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> reporter: this was the white house before. econd story porch. but it created an uproar. yet, for some reason, the usually uncertain political wife said she was going to do it anywayay do you think it surprised him how she emerged in the white house? suddenly? >> i think it surprised her. >> reporter: she made her move on donors. >> you know, people weren't going to give up good pieces of furniture. you'd have 9 cups of tea with some old lady and she'd give you $50. >> reporter: and the girl who loved books and history used her scholarly passion and hours of research, studying engravings, finding the french inspired antiques of monroe and madison. >> she helped america to come of age after world war ii. we were the only superpower in the world but the symbols didn't look that way. >> reporter: you can see her moments. only the lincoln bedroom, she says, is the one not to be changed. the end result, staggering. these are iconic white house rooms, the east sitting hall before and after. the yellow oval room before and after. and t

the white house likes the contrast.hey like the idea of the president speaking down to the chamber of commerce, accusing them of -- sorry. speaking down to congress accusing them of doing nothing on the job. they like the idea of the republican field raising their hands saying they will reject $10 in spending cuts for $1 in taxes. they like the idea of obama coming out like an adult. i think they wanted it.ç >> contrarian view to that i'll call it reasonable ground. in the end, independents are the ones who are going to call the shot in this. another argument out there says the base is now so offended with what they perceive to be his caving in, some may not be as motivated? >> that's the thing. this whole argument over the speech is a trivial superficial argument. no one will remember in a week. however it reinforced the narrative that existed a lot longer than this. obama will not fight for even minute matters. he looks liked adult in the room, but a depressed base doesn't like to see the president cave in on even th

i think it has all of the people in the white house scurrying. , this goes all the way to the top. these e-mails that we are seeing now between omb officials and the white house are incredibly damning. >> sean: it shows it goes to joe biden's office. even the white house. here's the issue we have to highlight. some of the people involved in this deal that benefitted from the -- the government -- i would love to start a business and have 535 million dollars guaranteed by the federal government and i have no incentive to succeed. they predicted, that this company would fail in 2011. the question is, to what extent did the people that bundled money for the president for his election in 2008, how did they get the access? how did they get the money? when everybody said this company was going to fail? >> right. it is easy to see how he got that access. if you just put out your moneybags and collect hundreds of thousands of dollars, you get that clear pass that green path to the white house. that's how they got access. the bottom line question is what di

. >> the white house dropping a political bomb shell. >> this is the right time to do it. >> president obama brings the fight for jobs directly to congress. >> asking speaker boehner, senate majority leader harry reid, for time to address a joint session of congress. >> that's exactly when the republican debate is scheduled to air on this network. >> the nbc news politico debate. >> at practically the same time. >> we picked a pretty good time to have a debate, what do you think? >> no doubt. >> john boehner, speaker of the house, can reject this request. >> republicans attack not just what the president wants to say but where and when he wants to say it. >> tries to rain on the republicans parade. >> the venue is appropriate because the actions that need to be taken. >> you are obviously trying to disrupt the plans at the reagan library. >> we are at a moment when we need to take significant action. >> boehner should say, mr. president, i'm not going to assist you in your political games. >> we're getting bits and pieces about what might be in that plan. >> the president is considerin

you're the co-sponsors of the debate with nbc. did boehner or whiteouse people talk with you guys in the last 24 hours how this would get resolved? >> well, i think, you know, we all know what we're going to get them for christmas pap bunch of day planners. the level of coordination these guys had with each other, talking about the hill and the white house, is somewhere below the kw0rdenation i have with nigh kids' dentist in terms of 1 set offing up an appointment. you can't have a situation in which nobody communicates and you negotiate this stuff out in public. carney tried to make it look like we were blowing it out of proportion and talking about side show. te telling you, this is not at side show. it's the main event. they don't talk to people on the hill, communicate with republicans or democrats in a direct way'sit's built up a lot of resentment, and these chickens have come home to roost, and they've got to come home to roost again when we start talking about the super committee and these negotiations over the deficit. >> karen, bring you in.

