to this day rahm emanuel does not have good things to say about jarrett. emanuel was opposed to the president's this is other people's reporting as well -- the president going for broke on obamacare. he thought he should do incremental steps first, small steps, popular steps he could get republican backing for. valerie jarrett and michelle obama were the two people who said, listen, mr. president -- actually, valerie calls him barack. the only person in the white house, other than michelle, who does. you were elected to be not just president but to be a special president, a transformational president, a person who is going to change the direction and course of america, and you can't just do this piecemeal. you have toking take the whole thing. good for the healthcare bill, to go down in history as the first president to pass a national healthcare bill, and he listened to valerie and michelle, not to rahm emanuel, and this was the beginning of emanuel's erosion of power, because it was one of several examples to which the president listened to the ideology o

joining me is chicago mayor and former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel. let me start by showing a poll out of pennsylvania showing that the president's numbers have been slipping since september, and it's now looking like not a four-point race in pennsylvania, which is inside the margin of error. are you all worried about that? >> no. i think, look, the campaign is set, and i think people remember going into this election are jobs and you just had a report friday of 171,000 jobs were created, and, candy, i think when i saw that number the fact that january 2009 when the president first got elected we got the report within ten days about his election, which is on the january numbers. we showed 839,840,000 jobs lost. now we're 171,000 jobs gain. that's a million job swing in the right direction, and i think people know it's no time to go backwards and no time to go to the policy that is led us into the ditch. it's been a hard fought four years to finally get to 171,000 jobs gain. retail sales are moving better than expected. home prices and home constructio

rahm emanuel is in the middle of it and it wasn't suitable for younger years either. but the whole stimulus debate is a case study in obama to the disillusionment of the left but proved that obama was just like every other politician. more interested in cutting deals and trading james desperate to compromise with republicans who were only interested in surrender. to the fever swamps on the right it revealed obama is a euro socialist radical who is a full - chicago style partisan and a wimp who is deferring to his leftist congressional overlords of the same time. he was pretty much what he said he was. a data oriented left of center technocrat that was above all a pragmatist comfortable with compromise, and willing to sacrifice the good in pursuit of the ideal it was the first evidence that after the campaigning of the change on the system outsider he would govern as a work the system insider but despite all of his talk, he understood they don't produce change. the stimulus is producing change. it's not producing perfection. it's making these better. before the stimulu

. >> rahm emanuel would be the president's chief of staff. >> slightly like rolling thunder because youould have taken the economy, the auto, you could have taken the financial, you could have taken afghanistan, you could have taken iraq. usually, there's an "a," a "b." what happens when all five are as? >> it was basically awful. >> economic adviser austan goolsbee watched in horror as the stock market dropped more than 500 points in a day. >> there was a bottle of bourbon sitting there in the campaign. it had been there for a year and a half and i said, man, if there ever was a day to have a drink of this emergency bourbon, it's today. >> and then it got worse. >> the next day, dropped another 500 points. and then late in the campaign, it happens again and somebody says, where's the bourbon? i said, the bottle's empty. >> the emergency bourbon was gone and the economy was in dire shape. one month before his inauguration, barack obama called an urgent meeting during a chicago blizzard. >> the president meets for the first time with all his economic advisers as a group for four hours. e

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so following up on rahm emanuel, he might have thought hurricanes generally play better for democratse that kind of federal aid. you cannot -- no state, no city can do this on this its own and that was what was poignant with governor christie and president obama. yeah, i think that's true. >> edmund, this was a case of leadership that is perhaps a little bit more like theodore roosevelt than ronald reagan in the sense whether it's christie or obama, seemed a take-charge attitude. >> appearance matters. they were masters of action on camera. and what the american people relate to, particularly during an election season, is the president in action. and here we've -- if i were running for re-election to the presidency, i would pray for an emergency like this, because we look to our presidents to dramatize and to make sense of natural catastrophes. theodore roosevelt had the san francisco earthquake to deal with which he greatly enjoyed and reagan had several great theatrical moments, the assassination attempt. >> the "challenger." >> yeah. >> so he was very good at articulating that. we

