there's civil liberty issues here because the white house is also claiming some new authority for the government to collect information on how people use the internet as well as some new authority to intercept private communications, and we understand why they do that, but rethink when the activities are looked at closely, the need for clear legal standards really becomes apparent, and i would begin by saying one of the key privacy concerns is that when the government takes these powers, they have to be very clear legal reasons and clear accountability and oversight. >> host: in response to what the white house released, you said or ethics said there should be legal standards, not voluntary guidelines. >> guest: yes. this is a key point. you see, the white house is trying to address privacy and civil liberty concerns. i hear a lot about this, and i think they are genuinely recognizes that these are important issues, but at the same time, they seem to be a bit reluctant to take the type of meaningful steps we would like them to take, so, for example, you could update the federal wireta

the black history of the white house. what's the most surprising or interesting thing that a white person who read this book has said to you? >> i think they were -- i've given many, many talks. one was a talk i gave at the white house. i was very surprised at how emotional is was. there were a lot of young black people working at the white house, a lot of whites who had no idea of this history and that obama is another stage in this history. as i went through the presentation an talked about the different individuals, people felt emotionally attached. that was surprising to me. in terms of what people have come up to me and said, it's mostly been in the vein of, i had no idea. i had no idea whatsoever. >> did you have an idea? >> i did not. i will be very honest. i spent many years writing about black policy. i would say 80% of this book was new to me. i had not heard of 80% of these individuals. i went back and looked at some of the things i had wrote before. before we run out of time. when did you get married? >> decemb

rotenberg, you talked about some of the new authority the white house calls for. could you give an example of that? >> guest: well, the department of homeland security is pursuing a new security technique which they call first intrusion detection and then intrusion prevention. i think the name for the project is einstein three, and maybe we'll see an einstein four soon. what they are trying to do is to identify specific activity on the internet that looks malicious, and they want to have better tools to identify that activity and to prevent it. but that technique also gives the government new ways to capture information online. our obvious question is how else might that technique be used? and i would say before we go to gautham, the other point to make is we've just recently seen how governments can use these kinds of authorities in ways that cause us concern. and this is not just, you know, about china and its firewall that blocks access to internet web sites or even egypt where, of course, they suspended access to the internet for a period of time. now we have t

he worked on the white house. reno from the records is that there were five black carpenters who work on the white house bid and for some time, they also work on building the capital. the reason george washington was not in washington, d.c. is because it did not exist at the time. there was a serious negotiation right after the constitution was ratified and the debate over where to have the seat of government. the south wanted to have the seat in the south and the north resisted that. so it compromise was worked out. for 10 years that it was estimated that it would take to build this brand new city, the new government would not be in one of the old cities. it would be a brand new city to be built. the government could be in pennsylvania. but at the end of the 10 years, in '89, it would come back to this new city, which was washington, d.c.. this was land that was seated by maryland and virginia the time. it was jealous. there were trees and rocks and that was -- it was jumblejungle. there were trees and rocks. that

the white house does need to think about those issues. we found ourselves in the cyber war scenario, the president would have to make some decisions, particularly if the internet was part of the battlefield. guest: i think a lot of people at home are wondering, if we were to see events a similar to what we're seeing in london or even at the san francisco transit authority, is that something under this cyber security proposal that could take place? could the federal government shut down portions of the social media site if they felt it was being used to stop violence? guest: it would be difficult to do, but we have recent experience in the u.s. that is a bit of a warning. that is surrounding wikileaks. when the u.s. government began to express concerns about their activity, and you had secretary of state clinton and senator lieberman talking about the problem. there were talking about companies that were providing cloud-based services to wikileaks. we began to explore the question was the u.s. government putting pressure on u.s. firms to ba

