white house ignore this? >> i think the white house needs to move vigorously now and expose again and again as president obama started to do in his speech that there is misinformation, there's a funded campaign to take down his presidency, and it is infused with racism. he has messengers. he doesn't need to be at the forefront of it. i think there are those in this country who should start speaking clearly about this issue. >> a.c.o.r.n.'s got some issues, but are they being unfairly targeted? >> a.c.o.r.n. has issues. the leadership, they fired people, they're doan

i think obama and the obama white house understand that, and unfortunately, race has become one of these political footballs. it will get tossed back and forth and it will be leveraged against president obama in terms of what he's trying to accomplish on his agenda. >> now, given that during my lifetime alone from president nixon forward there have been some incredible lies told publicly out of that white house, what was it like in the black community to have the first black american president up there on the podium and for him to be the first one, when he's mentioning a provision in a health care reform bill, he's the first one in this forum ever to be called a liar by a member of congress. >> well, it's stunning, it's startling and disrespectful. a lot of my friends mobilized really, really quickly. we didn't even know who joe wilson was prior to that. but mobilized real real quickly to redress the situation. but what you need to understand is, depending on where you live, what region of the country, depending on your ethnic background, yes, that's going to inform how you are going to

new evidence suggests the obama white house is closely tied to the group. and new details on how the president settled on campaign slogan and chose a running mate did. michelle obama put an end to hillary clinton's prospects as v.p.? we have a brand new book with all the details, including his relationship with reverend wright and bill ayers. never before heard. straight ahead. en geico's been saving people money on car insurance for over 70 years. and who doesn't want value for their dollar? been true since the day i made my first dollar. where is that dollar? i got it out to show you... uhh... was it rather old and wrinkly? yeah, you saw it? umm fancy a crisp? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. sean: remember now barack obama acted this weekend when asked about acorn. >> frankly, it's not something i followed closely. i didn't know acorn was getting a whole lot of federal money. >> turns out the obama white house is pretty connected to the group. red state.com reports that the brother of white house political di

new evidence suggests the obama white house is closely tied to the group. and new details on how the president settled on campaign slogan and chose a running mate did. michelle obama put an end to hillary clinton's prospects as v.p.? we have a brand new book with all the details, including his relationship with reverend wright and bill ayers. never before hand heard. straight ahead. if you're taking 8 extra-strength tylenol... a day on the days that you have arthritis pain, you could end up taking 4 times the number... of pills compared to aleve. choose aleve and you could start taking fewer pills. just 2 aleve have the strength... to relieve arthritis pain all day. sean: remember now barack obama acted this weekend when asked about acorn. >> frankly, it's not something i followed closely. i didn't know acorn was getting a whole lot of federal money. >> turns out the obama white house is pretty connected to the group. red state.com reports that the brother of white house political director patrick gas par works for acorn's lobbying group and acorn ceo has al

it's a fact-free but exciting slander against the obama white house, one that bridges the ever-narrowing gap between conservative conspiracy theorys and the beltway republican agenda. even as the birther theory that the president is secretly foreign is considered debunct in polite circles. 12 of them are still trying to push birther legislation in the house. and what might have been a disappointment today, a federal judge appointed by president bush in georgia just issued a hall of fame-quality smackdown to the birthers denying yet another one of their lawsuits challenging the legitimacy as president and saying in the process "unlike in alice in wonderland simply saying something does not make it so." if she keeps filing these same frivolous lawsuits in federal court. they evenen orly taitz if she doesn't take this to court. so even as birtherism rapidly converts to a punch line, the overall idea of challenging presidents -- challenging president obama's legitimacy is so attractive to the right that they're no longer reserving this technique just for president obama. today, get this, a t

the obama white house wants to highlight industrial cities showing a turn around. it's about showing off economic policy of what's going on here. pittsburgh is a city they want to showcase. person pennsylvania, parts of industrial ohio and industrial indiana, big for the president in 2010 and 2012. being seen. they love the fact the president is dominating the local coverage and the local media. >> chuck todd, savannah guthrie, thanks to you both. in political news, the u.s. senate is back to 100 members. massachusetts has a new interim senator. the seat vacated by ted kennedy has been filled by paul kirk, the former head of the democratic party is the executor of ted kennedy's will. he was appointed by the massachusetts governor today, only to serve until a special election can be held. kirk said he will not run for the seat and will only hold on to it for the interim basis. he will hold the 60 vote majority for the democrats. >>> a disturbing story from kentucky. federal officials are investigating the death of a census worker. he was found hanging from a tree wi