. >> rather rahm emanuel helps lay the wreath in front of chicago's vietnam veterans memorial while announcing a new city program aimed at helping today's returning veterans. with a chance to attend a city college, with credit for their service, and a special $1,000 scholarship. >> when you think about how our veterans now are coming home and. issues in which, whether it's health care, employment, housing, it was because of the mistakes we made in the past that we learned our lessons and we will never repeat those mistakes. >> i was a 12, 13 years old in the early 1970's and i saw that the way the veterans were treated, and i see how veterans are properly treated now and i felt it was important to come over here and just pay our respects as well and be able to stand and pay tribute to the men and women who gave so much back then for our country. >> i think it's important that we commemorate the 50th 50th anniversary like we did for world war ii, like we did for -- we did something for world war i and vietnam veterans, we had a rough time, but we overcame a lot. >> also at the ceremony u.s. mar

. >> rahm emanuel would be the president's chief of staff. >> slightly like rolling thunder because you could have taken the economics, you could taken the auto, you could have taken the financial, you could have taken afghanistan, you could have taken iraq. usually, there's an "a," a "b." what happens when all five are as? >> it was basically awful. >> in the months leading up to inauguration, economic adviser austan goolsbee watched in horror as the stock market dropped more than 500 points in a day. >> there was a bottle of bourbon sitting there in the campaign. it had been there for a year and a half and i said, man, if there ever was a day to have a drink of this emergency bourbon, it's today. >> and then it got worse. >> the next day dropped another 500 points. and then late in the campaign, it happens again and somebody says, where's the bourbon? i said, the bottle's empty. >> the emergency bourbon was gone, and the economy was in dire shape. one month before his inauguration barack obama called an urgent meeting during a chicago blizzard. >> the president meets for the first tim

. >> rahm emanuel would be the president's chief of staff. >> slightly like rolling thunder, because you have to take in the economics and afghanistan and financial and iraq. usually when you have a series of things, it's like this is an a and b and what happens when all five are as. >> it was basically awful. >> in the months leading up to inauguration, his adviserer watched in horror as the stock market dropped for than 500 points in a day. >> it was a bottle of bourbon sitting there in the campaign and it had been there for a year and a half, and i said if ever there was a day to have a drink of the emergency bourbon, it's the day. >> and then it got worse. >> the next day, dropped another 500 points and then late in the campaign, it happens again. and some of said, where is the bourbon and i said the bottle is empty. >> the emergency bourbon was gone and the economy was in dire shape. one month before his inauguration, barack obama called engine urgent meeting during a snow tomorrow. >> he meets for the first time with all of his economic advisers as a group for four hours. every

chicago mayor rahm emanuel says he has some ideas honon how to rebuild america.the playbook barak obama put forward in his campaign four years ago and has advocated since day one of his presidency. democrats at the national level must execute on the president's agenda on energy and tax reform to insure the future of not only our party but also the middle class. but with the rising murder rates, struggling schools and a history of corruption, is chicago really a good model for the rest of america? let's talk to john tillman, the ceo of the illinois policy institute. he joins us from the second city. good morning to you john. >> good morning, steve. great to be with you. >> steve: it's great to have you as well. so rahm emanuel writes my kind of town, chicago is great but you're living there and you tell us that it's not as great and maybe we shouldn't use it as a model. >> no, in fact, chicago is the canary in the coal mine for how not to do it. it is a great city burks at one point it was even better and the trend lines are even better. job creation out of the to

. >> rahm emanuel would be the president's chief of staff. >> slightly like rolling thunder because youken the economics, you could taken the auto, you could have taken the financial, you could have taken afghanistan, you could have taken iraq. usually, there's an "a," a "b." what happens when all five are as? >> it was basically awful. >> in the months leading up to inauguration, economic adviser austan goolsbee watched in horror as the stock market dropped more than 500 points in a day. >> there was a bottle of bourbon sitting there in the campaign. it had been there for a year and a half and i said, man, if there ever was a day to have a drink of this emergency bourbon, it's today. >> and then it got worse. >> the next day dropped another 500 points. and then late in the campaign, it happens again and somebody says, where's the bourbon? i said, the bottle's empty. >> the emergency bourbon was gone, and the economy was in dire shape. one month before his inauguration barack obama called an urgent meeting during a chicago blizzard. >> the president meets for the first time with all his

