>> obama: yeah. >> kroft: did he move out of that compound? >> obama: that we don't know yet. but we know that, for five to six years, this compound was there, and our belief is... is that he was there during that time. >> kroft: this was your decision whether to proceed or not, and how to proceed. what was the most difficult part of that decision? >> obama: the most difficult part is always the fact that you're sending guys into harm's way. and there are a lot of things that could go wrong. i mean, there're a lot of moving parts here. so, my biggest concern was, if i'm sending those guys in and murphy's law applies and something happens, can we still get our guys out? so that's point number one. these guys are going in... in, you know, the darkness of night, and they don't know what they're going to find there. they don't know if the building is rigged. they don't know if, you know, there are explosives that are triggered by a particular door opening. so huge risks that these guys are taking. and so

did obama trump trump, or did trump trump obama? and. >> trump forced the president into the press room, to get his birth certificate, said bring it back, and obama brought it back! trump won it hands down. >> you think it was a -- foregone conclusion that president obama would have to reveal -- >> nobody ended the argument, would guess yes. on television, please reveal it and get it out of way. >> you think he brought it alive -- >> i think he deliberately kept a it alive. i don't know y but he kept it alive too long and it gun to hurt him. >> do you think he knew all along that he could produce this birth certificate on call, and he was saving it in order to direct the press to cover this and not cover say this weekend, like bernanke? >> no i think he was holding it off for some reason, i'm not sure which. people said it's an embarrassment, why should i do this? but he held it too long, three weeks ago he should have done it. >> three weeks ago or two days ago, it was a degrading thing for this president to get involved in. i'm gl

did obama trump trump, or did trump trump obama? and. >> trump forced the president into the press room, to get his birth certificate, said bring it back, and obama brought it back! trump won it hands down. >> you think it was a -- foregone conclusion that president obama would have to reveal -- >> nobody ended the argument, would guess yes. on television, please reveal it and get it out of way. >> you think he brought it alive -- >> i think he deliberately kept a it alive. i don't know y but he kept it alive too long and it gun to hurt him. >> do you think he knew all along that he could produce this birth certificate on call, and he was saving it in order to direct the press to cover this and not cover say this weekend, like bernanke? >> no i think he was holding it off for some reason, i'm not sure which. people said it's an embarrassment, why should i do this? but he held it too long, three weeks ago he should have done it. >> three weeks ago or two days ago, it was a degrading thing for this president to get involved in. i'm gl

has done george bush did not bomb yemen obama has bombed yemen george bush did not bomb libya obama has been happier you know this is an extension of the the children bush policy in my view and that was located musician poet playwright and political activist. well as president obama address the middle east this sunday will actually mark three weeks since the death of osama bin laden remains face of evil in america for the last decade but now the terrorist death also brought an end to the fear of islam in this country are going to start here starting to delve into the struggles of the muslim community after and one that's. getting drunker which is dead but dispelling caster still causing chills if you're islam and muslims come to talk to some not iraq is alive and kicking there is this this stigma there's this bias conscious and unconscious about muslims and you know alina phobia is at its height in the united states muslims i definitely targeted just because of who they are one of the lead targets of discrimination this sixty one year old in march i mean up to lead to death was rece

. ♪ ♪ >> my name is barack obama. [cheering] of the moneygal obama. i come home to find the -- that we lost along the way. >> president barack obama at and first lady michelle obama this week attended a g-8 summit in europe. the first stop was dublin. irish prime minister kenny greeted the president and the first lady. president obama and his entourage then traveled by motorcade the 87 miles to moneygall, to visit a distant relative of five generations ago, his great, great, great- grandfather. his name was -- kearny. in moneygall, obama tried his own hand at rhythms, coupled are three words of authentic gaelic. >> remember that whatever hardships the winter may bring, springtime is always just around the corner. if they they keep arguing with you, just respond with the simple creed -- yes, we can! >> question, will were there compelling reasons for the state visit to the irish people? or was this mostly a campaign event, pat? >> look, i think it was terrific. the irish are one of few people on this earth that really like americans. he goes over there

