same is true for samantha powers.tspoken advocate against human rights abuse, genocide. she wrote a book about this. she famously got herself into trouble back under 2008 for calling hillary clinton a monster. something she had to apologize profusely for. these are two women who will be a strong part of the president's foreign policy at this really pivotal moment. and i want it talk about the timing for one moment, tamron. according to a senior administration official, this timing is no mistake. it allows tom donolan to oversee the trip we have been reporting on for several days. at the end of the week, the president set to meet with the president of china in southern california at the end of the week. it is a chance for the two leader to strength then their relationship personally. and talk about issues such as cyber security. as we have been talking about, tom donolan helped lead the large in terms of shifting u.s. foreign policy to the asia-pacific region. so heç will be there. he will be there through the beginni

>> well, as you say, samantha power made her name.he's are a fervent advocate of humanitarian intervention. she and susan rice teamed up with hillary clinton to persuade president obama to back the nato-led invasion in libya. you would expect coming from that background she'll be a voice for that kind of intervention going forward, but it's worth noting that in both the case of susan rice and samantha power, neither ofç th have spoken out forcefully or even quietly to criticize the administration's moderate or cautious role vis-a-vis syria. you know, there may be good reasons for that. they're in the administration or hoping to reenter the administration. they know where the president stands on this. it's also true that libya and syria are very different cases. while it may have made valid sense for the u.s. to do what it did in libya, most people acknowledge a syria's a far more difficult case. it will be interesting to see when samantha power takes up her job exactly how she addresses the issue. >> and how the confirmation proceeds

you think, this is my last question for you because we're running out of time, but do you think samantha power will become a proxy battle about susan rice or are there opposition -- is there reason to oppose power in and of herself that you're hearing from your fellow republicans in the senate. >> >> we'll be talking about both of them, but mrs. power, the opposition will stand on its own in terloffs her -- you know, you want an u.n. ambassador that's going to advocate for the united states, not apologize for the united states. she's compared our recent american foreign policy to those of the nazis. this is a horrible rhetoric. it's not the kind of messenger i want to be sent to the united nations to speak on behalf of the united states. so we have some serious problems with this nomination. >> all right, congressman, thank you so much for joining us as always. >> thanks. >> we're also following breaking news. a terrifying site in my home town of philadelphia. at least one person is 14 others pulled from a rubble. a dozen hurt after this vacant building clanollapsed onto a salvation army store

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to replace rice at the u.n., the president today nominated samantha power. she is a human rights expert who wrote a pulitzer prize winning book on genocide a decade ago, and who served as a white house advisor until earlier this year. power also worked on the president's 2008 campaign, but had to resign after making disparaging remarks about rival democrat hillary clinton during the primaries that year. for more on what today's announcements mean for president obama's foreign policy we get two views. richard haass was director of policy planning at the state department during the george w. bush administration. he's now president of the council on foreign relations and author of "foreign policy begins at home." anne-marie slaughter also directed the state department's policy planning shop, but during the obama administration. she's now professor of politics and international affairs at princeton university. and we welcome you both to the "newshour." anne-marie slaughter to you first, let's talk about susan rice. to begin, we heard the president call her fierc

to replace rice at the u.n., the president today nominated samantha power. she is a human rights expert who wrote a pulitzer prize winning book on genocide a decade ago, and who served as a white house advisor until earlier this year. power also worked on the president's 2008 campaign, but had to resign after making disparaging remarks about rival democrat hillary clinton during the primaries that year. for more on what today's announcements mean for president obama's foreign policy we get two views. richard haass was director of policy planning at the state department during the george w. bush administration. he's now president of the council on foreign relations and author of "foreign policy begins at home.o the role. she does have to make sure all views are heard, but some at scurity council advisers have have been more of the counselor side who have a more advisory role and susan will craft the role the way she is naturally fitted to it and and really what the president wants. the thing to know about susan rice above all, she's a true professional. she w

