terms? >> it's interesting that it's thought that washington said the two-term one that. who says there was a constitutional amendment. the fact is he wanted a third term and if he didn't have his own party opposing him because they didn't feel he'd been a good president that he would've been a third term president. and teddy -- theodore roosevelt defeated not said he's not going to run again, he would've had a third term. there's no question because of his popularity. i think your question is roosevelt then became the powerful, hugely admired president because of his third term, but he made it world war ii and the success he had sayer to make that third term valuable. i've been asked whether or not we shall may have one term. i think the idea of allowing the american people the right to choose or not choose the election of a president one time is enough because you do have the potential for what we see in places like shabazz and so forth. i would say that our system is from that standpoint correct. but i think we don't want third terms. thank you. any other questions? yes

in the second term i see a sort of differently. everyone's attacking the moral arc of justice-- social security medicare, everyone's saying we have to cut it back. that's the great safety net for the american people. i almost see him as a defender. he has to defend social security and medicare in a fiscally responsible way. >> rose: inaugural day 2013, assessment by journalists and looking forward with historians when we continue. >> rose: today barack obama was sworn in for a second time as president of the united states. it was a cold and sunny day in washington. close to a million people came to the inauguration. they came to celebrate and see history. they included former presidents clinton and carter but not president george w. bush and george h.w. bush his father because of the latter's illness. supreme court justices were there as well as the parting cabinet members. the president took the oath of office for the second time having done it on sunday there a private ceremony then the inaugural address in which the president lai

of the first term? ready you see much more fiery kinds of language. you see him willing to draw the lines, and i think that boldness -- i agree with doug. i think the second term might well be bolder, just as fdr's was bolder in the first term. fdr had it easier in some ways. we were in such terrible shape that we had to do something. and the country looked for leadership. it was less clear what we needed in the financial depression than it was in the real depression. so i would say the second term is going to be the mark of what happens in the future. this is an obvious statement. >> doug, what do you want to hear the president say? it seems to me, he's got to produce a vision now. he's got to say to the american people what the president obama legacy may well be in years to come. and for that, you need to have a vision. i'm not sure most people in america are fully clear what that vision is. because we can't keep being a slightly negative, well, you know, things have been really bad, we're trying to ma

terms of that kind of a cool? >> to follow, you were saying that they actually claimed in the first term to oppose the president so as to deny him a second term? that's a very fair question. i would say that, and that would then be quite a congress of the opposing party. in other words, where we have those presidents that had their own party in power, that would not occur. well, i would think that clinton, interesting enough, in contrast to that is the center of the road, his welfare program, and that, therefore, he did get unexpected support, although where possible, that congress opposed him whatever they could find -- and all the investigation. so there's a good example where they did everything they could to deny him a second term. that's just one example. i -- oh, yes. wilson -- wilson suffered some of that but it wasn't until his second term that he had a republican congress. and looking back i think clinton would be an easy answer to that. any other questions? yes. >> if he is reelected will he have like only two years to get anything done before the next election cycle starts? >> does he turn into a lame d

to the points about the terms of the contract, i guess long term contracts are better for saving staff time, i fully understand that. the other part that i'm still uncomfortable with, and i just don't understand why we wouldn't be bargaining for this. we have a -- they have negotiated to us a maximum of 5% cap annually. depending upon how our federal debt situation, cpi could erupt past that. right now we're not hitting that at all. and we have no cap on their increases. so, how do we think about that? >> there is a cap -- there is a dollar amount cap right now, but there is also a percentage cap in terms of what they can -- they pay us. that seems to be a lot -- a lot of lower threshold here that we don't have. >> then again, we in bart are willing to accept that lower cap. maybe bart can speak better to why from their standpoint the dollar cap makes more sense. their thing is it can be much more variable in terms of the one agreement, things they see they don't control. but bringing it down to 10-1/2 million as the budget analyst recommend i think would bring it closer in parity to t

so, that's the feeder agreement. in term of -- those are the historical developments of both agreements. and now i'd like to walk you through the proposed amendments to the agreement. so, for the past pass agreement, the term of this would be from retroactive from january 2010 through june 2014. and for the feeder agreement the term would be from july 2010 to june 2020. the difference here is ed explained that the bart board fare policy has expired with the last fare increase in july 2012. and, so, this fast p pass agreement would coincide with the renewal of the next fare policy. * >> just to your point, so, it's the feeder agreement going back to 2010? >> both the feeder agreement and the fast pass agreement go back to 2010. the fast pass agreement would expire in june of 2014 and the feeder agreement would expire in june of 2020. so, there is a difference there based upon the bart [speaker not understood] fare policy and that being renewed anticipated this year some time. >> right. so, the fast pass agreement, what are we

