good to have robert gibbs here still with us. pick a hotspot.ecisions he will be forced to make, the president's doctrine ahead? >> maybe i'm a little biased because i cover the middle east, so i'd probably say that if you had to look across, you know, three major issues of economics, security and democracy, they all really converge in the middle east as challenges for the obama administration. if you look maybe at asia, it's more economic-centered, if you look at new york, it's more economic-centered. in the middle east, you have all three challenges. and i think you're going to see a lot of challenges. they're common themes playing across different countries, all of them are going to require different tools, but really i think that's the region that's going to be a big challenge. >> right when you feel one hope in one area of the middle east, it diminishes when you look away and turn to another problem in the middle east. >> absolutely. i mean, i think the characteristic has been that it's two steps forward, one step back in that part of the w

i think you had robert gibbs saying it was about bringing us together.cted, the nation remains deeply divided over a variety of issues. the republican party itself is divided. so this is going to be trying to get everybody to work together. i think at this point the whole political system is broken. i think he has his work cut out for him. >> you lot of these. let's take a look at some of them in this piece. >> the topic of conversation was when colonel sanders came in and several of the congressmen spotted him and word went through and everybody got a lot of fun out of that. that's been the main topic of conversation. >> he appears in a lot of places. he's not really scheduled to be. >> the hostages were airborne but they are not yet out of the air space. what will be remembered here is not so much what barack obama said today but the fact that barack obama was inaugurated today. >> coming back to the conversation here. >> can you please explain your hair back then? >> there was more. >> you have to have white hair to be a great anchorman. >> we keep he

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. >> press secretary robert gibbs said in the abundance of caution, no question that he had taken the oath, as constituted by the concept -- constitution. >> as piquancy, what happened during the presidency, everything from his birth, whether or not he was a socialist, everything was in question. i think the caution was well taken, to make sure nobody could ever challenge whether he was really president. >> we have very little insight into what the president will say tomorrow. what does that tell you? anything? >> not really. we will get dribbles of it later today, but they all these things pretty close until the end, to save some of the dramatic effect. >> there is this what we are looking at from the north portico entrance to the viewing stand. >> that is for the first family, presidential guests in the viewing stand. you can look at pictures from inauguration's going back, at least as far as kennedy, and that same picture would be on the screen, if you were looking at 1961. that walkway, the plywood painted white -- the viewing --nd does not look like that it used to be open-aired.

on "morning joe" today, senior obama campaign advisor robert gibbs suggested that getting meaningful legislation passed is going to be a long slog, but that the white house has talked about getting his election apparatus involved in this fight. let's listen. >> the president has the most exciting campaign apparatus ever built. it's time to turn that loose. it's time to turn that loose for something more than just an election, right? if the nra's got a list, then obama for america has a bigger list and it is time to get activated again. >> so susan, he's surrounding himself with kids today, new winewtown families are going to be here, very powerful image. he still has the inaugural address, the state of the union. how much is the white house going to depend on public pressure swaying congress to get some of this passed? >> well, i think that the president will do some things by executive action, that will maybe not go as far as some gun control advocates like but i am not convinced this will be the health care initiative of his second term. i think immigration is more likely, comprehe

we hear from robert gibbs. mr.mpaign adviser. >>> plus secretary clinton back home after a blood clot in her head. we eat get an update on "zero dark thirty." >>> for now, though, that is the "morning news" for this thursday. we appreciate you watching. i'm terrell brown in new york. take care, everybody. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this morning. >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >>> good morning, it is thursday, january 3. i'm elizabeth wenger. michelle is off this morning. >> she is sleeping in. hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. it is nearly 4:30. it was cold this morning. >> not as cold as yesterday. >> pretty close. these temperatures down into the 20s and 30s again. we're looking at widespread frost. we'll talk about that coming up. >> on the roads, caltrans is back and busy. we roadwork in marin county and on 880. island tell you what that means for your morning -- i'll tell you what that means for your morning commute in a fe

we'll have live updates and hear from his former adviser robert gibbs and former secretary of state condoleezzaher experiences. plus a look at all of the security measures. john miller has the details on that and we'll speak with reggie love. a long-time former personal aide to president obama. that is the "cbs morning news" for this monday. thank you very much for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> you're watching cbs 5 eyewitness news this morning. >>> good morning everyone, it's monday january the 21st. i'm frank mallicoat. >> and i'm michelle griego. time is just about 4:30. let's get a quick check on weather and traffic. >> you have to mention the 9ers, too. >> of course i have to mention the 9ers. >> big sports weekend. pilots stuff. of course we have -- exciting stuff. of course we have that right here. the weather is changing. looks like another nice day today, but the clouds getting closer. it won't be long and we may be talking about rain. >> and martin luther king holiday. a lot of folks ma

