rahm emanuel. on president obama, mitt romney, and the battle for the white house. >> if it was up to mitt romney, we wouldn't have an auto industry. >> the bare knuckle politics, his bold plan for keeping america great, and his new battle for world peace. >> i wanted kids to have this opportunity to speak and learn from people who stood up and made a difference. >>> also the passion of sean penn. he puts his life on the line for causes. >> i am pro-american in the sense of the constitution of america. >> tonight sean penn on politics and the movie business. and i take him to task about these outrageous comments. >>> also a guy named world peace does something unpeaceful. this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening. i'm in chicago. where nobel peace prize winners are gathering. they're all here to promote global peace and how one person can make a difference. our big story tonight, the exclusive with rahm emanuel. better known for his take no prisoners style. as president obama's former white

rahm emanuel. we're here at von stuben high school, one of several chicago schools where mayor emanuel has brought nobel peace prize winners to speak with students. he joins me now for a primetime exclusive. mr. mayor, welcome. or rather thank you for welcoming me. are you aware of the history of this school? baron von stuben. >> are you aware of the history? >> i'm aware he was george washington's ruthless chief of staff. >> right. >> and therefore personally responsible for annihilating a lot of brits. >> von steuben did -- actually was in the army, as you know. he was also -- hamilton has a view of whether he was not in fact washington's chief of staff. obviously the history you're missing is my mother graduated from here. >> oh, really? >> yeah. so there's more than just the history of the name of the school. and if i didn't mention that, it would be a long year for me. >> you were born in chicago. you went to school here. and as you just told me -- >> chicago area, yeah. >> and your mother went

rahm emanuel. better known for his take no prisoners style. as president obama's former white house chief of staff. tonight he's talking about keeping america great starting with his hometown of chicago. and an interview later with sean penn. he's being honored here for his commitment about human rights. listen to what he says about that. >> i've got a better gras grasp that i'll be able to take the things i've been affected by there and perhaps they'll fit into the work i do elsewhere. >> our big story tonight. rahm emanuel. we're here at one of several chicago schools where emanuel has brought nobel peace prize winners to speak to students. welcome. or rather thank you for welcoming me. are you aware of the history of this school? barron vonn stubin? >> are you aware? >> i'm aware he was george washington's ruthless chief of staff and was responsible for annihilating a lot of brits. >> vonn stubin was in the army. hamilton has a view of whether he was in fact part. but part you're missing is my mo

he is going to be introducing rahm emanuel, but rahm emanuel and i have been friends for at this pointyears. we met when he was just married and before he and his wife had three spectacular children. and i will only say that, you know, in politics, it's often important to have what's called as a rabbi. a rabbi is someone not just a spiritual leader but a rabbi who guides you through things, is able to sort of give you private -- and counsel and coaching so that -- and rahm was very help informal my very first appointment with president clinton at the small business administration. and i just felt fortunate not only to have a rabbi in rahm emanuel but to have a jewish rabbi, because i thought that lent it even greater credibility, the fact that he was my rabbi. he is going to be speaking to you this morning, and we are working closely with the city of chicago. we have an office there. and i want to call you rahm, not just mayor emanuel, but rahm is very much looking at chicago as a point of export and engaging in the rest of the world. you know, we see that in many port cities like new

rahm emanuel is a political hack. his attitude is, we have to win by any means necessary. we have to get something through. we just have to win. we have to get this thing passed. all that goes against your earlier arguments. things really are that bad, if the situation is that dyer, then go for what you need. go for broke and let them talk you down, but you don't negotiate against yourself. i am just a guy on public television, but i don't get how you put all of those things together and have any sympathy for what happened. >> i agree, your point about brain iness is right on target. larry summers was seen as such a heavy weight, possibly the most brilliant economist of his generation. obama really was taken with that. he absolutely was. the problem with obama and rahm emanuel and the other political advisers, they did not understand that when larry summers said something, they just assumed it was the best economic judgment that a president could have. in fact, he was distorting that economic judgment with the political judgment he was adding on. whatever you think about l

