guest: my colleagues and i have been writing about 2008 obama presidential campaign. those of the donors that put together a large groups of donations of $50,000 or more, maybe even up to $500,000. we are looking at what they got and did they get anything for their money or were they getting jobs or access to the white house, were they getting contracts and that sort of thing? we have written a number of stories about a number of different companies that have been swept up in this political question. host: and what did you find with regard to lightsquared? guest: lightsquared, we originally wrote about them in connection with the donald gives you was the investor and the company at the time -- donald gibbs who was the investor and the company at the time that it applied to get a waiver. president obama planted one of the investors to head the fcc. there was immediately a controversy when lightsquared came before them as to whether there was politics at play. host: is it illegal to work with people that are friendly to your campaign? guest: no. not illegal at all. one

well, my colleagues and i have been writing about, first of all, about bundlers to the 2008 obama presidential campaign. those were the donors who put together large groups of donations of $50,000 or more and maybe even up to $500,000. and we were looking at what kinds of -- what they got, and did they get anything for their money, or were they getting jobs, were they getting access to the white house, were they getting contracts and that sort of thing. so we've written a number of stories about a number of different companies that have sort of been swept up in this whole political question, one of which was lightsquared. >> host: and what did you find with regard to lightsquared and the white house? >> guest: well, lightsquared, we originally wrote about them in connection with one of our campaign bundlers, donald gibbs, who was an investor in the company at the time they a i plied to get this waiver from the federal communications -- also one of the bundlers was appointed to be the head of the fcc, julius genachowski. whether there was some politics at play. >> host: is it illegal to, to wor

. >> guest: my colleagues and i've been writing first of all about bundlers to the obama presidentialcampaign. those are donors to put together large groups of donations of $50,000 or more and maybe up to $500,000. and we are looking at what kind -- what they got and did they get anything for their money or were they getting jobs and getting access to the white house and were they getting contracts in that sort of thing. we have written a number of stories about a number of different companies that have sort have been swept up in this whole political question. >> host: what did you find with regard to lightsquared in the white house? >> guest: lightsquared we originally brought about them with connection of one of our campaigners donald gibbs who was an investor in the company at the time and applied to get this waiver from the federal communications. president obama appointed julius genachowski to head the fcc so there was immediately a controversy when lightsquared try to come before them as to whether there was some politics at play. >> host: is it illegal to work with people who a

they're seeking to divide this is this occupy movement and turn into an extension of the of obama's presidential campaign when fortunately so in effect we have could be seeing a political movement here a left wing also to the right wing tea party oh no it's i hope not because so once once that happens this is the chance for a real soul social transformation that's going to be lost in the clones if it becomes a political movement bernardo harker was writing for the new york i'm saying yesterday and is basically he's basically calling this a political disobedience this is a this is not. this is a public this against the artificial left right divide that's what it was fun treat specifically in the united states i don't know what kind of demands. madrid's all these topcat occupy movements are demanding but certainly knighted say they're protesting a policy a policy started by a right wing president and continued by a left wing president and this is let me just quickly ask you having this is going to be a political movement but surely it needs a political response will governments around the world an

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nothing would dramatize the ideal of a second obama presidential administration than him himself simplyere he would like to take the country in meeting its imminent economic challenges, 5 million new jobs a year, or continued deflation, continued decline in investment, consumption and overall economic activity.

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obama. ♪ >> the presidential music and all.about the gop contenders for next year's election, the president said he will wait until the hopefuls are voted off the island, to quote the president, before he starts to take a serious look. president obama's approval rating was also discussed. >> the bad news is your approval rating is 41%. >> right. >> the good news is, you're still three times better than congress. explain -- if you're grading on a curve, you're killi killing -- you're killing! >> you can watch the entire interview tonight right after our 11ne stwsws >>> we'll be back in a moment. >>> national geographic traveler magazine ranking the 20 places you must visit in the world next year. two are in the u.s. and one here in the bay area. sonoma county makes the list, not just for its wineries and check out the russian river, the armstrong redwood state reserve and shopping in pet ta lum ma and dining in hillsburg. and the only other city to make the list is pittsburgh, pennsylvania. >> thanks so much for joining us. >> w

the unemployment extension is part of the presidential obama's jobs bill. experts say even if the bill is voted down in congress, it is possible the unemployment extension could be separated and sent through on its own before the end of the year. >>> a local union outside detroit has rejected a contract agreement between ford and the united autoworkers. union members are angry the contract doesn't give back some things they lost in previous agreements including annual raises. they're also mad about ford's ceo mullally's $26.5 million pay package last year. >>> soaring costs go to dulles. >> metro silver line extension in loudoun county is going to cost at least $100 million more. we'll have that and much more when we come back. >>> good morning and welcome back to 9news now. 4:44, wednesday morning and it is going to be a wet wednesday in our area. >> yeah, it is going to be. already raining in spots. that rain will be on and off most of the day through tonight as well. got a couple more chances for thursday into friday. but the weekend, the weekend looks g

