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that's the question for richard wolffe.sident obama trying to counter-act the republican attempt to rebrand the affordable care act. >> that's what's going to happen with the affordable care act. once it's working really well, i guarantee you they will not call it obama care. >> so how did the white house lose control of the message on health care and a lot of other things that's part of the fresh reporting in richard wolffe's new book, "the message, reselling of president obama." joining me is richard wolffe and msnbc analyst and executive editor of msnbc.com. this is a big deal. there's a lot of juicy such in here. >> thank you. >> the back story behind the re-election campaign and all the infighting. who knew -- >> who knew. >> it was not all sweetness and light. >> look, some people say, oh, this is what you kind of expect. not from this team. >> that was the loyal, no drama obama. >> exactly. i wasn't expecting it, a very different story moving into it. you look back at the arc, the things they had to overcome through

authors bob woodward and richard wolffe. "washington post" columnist kathleen parker and republican strategist ana navarro analyze the president's decision-making. plus, the fifth anniversary of the financial meltdown, the great disconnect, the dow was up, so were corporate profits but income equality is bigger than ever. are we better than we were five years ago. former treasury secretary hank paulson is here in a sunday morning exclusive along with former congressman barney frank and cnbc's maria bartiromo. i'm david gregory. all that adead on this edition of "meet the press." for sunday, september 15th. >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the word's longest running television program, this is "meet the press." >>> and good sunday morning, secretary of state john kerry is on the ground in israel right now where he's meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu whose reaction to the deal is cautious but supportive. we'll get a response from senator john mccain in a moment. but first andrea mitchell just back from h

we began with richard wolffe. the reselling of president obama sort of sums it up doesn't it. >> it disflt i was in-- it was. i was inspired by the guinness book about president nixon. when he brought in his paul saryksz you have to have a laser-like focus how they repackage him. they talked about the campaign, we moved beyond that. we don't mind treating politicians like conflicts. but there's a thread i think that goes through these concerns we're talking about in the media today. and what they went through in the campaign. some things they got brilliantly right. they had to overcome not mitt romney but the whole copy. some things they got very badly wrong and they kept a tight lid on them. going back to the campaign leave these interesting clues to what we're now looking at. >> rose: the reason i said reselling is a perfect title because if you're facing re-election in this case, it's a very different election from 2008. >> so what they end up having to wrestle is, is it morning in america, is it sort of pre da

joining us this morning, bob woodward, kathleen parker, ana navarro and richard wolffe.ow here is david gregory. >> welcome to all of you. let's talk about the pure politics. let's talk about how president obama is handling this, the leadership test. kathleen parker, in your column this morning in "the washington post," i think you capture something, the two styles america is now dealing with going back to president bush and president obama. you write, "we can't seem to get it quite right at the helm. either we're saddled with a cocksure decidinator, i had to say that -- who is feared for his lack of pause, or we're stuck with an overthinker so afraid of making the wrong decision that he paralyzes himself into a pose of ineptitude." so then for everybody, and i'll start with you, how has obama handled this? >> well, it's been painful watching, really, because we've been witness to i think what seems to be his internal struggle, i mean his superego are at odds with each other, maybe his inner hawk and inner dove, but in any case he can't quite get to where he needs to be,

. >> joining me now, former deputy white house adviser on foreign policy, and richard wolff, let's listen to what secretary kerry said on this long-term issue. >> i cannot emphasize enough how much they are looking to us now, making judgments about us for the long-term, and how critical the choice we make here will be, not just to this question of syria, but to the support we may or may not anticipate in the middle east peace process. to the future of egypt. to the transformation of the middle east. to the stability of the region and other interests that we have. there is no way to separate one thing from all of the rest. relationships are relationships. and they are integrated and that is why this is so important. >> ambassador ginsburg, isn't one of the things that can't be separated from this question on the intervention in syria is iran? and how much of this is about iran? >> oh, lawrence, it is so much about iran. because after all, this is a proxy war. this is a religious proxy war between sunni and shiite. this is a proxy war between the arab states, a war more or less between the