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and the media makes a lot out of curses of the second termut it's a great opportunity. obama care may have been the first-term success but he has to make it the law of the land and institutionalize it. the presidents hit by the curse. i mean, ronald reagan with the iran-contra scandal. bill clinton had monica lewinski. george bush, katrina. they seem to get unsettled and unraveled by a big event, often beyond their control. barack obama, we don't know what it may be. may be nothing but what he does have, he has at least a green chute to a better economy. he didn't have that four years ago. inherited one of the worst financial messes you could imagine. is that a significant help to him? >> think of second term dwight eisenhower. dealt with the little rock kri sis. nasa. a treaty with 12 countries to demilitarize antarctica. all second term. bill clinton, what he have been without a second term? not a big budget surplus and ronald reagan, i think iran-contra is overblown and historic gorbachev diplomacy and margaret thatcher said reagan ended t

we were talking about the second-term agenda. we asked biggest accomplishments, biggest failures in our last poll. one and two were bringing the troops home from iraq and two was bin laden. on the biggest failures, one was not righting the economy and two was spending. probably predictable answers there. the thing with blood spattin la are a lot of things you anticipate in your agenda, then things that come up like the arab spring that you can't. >> absolutely. that's part of the lesson you learn in a first term that you've campaigned on a set of ideas, think you've got these policies ready to go, then something happens that you could not have foreseen and you put some things off to the side. i think -- and certainly something like getting bin laden, that was something the president talked about wanting to do but nobody knew if that was going to be possible. so that was obviously an important accomplishment. now with the arab spring, i mean, what happens in that -- >> we still have the fallout. >> in lots of places. >> algeria --

term. but up next, once the inauguration ends, then what? president obama's second term ayend agenda faces a very uncertain future when it comes to congress. we'll talk to two members when just stepped down but probably have ideas on how to get it all done. funny how that happens when you leave the congress. barney frank and steve latourette are here with us next. twins. i didn't see them coming. i have obligations. cute obligations, but obligations. i need to rethink the core of my portfolio. what i really need is sleep. introducing the ishares core, building blocks for the heart of your portfolio. find out why 9 out of 10 large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. ishares by blackrock. call 1-800-ishares for a prospectus which includes investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. read and consider it carefully before investing. risk includes possible loss of principal. [ construction sounds ] ♪ [ watch ticking ] [ engine revs ] come in. ♪ got the coffee. that was fast. we're outta here. ♪ [ engine revs ] ♪ [ engine r

the balanced budget. there was good second-term accomplishment. s not like we're roaming around the white house looking for things to do. we have immigration, gun safety, measures to help the economy and energy and we have a stack agenda here. there is urgency in the country for us to address this. we'll bring the same energy and focus he did to the second term. obviously, other administrations got, you know, in trouble with scandals. we avoided that and hope to continue that. but, those issues and others, education reform, there is just no shortage of things we can do to help the american middle class and the economy. we're going to pursue those and we are mindful of it and i think you have to stay connected with what you ran on and you can't bring stuff out of thin air, you know, i think one of the problems with the social security privatization effort during the bush administration was that wasn't really a core thing that he campaigned on. so, the things we campaigned on we'll bring forward in the second term and try and find common ground on. >

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the last girls' night out of the first term. mrs. sasha and malia attended the children's concert. an event put together at the request of the first lady for kids with parents in the military. >> when i think about who we are. when i think about what makes america great, i think about all of you, our men and women in uniform, our military spouses and our amazing military kids. >> working with military families, fighting childhood obesity and mentoring at-risk kids in washington, d.c., were the signature causes of mrs. obama's first term in the white house. cnn has learned she has been working on a second-term agenda since december and she may pick up a new cause. valerie jarrett, a top adviser to the president, a long-time friend to the first couple. >> she will take on issues that she cares passionately about. she wants to make sure her heart is in it and she can give it the energy she deserves. >> reporter: but the first lady's top priority is her family. >> at the end of the day, my most important title is still mom in chief. my da