. >> if you look at obama's presidential campaign, it was all about changing the culture of washington and finding compromise and avoiding this whole, you know, two-party dichotomy and these man akey an forces, good and evil and fighting with each other and all this dramatic stuff and then, of course, when obama has tried to come to compromise. that hasn't worked. >> we were looking at a website that showed different occupy wall street posters that had just been made. >> grassroots. >> this is the energy of the obama campaign. it reminded everybody of all the grass root culture. all that stuff that people were just coming out of the woodwork and get on youtube and play their obama folk song and show their obama images. you are seeing, a lot of that energy being challenged in "occupy wall street." we have this amazing guest who wrote this great book. he is one of the organizers. he will be up in a little bit. my story of the week is up next. [ male announcer ] in 1894, a small town pharmacist set out to create a different kind of cold remedy using powerful medicine and natural ingredien

. >> good news for president obama, republican presidential candidates value donald trump's advice more than karl rove's. we've got breaking news from rick perry's campaign tonight. >> believe it or not, the birthers are back. >> birtherism is born. >> donald trump sells rick perry the brooklyn bridge. >> rick perry a very visible republican flirting with the birther movement. >> he was asked do you believe. >> that prosecute barack obama was born in the united states? >> i had dinner with donald trump the other night -- >> i had dinner with donald trump the other night. >> perry, i have no reason to think otherwise. that's not a definitive yes i believe. >> it's a distractive issue. >> he is eligible to serve. >> karl rove is worried. >> these kind of things do not help. >> i think rick perry may be trying to be too cute. >> donald trump, you associate yourself with a nutty view that and you damage yourself. because it starts to marginalize you. don't associate yourself with sort of this nutty fringe group. >> trump is a vulgar clown. >> rove is even more worried about becky, becky, be

-year-old college student who uncovered troubling allegations of fraud in the presidential primary that touches on the obamanton bids in the last presidential election. prosecutors investigating indiana's 2008 presidential primary in st. joseph county in the northern part of the state. 150 signatures may have been faked on the obama and clinton petitions together. so many it raises the question about whether or not the obama campaign even had enough legitimate signatures to get on the ballot in the first place. former governor of indiana says the name and signature on the petitions were fakes. the alleged scheme was found out by a yale university junior who inteshed at the obama white house last year. he uncovered the alleged election fraud while interning at the political newsletter. >> what's important to me is this sort of thing not occur in the future. this happened with impugnity because no one thought they would get caught. it's likely no one would catch them because no structural safeguard existed to insure this wouldn't occur. >> reporter: the republican party and democratic party chairmen support t

that he will engage in with the current president, if, in fact, it becomes a romney versus obama presidential election. >> thanks, wolf. i want to bring in chris lawrence at the pentagon. chris, i want your impressions of what you heard. he laid out a couple of things that were specific about how he would increase the number of ships, u.s. carriers, that type of thing, and critical areas around the world. how do you think the pentagon is reacting to this? is this a realistic plan here? is it something that he could actually do, start investing nor the military? >> reporter: certainly it's something that the president would have a great deal of leverage over, suzanne, and some of the things he laid out, i would imagine, would be music to the ears of some people in the pentagon. you know, when he talks about keeping the number of carriers at the congressly mandated number of 11, when he talks about increasing ship building from nine up to, i think it was 15 a year, that's got to be music to the ears in states like virginia, maine, places where she's ships are built. some of the things he mentio

