. >> democratic vote in the senate, we must -- and he had never and his leadership team had never gone through any count on the man we were working on as to what votes they had. it was pretty simple for me to say, look, if we were all going to have a hard time getting votes you would have a hard time with 800 bill i don't know. when senate republicans have signed on board to 400 bill i don't know more than we were agreeing to say how were -- we have to take a look at whrrnts this deal we have been talking about private can get the votes. this was all about trying to get the votes and it was our opinion at that time that we ought to look at trying to get a little more revenue to get more votes but it was not either or. >> charlie:that's the first i heard that explanation. i don't know if you talked about that before or not. that's the first time i heard that. you're basically say yes indeed you did say we needed revenue but it's because we have a commitment in the senate from republicans in the senate that they need this in order to get their votes. >> obviously democrats would have sai

of the lack of leadership that you've shown in this area? for >> guest: waiting the problem from the 1970's which is to say peace between palestinians and the israelis and after the 1993 accords in which they were granted more than 98% of what they wanted and still said no i think a lot of the israelis, the moment for making the all over peace has passed. meanwhile gove the sunnis and arabs and the jews are concerned about the birth of the persian bomb. thousands of spending in iran now, 24 different sites so the of avoided making a mistake when 1981 they bombed the reactor in iraq. they spread the program out and brought in the russian scientists from other countries as well. it's a very sophisticated effort and they've adopted a long-term missiles to carry the atomic devices. they're very determined to become an atomic power and it's important to remember what atomic powers to. they don't fit to make atomic bombs. they threaten to do so and extract the concessions of the threats and when i took to the officials in bahrain and saudi arabia t

that's what's happening on the official government level and leadership level. now in syria, iraq, bahrain, other places in the world these sectarian differences unfortunately cost lives. there are sunni mosques that are attacked by shi'a and shi'a mosques that are attacked by sunni and how you get over that is through efforts as was proposed by king abdullah. the leadership has to show where it stands on these things and if there are within societies bigots and zealots who would refer to do otherwise than they would be taken to task in the courts. >> rose: you now see people in the streets of a number of arab countries. as i mentioned the introduction against the united states because of somebody that obviously the united states condemned what he did but has a great principle of freedom of expression and you would think that the leadership within the muslim world would say no, this is not an act of a government. this is an act of an individual. >> i can't speak for other government bus my government has said that. my government has come out with a strong stateme

the room. that is not leadership. leader stays engaged, wins people over, persuades, compromises, controls, does what has to be done in order to get there, wherever there is. that is one of the aspects of leadership. another is the stuff on subordinates, just as his tie for self. when he's lied, what is that.net typically, he needs to go. a leader has a vision. hosts are absolutely, and other

the same time. does america's leadership depend on the military? >> let me add to that question. i just returned from the gulf and i saw this remarkable airbase where american power is powerful. you talk to gulf officials and they say we know in times of war you are going to be there and we have security guarantee but right now we need you engaged everyday in a much different way and we don't think war in the sense you have to be so picking up that question and all so -- >> it is an excellent question because it really does pose the challenge of whether we can put it into a different thing gauge went. the short answer to your question is i don't think the american military will play the same role it did in the 20th century. hopefully there will not be another global war this century as we had in the last century. it is going to be an element of projecting. i think that it is likely -- let me give a personal sense. i do a lot of traveling in different parts of the world and privileged to meet with heads of state and senior officials in different governments. inevitably the questio

and i see tremendous evidence that the upper echelon leadership is willing to say, "we want to respect confidentiality, we want to respect career progression, we want you to seek." and the chairmen of the joint chiefs of staff said, "it's a sign of a strong person if you seek help." but that had to get through every single layer of the military, every single layer. that is absolutely correct. one thing is for you to listen to it in a room full of the top brass and then another thing is for the rank and file to be able to feel that comfort level. and how do we get to that comfort level? what can be done at different levels of the military to really begin to make entryway into this whole stigma issue? i think it is the issue that we've sort of touched on directly, and that is just discourse about mental and emotional well-being, ivette. i think that the military has not been used to that. the more we can do that in a natural, normal, developmental way, the civilian community does that sort of well, not well yet. but the military community and the military culture is learning how to do th