bill clinton got 43% of the white votes back in 1996. al gore got 42%, john kerry got only 41% of white votes in 2004. obecause meas' 24% was on the high end. last november's she lacking of democrat -- shellacing of democrats beat a retreat. democrats got only 37% of white votes last november. 37%. it's all very worrying for the obama re-election campaign because in the most recent nbc poll, he, the president, is down to just 36% of whites. there you see the drop, helene, why the fall off? >> and you're asking me? i thought it was interesting what you said right now -- just now about the white house and obama's re-election campaign worrying about this. trying to get these guys to talk about race, is one of the hardest things to do as a reporter covering the white house. they always tell you, we don't look at it that way. they've tried so hard to present barack obama as a candidate who is not thinking race, race, race all the time they've don't present him that way. but of course they're worried about that. i think that's definitely an iss

the black community? in essence, are their white jobs that are getting the focus and black jobs that are not questi? >> i am not sure their white jobs and -- >> let me put it differently. are there jobs that have gotten focus that are more helpful to white communities and jobs that are more helpful to black communities in terms of the focus from the administration? what kind of jobs should the government be trying to create or allow private business to create ? >> the company that had to lay f 10 individuals when the recession started, even if they have become home now, they probably are not going to hire those 10 individuals back because thin have changed. technology has advanced. companies are figuring out that they can in many cases produce more by hiring fewer individuals. this is the point that people are not going to like but it is critically important. we have got to have job training. not just for african americans, but for sure for african- americans, but for all americans. if we do not, we will get behind. we are in the global economy. we will have got to of a well- trained work force in th

>> as far as the white house? >> cybersecurity in general. >> we have things that go back to the comprehensive national cybersecurity initiative where some of the money is allocated for that. but once again come as we've all consider secure, one of the things we look at this cybersecurity costs and the would-be firewall fees' sort of things. no longer of the viewed is strictly security things. they are part of the infrastructure. it's like when we buy a car we don't say i want to have breaks or not have breaks. it's just part of the safety that we are building now and that's why when you look at the i.t. infrastructure the security has to be built into it. >> and just looking at your office hung one of the proposals that is still circulating on the hill is to sort of create more structure around in your possession now that you have had some time to spend on that position what is your take in terms of proposals that would either give more control over the purse strings are just sort of stuff which your office york a

it will go to the white house for the president's signature. within minutes after this roll call is complete, the president will then go into the white house rose garden and make a statement to the nation. we expect it to be about 10 or 15 minutes. the president will outline what has happened, why he supports this, but then he's going to try to move the story forward a little bit and get into the bigger issue of a frail u.s. economy and the need for job creation. he'll have some ideas and i think he will put them forward at that point on what the country needs to do. we're watching all of this. we've got our correspondents, kate bolduan on capitol hill. jessica yellin will join us shortly from the rose garden. we are watching what's happening on wall street as well. gloria, pick up this notion that there's obviously going to be between now and thanksgiving a real intensification of this debate, because it hasn't been -- they may have agreed to keep the debt ceiling as a nonissue between now and the start of 2013, but the whole issue over taxes,

and the attitude of white people. when i was growing up, my father did not mind people calling him by his first named. his first name was qp. in the court case, they ask, what does that stand for? it stood for quinnith paul. the white people use to just call him jordy and they would call his son, boy. even the teachers and the faculty members of my school said they never called him buy anything other than his first name. and he was a professor of alabama state. so i have seen all of that change. it is an attitude change. and as my sister called it, a cosmetic change. they say, dixie had a cosmetic change. they have the same mental attitude haas racists, but they cannot call you girl and gal anymore. to me, they are over-polite. in my experience in the hotel -- ms. colvin, how can i help you? it is a little over-polite, and i get tired of it sometimes. [laughter] now, you remember i live in new york, the big apple. help me to stay the word -- say the word -- i do not want to sound like sarah palin -- [laughter] what is