please help me welcome to the podium chicago mayor rahm emanuel. ex. >> thank you, mr. secretary. i want to thank you for those kind words. it's moments like that you wish your parents were here because you know your mother would be proud and your father would be amazed. i also want to say to fred -- or i'll just stay with fred and rahm. we'll go there, since we've known each other for 20 years. i think right now there are rabbis across america gulping. they're seeing if they can raise the standard of entry to become part of the rabbinical faith, let alone the teachings. and i'm sure they would think since rabbis do teaching, i'm sure they'll be shocked at what i'm teaching. so thank you, both of you, for those kind words and for the opportunity to speak and address i think a very, very important topic. let me say up front one thing now that i'm no longer part of washington back home in chicago. and that is also a person who for two presidents helped on major trade pacts. one of my stints when i worked for president clinton was helping with bill dailey see nafta through completion

he will introduce rahm emanuel. rahm emanuel and i have been friends for 19 years. we met just before he was married, and he and his wife had three spectacular children. i will only say that in politics it is often important to have a rabbi, not just the spiritual leader, but someone that is able to guide you through things, did you council and coaching, and rahm emanuel was very helpful in my first appointment with president clinton at the small business administration. i felt fortunate not going to have a rabbi in rahm emanuel, but to have a jewish rabbi, which led to greater credibility. he will be speaking to you this morning. we are working closely with the city of chicago. we have an office there. rahm emanuel is very much looking at chicago has a point of export, is engaging in the rest of the world. we see that in port cities like new york, seattle, and he is taking in exporting to a hold of our level in chicago. without further ado, let me bring out my good friend and colleague, john bryson, secretary of commerce. [applause] [captions copyright national cab

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protestors want mayor rahm emanuel keep the clinics open.ned a protest and news conference today outside his campaign headquarters downtown. sports and shopping!! a new multi-million dollar retail space is unveiled for outside the united center. crain's chicago business reports -- bulls owner jerry reinsdorf and blackhawks owner rocky wirtz want to build a *260-thousand* square foot retail building. restaurants, bars and stores would be housed inside the facility. the development would be built on the lot east of the arena ... at a cost of up to *85- million* dollars. crain's says united center's owners are ready to start talks with the city and state. in medical watch.. pediatricians are being urged to explore possible links between bad behavior and mental illness. at the american academy of pediatrics meeting in boston.. the head of the national institute of mental health said pediatricians are the first line of defense. screening can detect mental disorders early, and ensure that children receive treatment as soon as possible. the world h

. >> mayor rahm emanuel's marked earth today the by showing off his green thumb today... he helped to plant a tree this morning... it was the first of $20,000 worth of trees awarded to chicago for winning the siemens sustainable cities award. the trees will be planted in neighborhoods across the city. however it was not all celebration of the event was interrupted by protesters angry over budget cuts that will force the closing of six mental-health centers a. >> still to come, he was one of the first missing children to be placed on the back of the milk carton. more than 30 years later police conduct a new search... >> also a power shift may be on the horizon in france and the president could soon be out of... >> he is consistently said he would not be the vice president... now marco rubio appears to be changing his tune... >> another chilly day in chicago... tomorrow we are issuing a freeze a warning... break ha investigators are searching a manhattan apartment for clues in a decade old missing child case have discovered a possible blood stain... 6 year-old disappeared i

>>two days before opening day at wrigley field mayor rahm emanuel saying the city is close to reaching an agreement with the owners of the chicago cubs to give the 98 year old ballpark a facelift. >>we're in the final stages of some good conversations. >>conversations that have been going on for a long time. the ricketts family bought the cubs in 09 and have supported a plan to use city and county amusement tax revenue, collected from ticket sales to pay for the renovations. at a panel discussion tonight sponsored by loyola university at the union league club tom ricketts outlined his family's goals for the team. >>to renovate and modernize the ballpark. >>but, he woudn't talk with us about the negotiations. a cubs spokesperson issued this statement saying: >>we continue to have discussions with the city, state, county and our wrigleyville neighbors to ensure wrigley field remains a leading source of tourism, tax revenue and employment. we know efforts like these take time and we will continue to work hard to reach a consensus. >>sentiments echoed by the president of the cook coumty bo

