hi, mr. klein >> guest: hi. >> caller: seems to me that mr. -- president obama, even though is having trouble, you say wishes -- with the clintons, he also doesn't care for mr. bush, either. so if you want to put this in some kind of realm, you know, it's -- two presidents, you know, that were sitting presidents and we have the one president in the house now and there's something wrong with two presidents, and besides that, when the clintons were in, they happened to have it very good because they were at a stage in life where electronics were coming up, and people were just getting interest that, and there was a lot of, a lot of money made through that. do you understand what i'm saying? >> guest: i do, and i'd like to respond and say that barack obama basically -- if you just get to the core of matters -- won the presidency in 2008 by his opposition to george w. bush and the iraq war. it was his key platform and plank. and since then, for years -- now he is in his sixth year in office -- he has b

mr. klein, welcome.ntion >> thank you for having tome. >> why did you turn your uest: attention to these two families? >> well, the media has spent a a great deal of time writing and talking about the feud that o exists in the republicanf party between the tea party and the establishment wings of that bee party, but has spent virtually no time at all on the feud that's going on between the two great democratic families, the obamas and the clintons, and that feud is going to affect who's going to get the democratic nomination and maybet even who is in the white house in 2016. so i thought it was an important story that deserved a book. >> so, mr. klein, what is the o feud naover, as you see it?s >> the feud is over many o different things.ds first of all, it's a personal t feud between the clintons and the obamas over the kinds of words that they hurled at each other during the 2008 d presidential primary, in which the obamas called bill clinton a racist and bill clinton called -- and hillary ca

hi, mr. klein it seems to me that president obama, even e, though he's having trouble, youo say, with the clintons, he also doesn't care for mr. bush either. so if you want to put this in some kind of realm, you know, it's -- you know, two presidents, you know, that weres sitting presidents, and we have the one president in the house now, and besides that, when the clintons were in, they happened to have it very good, because they were at a stage in life pep where electronics were coming up, and people were just getting into that, and there was a lot, a lot of money made through that.ld do you understand what i'm l saying? >> i do,ikresp and i'd like to t and say that barack obama basically, if you get to the core of matters, won the op presidency in 2008 by his opposition is george w. bush ana the iraq war.tfor that was his key platform and plank. now he's in his sixth year in office. the fact of the matter is barack obama in my view. has caused many of his own problems. hillary clinton urged bara

it's about an hour.>> g >>> mr. klein welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> why did you turn your attention to these two familiesi >> the media has spent a great of time writing and talking about the feud that exists in the republican party between the tea party that feud is going to affect who gets the democratic nomination and maybe even who it in the white house in 2016.s >> so, mr. klein, what is the t feud over, as you see it?he >> first of all it's a personalr feud between the clintons and the obamas over the kinds of words that they hurled as each i other during the 2008 president atprimary in which the obamas call bill clinton a racist, and hillary called the obama fairy tale. they've never really forgotten thosesl slurs, but even more o importantf there's an ideologil battle between the level wing of the party represented by baracke obama, and the more center left wing of the party that's represented by the clinton.>> hs this is a balance also more and president more centrist in its approach. wife those two kin

. >> mr. klein, the covereen of y. book features the couple bill and hillary clinton and michelle and barack obama. talk about how they worked toge together as a couple, tical political y in the sense. >> how each of the couples worki together? >> yeah. >> well, that would take us a y, long time, but basically i would say that as quickly as i can sat this that the s clintons have as marriage that is somewhat similar to the marriage of franklin roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt. hav it's essentially a working relationship. they have gone do their separa ways in many ways. they don't live together often.s but they are colleagues and collaborators on policy, as eleanor and franklin were. on the other side -- we have a first lady in michelle obama wht is best friends with valerie jarrett and who is a behind-the-scenes advisor to her husband in a way that's quite different because in many respects, michelle behaves s toward her husband as though she knows better. he has set in public that she's the boss. he often sounds like

. >> host: mr. klein a comment from twitter. this is about presidential advisers which i think this is on the topics of your book. didi fredericks writes do you think the advisers of president obama and president clinton came from the same exclusive think tank pool? >> guest: ♪ , i don't. i think president clinton's advisers came from what was called the democratic leadership council which was a centerleft group that tried to bring the democratic party away from its radical base to more of a centrist position. the obama administration has been by and large, not entirely but by and large run in its policy decisions by political people. we are talking about david axelrod who helped him get elected and i'm talking about valerie jarrett and i will give you a concrete example of this. in my book blood feud, i discussed a meeting that took place between bill and hillary clinton and caroline kennedy at caroline kennedy's apartment on park avenue in new york. caroline kennedy was about to take post as ambassador to tokyo japan and she w

