it has been as you would expect driven by the obama white house, attorney general eric holder turned r of justice department against law enforcement officers themselves and their agents, and turned obama justice department into what has become at its top a corrupt, littl politically motid word that mocks the word justi justice. f pa*l twrao are arjustice. >> for the past two weeks i have challenged them here, very idea not until two of new york city's fineest were killed on a brooklyn street did they find themselves to at least pause, if not end out right their campaign. but the damage i believe they have done is irk phepbgs, and i immense and i fire lasting. >> i am beingic placeiic place y concern. >> can take hold in relationship between law enforcement. i want people of ferguson to know i personaly understood that mistrust. >> people need to know that black lives and brown lives matter as much as white lives. it is what we have to aspire to. >> even if we get knocked down, we get up and go to the corner, come out fighting the next round. you won the first round mr. prosecutor. but

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obama's white house that then asked google to remove the mohammed video from google's youtube service. the president went on to promise a quote, proportional response to north korea. just minutes after the press conference reports surfaced that the president is considering retaliation. he's actually thinking about put putting north korea back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism. a designation that has not stopped the ieotola. when asked about the long-term effect of his unilateral action the president had nothing concrete to say. >> i think it would be beyond realistic to map out exactly where cuba will be, but change is going to come to cuba. it has to. >> the president also asked about working with the republican congress next year. mr. obama had one suggestion for the republican leadership. he thinks it would be democratic and progressive and in harmony if he passes the bills he tells them he's willing to sign. >> if executive actions on areas like minimum wage or equal pay or having a more sensible immigration system are important to republicans and they care about those is

leadership, for years latin america has been told that the white man, that white officers hate them because of their color. this is what obamas doing right now, it is a perfect example of that. and first of all, the income level in the black community has gone down. it has not gone up, making the white folks, it says that they are making a little bit less, but obama has made it difficult for people to make real money and it has nothing to do with racism. but the reason they keep pushing racism is because they want to keep black people angry. and when you keep the black people angry and hating their fellow man, because their soul to die. you kill their spirit. it separates him from god. and they are doing this so that they can use black americans to redistribute the wealth and other countries and that is what barack obama is up to, that is what the black leadership has been up to for years. and it's really sad and pathetic to see the resident of the united states of america to grade this country and the world rather than unite us, he is dividing us with lies for his own personal gain. and i am ashamed of barack obama. lou: ba

following their every move. >> when you consider where he was going, to pay a call on president obama at the white house, that might surprise some people. >> reporter: in d.c., he met with president obama inside the oval office. during their conversation, will let the president in on a fun little secret. during the drama of kate's baby delivery last year, he forgot to ask her the gender of their baby. >> so, you forgot to ask? >> actually, it's a boy in the end. >> reporter: it was off to the world bank for its third annual conference. >> i'm determined not to let the world's children grow up on a planet where almost iconic and endangered species have been wiped out. >> this is probably his most important speech to date. certainly his most high profile. >> reporter: back in manhattan, kate started her day in harlem. accompanied by new york city's first lady, visiting a youth development center. where fans of all sizes were waiting to meet kate. but it turns out some of the children mistook her for a different princess. >> you remember who is coming to visit you today? >> princess! >> you know, the

is will she run for president. >> speaking of the presidential election, because president obama and the whiteuse got enough democratic support but they just don't have the same juice. in the end, obama won and pelosi lost. how will this spill over into the presidential election? >> she's going to given hillary a run for her money. you're a clintonite. we're not going to anoint hillary. >> if she run s -- >> oh, shows going to run. >> if she runs, it will be a real horse race. >> oh, my god, they agreed like four times. what's going on? is there a full moon out? this is a new era, you guys just spelled it out. doug schoen, thank you very much. happy holiday segment. i'll have nightmares about that one. >> i hope not. >> just live beyond the dream. >>> speaking of that, in "beyond the dream" we focus on kweku mandela, the grandson of nelson mandela, the father of modern south africa. kweku recalls how his gran father conducted his life even through his years in prison and beyond and whose legacy still inspires us today. >> you hahe had this insatiabler to learn. even when he came out of prison.