the washington times icon. >> former vice-president dick cheney is lashing out tonight at the obama white house saying a new investigation into cia tactics is outrageous. chaney said it is wrong, the obama administration allowed attorney general holder to investigate the interrogation of terror suspects since 9/11. >> now, they are dragging it back up again. and holder will go back and review it again, supposedly. to try to find some evidence of wrongdoing. by cia personnel. >> seriously going to undermine the morale, if you will, of our on folks out at the agency. >> now that brings us to the question of the day. shot obama administration investigate past cia interrogation techniques? so far 15 percent say yes. 85 percent say no. steve from baltimore writes, bush and chaney were routinely trashing the u.s. constitution and our legal system. both of them and cohorts should be investigated. but don from catonsville writes, the whole investigation is a blatant political maneuver to distract the public from the failure of obama care. to read more of your responses please go to foxbaltimore.com and

new york governor david paterson is firing back at the obama white house after reports came out that does not want paterson to run for election next year. the governor said "they haven't exactly been able to govern in the first year of their administration the way the other administrations have." the governor said he was not demeaning president obama's record. another one of the president's czars is in hot water for past comments. federal communication commission czar mark lloyd said hugo chavez led an incredible revolution and lloyd tells "the washington times" his comment was misinterpreted. another comment raising eyebrows was lloyd speaking about the need to remove white people from the media to give minorities a chance "unless we are conscious to have more people of color and gays and other people in those positions, we won't change the problem, but we're in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power." and activities here at the u.n. this week including tuesday's climate change conference are generating a large carbon footprint, from

it's been said the obama white house lost control of its own message on health care. ey spent a few weeks in late summer getting pummeled on it by the opposition. they started fighting back with a speech before joint session. now, the president starts his air assault. between now and monday, he is doing the sunday morning political shows on nbc, abc, cbs, cnn and univision. five political shows and entertainment, "the late show." it's a presidential media blitz. today was joined by the first lady. as part of this media strategy, the president was interviewed by moderator of "meet the press," david gregory. he asked him about the topic this past week. >> this health care debate can be about bigger things. among your harshest critics, is the view the government is out of control? >> mm-hmm. >> it's gotten out of control? >> right. >> it was supposed to mark america moving beyond race. >> right..éh7 >> this week, you had former president jimmy carter saying most, not just a little, but most of the republican opposition against you is motivated by racism. do you agree wi

the obama white house scraps bush administration plans to build a controversial missile defense system in europe. >>> zeroing in. police in connecticut say they are on the verge of an arrest in connection with the murder of a yale university graduate student. >>> and justice mambo. the nation's newest supreme court member shows off some the nation's newest supreme court member shows off some moves on the dance floor. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm christina brown. >>> today we begin with reassessing the threat. according to this morning's wall street journal, the obama administration is putting off plans to build a missile defense shield in eastern europe. in a sharp reversal of the bush administration, the decision reflects new findings that indicate iran's military technology is developing more slowly than anticipated. although experts disagree as to the maturity of the iranian program, analysts also say the threat posed to the u.s. and europe by that program may not be as significant as once estimated. the move will likely be chaired by

by journalists, by other observers, that religious progressives are having an impact on the obama white house, on the democratic congress, on the development of a wide range of policy proposals, from healthcare to climate change to poverty, so forth. exactly what that turns out to be, we don't know because the process is not finished yet. >> reporter: and what about the mood within these groups, on the right and the left? how are they seeing themselves after the last election? >> the progressive side seems to be very excited right now. they really believe that they are in the ascendancy, that they've had some success. and of course some people can point to some success, that they're growing, that they're reaching out to larger groups of people. right after the 2008 election there was some real discouragement among religious conservatives, although some of those individuals i've interviewed noted that they were pretty discouraged before the election, because things were not really going the way that they had hoped. but there's a renewed sense of hope on that side as well. there's a sense that