. >> host: mr. klein the cover of your book features but cut coupled bill and hillary clinton and michelle and barack obama. talk about how they work together as a couple but also in the political sense. >> guest: how they work together? that would take us a long time but basically i would say that as quickly as i can say this, that the clintons have a marriage that is somewhat similar to the marriage of franklin roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt. it's essentially a working relationship. they have gone their separate ways in many ways. they don't live together often. but they are colleagues and collaborators on policy as eleanor and franklin were. on the other side, excuse me. the obama side, we have a first lady in michelle obama who is best friends with valerie jarrett and who is a behind-the-scenes adviser to her husband in a way that is quite different because in many respects michelle behaves toward her husband as though she knows better. he has said in public that she is the boss. he often sounds like

[laughter] as far as mr. kleinyou can use the word inapt would be better than "weak" because the president has proved everything he has done so far he has been ept and foreign policy. he threw the line in the sand. we had the opportunity to go with the red line in syria, and we did nothing. now one person is killed, so we're going to go to war with i.s.i.s. because they are taking over. we did not seem to be overly excited when our ambassador was killed in benghazi. we did not do anything about that and till 18 months later. i just, you know, it is thingesting, every everybody comes up to blame somebody. it is a very difficult situation. i think if we follow the money that is going on where i.s.i.s. is pumping oil to sell it to some people, we found out where the money is coming from, and then we go after those people, the same thing as mr. klein said earlier about russia. if we go after putin's money and actually do some sanctions that will hurt them, i think we will have less problems. host: all right, bruce, tha

mr. klein, thank you. >> guest: it's been a great pleasure. thank you very much for having me on. >> marion barry served four terms as mayor of washington d.c. his fourth term after serving six months in federal prison on drug charges. he recently visited the national press club to promote his new autobiography, "mayor for life." this is an hour. >> the order of events for this press rap is as follows. i'm going to introduce our guest and then i'm going to have a conversation with him and after that you can ask them questions. just raise your hand and our committee members will come around with a mic for you. when we have run out of time for questions because i imagine there will be quite a few, he will be signing yearbooks. i have also been told by the management that once you are done with that we are having just night in the bar upstairs with a live band so you might want to go up and check that out. marion barry junior was born in 1936 and a tiny town in mississippi and picked cotton as a child in the segregated south. when marion would sa

mr. klein, you can start. >> ninety, chairman casey, ranking member isaacson, as you know the coal mine health and safety act isn't in to protect the health and safety of working miners and also to provide modest benefits we might have become totally disabled from black lung disease. my coworkers come compensation programs it is remedial indicated to provide benefits at the time of need. but in order to qualify a disabled miner our widow must engage in fairly complex adversarial litigation. in addition as revealed by the pillage of prize-winning articles i chris hamby and the center for public integrity plus the news coverage of abc, the adversarial process is not only complex but has been abuse by coal companies and their attorneys, or at least some of them. in my written statement i provided five examples about like to focus our remarks today on the case of the gary fox whom i represented me the end of his life. in short mr. foxx was born in 1950. after high school he served in the army, orie

mr. ed klein.tional wisdom is in the republican party, you can't run somebody who lost before, but those people who say that have short memories. >> that's right. because remember ronald reagan ran in 1968, '76, and then finally he ran in 1980 and won. so three times. >> so when you talk about them choosing to do -- >> you want to turn off your phone, ed. >> thank you very much. >> that's just confirmation for mitt romney. >> i think that was mitt calling, yes. >> right. don't interrupt us again. but the governor is going to have a major fund-raiser in the fall for christie, rubio and others. will they have a problem coming to these things if they think the give hosting wants to compete against them? >> what i've been hearing is that the major donors in the republican party who were flirting with chris christie and then flirting with jeb bush have moved on to mitt romney because they don't think that either christie or jeb bush are serious and could win and that spencer zwick, who was mitt romney's

outplayed by a wide margin for the third string quarterback mike klein and soreness in the throwing elbow causing the last few cross practices we mrached jennifer does this any concern you >> : were gonna take it in monday and make sure he's a go. here is one of those for what it is worth stories survey done by nfl nation confidential players ask the question and the only way we play for killing a team is if they double my salary now the raiders won that don't like question 20 percent of the 82 players responded say the but if there's a double the salary for the second least desirable team for 19 percent followed by the browns and the jaguars and and the packers again that's one of those for what is worth stories. as beckham action first off, for copernicus and baseball in nine years on fortunately in 94 loss in last night but they did take too would three in the series now to the angels by one game and the west. today much difference story here and easier opponent and the astros the a's now lead to three to nothing in that game is now in the sixth inning and we tell you that john doolittle the clothes are a little bad news for th