. >>> chicago mayor rahm emanuel is taking lessons from new york city's nanny there mike bloomberg.cracking down on calories. he wants to get rid of all of the chips, the chocolate and the soda sold in vending machines. by next year he plans to replace all of the machines with healthier options. that is your 5@5:30. >> that's a lot of workers not too happy about that. >> probably not. >> president obama for the first time in 8 months defending the response to the benghazi terror attack as congress hold hearings in a few hours to find out the truth about what happened. doug luzader is live for us in washington with more. good morning, doug. >> good morning, guys. three committees in congress are going to start holding hearings on this to try to find out what really happened at the u.s. consulate in benghazi september 11th. president obama and his first real press conference in months yesterday defended his actions. >> my orders to my national security team were do whatever we need to do to make sure they are safe. >> but the time line of events that night is still not entirely clear.

rahm emanuel then he went on to be mayor of chicago.o replaced him, bill daly the brother. >> it started with clinton and bush and then raised it to entirely new levels. >> sean: we get his chicago pals four more years, don't expect the corruption to go away anytime soon. >> i'm doing great. >> i guess we have been governed by this political class. you got solyndra and all this corruption, you bundle money and you can blow taxpayer money. >> don't forget we'll have more government picking winners and losers. first thing i learned about barack obama in the debates, he thinks it's the government's job when it comes to energy and who should be succeeding and it's with all taxpayer money. our taxpayer money is funding these things that in the free market ordinarily without that money would be failing. these big obama donors are getting their payoff. they are getting bonuses and american people are the ones on who are suffering. >> sean: it's funny to me even if you go to the auto bailout, what was obama doing? was he not thinking about reel

rahm emanuel then he went on to be mayor of chicago.d bush and then raised it to entirely new levels. >> sean: we get his chicago pals four more years, don't expect the corruption to go away anytime soon. >> i'm doing great. >> i guess we have been governed by this political class. you got solyndra and all this corruption, you bundle money and you can blow taxpayer money. >> don't forget we'll have more government picking winners and losers. first thing i learned about barack obama in the debates, he thinks it's the government's job when it comes to energy and who should be succeeding and it's with all taxpayer money. our taxpayer money is funding these things that in the free market ordinarily without that money would be failing. these big obama donors are getting their payoff. they are getting bonuses and american people are the ones on who are suffering. >> sean: it's funny to me even if you go to the auto bailout, what was obama doing? was he not thinking about reelection or does he think picking winners and losers. every small busi

one of those people the president's former chief of staff chicago mayor rahm emanuel.nt obama before he gave his victory speech. thanks very much, mr. mayor, for coming in. >> thank you, wolf. >> let me read to you what the president told "time" magazine a couple months ago looking ahead at the time when he was asked about a second term if he were re-elected. he was asked what he would do differently in a second term. he said there would be some popping of the blister after this election where republicans refuse to cooperate on things that i know are good for the american people, i will continue to look for ways to do it administratively and work around congress." what do you think of that strategy? >> take a look at any executive order. he signed them. president clinton has signed them. every president has used them. when you think something's imperative for the country to move forward, if congress refuses to act, you use the authority in the executive branch. he did it on immigration and deportation as well as on the dream act. so congress refused to take up an immig

joining me now, a man who is well acquainted with presidential local politics, rahm emanuel. mr. mayor, appreciate you being with us. john king will join in shortly too. last night stephanie cutter admitted en this program that pennsylvania has tightened, her word. you said you thought the state was secure, but the campaign shouldn't take anything for granted. do you believe there is any chance at all the president might not win there today? >> no. that simple. i mean, i'll extrapolate, but you asked me in the simple answer is no. do i think it tightened? that's what happens in elections but i think the president will win pennsylvania. >> they said election day events in general smack of desperation. we have the vice president in cleveland as well. are his campaign day stops out of desperation as well? >> i think that is basically an insurance policy, the right thing to do from that perspective. but the president is doing what i think is appropriate, which is he's making phone calls to wisconsin as you had on your show. and i do think at a certain point, you know this is up to th