in addition we have chicago mayor rahm emanuel being sam cody, from nigeria we have vice president sambeau and many others. i'd like to introduce a friend of mine, a woman who has been his key liaison to the business community and a woman who has worked closely with ex-im and has been an champion for us inside the administration and without and let me introduce and bring to the stage valerie jarrett. [ applause ] >> well, good morning, everyone. how you doing out there? you look fantastic. i'm delighted to be here on behalf of president obama. i want to thank fred for that introduction and for his presentation and for his amazing leadership. how about a round of applause for fred. i'd also like to thank the board members of ex-im, members of the diplomatic community, business leaders from the united states and over 40 countries who are here today. good morning one and all. the american business community represents a few of the many companies who have worked so hard to develop the level playing field that fred mentioned. ray dziuk are -- zuckerman developed his company. he moved his busine

rahm he will newly -- rahm emanuel is remarkably talented. colorful and in the words of "new york times" columnist david brooks, in a column he titled "an appreciation of rahm," he is always passionately promoting some policy idea, something he cares deeply about and deeply believes in. rahm was born and raised in chicago. he became active in local and state politics. tame to washington as a senior -- came to washington as a senior advisor in the clinton white house and served three terms in the congress and as all of you know he went ton become the white house chief of staff -- went on to become the white house chief of staff for our president, president obama, where he did truly remarkable things. during his tenure, he helped orchestrate the passage of key milestones. such as the economic recovery act, wall street reform, health care reform, and increasing access and decreasing costs for millions of americans. he played a crucial role in securing a bipartisan compromise that saved 140,000 teachers' jobs. then as we all know, in 2011, he was

stations judy wang is an rogers park with more on that story this announcement comes from mayor rahm emanuel, the governor and u.s. senator dick durbin several stations are getting a facelift including the morris avenue stop delta 1908 ... it's time for a facelift and modernization it's time to give the people on the red line with the people on the brown line have received there are seven stations on the list to be rehabilitated the cta says these are the oldest and in most need of repair their willoughby's several improvements made to the station laid out in some cases as well as tracks lighting windows and platforms this could create 250 construction jobs >>if you're able-bodied did you are breathing we want you working in illinois and that's what we plan to do via the revival of the transportation system projects >>i am thinking about the cta the art g-8 metro and amtrak and what it means to families across the state we have to keep our commitment to infrastructure of america has a vision for this 21st century to lead the world this senator serves on a panel trying to work out differences

. >> this is a tough holiday for rahm emanuel, because he's not used to saying the word "day" after mother>> very funny stuff. tonight it's all about the jokes and one liners and most of all, most of it at the expense of the politicians and the expense of the president. one consistent source of material, vice president joe biden. take a listen to his latest. >> i promise you, the president has a big stick. >> very funny stuff. okay, wait until you hear what comedienne loni love had to say about that one. poking fun at politicians, the president, next. >>> let's go live now to the white house correspondent's dinner and listen in. [ applause ] >> thank you. good evening, everybody. good evening. i could not be more thrilled to be here tonight. at the white house correspondent's dinner. this is a great crowd. they're already laughing. it's terrific. chuck todd, love you, brother. delighted to see some of the cast members of "glee" are here. and jimmy kimmel, it's an honor, man. my fellow americans, we gather during a historic anniversary. last year at this time, in fact, on this very weekend,

so rahm emanuel did pen the letter and helped him out. he said you can go to las vegas. harry reid in the letter if you read it blames george bush. during the bush administration there was a push not to have conventions in leisurely cities to get some work done. >> you read to the bottom, he blames wayne newton for a couple of the problems. >> he lives out there. >> let's talk about the guys that want to be president, one guy and the current guy that is. is president obama sounding a little bit more like a republican now when he's trying to sell his economic plan? >> i don't know what you're talking about. >> he's gotten a lot -- he's been in trouble ever since the campaign trail with joe the plumber and that whole spread the wealth comment. a lot of people feel like he lived up to that in the last 3 1/2 years as president. but listen to this. is he changing his tune now? >> see, i've never believed the government can or should try to solve every problem we've got. i believe that the free market is the greatest force for economic progress in human history. i agree that e