white house. we begin at the white house where president obama today met with democratic leaders. what happened? >> what we know from people familiar with the meeting is that the president was pushing the democrat leader speaker pelosi as well as harry reid that there was a real sense of urgency now. now is the time to act. and aides to the president tell me that's the approach, the tone the president is going to be taking as well tomorrow night in a speech to a joint session of congress. really trying to take the bull by the horns and acert himself. be more aggressive than he has been in the debate than before. this is a high-stakes forum. 16 years ago this month, then president clinton used the same venue, a high pressure venue to try to sell health care reform. he failed then. that's why there's so much pressure on this president, that there's not a repeat. that they fail on health reform and a year later take a beating at the polls in the midterm congressional elections. what is interesting is after the meeting speaker pelosi emerged still pushing very hard on the public option even though t

important as creating jobs in a clean energy economy. >> we'll talk with senior white house correspondent ed henry about whether the obama administration bowed to pressure over the van jones controversy and if we're seeing signs that the opposition is slowly chipping away at the white house. that's coming up at the bottom of the hour. >>> jaycee dugard's hometown feared the worst for 18 years. the town is turning pink now to celebrate her safe return. the kidnapped girl now a free woman. i am definitely a skeptic. actually, my mom convinced me. and i have activia every morning for breakfast. activia definitely helped with my occasional irregularity. activia is clinically proven to help regulate your digestive system in two weeks when eaten every day. chances are someone you trust can recommend activia. take the activia challenge. it works or your money back! ♪ activia! your hair mixes with pollen and dust. i get congested. but now with zyrtec-d®, i have the proven allergy relief of zyrtec®, plus a powerful decongestant. zyrtec-d® lets me breathe freer, so i can love the air™. (announcer) zyrtec-d®. behind the pharmacy co

and videos collected and stored by the white house, without any notification to them, that the white house was doing so. >> also on the washington times. why the obama white house is expressing support for a part of the patriot act. and questions about whether u.s. impasse sees are suppressing negatives reports about some of our own allies. for more of these stories go on foxbaltimore.com and click on the washington times icon. >> new major retailers accused of tracking customers's every move online. in tonight's "word on the web". judy kurtz reveals the companies, and the reason the government is stepping in. judy? >> sears and k-mart are finding themselves in hot water tonight. with the federal trade commission, for gathering too much info about customers. in an attempt to get more information about online visitors, sears and k-mart offered $10 to anyone willing to download the research software. the only problem, well, according to the ftc, that research software tracks far more than it should have. everything from the contents of online shopping carts to bank statements. even drug prescription records, could have been collected. in a settlement,

summer of setbacks, president obama is hoping to jump start his health care initiative this week with a high stakes speech to congress. cnn's kate bolduan is at the white house. >> reporter: president obama returned from vacation to face a crucial week ahead in the health care debate. top white house aides insist the president will spell out his specifics for reform when he speaks wednesday to a joint session of congress. >> they'll leave that speech knowing exactly where the president stands, exactly what he thinks we have to do to get health care done. >> reporter: at the same time, cnn has learned the white house is quietly talking about drafting its own health care bill. a kind of contingency legislation. and is leaning toward a plan that would trigger a public insurance option only if health care reforms failed to meet certain goals. white house officials dodged questions sunday about whether the president would sign a bill that doesn't include a public option. >> he believes the public option is a good tool. now, it shouldn't define the whole health care debate, however. >> reporter: it's a contentious issue that has the white house squeezed from the r

paul volker is a top economic adviser to the obama white house. when he told the white house financial services today the administrati administration's proposed overhaul comes up short and could lead to future bailouts of non-bank firms, will you makers listened. >> extending that to the nonbanking world without the explicit promise -- and of course this is key -- without the implicit assumption that federal money will be provided in the case of the failed or failing institutions. >> reporter: meanwhile, elizabeth rar ren was also sounding the too big to fail alarm. toxic assets are still on bank balance sheets. commercial real estate is headed far crisis. time for a t.a.r.p. exit strategy. >> i am very concerned about the absence of an exit strategy for how we're going to withdraw those subsidies and whether we will have confidence that we will continue to have a stable banking system afterwards. >> at that same hearing, the t.a.r.p. inspector general says taxpayers will probably never recover hundreds of billions of dollars invested in bailouts.