. >> and the white house, and standard and poors, we connect and you decide. after seven decades you are going down and your triple a rating will be a thing of the past. our white house guide with us now . the white house not happy with what s&p did. what can we look forward to or not in the next couple of dayings. >> we don't look forward for the president to come on camera. earlier michelle bachmann wanted the president to come back from camp david. the white house said no on camera statements. maybe he will put a writen statement and they were pushing back hard against s&p. they thought there was a mass error and s&p clearly decided to move forward because of a number of factors, not only the debt but the fact that you look inside of the report, they cited concerns washington not able to govern on big issues. not only at the white house, but congress and democrat and republican leaders up there . i think something else to look for in the days ahead, a republican budget expert saying that there are other countries hit with a downgrade like canada, and austral

he said did you know that even before slavery, the white man sought to exterminate the indian. racism is very deep. they destroyed indigenous people. usually he hedges and not all white people but it's the white man. do you know that in america, the white man sought to annihilate the indian, literally to wipe him out and he made a national policy, the only good indian is a dead indian and now a nation that got started like that got a lot of repentant to do. got a lot of repentant to do. now, what i wanted to do tonight is mainly just give you an evocative sense of this backstage kind of really variety voices of king and get to if you have any questions and we can get into anything you want to because this is the 40th anniversary, i want to return to this theme of king's premonition of his death because king's death talk was eclectic. and it's kind of an interesting way to commemorate him by sort of thinking about the many moods and modes that he could mull on his death. sometimes it took the form of eery unsettlement as a rattled king collapsed at the podium of his church and st

what is the white house's concern of how the president learning? guest: the caller speaks to the frustration the white use has had, which is they feel -- even though they've contributed to this debt, accruing this debt the last few years, george bush bears equal burden,nd they've been frustrated that he's the one that is now having to deal with this. in terms of who wins and loses, i think the president, politically for him, it is -- the conventional wisdom is that it's a win for him. deficit reduction plays well with independents, and getting -- being fiscally responsible plays well with independents. less him to a certain extent in the november election, this may help them bring that back. however, you know, there's a real threat of disenchantment with the liberal base and the fact that there's still murmurrings of a primary challenger to him. nobody knows who that would be, how that person would fare. no one thinks that person would actually beat barack obama, but it's enough that -- you have examples from history, jimmy carter and ted kennedy w

dan lothian joins us now in from the white house. dan, let me ask you. ident and the white house aides have talked about a divided congress that wasn't elected to be dysfunctional as they say. and now that the bill has been signed into law, what is the president saying about the process? >> well, you know, they do believe at the white house this was a very messy process but in the end it shows that they were able to find compromise. but you also heard from the president lamenting the fact that it took sort of this ticking clock, the specter of having the nation going to default to get everyone reach agreement. listen, there's enough motivation out there. there are a lot of americans who are struggling, who are unemployed, who are trying to stay in their homes, and na enough, the motivation of trying to make the life better for american people out there should be enough to get folks up on capitol hill to get on the same page, compromise and get things done, randi. >> the message right away after the passing of this bill, dan, seemed to be jobs, jobs, jobs.

the debt vote. right now, whitent secretary, jay carney, is answering questions about what happened during all the back room dealings this past weekend. vice president biden is meeting now with democratic caucuses and he is expected to speak coming up at 1:00 p.m. house speaker, john boehner, holding a mandatory house gop conference in less than an hour. he still faces an uphill battle trying to secure the 216 votes needed to pass. he is going to speak live at 1:30 p.m. we are back with what's more. keep it right here. [ man ] this is my robot butler. say i'm missing england. i type in e-n-g... and he gives me a variety of options. would you like to have a look at a map, my lad? ah, why not? shall we check on the status of your knighthood? yes. again? yes, again, please! thank you. with my digital manservant, i'll never be homesick again. would you like me to put the kettle on, sir? no, i'd like you to get rid of that ostrich. it's been here a month. [ male announcer ] think, type, go. with just type. only on the ne

