and truman was just getting warmed up. partner you know what they've done in the labor department since the torn it up so no one zero left the sponsor thing and they cut the appropriations on that so it can hardly function. i recommended an increase in the minimum wage. what they get. nothing. i have discussed a number of these failures of the republican congress and every one of them is important. by indirection this a.d.'s congress has tried to sabotage that power policy with the united states has pursued for fourteen years we can you say this country from a continuation no they asked congress and from miss ruth from now on i must have your help you must get in and post and win this election the country can't afford another republican congress. are you taking notes mr president obama truman's decision to fight back in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight what you just saw led to huge democratic victories in the next election he's so completely crushed that the republicans didn't control the house of representatives aga

truman was one of the most -- eisenhower was one of the most politically experienced people to enterhe presidency. he had, he had been, worked for the chief of staff in the 1920s, he'd been in paris in the 1920s working for general pershing at the battle monument's commission, he was the war office -- war department, rather, in the early 1930s. he spent the late 1930s as macarthur's deputy in the philippines, building up the philippine army as, prior to independence. general marshall brought him back prior to pearl harbor because he had recognized in eisenhower a gifted junior officer. he brought him into the war plans division. he actually tasked eisenhower who was barely at that point a brigadier general with the plans for the defense of the philippines. he did the same thing with, when it was decided after pearl harbor to, um, mount an invasion of north africa from the west. the british were pushing rommel from the east, and we were going to land in morocco, and marshall tasked eisenhower with the, with the design of those plans. so eisenhower came to the presidency not only a gre

on the economic collapse to the debatable collapse of mankind sixty six years ago today president truman and u.s. policy makers made the fateful decision to drop the second two atomic bombs on japan he's of course our hiroshima nagasaki during the final stages of roald war two so six decades later what are the after effects and what have we learned. it was a top secret mission a new weapon of mass destruction scheduled to end a world war and russell gascon back would serve as the necessary evil guiding the atomic bomb to its targets. sixty six years ago the b. twenty nine bomber known as the enola gay dropped the world's first out of bombs on the japanese city of heroes three days later a second bomb was dropped on august saki the bombs would serve as the first human experiment of nuclear warfare setting off radiation and byron mental and lasting damages long after the dust settled again can by twenty two years old at the time looked back during the sixty fifth anniversary and recall the historic moment we knew but we knew going to do was supposed to shorten the war but we do not know ho

harry truman targeted innocent civilians in these two cities and so hopefully we've learned that whether it's an in sixteen that shoots and then some person or a pilot and drops a bomb on innocent people the principle is the same it's wrong and that's what we need to acknowledge it's so interesting to see some of this old footage and hear some of these old you know sound bite from president truman about the net you know the necessary evil and the need to save so many american lives and therefore you know so many other lives had to be taken what amount that out if you don't do you see any similarities with that attitude and where we are today in the three wars that we're involved in well for one thing the evidence has come out since the atomic bombing of hiroshima nagasaki that that simply was not the case the japanese were ready to surrender they were already signaling to the soviets that they were ready to surrender all they were asking for was to let the emperor stay in power and our side was saying no we want unconditional surrender which the japanese cannot accept because the emperor

truman squeaked past. the morning after the election, the republicans made a decision that there were going to destroy his presidency. they used the soft on communism charge against him. when the korean war began, they essentially destroyed truman's presidency. there was no constitutional ban on truman running for election again in 1952. he was so unpopular he could not have gotten the nomination even within his own party. this unrelenting opposition, unfortunately, sometimes works. it has worked pretty well against obama, despite the fact that i still think he has done about as well as anybody could have. even the head when he has been dealing with, this hurricane, he has still done remarkably well. that is not going to go away. down here, please. please stand up, thank you. >> i listened to this discussion of having large majorities in both houses and immediately went to bob carroll saying lyndon johnson could get 12 votes but you only needed one to break the filibuster at the time when he had 59 in the

truman the only u.s. president not to raise the debt ceiling.ruman came into office nine days after the debt limit had been raised and actually lowered the limit one year after taking office. let's huddle up around the water cooler to hear grover norquist who has been at the center of this debt conversation roping scott brown's modeling career into the conversation. making the point that there is vulnerable republicans sitting out there in 2012. here's what he said. >> the republicans will take the senate in 2012 if you look at the 23 democrat seats up, half in reddish states and ten republican senate seats up, all in reasonably rop states with the possible exception of massachusetts and he's got $10 million in the bank and looking great in a bathing suit. >> take it back to june 1982, cover cosmo pal tan magazine. brown won the sexiest man in america. 22 years old. grover norquist was like no bathing suit. i don't know what bathing suit he's talking about. hugo chavez is working out to promote the healthy government healthy body campaign and to