left is exploiting these incidents to racial politics and serving a bald political purpose of the obama whitese. the obama justice department and its leaders, air colder, leading the assault on law enforcement and are not in the least hesitant to prejudge these cases. to make clear before investigations are concluded what outcome they expect or demand. the politics of racial exploitation are broadened from the president's left-wing, including mayor bill de blasio. >> we're not just dealing with the problem in 2014 or years of racism leading up to it or decades of racism, we are dealing with centuries of racism. lou: it's remarks like those that have led union officials to accuse him of undercutting instead of defending the 35,000 men and women of the nypd. >> what police officers felt is that they were thrown under the bus after that press conference. that they were out there doing a difficult job in the middle of the night protecting the rights of those to protest, protect our sons and daughters. and the mayor was behind microphones like that's throwing him under the bus. lou: president obam

and the best photos of 2014 from the obama white house. me hiring and not enough time in my kitchen.fast? go to ziprecruiter.com and post your job to over 30 of the web's leading job boards with a single click; then simply select the best candidates from one easy to review list. you put up one post and the next day you have all these candidates. makes my job a lot easier. over 100,000 businesses have already used zip recruiter and now you can use zip recruiter for free at a special site for tv viewers: go to ziprecruiter.com/offer700. >>> we're back with our panel, angela, john and zerlina. tomorrow night, is there any politician who you'd want to ring in the new year with? hillary clinton topped a poll here in new york. 37% say she'd be their date of choice for new year's. zerlina, which politician would you want for your new year's date? >> i actually want a group date. and i thought hillary clinton would be a fun politician but also i would love to just get some wine and senator elizabeth warren to join in to have a power duo feminist discussion to bring in 2015. >> john? >> i'm a

the bill has been supported by the obama white house, creating controversy among his party. >> a close call by congress averts a government shutdown. >>. >> the motion is adopted barack obama urged the democrats to support the $1.1 trillion budget. the bill funds the government at the same levels that were negotiated last december and will keep the country running through september 2015. it includes emergency funding requested by the president to fight ebola in west africa and for air strikes the islamic state in iraq and syria. also included, increasing the amount an individual can contribute to a national political party from $32,400 to $324,000. cuts in the budget of the environmental protection agency and the u.s. tax agency. measures that would weaken regulations about derivatives trading, and increases in the budget for wall street regulation agencies, including the securities and exchange commission. the bill has left ruffled feathers on both sides. some democrats complained the budget measures are not tough enough on wall street. >> nobody wants to shut down the government. eve

not heard anything about these discussions that could be taking place, hosted by russia from the obama white house or the state department. what i can tell sue that the response is expected to probably be lackluster given that it is counter to u.s. policy. u.s. policy has been for some time when president obama said that bashar al-assad must step aside for the sake of the syrian people, that he, in fact, must go. that has been a consistent refrain when speaking to u.s. officials. this is back to sanctions. peace talks do not achieve that goal. there is really a view here in washington that is as long bashar al-assad remains in power, the country in syria remains divided. for that reason there really is going to be a lot of skepticism about russia hosting any sort of peace discussion. >> and there have been numerous tapers to get both sides to agree to some sort of peace team in the past. >> what is important to note is the relationship with russia with the syrian government that has been taking place, historically strong trading partner. very strong in terms of their tying, but we've seen th