people are being beaten outside of the white house. this isn't in a certain portion of washington, dc. this is all over washington. and he does nothing. and his district commissioner keeps pleading with him, my police can't happen this. the police are completely and immediately overwhelmed. and he absolutely does nothing. finally, days after four or five days of mayhem, he finally calls in the troops, and the troops there are and within an hour it's shut down. and this is an important point because throughout this summer, and i think this speaks to the '60s as well, and the reasons for rioting are manifold, but stopping a riot is easy. get disciplined troops and tell people to go home, and if you do that. people go home because a mob doesn't want to attack disciplined troops. and whenever that did occur in 1919, for example in charleston, south carolina, the riots were over in half an hour. they would be over immediately. whenever it didn't happen, like chicago, or washington, or knoxville, or omaha, things ranch out of control very, ve

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they really came together to force the white house and congressional republicans to have an independentinvestigation of what had gone so wrong before 9/11. how was it possible this attack could have taken place? the central finding was there was an enormous disarray in the federal government dealing with terrorist threats. there were doubts that were not being connected. >> host: the white house opposed the creation of the commission for months. how long was that push back and why were they opposed to its creation? >> pushed back for many months. the better part of a year or much more than a year. their argument was we cannot divert the central intelligence agency and the fbi from their central mission which was preventing another 9/11. we can't force them to answer the question of the independent investigation which they need to focus their attention elsewhere and there is a legitimacy to that argument but obviously i have people acknowledging this in the book at the white house that there was a terrible political fear at the commission that it could do great damage to president bush a

but what does it say for the white house right now? t of fray, she is not responsible for the high unemployment or the debt and spending going on. she is being viewed as someone who is doing something and she has the name recognition. it's obvious that people will probably feel this way. >> and possibly get on the campaign trail and be a part of the obama administration. >> do you think she'll get on the campaign trail? >> i think she has to. >> she has to go witness. absolutely. >> she is associated why the fact the unemployment is so high. >> i think --. [ talking over each other ] >> but he endorsed the team of rivals and he picked her for that for that reason. they worked very well together. i think this is a win-win situation. >> obama is pretty radioactive right now. >> heather: we have another interview segment. democratic switchers. and michele bachmann getting in some trouble. we'll talk about that and more with our power panel coming up. you could save a bundle with geico's multi-policy discount. geico, saving people money on

>> guest: the years i was in the white house, don't you remember? c-span: yes, i do. >> guest: i was there from 1963 right following the assassination on november 22. i worked for president johnson. i was in dallas that dreadful day and the moment that changed everyone's life and ended up back in washington on air force one. i wrote those 58 words that the president delivered when he stepped off the plane at andrews air force base, "this is a sad time for all people" and so forth. so then for five years i worked at the white house as press secretary and staff director for lady bird johnson and sometimes funny-speech writer for lbj when he was willing to use my gags. c-span: how often do you think about those five years? >> guest: they're part of you, they shake you, they furnish a lot of fodder for your folklore of politics, and i like to think about it and tell it. i think it was a very yeasty time in this country almost akin to the early new deal days because we worked very hard on the war on poverty while he was trying to subdue the war in vietnam

they are in the white house and they leave. that allows for a depth of reporting that i think at the end of the day the president rightly would like to respond to. i think it is better if you have these disclosures at the end of the day that to have the president so nimble and to say, let's go through it. this gives a whole mess to it and helps when the book comes out rather than hurts. it is an hour in each case. he goes through it a letter and verse. i really do think having read all of the interviews that he has done, he is stretching to think about how he has changed and maybe needs to change in terms of being a more engaged leader in a way that is not customary for him. readers can decide for themselves. tavis: tavis: there are some people who see his job speech and is throw down conversation where he drew a line in the sand with republicans. some say that he is a changed man. he is starting to find a spine, find a backbone. there are others who see this as pure political calculation. his back is against the wall, his numbe