student records nother story that obama might be hoping disappears in this new springtime for the obama regime but we have more important things to look forward to that might affect obama's chances at reelection. the debt crisis still looms large unemployment is still high and we are involved in kinetic military action in at least four countries none of which are winnable and joining me now to look at the trends that will be affecting the president's chances at real life in is gerald solemnity of the trends research institute this is the one thing you predicted the great recession that we're still experiencing the panic of two thousand and eight the tax protests our losses in our loss in iraq so let's cut to the chase do you think's going to be president in two thousand and thirteen. oh as it stands now it looks like obama will win because the republicans really don't have anybody to run against him unless you have a wild card like a ron paul you know it goes back to what bill clinton said back in the ninety two elections it's the economy. and what are the republicans do for an encore a

and how did barack obama? chris: every african-american i know has come up to me in the last couple of weeks and said something about this guy trump. >> i got stopped at a train station the other way. chris: there were suspicions about some people. >> this was the 2008 campaign we were afraid was going to happen. all this innuendo, the racial coding, the questioning. what's this college application all about? it's about did he take the place of a more deserving white kid? that's the subtle undertone. this is the ugly campaign. trump is going to get out of this in june once his celebrity apprentice is over and he'll leave all this rubble around for everyone else to pick up. in the meantime there's a lot of anger directed back now in obama's favor because of this humiliation that the office of the presidency has been put through. >> trump put hirms in the same conversation with barack obama in a split screen. there aren't enough real estate deals in the world to give him that moment. so a lot of this was purely

has done george bush did not bomb yemen obama has bombed yemen george bush did not bomb libya obama has been gloopy or you know this is an extension of the george bush policy in my view and that was lowkey musician poet playwright and local activists. well there are so many who believe these strong words may not translate into action and even if they do it's unclear who the winners and losers will be many of the refs the president spoke about randeep and is actually going it's a kind reports now everyone's fight for freedom fits washington's time. words could be about democracy actions are about interests as the wildfire of public rage spread throughout the middle east and north africa at the beginning of this year analysts say america's foreign policy in the region has seen a major crisis this is the way policy has been formally for fifty plus years out of this country that we try to look for somebody we'd like to see in power. but washington's old policies could now be seen unfolding in libya a large portion of the leading population is opposing any foreign meddling in their affai

barack obama is our president.course, he won't say that. rudy giuliani could not find the grace to say that about a political opponent. giuliani is too partisan to say that and much, much too simple minded. rudy giuliani will surely remain a purveyor of a and a believer in the american political cliche democrats are soft on defense. democrats have done everything they could possibly do to rewrite that cliche, but it has persisted. in 2004 when the republican message machine had to turn john kerry a genuine war hero into an unreliable coward they were able to do that with just enough voters to squeak out a win because republicans had been laying the foundation of that lie with decades, decades of lying about democrats being weak on the defense of this country. john kerry a brave decorated warrior who took lives and sauved lives in combat could not overcome the big republican lie, democrats are soft on defense. then came barack obama. the democrat who successfully ran against a genuine war hero. less than three month

the-barack obama's middle east initiative -- barack obama's metal east initiative. a sad response after a day after mr. obama challenged him to a formal get out of the way. syrian security forces killed 20 demonstrators. dominiquedemand that strauss-kahn be released from jail, but not to the department he had planned. the day after barack obama said president the side of syria should leave the transition of this company or get out, security forces opened fire on demonstrators killing more than 27 people in keeping a young boy. human rights groups say more than a hundred 50 have been killed since the violence began in mid march. president obama called it an issue a key concern. -- an issue of acute concern. >> they have been given orders not to open fire. a child was reported to be among those killed. protesters took to the streets in several different parts of the city. this despite a severe crack down by troops and tanks in the past three weeks with hundreds arrested and many killed. demonstrations, big or small, were reported from virtually all parts of the countr

now today people from all over the world listened to president obama's speech on the middle east was there anything new in his message and who was he really addressing then hollywood continues its war on piracy but at the cost of the fourth amendment california is working on a bill to allow warrantless searches of companies that produce babies and d.v.d.'s and the move makes us wonder are these lawmakers really willing to go against the constitution all for the sake of copyright protection then we have a number of culture wars being waged here in the us you heard war on drugs the war on poverty but is obama waging a war on fun his ministration has attacked smoking poker drinking and that's just naming a few that you might not have heard this from the mainstream media but another good mo detainee has committed suicide or bring you the details on this detainee will shed light on how often this is happening in the past stay tuned for all of that and for our happy hour segment on tonight's show but first we have our top story. it's been nearly two years since president obama gave his cai

