coming up, valerie jarrett sits down for a navy with politico. ther, a discussion on iranian nuclear talks. >> valerie jarrett was interviewed today with topics ranging from the 2014 budget deal, the administration second term agenda and planning of the president's presidential library. this is 50 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. i am been white. thanks everybody for joining us, everybody on the lifestream, c- span -- if you're following us on twitter, you can send questions on twitter. started, i'll have one housekeeping item. please put your phones on vibrate or silent. i would like to thank the peter g peterson foundation. very much enjoy our partnership with him. here to say a few words is michael iverson. -- michael peterson. >> thank you and welcome. missionrson foundation is to raise awareness and accelerate action on america's long-term fiscal challenges and we believe it is essential to stabilize our long-term debt in order to create a growing economy today and for future generations. in our view come up the nation on a sustainable,

we are delighted to have valerie jarrett joining us this morning. before we get started, i'll have one housekeeping item. happy to have you live tweet the event, but please put your phones on vibrate or silent. i would like to thank the peter g. peterson foundation. very much enjoy our partnership with him. here to say a few words is michael peterson. [applause] >> thank you and welcome. the peterson foundation's mission is to raise awareness and accelerate action on america's long-term fiscal challenges and we believe it is essential to stabilize our long-term debt in order to create a growing economy today and for future generations. in our view come up the nation on a sustainable, predictable fiscal path is a central part of an overall plan to improve economic opportunity because our fiscal outlook faces a real threat. we have seen in congress a rare bipartisanship on fiscal issues. it is an important step in the right direction. i guess today knows a great deal about working in divided government. for the past five years, she served as senior ad

i would like to welcome valerie jarrett to the stage. [applause] >> good morning everyone. >> thank you for joining us. >> can't believe the holidays are almost here. does president obama have the authority to fire dan snyder as the head of the washington redskins? >> nobody does not. >> maybe there is an executive order. i want to discuss the budget agreement and the fact that it does not discuss a big democratic priority which is the expansion of unemployment benefits will which -- which will expire at the end of the year for many people. or was a proposal to expand that for three months, what is the white house feel about that proposal? >> we strongly support it. we believe that it will be bipartisan. think of all of those families around the country that will benefit right around holiday time. the good news is that it looks like it may have some bipartisan support. with the budget overall, finally we can see congress doing their job and coming together. it is not a perfect budget, but we are delighted that it looks like it will pass.

[laughter] valerie jarrett and david axlerod are obama's two key advisers; one's his political campaign manager, and jarrett manages everything else. barack obama, valerie jarrett, david axlerod all were born into the same communist left that i was, all trained in the communist left, all graduated to the new left which was formed by red diaper babies like myself with the same political agendas. and they've never left it. and how do i know that? because i'm someone who did leave. and i will tell you, if you are part of a movement that you come to understand is destructive and deceitful, the first thing you want to do when you get out is to repudiate it and to warn other people about it. ask they, of course -- and they, of course, haven't. but this is a mentality. you have to understand, as i say, my parents called themselves progressives. leftists may be delusional, but they're not stupid. so they understand that you don't telegraph your agendas, because it will turn people off. when i was young, stalin was alive. the slogan of the american communist party was -- it wasn't soviet dictato

>> i think valerie jarrett needs to go. the president's senior adviser.s in the white house, there are a number of individuals who are scared about sending information through ms. jarrett for fear that it might upset her as opposed to getting the information to the president. for having had the honor and privilege to have served in the white house for four years, i can tell you the president is very best served by those advisers who can come in the oval office and tell him absolutely what he doesn't want to hear. if there's a filter that's going on and if ms. jarrett is filtering the information that goes to the president, he's not able to make the best decisions, i think she needs to go. >> angela, is valerie jarrett the problem at 1600 pennsylvania avenue? >> no, i think the problem is at the polar end of pennsylvania avenue at the united states capitol with the house of representatives. we saw what the president was able to accomplish when he was sworn into office. that was the most productive congress in history. he signed bills into law. he's not bee