the overwhelming number of white voters gave him the victory and said it is ok. i raise that with specificity to ask. this is my word, nine years. give them permission. >> i put it differently. billick to be on the side of the winner. they had been a republican -- there had been an -- a republican occupying the white house. there was a real hunger. there had been blacks who had run for the white house largely as symbolic can it's. black people really were not so much interested in that anymore. they had supported to some extent symbolic candidate and they wanted someone who was going to take the white house. i do not think it was that black folks were waiting for white folks to give them permission. black folks wanted somebody -- 1 barack obama -- when barack obama triumphed among the predominantly white electorate in iowa, then that was the signal, this guy could win. the electorate in the u.s. is mainly a white electorate. tavis: what does it say that about black folk, what does it say about black folks along that color line that you so easily say they wanted s

house, and if so why was the white house stepping in? are allegations by white house critics that it was because the white house had a horse in the race, that they had a financial interest because thinks a big political donor and making things easy on them, but is that true? come up in about 40 minutes at 2:15 eastern time phillip falcone who is the founder of light squared will join me here, live, right her on "america live." we can get his side of the story and i will ask him some of these unanswered questions. stay tuned for that. major controversy today over a new book by officer ron suskind, a book that paints a bleak picture of the obama administration and a book in which the obama administration cooperated. the book is called confidence men, wall street, washington and the education of a president. there are allegations of a hostile environment where there's quote, no adults in charge of our economy. the white house is challenging many of the facts but suskind says he did over 700 hours of interviews with more than 200 people, incl

in its response to this and other inquiries, is the white house violating this commitment? >> let me say it as simply as i can. transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency. our commitment to openness means more than simply informing the american people about how decisions are made. >> on that transparency question, it seems pretty clear the administration is falling short. exhibit "a" the federal communications chairman, himself, a big obama fund-raiser had a huge role in green lighting the lightsquared project. jen kousky was called to testify at today's hear on the controversy, but he didn't show. >> personally, i believe this is an absolute effort by the chairman to avoid the oversight questions, by congress to avoid the responsibility of the issue of how this will affect gps and what the fcc's process is. appear to be irregular as to how this manner is moving forward. >> let's dig deeper beginning with the congressman, the chairman of the subcommittee looking into the issue, republican congressman michael turner of ohio. i want to start, m

you were in the clinton white house. you know what it's like when you have to have this communication with congress and you're trying to do a joint session speech that isn't a scheduled one a la the state of the union. your assessment on how the white house handled this? >> i think that weirdly in the end, i think dan pfeiffer is right, it's not like voters are going to care about this. i guess the one thing i would say is they probably should have anticipated that the press would have a big reaction to going the same night as the republican presidential debate even if they hadn't intended that, that there would be a lot of speculation about is this a political speech, you know, people would have gotten distracted on it, and i understand once you decide you're going to go to congress, you only got two nights to deal with so i can understand trying to push the first night. but knowing that they don't need any distractions right now, you would have wanted to work this out more in advance. >> were you surprised that in all t

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

from the white house's end. nfirms what we all know, they will do anything in the house to muck us up." now, that's bogus because the white house had to see this coming. there is no way they didn't know that was very important date for republicans and they weren't starting some sort of stuff -- >> forget the date. i agree with you. forget the date. even james carville saying this is out of bounds. why would this not have taken place behind closed doors? you go back and forth what's common place, you send a letter and you get back and forth on dates and then you publicly come out with a date. you don't go to twitter first and then get the response. it makes no sense. >> ultimately, the president, you know, some would look at this and say the president caved or the president backed down. that's not something that's a presidential thing to say, you know, so it has gotten a little ugly for the administration. and increasingly ugly is the look -- the outlook on what's going to happen for our economy. the white house c

dunn now says she does not think the white house is hostile. the larger push-back against the book has to deal with its central thesis that the president is not a strong leader and does not willingly make tough decisions. the white house spokesman today said he is a strong leader with a clarity of vision about where we need to move as a country. diane? >> all right, jake, thanks. jake tapper reporting from the white house. >>> we turn to that terrifying air show disaster in reno. another spectator died today bringing the death toll to ten with dozens still seriously injured. and three days after the tragedy, the investigation is focusing on the pilot in the stunt plane. racing at speeds up to 500 miles per hour before he crashed tearing into the crowd. abc david's wright is in reno. >> reporter: it all happened so fast, the spectators barely had time to duck. >> we didn't have time to be terrified. you know, it was just so fast. >> reporter: 59 people were hurt badly enough to be sent to the hospital. five are still critical. ten died. the p-51