an expert on transatlantic relations offer their insight into barack obama's world. >> president obama has a clear foreign policy and economic goals and it looks for the partners he needs to achieve these goals. if europe wants to participate, by all means they are welcome. if not, president obama will look for other partners, as will any other president who comes after him. >> i think it varies according to where the interests of the united states why. is the interest in economics? europe is a big factor. is the interest in china? europe is less of a factor. if the interest is the middle east, the united states plays a dominant role, in europe as a backup role. it is a very spectrum. -- it is a very that spectrum. >> guantanamo bay detention center. europeans had a chance to play a central role here. back in his campaign, closing guantanamo was a high part of his platform. it went as far as to close it down in his first year in office, a feat he did not achieve. partially because of a lack of support from europe. >> the hopes were that european states would take guantanamo bay inmates

but it more now on president obama's visit to the uk. is a former senior official in the obama administration. thank you for joining us. we have heard quite a lot today about the special relationship, it seems to become an essential relationship coined by the two leaders. is this essential relationship intact? >> it is stronger than it has been in the past. the trip has been very successful. we have great pictures here of the president in the palace. there is a lot of cultural connections between our two countries. the president seems to be using the cultural connections as much as possible. >> let's talk about those pictures. it is a fantastic photo opportunity for him back, and across europe. the morning's paper are full of it. what kind of response is that likely to get from americans? when we saw the pomp and pageantry at buckingham palace coupled with an drinking a pint of guinness in ireland? >> millions of americans watched the royal wedding. millions of americans have been taken up with the lore of british history. the connection

your government is broke still don't worry obama won't have to sell anything or even raise taxes at least not directly to keep government spending at current levels he's just going to steal your retirement tonight i'll explain just what the president thinks is more important than not stealing and we'll be joined by political science ph d. and professor occidental college carolyn helen and steven spalding who's organizing a rally in indiana indiana to protest the state's supreme court decision and we've got a special presentation from luke. about the chicken whisperer i know talking about economic exploitation by the government can get tedious at times but at some point in trying to rework fruit the american news the obama campaign is going to run into something like we'd love to help and thanks to the high unemployment we've got plenty of time but now that we understand a little bit about economics we're supporting ron paul and that's the importance of a good education the kind you'll never get from the government but only from watching adam vs the man. in case you haven't noticed our gov

it's proper to invoke to for truth the basis for what obama was referring to in terms. sixty seven borders with lance also yes i do think it's been implicit since two for two but you can't invoke two four two and then question the fact that israel is the occupying power in those territories because two for two specifically designates israel the occupying power to first the territories occupied by israel in the recent conflict and the preamble to two for two reiterates the length of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war so you know what we're dealing with then is what was laid out in two parts by the bush administration in two thousand and four his letter to prime minister sharon where he said that an agreement would have to reflect changes on the ground in other words some settlement blocks probably will be annexed to israel and the palestinians have understood that from the mid ninety's on and his statement in two thousand and five that any changes to the armistice line of one hundred forty nine would have to be mutually agreed upon in other words

other crimes that were consequential about a rock obama, one was barack obama as a muslim, fowls of around with terrorists, that one was said to have traction, those statements, once people believe them it was hard for them to say, okay, i'm going to vote for them. at other viral e-mails, charges laid against obama, one was about him being the antichrist. it is stated in the bible that it will happen sooner or later. this man fits every description from the bible for the antichrist. born tough black muslim from kenya and a white atheist from wichita, kan., obama takes great care to conceal the fact. sworn in the senate, not on the holy bible, but instead on the crown. then, of course, other questions about his birth. these are things that are hard to stop, hard to monitor, and some people have pointed out that sometimes people say they believe things mainly because they don't believe them 100% but want to express some kind of frustration against the other side. in doing so ideas it facilitated and it has consequences of the electorate. one final thing that i want to adjust tap before i tur

bush to kill barack obama. yeah i'm afraid there is no i don't agree with hussein on that the the difference is that what the president called the one nine hundred sixty seven lines which of course are really the one hundred forty nine armistice lines just a quick bit of history which were established when the arab armies from jordan egypt syria and even lebannon invaded israel following its birth so those are the armistice lines where the armies happened to stop their invasion that's not the international law line in fact the international law that applies is un resolution two forty two which calls for secure borders for israel and envisions that the disputed territory what we now call the israel is called today and some area and many of you if you really know what it is in the west bank say something is just one second let me just finish this first point the those the disputed territory is . under the palestinian to target haitian all going to go to the arab side in fact it's disputed territory the un resolut