himself and the republicans s the term used by the new york times in terms of his approach to dealingh what he views as intransigence by the house republicans. >> makes the whole question of leg icy come up. does this president want to dig in his heels and if he does he is likely to find republicans digging in theirs equally as hard. or does he want to start thinking down the road in terms of how he will be remembered and what kinds of things he wants to accomplish in the second term and whether or not he is going to adopt any more conciliatory term. >> if there is a big bold immigration push in addition to the gun control effort that already is having a rocky start, if you start counting the democratic heads in the senate just initially. i think we are going to get a sense early on what the legislative agenda is going to be. and also point out that you heard from david plouffe this morning and others. they are activating this grass roots effort and starting this campaign 24/7 to take the campaign mechanism and turn it into a legislative mechanism and i think he is going to use that s

terms. you're running right up to the mid term election. ere's a desperate need for the country going forward to do something about tax reforms and entitlements sitting under the umbrella of fixing the economy and creating near jobs and stopping spending. that's going to be tough. we have been giving people things for a long time. now they'll have to reel them in and fine tune them, and that will take an exceptional hand in the white house to pull that off. that's a daunting task. this is like the saturday before super bowl sunday. everybody talks about what will happen. then the kickoff comes, and unexpected events begin to roll out, and that's what he has to adapt to. >> joe scarborough, the economist this week which struck me in a couple of places, the cover, how will history see me with that image. and they write this. in america, they cannot deal with its financial problems other than through repeated crises will eventually go broke, and its capacity to offer leadership to the world is gravely diminished. this is a national security iss

the first term he did not do that. maybe change is coming in the second term. >> realisticly, how far can he get? >> he might come farther than we all think. because he has changed his strategy for a second term. we got a glimpse of that last week. he is trying to mobilize public opinion before he tries to do anything politically. he does it with campaign style events, a lot of money and advertisements. we saw it work for the fiscal cliff debate. seems to be working for the debt ceiling debate. expect every major issue in the coming months and years to be a major campaign style event. >> obviously it sounds like there will be a lot of focus domestic issues. what about foreign policy? >> history shows us that presidents in their second term focus more on foreign policy than the first term and try to forge a legacy. bill clinton did that in his second term. barack obama will try to focus more on the middle east, maybe more on syria. the most pressing issues are domestic. his voters expect him to act on that. he will attac

going forward in the second term, does he try and reduce the deficit? and fix long term problems with social security and medicare or does it make it about scoring political points on things like taxes on the super rich or gun control issues that don't matter to your average american. if you listen to his rhetoric, i'm not optimistic about the second term. >> is he on a roll or is he stalled as he begins the second term? >> well, i would disagree strongly with chris and say these are scoring political points and not things that resonate with the average american. if they did not resonate, he would not have won a second term. all these issues including raising taxes on the rich are supported by strong majorities of americans. one issue that he'll taken on not on the radar screen three months ago or certainly a year ago is obviously the issue of reducing gun violence. this is supported by vast majorities of americans, simple common sense laws like renewing the assault weapons ban, closing the gun show loop hole. this is something where if congress stalls,

the outside in. that's what his second term has to do and it's different from the way he did hit in the first term. he country's idea. you have to provide a story for the country. >> i wanted to show you this conversation i had with the president last summer about what he considers the mistakes of his first term. here it is. >> when i think about what we've done well and what we haven't done well the mistake of my first couple of years was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right. and that's important. but the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the american people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times? when i ran everybody said "well, he can give a great speech but can he actually manage the job?" and then my first two years i think the notion was well, you know, he's been juggling and managing a lot of stuff but where's the story that tells us where he's going?" and i think that was a legitimate criticism. so getting out of this town, is spending more time with the american people, listening to them and also then

the first term he did not do that. maybe change is coming in the second term. >> realisticly, how far can he get? >> he might come farther than we all think. because he has changed his strategy for a second term. we got a glimpse of that last week. he is trying to mobilize public opinion before he tries to do anything politically. he does it with campaign style events, a lot of money and advertisements. we saw it work for the fiscal cliff debate. seems to be working for the debt ceiling debate.at expect every major issue in the coming months and years to be a major campaign style eve. >> obviously it sounds like there will be a lot of focus domestic issues. what about foreign policy? >> history shows us that presidents in their second term focus more on foreign policy than the first term and try to forge a legacy. bill clinton did that in his second term. barack obama will try to focus more on the middle east, maybe more on syria. the most pressing issues are domestic. his voters expect him toct on that. he will attack