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they carried obama in the 2008 presidential election.t's clear both states will play a political role as well. martin luther king takes his place along lincoln and jefferson and washington. the towering legacy now immortalized in stone. the 35th sculpture shows dr. king emerging from the stone, inspired from his famous "i have a dream" speech. president obama and his family joined the dedication yesterday. saying dr. king stirred our conscious and made our union more perfect. >>> it should be easier to keep track of your cell phone minutes, texts and data. for more on that it's bertha coombs. good morning. >> hey, good morning. a lot of news that we're going to be following. if the deal is approved, it will create the largest gas pipeline operator in the u.s. the dow and the nasdaq start the week in positive territory. very busy week on economic data. they we get the empire state index and industrial production. and earnings, earnings, earnings. that's what it's all about the next two weeks. this is really the key period for earnings rep

nothing has seemed to come along but for the barack obama 2008 presidential campaign, since then hasas seemed to come around that sort of quite channeled that particularly among i think progressives in the way that the wisconsin protest did about a year ago and the way this is doing right now. i think there's a certain level of which everything about this, and if you come down and i would urge people in the tri-state area to come down and check it out. every stereotype you have in your head of drum circles and hippies giving free hugs, i got a hug before coming on here is true. what's also true is there's a tremendous amount of incredibly smart, passionate people who know what they're talking about and know things are not right. the fact that things are not right and are not working is what is resonating. >> chris, this is spreading to other cities as i mentioned in the lead in to this segment. i just in a coffee shop today in los angeles was told by someone he's going to a demonstration, a sympathy demonstration in los angeles which is not listed in our rundown. there's more of thes

the economy is likely a focal point in the 2012 presidential election. president obama says he has a plan that republicans won't put in place as brian mooar reports. the president is unveiling a new slogan. we can't wait. designed to get congress moving on his jobs bill. >> reporter: after a weekend of bashing his decision to pull them out of iraq, the republican presidential candidates are pivoting back to concerns closer to home. >> this economy cannot wait. it is on life support. we need a bold solution. >> president obama is heading out west to raise campaign cash and unveil a new slogan, we can't wait. he's trying to turn up the heat on republican who is stalled his jobs plan in the senate. president obama will be unveiling new policies brian mooar. nbc news, washington. >>> let's check back in with christina on this monday morning. good morning. we'll deal with a significant round of fog this morning. that in turn will cool your temperatures down in most bay area cities. 61 in san francisco. 52 in novato. we are expecting fog to hug the coastline through 11:00 a.m

obama's 2008 presidential rival, john mccain admits the administration deserves great credit and saysmuch more to impress the american public with his plans to turn around the economy. a new poll shows seven in ten americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction. 43% said the economy is very poor. that's an all-time high. but 40% believe the plans, the president's plan to turn around unemployment will significantly improve the job market. >>> a government loan program for green technologies is now creating a new controversy, just days after the solyndra scandal. an electric car company that got $500 million loan from the federal government is now building those cars in finland. the sports car was engineered and designed here in the u.s. but the company says no american facility could build it. they have built 40 of the cars and delivered only two. >>> bad news for basketball fans. it's looking like the nba season will be pushed back again if it gets started at all. owners and players met for a fourth day on thursday and parted with no deal. and no plans to meet again.

obama does not get that. the presidential election be held in about 13 months, if held tomorrow, tomorrow, mitt romney would probably be elected president. that is a memo. the same poll asked this question. what who did you think will win the presidential election next year? 37% said president obama. 55% believe a republican candidate will win unless it's alan combs. so things are good. with us now is monica crowley and allen combs. combs, do you agree with me about mitt romney? >> without debate and confrontation, if to fast forward without actual campaign, you might be right. >> bill: okay. you see president obama rising up in the campaign? like a phoenix? >> phoenix might be a good analogy. rising on the fact there is some unnamed. >> bill: but rising on what? you've got to rise on something? more rhetoric? >> we've got a bunch of voters like people having one night stands, waking up in the morning and saying how did i make that choice? one minute, perry. one minute, they go back to romney. >> bill: you say the president w

latest issue looks at the gop presidential candidate foreign policy credentials saying "barack obama's presidentialare trying hard not to talk about the rest of the world. it shows." we'll get to that in a minute. but first, chuck todd, we are wondering, is mitt romney going to trot out a speech on his religious world views? is he going to answer to some of the attacks he took this weekend? >> i think short-term he's not going to be doing that from what i understand. you know, he did this during the primary campaign last time, but last time he was putting such an emphasis on iowa and south carolina. you know, joe, you tell me, i think part of the reason -- and there is sort of lore in romney world. and i think it's somewhat lore more than it is fact-based. but there was certainly some whispers. but they believe how huckabee won in iowa in 2008 was due to an anti-mormon whisper campaign. because of that belief, they talked themselves out of being able to win iowa, out of being able to win south carolina. and instead, he's trying to create another path, new hampshire, do well enough in iowa and south