we're live at the white house tonight. oining us, here's the latest news you need to know right now. congresswoman gabrielle giffords seek re-election? that's the question that many are asking following her dramatic return to congress yesterday to vote. her spokeswoman says the congress woman has not made a decision that she's focused on recovering from the near fatal shot to the head several months a g ago. >>> activists report at least 30 people were killed in syria and dozens more wounded and many arrested. the united states secretary-general said the assad has lost sense of humanity. >>> and the saudi group has been hired to build the largest tower in saudi arabia. the construction firm was founded by the father of osama bin laden. >>> the tea party has shown it's a force to be reckoned with in washington. we'll analyze its impacts next. , gas and bloating. with three strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. what if we designed an electr

to work when i opened the door it's old me i had better go to the white house right away because as far as i could tell there was a coup going on in the country that's how i learned about it or you would decided to take a roundabout route instead of going straight to this building for. the coup was led by top brass and high ranking communist officials they had expected to get support from the population who were dissatisfied with the long drawn process of perestroika. they decided to make short work of gorbachev reforms. the situation was quite all it bites the country was in turmoil. there was a revolt of the hungry but abel standing in line for sausages stoop to fist fights that there were pervasive sort of tj's on the consumer market. but the country's president waved good bye to everybody and headed down south to the career to relax in. the crimean peninsula southern shore serviette president mikhail gorbachev's private residence near the village of photos. both it and scores of surrounding hecht became a prison for the head of state. here he spent several days in what amounted to c

host: howard schmidt is the white house cybersecurity coordinator. he has had one of the most intriguing careers i have ever seen. i would suggest you go to the sitee house wouletb to look at further. he worked as a policeman in chandler, arizona. he worked at the fbi. he was a special advisor for cybe space security for the white house under george w. bush. he was vice chair of the president's critical infrastructure protection board. he served with microsoft as well. that is just a couple of the things. he got his b.a. and mba from the university of phoenix. one of the proposals the president calls for is that this needs to be coordinated from the white house. do you see this as a cyber security czar position? guest: i would not collett all a czar. the turn coordinator is what this about. we have seen similar states around the world do similar things. recognizing there is the defense side, the commerce side, there needs to be people bringing these things together and giving advice, in our case the president, and and other countries the prime ministe

the white is the white house is fighting a new battle and believe it or not it involves tinseltown how republicans are accusing president obama of using bin laden's death to gain applause from the american people and hollywood and texas governor rick perry is hoping to lasso a new title mr president it daily take the night on why fair is perry's biggest endorser let us into the two thousand and eight recession and could lead us into another financial meltdown. that republicans have started their latest which on against president obama on this one involves hollywood last week in new york times columnist maureen dowd said that the obama administration is sharing classified information about the osama bin laden raid to oscar winning filmmaker kathryn bigelow who is currently three years into working on a film about bin laden dowd wrote the white house is counting on the big screen version of the killing of bin laden to counter obama's growing reputation as ineffectual the movie is scheduled to open on october twelfth two thousand and twelve perfectly timed to give a home stretch boost to

the white house has miscalculated. it is so draconian that it will not work, even this president could not implement it. so, because we cannot default on our commitments, because we have to start somewhere on our new journey towards fiscal sanity and this is a good start, because we have to focus on job creation, not more taxes that will kill job creation, we should adopt this legislation. but because of its irresponsible and dangerous, even cavalier treatment of national defense, we will need to work very hard to restore spending necessary for our national security and commit to reject the threat of arm ged don inserted into this -- armageddon inserted into this bill by the white house. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll.