. >>> the obama white house wants to extend provisions on the patriot act. they include giving the government authority to access business authorities and to conduct wiretaps. the colorado man at the center of the terror investigation in new york city said he is innocent. he has been under surveillance in connection with a suspected plot to make homemade bombs. police raided several apartments in queens but they did not find any. local police departments are be asked to be on the lookout for bomb-making materials. >>> tributes are pouring in for patrick swayze. >> his most famous movie was filmed in southwestern virginia. the chef who cooked for the taft spend some time with the actor. >> he did not talk about hollywood or making movies. him as a talked about what a beautiful area this was. he had noticed a lot of horses around. i think he was a bit coarse person. he liked the area. -- he was a big horse person. he would come back and chat with people in the kitchen. even the dishwasher. >> "dirty dancing" was filmed here. the guy had problems in life. he wa

supporters who believe race is connected to the anti-obama sentiment and the kinds of signs we're seeing at rallies, et cetera. for this white house quick sand. they're going to stay away from this as well they should. the people they are focused on right now are the people who voted for barack obama who are losing right now on this health care debate or any other issue that's come up this year that involves government spending and government intervention. they are watching the polls. not for the people who turn out to these rallies with posters of obama as hitler, anything like that. people who voted for barack obama and are turning away. that middle of america. those independent voters. they're the people they need to get back there, focus on them. they don't want any conversation about race. >> jeff santos, is there an up side? if the obama white house is aggressive and answering these people who are throwing these kinds of slurs out there and these kinds of comments? >> thank you, ed, for having me. it's simple. they have to be strong. if you noticed yesterday barack obama was in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, addressing his crew,

obama spoke to a u.n. climate change summit this morning here at the united nations. senior white house correspondent major garrett reports on an issue that has generated plenty ofette rick but little real action. >> president obama joined a spirited effort to jump start stalled global change talks with no new proposals, the president fell back on his efforts that he spearheaded to improve gas mileage and reduce tailpipe emissions. >> the united states has done more to promote clean energy and reduce carbon pollution in the last eight months than in any other time in our history. but the environmentalists here and european leaders here were frustrated mr. obama did not push hard harder for senate legislation that pushed for a 17% cut in greenhouse gases by 202o >> we have before us the choice of catastrophe or solution. we decide for our entire planet and what we will not decide is who will and won't follow us. >> china, the world's biggest polluter, for the first time pledgeed to reduce carbon intensity. that is a big term linked to cuts in carbon pollution and terms in economic growth

he's attacking the obama white house for the unusual use of defenders.d and ridiculed for eight years in his role as vice president. he's getting hit by john mccain with two advantages over cheney. one, he knows what it

. >>> the obamas white house wants to extend some key provisions of the patriot act that are scheduledexpire. they include giving the government authority to conduct wiretaps on suspected terrorists. >>> the colorado man at the center of a terror investigation in new york city said he is innocent. he has been under surveillance with a suspected plot to make homemade bombs. police did not find any bombs in queens when they raided his apartment. police departments are tbe on the lookout for bomb making materials. >>> a top military adviser is endorsing sending more troops to afghanistan. he said the war is growing more complicated and that winning will require more resources. president obama approve sending an additional 21,000 troops to the region. >>> a sea change. a new prime minister has been elected. he takes over for the man who stepped down earlier this morning. >>> we turn to linda bell for business headlines. >> even if you have good health insurance, it may be about to change. employers are planning to cut back on health care benefits next year. a survey shows 40% of employers

senate, democrats as well as the obama white house very much want to fill that seat. the obama administration says it's planned to restructure the bush administration's missile defense strategy in eastern europe will create a stronger and smarter approach and deploy the strategy sooner. but what implications are there for iran and for israel? here with us now is israel's ambassador to the united states, michael orrin. ambassador, thank you very much. let's first talk about ahmadinejad today, again, at a news briefing, denying the holocaust. how does that set the stage for his arrival in new york at the general assembly, and the likely reaction to him here in new york. >> one would hope that the reaction would be fitting. that he would be shunned. he would be condemned. he's called for wiping israel off of the map. denied the 6 million jews died during world war ii and threatened the continued existence in the jews in the state of israel today by supporting terrorist groups such as hamas and hezbollah. and by trying, he's striving to acquire nuclear military capabiliti