so was samantha power. samantha power at one point suggested to a scottish newspaper she called hillary clinton a monster. later made peace with hillary clinton over that, but that word monster describing hillary clinton certainly was something that was awkward at the time and at the time as you remember, john king remembers, she was sort of kicked off of that obama campaign as a result of that one word monster. you want to make a quick point, jessica? >> reporter: i would say, she apologized to hillary clinton personally before the president's first inauguration and then she -- she and secretary clinton became very close allies in the first term, so close that she almost joined the state department. there was talk of her joining the state department until samantha power became pregnant. i point out samantha power personally close to the president and first lady. they have a relationship dating back to days in chicago. >> yes, they certainly do. let's get some republican reaction. jason chaffetz is joining

also naming samantha power as his nominee to replace ambassador rice at the united nations. today's announcement comes on the heels of the three nominees the president announced in the rose garden yesterday to the powerful d.c. circuit court of appeals, nominees who, themselves, are pretty noncontroversial but republicans have reacted to with outrage. those three nominees yesterday, susan rice and samantha power named today, president obama clearly not shying away from a fight these days, but how hard a fight are any of these moves expected to be and were they unexpected? joining me now, andrea mitchell, host of "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc, andrea, thank you so much for being with us tonight. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> you and i talked on this show the night that susan rice had withdrawn her name from consideration for secretary of state. what do you think is the overall political significance of her being tapped now for national security adviser instead? >> i think that the clip that you showed of the president at that post-election news conference where he said, i

it has elevated samantha power, who is a world renowned anti-genocide supporter. puts it in access to persecution of christians, the slaughter, the rape of christians throughout the middle east. this is going to cause problems for the president's policy. >> let's talk about that, ma ra. because obviously the real question is will these new people mean new policies and both manage a power and susan rice are seen as being more interventionists than some of the people in the old team. do you expect the president to actually change his foreign policy? >> no, i don't. i think this is a swap not a shakeup. this is a very white house centric foreign policy. it will continue to be so. it's true that susan rice pushed for intervention in libya and she talked about the searing lessons she learned from being in the clinton administration about rwanda and samantha powers that human rights, anti-genocide activist, but neither has been in the intervention on syria and they seem to be with the president on that. i don't think that -- it's possible that human rights might get a h

the president hopes to replace rice at the un with samantha power. both women known as fierce advocates for human rights. susan rice is coming out -- at it from a more pragmatic wind of you. what is the situation on the ground, what are the .onstraints samantha power is an officer and a journalist and she is an advocate. >> it was as a journalist that power watched the u.s. way to get involved and she said that her view on foreign-policy. regrets often expressed they failed to intervene in the rwandan genocide. they pushed the president to set up a no-fly zone in libya. theyst say that might be indication of what they will advise in syria. thisis clear is with appointment both will have much more influence in what the president hears, says, and ultimately does. >> we change focus to the flood crisis in europe where tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes in germany and the czech republic. the river as -- is at its highest level and the danube has burst through levees. >> they are saving themselves. these farmers are cut off from

do you think they are try to take out their anger on susan rice on samantha power? am power has been pro-intervention and folks like senator mccain would like the obama administration to be more intervening intervening, but senator mccain doesn't speak for his entire party as you know. but yesterday partly because of frank lautenberg's funeral, we didn't see the full rollout of what is the response going to be? and i think we'll see more of that in the days to come if this evolving nsa controversy doesn't trip everything up for a while. >> bill: that is where we're going to go next. how did you know? to this nsa, in case you are just joining us. reported by the guardian that the obama administration has requested and received the okay of the fisa court to receive the records of all verizon customers. we'll talk about that when we come back. 866-55-press is the toll-free number. we'll be back on the "full court press." >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." ♪ >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> with a distinctly satirical point of view.