claim all the decisions and orders by that committee illegal. by then white house defenders had set up a makeshift barricade near the building in a bid to block the access of military vehicles. everybody was dragging whatever they could lay their hands on a trolley bus stop there the driver got out and lowered the trolleys but surely box was left standing across the road the barricade was here that's how we began blocking all approaches to the building. the crimea the city of sevastopol a soviet black sea fleet placed fifty kilometers from global twelve summer residence throughout the coup first rank captain semyonov waited for an order to rescue. but with the defense ministry part of the coup the rescue plan was ignored but they didn't like the first the pockets of resistance were to be suppressed seconds the president was to be found and taken under our protection third the remaining pockets of resistance were to be eliminated and we were to help evacuate the. president i see him. the upshot of it was that naval commanders only sent a telegram to the trough

and now like from the white house. there seems to be a difference between democrats and republicans whether the agreement allows tax hikes in the future, right? >>reporter: the committee that jake was talking about is a joint congressional committee with six democrats and six republicans and it would require seven votes to approve a plan so while republicans say tax cuts are off the table, democrats say, not so fast. >> if they decide part of a balanced deal is to eliminate tax royalties for corporations or limit itemized deductions for high income earners, they can do that and they would raise revenues from doing that. >>reporter: republicans could put tax cuts off the table by refusing to name someone to their side the committee and denying democrats the 7th vote needed to pass the higher tax rate but if the committee reaches an impasse the president could veto the bush administration tax cut which will expire at the end of next year. >>shepard: liberal democrats do not seem to like this agreement any more than, well,

house.todd at the white cc1: we'll talk to you later, thanks, chuck. now what about the damage just cc1:done?ss has whether we have a deal or no deal? the whole world has been watching this. the ratings agencies, the markets and the number do tell part of the story. we are coming off the worst week in a year for the dow jones. with stocks down 4.2%. deal fix acc1:: that? and restore faith? our friend carl quintanilla has come over from cnbc headquarters. what happens? what are you going to be looking for? >> clearly the market would love any kind of compromise. if you get that, look for a very sharp rally. the asian plarkts start trading tonight. that will give us an early indication. the data has not been good. the economy has very little cushion. once these spending cuts are laid out, what will the results be on job? fewer firefighters, less local and state spending. we'll get numbers that won't be good this friday probably. the market might be bracing for more of those. >> so starting tonight into tomorrow morning. you and your pals at cnbc will be w

the meeting that was held in the white house in the situation room.led to rumsfeld asking the question should we use this as an opportunity to do something about iraq as well we all said but no no it isn't afghanistan we need to bomb afghanistan rumsfeld said there aren't any good targets in afghanistan and there are lots of good targets in iraq from that time on you were dealing with rationalization and justification for the war you weren't dealing with the real causes for the war a real reasons for the war there was never a clear and present danger there was never an imminent threat with weapons of mass destruction weapons of mass destruction weapons of mass destined weapons of mass destruction was a convenient way of tricking our congress and giving the president authority to wage this war saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons develop nuclear weapons nuclear weapons it was clear that iraq did not have a nuclear weapons program but over and over again president bush secretary of defense rumsfeld particularly vice president cheney

that's very different from the crows of how blue iowa was after the white house race of 2008. a lot has changed. bret? >> bret: steve brown, 00 yards away. steve, thank you. >>> syrian troops reportedly killed at least 11 civilians today in an armed assault against the city of homes. they established control of another town after four days of intense fighting. back here at home, the u.s. has slapped sanctions on syria's largest commercial bank and cell phone operator. chief washington correspondent jim ankle reports something bigger is on the horizon. >> with the syrian government getting ever more brutal in the crackdown on protesters, officials say the obama administration is about to call on syrian president bashar assad to step down. they said as much at the white house today. >> the president believes that syria will be better off, would be better off without president assad. >> saudi arabia's king adullah and or arab nations have unified use of force. saudis and other nations withdrew ambassadors this week. the treasury department announced new sanctions on syria bank clo