. >> this is what rahm emanuel said, they need a clinton moment. rush limbaugh said sarcastically about the party becoming a big tent party. >> clarence thomas, herman cain, none of it counts. don't tell me the republican party doesn't have outreach. we do. but what are we supposed to do now? are we supposed to -- in order to get the hispanic or latino vote, does that mean open the borders and embrace the illegals? is that -- i want you to think about that. if we're not getting the female vote, do we become pro choice? do we start passing out birth control pills? is that what we have to do? >> well, mark, nobody says it better than he did. how do you retort to that as a -- what i think is a more centrist republican, that you are? >> i find it prehistoric, chris. i think economic freedom and, you know, and giving people who make this country great, the immigrants green cards and finding ways to get them into our society, be productive tax-paying citizen rather than this notion of self-deportation and throwing up fences is the wrong way. i don't thin

if you talk to nancy pelosi and rahm emanuel, they almost lost their seats. and with reporters, unless there's a two-party debate, they don't cover it. >> this is a big problem and is this is where barack obama has been whacked and he has been. they walked away from elements of it from the administration itself burke this is the big question that needs to be raised. not that this should be connected to climate change because it cannot be but the unpredictability, the veracity, everything. never mind the rising sea levels. try taking the sub kwai in new york city today. if you want to address this, it's billions, hundreds of billions of dollars to fortify coastal areas. >> i think you made the salient point. >> this is one of those issues where the press has to say, what's the science, it doesn't matter if one party's saying they don't believe in it. they're wrong. the science is compelling. >> and the media have become intimidated i think. intimidated by a lot of the political push back and the fact that there's silence on both sides. they were not asked abou

i was there with mayor rahm emanuel. we swore in 47 new citizens. they came from every continent. this is as old as america. i can imagine when the first pilgrims arrived here and saw a boat off in the atlantic ocean, more people coming. we found this nice place wechlt have always had this foois fight, struggle. in the end, every new immigrant that has come here has faced the challenge of coming to our nation. in the end, you no he what we did, ed, we embraced them. they have made our nation a stronger, more diverse place. they made us the wonderful democracy we are today. my republican friends should take a lesson from the election. what the electorate said is, stop pitting one group against another. we are ready to make ourselves safe. the only way to make ourself safe is by allowing people to come out of the shadows and register with the government and be good citizens and be good partners and be committed people. >> congressman, obviously, the economy has taken top priority. what about this? do you have assurances from the president that this is the path he is going to travel

according to rahm emanuel, never let a good crisis go to waste. even if you have to manufacture the crisis. whether it's the vietnam war, whether it's the iraq war, whether it's traditional values being under assault, the far left will come in, disrupt, cause this kind of action, in order to get a breakdown of traditional values. because you know what? all great powers, bill, start their demise when the social values that bring everybody together, their shared values start to deteriorate. this republic will crumble when the social cohesion breaks down. >> the far left is if there is no other kind of left, you always say that people like that represent everybody who is left of a'til la the hun and the fact is in the incidents you mentioned, iraq war, vietnam war and gay marriage, the left is on the right side of history because eventually -- >> bill: that's your opinion, but are their techniques correct? topless nuns? >> it's a goofy outfit. but it was the other side that was violent and what happened in the united states -- three states voted that

and chicago mayor rahm emanuel is looking at ways for moms and dads to show up at parents-teachers conferencese offering a reward showing up at 70 schools. los angeles times in calling the card a bribe, says, is it what it's come to, the only way to get parents to fulfill their basic responsibilities is with a financial incentive? walgreen's is picking up the tabs hoping to encourage more shopping in its stores and finally, a new hampshire woman is mad as hell and couldn't take it anymore. the shop owner endured salvation army workers technology bells from morning to night five weeks out of every year, quote, i listen to this for 200 hours a year and this is my fourth year and i can't take it anymore, i'm sick of it and makes me hate christmas. trying to get them cited under the noise ordinance and the police isn't feel it was justified awe a local salvation army representation is looking for ways to lower the shop owners and including giving ringers a bell that didn't audibly ring. and many stores are beginning sales tonight. wal-mart is one of then and the nation's largest retailer is dealin