the words of white house communications director dan fifer, jack lew is the director of white house budgett. it doesn't appear as if the plan that was released yesterday is being seen as some sort of serious proposal to be compromised with congress. here's a "new york times" headline, obama confirms new hard stand for debt relief. no hard compromise. >> there's another article that goes through proposals the president put out yesterday that would mean reductions in medicare including med dare benefits. there are dozens of proposals in this plan which take on sacred cows from agriculture subsidies to military health benefits. if you look at the overall plan the president put out, it's tough balance, it's balanced but asking for spending cuts and tax increases. the president has democrats saying that a plan that includes benefit reductions is something that they're open to. on the other hand, we have republicans saying anything with taxes is off the table. i think there's room here for this gap to be closed. >> my question is why not, if you were willing to have a plan that was markedly diff

there were people who brought their slaves to the white house. so, i go through the various presidents. there were a couple that you mentioned that i thought i was particularly useful to call upon. so even before obama occupied the white house, people were making analogies between obama and fdr. i think one of the reasons is because both assume the presidency in the midst of the financial crisis. so, the great recession, the biggest downturn in the american economy since the great depression. you think great depression, franklin delauro of duff roosevelt. >> host: in the new deal? >> guest: in the new deal. so what about obama? how does he -- so, i try to use analogies. i try to compare and contrast. with fdr and came across one interesting thing. people talk about fdr. he was president 1930's-1940's. i point out much of franklin delano roosevelt's presidency, there was for much of his presidency he was never questioned by a black journalist. because for most of the time that franklin delano roosevelt was president, there was a rule that allowed o

a few hours later the white house changed course and moved the speech to thursday. while washington fights more than 400,000 americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, showing almost no change in our jobs crisis. joining me now chief white house correspondent, ed henry. what a debacle. have you ever seen anything like this in your years covering the white house. >> i have not. this is really a routine matter when the president wants to give an address. the president is normally accorded the respect of picking the date. on the other side of the ledger normally the republican side or whichever is the opposite party, in this case the republicans are pretty accommodating. and normally the white house will work with them if they say look, that date doesn't work for us. it happens every year with the state of the union. it completely broke on you. i have not seen anything like it. it shows us how much this whole process has broken down. this is how it played out. bill daly sed morning reached out to speaker john boehner said look the president wants to give this

head of solyndra was up at the white house all the time. obviously friends with obama and the group. and they gave them 500 million. for the people like your listeners that might know what that represents that is an insane amount of money. that's insane. we are not talking about half a million dollars or two million dollars. 500. that's half a billion dollars for a company that was no good and was poorly run. it is absolutely outrageous. >> greta: it says so much more donald. after all we've endured in this country with this bad economic time, housing collapse during the previous administration but creating problems now. the idea that 500 million dollars is other people's money that's just taxpayers' money it is very unfortunate. i think it is so outrageous to the people living under the poverty line in this country who want jobs and can't get them and that gets flushed down the toilet because of incompetency. >> when you think of what that amount represents. i can see maybe giving somebody a little help or whatever, if it is whatever kind