truman had the marshall plan. jfk took america to the moon. what is the obama master plan?o you see a sign of what it could be, which will rejuvenate america and americans? >> we're going to dub this something, i would call it generation downsize. the companies are downsizing. universities are downsizing. and president obama happens to be in the white house when he had to downsize. it's hard to get people enthralled with cuts. young people aren't coming in buss to the obama library some day, the presidential library to see the pen where he slashed some government programs. so he -- the bigger question is what does obama stand for? most people thought he was a continuum of progressivism. he's having a summer of malaise right now. and i believe the president has to turn it around as dan said, jobs this fall. the trim line of 9% is unacceptable for the president looking for re-election. he's positioned himself pretty well as saying vote for me because behind me are crazy crazies. but that's hardly a position you want to be on running -- you want to be optimistic and for someth

no president, this late into their first term has had those numbers, but for harry truman, and gotten reelected. what does it mean for the president? >> well, he's engaged right now in a zero sum game, with leaders of congress. his plus is their minus. their plus is his minus. in the meantime, they are all going down together. because they are incumbents perceived as not doing their job. his advisers can only play against the player that is on the field, the gop congress. it doesn't do them any good to do that, because he sinks further and further. his real opponents, the republican presidential candidates, are so diverse, such a big field, so many possible new entrants he can run against them. all he can do is be a good president. that's impossible for him. he's got an economy that he can't possibly get his way out of. look, let's understand why he can't do that. what he needs right now is a trillion or two trillion dollar tax cut. he can do that, because he spent that money in a wasteful stimulus package, 2 1/2 years ago. as a result, there's nothing he can do. his ratings are going

in the late 40s, the prime minister called truman saying i'm facing a terrible economic crisis. i can't continue the efforts to maintain british remnants of empire. if you want to do it, fine. the time has come for us to recognize the terrible crisis here in the economy and withdraw from iraq, withdraw from afghanistan, tell our good friends in europe that the cold war is long since over, they are well able to defend themselves. it is time for us to substantially reduce our worldwide military commitment. put some of that into deficit reduction but spend some immediately. recover employment they lost. get construction done. the notion that we would be in this kind of a situation and at the same time the president is talking about staying in iraq longer than george bush was frankly appalls me. and i think the time has come, people say you got to get real and understand some constraints. well, the kbigest single area where we could do that is to cut i believe $200 billion a year on our expenditures. but for our worldwide policemen. almost all of our allies spent far less of a perce

truman and kennedy/johnson.i used to think that maybe this was a progressive country that periodically got tired of reform and settled into a conservative period but basically a progressive country. these 40 years are beginning to convince me we are essentially a very conservative country with only occasional bursts of progressive activity. i would like to see -- i am not all that optimistic. >> you open your presentation with a remark or a quotation decrying in difference and yet i think some would say franklin roosevelt as the war progressed was seemingly indifferent to the fate of the jewish people under the nazis. could you comment on that? tea change it is a serious question outside the area of my study. it has more to do with the horrors of the war. there are a couple of areas where roosevelt and his administration are frequently criticized. the complete justice of that criticism is the problem. some of the talks this morning we heard about how slow the new deal was and how reluctant roosevelt was in terms

nation for the jewish people in pal stein and eventually in may of 1948 it comes to be, and harry truman, 12 minutes after midnight when it happens, we're the first country to recognize the state of israel. actually norris by that time had become a little bit of an expert on middle east politics and history, certainly from a biblical standpoint, and had a exchange on correspondence with president truman on this. also in the 1930s -- this is a cool story i found out later, not in the book. pretty boy floyd, gangster, and you can see this in bur -- burrows' book about john dillinger, the mother of pretty boy floyd was a fan of norris, and norris played intermediary between the floyd family and j. edgar hoover, trying to evict wait the surrender of pretty boy floyd. i thought that was an interesting post script about norris and always finding a way to get involved in public events. he had a series of health issues in the late '40s, couple of strokes, and a lot of the stuff he had built he sort of splintered off. he alienated a lot of peep around hem. by the time he died in 1952, several var