knowledge inside the obama white house or any white house about the future buying habits of consumers laughable. government shouldn't invest, period. >> rick, this incentivizes something i know you hate which is crony capitalism, all these insiders getting these special deals from their friends in government. >> well, first, i better acknowledge my friend rich's point to stop all the nasty tweets i'm going to get. right. it doesn't take bravery to spend other people's money, and i don't like crony capitalism. you're right. >> this incentivized crony capitalism, however. >> if you can, i acknowledge that, at the same time we've used tax incentives for very successful things. the oil industry has done very well. and delivered for us. i take your point how it didn't work for the electric car but let's not throw out the baby with the bath water. >> steve forbes, rule number one, taxes should never be used tore social engineering. >> absolutely right, and rich touched on something that's very important when you allow free markets to operate instead of trying to manipulate them a, free mark

obama and white northerners voted for and against barack obama i think you can find hope for the northey are. whether you can find hope for the nation is. >> host: one last hopeful note to be continued. [laughter] ..

> you mentioned a moment ago that you lost long ago confidence in john brennan, formerly of the obama whiteouse. but i wonder what you think these revelations do to our credibility, to our standing around the world? as you know, there have argued that simply because our enemies are going to use this to attack us and to use this to stir up more anti-american hate around the world, as if a report they need like this to do that, but that's the argument. they're going to use to come at us in the coming months and years. what do you think of that, and moreover, what do you think these revelations do to our standing, whatever that is around the world? >> well, the substance is fairly well known. the world knew that we engaged in these activities. and of course, when it comes to isis, it doesn't take these kind of revelations to give them any kind of drive to do the horrific things that they're doing. i mean, they're cutting people's heads off long before this head came out. so they may try to use this as additional fodder for their propaganda machine. but that's not at all credible since they wer

white house, the pentagon, and the whole u.s. mainland. >>> a memorial to the americans who served in world war i will be built. it was approved by president obamait will be built one block from the white house. nearly five million men and women served during the war. more than 100,000 were killed. a privately funded contest will be held to choose the design. >>> america's best skier, well, she had another fall this morning. lindsey von is just back to competition after a serious knee injury, and toted's fall happened at a world cup event in france. she suffered a slight elbow injury, and she fell, and that's the good news. vonn says her knee is actually all right. >>> flags are flying at half staff after two police officers were shot and killed in their police cruiser. police are expected to get an update on the investigation about 30 minutes or so. we'll bring that to you live. we have also learned that president obama called the new york police commissioner today to express his condolences. a candlelight vigil will be held tonight at the shooting scene, and we are also expected to hear from officer rafael ramos's family in about an hour and a

new york city police commissioner blasting the obama white house and the attorney general and his department of justice for attacking his department in the wake of eric garner grand jury decision. >> they really do feel under attack rank-and-file officers and much of police leadership that they feel they are under attack from the federal government at the highest levels. that is something we need to understand also the sense of deception now becomes a reality. lou: walking a thin blue line between defending his cops and placating his boss mayor de blasio reminding the mayor of his disdain for him and his administration. fox news correspondent david miller with a report. >> it was a tough crowd for york mayor de blasio as he approached the podium to begin his speech before graduating police officers friends and family boo'd. there were hecklers. >> you will confront all the problems that plague our society that you did not create. >> someone then shouted you did and others responded with applause club clap. >> the mayor never acknowledged that atmosphere but focus on the contribution of polic

obama needs to end his relationship with sharpton. >> he has had him to the white house 85 times.e talks about police issues he has al sharpton sitting next to him. if he would like a poster boy for haiti and police it is al sharpton if you make him a close advisor the police will go against you to say we don't understand the. >> and police officers know or that it seems that obama will indeed doing as the mayor recommends. in new york city they made a statement turning their backs on de blasio. now is time for the president to turn his back on racial politics and also exploit race for the ideological purposes and to divide rather than unite to. the quotation from the evening from french philosopher montesquieu who developed separation of powers philosophy. that there is no crueler tierney them that that is perpetuated under the shield law and under the name of justice. we will be right back. mayor de blasio boo'd as c addresses the newest members of the police department and now what has become the most toxic soup -- toxic relationship anywhere in this country. >> head does sound