or the lack of leadership that you have shown in this area? >> guest: well i think they're focused on the problems in the 1970s which is to say please train the palestinians and israelis and after 1983 the oslo force in which the peloponnesian got 90% of what they wanted and still said no. a lot of israelis would say the moment for making all of our peace has passed. it may come again but certainly at the moment it has passed. meanwhile the sunni, arabs and the israeli are concerned about the growth of the persian bomb. we have thousands of -- 24 different sites so they have made the rocky mistake where 1981 they bombed the iraq reactor in iraq and stopped for a time the iraqi program. they spread the program out and brought in russian scientists in the sciences from scientist from other countries as well and very sophisticated effort. they have adapted for long-term -- to carry atomic devices. they are very determined to become an atomic power and it's important to remember what atomic powers do. they don't detonate atomic vons. they threaten

so when those people came to washington, they looked at the leadership of their own group as ok we'll talk to them like anybody else. >> charlie:exactly. it's not about me be here because of may relationship with the constituents at home. >> so the thought the speaker could deliver that maybe i would say maybe on my part was a miscalculation. >> charlie:thank you. back in a moment. stay with us. >> charlie:we continue with mark hal pir in, maggie haberman of politico. i'm pleased to have them here. i cannot think of anybody i would rather talk to you trying to underis a stand the dynamics of the political process coming out of the democratic convention. we taped this before the president speaks but we assume he's requesting to try to late out as much as he can the future. that's his role on thursday night. >> opening they saw coming out of tampa, roll out at some point before the general election. they made it clear the president was going to be a bit more specific what he would do in the second term. big are vulnerability for his re-election as his first 4 years people want a sense o

i do not believe that the leadership and the republican members of the congress are irresponsible. maybe it's everybody's going to look down in the abis and say you know what we may want to continue our games but this has gotten much more serious. >> charlie:we con krawd this evening with mark halperin, maggie and swron heilemann. looking at the politics of this convention. one of the weakest things i think about governor conventions which had success they drove no he message out of. there was no single message that said to people, remember what we said m tampa we're going to drill it in your head. i think the obama campaign will build off the president's thursday speech for the feks few days on make tg bit more concrete what would a second term be right. >> charlie:more on the democratic convention when we continue. funding was provided by the follow. >> charlie:did i goal founding provided by these funders captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie:we continue this evening our coverage of democratic national con

pressure is very high on the leadership. the scandals are all tied together. the party that is really has not decided what they plan to do with the bo-shi lai case. >> more than one quarter million people have fled the violence in syria and the u.n. now says this is the world's worst refugee crisis. 100,000 people have left a note last month alone. many are headed for jordan. that is where our correspondent that one family bearing the scars of the fighting. >> there are a close-knit family from hommes and they are crammed in a hotel room. mealtime, as with young children anywhere, is a battle of wills. they fled here after viewed -- leaving everything that they had, everything but their lives. there are statistics of the untold suffering emerging from syria every day. they were fast asleep when a shell hit their home. it started a fire, which quickly engulfed the children. >> they were burning. i heard them crying. i ran after them to try to take their clothing off. i tried to put the fire out. i did not feel the pain. i did not feel a fire on my hands. and i

the president? where's this leadership? absent without leave. >> moody's today warned the fiscal cliff could cause another credit down grade. investors shrugged it off. the dow closed up 69 points, a 4 1/2 year high. with us to talk about the credit down grade and failed obama leadership we welcome back tom coburn and mr. rice and famed investor jim rogers sorts out the market for us. as america honors 9/11, armed lo hooligan hooligans tear down the american flag as president obama is accused of snub ibing netanyahu from israel as the crisis deepens. >>> we welcome former white house chief of staff, andy card. we begin tonight with the biggest ripoff perpetrated on the american people. the chicago teacher's union strike over outrageous demands by the union. today, they and their leftist students pickketed. thousands of students left on the streets and parents leaving work to care for them. will democratic may wror rahm emanuel, rambo he's sometimes called, is he going to fold, give teachers their election year rewards or wha

we wanted the new leadership of the school to have an opportunity to work with the after school partner on the content of the program and so the intent was to have them perhaps start later or try to get something together. it's taken a while for the new leadership coming on board to be able to have time to negotiate with jamestown. in the meantime there was a plan, a strategy last spring to put forward at least for the first two months, august and september, a pracial contract so they can get started with the work while that negotiation was happening with the leadership and that was the part that fell through the cracks coming in so what happened is jamestown and good faith believed that -- at least the first two months would be covered while they were negotiated with the new leadership and that didn't happen, so we wanted to honor the fact that i were doing work that they were under the impression they could or should be doing. there is another piece to this and they're administratively strange. in other words, our sig funding tries to expand and build upon the existing program which i

