president obama today told the u.n. general assembly here that america is seeking new engamement with the world, to find a global response to global challenges. senior white house correspondent major garrett reports on a speech that was heavy on criticism, including some of the united states. >> president obama's first speech to the united nations general assembly openly acknowledged past grievances against the bush white house >> but added the days of reflective anti-americannism in the world body must end. >> after all, it is easy to walk up to this podium and point fingers and stoke divisions. anybody can do that. responsibility and leadership in the 21st century demand more. >> to a degree, mr. obama legitimized anti-bush sentiments. >> part of this was due to opposition to specific policies, and a belief that on certain critical issues america had acted unilaterally without regard for the interests are of others. >> then mr. obama appealed for new diplomatic cooperation based on his moves to ban torture, reduce gre

i vot for obama. the nature of power attracts those who should not have it. >> guest: dual cizenship of rahm emanuel? it doesn't bother m >> host: the next call is john from sumpter south carolina. good morning. >> caller: good morning, good morning,ood morning. c-span i think you need to do a little better job. everybody opinions and this young ladyeeds to be on booktv, not c-span. let me make my comments. if she is so worried about this and worried about that, why the book? stating that hey, health care and all that other good sff, put it out and let the people vote on it instead going through all of these changes. if you don't like somebody that has been in office all these years and doing all this gre stuff, what the people vote on term limits. you are sitting there going on and on. put me on, let me voice my opinion. >> host: you are on right no and we appreciate it. did you have a question? >> caller: yes, that was it. >> host: john, thank you. >> guest: call i will say is i'm really glad after

it, obama is van jones. obama is acorn. >> oh, no. >> hang on. you guys are done playing his tithes to acorn. these ties to obama and acorn are deep and long standing. not just representing themes as a lawyer. he partnered with him in 1982 for vote project in chicago. became an acorn trainer. >> not true. >> acorn fanned out for his campaigns in 1996 and 2000 in the state of illinois. >> absolutely. >> last year as well. also remember that during the presidential campaign last year he told acorn point blank, you will have, quote, a seat at the table in my administration. so let's not down play the fact. bill: he likes them. >> very proud of being a community organizer. that was acorn. bill: people can make up their own minds at home whether obama and acorn have an association that's worth -- smart enough to do that. but the big story, colmes, is that the right wing media, the conservative media in this country has found a way to marginalize the president of the united states. >> they need to be called out on

obama pointed to a u.n. conference in december as a place to cement global climate change commitment. >> my hope is that we have show leadership so that by the time the international conference takes place in copenhagen that the united states has shown itself committed and ready to do its part. >> but mr. obama's unrelenting healthcare push has knocked climate change off schedule. >> healthcare has taken off more time than originally anticipated. >> tom obama advisors see the u.n. conference now failing to solve many key issues. >> there willing elements and significant details that won't be done yet. >> this realization pervadeed today's proceedings, lending to them an air of gloom. >> failure to reach full agreements in copenhagen would be morally inexcusable. >> if you're not uk sesful in doing so, we will face total disaster. >> when you wipe away all the rhetoric, climate change is about enforceable pollution limits, and on this europe and the white house disagree. europe wants a target based on 1990 le

president obama,.42 members of the congressional black caucus were called by us over the last 48 hours, not one of them would come on sand say what you are saying. have you irresponsibility across the border here. you know, you don't have jesse jackson or al sharpton or any of these people sticking up saying this is wrong. you are saying it. but very few other people are saying it, counselor. >> i think there are some loud voices out there on the other side. perhaps they are reacting to those voices. but i think you need to find the same middle. and that needs to be the loudest voice in the room. bill: all right. barack obama on sunday can say, hey, knock it off. that's what he can say. and he should. >> i agree with you. absolutely. bill: plenty more ahead as the factor moves along from washington this evening. what were the dumbest said this week. we have a long list. glenn beck on the cover of "time" magazine and the subject of a dnc advertisement. >> the economic czar, border czar, homeland securit