we believe obama. the other thing is putting up the photographs could come back to bite them as well. when shea was killed -- >> we have his photograph on the more to worry slab. >> that is one of them. >> that is not the kind of iconic image emblazoned on t- shirts. >> what is the point about that? >> the point about shelling that was to show this terrorist had been killed -- the point about showing that was that this terrorist has been killed, but he evolved into one of the top euros despite this -- the top here rose despite this intention to dismiss him. >> what about laurent gbagbo, he was alive when this photograph was taken. is there something about the photograph of a dictator or tyrant in his underwear that is incredibly effective politically? >> absolutely, it is critically important in life and death. to be seen it and a shabby, a humiliating fashion, powerless, it is very important. i would take issue with perhaps what he said. bin laden was so elusive in life, and allowing him to be elusive

laden que convirtió a los jar en amenaza buenas tardes desde washington, en un día que el presidente obamabió como muy bueno para estados unidos según el gobierno las pruebas de adn lo confirmaron, cayó ossama bin laden cuya biografía se escribió con la sangre de miles e este e e e ellos las víctimas del 11 de septiembre, sus restos se e le dio sepultura en el mar mientras el gobierno determina o no si pública las fotos del cadáver. >>> se valió de información obtenida en cárceles secretas de la cia entre otras cosas vamos con los detalles. >>> fue en esta mansión a una hora de la cappa quiso ta ni y no en cuevas donde lo encontraron y lo mataron se ha hecho justicia dijo el presidente obama quien sin duda conquistó una gran victoria personal política tras meses de reuniones con su equipo de seguridad el viernes obama ordenó a un equipo de fuerzas especiales entrar en acción sólo un puñado de personas en estados unidos lo sabían, pakistán tampoco habría sido informado, en una escala de 1-a 10 kun cuan eres go so fue esto. >>> 9, 5 porque arriesgó las vidas de las otros paso en vez de bomba

you can see that barack obama and his wife has seen amazing dresses. they have just returned to buckingham palace. they said their foreman goodbyes to each other and the formal part of this visit is all concluded. and mr. the coverage tonight. >> in beverly is the prime minister cooking a burger and the president serving one up. this is the data that he went out of this will prove that he gets on with david and his country has not forgotten how much it needs hours. even joked about the typical london weather. the traditional soldiers are a reminder that the relationship, whatever it is called is forged by war. >> president obama and prime minister cameron presented themselves very different from the wartime partnership between bush and blair. today they are talking about how not to lose an old war in afghanistan and a new one in libya. >> of the talks focused on how soon they can safely get troops out of afghanistan and how they can secure victory in libya without sending troops in. it was david cameron who led an barack obama the considered and hesita

that leaves obama with difficult choices.ither he has to give up on the commitment he made at the beginning of his presidency to seek a real israeli-palestinian peace or he has to look beyond netanyahu it somehow. this is one thing i think obama has not done yet in his presidency. that is to actually visit israel and establish contact with the israeli people, to speak to the israeli people and not just their leadership, to try to use his persuasive powers on them as far as what is necessary for peace. >> given the frosty tone of the relationship, do you think there is any way in which president obama's speech yesterday that was designed to kick start new positions has done that? are we any closer to the peace process? >> we are not closer to the does haitians, i do not think. i think president obama is determined and pushed in this direction. -- we're not closer to the peace new positions, i do not think. it is time for the united states to speak more clearly on what the resolution of the conflict would look like. he should n

here today so tensions already high over obama's middle east speech yesterday is there any hope for a breakthrough to end the decades of conflict in the region then as you've probably heard by now there's a rapture coming we got the opportunity to ride along with members of the group who say that may twenty first is the end of the world as we know it's bring you details on all of that will make its host in our happy hour segment but before we get to the fun let's move on to our top story. the deadline has finally arrived it's day sixty of the intervention in libya according to the war powers act now it's time to decide if the u.s. should get out or get approval for congress to stay but neither obama nor congress seem to be acting on it so does this mean that america's laws about engaging in war simply don't matter archies lauren lyster has more. fifty eight. fifty nine. sixty i said at the outset that this was going to be a matter of days and weeks. the days have turned to months and in libya the battle rages on but in washington time has run out. and this rhetoric is running up again