samantha power will face a senate confirmation. today's announcement comes on the heels of the three nominees announced yesterday for supreme court judges, d.c. circuit court of appeal, nominees who themselves are uncontroversial but who republicans reacted to with outrage. so those three nominees yesterday, susan rice and samantha power named today, president obama clearly not shying away from a fight these days. but how hard a fight are any of these moves expected to be, and were they unexpected? joining us now, andrea mitchell, nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. thanks for being with us tonight. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> you and i talkened 0 the show the night susan rice had withdrawn her name for consideration for secretary of state. what do you think the overall political significance of her being tapped now for national security adviser instead? >> i think that the clip that you showed of the president at that postelection news conference where he said, if you want to

samantha power. i hadn't seen her until today. she has a powerful story. came here from ireland as a 9 year old wearing a t-shirt that was the american flag t-shirt. because her goal and dream had been to always be an american. if they think they are going to mess with her, and stop her, they better think twice. >> michael: yeah, and that's why i said what i said before. they are not just tangling with a woman, they are tangling with somebody of such substance and such -- such power -- that's the wrong word to use, power, but in that sense -- >> she has goit. >> michael: yeah, she totally brings it. bill i wanted to talk about congress. ongoing immigration reform talks are near collapse now, because the gop insist that legalized workers don't get access to government health care. what does this mean to reform moving forward. >> had john yarmuth on my show today, and he told me he thought they would be unable to reach agreement on that one issue, which is unfortunate. republicans want that whole 13-year period, when people are working through the process, t

reporter: the president nominated samantha power to replace rice as u.n. ambassador. wer resigned from the 2008 obama campaign for calling hillary clinton a mop steer. she later apologized, and today made a passionate plea for more muscular american intervention. >> i've een u.n. peacekeepers fail to protect the people of bosnia. as the most powerful and inspiring country on this effort , we have a critical role to play insisting the institution meet the necessities of our time. reporter: power, an advocate for strong u.s. action in libya, and rice pushes for approaches in syria, planing why john mccain today said he could work with rice as national security adviser and threw support behind power saying the senate needs to agent on nominations as soon as possible. lou: joining us now, former frl prosecutor, andrew mccarthy, great to have you with us. >> thank you. lou: outright, simply not qualified. >> if she purposely lied or knew what she said on those sun shows was false, she's unfit to serve ethically, morally, and she simply -- ii she was about the business of pu

>> that was samantha power's 1-year-old daughter, i think it's pronoused rian, an irish name, yammeringwas amusing because you could see power watching nervously her daughter like a mom does, like, please, don't do that. as the person walked her away, she had a sigh of relief. it's also a sign of the times, there's two women who are young enough to have not just little kids, little kids in powers' case, school aged kids in rice's case, taking on these very important foreign policy roles is a sea change in our country and it helps the president, i think. don't you think? >> absolutely. >> with this woman issue. >> hold on a second. >> got good ones here, too. speaking about interrupting a president. in this case, the first lady, she was heckled last night at a private residence, a fund-raiser, and this occurred. let me show our viewers. >> i can take the mike, but i'm leaving. you all decide. >> no, no. i need your husband. >> all right, you guys. >> no. >> please don't leave. no. >> let me make the point that i was making before. we are here for our kids. >> she had been speaking, she w

pick, samantha power is a former white house aide. she has led efforts to alleviate suffering in places like darfur and has worked to strengthen u.s. alliances. >> to those who care deeply abamerica's engagement and indispensable leadership? the world, you will find no stronger advocate for that cause than samantha. >> reporter: the president appoints his national security advisor leaving republicans powerless to stop susan rice's promotion. the senate does confirm the u.n. ambassador and samantha power has already attracted report from key republicans like john mccain. >> pelley: major, thanks. we got a read on the economy today from the federal reserve. its national survey shows growth just about everywhere. but the fed said the growth was "modest to moderate." things are looking up in construction and consumer spending. but the stock market swooned. the dow closed under 15,000, off 216 and change. how did chicago cut gun violence to its lowest rate in decades? a stranger's kindness helped someone else win a record lottery jackpot.

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is this just a change in faces or do you see the change in policy with samantha power. >> i think there don't think there will be one. and the first obama with the state department and we saw all of these people close up and was quoted in the newspaper this week saying the question isn't these officials or the advisers. the problem is not the advice the president has been getting so much as his own pros deshl priorities. it's pretty amazing that we talked about the problem and she is foreign to issues in the libya because she's a serious interventionist. i think samantha power would be left for intervention in syria, but the chance that either of these two will turn around a president who is committed to withdraw. he's proud of getting out of iraq even though i raq is degenerating to what it was before the surge. he is proud of getting out of iraq regardless of the timetable on the ground. he is pleased with not having intervened in syria even though it's a bloodbath so the problem is president obama. >> peter, let me ask you, as someone who covers the white house at times, what are the

