barack obama. that is it. that is the intro. >> nick was worried that this panel would be insufficiently controversial between the panelists so i will do what i can about that. first i am going to have a short argument with myself and then i will have a little argument with garrett graff and try to implicate nixon somehow. >> katrina vanden heuvel pays the salaries so she escapes any controversy from eric. >> a high figure. i feel kind of like -- i see the audience is about my age or older so i can say civil without too much explanation. in my own head i have four competing arguments about obama that i am not complete the short, depends on the day. four seats occupied in terms of my work. one is what katrina vanden heuvel mentioned. he had me over for dinner five years ago when he was a common senator and i have never been so impressed with a politician in my life. i was so moved by this new generation of black leaders of and hoped my daughter who turned 13 might vote for this man for president. i

king and barack obama. in fact, when you pick up this newspaper article from the day after obama was sort of identified as the candidate that won the campaign, it reads, since barack hussein obama was elected 44th president of the united states on tuesday, sweeping away the last racial barrier in american politics with ease as the country chose him as its first lacked chief executive. so this is "the new york times" the day after he was sort of identified as the one who was the winner. i think the real challenge is that no one i think with a rational mind can believe that this country is in any way a post-racial nation. not only are we not in a post-racial america, i argue in the book that we should aspire to be a post-racial america. likenesses beautiful. latino latino bodies are beautiful. asian people are beautiful and so we should look for an america of a tapestry of difference, celebrating differences and affirming the particularities of stories and experiences of different people around the country. s

obama jr. wrote about him in his book but he only goes so far and tells what his experience at his father it seemed this was a book that needed to be written. >> host: in the process of working on the book he said he went to kenya and you describe that in the book itself. tell us a little of what i was like. did you get a lot of access to people, was there suspicion of an outsider for a racial dimension talking about an african family? >> sure. all of those were true. i went to kenya five times and found many wonderful people who helped me who knew obama senior many well. many family members. some people were eager to talk because this was such a high-profile presidency they were proud of obama jr they wanted to tell a positive story. obama sr. is a complex character as you know since you read the book. a very passionate person, also very self-destructive. because of that there were people who didn't want the story told or only certain kind. i think i was a white woman coming to tell which rais

obama sr. many will. there were many of them who worked with him and knew him, many family members. some people were very eager to talk. because this was such a high-profile presidency and they are so proud of obama jr. some wanted to tell a positive story. the father is a complex character as you know since he read the book, very passionate person also a very self-destructive person. because of that i think there were people certainly in the family he didn't particularly want the story told her only certain kind. i think i was a white woman coming in to tell it also raised concern. this was their story and i certainly did run into that as well. >> host: but in the end you are happy with how the sourcing worked and the people you talk to and access you are given? >> guest: absolutely. i found a number of people that knew them well and i also found a number of people in the family that walked me through the village and i really felt like i talked to many many people who knew him. i also was fort

obama's sr. seem to be the untold story of the obamacare and it is the i was a reporter at the globe for many years and have done many political profiles provide did write a profile of october -- obama's sr. in 2008 i spoke to people in kenya by did not go there. i did not have that piece of the story. we decided this was a compelling story. little known about him obama, jr. only go so far it talks about his experience. so this was a book that needed to be written. >> host: in that process of working on the book you said you went to kenya and describe that in the book itself. tell us what that was like. did you have access or was there suspicion of the outsider or racial dimension of a white reporter? >> host: make 91 of those were true i went five times. wonderful people helped me a lot that new obama's senior very well. many family members. some people were eager to talk because this was such a high profile presidency people wanted to tell a positive story. obama's sr. is a complex character a