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and basically the white house is like a newsroom, a lot of companies, it's tough up there. summers and rahm emanuel treated men and women in very harsh ways. but there was not a distinction between them where somehow these guys were horrible misogynists and engaged in creating hostile work environment. now, the response to that might be, well, she said it, anita dunn said it. you know? just because one person in a kind of a got you situation may have said something doesn't make it true. and the role of the author is to sort through all the many different things that sources say. on the record and off. to try to paint a true picture. something can be an accurate quote but not an accurate reflection. we all know that when it's reported in the wider world, people just get the short end. most people aren't reading these books, right? all they get is barack obama, sexist white house. that's not fair and it's not true. so we have to take some responsibility of the impressions, the larger impressions that we convey from our reporting. i think that's also true of him as a sessideci

in austin, texas, the then-white leader of the naacp visited in the summer and was beaten by a white mop that included a sitting judge and the local constable, and then the governor the next day absolutely defended it and said these troublemakers shouldn't even be showing up in this town. so just briefly i want to talk about two kinds of, there were two kinds of racism that were sort of permeating american society at the time. one is the one we all know which is the longstanding view from the time that people were brought over as slaves, you know, black people are lazy and simultaneously threatening. the sort of confused view that is still around today, the sort of standard bigotry. but there was also this new kind of racism that had evolved which was based loosely on darwin, you know, this idea that the world was divided into ethnic groups and these races were competing and that white people dominated the world, white civil sietion dominated the world, and these color races were threatening us. and these books were not obscure panel pletts -- panel pletts -- pamphlets, they were incr

dunn said she did not say the white house was not a hostile environment. the council advisor felt like a piece of meat that was boxed out by senior advisors. roamer said she can't imagine saying she felt like a piece of meat. the white house said it is infused with drama and salacious details based on anonymous sources. and a source, the obama administration is getting support from a unlikely republican force. >> i am certain how much is true and accurate. my personal experience is that he tend toz exagerate. he said suskind wrote about him in an inaccurate and unreelistic way. >> it is damage control that is beginning. thank you very much. >> and while there is a large pool of candidates vying for the gop presidential nomination. some see it to be a two horse race between mitt romney and rick perry. joining us is the former presidential campaign advisor. welcome to both of you. and thank you for joining us. >> talk about the book. at this moment, do you think that it is going to have much traction given the fact that the white house had a tough week with

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dunn says she told suskind point blank that the white house was not a hostile environment. d romer on feeling like a piece of meat said, i can't imagine that i ever said that, i felt respected, included and useful to the team. but earlier in the administration, as the president played golf and basketball with only men, many did see that as a sign of the white house was a boys club. >> i've got to say, i think this is bunk. >> reporter: when asked if the white house is or ever was a hostile work environment, a woman staffer told abc news, quote, it is not my experience. if it had been, i wouldn't have been here as long as i have been. even journalist jonathan alter who first wrote about many of these same stories and events believes that suskind's account is "exaggerated." >> david, what is the white house plan to refute this book? >> reporter: well, you know, the media blitz really starts tomorrow on the release of the book which actually comes out in stores on tuesday, and you're already seeing it, dan. these women have come out front, the ones who worked in the white house

stay you. >> greta: new worry for the white house. nded two big lawsuits raising questions about the president's chances in 2012. joining us associate politics editor for roll call. good evening christina. >> hi. >> greta: is the obama campaign rattled? any way to them in terms of what 2012 could bring? >> they are never going to portray they are rattled. one of the messages is in fact they are head down trying to fill the grassroots organization focusing on what they are doing next year trying not to pay attention to the everyday polls. those messages may sound familiar, because they are. this is what you heard in 2008. they were able to be out in chicago,. of course it is not a good sign in is a solidly democratic district in new york and the president was a factor there. it would be one thing if turner was able to win by one or two points he had a solid blow-out win if a strong "d" district. that said, special elections are very unusual. and democrats won a they lost te last year. >> greta: did weprin ask president obama to campaign

and heroin of "the help" is obviously white. his young woman who decides to tell the story of black domestic workers, and criticism has come through several quarters. criticism want about the centrality of the white characters, criticism about certainly in the book about the dialect, and with some of the dialogue. which strikes some people as stereotypical. there's been criticism as nicole mention of the fact that you have a number of black domestic workers who apparently are selfless in their love for the whites there taking care of. there's some question about the portrayal of a black man. but as i said i haven't seen the movie. so i can't authoritatively comment on how well i think it does, what it does. but it certainly speaks i think to the hunger of at least a particular audience for a racial story that has, that is not just paint whites as villains. that's much more complicated than that, and that does the white house but it also has a white heroin in the center of it, and that has a set of black characters were very palat