with us is robert gibbs, the former white house press secretary and senior adviser for his re-election campaign. good morning. >> good morning. >> robert you heard the piece, 67 days since superstorm sandy hit and it seems that the storms victims are the latest casualty of this fiscal cliff fight. does the president bear any responsibility for a broken washington? >> well, look, i think what the president has challenged members of both parties to do is make sure that our politics fits the moment and the size of the problems that we have. certainly he has worked tirelessly to bring democrats and republicans together, to try to solve some of these problems and i think you have seen and others have seen that time after time it is hard to bring people like speaker boehner to the table to make those compromises. >> there's an old phrase someone says don't confuse effort with accomplishment. >> that should be the motto of washington, but look you know in this piece, we have averted tax rates going up on the middle class right now, which is a huge victory, i think, for the country. the questi

what do you mean of the president, through specsmen, stephanie cutter, robert gibb.ir about to be mitt romney'd and you're about to have a political campaign run against you and what's your reaction. >> you know what they forget, it's not me, it's nopt t shg, n the vast majority of the american public believe in the second amendment and protect yourself. nothing more normal than want to go protect yourself, your family and take responsibility. and i know that the president is out to shame them. they're not to be shamed, it's normal activity and vast majority of the american public and i believe other presidents have said you're going to bow down and give up your freedom and your rights and we saw how that worked out. the american people is going to stand and fight for their freedom and the n.r.a. is going to stand and fight with them. >> sean: let me play for you-- we're now taping this program in new york. new york as of this week has the strictest gun control measures in the country and andrew cuomo making his case to the state and legislature said the following. w

stephanie cutter, robert gibbs and david axelrod. a team that has now won two big races.e republicans note campaign style pressure on the moderate democrats like saturday joe manchin over gun control may not play well in red states like west virginia. >> they found this for example in the battle over healthcare where they took the people they had in 2008 and found it difficult to motivate them on behalf of the healthcare initiative. >> the president begins his second term with 47% of the country approving of his job performance in a new fox poll. 18 points lower than four years ago. the public appears frustrated about the fiscal cliff deal. when asked whether their paycheck is smaller this year because more taxes are being taken out, 60% said yes. only 25% no. >> shovel ready was nots shovel ready as we expected. >> now comes word the president's job council, business and labor leaders tasked with helping the deal with stubbornly high unemployment has not had an official meeting in the full year. white house officials note the president has had plenty of other meetings in

what do you mean of the president, through specsmen, stephanie cutter, robert gibb.ir about to be mitt romney'd and you're about to have a political campaign run against you and what's your reaction. >> you know what they forget, it's not me, it's nopt t shg, n the vast majority of the american public believe in the second amendment and protect yourself. nothing more normal than want to go protect yourself, your family and take responsibility. and i know that the president is out to shame them. they're not to be shamed, it's normal activity and vast majority of the american public and i believe other presidents have said you're going to bow down and give up your freedom and your rights and we saw how that worked out. the american people is going to stand and fight for their freedom and the n.r.a. is going to stand and fight with them. >> sean: let me play for you-- we're now taping this program in new york. new york as of this week has the strictest gun control measures in the country and andrew cuomo making his case to the state and legislature said the following. w

today, former white house press secretary robert gibbs says the president's campaign organization must be fully activated. >> the president has the most exciting campaign apparatus ever built. it's time to turn that loose. if the nra has a list than obama for america has a bigger list. >> joining us tonight on "the ed show" stephanie cutter, former obama 2012 campaign manager. stephanie, good to have you on the program. that's a heck of a sound byte. i mean, to engage the effort of the obama campaign, is there a plan now that the battle lines have been drawn on what the president wants to do on gun control and gun measures? is the obama team going to be engaged in this? >> you know, i think you can expect to see -- president obama provides the leadership here. president obama's network, across this country, grassroots individuals are much more powerful than the individual lobby. we need to pass common sense legislation to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and those who shouldn't be carrying a gun. so that's the common sense nature of this. it's not about infringing upon the secon

the heavies of the obama political team, senior vizer david plouffe, top aides like robert gibbs nowill be part of a campaign organization called organizing for action. it was announced today in a video by president obama and the first lady. nothing like this has ever happened before. politicians have talked before about the idea of a permanent campaign but the campaign structure that elected a president has never formally been turned into an organization designed to exist outside that white house in order to help that president get done what he wants to get done. the group says their first three priorities are supporting the changes that the president just proposed to stop gun violence, also climate change, also immigration. any one of those things is a huge political lift. taking on all three of them is a sign, i think, of seriousness for how hard this white house is planning on fighting for those things in the second term and the kinds of resources they are planning to bring to bear. four years ago in 2009, our country inaugurated our first-ever african-american president. we had