the trip comes after president obama's campaign advisor addressed the protest impact on the presidential election. >> i don't think any american is impress when they see governor romney and all the other candidates say the first thing they'll do is roll back wall street reforms and let wall street right its own rules. i think that will be an issue in this campaign. >> former godfather pizza ceo herman cain spent the weekend campaigning in the state of tennessee before stopping in washington for his first appearance on "meet the press." cain used the opportunity to defend his famous 999 tax plan, admitting for the first time that it could lead to a tax hike for some americans. >> some people will pay more, but most people will pay less is my argument. >> who will pay more? >> who will pay more? the people who spend more money on new goods. the sales tax only applies to meal who buy new goods, not used goods. that's a big difference that doesn't come out. >> some of those new goods include bread and milk. despite his surge in recent national polls, a conservative columnist saying cain is n

obama issued two presidential memoranda, in effect going around lawmakers. >> the announcements are partecutive actions to put americans back to work strengthen the economy. because we cannot wait for congressial republicans to act. >> at northwestern university, majority leader eric cantor said the house is doing its part. >> the house of representatives will be moving a bill to ease regulations on access to capital. so we can give the risk-takers a hand up to achieve their dreams. >> a spokesman for house speaker john boehner expressed frustration with the white house. "if the president wants to do something meaningful to create jobs he can start by working with republicans and actually engaging in the legislative process. yesterday the speaker called on the president to push the senate democrats to act. >> the president says we can't wait. to take action on jobs. and i agree. >> but congress isn't planning to spend much time in the capital in 2012 in election year. the house is only scheduled to be in session for 109 days, including just two five-day work weeks. the schedule has 151 d

obama. tonight the presidential election campaign is taking notice trying to slow romney's momentum. g the massachusetts governor for health care reform are likely over. the tone is changing. today the obama campaign fired back at romney for this campaign he made during the debate. >> the right course for america is not to keep spending money on stimulus bills but make permanent changes to the tax code. as the president's bill does, if you give a temporary change to the payroll tax and it extend it for a year or two. employers don't hire people for a year or two. >> he says that romney changes his message on taxes. they are labelling hail political flip flopper. david axelrod went on the attack. >> it is a pattern time and time and time again and you heard it again last night. it's consistent with a guy who ran for for the governorship of massachusetts and ran for the senate in massachusetts as a pro-choice moderate who supported civil unions, and who supported environmental protections and so on. to the guy you see today who's hard after that tea party vote and has turned all of his

president obama continues his bus tour. republican presidential candidates prepare for debate tonight. good morning washington at 5:00 a.m. starts now. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> good morning, washington. 5:00 on this tuesday, october 18. >> we begin with your traffic and weather every ten minutes around here. we will check with lisa baden in a moment. first, meteorologist adam caskey. >> good tuesday morning to you. another pleasant day today. we are tracking conditions from the belfort furniture weather center. seasonable temperatures for this time of year. you need a light jacket. 61 in northwest d.c., 48 in olney, 52 in waldorf, around 50 degrees for the most part. this afternoon, low 70's with a mixture of sun and clouds. we have clouds right now, but we will break into sunshine. if similar temperatures tomorrow near 70, but it's going to be damp and you will need an umbrella because we will have showers off and on tomorrow and some locations could see 1.5 inches of rain. we will talk more about the

i think our presidential candidate, president obama and next year with the election, i think they are going to be doing a lot of listening to the people on the streets and even in power about what changes. >> interesting and worth watching. thanks to all of you for joining me here on the program tonight. >> belva: michael montgomery. n. well, michael you have a different story here with medical marijuana. i don't think i have done that before. they are already getting a bad rap from the federal government. >> what really happened today, we had a press conference. four u.s. attorneys standing side by side and they really did throw down the gauntlet for medical marijuana. really saying they are going to go after the sort of economic foundation. we've seen prosecutions over the years. we've seen a cat and mouse game between the feds and local medical marijuana folks. what's different now is they are saying to property owners, if you rent or lease your land or buildings to either medical marijuana dispensaries, although defense doesn't use that term. they call them stores. or to growers l

obama's potential 2012 presidential opponents held a debate last night -- lau [ laughter ] i'm goching lisp in my own age. at darth mouth college. going into the debate, former godfather's ceo her man cain was in second place, but after last night, he's now in first ahead of mitt romney. an poll now has the former pizza executive in the lead with 27% of the popular vote. i would love to have a president that smells like pepperoni. people seem to be interested in this 9-9-9 plan he keeps talking about. he -- either he or his opponents mentioned it 25 times during the debate last night. i'm not kidding. many of the other candidates attacked the plan including michele bachmann who pointed out that if you flip the numbers 9-9-9 upside down, it turns into 6-6-6, the mark of the devil. she did. that's what i look for in a president. the ability to imagine what would happen if you flipped things upside down. [ laughter ] might be -- [ applause ] might be time to flip michele bachmann upside down. some blood flowing to the brain. bachmann said she won't rest until obama care is repealed. and s