field wall was painted green in 1947 becoming what is now early famed green monster chicago mayor rahm emanuel lasalle impressed with found ways of grades that he says he would like the chicago cubs to use a similar blueprint for wrigley field coming up ahead we have the medical watch but first you know him from the bozo show and we have live music to get you dancing this midday they are known for their post ponca soulful sound we have the uptown sound with jc brooks does aspirin even work on my headache? aspirin for pain? aspirin is just old school. people will have doubts about taking aspirin for pain. that's why we developed bayer advanced aspirin with micro particles. it enters the bloodstream fast and rushes relief to the site of pain. we know it works. now we're challenging you to put it to the test. we're giving away one hundred thousand bottles absolutely free through april 25th. so you can try it yourself and tell us what you think. visit fastreliefchallenge.com to get your free bottle. one of "chicago's very own" is being honored tonight for his role as a chicago television pioneer.

rahm emanuel was more plugged into that and more concerned about the political moment of the moment. sort of an interesting way to govern. it shows a bit of a gap between what you and i who cover this day in and day out focus on, and what you as a leader, as the president, how you to think about what you're doing. host: good morning, atlanta. caller: good morning. what i would like to say is this, grover norquist has more than one aspect. he has a policy where he is not one to let the democrats another democrat. this is why you have of republican policies in place, medicare part c, the policies that mess up the post office and things. and also, this is what the democrats are not kidding their tax policies through. 3784 miss -- 378 former congressman are lobbyists. 43% who left congress are on k street. this is a problem. when democrats tried to put tax policies through, you have a very small group, what ever they does, they always vote against it. the democrats, they need to primary a small amount of these people. they could have got the public option through an could get the tax pol

was filed most of the money betty hundred $50,000 will go to the women's attorneys chicago mayor rahm emanuel said that the city is close to deal with the chicago cubs to help fund renovations to wrigley field improvements to the nearly 100 year-old stadium could cost $409 without offering specifics the mayor is not completely ruling out the plan floated by the previous owners in 2010 all the pieces have to work together but my job is to represent the people of the city of chicago he is however balking at the plant for the ricketts family to use their own money for the triangle building for commercial space next to the ballpark whatever we do to enhance value wrigley field it will be sure to make sure that the private honors enhance the value of wrigley field i will not put my money in their field so that they can take their money and develop around the field for their own economic gain a member of the ricketts family would not go into specifics but they have acknowledged that the team is having ongoing discussions a renovations it would take time to reach consensus ... >>they have their own

issues and address them immediately the campaign has returned contributions in the past mayor rahm emanuels in washington d.c. today and tomorrow to attend a national summit on preventing youth violence is organized by the department of justice to share information on youth violence prevention and forced an intervention efforts across country taking part in the summer mayors police chiefs school officials and young people we will be right back with the top business stories i stepped on the machine and it showed me the pressure points on my feet and exactly where i needed more support. then, i got my number. my tired, achy feet affected my whole life. until i found my number. i tried the free dr. scholl's foot mapping center. in two minutes i got my foot map and custom number. i'm a 440. that matched up to the dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic inserts with the right support and cushioning i need. i am a believer. i'm a believer! i'm a believer. find your closest foot mapping center at drscholls.com. in chicago with a look at today's business headlines dow chemical is closing a plant in illin

in with a different point of view about how he would deal with that congress and came in with rahm emanuel didn't want to work with. i'm not defending the president, but he came in wanting to compromise, not shove it down his throat. if you give him a little bit of help right now i'm of the belief and certainly i'm not going to volt for mitt romney, anyway, i'm of the belief that you're going to get more than you think, that maybe he's going to surprise you. >> i agree. >> can i get any love here? >> yes yes. i will say look, barack obama campaigned on significant change, and chenk is right. we had the democrats in the house and senate, had the ability to make significant change and he didn't do it. he didn't come in fighting and we were under the impression that he was going to be a fighter. when you look at it when it comes to wealth distribution, the top 1% under bush got 65 cents of every dollar, under obama is 93 cents of every dollar. >> i'm just saying it is not just me saying oh, it's unprecedented obstruction, it is proveably that he be up against. he actually cares about doing th