house of representatives has just passed the so-called dissolution of disapproval against the congressman who interrupted president obama's address to congress last week. south carolina republican joe wilson had already apologized to the white house for shouting "you lie!" to the president during the speech. the apology was accepted by president obama and wilson's supporters argued no further action was needed. a lengthy partisan debate preceded the house vote which ran mainly along partisan lines with most democrats voting in favor of rebuking congressman wilson and most republicans voting against it. the glenn beck program returns in a moment but first bret baier previews "special report." hi, bret. bret: coming up after the house just rebuked congressman joe wilson, there are more charges that most opposition to president obama's policies is due to race. we have that story, plus brit hume's analysis. join me at the top of the hour. noi back to glenn. glenn: america, things are moving so rapidly, i mean, i can barely keep up with the speed of it. we have a special hour tonight. more undercover tapes, apparently showing acorn workers helping, you know, another couple break the law, allegedly. we continue with the pimp and

obama held a moment of silence at the white house. nbc's mike viqueira is live at the white house. there have been a lot of these ceremonies over the years. anything particularly different about how to obama white house handled it today? >> well, the weather befitted the somber tone. it is his first observance. 8:46 a.m., the time when the first plane struck the world trade center. both mr. and mrs. obama appeared on the south lawn of the white house. the weather held up long enough for them to issue, to observe a moment of silence. they were joined by many of the white house staff. all of them donning their caps and standing in reverence for those who were lost on that day. then the president, a little later, got in his motorcade, made the trip across the river to the pentagon. you heard what he had to say at least in part there on the steps of the pentagon. he came back here. he was drenched incidentally when he went into the crowd and shook the hands of many of the men and women in uniform who were there observing that moment. he came back to the white house and then the presiden

if you are in the obama white house and remember dr. crowley worked for richard nixon. tuff work. you know how the seats of power work. obama got to find a way to stop the conservative media from marginalizing his administration. >> yes. you know how he does it? here is how he does it. he disavows acorn. he had no problem during the campaign throwing reverend wright under the bus. reverend wright very -- jones got thrown under and reverend wright, both of home have long-standing ties to acorn. has he got no problem doing. this far he has been sidelined on this. this is not a democratic scandal. this -- bill: i don't like acorn anymore. they are corrupt. you are not going to buy it you will say is he a craven politician. >> here is what he needs to do to stop the bleeding, that is he needs to direct his attorney general to go out and do a nationwide investigation. bill: ah-ha, there you go. >> have to respond to every right wing attempt to smear. bill: this is huge, colmes. >> respond to everything. >> this is a taxpayer scandal. >> he does not have to respond to every at

latest information we have, chris, according to a white house administration official, they told us that there was no conversation between president obamand zbomgovernor patersont did not deny, chris, and this is important, that the white house is concerned about the political situation in new york state and that those concerns -- >> dominic, that's something nobody asserted. the assertion was in "the new york times" he sent his operative, political operative, up to albany to make the case for him, deliver the goods. that's denying the -- that isn't denying anything. that's just bs basically. let me go here to michael smerconish. reminds me of the british taking over when they seem to be firing roger steriling. all of a sudden your name is not on the chart. who is this guy to come in and tell people, i'm governor patter zn, you're not governor anymore. i like this guy, cuomo, because he can beat giuliani and you can't. >> in the end of the 1960s, peggy will be running the sterling cooper ad agency. >> my idea of this guy, the president acting like the brits coming in and giving the orders is kind of stunning. reminds me of the new phras

. >> these nations have long sought diplomacy over the tough new sanctions the obama white house says it will pursue should iran refuse to give up what it calls an illicit nuclear weapons program. >> mr. sarcozy and mr. bound are not that important to us. what they say isn't very credible in our minds. >> under current rules, iran must tell the united nations where ahmadinejad spoke on wednesday when it decides to build a new facility like the one discovered 100 miles southwest of tehran. nations that don't expose this information violate non-proliferation rules. >> iran's decision to build yet another nuclear facility without notifying the iaea represents a direct challenge to the basic compact at the center of the non- proliferation regime. >> iran stepped up monday after it learned western intelligence was about to spring the news. u.s., brittish and french intelligence briefed the iaea yesterday in vienna. the president described in broad terms what he knew about the facility to russian president dimitry medvedev and chinese pred tao earlier this week at united nations, but the ha

