tonight, steve sestanovich on american foreign policy, from truman to obama. >> i think the president's challenge is both to reassure allies, to reimpress add veer as and to rebuild a consensus about what american purposes are abroad. that is hard because we don't have a consensus about what those purposes should be. we're going to have a debate from now till the presidential election as to what foreign policy should be. >> charlie: continue with a biography about hillary clinton. >> we talk to a lot of republicans in this book who give her credit for working across the aisle and not being -- i think she called herself a workhorse not a show horse, and for sort of doing that, for working behind the scenes, for trying to move legislation together and not hogging the spotlight as some thought she might. >> charlie: we conclude with the former governor of ohio, ted strickland. >> charlie, there's something wrong when the supreme court basically equates money with speech, and that means these billionaires have a lot more speech than the average american, and the average american is feeling

it is called "maximalist: america in the world from truman to obama." i am pleased to have steve sestanovich back at the table. great to have you back in the studio. ukraine. >> yeah. >> russia. where are we? >> it seems we're looking at a rolling dismemberment of ukraine. and i think it may turn out to be too strong a statement. i hope so. right now, the way the russians seem to be handling this is to challenge the authority of the ukrainian government and to warn that if they try to assert its authority in the eastern provinces where the support is weaker that russia will respond. respond they will, as the foreign minister said, as they did in georgia in 2008, the threat of war. >> they're threatening war if what happens? >> if there is an attempt to oust the pro-russian separatist groups that have taken over buildings and squares in eastern ukraine, in small cities and towns. >> which they intended to do. >> the ukrainian government has said a number of times that they want to do this. they have held back because they know the use of force may not be

it took president clinton to start health care, president obama to finish it. it took harry truman to start medicare and lyndon johnson to finish it. these works take decades. presidents of different parties. and he said we're just relay swimmers in a great current of history. whenever a president speaks in another president's library, they are mindful of the history. gwen: john f. kennedy started civil rights and lyndon johnson finished part of it. but he wasn't the last president to have to speak to that issue. >> oh, no. nor is it over now. and that's one of the things president obama said. others followed. it's a continuing struggle and a continuing campaign that other presidents who follow president obama will have to pick up at the time and swim with. gwen: it was really interesting to me to hear george w. bush talk, something he said before, it takes time before people begin to understand a president's accomplishments. >> he's betting on it. he feels very confident that history will redeem him. he's told his friends that. he's not in any hurry to prove it. other presidents c

like to askuld about how he would rate barack obama compared to harry truman, isther he he -- whether he left of harry truman? i lived in the d c area for a while and i went to book events. i asked different guests there, newt gingrich, he gave one of the better answers, as an academic historian, he put obama to the left of george mcgovern. it seemed like a pretty straightforward answer. i wanted to know how you feel about that and, as far as foreign policy goes, what do you see in the future after obama? part of myst: problem with this answer will be that i don't know much about harry truman. but i want to reject the left right scales. even though that is the way that we now measure politicians, it is a multidimensional scale, to be real. bepassing health care he may perceived as to the left, but i believe that harry truman was the first democrat to try to do that. it just so happens that obama happened to do it. my knock on president obama would be that in places where he can lead, he has not been as effective as many folks might have hope. let's take health care as the example. the

like to askuld about how he would rate barack obama compared to harry truman, isther he he -- whethere left of harry truman? i lived in the d c area for a while and i went to book events. i asked different guests there, newt gingrich, he gave one of the better answers, as an academic historian, he put obama to the left of george mcgovern. it seemed like a pretty straightforward answer. i wanted to know how you feel about that and, as far as foreign policy goes, what do you see in the future after obama? part of myst: problem with this answer will be that i don't know much about harry truman. but i want to reject the left right scales. even though that is the way that we now measure politicians, it is a multidimensional scale, to be real. bepassing health care he may perceived as to the left, but i believe that harry truman was the first democrat to try to do that. it just so happens that obama happened to do it. my knock on president obama would be that in places where he can lead, he has not been as effective as many folks might have hope. let's take health care as the example. theul

truman. obama wins in 2008. 2012, obama is the first president in history, the first democrat i believe since lbj to get over 50% of the vote. but in 2012, first president to get elected to do this with less poplar and electoral college votes. reagan won 49-50 and obama won 26. a bare majority. if you look at a map of counties it was a sea of red. under obama it was still a sea of red if you look at counties. speaking of obama, there was a poll down in 2013, after the 2013 -- after the second inaugural that asked americans if ronald reagan was to run who would you vote for? and they said reagan by 53%. how was obama elected? the youth vote. that same poll, they asked people ages 18-34 who would you vote for reagan or obama and they picked reagan. unlike the gallop, they do a presidents day poll every annual presidents day and they have been doing this 13 times since 2001. reagan placed first among the american public as far as the question who is your all time favorite question? 2001, 2001, 2011 and 2012. he usually finishes in the top three beating lincoln. imagine that. in june 2005, there was a p