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obama is a challenge. >> barack obama is not easy to do jokes about. he doesn't give you a lot to go on. this is why god gave us joe biden. [laughter] chris: but along with obama's drop in the polls, he's looking more vulnerable to the comics. most of them are lefties of course and so they're starting to see -- starting to see them zing obama for being too cautious. too prudent. here's dana carvey on "the tonight show." >> i'm worried about, you know, that the economy kind of had a heart attack but barack still wants to work on the knee. "we are going to fix this knee." should we do c.p.r.? we can do c.p.r. when it's efficient and cost effective. but right now, we're going to work on the meniscus. chris: that's really good. and as for john stewart he's looking back, not so fondly at the way obama's handled health care strategy. >> i'm confident that both the house and the senate are going to produce a bill before the august recess. >> before the august recess? you are adorable. the simple naivete of a new president as pure as the driven snow. this pres

president obama falling quickly. obama faces incredible charges.ining us from new haven connecticut. brit hume. are you surprised now the president is below 50% 59. are you surprised that they are falling so fast and continue to fall? >>. no i'm really not surprised, bill, for this reason. the president is try trying to enact a set of left of center policies in a right of center country. and the country will overlook that and forgive that if the results that the president is getting from whatever his policies are are seen as good. the issue the public most cares about is the economy. the policies the president has put in place perhaps they have not had time to take effect. they have not amill rated the situation. the unemployment rate continues to rise. this is what they said in poll after poll and continue to say top priority. he appears at the public to be working on another set of priorities. this kind of political difficulty is not surprising. bill: but in the economy, you don't see what -- too many people screaming and yelling about it because

obama's responsible move. the two leaders meet in new york at the u.n. general assembly next week and mr. obama is hoping mr. medvedev will back stronger sanctions on iran to stop its nuclear program. but in this three-dimensional, diplomatic chess game, medvedev's praise could backfire for obama, creating the impression he's caving in to the russian pressure. though russia might benefit from mr. obama's decision, a senior administration official claims that potential benefit was not factored into this decision. the vice chairman of the joint chiefs agrees and says this decision was driven by cost savings and being able to have a more nimble reaction to the real threat of short and medium-range missiles. lou? >> thank you very much. >>> well, president obama's call to kill the missile shield program could give more ammunition to his critics who say he has become far too friendly with the wrong people. just last week the obama administration agreed to talks with iran and north korea. earlier this year president obama very publicly shook hands with the ant

president obama did not stay in the hall to hear it. afterwards, some of the delegates and visiting heads of state gave their reaction to what they heard from the u.s. president. tono eitel, the former german ambassador to the u.n. >> i think he is right there too, of course. it's not that everybody else is perfect and it's just the u.s. who have to-- i don't know-- change or improve. no, no. we all have. there is no doubt. >> reporter: but venezuelan president hugo chavez had a different reaction saying he saw two obamas. >> ( translated ): there is the obama of his speech of today. and it was an excellent speech and that is the obama we applaud. but there's another reality. >> reporter: and russian president dmitri medvedev had his own informal, reaction. >> good speech, excellent. >> reporter: late in the day, president obama met with medvedev. aides said the number one topic was forging a common approach on dealing with iran's nuclear program. >> our task is to allow iran to speech, and the foreign minister replied with a smirk, "di

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bill: i brought up that obama had some acorn ties, but i did not hammer obama.ad said that you would have hung around with them, too, if they were getting the vote out and on your team. they would do that if they did not know that acorn is corrupt, and you have to assume innocence in this country, but once you get it away from tax dollars, corruption, which everyone agrees is wrong, he even barney frank before you, and even barney frank, all right -- is wrong, even barney frank before you, even barney frank, and i had to drag it out of him, but, yes, the spirit of what those two did, the civilian journalists did, he admires them, and i really had to drag it out of him, but once you get into it is the fault of the democrats or republicans, then, wham, it goes. >> and then is guilt by association. there are five points that the american people want out of washington. number one, first and foremost, accountability. they want people to say what they mean and mean what they say. number two, respect, which is why these people are canceling the town meetings are making