[laughter] they can't give obama an inch. 'cuz again, cantor said it best: "i don't think the white house understands how difficult it is for fiscal conservatives to say that they're going to vote for a debt-ceiling increase." come on! imagine the shame of having to look their constituents in the eyes and tell them: "the american economy still exists." [ laughter ] and listen to what obama wants in return: if we choose to keep the cuts for millionaire and billionaires we have to make deeper cuts somewhere else. steerchl he's saying they have to raise taxes. and republicans cannot agree to that. they've all signed grover norquist's anti-tax pledge! he's like darth vader; he can crush their larynx with his mind. [laughter] that's based on a true story. now that we're in this crisis that the republicans created to get partisan advantage but the republicans have to either raise taxes or get blamed for defaulting on our national debt. they seem to have painted themselves into a corner, or as political scientists call it, "got thei

i met president obama once. all he said to me when he found out i was editor of the nation was -- [inaudible] [laughter] [inaudible] it would not be much of a left -- [inaudible] with that said, you know, i wanted to make the case that president obama in his first two years did pass two very land mark pieces of legislation, the health care legislation and the financial reform legislation, but they were not with the scale as scope of the problems this country faces. part of that was a failure of leadership i'd argue, but also the structural problems that have made our system dysfunctional or not serving people because, and this is what erick's book is about -- the power of money in the system, the power of lobbyists. the power of those forces to dilute legislation and a republican party that admitted openly its main task was to destroy president obama and the health care bill, in my memory, tell me if i'm wrong, the first major piece of social legislation in the last 40-50 years was the first piece of legislation

bob, is obama's cool nature going to work for him?'s going to have to become uncool and he's going to have to become the preacher, the passionate person, and convince people he's delivered better economic conditions for them. that's possible. hard, but not impossible. >> jamie, can he do it again? >> i think if he stays steady and cool, that's going to be reassuring to people. chris: cool's better. >> i think so. >> he'll have to do better than he did in the rose garden reacting to the jobs report. he's going to have to give a better speech than that. chris: than friday. >> yeah. >> every campaign is about change versus more of the same. he ran as change last time. he's got to run this time as let's finish the job. the economy is recovering, but too sluggishly. chris: it could be the 1936 campaign where roosevelt raised it up as a fight between left and right, poor and rich. suppose he does that. he could go the other way and make another big change. thanks to a good roundtable. bob woodward, andrea mitchell, jamie tarabay and clarenc

obama's is worse than that.he conservative or has greater notion that tv series he has to attack poor people and in which rich people. that to me is the problem. [applause] >> i was a message wasn't officially endorsing paul ryan's budget in my earlier comments. [laughter] >> but you did say that. are you trying to get this guy lynched? >> this is exotic would have been last him until the person who sort of didn't get tremendous applause on the panel in los angeles. [laughter] >> give him an applause. [applause] [laughter] >> what i meant more on paul ryan is that we sort of use brian or whatever your issue as shorthand for starting the debate. because there is i think particularly in washington a sense that there's not series thinking about these big issues, that we are so focused on a day-to-day politics, the sort of cable news winning the day, winning the battle, winning the short term, that these big problems are coming down the pike and we're not talking about them and we're not working on them. so when one

obama pledged to do that. he started a task force within the justice department called operation broken trust. it has never had any significant prosecutions or any significant investigation of what went down. the second is a failure to reform wall street. the dodd-frank bill was not great to begin with. poorly staffed agencies have to implement the rules that are besieged by lobbyists. that is on the democrat and republican side. obama failed to fight for a elizabeth warren or appoint her in the consumer protection agency. the third thing that is unfortunate is his record on jobs, while hardly worth less, and the stimulus save several million jobs, has never been the full focus of this administration. the image of favoring big corporate status quo and wall street even though in his heart of hearts, that is not what he believes. tavis: that may be a enough of an albatross to make sure that he does not get reelected. the first two well, he did not control. was all about law enforcement. the second was about cong

up next and it discusses the need formula of the obama administration to avoid using dawn time in the bay prison camp looks at other news ignored by the mainstream means you . welcome to the ilona show where you'll get the real headlines with none of the mersey are going to live in washington d.c. now tonight we'll talk about the somali man that's being brought to new york to be tried on terrorism charges and you'll never guess where he was held for two months while being interrogated well if you get another obama broken promises the white house makes plans to keep up to ten thousand troops in iraq after the withdrawal deadline at the end of this year and we'll see what it would cost us to adequately invest in green technology but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has missed. you know i thought that yesterday was ridiculous when the so-called knew it was going every over every single little detail of every single juror that was deliberating on casey anthony's case what happened after that verdict was read that's a really takes the cake i mean what do you do when a v