what do you mean of the president, through specsmen, stephanie cutter, robert gibb.ir about to be mitt romney'd and you're about to have a political campaign run against you and what's your reaction. >> you know what they forget, it's not me, it's nopt t shg, n the vast majority of the american public believe in the second amendment and protect yourself. nothing more normal than want to go protect yourself, your family and take responsibility. and i know that the president is out to shame them. they're not to be shamed, it's normal activity and vast majority of the american public and i believe other presidents have said you're going to bow down and give up your freedom and your rights and we saw how that worked out. the american people is going to stand and fight for their freedom and the n.r.a. is going to stand and fight with them. >> sean: let me play for you-- we're now taping this program in new york. new york as of this week has the strictest gun control measures in the country and andrew cuomo making his case to the state and legislature said the following. w

robert gibbs this morning was insisting that the president is trying to work with congress to get things done. listen to him. >> certainly he has worked tirelessly to bring democrats and republicans together to try to solve some of these problems and i think you have seen and others have seen that time after time it is hard to bring people like speaker boehner to the table to make those compromises. >> on both sides they had to bring in biden and mcconnell. obviously, nia, he blames the speaker. what blame or lack of blame is there for president obama? >> it's interesting. out of all of these fights, it's republicans who seem to in terms of the public, the public seems to blame republicans more for some of these standoffs and i think it's probably because republicans don't necessarily have a real leader that's the stature of president obama. and i think also obama has been very smart to go to the american public campaign style and have probably better messaging around this. you already see him talking about the debt ceiling and saying congress can't default on the bills and skip outin t

plus, obama senior campaign advisor robert gibbs on the cost of the fiscal cliff compromise. still a lot of tough questions ahead so we'll talk about that when we see you at 7:00. >> thanks. we'll be tuning in at the top of the hour. have a great show. >>> a virginia man who spent 11 years on death row could be free today. that news put a smile on the face of his mother and the rest of his family. however, a federal appeals court could still intervene. >> wolfe convicted of masterminding a murder for hire in northern virginia but in 2005, the trigger man and the prosecution's star witness changed his testimony. he told the federal court that wolfe had nothing to do with the murder. delia goncalves is here with more on the witness and how he is saying he was coerced into that testimony. >> reporter: by prosecutors. he's saying they essentially told him to tell the truth but he felt bullied over the years because he cut a plea deal with prosecutors to avoid the death perchlety himself. he is do -- penalty himself. is he doing lots of times, sentenced to 66 years, 22 of those ye

. >> former white house press secretary robert gibbs was talking about this nra video that we showedou last night. >> are the president's kids more important than yours? then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools when his kids are protected by armed guards at their schools? mr. obama demands the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes, but he is just another elitist hypocrite when it comes to protection for their kids. >> white house press secretary jay carney released this statement this morning. most americans agree that the president's children shouldn't be used as pawns in a fight. but to go to far as to use safety for the children in an attack ad is cowardally. >> he don't mention them specifically, we mention these kids. >> joining me now is howard dean, former chairman of the dnc and former governor of vermont. governor dean, i have to ask you, your kids were roughly their age when you were government of vermont. you know what it is like for kids to live under having a father in this kind of position. what is your reaction to what the nra has done here?

people like david axelrod and robert gibbs who were with him at the beginning of his career were ten feet away from him. he stuck with the same people and listened to them and he never panicked. >> do you know what he did at the dinner -- >> he probably didn't panic enough at the first debate. >> i was sitting behind him after the first debate didn't go well and he said i'm going to mention it, he took a little shot at me and then he comes back and says calm down, i got this. where is that from? after the first debate. calm down, i got this. >> that's a great line. have you said that on the air before? >> no, and i just did. >> that would summarizes it. >> i was going to say it's a reliance on data that i think is important because we're in an age of unreasonable in a lot of ways. i think one of the things people also like about barack obama is he reaffirms what we tell young people we want them to do and to be. to give back, to rely on data, to not go from the gut which we had in a previous president. but i just wanted to say real quick -- >> sf that where that war came from? >> i t

what about robert gibbs, he says the president should be treating this like a political campaign.ferent than anything else he's been doing. how about the republicans, they don't seem to understand what they are dealing with. what advice would you have for them? >> look, i think on this issue, the president's legislative proposals will collapse at the hand of democrats. the reason that gun control has not been an issue for 20 years, it's because it's the democrats who championed it in long ago days, decided after the shellacking they took in the mid term election in clinton's first term, in the early '90s, that they would not touch the issue again because public opinion was so strongly against them. and i think that hasn't really changed and people say there's been a dramatic shift in public opinion. i'm not sure how dramatic it is and i think it will be rather transient. we have a 200 year history of gun rights, of gun culture, and on the second amendment, unlike any other country in the west, and i suspect that the legislation he proposed, the assault weapons ban, is not going to