norris was inexpert of politics and history and had an exchange of correspondence with president truman. an interesting footnote to a local story is pretty boy floyd who was a gangster that was made into the movie, apparently they were a fan of j. frank norris on the radio and took her other son jackie to be baptized by norris and for a brief time played intermediary to effectuate the pretty boy i bet that what is the interest dain post script and finding our way but had a series of health issues and a lot of this stuff he have built an alienated people around him by the time he died, the group known as independent fundamental baptist called the isp is the first of that group splintered into different ways he was speaking at a youth camp in florida 1952 and the body was flown back to ft. worth and not buried not far from where d.e. chips is buried as well. interesting closure to this story. >> carter is a famous name was the publisher of the fort worth star telegram and the fort worth club was the big plays for the movers and shakers the oligarchs at that time. he was one of the pallbea

israel declared their sovereignty in may of 1948. 11 minutes later, harry truman did the biggest favor he ever did for israel. he recognized israel's sovereignty. every president since has had israel's back until may of this year when the president made that indefensible statement of his. likewise, i will stand up against america's animes like an iran that seeks to have a nuclear weapon. i will stand against a nuclear iran and i will stand against a nuclear syria. [applause] the president has taken his eye off of the main events in the middle east, which is the buildup of a nuclear iran. the president of iran, ahmadinejad, has said that he would use a nuclear weapon to what israel off the map. he has said he would use it against the united states. if history has told us anything, it is to take the threats of madman seriously. i take them seriously. as president of the united states, this court -- this country will be respected in this world. [applause] so you see, we have a team that is absolutely -- that absolutely cannot be beat. when you bring together fiscal conservatives, social c

put up a big harry truman-type plan. big and democratic.lots of jobs, lots of spending, borrowing, but do it the democratic way. put people to work. dare the republicans to vote against it. number two, compromise a little of this, a little of that or roll over and give them what they want, more business tax cuts. the options. where should he go? >> b and c are about the same, chris. compromising with republicans is rolling over. that's virtually what happened in the debt ceiling debate. there were absolutely no tax increases, because the republicans wouldn't give in at all, and the president did.ç he absolutely needs is to be harry truman. >> you have to choke him. >> you have got to -- even if he proposes small things, they're not going to vote for it. they're going to say no. why not be big, be bold, be imaginative and hang it around the republicans' necks. >> my big question. why wouldn't the president tell them what to do if he didn't have opposition? let him know what he stands for and thet lem vote against him? what do you think? >>

a lot of the democrats have been praying to little statues of harry truman and of course, harry truman in 1948 got re-elected running against the do-nothing republican congress and he sent up a bunch of proposal proposals, and they rejected them and he used the rejection as a campaign issue. you heard that today in holland, michigan, at the company when you heard of them promoting technology and innovation, he said we didn't go through congress to do it. then he talked about the things that congress needs to do and talked about road construction and the cut in the payroll tax, and so i think that you saw the beginning of obama turning the page, if you will, and he is sensitive to the attacks over the last week over leadership, and i think that the speech was a response to that. >> well, what specifically can the president do, because when all is said and done the congress controls the purse string, and the republicans are holding that purse string with a clinched fist right now? >> well, they are looking very carefully at what can government agencies do through executive order. to pump

but the person that obama has to become is harry truman in 1948, running against congress and all of this thing that seems so alien. he wants to make them alien. chris: are the republican right, the people of the tea party world, more afraid of eight years of mitt romney than four more years of obama? they can kick the hell out of obama for four more years but imagine having to defend mitt romney for eight years? >> that's a hard one to call. in the end they still want to be the party in power which is probably why they'll end up nominating romney because they think he is more electable. there seems to be a meanness of spirit now. it's hard to imagine ronald reagan coming in and saying the kind of things that rick perry has said about bernanke this week. chris: imagine talking about treating bernanke ugly if he goes to texas. >> it's very much the mood of the republican party. this is what's so interesting, is that we are about to see what the republican party is now. as you've seen in this last week, a lot of the republican establishment who thought that perry might be acceptable to