for coming on breaking down the failed policy of reaganomics and what it's done to this country richard wolffe economist at. i forget where you're at what university of massachusetts did it take so much richard my pleasure. that's it today for the show you guys please come back and help us break this out all over again the model by. what i mean here is the or is the bailout in the united states we have eighty five percent of the population being strongly against it and i don't think even you know the democratic institutions and the will of the people would prevent the government from actually implementing you know we have created a system that is against the will of the people that is too big to fail we jailed no bankers that committed these heinous acts which destroyed trillions of dollars of wealth and so it does bring into question the very strength of democracy right.

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for coming on breaking down the failed policy of comics and what is done to this country richard wolffe economist at. i forget where you're at what's going right universe here as it is it takes so much richard my pleasure. that's it today for the show you guys please come back and help us spread the set all over to get them up by. what i mean here is of course the bailout in the united states with eighty five percent of the population being strongly against it and i don't think even you know the democratic institutions and the will of the people could prevent the government from actually implementing now we have created a system that is against the will of the people that is too big to fail we've jailed no bankers that committed these heinous acts which destroyed trillions of dollars of wealth and so it does bring into question the very strength of democracy right now i would argue that it's quite weak. we speak your language i mean some of the will or not of the. news programs and documentaries and spanish more matters to you breaking news a little too much of angles stories. here. tha

one is fred armisen, one is richard wolffe. richard wolffe has gotten the treatment.let's start by looking at sort of where this all started. and, dave, you looked back at the history of "snl." we mentioned chevy chase and gerald ford. how did it become that "snl" became the place that whenever anything happens in politics, if "snl" is on the air, everybody is asking what are they going to do about it this weekend. >> that's something that has taken 40 years to get them to the place where they r as you mentioned at the beginning of the show, the ford impression was really more about slapstick and pratfalls than about pointed political commentary. dan aykroyd would do nixon or carter. it is really not until the '80s it becomes more politically astute. and you get not only phil hartman occasionally doing reagan, but once carvey becomes george h.w. bush, and really has the rights in the voice and the mannerisms, it became about every week, what is carvey going to do as bush. >> dana carvey -- >> you have to look at how television has changed. "saturday night live" when i

. >> richard wolffe has joined us. a lot of people on the right, on the left have serious questions. including me. trust the president but don't agree with military intervention. when you look at what the senate foreign relations committee voted today, what happens if there is no response in the time limit and the boundaries that have been set? then what happens? >> no response from the syrians or -- >> from the syrians. if there's no evidence that this has changed assad from moving forward in the way that clearly this is designed to try to push him back. >> one thing we know is that it's going to be unpredictable. i don't mean to sound like donald rumsfeld here, but this will fall in unpredictable ways. assad is not going to roll over and give up. this is a man determined to cling onto power to such a degree prepared to kill his own civilians with unconventional weapons. if he is going to react in any number of different ways included rely on allies like hezbollah and iran. the question is going to be how does the uni

they are playing hardball. >> richard wolffe, go ahead and make my day. that's what we're hearing from democrats is what luke is saying. the options, throw your staff under the bus. basically slash the staff's pay, throwing them in the exchanges. detonate it, put a nuclear bomb marrying these two together. or let a shutdown happen thinking the same republicans that didn't learn from our credit rating being downgraded will think after a few weeks of regular people feeling pain, oh, this isn't good. >> luke is a good reporter and all three options are real. what happens if all three happen. you send up ridiculous talking point. you're not opposing people anymore. you're opposing for talking point purposes. they do that and they have something that kicks it into the debt ceiling and on top of that they shut down the government. so all three could actually all happen. we're at this point where republicans -- this isn't, by the way, the tea party caucus. the tea party caucus is too small to do this. it's the fear of the tea party caucus. we don't even have a b