>> 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 president of the united states. would you have a man who was a self-avowed communist? bill: no, i wouldn't. >> who said i would rather lose the radical pose for the ends. bill: here is what did it for me. i don't care about the dopey far left politics. when he signed that petition about 9/11. that eliminates him from public service. bill: i don't understand that america, when did we stop caring about communism? >> because communism is no

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>> these people are who obama is. say look -- sean: oh, yeah, i was abused too. >> but we knew nothing about him except his associations. >> and that's the point. a lot of times people tried to warn everybody you do not know what you're getting. this is a jack in the box surprise and now we're just discovering what's coming out. >> we know barack obama was a community organizers. these are the kinds of people you meet when you're a community organizers. i've harped on this so many times. we're the people that actually create jobs and you got these nut cases telling businessmen how to run their businesses. they've never melt a payroll or -- sean: are all of you surprised as i am that he knows their background, the information we gathered for this special tonight is available on google now. in their old books. >> you can google it and find out sean: that's the point. not like i had to do deep investigative reporting. >> von -- van jones was not alger hiss. he was out there being van jones for more than a decade. >> it s

obama is a bigger superstar than him. this is an electorate of 100 plus members of the international olympic committee. when you are lobbying someone who knows what will turn them on in the end. i talked to mayor daley about this. they are happy mrs. obama is leading the delegation. >> just when you thought you would have an advantage with oprah because she is a big advocate, you have the obamas. an incredible combination of people out of chicago rallying for their hometown. what do we know about where the process stands right now? is chicago the front-runner? i know they have elaborate plans, close to the president's home. >> reporter: he likes to say it is a few blocks from where he lives. a lot of these venues will be in chicago all over the place which they think is a selling point so you don't have to go miles away. right now i think there is no absolute clear cut front-runner heads and shoulders above. one of the things the president is doing even if he isn't going is making phone calls to people from various countr

he is a wing nut, but you got a guy like that praising obama and the question is does president obama think by speaking out to these people and they're appealing to his very -- the very leftist president obama that we have right now, does he really expect these guys to get together and act like grownups and actually get something done? because that's the message -- sean: i don't think he recognizes that evil exists. i think -- i think he thinks he can read his teleprompter and convince the world to go along with him. otherwise, why would he talk about getting rid of -- imagining a world without nuclear weapons. i would love it but it's not going to happen it. >> the pursuit of happiness. we have a long history in this country of believing peace comes through strength and that is not the philosophy of president obama. sean: that's not the terrorists. last word. >> last word, naffs a very, very self--- that was a very, very self-important speech and a lot of it was about president obama and speaking to the world. sean: good to see you. thanks for being here. and you won't believe what m

he is obama's guy.y fired his predecessor, general mckiernen because they didn't think he was doing a good job, so they brought in mcchrystal. what is mcchrystal's backimrowndz? mcchrystal was the ultimate search and destroy guy in iraq. bret: special operations. >> special operations. you have your troops, send them out on missions every day and bring them back into the post in the evening. it is the opposite of counterinsurgency, but counterinsurgency is not mcchrystal's thing. it was search and destroy, which was failing in iraq. then the policy was changed and they brought in counterinsurgency to protect the population. it worked. mcchrystal, in particular, to come now and say the solution here is a counterinsurgency strategy that is bigger and stronger than the one that the president had decided on back in march is quite a change for mcchrystal to believe that, it means that -- i mean, i think that just adds so much emphasis and credibility to his request. bret: how long does it take before this st

ahead of president obama's speech, the n.e.a. wrote "we applaud president obama for delivering this message to students." we don't know how much today's events cost taxpayers. if you haven't been counting the number of speeches president obama has delivered, cbs's mark knoller has. today's address was the 263rd speech or set of remarks delivered by president obama since he took office only 231 days ago. that's 32 more speeches than days he served. as brit mentioned earlier, president obama has delivered 28 speeches specifically on the issue of healthcare, but if you include all remarks in which he mentioned healthcare reform, that number jumps to 121. meanwhile, former top campaign advisor for the president says he wants a little less talk and a lot more action from his old boss. former deputy campaign manager steve hildebrand tells the politico "i am one of the millions of frustrated americans who want to see washington do more than it's doing now. i'm one of the many americans who are losing patience." by far the most senior me