i think he sees himself as harry truman ii, and you remember the famous book on harry truman by david mccolla was published 40 yeared after the truman presidency. so bush thinks of himself, i suppose he may say it in his own words, as misunderappreciated. now as scholars, when we get to bush's foreign policy, i think one the very interesting things is to dig into his decision making process. and as we do so, i think we find that it was very uneven, and it is still quite puzzling. it's very necessary that we gutted and continued the scholarship. it was uneven. now bush was often over confident and over determined. but that's not necessarily a liability. provided you have a good process, indecisiveness which is the problem with other presidents can be just as much of a problem as over determination. if you study bush's foreign policy decisions all the way from the one on north korea, the one you might remember in march 2001 when the american airplane and of chinese fighter jet collided and all the way after 9/11 into iraq. some of his decisions were carefully done. they had a lengthy pr

according to my source, that terrific program, rather than being made public by truman, a decision cameown from above that if the russians were doing this, this wicked science, the americans needed to do it, too. we could not fall behind the russians. that is upsetting. it was upsetting to learn about. it is upsetting to read about. i have interviewed this source. it has been over two years. i have spoken to him several times face to face. he stands by everything i wrote. i believe the reason he told me was because, of all his service to the country, this one program stands out as a travesty. he wanted to put that on the record before he died. tavis: despite the work you have done to bring area 51 to the best light we have seen in thus far, there can be a fine line between credible work and conspiracy theory. what say you? >> if you're asking whether i think my source of gave me information that is a disinformation, i right in my notes that that is a possibility. the reason i put it in my notes and not be taxed is because i believe the source's information is as true as he was told it b

. >> chuck, it sound to me as though he's campaigning as though he were harry truman. this is out of the old play book running against congress. let's talk about the divide that you said in the folks you were talking to out there, that is mirrored by the divide inside the campaign and the white house. people wanting him to be more of a compromiser. perhaps led by bill daly and others wanting him to be more aggressive and go after the republicans and just forget about trying to come up with a negotiated solution. >> that's exactly right. when you hear the we know that there was for instance, disagreement on the idea, you know, of inside the democratic party at least disagreement on the idea do you call congress back. that's why i perked up when it's something that congress can do right now. no, they couldn't. they're in recess. he could have asked them to come back. he decided not to do that because he thought they needed to get out and listen to what folks were saying. and it's clear that everybody's getting hit hard when you see these town halls and you see members of

truman, marshall and others one across the country making that case. we invested in those dollars, $13 billion in four years, which would be about $150 -- one of the $50 billion in our currency now. we helped to make the world stable and safe and open for all the postwar decades. we have an opportunity right now in the middle east and north africa that i am not sure we will be able to meet because we don't have the resources to invest in the new democracies in egypt and tunisia to help the transition in libya and see what happens in syria and so much else. the problems that leon mentioned -- we hope the rising powers are peaceful and successful but we have to be competitive. we cannot just cold. we have to work and we have to make a strong case for the continuing leadership of the united states. it is my hope that as we deal with these very real and pressing budget problems we don't know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. budget documents are value statements, who we are as a people and what we stand for and what investments we're making

whether it's fdr or harry truman or john f.y or bill clinton or ronald reagan, when you've had these great recoveries from difficult time, they've come through great government and big ideas. >> that's not -- the way it feels to me is that when you wait for a decision to be made from someone in power above you and you give up your personal responsibility, you give up your own power, that's where the danger comes. >> right now, small business people, for example, they have absolutely no mechanism out there to get their businesses going again. they just don't. it's just not there. >> right. >> so what do you say to those people? how do they -- how do they operate? this government -- >> give them government money. >> i think the solution is probably to do a better job. probably to raise taxes, to cut spending, to do special incentive for business people. >> you think they're raising taxes not on the small business people. >> get the revenue from the higher earners in my view. people have to pay for this. >> it's always going to be

whoever that turns out to be, but he is also railing against congress along the lines of maybe harry truman the way he did, the buck stops with him. as well as you recall. so it's going to be a long struggle. the president minced no words, though, in going after the republicans and making it clear that there is a real difference on so many issues between where he and the democrats stand and where the republican candidates and the republican members of congress stand as well, piers. >> well, let's have another listen to that. that was a pretty lively exchange. >> when i saw our republican presidential primary candidates suggesting that they would not be willing to close a single loophole or close a single special interest tax break even if they were going to get $10 of savings for every $1 of revenue that raised, that is no longer thinking in a common sense way. at that point, what you're saying is ideological rigidity that is preventing us from solving problems. >> i mean income summary, wolf, i think what we reached with this last few days is a fully engaged and pumped up president and a f