. >> and they report ten miles from the white house. nine miles. t miles. >> reporter: this is their story. >> if it was going to hit anything, it was going to hit us. >> reporter: "the footnotes of 9/11." tuesday, september 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless. so begins the 9/11 commission report on what was about to become a day filled with dark skies. the first event of that day happened not in washington, boston or new york, but here in portland, maine, at the us airways ticket counter. it was just before 6:00 a.m. and tuehey had checked in the first commuter flight to boston. >> i'm going to step outside and have a smoke. just as i stepped over the counter i look up and see these two fellows standing there and they're looking around. >> reporter: in the official report of the 9/11 attack, there are 1,742 footnotes. mike tuehey is the very first. >> i look at the tickets. i go, whoa, first class tickets. you don't see $2,400 tickets anymore. and these were real tickets. they were paper tickets. so i'm saying, well, good thing, i can

why do you believe the white house still approved it? >> well, look, you're absolutely right, that the -- actually the committee voted unanimously to not go along with this loan, so it died, then like lazarus, it rose again and this lazarus loan is what we're trying to find out, who gave the green light to it. there are indications from e-mails that may have gone through with other elements, coinciding with a visit, reuben kunings -- it should be pointed out country reason congress said no more earmark, although some were good, there was a question that when politics came in the way and favoritism, and in this situation is one where this became basically an administrative or white house earmark that did this loan come through in such a way that it violated the law in two ways, and that is, it gave preference to mr. kaiser and their private equity fund reinvestment over the taxpayers, so they get paid back before we do in a bankruptcy, and the second thing is, they weren't supposed to get any money at all if they couldn't pay it back, and

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maybe it's trying to be helpful, but believe me the net take away inside the white house, we just got dissed, not help. >> the republicans are trying to get some media for their enown plan. rand paul. >> i have a message for the president, if you're for job creation, you can't be against the job creators. another message for the president, we've got a bill that will help solidify a thousand jobs in south carolina, pass it now. if you want to be in favor of jobs, pass this bill now. >> he's obviously referring to that boeing plant in south carolina that the national labor relations board is keeping shuttered for now you because they're engaged in a fight over union workers and so forth. and does he have a point and are the media picking it up? >> no, look, everybody now views the quest for more jobs in america through a political lens. and that's what's happening, it's happening at the political level. it's happening in the media, and people are lining up, if you notice what kendall pointed out was that we have people calling for the president to replace people around him. i haven't he

more bad news for the white house. in nevada where republican mark amaday crownsed kate marshal by 22 points, 58-36, he won in all 17 counties. you can explain away both special elections on a localized basis, but the fact is, this is the july-august hangover that has stung the white house, presidential approval ratings nationally at low points for the president. yes, there were local reasons why new york 9, weprin made orthodox jews upset on his views over gay marriage, there's a lot of localized ways to explain this away, but if the president's job approval rating had been higher in this district, he might have been able to come in and help. the fact is he couldn't come in and help. the district will be disappearing just like new york 26. democrats had a hard time getting a good candidate. it's still a wake-up call for democrats. the white house will argue what happened last night in new york is simply that exclamation point on a terrible summer, that they've made the course correction, it's just taking time to sink i

they four meetings at the white house. ek prior to getting 535 million taxpayer stimulus dollars. then they get the money. they were warned they needed to do due diligence, they didn't do it. does this in way raise any red flags in your liberal mind? >> well, my liberal mind went through that timeline. it started under the administration. >> sean: we know that, bush said no, they rejected it. >> they didn't. they said they wanted more due diligence and it was done. there was an additional marketing report, a law firm report. all of these things were done and it was put through and approved. the bigger issue is not the $10,000 that some bundler gave to michelle obama's clinic in chicago. we tried to compete in a market we shouldn't be competing in. solar energy. we are trying to compete with china. it is ludicrous that we would give 500 million dollars to a company that can compete with china. >> sean: we should allow the free market to do its thing. victor the bush administration did reject it in the final days of the admin