president obama has played down talk of a troop surge in the country. he says there is no decision pending but the top commander on the ground, general stanley mcchrystal, had delivered a brief -- bleak assessment and urging a new approach based on counterinsurgency, involving large number of troops. our reporter went to the north to see how the ideas are in action. >> u.s. soldiers are on a foot patrol. their new strategy talks about putting the afghan people first. it is not just about finding the enemy now, it is about finding and keeping friends. in this village, there is a warm welcome. >> how are you? >> good, how were you? >> they know a bit of each other's language. lt. chuck anderson quickly removes his home at -- helmet, and sunglasses. this 24-year-old from america has a big job. he is one of the many new faces of counter insurgency, and that is the point. it is face to face. he lists -- they list the problems here. no school, know well that they were promised. >> it is never good when people promise and it doesn't go through. >> this war has

barack obama owns this cabinet of tax cheats, crooks and cronies. it is his and his alone, judge him by the company he keeps. >> guest: yeah, that's exactly right. i have to thank david brooks for helping inspire this book. the introduction to culture of corruption opens up with a column that he had written not long after the election day and to sort of foretell this clique of achietrons he called them and how phenomenally he was pressed that obama had brought with him the best of the washington insiders. he praised their ivy league pedigrees and really this is sort of a repeat of, you know, this idea that somehow these smarty pants were going to come in and change washington. well, it didn't take long before the obama administration sabused us of that notion in a very big way. and i go through all of the botched nominations and then a lot of the nominationshat actually went through barely by the skin of their teeth. obviously tim geithner comes to mie.d everybody knows about him, but there are many, manythers that i document, and i think one of the

death. >> i hate barack obama.what he stands for. no, i hate the person. >> this weekend, protesters arrived but is there more that can be done? >>> plus the cinderella story at the u.s. open. and the other things we thought you should know. all this hour on msnbc. >>> good afternoon, everyone, i'm tom ran hall live in new york. >> i'm david shuster live in washington. congress is back at work today and in the big picture there have been fast-moving developments this afternoon involving negotiations over health care reform. within the past hour a crucial bipartisan senate panel known as the gang of six started meets face to face and reportedly discussing a plan by democratic chair max baucus. the baucus plan would help uninsured americans get coverage. it would not include a public option. baucus has been trying for months to attract the support of the top republican, chuck grassley. grassley mischaracterized how reform would address end of life care. >> between government running everything and paying a doctor to

president obama chaired the u.n.urity council, the first american president to do so today, and also won unanimous support for a legislation urging a nuclear-free world starting with america, but the problem is that resolution is non-binding, so what was accomplished today and what about the speechs? let's bring in the panel. steve hayes with "the weekly standard" and a.b. stoddard of the hill and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. charles, the president spoke today and today he was at the u.n. security council. what did he accomplish? >> nothing. this is surreal. as we speak, the irraunians -- the iranians are developing uranium and the american delegate at iaea announces that iran has enough uranium to construct a bomb. they are testing miss missiles, flouting all u.n. resolutions as are the north koreans and the response of america, the president of the united states, on camera, of course, presides over a perfectly useless meeting of the security council and passes a perfectly useless resolution airly decl

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look, father lennon and barack obama are different. barack obama is president of the united states.cute, they're singing. they're innocent. i laughed my head off when i saw the thing on the web. i'll tell you this, i think the teacher comes right out -- she had these kids working it quite perfectly. it's either that or this is the opening of daycare center at mother jones magazine. >> david, your turn on that one. >> well, maybe we could use a sideline enterprise here. i don't think anybody can defend this. what i find funny is that on a day we discover there's iranian secret nuclear facility, you know, barack obama was up at the u.n. talking about securing loose nukes. we have 47 million people unemployed, still have an economy that's teetering and conservative bloggers are getting worked up about this one classroom? a, it shouldn't have happened. the teachers should be teaching them maybe about grover cleveland. you know, path buchanan's favorite president. you know, it shouldn't have happened. end of story. not everything, not everything that appears on the internet has to be a b