and harry truman 12 minutes after midnight when it happened is the first country, with the first country to recognize the state of israel. actually norris by that time had become a lit of an expert on middle east, certainly from a biblical standpoint and he had an exchange of correspondence with president truman on this. interesting little footnote. also in the 1930s, this is a cool story i found out later, it's not in the book. pretty boy floyd was a gangster, and you can see this in public enemies burroughs book about john dillinger that's me into the movie about dillinger a while back, apparently pretty boy floyd mother was a fan of j. frank norris on the radio and took her other son to be baptized i norris. and norris eventually for brief time played intermediary between the floyd fan and j. edgar hoover, trying to get the surrender of pretty boy floyd. i thought that was a good interesting little postscript about norris, he was always find a way to get involved in public events. he had a series of health issues in the late '40s, a couple of strokes, and a lot of the stuff he had bui

he's passed universal health care, a democratic aspiration since harry truman. he's passed the largest overhaul and expansion of regulations on the financl sector. he has now been trying sperately to do more with regard to jobs. that's a pretty impressive package and i frankly put it up against, i don't know, bill clinton, jimmy carter, and i'm a little hard pressed to see what the great liberal betrayal has been other than from some kind of fantasy version of liberalism where the american... finally a democratic president comes in and america becomes, i don't know, sweden. a, that's not what most americans want. b, that's certainly not where barack obama is politically. so why are we so surprised he's ended up being a somewhat left-of-center pragmatist? >> fareed, in all due respect, when you say this is what the american people wanted, actually, the american people want exactly opposite. the american people have said since day one of this administration we want jobs. they said in a cnn poll that just came out, they said by 2-1 deficits versus jobs, we care abo

and if the president blocks those proposals, he needs to make a harry truman-style block against the. the millions of american who is should have jobs, but don't. my fear about the president, who i really do respect, is getting on that bus, gus, he's going to be riding around the midwest, for what purpose? he's not pawlenty. he's not some politician running for the presidency. he's got the job. >> i think we've got to go out to where those roads and bridges are. you don't have to drive to richmond. can you go outside washington, d.c. or in washington, d.c. and find the roads that are in repair. we had a water main break in my district right across the washington beltway. it held up traffic up and down the eastern seaboard. we can do these things. this is not rocket science, i mean it was done, after the great depression so that we could get people back to work. spend $1 billion. a lousy $1 billion on infrastructure and get 30,000 jobs out of that. >> why aren't we doing that? >> we need to. >> why aren't leaders proposing a big jobs bill? why don't they do it? >> wait a second, chris

to the truman rely on to come with him. the teacher was you know she was an amazing theatrical master. i have always admired from. so i think what happened back then was a big mistake. russia is known for its extreme decisions. but if you could solve its union collapsed it was tragically what happened too quickly. and immediately everything that it was connected with was declared very bad. well on the other hand it's well deserved when its. people also destroyed all the. what they call terms you know it's in the old world. that's why i suggested not to denounce it so quickly because those sculptures were true masters of the school socialist realism. if you decide special order things which are clearly trouble again. the school of socialist realism world even if the world doesn't know about it yet greet a number of truly great. britain russia has all the rise to be proud of that in. that school. of law and let meet this a lot of. for instance in the distorted linnean hugging mickey mouse and the marilyn monroe kissing stalin

>> go back to what harry truman did, take on congress fourcc1: square, full. for him it's go big or go home. if he's got fight in him, this is the time he's asked to do it. face the congress down. say we're going to have a major jobs program. take it to the people. debt is a problem but debt reduction is not nearly as important as job creation. he and his administration have been talking about job creation since they came in but they haven't done it.cc1: >> the jobs report was ok but not as bad as it was. still above 9%. he will not get re-elected above 9%. doesn't he have to do something to deal with that? >> i think he does and that's a conversation going on in the white house right now. don't forget, the president is walking a fine line. he opted for fiscal restraint on the whole debt ceiling compromise. on the other hand, he is somebody who has spoke in a state of the union speech, remember that? winning the future, spending money on innovation, on education. can he get payroll tax cutcc1: holiday, extended unemployment insurance. but that's just working a