oh how far can they go but i think the w t o ascension was incredibly important the leadership that the russian government showed was great and i think it's

i know the leadership will come from sonia. thank you for stepping up. our state has presented, and our country has presented, a challenge to us for our seniors and the need for long-term care. we're going to be working closely with the long term care coordinating council. thank you, tracy. [applause] thank you for stepping up. and for teaching me how to pronounce your name. our mta newest member to the board of directors and one that i know will be of great value to us as we are challenged with everybody being able to enjoy all the services our mta has. thank you, christina, for stepping up. [applause] as we move into the times when we want more people to come in, we want development to create jobs, we need to make sure we appropriately plan all areas of the city. i want to thank these two gentlemen for stepping up to come and spend hours of their personal time helping us with the planning of the city. michael, thank you for returning and stepping forward for the planning commission. richard, thank you very much for stepping up as well. some say the most

that's the kind of leadership we need. under president obama, household income, families in america, have gone down by more than $4,000 over the last four years. the middle class is shrinking and falling behind. under mitt romney, when he was governor of massachusetts, household income went up $5,000. look at what president obama did on the budget. nothing except borrow and spend. and as a result of the president's abdication of leadership. as a result of seeing the most predictable economic crisis in our country's history and not fixing it, our credit rating was downgraded for the first time in our history. when mitt romney was government, the credit rating of the state was upgraded. that'sed kind of change we will get with a mitt romney presidency. [applause] we need to tackle our nation's challenges before they tackle us. we need to strengthen social security, and we are putting the ideas on the table. we are not going to try to scare seniors, we are going to try to save benefits for seniors so that these promises are ke

i am very excited about the leadership that presides over san francisco today. mayor lee, supervisor chiu, mar, chu, and we had the treasurer. this ought to be a moment in which we celebrate the aspirations and the fact that we have risen to the governance of this country. the fact that we have changed the opportunity. last night, i have the opportunity to listen to an 86- year-old honoree at the gathering last night. she's had spoken about how her life was different and the opportunities that were denied because she was jewish. because of the efforts of norm and mike and your leade in, asiy are not denied opportunities because of where they come from. we are aspiring and we are leaving california and america in a new generation. -- leading california and america in a new generation. we have an obligation to lead in the 21st century. we are providing leadership in all areas that govern this country. technology, health, academia, commerce, art, entertainment, and government. today, we must come together, not only in celebration, but an acknowledgment of the work t

by not doing that what's missing to me in the whole arab awakening and the leadership in general when was the last time somebody surprised you, charlie? when was the last time you called your producers and said "i don't care what it takes, get him or her on the show." did you see that? did you see the risks they took? so in the arab world today you have no midwife in syria and no mandela when you've got no mandela or midwife you'll have a

the primary cause is lack of leadership coming from the administration and from the leadership in the senate. the administration's policies have led to the worst recovery since world war ii. over 23 million people are unemployed, underemployed. one of the main reasons that we can't find work in this is the economic uncertainty washington has created, stopping the hiring process. our businesses are frozen. as a former small business owner, i understand firsthand how economic uncertainty hampers business growth. if you don't know what your taxes are going to be, if you don't know what your energy costs are going to be, if you don't know what your health care costs are going to be, the last thing in the world you're going to do is hire a bunch of people. thank you, mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from missouri. mr. blunt: mr. president, the number-one job of this congress domestically should have been more private sector jobs. the president's long-held view of redistribution as a goal for the government is not going to accomplish that. what's going to accomplish that is

we presented to the leadership team and the data caught committee. i will look forward to coming before you. this is a handout that we gave to the committee and the leadership team. we brought copies for the board members that haven't received it yet. >> we are going to move on to item k. that ended public comments. supporting advisory committees by board members. seeing done, item zero. special order of business. a public hearing and adoption of annual budget and annual service plan for special education. we are getting there. public hearing adoption for the annual budget. a motion and a second. on the annual service plan. a reading of recommendations by superintendent. >> i would like to call dr. elisabeth. she is coming. she is the assistant superintendent for special education services. and lisa miller is the supervisor. >> i do have our budget person, and our coordinator was here to help answer any questions that you may have with regards to the annual service and budget plan. the surface of the annual surfaced budget plan is stated in the hando

thanks for the introduction and your leadership. leading our troops in iraq and taking care of our soldiers now that they are at home. and right at the top, let me say that our hearts are obviously with all of the folks that were down in louisiana and the gulf coast dealing with the aftermath of hurricane isaac, our prayers are with those who have lost loved ones and i've directed the federal government to keep doing everything that it can to help our partners at the state and local level. as a country, we stand united with our fellow americans in the hour of need. i want to thank your general and the great commanders welcoming me here today. i want to give a shout out to the sergeant major of the army, ray chandler. command sergeant major robert kelly. it reminds me that the noncommissioned officers are the backbone of our military, leading the finest in the world. it is great to be back at ft. bliss, home to the army, air, and missile defense command swift and sure. we've got a guard and reserve here home to the legendary division