still with us richard wolffe executive editor of msnbc.com. network, former state department speechwriter under president bill clinton, josh rogin, senior correspondent for national security for "daily beast," former diplomat and official under george w. bush now at american university. so heather, start with you, i send it up there before the segment. everybody has iraq on their minds in some way. the experience and example of iraq. i know we can say there's a lot of distinctions between what is proposed, what's on the table here. is the vote that congress took on iraq after the 9/11 attack was the culmination of almost a decade of efforts to push us into war with iraq exactly, by the way, because the '91 war was limited. so in iraq, by the time we get to the place that the american people and the british people are quite rightly thinking about, there had been a lot of groundwork laid and a lot of back and forth in american politics and a lot of really land mines laid in american politics, whereas with syria, what's happening right now is i'm

that's true. >> richard wolffe, great to have you with us tonight. congratulations on the book. republicans waste time freaking out over obamacare, president obama tells congress to get to work. >> just do your job! don't be the other guy. >> who the [ bleep ] are you? >> i'm a guy who does his job. >> you must be the other guy. >>> but next, i'm taking your questions. "ask ed live" just ahead. you're watching "the ed show" on msnbc. [ male announcer ] now, taking care of things at home is just a tap away. ♪ introducing at&t digital life... ♪ ...personalized home security and automation... [ lock clicks ] ...that lets you be closer to home. that's so cool. [ male announcer ] get $100 in instant savings when you order digital life smart security. limited availability in select markets. ♪ limited availability in select markets. forty ti mes. limited availability in select markets. that's how often a group of house republicans have voted against obamacare, just to prove their allegiance to their party's right wing. okay - they've said their piece. but now they've gone even further.

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congresswoman donna edwards is a maryland democrat and richard wolffe is the executive editor of msnbc.comnd author of the book "the message: the reselling of president obama." richard, take the first shot at this. i think there is certain amounts of luck. there's bad luck. i've been to vegas. you can have long streaks of bad luck. this president looks like he was really in a corner in the campaign at certain points and certainly now with regard to syria. where nobody wanted to go to wa for on the left or right it seems except a few in the middle. and yet he got out of it. they don't want to go into the zone even if they don't collect all the chemical weapons. >> this president created a lot of bad luck. he boxed himself in with his whole congressional vote. he didn't have to do that. and he got a stroke of luck in pulling himself out there. and frankly so did john kerry. one thing that isn't lucky is seizing the opportunity. they did seize the opportunity to help themselves out of this mess. a mess again partly of their own creation. but they have stumbled their way into a much better pos

on a day when president obama's hammering home his message, it's only fitting to be joined by richard wolffe who just published his new book about the 2012 campaign titled "the message: the reselling of president obama." richard, today was a reminder that this president can be extremely effective at selling his ideas, wasn't it? >> he was on fire as goldie said. but he was also hitting something that's really important. one thing, he's taken a beating over the last few weeks. here he was at his strength when the republicans think they've got him on the run. and the message isn't just about selling something. it's about having a purpose. and his speech today hit on taking the fight to the republicans, but also talking about health care in a way that people understand. one of the problems with obama care is this big spoiling thing, he put it in real terms about the economy. you mentioned it. health care is about whether you can afford it or not. this is what he had to dig out of the election where the bad economy turning around with a to t focused campaign. >> when he's campaigning he brings t

authors bob woodward and richard wolffe. post" columnist kathleen parker and republican strategist ana navarro analyze the president's decision-making. plus, the fifth anniversary of the financial meltdown, the great disconnect, the dow was up, so were corporate profits but income equality is bigger than ever. are we better than we were five years ago. former treasury secretary hank paulson is here in a sunday morning exclusive along with former congressman barney frank and cnbc's maria bartiromo. i'm david gregory. all that adead on this edition of "meet the press." for sunday, september 15th. >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the word's longest running television program, this is "meet the press." >>> and good sunday morning, secretary of state john kerry is on the ground in israel right now where he's meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu whose reaction to the deal is cautious but supportive. we'll get a response from senator john mccain in a moment. but first andrea mitchell just back from her travels w