harry truman used to have what was it, the sign at his desk that says the buck stops here. this administration's sign should be, the buck stops somewhere else. >> for the first time in the history of america, the united states lost our top aaa rating. it didn't happen in the great depression, it didn't happen in world war ii, it didn't happen when we were engaged in korea or vietnam or in the middle east or even during 911. but it happened under president barack obama. >> the downgrade in the market conditions are a reflection of a much deeper and bigger problems facing the country. and again, we've had a president who is asleep at the switch on the most pressing financial challenges of our country. >> the tim paw lenti there. in today's trading session, losses extended into a second day for asian and european stocks. while futures indicate another rough session for wall street. let's take an early look at the markets as we get all up in your business this morning. we turn to cnbc's steve sedgewick, live in london for us. what's the latest on the markets? >> the latest is a

cup up with real job proposals and if republicans block those proposals, he needs to make a harry truman-stylempaign against the do-nothing gop. this might or might not work. but we already know what's not working, the economic policy of the past two years has been working, and the millions of americans who should have jobs, but don't. my fear about the president getting on that bus, gus, he's going to be riding around the midwest for what purpose? he's not pawlenty. he's not some politician running for the presidency. he's got the job. >> well, i think we have to go to where the roads and bridges are. you don't have to drive to richmond. you could go right outside washington, d.c. or in washington, d.c. and find the roads that in are disrepair. we actually had a water main break, held up had traffic up and down the each eastern seaboard. we can do this. it's not rocket science. it was done after the great depression to get people back to work. spend $1 billion, a lousy $1 billion on infrastructure and get 35,000 jobs out of that. >> well, why are we not doing that? >> we need to. >> why isn't

well, when president truman ran against a do-nothing congress he had not promised the voters earlier that he was going to be able to make the congress do something, that he was the guy who was going to be able to come to town to change all of this. for the are the to be ramping up against a do-nothing congress, i feel his frustration, but he did tell us he was the one who was going to be able on fix this broken political system that still turned out to be broken. >> lehrer: how do you, in the discussion that ray ran a moment ago, it was mentioned, oh, the president went off to martha's vineyard. it's now kind of a line used to disparage the president. how do you feel about that? >> well, in my human hat, the guy needs a vacation. all presidents deserve a little bit of time off. they never really are off. they're always getting briefed. you sought pictures with john benon, the counter-terrorism adviser. >> lehrer: he was briefed by the white house today. >> isn't that funny. i don't think we're going to see him wind suffering. in my pundit hat, of course he shouldn't be doing this. no

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leverage a built in the eighteenth century by the italian architecture strelley it became the home of truman she's silage the truth in seventy six to do the centuries the pascua launcher in a theater and various new buildings. ices approaches and their latest is held by the treasury of century the hemisphere is one of the largest museums in the world. you know your a lot of these museums from what i have read but this goes far beyond all my expectations is incredible is something. that you can only dream about it's absolutely fabulous since like two for one they are in the building all together it's just you and this museum is in total. we had a great tour guide and she showed us just a small piece of a small piece we've seen is just incredible we have a private tour and i think it's better we can see a few more things get better understand. things you know is there a lot of. the palace goes almost two thousand windows and over a thousand elegantly a large decorated pools and rooms many of which are open to the public. it is estimated that to see the exhibits in her massage you have to do it

that was a president truman announced that world war two was over. >> overcast skies in san francisco. jacqueline bennett is joining us with the forecast for the weekend. >> the frog has been dominating our forecast. today is no exception. fog tracker 4 this backtracking a little bit to see her sense of the fall was. from the north bay to the south bay. i did mention that the fall will be slower to push back. when the fog is a lingering over the peninsula. oaklands, the north bay and into vallejo, finally getting back to san francisco and the coastline. temperatures will continue to be cool. we will seek additional cooling things to the lingering fall. the winds are also thinking of the 5:00 p.m. hour breezy conditions with winds in the teens. as we head into the nighttime hours the wind speeds will start to die down a little bit. as for the charges this morning, a pretty mild. only a few spots getting back into the 80s today. let's take a look into ridges around the bay area, '70s and '80s and are 80's yesterday. today we will only be in the lower 80s. only one place in the mid '80s,