that's what the obama white house is planning on tonight to change the tide of this debate.ret: stay tuned for a new look at the president's speech to schoolchildren. . @=h . (announcer) it's applebee's 2 for $20. the one deal in the neighborhood where you get the real food. featuring a half rack of our new double-glazed baby back ribs with your choice of sauces. get one full-sized appetizer and two real entrees for just twenty bucks. it's 2 for $20. only at applebee's. (announcer) what are you going to miss when you have an allergy attack? achoo! (announcer) benadryl is more effective than claritin at relieving your worst symptoms. and works when you need it most. benadryl. you can't pause life. bret: finally tonight, with all of the coverage and controversies surrounding the president's speech to school children, there was a lesson plan instructing students about how they could write -- how they could help president obama. but the lesson plan was dropped. some people may have missed the speech. >> i am here today because i have something important to discuss with you. i a

information that we have, chris, according to a white house administration official, they told us that there was no conversation between president obamad this is important, that the white house is concerned about the political situation in new york state and that those concerns -- >> that's denying something no one asserted. the assertion was he sent his political operative to albany to make the case for him. that's denying -- that's not denying anything. that's just bs. let me go here to michael. reminds me of the british taking over mad men when they seem to fire roger sterling. your name is not on the chart. you wonder what's going on. who is this guy to come in and tell people, governor paterson, you're not governor. i like this guy cuomo because he can beat giuliani and you can't. this is big stuff. >> when that series ends, peggy will run the stewart cooper ad agency. >> the president acting like the brits coming in giving orders is stunning. reminds me of the new phrase in politics which is called transactional politics. no more relationship politics. you're friends of the people you need to deal with that day. forget yesterday

picture," the white house again today tried to distance itself from former president jimmy carter's remarks that race is motivating some conservatives to launch attacks on president obamas secretary robert gibbs said the president doesn't believe race is a factor, but he is calling for more civil debate. >> i think what the president believes is we can have these type of very passionate debates but do so in a way that is civil and respectful of all of those that are participating in these debates, acknowledging a difference of opinion, even if that's not the opinion of which you come to that debate with. >> last night former president carter repeated once again his belief that president obama's skin collar is the driving force behind some of the criticism of the president. >> i think people that are guilty of that kind of personal attack against obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief he should not be president because he happens to be african-american. it's a racist attitude. >> in "the bigger picture" the national discussion about race and politics, comedian and actor bill cosby is weighing in. he says he agrees with former president carter's comment

>> the obama white house is brilliant when it comes to controlling the message. in this case, i think that the criticism is really unfounded. the fact that we just had somebody on the air crying because president obama was going to deliver an 18-minute speech is fascinating to me, that that would actually happen. the fact is he will deliver the speech. the initial lesson plan was a flaw. they should not have done that. but the text is going to be on the white house website tomorrow. if parents are concerned, feel free to go there and read the speech. but he is the president of the united nations, he should be delivering these speeches. >> all right. thank you for spending time with us this sunday evening. have a great labor day. >> you don't have to be in the school to catch the speech. we plan to carry the president's plan live on tuesday. >>> a big time pro football player, assaulting his girlfriend. >>> a phoenix pastor defies protesters outside his church. >>> practicing what they preach? a kentucky congregation says a convicted felon is no longer the risk to

obama. he's talking in front of the white house.d focus on what we're going to do that's positive for this country. we have a lot of work to do. we understand that. but we're still approaching this in the form of bipartisanship. we still, after all these months, have a place at the table for the republicans. we're going to do everything we can to work with them. we want a bipartisan bill. we do not want to do reconciliation unless we have no alternative. i think that -- i personally am in favor of public option. in my mind there's no question that the majority of -- i can't speak for the house caucus, but if i were betting i would think the majority of them also believe in the public option. we're going to do our very best to have a public option or something like a public option before we finish this work. >> why was there no place at the table for republicans today? >> i'm sorry? >> why were no republicans at the table today? >> you know, i think that we've had a large table on the finance committee, health committee, and the sena