. >> bill: i think maybe rahm emanuel might want to do is have a chicago christmas holiday card fromcago with a bunch of aldermen with crowbars and the baby jesus being beaten. that might be good. [ laughter ] >> i'm hoping we got beyond that point. i've lost my ear piece. >> bill: that's okay 'cause i'm going to go back to -- doreen, what i want to do is encourage everyone across the country to send governor lincoln chaffey a christmas card with jesus on it. okay? >> that would be great. >> bill: yeah. i want everybody watching, all over the world. not just in america. okay? send it to the state house, providence, rhode island. christmas card, governor lynn can chaffey, with jesus on it. okay? nice sentiment. just nice, peace be with you, governor. >> absolutely. >> bill: and the next time you see the governor, i want him to come on the program and talk to me 'cause i think he should. >> i think he should. >> bill: yeah. 'cause he wants to do the right thing and the right thing is talk to me in the christmas season. all right. thanks very much. we appreciate it. directly ahead, crow

. >> rahm emanuel might want a holiday christmas card with crow bars and the baby jesus being beaten.e you to look and do a full autopsy of what happened. most people that were polled actually thought he would make a better president. >> what you talking about, willis? >> let's get right to our panel now. krystal ball is co-host of "the cycle" ask taure also co-host. one hour is clearly not enough for you. >> not enough for you. >> no, i love you both. you believe the house republicans, the way they broke for the president, that they would choose when they appoint committee chairs to have diversity but, in fact, every single chair is a white male. can you explain that? >> you would think to also note asians went for obama. gay americans went for obama. women went for obama -- >> but the republican party continues with the old, white men. >> they don't understand the demography. they don't understand identity issues in general. i see a difficult time just even having twitter conversations with them about identity. anything you say that notices race it becomes a discussion. you're racis

the vice president and his family when they head over here later this evening and chicago mayor rahm emanuel and a whole bunch of people who will put on quite a -- what they said would be an early night and victorious night. that's what they predicted wolf. they said it would come out that way. and so far, that's what it's looking like, wolf. >> let's stay in chicago. brianna keilar in the crowd. they seem pretty excited as the president gets closer and closer to 270. he has 249 by our count right now. >> the excitement in downtown chicago is really building with each projection ha comes out, especially when we sawa wa, we'll tell you, standing among people, 10,000. >> bre anna, hold on a moment. we can't hear you. that crowd is very excited right now. let's go to john king. the president, 249. not that far away from the 270 he needs to be elected. >> takes 270. 21 shy. this is a safe bet. have to count votes. oregon, a democratic state very long time. that would get the president 256. some republicans say watch, watch, watch. they expect that to go right there. that puts the president at 26

remember rahm emanuel's doctrine? never let a serious crisis go to waste. the thing that's wrong with obama's second term is they don't have a crisis. and sometimes i think they want to make one. lints to what people like patty murray and christina romer are saying. what barack obama said at that press conference when he said if there was any scenario in which we could fall off a fiscal cliff. he said sure, we could imagine that scenario, if congress doesn't agree. agree with whom? with him. he's saying it's my way off the cliff. and that is a way to go off the fiscal cliff, blame the republicans, stampede them into god knows what. cap and trade, card check. another stimulus plan. that ain't no bull market, larry. >> i think all those fears are actually now slowly being discounted in the stock market. and i agree with you. >> more to come. >> president obama answered that question all wrong because he kind of left the door open that maybe he'd let the cliff go through. anyway, don luskin, thank you very much. >> thank you, larry. >> rockets continue to rain

. >> that was a point that rahm emanuel made earlier today on our program, about the impact that theilout has had in ohio. >> absolutely. >> and you look at the unemployment numbers in some of these states like ohio, they're lower than the national average. voters there may be more optimistic, as the exit polls show, about the future of the economy. and on the economy issue, i don't think that romney is doing as well as he needs to be doing, overall. it's his key issue. he was way ahead on it. the exit polls show just a few points of difference. >> it's fascinating, what peter hamby just reported. we'll continue to follow it. obviously, we are minutes away from the first wave of poll closings. battleground state of virginia is on the line. we're at election watch parties in the president's hometown of chicago, as well, and mitt romney's hometown of boston. they're obviously anxious the to see if they can make our first battleground state projection ahead, stay tuned. [ woman ] it's 32 minutes to go time, and the candidate's speech is in pieces all over the district. the writer's desk