. >> four hours into the siege president obama was briefed by his white house counterterrorism advisor lisa monaco. u.s. government sources confirm that homeland security secretary jeh johnson, fbi director, james comey, nicholas rasmussen, national director of the counterterrorism center were fully engaged and offered help. at least 20 americans are legal permanent residents have tried to join or help the terror group with at least a dozen more currently fighting in iraq and syria. in october a convert to radical islam rammed two canadian soldiers with his car killing one of them. within days another so-called lone wolf shot a third soldier dead at canada's tomb of the unknowns in ottawa. a convert, attacked new york rookie cops with hatchet. thompson was obsessed with radical islams with 277 search terms for jihad. a former ranking member of the house intelligence committee says, the u.s. is handicapped bit wikileaks revelations and democrat-led senate intelligence committee report on the cia interrogation. >> the tools that are essential to us, they now know what they are and what t

but what i do know is that the obama, white and erhouse and er holder were investigated and into charges ever filed. now the fact that barack obama who spent the last six years of his presidency blaming george bush for everything but his golf score didn't file charges tells me there was nothing to prosecute not to mention doing em democrats like nancy pelosi who knew about everything and did nothing. so now why besides the obvious political gain who are is clamoring. do we even need to have this discussion and point the finger of blame at ourselves when they attacked us and our government did its best to protect us? there were no follow up attacks so what was gained. nothing knew in your report and nothing prosecutable. all you have done is create material for jihadists and perfect throw our allies under the bus yet again. i'm tired of american apologyists like you trashing those assigned to protect us, those who put their line lives on the line like the cia and law enforcement, they not you have the high moral ground, you you and your namby-pamby hog wash. while you're at it, have you r

mark, the white house says that president obama will not go to ferguson this week. they are dodging questions on whether he will ever go to ferguson. is it possible that this is all of the unrest and drama from the white house? might this be the extent of their response? >> contrary to what i heard some exceedingly handsome pundit say on "face the nation" yesterday

senator harry reid's top aid ripped the white house for screwing up the obama white house.v news barely noticed. the i attack on the president's teenagers struck a cord because the media love a simple morality tale. but compared to obama care's affect on the country, it's a blip on the radar. >>> there are more kmefblts from jonathan gruber making the rounds now. republicans can kill obama care from the inside without repealing it. >> the entire law just craters if there's not someone in the white house who cares about making it work. so you don't need active repeal. you just need ignoring the law and letting it wither on the vine, that may be enough, that's the real threat, that's the major threat. >> gruber also said leaders needed to be cheerleading the law in its early stages. gruber is scheduled to testify on the hill next week. >>> the tension between congress and the president over the budget and immigration, we will talk about it all with the panel when we come back. i've been called a control freak... i like to think of myself as more of a control... enthusiast. mm

the obama white house viewed this as terrorist incident clear from the get go as was the president's counterterrorism advisor lisa monaco, who briefed the president on it. the white house disclosed word of the briefing 9:35 p.m. eastern time last night, approximately four hours into the unfolding drama. it was then the united states government reached out to australia and offered any counterterrorism that the australians might have requested. we don't know any was provided but again just in relative terms it doesn't seem that there was even time for the u.s. to scramble that kind of assistance together. the u.s. consulate in sydney is located about a block away from the lindt chocolat cafe where this crisis erupted. it was evacuated like other buildings in the martin square district. it remained closed. we got a message from the u.s. con so you sue late in sydney, advising all citizens it would remain closed on tuesday in sydney. all personnel at the consulate we're told are accounted for. very dramatic situation. anguishing one not only for the australians but for its allies around t