to harry truman. he wasn't much of a fan but his staff played. it was moved to the executive office building to make way for a mimio graph room. richard nixon brought it back, president obama jokingly said he'd tear it out for a basketball court, but in the first 2.5 years of his administration 4100 people were granted access to try to rack up some trikes. things now may be coming up for bowling. it's the nation's number one parities patry sport. i loved a bowl, but who knew putting on someone else's shoes would be popular. >> coming up, is it time to declare the concept of being an amateur dead? >> is the concept of being an amateur athlete a myth that needs it be left behind. as march madness wraps up, new questions about the amateurism of college athletes, many of whom go college and play for a year because n.b.a. rules force them too. coming weeks after the labour board decided student athlete at north western had the right to unionize, are we seeing the beginning of the end of amateur athletes at the collegiate level? joins us is dave ziron, sports educator for the nation in author of "game over", amongst others. the olympics, during the cold war the russians, eat ger

truman. obama wins in 2008. 2012, obama is the first president in history, the first democrat i believe since lbj to get over 50% of the vote. but in 2012, first president to get elected to do this with less poplar and electoral college votes. reagan won 49-50 and obama won 26. a bare majority. if you look at a map of counties it was a sea of red. under obama it was still a sea of red if you look at counties. speaking of obama, there was a poll down in 2013, after the 2013 -- after the second inaugural that asked americans if ronald reagan was to run who would you vote for? and they said reagan by 53%. how was obama elected? the youth vote. that same poll, they asked people ages 18-34 who would you vote for reagan or obama and they picked reagan. unlike the gallop, they do a presidents day poll every annual presidents day and they have been doing this 13 times since 2001. reagan placed first among the american public as far as the question who is your all time favorite question? 2001, 2001, 2011 and 2012. he usually finishes in the top three beating lincoln. imagine that. in june 2005, there was a p

truman. obama wins in 2008. 2012, obama actually is the first president in history, though he was the first democrat, i believe, since lbj to get over 50% of the vote, but in 2012 he was elected with -- first president to do this -- elected with less popular votes and electoral college votes in this re-election. reagan won 49 out of 50 states in this re-election. obama won 26. a bare majority. and if you look at a map of counties, under reagan it was a sea of red. under obama it was still a sea of red. if you look at counties. and speaking of obama, there was a poll done in 2013, after the 2013 -- after the second inaugural, which asked americans if ronald reagan were to run today, against barack obama, who would you vote for? they said raying by 58% over obama. right after obama's re-election in 2013. here's really fascinating. how is obama elected principle my? thing you vote. that same poll -- the youth vote. the same poll they asked people ages 18 to 34, who would you vote for, reagan or obama, they picked reagan. they picked reagan. unlike the gallup -- gallup does a president's day poll every president's day, annual p

truman in 1947 and 1948 is help anticommunism in greece and turkey. the tough stance of sending troops back to europe. eventually a huge defense buildup, that was the cold war. if president obamarection, more power to him. but i don't think he will. >> what else could he do? >> this is remarkable. it seems like after russia has played us on syria, iran, on crimea, finally the white house, now we're going to fight. now you have gone too far, and i think the mistake, all along, we could be friends to begin with, a mistake that bush made, a mistake hillary clinton made. and a mistake president obama clear clearly made. i hope now we're finally taking russia and putin more seriously. >> first, we got to solve ukraine. thanks to all of you. we'll be right back with more. >>> we still don't know for certain whether hillary clinton will make a presidential bid in 2016, but we did learn this week, is that mrs. clinton will soon be a grandmother, a title she has long wanted. "good morning america" weekend anchor bianna golodryga tells us about the big announcement. >> marc and i are very excited that we have our first child arriving later this year and -- >> reporter: with her mother b

to build. since when is it wrong? there is a reason why the obama administration has been accused of ks the most anti--israel american administration since harry truman recognized the american jewish state of israel in may of 1948. 11 minutes after israel declared their independence, the greatest economic superpowerhouse of the world recognized israel's right to exist. that meant something. because our strength and our wealth was behind israel. we had israel's back. thinks that tion america has israel's back today. all you have to do is look at israel's neighborhood. it has become a very dangerous place, a very dangerous place indeed. the epicenter of jihad on israel's border on syria's border. more weapons floating around today in the hands of terrorists than ever before. ,. and our secretary you of state, instead of being focused on iran obtaining a nuclear weapon, which has said it will use to murder millions of jewish people in israel, rather than the secretary of state calling out iran for its ongoing action, tonight as i'm speaking on -- before c-span and before the speaker of this house, tonight iran has thousands and thousands and thousands o