we are talking about president obama and his wife, michele obama. there's a new book coming out by christopher andersen. he also did a book on george bush and laurel bush. this book is looking at the first lady's influence on her husband. for example, according to anderson, he said mrs. obama said to go with joe biden and skip hillary clinton. also that she was very supportive of the campaign slogan. anderson said the president thought it was kind of corny and it also talks about her concerns that their marriage would not survive his political ambition, which i'm sure every powerful political couple has had those kind of concerns. it will be excerpted in tomorrow's "new york daily news." martha: i'd like it. i'm always baffled by people who think that women do not have a big influence in their husband'' careers. it is probably pretty interesting. he has written some very interesting biographies in the past. trace: we are following this terror investigation that led to three arrests over the weekend. there's new information on the plot the . [caption

but is it time for the obama-thon to end? some outrage when an elementary school make young students sing praises for the president. >> i'm so upset that my child is being use this had way. >> did the mainstream media ignore the controversy? and just when you thought you've heard it all. >> i woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father. >> on the panel this week, patricia murphy, a columnist for politics daily. jim pinkerton fellow at the new american foundation and keir sten powers, analyst and new york post columnist, i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now >> i said we should be going into afghanistan. but that's where bin laden is, that's the central front on terrorism and slipping back because we haven't stayed focused on it. we need some troops there not in iraq. >> that was candidate obama on the campaign trail in 2008, but he was saying something completely different last sunday. >> until i'm satisfied that we've got the right strategy, i'm not going to be sending some young m

the american taxpayers are the jews for obama's oven. chairman mau obama. i can make the same argument unfair as yours if i were to take the new black panther party and say look at these guys, look at their signs, their activities their rhetoric. look at louis farrakhan and then apply that to the whole african-american community. that would be wrong and it would be -- look, you are a law professor. >> bill, that's outrageous. bill: you could make the point. >> you have american senators that are members on the council for conservative citizens, former citizens that were members of the ku klux klan. we have a whole right wing media base starting with -- bill: you teach law. the law is based on logic. i don't see the logic in saying that attacks on barack obama, ok, all of them, i think the kook minority, you know, 10%, of the kooks, you know, do give the impression of racism. they probably are racist. that's not the bulk of what is going on. it's not the bulk of what's going on. >> bill, listen, i can't believe that you admitted that 10% of the right wing ba

president obama the sunday morning guy.s you may know the president did a number of interviews yesterday, all the big networks except for fox. apparently the obama administration is angry with us and shut chris wallace out. >> these guys, everything is personal. i have got to tell you. >> everything. >> they are the biggest bunch of cry babies i have dealt with in my 30 years in washington. they constantly are on the phone or emailing me complaining. bill: well, the sunday interviews themselves or it's sleepy nobody asked about fired radical jones and only one question about the acorn scandal. >> how about the funding for acorn. >> frankly, it's not really something i followed closely, i didn't even know that acorn was getting a whole lot of federal money. >> the senate and the house have voted to cut it off. >> what i know is what i saw on that video was certainly inappropriate and deserves to be -- >> -- you are not committing to cut off the federal funding. >> george, this is not the biggest issue facing the country. it'

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more chaos over obama care and the economy. that is the subject of this evening's "talking points memo." kathleen sebelius said that the public-option health care is not needed. they may be backing away from government-run health care. however, within hours, the white house said that ms. kathleen sebelius misspoke. she is not the type of perçgk-u@ misspeak. she is often robotic in the way she speaks. howard dean and paul krugman went crazy. the feds could then shift resources to the poor and away from corporations and the and it is important that you understand the whole controversy is not about health care. it is about socialism. "talking points" watched the president over the weekend, and once again, i had no idea what he was talking about. he went on and on about stuff that seemingly only here understands. kind of like a poltergeist. he can see it. nobody else can. so here is the zero died -- the idea. he has to come up with five bullet points that even i have to be able to understand, five points that clearly tell us what o