sort of this buck up (program internally that included a visit with his former press secretary robert gibbsdrive around the driveway in a chevy volt. >> he complained ever never got to do. >> he nearly gave one of the grounds keepers a stroke. >> you always hear that this president doesn't pay attention to the critics, he tunes out the washington chatter. guess what, his staff had to take away his ipad because he was looking so darn much at the reviews after denver. >> warner: which would only depress him and the staff. >> that's right. >> warner: we have to leave it there but it is really great reading. thank you both. >> thanks, margaret. >> on-line another kind of >> woodruff: online, another kind of year in review. we say good-bye to the six political ad characters we're happiest to see disappear from the airwaves. that's on the rundown. >> suarez: and now to another in our series on the nation's high school dropout crisis. tonight we look at the academic benefits to students taking a job outside the classroom, and how the city of boston is aiming to get kids focused on careers long bef

. >> finally speaking of the nra on wednesday former obama spokesman robert gibbs said the obama campaign organization would be heard from again. >> the president has the most exciting campaign apparatus ever built. it's time to turn that loose. >> right. >> it is time to turn that loose for something more than just an election, right? if the nra has a list that obama for america has a bigger list. >> that was more than foreshadowing. gibbs is involved in a new effort to use the obama campaign apparatus and brand to push his policy agenda. former campaign, obama campaign staffers led by campaign manager jim muhsina are launching organizing for action. the official rollout will be sunday at a d.c. event for obama staffers and volunteers called the obama legacy conference. this isn't the first time the obama campaign and democrats have tried to use this power of obama's campaign to lobby. it was first tried in 2009 when it was housed within the dnc organizing for action this time though will be set up outside as a 501 c 4 and we're told the group will have full disclosure of its donors and

robert gibbs, who was the press secretary, but also very senior political aide, wanted scalps. >> narratorwhite house economic adviser larry summers pushed the president to take strong action-- even seizing a troubled bank. >> one school of thought was, well, we need to take over, to shut down, to nationalize the weakest of the banks. wall street would see that if you gamble with the country's fortunes and you fail, you're going to get shut down, you're going to lose. >> narrator: but there was a deep divide among the president's economic advisers. treasury secretary timothy geithner urged obama to take a cautious approach. >> geithner didn't want to do it, because it would kind of create this risk. it would create this conception that the government was going to come in and mess with these banks, and that would frighten off private investors. >> narrator: only the president could make the decision-- bold action against wall street banks or cautious support to strengthen them. while the bankers waited, obama kept his own counsel. >> for the economy, this is what freefall feels like. >> whe

. >> one thing i want to play for everybody was robert gibbs appearing on "morning joe" talking about exactly that, the divide or the way people are classified in this town. take a listen. >> in this town we tend to want to look at things and put them in one of three boxes, you know, liberal, moderate, conservative, left, right, center. i think this was pragmatism versus ideology. >> so when we hear that pragmatism versus ideology, mark, i want to ask you about this because coming up, you know, obviously with increasing the debt limit and knowing that that vote is going to come tomorrow and that is going to happen and there's not going to be this big foot stomping and dragging people down to the last minute, the vice president had said that after this election, the fever would break. are we looking at the fact that there is a broken fever and maybe that is the first step, that both sides are going to be willing to work together not for the advancement of individual party but for the advancement of this country? >> well, i'm encouraged by that. i think we are seeing some pragmatism on

whereas before on so many issues, they might say, you and i both heard robert gibbs and jay carney saye can't push for that because congress has to do it and we don't have the votes if congress. da-da. the assault weapons ban, right thing to do. join the conversation, 866-55-press, very important questions now about the direction we go post-in augustral and particularly the choices the republicans mate make. paul brandus from west wing reports here on the "full-court press" this wednesday morning. we will be right back. >> radio meets television "the bill press show" now on current tv. >> government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying t

the response robert gibbs at the time was, no we have to let the legislature take its course. we have to wait. we have to be patient, da, da, da da, da, da did a. this time on guns when people said, the legislature of the congress is not going to approve this, the answer from the white house was, we don't care. it's still the right thing to do and we are going to push for it. >> yeah. >> they might get it that way that's the only way they might get it. down in maineville kentucky marg is calling. good to have you with us >> caller: i hear about obama being restrained by the republican congress. with the the justice department he has been abysmal in terms of going after whistle blowers and million marijuana, swarths who committed suicide recently you can't blame that on the republicans. there is one person i would like to have seen replaced this term. it's a bad record on civil liberties other than gay marriage, same thing with yog going after illegal immigrants. i think the justice department has a very bad record. i also think obama has a bad record on the environment and wit