to install her as national security advisor which is powerful position in the white house and samantha powernated to be placing susan rice . she called hillary clinton a monster in the campaign . jay carny was whetherr - powers will have a tough senate confirmation and he said he doesn't think so. republicans will have a lot of tough questions. you heard about i think what the president is signaling here, republicans seeking bipartisan ship at the beginning of this second term. this is more of a defiant move we're about to see in the rose garden this morning. >> samantha power, the woman taking over as u.s. ambassador. she called hillary clinton a monster and then later apologized. is this being taken as some sleight of hillary clinton? i'm sure the clintons aren't so happy about ms. powers' comments. it was a long time ago. there is forgiveness. i don't know if hillary clinton haser wei ever weighed in on it. >> reporter: she did apologize for it and ended up serving in the first term in the national security council when hillary clinton was secretary of state. they worked together a little

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not only in this war but many other wars and it's frustrated john mccain with susan rice and samantha powers use of power for good. samantha powers, of course, actually one a pulitzer prize for a book that she wrote about the conflict in the balkans. and so, yes, this morning, we can certainly, mika, you and others can celebrate the elevation of these two women to the positions that they are in. this morning, you know, willie geist, i am a lot more focused and a lot more concerned on whether the united states is going to become more active militarily in syria and if you look at these women and their positions in the past on military intervention across the globe, it is far closer to john mccain and madeleine albright's position in the balkans in the 1990s than it has been to barack obama's over the past four years. >> absolutely. and for susan rice, a lot of her views on intervention were colored by her time in the clinton administration when she was on the national security council. she looked back on rwanda with great regret as president clinton has as well wishing they had done more. she

samantha power to the united nations post now held by susan rice.usan rice national security advisor, not requiring confirmation. this if i've ever seen a more radical national security team, i certainly can't imagine who it would be. >>> well, i do know that the chances of us bombing stuff in syria has gone way up. a western intervention in syria is much more likely. this this is a signal that the approach that was taken in libya is now to be put forward in syria. there has been a genocide already. that is samantha powers, that is her portfolio, how the west should intervene. she wants it. susan rice is very much that way. she is a very hawkish on that stuff. yeah, i think we can see important of that from this administration. >> lou: high colleague chris did not want to use that word, radical, but i did. when you have things written and said by samantha powers, it is stupidfied there is not more than a an outcry to talk the point in united nations. would you agree with that? >> she has wanted a policy of mea culpa and we saw that in the president'

samantha power, to replace susan rice as the u.n. ambassador. she later apologized after calling hillary clinton a nster, and made a passionate plea for muscular american intervention. >> i have seen troopers built to protect the people of bosnia. as the most powerful and aspiring country on the earth, we have a critical role to play. reporter: she was an advocate on libya and susan rice has said that the senate needs to act on her nomination as soon as possible. lou: thank you. ed henry, chief white house correspondent. president obama is not the only to find one in the midst of these scandals swirling about him. attorney general eric holder today missed a 5:00 p.m. deadline to personally explain questionable remarks he made before congress last month. when he testified, he wa unaware of any potential prosecutions of journalist. house judiciary chairman congressman baca block received a low-level denial from the justice department this week. turning back to the appointments today, our first guest says that ambassador susan wright is not confide

meet samantha power. power has been working for senior director in multilateral affairs in human rights. a true political joutd cider in a sea of people with status. well, the nbc political team is all over that story as well as new polling. senior political editor mark murray lead us off today. hi, how are you, mark? >> fine, thanks, ari. >> we have validation of the president's senior team here. saying a big no thank you to republican oes who advise him to put rice out to pasture. and really bringing power in here to bring chief voice on the world stage at the u.n. she is going to be there for human rights, diplomacy, national security. is that how it is playing in washington? a strong obama standing by his team? >> i think you're right, ari. this is a opinion asian of the president's team on national security. so much was made in the early part of his first term about the team of rivals. a team currently around president obama. now susan rice as national secure ut adviser. samantha power who goes back