. >> the world needs leadership, i intend to be the leadership that provides the leadership that keeps us admired throughout the world. >> and as we turn here into politics, as we mentioned at the very top of the broadcast, we have new post-political convention polling numbers we are debuting here on nightly news tonight. they show some interesting movement in the battle ground states. our political director, chuck todd, with us and numbers from d.c. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, well, evidence, let's start in the state of virginia, where mitt romney was today. there, the president, with 49, a 5% lead, in ohio, on the way to 270 electoral votes, the president has a 7-point lead. and down to the state of florida, this is the biggest surprise happening in the last campaign in weeks, something insiders have been excited about in the party. the president has opened a five-point lead. you see the president hitting 49 or 50, his job approval rating hits 49 or 50. the other interesting thing, the right track, wrong track numbers, for the first time since we tested in the polls, the

ho wanted to be here today to really congratulate all those that have provided the leadership for this. it contributes $1.30 trillion in total economic activity and accounts for 5.3% of the total of the supports over 10 million jobs. that is what these kinds of construction projects really create. the president signed a transportation bill last friday at the white house. the two-year bill, and in large measure, thanks to the leadership of people from your congressional delegation. i want to single out senator boxer. she was the chair of the committee, the environmental committee, the e. p. w. committee that led the way in making sure that our country had a big blue print, a plan for transportation. without senator boxer's leadership, this bill would never have been silent. we are grateful to senator boxer for her leadership and getting us a two-year bill, a blueprint on the big picture ahead that really allows us to put our friends and neighbors to work in construction jobs. but the celebration today about this announcement is important because it really does take us to the next genera

the issues. it is not just careless and her leadership, but the rank-and- file -- it is not just karen lewis and r leadership, but the rank-and-file leading this. >> there will be a rally today? >> from 3:32 6:00 at the headquarters. it would not just the teachers. it will certainly be parents and students and community members as well because there have been strong ties built between the teachers' union and community organizations because they fought together with communities. they fought against school closings and for the schools are children deserve. we are expecting a large rally, and i think parents are as well, to really send a message to rahm emanuel the chicago public schools, that he really -- they really need to give an to the demands of the teachers and have better working conditions for teachers and better learning conditions for children. >> how long to expect the strike to go on? >> that is a good question. i certainly do not have a crystal ball. i think a very strong showing on the part of the public, backing up the teachers who are very solid, as you know, 90% of the teachers in

we are very fortunate here in the bay area to have that kind of leadership. president obama, all the g state, to our local and regional leaders, we have had the leadership we need to make that investment in transit and transportation in the bay area. we are very lucky for that and that is the reason we are here today. without further ado, i want to introduce our local leader here, san francisco mayor ed lee. >> thank you. good morning, everyone. we can do, besides what at redskin and the mta board, and all the staff have been doing, investing in our system and making it better and better, it is to realize that our municipal system is connected to a whole regional system. this morning you see a backdrop here a lot of our partners in the region. from caltrans, sam trans, everyone that works together here locally. that is not only important to us as a city, but clearly, coming from the u.s. conference of mayors this past weekend, we realize cities across the country are looking atz!zxxf transportation systems and making sure they are connected appropriately, wh

i do not believe that the leadership and the republican members of the congress are irresponsible.aybe it's everybody is going to look down in the abis and say you know what we may want to continue our tbains but this has gotten much more serious. and if by chance europe doesn't get their straightened out, then you're talking about a rather difficult situation in early '13: so i'm an optimist i do meef the system can work. if it can't work when you're looking at the iceberg then we have the discussions will shift to a fundamental discussion of does our system function as it was set up 300 years ago in a way that's responsible to the american people. >> charlie:how do you think barack obama will be different in the second term if he wins? >> my sense is a re-election in many ways, not liberates but gives a president the opportunity to really deal long-term because they're not in the political gain as early. >> charlie:if in fact that's true, you must know the head and mind of this guy. where do you think he would like to take the kun trillion in a big way. in terms of whether it's r