what's the anatomy of a re-election win for obama. he has 4-5, 81% of the people who voted for him last night according to a june nbc poll. what happened to the other 20% of obama's 2008 voters and how does he win them back? let's look at three skenl elements in the anatomy of the obama electorate. in the 2008 exit polls, obama got 66% of voters under 30. now he has just 56% of the under 30's. good? maybe not good enough. another key in the anatomy, suburban voters. any 08 exit polls, 50% of suburbanites went for obama. now he's down to 141%. final will laveragee pin in the obama win n '08 he had 52% of independents. now he has just 43% of independents. john, you wrote game changer about how he did it last time. how do they put, the geniuses out there in chicago and washington, humenty dumpty together again? >> they will be happy to hear you calling them geniuses for sure. the place to start this conversation is with the fact there is i think a widespread agreement in the obama world that the election that's about to happen is going t

barack obama. >> when did he say it? >> in 2006. so you know, a lot of people are on both sides of this. >> he was in the senate. >> yes. >> have conditions changed to justify him taking a reverse position now? >> there's never been a big battle like this before. the republicans did this, the tea party said this is the terrain on which we're going fight, and we're going to get budget cuts. >> this is a big issue here. >> the big issue here is that we are in an unsustainable deficit position going forward. it is going to break the financial system of this country unless we get it under control. we've had the largest deficit ever, and hat not had the benefits in terms of the economy. we also have the worst unemployment numbers since the 1930's, and they're not getting better, they're getting worse. the 18,000 number that you mentioned, which is the lowest job creation, was just this past month. >> so it's 9.2% unemployment. >> 9.2% in the way they used to calculate in employment. the unemployment number really is 16 to 18%. that's the

but i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so please you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and here's some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm trying hard luck is a big issue. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here. i think. he'd done well. we have the government says the keep him safe get ready because of the freedom. now a few weeks ago we first told you about james rising new york times reporter has been subpoenaed to appear in a case against a former cia worker who leaked information to the times risin broke the n.s.a. warrantless wiretapping he's a pulitzer prize winning journalist he's disclose a lot of information that's informing the public and now it basically being asked to out whether or not this man was his source arrises attempts to aquash the subpoena citing the public interest in newsgathering that's been denied by the government and here's where it gets interesting so the government gave this firm

obama's going to have president obama's going to have a very hard time convincing latino voters well that's pretty temperance from a bar stool because the g.o.p. has done absolutely everything in their ways and means to oppose any any advance on evil good or immigration you know it's interesting obama said today that as a result of the stalls in immigration reform that more and more states are taking matters into their own hands which we've seen with a number of immigration laws passed at the state level which he said is not the right thing to do but what our state supposed to do if they're waiting around for the federal government to act in the government is not. well you know the states what do you need to do is take into account a comprehensive immigration reform approach we cannot have been is the interest this extra interest that we're having the big money interests and big private prison interests and big anti immigration interests pushing for these individual laws across the states that's what's feeling to go even that's the challenge that we as organizations and as the latino

the democrats and obama did.they didn't spend all this money to bring us on the brink of default, the president and democrats brought us to this point. why are you attack the tea party? >> first, i was reading from a wall street journal editorial -- > sean: attack the tea party. >> i was attacking the idea that somehow if -- it was attack the idea that somehow if we shutdown the government then obama would get the blame and republicans would triumph. i disagree. i think that the fact is, if we don't act in the republican house, and i believe by the way, that they will, at least i hope they will, then the ball will be in president obama's court and geraldo rivera, who has, as you pointed out -- and harry reid, who has, as you pointed out one of the flimsy transparent phony spending cut proposals that i've seen. so i wasn't tacking the tea partiers or anybody. -- i wasn't tack the tea partiers or anybody. i was trying to point out we need to act with our own legitimate spending cuts that way all the pressure will b

