mr. quagmire's cabin, don't touch anything before i have a chance to disinfect it. boy, it was nice of quagmire to let us use his place. this'll be much better than that vacation we took with the price is right yodeler. (yodeling) okay, you can stop here. there's no way that microwave cost more than 300 bucks. stop here. don't listen wo that fat tourist. she doesn't know how much a microwavavcosts. stop! (tuba plays sad notes)

mr. earnest: go by the president's words, in the coming weeks. reporter: back to that quagmire. mr. earnest: ok. >> i want -- without having you say two who exactly is on the list, how important is it for the president to consider a female judge for the high court? mr. earnest: well, i -- the president has obviously appointed two distinguished, accomplished women to the supreme court in his first two years in office. but again, i think the president will evaluate the nominees' credentials based on their record, based on their intellect, based on their experience, and the gender of this individual does not rate highly on the list. reporter: let me follow up by asking, given the makeup of the court currently, is it relevant at all that for the broad swath of history, there have been relatively few women on the high court and him now having apointed two, or nominated two, having successfully two confirmed, would it not be important for him to continue that trend to more exwhattably balance the court, is that interesting at all to him? is that a conversation he's had? mr. earnest: i'm c

having predicted russia would find itself in a quagmire for getting involved there, mr. obama is at risk of watching as putin strengthenes islamic state. those talks in geneva for some sort of resolution falling apart last week. today commitll janet yellen will be testifying before congress amid growing nexts about the fed's step. many in new hampshire voted because of economic reasons for bernie sanders and donald trump. you can hear from the chairman of the federal reserve today on capitol hill. she will be talking about monetary policy there and what is next for the fed. also, this in the papers. obama since his final budget to congress. $4 trillion. his vision will come at a cost. debt tong the national $27.4 trillion over the next decade. we will learn more about what is in this budget at the budget debate on capitol hill this year on friday on the program. democrats say republicans are not serious about the flint, water crisis. they have already rallied behind president obama's $1.8 billion plan to fight the zika virus which has been tied to serious birth defects i

committee for veterans quagmireation and the resulted in men dying, not getting treatment and we are only hearing about it. what did he do for the veterans to change that? host: thank you. mrith? guest: it is interesting. we have come around to think that the qualifications for a president means you must have office,revious elected governor or at least a senator. that is a more recent phenomenon. the founding fathers outlined what the characteristics were for office, and they were integrity, strength of character, honesty and wisdom, but they do not say anything about elected office. century, we often elected generals who had not been political at all. even as recently as 1952, we elected dwight eisenhower who had no previous political experience. democraticthat the and republican parties were recruiting him in 1952 simply on the strength of his celebrity and being able to prosecute the war in europe. said, i think some of the anger you are seeing expressed in both republican and democratic electorates has its roots in economic stagnation that has taken place over the last 20 years. people are working more now, and even in new hampshire, we have an unemployment rate of 3.1

mr. president. two different topics. first, syria. last year, when president putin was about to enter into syria, you said he was doing so from a position of weakness and only get himself involved in a quagmire there. now, with aleppo about to fall it seems like president putin is basically getting one of his goals which is to bolster assad and to take out the rebels, by which the u.s. is backing. how do you sfond critics who say you have been outfoxed by putin, what is your plan if aleppo does fall? do you plan to -- i wanted to ask you about 2016. >> okay. it's getting to be a lot of questions here. you asked me a big question right there. how about i just answer that one. >> sure. >> all right. first of all, if you look back at the transcripts, what i said was that russia has been propping up assad this entire time. the fact that putin finally had to send his own troops and his own aircraft and his -- invest this massive military operation was not a teameant to great strength it was a testament to the weakness of assad's position, that if somebody's strong then you don't have to send in your army to prop up your ally. they have legitimacy in their country, they are able to manage it their

committee for veterans quagmireation and the resulted in men dying, not getting treatment and we are only hearing about it. what did he do for the veterans to change that? host: thank you. mr. smith? guest: it is interesting. we have come around to think that the qualifications for a president means you must have office,revious elected governor or at least a senator. that is a more recent phenomenon. the founding fathers outlined what the characteristics were for office, and they were integrity, strength of character, honesty and wisdom, but they do not say anything about elected office. century, we often elected generals who had not been political at all. even as recently as 1952, we elected dwight eisenhower who had no previous political experience. democraticthat the and republican parties were recruiting him in 1952 simply on the strength of his celebrity and being able to prosecute the war in europe. said, i think some of the anger you are seeing expressed in both republican and democratic electorates has its roots in economic stagnation that has taken place over the last 20 years. people are working more now, and even in new hampshire, we have an unemployment rate of

committee for veterans quagmireation and the resulted in men dying, not getting treatment and we are only hearing about it. what did he do for the veterans to change that? host: thank you. mr. smith? guest: it is interesting. we have come around to think that the qualifications for a president means you must have office,revious elected governor or at least a senator. that is a more recent phenomenon. the founding fathers outlined what the characteristics were for office, and they were integrity, strength of character, honesty and wisdom, but they do not say anything about elected office. century, we often elected generals who had not been political at all. even as recently as 1952, we elected dwight eisenhower who had no previous political experience. democraticthat the and republican parties were recruiting him in 1952 simply on the strength of his celebrity and being able to prosecute the war in europe. said, i think some of the anger you are seeing expressed in both republican and democratic electorates has its roots in economic stagnation that has taken place over the last 20 years. people are working more now, and even in new hampshire, we have an unemployment rate of