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there were people who brought their slaves to the white house. so, i go through the various presidents. there were a couple that you mentioned that i thought it was particularly useful to call upon so even before he ought to put the white house people making an analogy between obama and fdr. one of the reasons i think is both assumed the presidency in the midst financial crisis. so this great recession people say this was the biggest, you know, downturn in the american depression since the great depression. well, you think great depression, franklin delano roosevelt. >> host: and the new deal. >> guest: and the new deal. so what about obama? how does he -- so why try to use analogies. i try to compare and contrast. with fdr i came across one interesting thing. people talk about fdr. so here is a president, you know, 1930's, 1940's. i point out that for much of franklin delano roosevelt's presidency, there was for much of his presidency he was never questioned by a black journalist because for most of the time that franklin delano roosevelt was pre

the white house made it clear that job creation needs the support of congress. that's why they're unveiling their jobs plan on the house floor. but that support is off to a rocky start. president obama may have to compete with thursday night football when he lays out his jobs plan next week. he's agreed to deliver his address to a joint session on congress on september 8th, the same day the nfl kicks off its regular season. the house speaker john boehner rejected the president's original request for wednesday, september 7th. it is my recommendation that your address be held on the following evening, boehner wrote in a letter. he cited a tight house kep schedule, but wednesday is also the date of a republican presidential debate. >> you can never find a perfect time. there are major events that occur on television. there are other issues you have to deal with as well as congressional scheduling and presidential scheduling. >> the last time the president addressed a joint session of congress was for the state of the union. democrats and republicans sat side by sid

i can't find it. >> roger simon, did you get any indication from your highly-placed source at the white house today, with regard to their response to this sort of behavior. that there will be a change in the president's demeanor? will he continue to pursue what i describe as the reasonable ground, or did they give you that story because they want people to know, we're now drawing a line in the sand? >> i can't say for sure as to the president. i think his staff is tired of what has been going on. and would like to see, not just his staff, his democratic base, would like to see a tougher barack obama. now, that may not be in him. he didn't run a very mean campaign in 2008. he ran a good campaign. but it wasn't mean. maybe he's going to have to get meaner if he wants to win in 2012. because he certainly doesn't have the economy on his side any more. >> when you study, ron reagan, the numbers about his president, while his disapproval rating is attian all-time high. when you look into the cross-tabs, you see that many americans continue to like, believe he's a very, very decent individual.

gwen: and it extends to the white house. >> yes. gwen: thank you, michael, everybody else as well and thank you for joining us. the conversation has to end here. but we'll continue it online. want to know what we make of tim pawlenty's endorsement, the jackie kennedy book? find out in our "washington week" webcast extra. it will be posted at 11 p.m. eastern at pbs.org. keep up with daily developments all week online and on the air at the pbs newshour. we'll sum it up for you again as always. next week on "washington week." good night. every thursday, get a preview of our topics and panel with our "washington week" email alert. available at washington week online at pbs.org. >> "washington week" was produced by weta which is soley responsible for its content. funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> we know why we're here. >> to connect our forces to what they need, when they need it. >> to help troops see danger. before it sees them. >> to answer the call of the brave and bring them safely home. >> around the globe, the peo

house's agenda be accepted by the white house in the same way that media that as media that it. well don't forget right now we have a white house that's being blasted by fox news news is not really an outlet that they like over there you have to live in the real world and the real world is many different voices in terms of al-jazeera they have basically not really praise them silly clinton made a statement in congress to an appropriations committee and said look these people are very successful give us some money so we can be successful in our foreign broadcasting she wasn't really praising al jazeera she was citing it as as a case example to be emulated by u.s. government propagandists i mean but you just mentioned fox news and fox news is a news agency that gets white house has gone after we've seen them call them a republican party mouthpiece call on other news organizations to isolate and alienate fox news to declare it not a news organization david times not given gas pox news so i guess if you're not in line with the white house agenda is it impossible to be expected. well