bill: do you think obama even knew the guy who worked in the white house? >> absolutely i do. bill: how did you come to that? >> his -- i'm trying to remember her title. bill: valerie jarrett? >> she is a big cheese. she loves him. michelle obama loved him. bill: loved who? >> van jones. bill: how do you know? >> i read it in the paper. bill: what paper? >> i believe. bill: you believe what you read in the paper? you are telling me michelle obama loves van jones? >> michelle obama, it was quoted yesterday that michelle obama. it is from -- it may have been the huffington post, i'm not sure. but it was a lefty blog that said michelle obama was instrumental in getting him. and jarrett absolutely was. bill: jarrett was. we don't know about michelle obama. >> they vacationed together. bill: so your hypothesis, big word but i feel can you handle it. >> i can't spell it. bill: he is -- the president is a closet marxist? how far are you taking this? >> >> i don't know yet, bill. bill: but you are on the trail. >> i think americans need to ask themselves the question. bill, you're pres

don't let the social skills of the obama white house fool you. 101 republicans use twitter compared to7 democrats. you can see in this graph right here, this is senate and this is house republicans and these smaller slivers here for house and senate democrats. so republicans dominating twitter. this report found that during that two-week period, congressional republicansed 932 tweets compared with 255 for congressional democrats. and i want you to look at this graph. here's what they were tweeting about. the vast majority of the things that these senators and representatives were tweeting about were press articles or links to press articles in their websites instead of tweeting about a specific issue. i know you are dying to know who's the most influential politician on twitter. any idea. >> you would think it would be the president but i guess not. >> no. it is congressman joe wilson from south carolina made famous when he shouted you lie at the president during his health care reform speech to congress. there you have it. joe wilson taking the cake. if you want to see the full report

the white house changed it because they had criticism. it seems to be a pattern with the obamaements like health care when the president said he was in favor of a single-payer plan and now saying it's for a public option and now maybe for a trigger mechanism. they will change depending on the criticism they receive. >> let's spoeds they left it in, encouraged students in an optional plan for teachers to tell students, hey, look, write down the ways you can help president obama achieve the educational goals of this country. richard goodstein, is that controversial? >> well, that's what bush the elder did, exactly. exactly to a "t." the notion this number of years later that would become this firestorm. incidentally this wasn't a firestorm. this was a match that was looked at through a magnifying lens. there was no firestorm here. i guarantee you there wasn't a participant in th parent in this country who doesn't listen to rush limbaugh daily who objected to this. no sane-thinking person would. the suggest was unobjectionable. we hear the objections coming from people on the righ

>> the obama white house is brilliant in controlling the message. in this case i think the criticism is unfounded. the fact we just had somebody on our air crying because president obama was going to deliver an 18-minute speech is just fascinating to me it would happen. look, the fact is he's going to deliver a speech. the initial lesson plan was, in fact, a flaw. they shouldn't have done that. the text is going to be on the white house website tomorrow. if parents are concerned, feel free to go there and read the speech. the fact is he's the president of the united states, richard. he should be delivering these speeches. >> mark preston, the political editor and mary mitchell from the chicago sun times. thanks for spending time with us and have a great labor day. >> thank you. >> you don't have to be in a school by the way to catch the president's speech to the kids. f tune in to cnn. we will carry it live. >>> a big-time pro football player charged with assaulting his reality star girlfriend. we'll tell you what happened here. >>> a week after pray

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does acorn have connections inside the obama white house. >> how often do you talk to the president? >> i've talked to the president since i've been here once. sean: a shocking revelation from the top u.s. commander in afghanistan. >> you want to prosecute a member of the bush administration? >> yes, it's about time somebody did. sean: nbc's "law & order" gets political. all that, dick morris and bobby jindal. a busy monday, "hannity" starts right now. sean: former president bill clinton is still playing the victim after all these years. yesterday during an appearance on "meet the press" the former president announced the vast right-wing conspiracy is alive and well but this time around there's a brand-new target. take a look. >> your wife famously talked about the vast right-wing conspiracy targeting you. did you look the at the thought position on the right to president obama, is it still there? >> oh, you bet. sure it is. it's not as strong as it was because america changed demographically but it's as virulent as it was. they're saying things about him, like when they accused me o