to be cleared political independence received critical acclaim documenting the rise of generation obama and her most recent book just out this year a fictional work entitled the g. eight hugh candidate has been labeled a recommended summer read by the los angeles times currently she's a contributing editor and columnist to the loop twenty one dot com and a contributor to the huffington post please now welcome her from our studios in new york keli goff keli welcome. thanks for having me tom well thanks for joining us your work is extraordinary your first book party crashing how the hip-hop generation declared political independence examine the perspectives and impact of younger. voters and members of the post civil rights generation of the political process with particular focus on the two thousand elections and one of the if he was really one of the first bush to chronicle a rising generation obama i believe it can you define for our viewers the hip hop generation and the impact that this generation is having on america today from two thousand and eight well even before then through the

but the obama hating that is going on here -- >> kimberly: there is no hating. >> greg: i like obama.ike america. >> juan: i love america. let me ask you a question. are you hearing good ideas? better ideas from someone saying we have better ideas for how to get the economy going? >> greg: the tea party. >> juan: get out of here. you know what? >> greg: that's why we have new congress. >> juan: why don't we taker rick's advice and blow through the debt ceiling. that will help things. >> eric: no one hates obama. i hate his policy and what he is doing to america. >> juan: that was your feeling about the former president, too? >> eric: what are you talking about? >> juan: the guy that drove us in the ditch. >> eric: 9% unemployment. >> juan: oh! oh! >> andrea: there were moments that george bush did not act like a conservative and he acted more like barack obama and that's where i issues with him. gawps oh, my gosh, you are equating bush and obama now. i don't know if that's good for obama or bad for bush. >> andrea: one is a big spender and someone a really big spender. >> greg: all ri

if the left turns on obama or turns off obama. they vote with their feet and they stay home. >> bill: why though? if most people aren't idealogues, as all the polls show they are not. only 2 o% define themselves as liberals. 41% define themselves as conservative. under the liberal banner you would only say maybe 8%, 7% would be far left, really bernie sanders left. okay? but, yet, it seems they have an inordinate amount of power when it comes to barack obama. is that because of the web site situation? your stat ignores race. 10 to 14% of the vote is cast by african-americans who are clearly going to be for obama whatever they say their ideology is. another 8% or by latinos who he hopes to win. >> bill: that should diminish the far left though. if it's an ethnic vote or a racial vote, that should diminish the far left power. >> the clear ingredient of that is 30% of the electorate or white liberals. you end up with about 35% of the elector raft that's clearly democratic. and the issue for obama is maximizing that turnout. so, inste

and obama rose like a phoenix. he was gone. it was over for obama. and they brought him back with the deal they made, which was a horrible deal. paul ryan's plan where he attacks medicare is one of the dumbest things i've ever seen, especially if you happen to be running for election, because you're going to see -- the only one happy is nancy pelosi and her group, because you're going to see some tremendous reversals. i see it already with congressman west, where he's being beaten up now by, you know, the democrats over medicare. >> and what do you think of michele bachmann? >> well, i think she's a very underrated person. she actually came to see me in new york a few weeks ago. and i was very impressed with her. and i think she's highly underrated. i think she's very good. >> and sarah palin obviously has not committed yet. she's not a good friend of yours. >> no, i think she's terrific. she is a terrific person. she came to see me a little while before. >> they are all coming to see you, donald. >> yes, they are. but they are highly underrated peop

president obama doesn't want this to happen. no president would want this to happen on his or her watch. so he took the case, as he said he would, to the american people from the east room of the white house. and just over an hour ago, the president made it very clear that he is not on board with speaker boehner's plan. >> defaulting on our obligations is a reckless and irresponsible outcome to this debate. and republican leaders say that they agree we must avoid default. but the new approach that speaker boehner unveiled today, which would temporarily extend the debt ceiling in exchange for spending cuts, would force us to once again face the threat of default just six months from now. in other words, it doesn't solve the problem. first of all, a six-month extension of the debt ceiling might not be enough to avoid a credit downgrade and the higher interest rates that all americans would have to pay as a result. we know what we have to do to reduce our deficits. there's no point in putting the economy at risk by kicking the can