truman squeaked st. the morning after, republicans made the collective decision that they would destroy the presidency. they went into opposition right across the board. when china went communist in 1949 and when the korean war began,hey essentially destroyed truman's presidency. there was no constitutional ban on truman running for election again in 1952, but he was so unpopular that he could not have gotten the nomination even within his own party. he packed up and went back to independence, missouri. this unrelenting competition, unfortunately, sometimes it works. it has worked pretty well against obama. i say this despite the fact that he has done about as well as anybody could have. given what george called the "a head wind" he has been facing into, he has still done remarkably well, but that is not going to go away. >> another question? let's go down here. please? please stand up. thank you. >> i listened to mr. bnds discussion about having large majorities in both -- both houses and immediately we

teachers like you great which is you can amazing illustrator using straight collaborating on do the truman relaunch exam with him. she was you know she was an amazing theatrical monster i did know much that i have always admired. was given so i think what happened back then was a big mistake. because russia is known for its extreme decisions in much of which and take it or you could let you solve its union collapsed tragically what happened too quickly. and immediately though everything that it was connected with it was it was declared very bad. well on the other hand it's well deserved when it's our eastern russia collapsed people also destroyed all the panto you can see the story . yeah sure that's what they call judge you know it's in the old world. that's why i suggested not to denounce it so quickly because those sculptures were true masters of the school of socialist realism. if i'm going to side special order things which are clearly troubled and. this school of socialist realism world even if the world doesn't you know about it yet. greet a number of your truly great. britain russi

unfortunately he's on the verge of being neither and if president obama doesn't start acting like harry truman soon and taking on the republicans in congress rather than appeasing them then he will not just be a one termer like jimmy carter will be the nation's next herbert hoover which would be a disaster for all of us let's hope he gets the message. our next comment comes from the message boards of tom hartman dot com spent a good chunk of both my radio show and this television show ranting about the supreme court now they've become kings above and beyond our democracy so great white had this question for me since the us supreme court was never supposed to make laws a veto of laws that exist then what is the role of the us supreme court supposed to be the only educated guesses to advise the executive and legislative branches maybe by telling them what is unconstitutional and constitutional by their understanding of what the usa constitution says. here's the role of the supreme court as the founding fathers envisioned it first of all there are some specific responsibilities that the supreme c

untrue the reports that all of tripoli have been taken over by the robbers and this also proves on truman a friend of ours who is a businesswoman who lives in tripoli and almost recreated a commission to make an investigation into the facts of what happened in libya she told me she found some journalists who were making false reports saying that the rebels were behind them when in fact the city behind them was empty we saw pictures of green square that is completely full of rubble as if you compare those pictures to other pictures of green square it's completely different it seems like a second was created on purpose to make the public think that all of tripoli was taken over by the rebels. and all the gadhafi family was dead was saying this is a major tactic because they want people to think that rebels have taken power and i believe they're doing this because nato is in a hari to show this before the to the vocalist because they don't want to have to provide further financing for the ruling other fizzles people that the rebels kaluta power will probably. of the volatile situation the pr

warm up game at home ahead of the european championships in lithuania david blocks men taking on the truman host in moscow not showing up or is all that bodes well head of the august thirty first and start. for . first time the european championship will be played with twenty four teams and the n.b.a. lockout offers an opportunity to watch the best you were born players take to the hardwood for the title in their only friendly mention of home soil before the games russian face tournament host do you think any of the home side produced an electric start securing only they would never only wish much to the whites of their own forty nine thirty six the score at the big break but that wasn't enough for the full effect think you know arena and the stars too much a must go under a can anchor and team mates have to take the thundering ups and the passing moves and so on the defending on the seven ends it seems russia will once again be more into the favorites in the thing as they into again the crown they claimed in two thousand and seven ninety one seventy six the final score it would be chill do

truman as the first in the fishery. -- as the first beneficiary.truman started the debate going. he is the father of medicare. host: what are the big changes that have happened in medicare? guest: it is not that different today. we have added more over the years. when medicare first started, we have two parts. a and b. a was hospitalization and hospital coverage. that program was intended to get at catastrophic health care costs. when it was created, we also have medicare part b. that is the voluntary parts of is that seniors can often too. that covers physicians' services and a thing that is not in-patient hospital -- anything that is not in-patient hospital. there was an addition of disabled people. medicare covers 47 million americans. only about 40 million of them are seniors over the age of 65. the remaining 7 million or so are disabled people. it is very different. we added them in 1972. then you move on to about 1997 and create a new program called medicare plus choice, the predecessor of the medicare advantage program. that gave seniors an