is on his record complaining about obama's chest pounding sure obama went to ground zero he met privately with some of the navy seals that took part in the raid i should say that's pretty normal not exactly what i would call chest pounding and in fact i'm pretty sure that of bush we're still president we'd be seeing a whole lot more of it let's go back to may of two thousand and three then president bush card's boss was going to address the nation about the war in iraq and in the p.r. stunts of the decade the commander in chief and flew into fighter jets to meet the u.s.s. abraham lincoln in the pacific ocean there is no need for the jet landing marine one the president's helicopter could have landed on the aircraft carrier just fine but hey that would be much of a show now would it so when the president addressed the nation later that day a big banner behind him read mission accomplished and during a speech bush made it seem like the war in iraq was over. offers a version of the u.s.s. abraham lincoln. my fellow americans. major combat operations in iraq have ended in the battle of iraq

>> it gives obama a bump in his approval rating now which he desperately needs. the president is somewhere between 40 and 45% and falling. i think this stops that and i think this probably puts him up to 50% and maybe in the short term even higher. so he gets a bump that he desperately needs. now why is that important? keep in mind obama is not out of the woods and it had been possible for him to face a liberal democrat, it's still not impossible that he would face a liberal democratic challenger because the left keep in mind is very dissatisfied with a lot of things, dissatisfied with afghanistan, they didn't get the public option in healthcare, with a whole range of things. what this could do is shore up the president and it could finally get rid of this prospect off a primary for him. >> i agree with that, if it was a serious primary challenger, would be a very bad thing for barack obama just as it was a very bad thing for jimmy carter when ted kennedy challenged him. i don't think that was really in the cards, but jack is absolutely right. i think this pretty

and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture president obama decides not to release the photos of osama bin laden's corpse in hopes of not endangering the lives of the remaining troops fighting overseas so what new criticism of the face and light of his tough decision was detail surrounded in lodz capture or disclosed which are rather contradictory with mission reports list new information hurt the white house is credibility and the line may be gone but what about his platoon of men who follow the united states need to put out an a.p.b. on the new leader about i think. bad news for those who want to see bin ladin with a whole one as white house that it's not releasing the photos it was press secretary jay carney at today's white house briefing reading a transcript of an upcoming sixty minutes interview with president obama over why he decided not to release the photos. we discussed this internally keep in mind that we are absolutely certain that this was him we've done d.n.a. sampling and testing and so there is no doubt that we killed osama bin laden it is important for us to

regardless of that, it preceded barack obama. i thought it was a generous move on his part to invite george w. bush. maybe it's a generous move on his part to say i would literally be the third wheel there. thank you very much, i'll see you in september. >> the white house, the stakes for the white house could not have been higher. we can all imagine what would have occurred if that helicopter went down. it couldn't be recovered and then perhaps another one did. and the mission went awry. this would have been one of those jimmy carter moments that probably would have been an irreversible damage to the president. >> you and i lived through that desert one debacle when jimmy carter tried to rescue the hostages held in teheran by iran extremists. and it was disastrous for his presidency. who know ifs that led to his loss months later to ronald reagan. it certainly tarnished him. in this instance, too, barack obama and his advisors had to know if this didn't go good, once again we'd have another democratic president who botched a res

i want to thank obama for what he's done. host: a tweet comes in. obama spiked the ball. it was funny if it was not so seriously warped. caller: thank you for c-span. it was gracious of him to call president bush and i am sorry bush didn't join him, yesterday. this is a great moment for america. host: why did you want bush to join him? caller: it is a great moment. if you do this, we will hunt you down and get you. however they got him, i am delighted they got him. caller: it was a great thing that happened. they did the right thing. if they show that pictures, we are just doing something the terrorists would do. hopefully they won't show those pictures. he is going to be a great president. he did something in two years and bush never did a damn thing. i want to commend him. we have to look out for the guy in iran. we should take them out completely. host: donald from michigan. t obama did was good. he got rid of a threat to the american people for 9 years. another thing, president -- obama, soverignty, as far as pakistan, it was a good thing. if somebody is a threat, it