president barack obama again behind closed doors prior to the needing obama administration confirmed that big key topic of negotiations was the u.s. is projected missile defense shield in europe meanwhile we've been speaking a little bit about the media in the show but where is it heading in the united kingdom rupert murdoch papers are shutting down for no holds barred tactics such as hacking and in the us you could argue the alternative to media struggling for money is cutting costs and becoming increasingly reliant on publicists for information well arty's correspondent christine for southbound that is going to an increasingly new level because hordes of members of the press are leaving their brains and order to join the public service. in. the first person the final edition of the. newspaper is like the seattle post intelligencer the rocky mountain news and hundreds more have now become relics from the past. slash budgets have stops the presses at newsrooms nationwide. and mass layoffs throughout media have meant far fewer journalists to investigate policy and procedure we're losi

obama at the altar. this is after the speaker himself had said in the earlier round of negotiations that negotiating with obama is like negotiating with jell-o and, yet, he returned for a second yellow round i think republicans have to be extremely aware of optics now. two choices, accepting mcconnell which is simply a parachute out of this dilemma. punts everything until next year and the people will decide in the election. you raise the debt ceiling and nothing happens until election day. the other option is the one that i think steve has talked about. a plan according to what the republicans have wanted, cuts only and increase in the ceiling that matches the cuts. the reason they have to go short on this because if you are going to speak about 2.5 trillion in cuts. it's going to look unreasonable. you want to look reasonable because how the american people decide who is at fault will hinge on reasonableness. i would recommend a smaller raising the limits, say half a trillion so the cuts look reasonabl

and steve moore, is president obama a socialist? >> no, he's not a socialist, but everything he's done on the economy has had one underriding theme, and that is that he wants to radically redistribute income and that means taking money from the rich and from companies and giving it to lower income people and i think that's a philosophy that always fails and by the way, one other point. one reason, kim, that more companies don't speak out against these, the federal government is the biggest customer, to a lot of the companies. they worry if they complain they're going to lose a lot of business. >> the problem that they're experiencing now, though, stuart. they've now realized that without consumer demand picking up in this country. without people actually coming and buying their products, they're not going anywhere. and that is not going to be restored until people start having jobs, and those people are able to spend money and that's why they consider what president obama is doing as a weird political philosophy. >> james, last word

president obama at 43%. majority over 50% think he is doing a bad job in this. >> right. >> bill: okay. now, the reason that many people and i think you, too, feel that the republicans are booth it as far as p.r. is concerned is the intransjent, the unwillingness to compromise from the tea party elements. that's really the republican party at this point, correct? >> certainly john boehner and the house leaders who are involved in these negotiations would have a stronger hand if they knew that they could do something like, for example, what marco rubio proposed that you just showed, which is to take a debt ceiling increase, combine it with a large package of meaningful spending cuts, pass it through the house and senate over to the senate. you look at what the republicans are going to do this week. they are going to do something they think they might be able to get a majority for. it's pie in the sky. it's cut spending, cap percentage g.d.p. smaller than it is now. add into it a requirement that there be a co

but it's obama remorse. he was never an obama supporter. wife is like when you buy poe pay toe chip -- potato chips and you open it up and it's just air. obama now, they realize nothing is there. >> eric: steve wynn is right. obamapomics may be socialist but it's not capitalism and it's certainly not working. >> bob: really? [ laughter ] that is a surprise coming from you. i'm only going to say this. i know steve wynn. he hires a lot of lobbyists in washington, d.c., including frank farenkoff to gum up the works to keep casinos with tax breaks and everything advantage they can get. what steve wynn says i could care less. >> dana: rooms in vegas. >> greg: what does it mean? >> kimberly: i like that he is being transparent. he describes himself as democratic businessman, straightforward. but if you are worth $2.3 billion, you can say whatever is on your mind. >> bob: you talk about an oxymoron, steve wynn straightforward. >> dana: he said a magazine rated him as the 512th most rich person in the world. that's like being the tallest pygmy. >>