his first term when hillary clinton was leaving as secretary of state she'd written a memo to the obama white house suggesting a new effort to try to normalize relations with cuba and try to get rid of the embargo. president obama did start that effort secretly at the very beginning of his second term. he chose not to go through the state department. he chose not to go through the proper diplomatic channels in order to make this overture. instead, what he decided to do was go outside the state department, outside normal overt diplomatic channels and instead, this negotiation happened basically directly from one president's office to another. basically from president obama's office to raul castro's office. presidency to presidency. president obama tapped these two guys, ben rhodes, deputy national security adviser and ricardo zuniga from the national security council and in secret they were the two who made this overture to the cuban government and started these talks. they started a weird travel schedule where the two of them would fly to ottawa or sometimes to toronto. they flew commercial s

david: stay with us, the house gop report is blaming the obama white house for weaponizing the irs. veronica, first of all, you are from the "wall street journal," kudos, the "wall street journal" first reported that story, irs was thinking of taxing conservative groups. is there a little more media interest than there was? could. >> be, the fact we reported it, hopefully more outlets will pick it up. david: you are on the news side, not the editorial side. >> the news side. the irs job is to interpret the tax code. people want that done. the irs isn't supposed to be a partisan organization, it's supposed to be nonpolitical. and to add the political element for it, that's not what americans want. david: it's against the law, after nixon used the irs for political purposes, congress changed the law, it was one of the articles of impeachment against richard nixon. he was never impeached. they would have used that as a charge to impeach him. >> this report makes nixon look like a change. think of the terms, culture of byes aweaponization of the irs? this is a damning report, and the me

she was at the white house yesterday for a meeting with president obama to address ferguson and police militarization. then the united nations slams u.s. record on police brutality and torture. reports of widespread police.rced by the they gives rise to concern, of course, and also some vulnerable groups, including ethnic groups, blacks, have been particularly targeted by this force. >> we will speak to a member of the united nations committee against torture on u.s. policing practices, guantanamo and prosecuting bush administration officials. and finally, texas prepares to execute a schizophrenic prisoner despite calls for clemency. ,> an alter ego of mine, sarge killed my illinois -- my in-laws . there's nothing to have me become what i am here. >> that's the voice of scott panetti who is scheduled to die wednesday night. he was sentenced to death after a trial in which he acted as his own attorney and appeared in court wearing a purple cowboy suit and a 10-gallon hat. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman.

good luck with the book, the stranger, obama in the white house. now for some more stories from around the world. >>> we begin in texas, where a federal appeals court has halted the execution of death row inmate scott panetti, saying it needs more time to consider complex legal questions. panettis lawyers say their client who is skit phrenic is too dilutional to be executed. in the defense of his trial, he wore a cowboy outfit and tried to call jesus and john f. kennedy to the witness stand. >>> next we head to ferguson, missouri, where michael brown's stepfather that is apologized. police are investigating whether head's cries of burn this expletive down amounted to eenciting a riot. i screamed out words i shouldn't have schemed screementd out in the heat of the moament. i humbly ask for those to understand what we need for our community. it wasn't. >>> we end in cuba where thursday marked the third anniversary of u.s. contractor allen gross on espionage charges. in 2011 gross was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he was accused of being part

they fared worse under obama than whites did. ident obama a racist. >> why aren't people protesting in the streets about that? protest about that. [ overlapping speakers ] >> sharpton and i are meeting later. >> are you? >> can i throw this out here? a long time ago i said i don't have a problem win come inequality as long as the rate is going up. if both are doing better it's okay. because even if the upper class is doing better it's bringing the lower class up with it. that in my world and free market world land, it's a rising boat. >> rising tide floating the lower boats as well. so i'm okay with that. we set it up only on hypocrisy of president obama saying the income inequality gap was too wide and the wealth gap was too wide. and now it's wider than when he took over. that was the point about that. >> dana, during reagan when he had his boom, the lower income did go up. during clinton it went up. poor people came up with the wealthy people. why do you think it isn't? it's not because obama doesn't want it to happen. >> will