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how do you navigate the second term? do you believe in the second term curse? >> i really don't. for president obama, there is a great path before him to deal with immigration reform, to deal with the debt crisis, to see our economy grow, and they have a lot of good ideas for economic growth and a lot of international issues he will stand up and lean on. >> if i add gun control and climate change to that, and talk about energy, right there, a very big to-do list, some people say, yeah, a year, two, before it becomes very lame duckish. really? six major items? >> a lot of consensus on the country despite the divisive issues. on guns, a lot of consensus ground to do a lot of positive things to make cities and places across america safer. consensus on jobs and on foreign policy, making america stronger in trade and national security. >> the way you talk it makes it sound as if we don't have a really divided congress. talking to people on both sides pretty much every day of my work day. >> nothing worthwhile is easy and every inch of ground the president has to gain. but a lot of wind

he's the one that creates the term "social security." i, um, there are some people that really did well with it. i think if you're sort of going down a list of who were the most powerful presidents in terms of language and innovation, i think you've got to have, frankly, roosevelt's got to be way up there. not only the phrase "day of infamy," iffy, 1937 he's talking about the supreme court, and he said some of the decisions of this supreme court, if you ask me, they're iffy. and the next day the lead in the papers was, in fact of, the president created a word today, iffy. and for five or six years i remember finding a columnist in the tribune said pardon me if i use the president's word, but this is an iffy preposition. and, of course, slang gets them in trouble. woodrow wilson is a great slangster, and one of the things, there are editorials. he said let's get a move on, and he'd say this, and he'd use gal instead of girl. he's use a lot of almost like tin pan alley's kind of slang, and he was really lam basted for using slang. and he wo

have the effect of pushing down long-term interest rates. once you are asking about is what we call at the fed the large-scale asset purchases otherwise known as qe. the idea there is by buying large quantities of longer-term treasury securities or mortgage- backed securities, we can drive down interest rates on those key securities and that in turn affects spending and investment in the economy. the latest episode - so far we think we are getting some effects. it's kind of early. but overall it is clear that through a day three iterations you referred to, we have succeeded in bringing down long- term rates pretty significantly and clear evidence of that would be mortgage rates. the 30-year mortgage rate is something like 3.4% now. incredibly low. that in turn makes housing very affordable. that in turn is helping the housing sector recover, creating construction jobs, raising house prices, increasing activity in that sector, real estate activity, and so on. broadly speaking, we have found this to be an effective tool. but we will continue to

and the second term. peter what's happening on the social word and media network? >> tweeting at bp show finding out what your highlights of the first term were and what your expectations are of a second term it's like watching a bad porno movie. you don't know whether to laugh or cry. >> david tie sod said it would be nice if the president focused on jobs and the energy crisis in the second term. >> jobs has not gotten lost. energy, the push too renewal energy, immigration reform starting off, of course, with the efforts to reduce gun violence in the country and climate change. climate change part of the renewal energy those are priorities for the president. i think in these first 18 months before people start saying, he is a lame duck. don't pay any attention to what he is doing. the first 18 months, we are going to see some action on those news. lois from new york. >> i am going to turn the phone down. i was listening to you. i was thinking about the things you thought president obama has done so well.

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with regard to the extension of the term, it looks like this is the 4th amendment to this term and i'm just wondering is there sort of a limitation under which you would go out and do a new rfp? >> correct, the term is now looking at sequence for this program and that would also give us the appropriate time to put together a new rfp for issuance going forward for additional work. >> so the intention is to go out with an rfp roughly in 2014? >> correct. >> >> this item is before us, do we have a motion? we have a motion to send item forward with recommendation and do that without objection. thank you. >> item nato 4, resolution fixing prevailing wage rates for workers performing work under city contracts. >> thank you for this item we have jennifer johnson. >> good morning, jennifer johnson executive director of the civil service commission. before you is certified rates bit civil service commission, certified on october 1st. annually the board of supervisors is required to fix the prevailing wage rates of employees who are employees of contractors performing services for the city and c