post obama speech reaction. here is what was said on bs abc nightline last night. >> i think it was the most emotional i have ever seen president obama in a major speech. his anger at the tone and tactics of his opponents was very palpable tonight. and he even seemed to get caught up in the emotion of the moment towards the end of the speech. bill: joining us now from d.c. is abc news chief washington correspondent george stephanopoulos host of "this week" on sunday. >> hey, bill. bill: why would obama be angry with people who oppose his vision because, number one, he can't explain it be, has not explained it still specifically and, number two there are at love points where people say we don't want government running this it might bankrupt the country why would he be mad? >> he is mad about some of the illegitimate criticisms that have been made and he addressed them in the middle of the speech when he took on the claims of death panels and whether his plan would serve illegal immigrants and whether it would req

gretchen: president carter or president obama. >> president obama says it's cat nip.: the problem for the president the whole thing carter has started has knocked him completely off message. however, yesterday on the talk shows michael steele was out there. and, in fact, the rnc, the republican national committee sent out a press release that talked about if it is sunday, it's, what was it, it's misleading the press. however, here is michael steele responding to obama or taxes or if you want to call them fees. >> we want to do it in a step-by-step, common sense approach. bottom-up, patient-doctor centered. focus on approach tort reform. i don't need to overhaul the whole system to do the things i just said. this administration is bent on reforming the entire system. whether you are talking the baucus bill house bill 3200 or whatever bill the administration finally settles on taxes are going to go up for the middle class because that's the only way you pay for this. steve: fees, michael. gretchen: mitt romney will be here to talk about the health plan he implemented in

obama would be the first u.s.nt to lobby in person, norah, before the international olympic committee. he's bringing a powerful entourage with him, including, of course, the first lady, cabinet secretary, and senior advisers, and, yeah, somebody named oprah winfrey. joining us now, msnbc contributor jim warren. thanks for joining us. okay. so having the president there, many are saying that means chicago has gotten the olympics for 2016. that there is no way the president would go over and be embarrassed by not securing it. that's what the rumors are. >> first of all, you guys are underestimating the olympic potency of ray lahood, the transportation security. >> that's one of the big topics in chicago. can chicago's transportation system handle that? with, you know, with that said -- >> offer to build a few new viaducts and bridges for some of those olympic voters. there's no way that they know any sort of fix is in if he shows up. there's a certain element of risk here. norah and tamron, this is unusual. there's

barack obama is saying, let's get going. this is not a time to negotiate about the size of the table, this is time to get moving, but what leverage does he have. >> the entire foreign policy doctrine, he won't describe it this way. i believe that he, himself, has an ability that he can get, this is a photo-op and what the israelis have described it privately but they felt the need to give this to the president. so -- >> forced to do nothing. >> that's right. the white house will say, hey, that in itself is a victory. the fact that we force the photo-op. at least it's a beginning, but i tell you, not much to hang your hat on. we'll see. i think the next two or three months what the follow-up is going to be. you don't have -- didn't seem like an optimistic george mitchell the united states/middle east special honor. he came back empty handed and they're trying to make a big deal by just having the meeting and the israelis they'll take this strong stance until they know abbas speaks for all palestinians. they don't trust abbas

obama!rack hussein obama mmm mmm he makes sure everybody gets a chance mmm mmm mmm barack hussein obama yeah barack hussein obama ♪ bret: we can't sing christmas carols! all are equal in his sight. you know, hi to look at the lyrics this morning. i got this and looked at the lyrics to see if the h in "his" is cap capitalized. i don't know who we are yourshipping anymore. it is in church. did they capitalize the script? some would say this is a crazy teacher. i would agree with that if the pez had worked so hard in make molding his image, making it all about him. i read in the speeches that that barack obama has given, he mentions himself every 16 seconds. i have to look that one up, because that cannot be true. i mean, you know, he did have the "hope" poster that i loved so much. put your hope in america. in america. in the system. george george washington would slap us all across the face. we don't put our hope in a president in the individual. we put our hope in god. now we're putting it i