item, net wealth lost during the ongoing recession. white americans, 16% lost. black americans, 53% of wealth lost. that news came on top of the current unemployment numbers, the national rate for white americans is 8.1%. for black americans, 16.2%. president obama, the nation's first black president, is doing nothing about this, some believe. one of these so believers is princeton professor cornell west. >> i think he does have a predilection much more towards upper middle-class white brothers and jewish brothers and has a certain distancing from free black men who will tell him the truth, both with himself and what is going on in black communities, brown communities, red communes, and poor white and working class communities. >> west calls president obama a black mascot of wall street and a black puppet. also, professor west announced he and talk-show host tavis smiley will begin a national poverty tour next month to sharpen the nation's awareness on what they call the failings of the president. african-americans at large agree with west and smiley. the preside

sense that you know they'll say essentially we're not raise the them enough and agree to it unless the white house is. even more appealing to the pretty significant spending cuts across the board that probably go deeper for them what it really is well let me but like you have more go to yours my expectation. and i'll tell you john boehner in his worth. batt nobody democrat or republican. is willing to see the full faith and credit of the united states government. collapse amazing nine months ago his first response was what do you mean leverage then no that's not going to happen so i'm take those words back maybe joining me now to talk about this issue is jane hamsher author and editor founder and editor firedoglake dot com jane welcome back and thanks for having me tom thanks for joining us why didn't the president take mark and viner's warning seriously back in december i mean mark basically laid out the whole republican game plan for him in that press conference. well i tend to say i take issue with that whole idea that the tea party had to turn me out and i guess i mean mitch mcconnell se

george tenet was saying to the white house saying to the president as he briefed him every morning a major elec fact is going to happen against the united states somewhere in the world in the weeks and months ahead he said that in june july august so what's behind clark's new take on nine eleven and could it be true for more on this i'm joined by phil shannon investigative reporter for newsweek and the daily beast as well as the author of the book the commission the uncensored history of the nine like nine eleven investigation phil welcome thank you for having me great to have you here with us first of all latest allegation your your take on this is which is the latest he actually said this in two thousand and nine and these documents areas have been sitting on this information for two years for a court gave an interview in two thousand and nine in which he said that after many years of thought on the subject he'd come to the conclusion that the cia probably tried to recruit two hijackers who were living in the united states beginning in two thousand and hid that information from the

[laughter] let me do a quick impression of what is going on in the white house at the moment.ind me that bow tie boy and let him tell us what happens next. [laughter] it looks like the democrats got hosed. but i'll bet the republicans are creaming in their jeans. i'm sorry trousers. >> ooh! [laughter] mmmmm, mmmmm. [laughter] subtle. [laughter] trillions in spending cuts, no revenue increases, go ahead tea party congress people put on your hats, play your fifes and dance, tea party like it's 1799. >> i can't vote for this. >> we haven't gotten what we need. this is totally inadequate. >> congresswoman michelle bachmann is voting against it. >> i'm going to vote against it. >> it's a yes vote? >> i'm voting against it. >> jon: what the (bleep) tea partyers? what the fee, fi, fo -- (bleep) you control less than one percent of congress and you have convinced everyone -- take the win. what are you so angry about? yes, government still exists. we still have traffic lights. [laughter] we're sorry. not everybody defines freedom as the ability to not pay taxes. government isn't perfec

i totally agree with you, i hope the white house gets it. for joining us tonight. >>> let's turn to terry mcauliffe, the former chairman of the republican party, he's now the chairman of green tech automotive, and former chair of the dnc. great to have you with us tonight. >> great to be here. >> i appreciate your time. you know, when you take a look at the climate that president obama is dealing with, i want to ask you, you've been around this racquet a long time. when do you say, enough is enough and turn to the election? is it too soon to do that? and what do you make of the president's last ditch effort on a jobs bill? >> we all know we need jobs in this country. we've lost 50,000 manufacturing plants, five million jobs have been lost, people are tired of the speeps from politicians talking about jobs. they want action. i applaud the president who's going to come out with a major initiative on jobs. i wish he would have done it a month ago. we should not be taking time off right now, we need to do it immediately. i hope the white house s