joining me is stephanie rawlings-blake, alvin brown and rahm emanuel, the mayor of chicago. i am please to do have each of them at this table. they're here because of bloomberg philanthropies is having a session of mayors talking about city problems and they're pleased to have a chances to talk to tell at the same time. i begin with the mayor of baltimore and the same question for each of you. how is this job different than you might have imagined even though you are on the city camp before you got there. -- city council before you got there. what is it you would say that makes this so challenging and interesting and some say the most, the best job in politics. >> i think the one thing i don't think any of us could have imagined was the great recession and the challenges and the new normal that that brings to all of our jobs. so that presents a significant challenge, having to do more with less. we've said all day that people want less taxes and more services. how do you do that. it's about making top choices and by being more like a business and that's why we use an ouome b

a couple things rahm emanuel the mayor he didn't want to talk to you right?e didn't want to answer questions. >> no. >> bill: no women in that piece. >> they were afraid to talk to me at all. they are afraid to go across the street with grocery. they are ducking during the day. >> bill: what are these gangs fighting about? do they sell narcotics? are they drug gangs? >> mostly drug gangs and fighting over smaller and smaller scraps because the economy is bad. white people aren't buying as many drugs now. so the profits are down. so they're trying to fight over turf, property and respect. >> bill: most of the fighting and murders are i want to be on this block and i want you off this block. >> right. >> bill: if you don't get off this block we are going to kill you. >> exactly. >> bill: drug dealers are killing drug dealers. >> right. >> bill: is it all black. >> it's all black. that's the deal. one of the main beefs, actually. arabs are buying up all the stores in their communities and employing all the gang backers they are running gangs out of these stores

a couple things rahm emanuel the mayor he didn't want to talk to you right?ant to answer questions. >> no. >> bill: no women in that piece. >> they were afraid to talk to me at all. they are afraid to go across the street with grocery. they are ducking during the day. >> bill: what are these gangs fighting about? do they sell narcotics? are they drug gangs? >> mostly drug gangs and fighting over smaller and smaller scraps because the economy is bad. white people aren't buying as many drugs now. so the profits are down. so they're trying to fight over turf, property and respect. >> bill: most of the fighting and murders are i want to be on this block and i want you off this block. >> right. >> bill: if you don't get off this block we are going to kill you. >> exactly. >> bill: drug dealers are killing drug dealers. >> right. >> bill: is it all black. >> it's all black. that's the deal. one of the main beefs, actually. arabs are buying up all the stores in their communities and employing all the gang backers they are running gangs out of these stores and they a

the worst thing i ever heard his chief of staff, rahm emanuel. one of the stupidest political things ever said was decided wracking as soon as obama was elected that we are not going to let a good crisis go to waste. a sort of immediately said we don't really care about country and which are facing, but we are going to use this as an opportunity to push through something we want this government program and we think is great and take advantage of this and manipulate you. i think that is a large part of the problem obama is facing. >> and because he cuts the new deal and the democratic structures still imposes the infrastructure of where we are today. and certainly in eisenhower's years, how did eisenhower feel about everything that had immediately preceded him and was he interested in dismantling? >> the moment is fair and he clearly came as a republican and the new deal and that campaign of a pamphlet the government publish in the 40s the top people have washed the dishes and he just thought this was the apex of silliness that the government ente

attorney in arizona help craft the clinton assault rifle ban with rahm emanuel.ou fast forward that into the year 2010 and gun control legislation at an all-time low for approval in america. people don't want it. so, in this administration, what they do, they go around congress and against the american people and what they want to get their political agenda through. what they did, in this program, is they blamed the gun shops, didn't track the guns into mexico. the goal from the beginning was never to track these guns to act like they kind of lost track at them. like it was a botched operation it false. they never had any plans to track these guns. >> bill: send them down there hoping that a border patrol agent would be murdered so there would be anti-second amendment movement. >> no. but the goal from the beginning was he force these gun shops in arizona to sell to these under surveillance. they knew they were bad guys and working for the cartels for a year. and then, don't track the guns. they didn't put any tracking devices on the guns. out of 2500 guns, bill,