obama. to his presidential competitors. >> shannon travis joining us live from des moines, iowa.w let's head to atlanta and check in with rob marciano. any flight delays expected today? >> yeah, i think so. we have a stubborn system across the northeast that will give you some fits in the way of flight delays, let's highlight some of the major airports, all of them, laguardia, newark and jfk. boston, you'll see sporadic heavy rain showers, along with d.c. and philly. and in san francisco, we have a decent storm system heading that way. the temperatures the big story this morning, into the 40s as far south as memphis and atlanta, so a bit of a chill in the air. in between, windy and on the warm side. so not too bad there. this storm system, a strong one, heading into the pacific northwest. it is strong enough to bring our first winter storm watches of the season to the high country, the sierra nevadas, the six to 12 inches of snow is expected above the 7,000-foot mark there. another note, been talking about ophelia. at one point was a category 4 hurricane. right now it's a strong

. >> obama also took presidential candidates for the task for staying silent at a recent debate when an audience member booed a gay serviceman. >> you want to be a commander in chief, you can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the united states, even when it's not politically convenient. >> during that republican debate former senator rick santorum responded to a question by that gay serviceman. santorum has since then said he did not hear the audience booing and that's why he didn't say anything at the time. in the news room, abc7 news. >> president obama's administration is defending the solar energy loan guarantee program. yesterday energy secretary said the stimulus loan program that expired friday will help develop several large power farms in california and nevada. he did not mention the $538 million home to fremont-based solyndra which declared bankruptcy and laid off 1100 workers. on friday the justice department decided to take control of solyndra. the fbi has launched a criminal investigation into the company. >>> bay area carmaker tessla unv

obama too weak to help them. a record low job approval. 41% approve, 55% dysapprove. in that same poll, presidentialperry narrowly edges obama. and look at this, another leading presidential hopeful, massachusetts mitt romney has a 10% advantage over the president on the economy. joining us, david gergen, who has advised four presidents. the president is trying to get to congress and he has problems, let's be honest, with democrats and republicans. is his political stand doing weak to rally the public to his side? >> a good question. the president has scored political points about taxing millionaires. we have not seen the public response we have seen earlier and the debt ceiling fight when he asked americans to call congress, phone lines were jammed and messages came pouring in. this time, there's very little response. i've been around the country this week, in new orleans and columbus, ohio and now in greensburg, north carolina, not one person has asked me about the jobs bill. not one person says, do you think we can get that passed? that quinnipiac poll, 10 point lead for romney, that was really e

donald trump. [ inner voice ] >>> the republican presidential candidates have all consistently agreed on one thing. the health care reform bill that president obama signed into law is bad. very bad. all but one of the republican presidential candidates agree that the health care reform bill that governor mitt raum omney signed into law is bad. very, very bad. >> balancing the federal budget and that starts with repealing obama care. >> you just don't have credible, mitt, when it comes to repealing obama care. your plan was the basis for obama care. >> i was asked, is this something you'd have the whole nation do? and i said no. this was something that was crafted for massachusetts. >> what you did is exactly what barack obama did. >> there's a lot of big government behind romney care, not as much as obama care, but a heck of a lot more than your campaign is admitting. >> actually, newt, we got the idea of individual mandate from you. >> that's not true. >> you did support an individual mandate. >> yes, sir. >> that's what sooim i'm saying. >> we're back with our panel. john heilman who was at the debate last night. msnbc political analyst, alex w

coincidence a decision in this case is likely to come next fall in the closing days of the presidential election. the obama administration is already under pressure for funding failed solar panel maker solyndra. even though solyndra makes a different kind of solar panel, rutgers trade expert thomas prusa says the controversy could influence the trade complaint filed today. >> it gives the impression that it was unfair chinese behavior that is destroying or made it difficult for solyndra to make a profit, rather than solyndra having a faulty business plan and choosing a risky technology. >> reporter: this trade complaint could also bring some uncomfortable facts to light. some u.s. companies manufacture solar cells and panels in china, and this case should make it clear just how extensive those operations are. darren gersh, "nightly business report," washington. >> susie: complex bundles of mortgage investments-- they were at the heart of the financial crisis. now they've landed citigroup in hot water with the securities and exchange commission. the agency says the bank has agreed to pay $285 million to set