. >> so, how will the gop-led congress work with the obama white house come january? us all about it is texas congressman louis gohmert sgli didn't hear him talk about things we can agree on. first rattle out of the box he wants to talk about what he's going to veto. he's going to use his pen. well, we've already seen. he used to tell us, katie if you've got any ideas about health care my door's open. well, i tried. there are all these security people, they may not keep people from jumping over the fence, but by golly they keep people like me from getting to the president's oval office. so he wasn't serious about that. he's never really wanted to work with us. but there's a lot of things that we need to do that we didn't get done in the last congress. now, i for one felt like there were many things that we passed hundreds of bills we passed in the house. we should have forced the senate to take a vote. if we had forced the senate to take the tough votes then you would have had even more democrats staying home. >> right. >> but now that we're going to have a republican

." >> the obama white house, and republicans helped pass a $1.1 trillion government spending bill. according to published reports the most controversial section of the bill was written word for word. we have more on that in a moment. the legislation is now in the hands of the u.s. senate. if it passes that chamber president obama said he will sign it immediately. the bill keeps federal funding more or less at current levels through next september except for homeland of security. funding for that is only approved through the end of february. >> the house passed a bill moments before a funding deadline that could have led to a government shutdown today. despite the down to the wire maneuvering that was actually no real threat of a shutdown. that's because the house after the spending bill vote also passed. the 48 funding extension that kept federal offices open while the senate considered main legislation. the main bill in the senate could see procedural hurdles. senator elizabeth warren is up in arms over one rider that would loosen funds. warren blasted her colleagues asking them w

the obama white house, bush white house, and clinton white house. and he was moscow bureau chief and recently wrote a book about bush and cheney, which everyone should read. and stephen collinson, who is a white house correspondent emeritus. he recently left us for cnn. but he covered the white house for afp for a number of years and also did a number of stints overseas, asia and europe. and so i'm delighted to have all of you. you're definitely among my favorite white house correspondence. and selfishly, i've decided to start the panel off by one of the things that i am most interested in as a white house correspondent. particularly given all of the access, limitations that our previous panel talked about. i'd like to know how these guys get their stories and like where do you get that information from and how does it all come story about how to white house had stopped releasing the lists of the wine that they were pouring at state dinners because the wines had gotten expensive and had become scandalous in the middle of like a deficit deal, but the

obama imperrial presidency. it confers de facto amnesty and comes as nearly half of the states in the nation are in court challenging the white house's abuse in their judgment of executive power. oklahoma's attorney general scott prewitt among the plaintiffs and he joins us on the broadcast. also tonight, president obama angered much of america last week with his highly offensive charges of racism against americans, our society, and our culture. >> this isn't going to be solved overnight. this is something that is deeply rooted in our society. it's deeply rooted in our history. when you're dealing with something as deeply rooted as racism or bias, in any society, you got to have vigilance, but recognize that it's going to take some time. lou: and what is deeply rooted in this white house? it appears that a once centrist president bill clinton is moving to the left in order to support his wife's presidential ambitions. president clinton not only agreeing with president obama, but then suggesting americans may not even know they are racist. we'll be taking up the presidential racist sweepstakes, talking with the "wall street jo

the obama administration taking precaution as the senate intelligence committee prepares to release the controversial report on the secret activities of the cia. ed henry is live at the whiteouse. haven't seen you for awhile, great to have you back. you just came out of the briefing. we saw former president bush defend the intelligence community. is president obama doing the same thing? >> not quite. what president bush was saying is suggesting that intelligence officials were going to get thrown under the bus here saying basically he believes american lives were saved by these harsh interrogation tactics. president obama obviously called them torture, banned them, believes they were not the right thing to do. and josh ernest a few moments ago basically said president obama does not believe these tactics were justified under any scenario. listen. >> what the president has been clear about is that he does not believe that the use of these enhanced interrogation techniques is justified. he does not believe that makes us safer. he does not believe that's in the core national security interest. >> reporter: when i pressed josh earnest, he said that president obama agrees with