authors bob woodward and richard wolffe.olumnist kathleen parker and republican strategist ana navarro analyze the president's decision-making. plus, the fifth anniversary of the financial meltdown, the great disconnect, the dow was up, so were corporate

authors bob woodward and richard wolffe.shington post" columnist kathleen parker and republican strategist ana navarro analyze the president's decision-making. plus, the fifth anniversary of the financial meltdown, the great disconnect, the dow was up, so were corporate profits

authors bob woodward and richard wolffe.st ana navarro analyze the president's decision-making. plus, the fifth anniversary of the financial meltdown, the great disconnect, the dow was up, so were corporate profits

richard wolffe, the author of "the message" the reselling of president obama.easure to be with you. i finally made it to "the cycle". >> it was bound to happen. let me start by playing what you report in the book is president obama's favorite political ad. >> there's a bear in the woods. for some people the bear is easy to see. others don't see it at all. some people say the bear is tame. others say it's vicious and dangerous. since no one can really be sure who's right, isn't it smart to be as strong as the bear? if there is a bear. >> richard, why did president obama like that ad for ronald reagan so much? >> he liked a lot of things about reagan and his communications effort. two ads that loomed large, morning in america and the bear. obama's advisers didn't like it as much as but this appeals to -- this appeals to an intellectual level for this president. it's all a giant metaphor. this is why the ad the bear didn't actually test very well. people were confused what was it about. why -- what were they talking about? that was what people come to love about i

joining me richard wolffe who the author of his new book called the message.m politico john harris and todd purdum. >> he's different, he's trying to be different. and you got to ask yourself what does he think he is trying to impress on people. someone who understands the complexity of policy is a useful projection at certain times. we're talking about military strikes, nuance only takes you so far. you're talking about the projection of american power. he would say we want to send a message to syria we went s

. >> so, mika, we got perfect day for richard wolffe to be here," the reselling of president obama."bama care continues to plummet. >> it's the latest nbc/wall street journal poll showing stagnating support for the president's landmark health care law. 44% of americans believe the plan is a bad idea. virtually one changed from polling in july. 45% believe it will have a negative impact on the health care system as a whole. and 52% say they believe their personal costs will go up thanks to the law, only 9% think the costs will go down. and finally there remains much confusion about what exactly is in the law, 34% say they don't understand the law very well, 35% say they only have some understanding and 30% say they one it pretty or very well. >> here we have -- >> two weeks until the main portions take effect. >> these years later, you have twice as many americans thinking it will hurt the health care system as twice who think will help the health care system. we're deeply saddened there's no pictures in here. that's okay. >> i'll do it next time. >> next time. tell us what's happenin

. >> a new book by richard wolffe and some call you a walking disaster when you were chief of staff?lso when a new chief of staff comes in. did he have relationships with others. is there somebody else they wanted to get that job who didn't get that job and they're disappointed and the usual sort of politics internal that goes on, not only in the white house, i'm sure at cbs it happens. >> no it doesn't. >> nope. >> we all get along. >> stop talking crazy, man. we'll be >>> it's the goal of the tv commercials to get people talking, it's hard to beat geico's hump day ad. i'll do it all day today. the camel already has 15 million hits on youtube. po million hits. this morning we'll meet the team who made it a star. so cute. you're watching "cbs this morning." good job! still running in the morning? yeah. getting your vegetables every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. [ woman ] i've had it with my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... the frustration... covering up. so i talked with my doctor.

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have a packed show for you guys today i'll be speaking to governor howard dean and economist richard wolffe about everything from health care to drones to reg anomic stick around and let's break with that. letter that we're able to do because you've never seen anything like this.