot of advice for the president as of late. he's not at all shier about sharing it. the longtime democratic strategist and cnn distributor says president obama is showing a new aggressiveness. he says it's about time. james carville joins me live. james, you're pretty intense

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mr. president your old advisor, james carville, said flatly that things are so bad... >> (laughing) >> schieffer: ...that approval ratings are down and so forth. so bad that it's time for panic at the white house. he basically suggested firing everybody there. do you think that would be the right thing to do? >> i think the right thing to do is what the president did. i thought he gave a good speech to congress with an economic plan to deal with the immediate emergencies. he offered $450 billion worth of suggestions. $250 billion were tax cuts, including big payroll tax reductions that the republicans have previously supported. and $200 billion in spending in infrastructure and retrofitting and fixing and modernizing schools-- things that will immediately put people to work. then, i think he's going to put out a plan to deal with the long-term debt problem and make it clear that he wants to do this after growth has returned. that you can't get blood out of a turnip. i think that there's a little bit of lag in these polls between when the president proposes something and people feel it. also, rig

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carville, brooke. >> four different pieces of advice. you can go to cnn.com/opinion. mr.ry much. >>> amid this decadence,there were acts of unspeakable cruelty. this house belongs to hannibal gadhafi. what went on in here was truly horrendous. >> that is dan rivers. he brought us this young woman's story. this is a nanny. once a nanny for moammar gadhafi's family. says they poured boiling hot water over her for not keeping a child quiet. now, one government is offering her asylum and treatment. dan rivers is now standing by live for us. we're going to go to dan with this exclusive access next. 's hw it ought to be my brother credit 'cause you'll need a loan for one thing or another score 'cause they break it down to one simple number that you can use dot to take a break because the name is kinda long com in honor of the internet that it's on put it all together at the end of the song it gives you freecreditscore-dot-com, and i'm gone... offer applies with enrollment in freecreditscore.com [ male announcer ] if you're in a ford f-150 and you see this... it's the end of the

political analyst james carville who helped bill clinton win the white house has some advice for mr. some people. listen to his comments earlier in the "newsroom." >> i think the problem is change the policy and change the personnel that are working with the policy and tell the public you get it. don't lose two races and come on tv and talk about everything's fine when everybody knows it is not fine. >> john avlon is with us now from new york. john, what do you make of james carville's comments? >> he's the raging cajun is back. he's telling some hard truths to the white house. now look, he loves to throw a hard punch and that makes some news. i'm not sure really the solution to the white house's problems is to hit the panic button and just fire a bunch of people but clearly they've got to recognize there is a problem. i don't think the turner special election or nevada election are real bellwethers but democrats and the president need to recognize they need to take action to make the case to the american people directly. >> is the problem then the staff, the white house, who is equi

side, carville directly describes them, they are people that can't garner a majority under any circumstances. all barack obama has to do is make people believe that he is it. >> well, you know, mr. mayor, i believe in machiavelli, you're not supposed to say so. i'll go to mike feldman on this young fellow. i will tell you this, it's better to be feared than to be loved, machiavelli taught. and my argument is, if you're not feared, you're not loved very long. because leaders are supposed to be feared. if they're not feared by their enemies, people who like them don't love them. >> he's making an argument. he put a jobs plan out there -- >> is eric cantor afraid of him? is mccarthy afraid of him? is boehner afraid of him? >> next week, he'll be in john boehner's district, he'll be campaigning on his plan, he said, do you want an issue to run on or do you want to create some jobs? >> real bad news for the president that tends to trickle down. a long-term democratic spokesman, used to work for ted kennedy and a very good source said this about re-election prospects for democrats on abc's "topline." >> i'm sure glad i'm not working for a member that's up for re-election next year, b