obama deserves some credit for bin laden's death. 8-10 republicans say president bush deserves some of the credit. i think they probably believe reagan deserves most of the credit for everything. this is bizarro, isn't it? >> it is bizarro, but i think even though the numbers are at best equivocal for the president among democrats, they are stronger among independents. and i think overall this is a calling card for him in terms of the long burden that the democrats have had, and the democratic presidents have had, on the notion that they are either weak or inept on military affairs. >> how did they earn that rap? >> well, one thing that happened in the jimmy carter days, he tried a similarly dramatic rescue of the american hostages, and in many ways, it sealed jimmy carter's fate and reinforced the idea that the democrats going back to vietnam, to the george mcgovern campaign where he was against the war and so on, that the democrats were both wary of, inept about, and opposed to the use, the expert use of tough military actions. thi

they are expecting president obama to tell us off. what was striking was how little president obama mentioned libya given the fact that millions of u.s. dollars are being spent here and many americans are still involved in the military action. in some ways, libya has become difficult for president obama. on the one hand, it has highlighted what many are saying is this double standards. while it is taking military action here, this is not doing the same kind of tough response in relation to other parts of the middle east where governments are also using force to put down protests such as syria and bahrain. president obama's answer in that speech was the u.s. cannot prevent injustice everywhere. involvement here militarily does not mean that it will do the same thing every place. >> here in jerusalem, it is fair to say that the initial israeli government response to president obama's beach has not been positive. the israeli prime minister who is due to meet mr. obama in washington said he appreciated the president's commitment to peace.

[cheers and applause] my name is barack obama. [cheers and applause] >> obama launched into a folksy address which at times seemed almost like a campaign speech, focusing heavily on his irish roots. disconnection goes back almost 200 years. the president's great, great, great grandfather was born in a sleepy village in 1830. obama paid tribute to his irish roots with a visit to the small town. thousands came to see the famous distant cousin, who also had me to meet some long-lost relatives at a local pub. if obama came to ireland with a message, he emphasizing long- standing close ties that connect to the u.s. and ireland. he restated this in his speech in dublin. >> we are bound by history and friendship and shared values. and that is what i have come here today. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> this was his first dog on a european tour opinion >> i asked our correspondent -- this was his first stop on a european tour. >> it was quite a tour the force by anyone's standards come in in a way, -- by anyone's standards, and in a way, it ha

street solution so just previously us president barak obama publicly backed this idea he met with the israeli prime minister and said that the borders of the future independent palestinian state should be based on those in one thousand and sixty seven which basically means that they would go to jerusalem this was rejected by the israeli prime minister who said that such a scenario would make israel i guess palestine so at another meeting after that with israel's biggest oil lobby in the united states barack obama softened his stance saying that the voters one has to be exactly as the war in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven so now mimi and i was say that the u.s. is trying to please both israel and the international community sort of to. going to sit on two chairs at the same time as that is actually creating even warts tension and for more on this here's my colleague image ago. when addressing the powerful pro israel lobby here in washington president obama has made sure to reaffirm the i'm wavering support of the united states he also made sure his thursday speech did not leave

they don't know if obama will go yet. >> no is the answer. to go way outside the beltway, but the embattled president of syria has told other arab leaders that he knows he'll have to distance himself from iran to survive. chris: wow, good news for us. >> great news if it's true. chris: and that means hezbollah, too. >> yes. chris: thank you. when we return, the big question for the week for us, has the bush administration gotten enough credit for the bin laden success? chris: welcome back, this week's big question, has the bush team gotten enough credit for the bin laden killing. rick? >> i don't think they have. they've been speaking up about saying that actually the human intelligence which they emphasized played a big role in this and we all know particularly on intelligence matters, it's a baton one president hands off to another and obama has been gracious about saying that bush deserves credit. >> i think they've gotten enough. they've been all over television and president bush's decision not to go to ground zero was a personal thing.

here is romney's offense and obama's defense. >> i like president obama. but he doesn't have a clue how jobs are created. >> an economy that was shedding jobs every month now has seen over two million jobs created in the last 14. chris: former utah governor john huntsenman, his strongest argument is he could get bipartisan cooperation. here is his main theme and obama's defense. >> we have been divided for too long. the yelling, screaming and finger pointing in this country ought to come to an end. >> when it comes to just about everything we have done to strengthen our middle class and rebuild the economy, almost every republican in congress says no. chris: the third with a serious chance is tim pawlenty. he is running as at conservative p populist who could blunt charges the g.o.p. is a rich man's party. >> i saw up close the face of loss, the face of hardship, the face of losing a job. so i know americans are feeling that way today. >> the big thing for republicans, just making sure that millionaires and billionaires keep their tax cuts. chris: here is