today is the do you mind is nineteen days the evil day and obama says it is up is enough well we're not really sure how he said it but i'm sure it was the only as our commander in chief could muster we got some great guests tonight charlie beams of the british love police joins us on a recent nine eleven flip flop and retired colonel douglas a mcgregor has something to say about obama's big picture abroad we've got nigel died with an update from the d.c. coalition of police the police how do you special recognition against the police firefighters uses on armed cops in d.c. and a case there was any doubt the department of defense the united states marine corps and the commander in chief have officially denied all responsibility for adam vs the man. ladies and gentlemen but the vote is nearly upon us is no fan of obama says so just as he may have declared he will lose his presidency over the budget deal. we're going to go through all this is so i can understand if you're on the night of the have missions. this means midnight all of a sudden. today is the wind is the one thousand days to t

chris: we have to talk about barack obama. his approval as president took a 2009 nosedive in the summer of health care town halls. >> you want to be led out of here, you're welcome to go. now wait a minute. now wait a minute. now wait a minute. now wait a minute. wait a minute. >> do you all think you're persuading people when you shout out like that? i beg your pardon? you don't trust me? chris: you saw him trying to deal with it but every politician knows how dangerous those moments can be. >> it was out of control. all those clips showed a politician that seemed to be out of control. >> but then we have to draw a conclusion, were all town hall meetings like this? or just the ones in the cable loop played over and over again? did we create more town hall meetings by continue to play them? >> part of the reason it goes viral so quickly is not totally out of the blue. it's picking up on public dissatisfaction anyway. you have people replaying things because it reconfirms an original political premise. chris: and the scythe gei

president obama doesn't want this to happen. no president would want this to happen on his or her watch. so he took the case, as he said he would, to the american people from the east room of the white house. and just over an hour ago, the president made it very clear that he is not on board with speaker boehner's plan. >> defaulting on our obligations is a reckless and irresponsible outcome to this debate. and republican leaders say that they agree that we must avoid default. but the new approach that speaker boehner unveiled today, which would temporarily extend the debt ceiling in exchange for spending cuts would force us to once again face the threat of default just six months from now. in other words, it doesn't solve the problem. first of all, a six-month extension of the debt ceiling might not be enough to avoid a credit downgrade and the higher interest rates that all americans would have to pay as a result. we know what we have to do to reduce our deficits. there's no point in putting the economy at risk by kicking the

and obama rose like a phoenix. it was over for obama and they brought him back with the deal they made. the tax medicare is one of the dumbest things i've seen especially if you're running for re-election. the only one happy is nancy pelosi and her group. i see it already with congressman west where he's being beaten up now by the democrats over medicare. >> what do you think of michele bachmann? >> well, i think she's a very underrated person. she actually came to see me in new york a few weeks ago, and i was very impressed with her. i think she's highly underrated. i think she's very good. >> and sarah palin obviously has not committed yet. >> no, and i think she's terrific. i think she's a terrific person. she came to see me a little while before. >> they're all coming to see you, donald. >> yeah. they are highly underrated people. they're smart. they know what they're doing. they know every move. and they don't get proper credit. i don't know that sarah is going to run. i don't think she's going to run. i'm not

barack obama has failed america.n he took office, the economy was in recession, and he made it worse and he made it last longer. what this president has done has slowed the economy. he didn't create the recession, but he made it worse and longer. >> 15 months of private sector job growth is making it worse? what school did you go to, mister? of course, mitt is now back to saying obama made the recession deeper. the mittster isn't tied down by the facts. in allentown, pennsylvania he said this. >> we're standing on the site of the allentown metal works. this is the place president obama visited a year and a half ago and indicated this was a symbol of the success of his stimulus program. as you look around and see the weeds growing and the windows boarded up, it's more of a symbol of the failure of obama economic policies. >> this, of course, from the man who as governor of massachusetts presided over a state 47th out of 50th in job creation. let's bring in the former foreman of that allentown metal works facility, joh