valerie jarrett should be fired. people who are here -- this is a tax. he cannot change tax laws. i wish she would bring that truck driver agreement and when he signed it into law and throughat up immigration and stuff like that. give the american people a voice. the house judiciary committee held a hearing recovered -- we about the president and executive power, republicans siding that he change the health power andy executive that he has done the same on other issues. that,'re interested in you can go to our website c- span.org and you can see it there. we covered that hearing yesterday. that policyying differences don't constitute a constitutional crisis. that was their opinion of yesterday's hearing. in ohio.to ed republican. caller: good morning. of course people should be fired. from the head of the fish to the bottom. there is a pattern in this whole administration. it is nonstop. denial, denial, deny -- they are --yal to ridiculously that would be the last person he would fire. people keep forgetting all of these little things they slipped in. he is very bright. he came in

i'm sure she told people, valerie jarrett and valerie jarrett whispered in his ear.knew about it and didn't tell the truth. >> there is no good scenario because it impacts so many. >> that speaks to the trust issue he's having with the american people. speak of that, harry reid certainly doubled down on the president's lie that you can keep your health care plan if you liked it. did he just mean those on a staff? i don't know. but he keeps spinning it in his own words. listen to this. >> remember what the president said, if you like your insurance, you can keep it. there is nobody in america that has the same insurance that they had when he said this. we've had three different years. all the policies are only for one year. i still go back and say what i said earlier. what he said was true. >> okay. >> if you want to keep the insurance you had, you can keep it. >> that's not true! >> what is wrong with him? you have the president of the united states -- >> he's in denial. >> -- say i should have been clearer and now i feel terrible that they didn't understand exactly

. >> white house senior advisory valerie jarrett spoke at a breakfast hosted by politico. she answered a question on president obama's future presidential library and what his current priorities were concerning it. here is a look. >> it is sort of amazing to me we are are ready talking about the presidential library that there was a story in the new york times. we will continue to talk about it. suggested you were trying to take control of the project. it is a key part of the white house. that you would like to be in charge of. interested in your reaction to that. i assume it will be in chicago. where in chicago will it be? >> you cannot believe it. i have a very full plate. busy trying to move the president's agenda for. ken knows where we will be. it will be wherever the president decides it is the best place to be. >> i know the number they used was 7 million, which seems a lot for a library. bikes he is not raising money for a library whatsoever on the north though he. the economy,o grow create jobs, get people signed up for health care. it folks educated. is in the em

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you had a tweet from valerie jarrett on october 28th. fact, he says, nothing in obamacare forces people out of their health care plan. >> they're lying about the lie. they're blaming it on insurance companies. it was written into the law and subsequent regulations if your insurance changed at all, you will lose it. that was part of the design. it was to cancel these people out of their individual policies so they had to go on to the exchanges. now juan's right, obviously confidence around the website hurt. that is not what hurt fundamentally. it was a lie what this law is b that lie will not end. there is no way for the president to put his signature piece of legislation disrupting all of american health insurance behind him. it will continue to be a huge issue. bill: rough lowery, thank you. juan williams, good to see you out of the garage. >> this is why i don't drive here. i take a cab. bill: martha? martha: shocking turn of events in the trial of a newlywed accuse of pushing her husband off a cliff. what she said that left some famil

with his em battled health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius and senior adviser valerie jarrett looking on he declared this is his top priority. >> if i have to fight another three years to make sure this law works that's what we'll de. >> there are millions more who stand to be helped. and we've got to make sure they know that. and i've said very clearly that our poor execution in the first couple months on the web site clouded the fact that there are a whole bunch of people who stand to benefit. >> reporter: another attempt by the president to assert the law itself is not the problem. and if only his team had better communicated how good it is and done a better job on the well, all would be fine. even though descendent republican leader mitch mcconnell quickly noted the president has launched at least a dozen major p.r. blitzes over health care the last four years. >> people are not buying it. >> because the law passed, the president won re-election the supreme court upheld it and 1 million people showed up on the web site yesterday. 380,000 showed up before noon today. >> rep

well, the valerie jarrett tweet came out on october 28th where she declared obamacare does not forceody off their insurance plan and no change is required for under the new law. and,, this is at the end of october where thousands and thousands of people have already received cancellation notices. again, the problem with twitter and politicians is that now it is there in writing to be retweeted and cut and pasted over and over again where it just signals denial about the healthcare law and it signals sort of a lack of accountability that the republicans will be able to use and associate with the president when they go on and on about the healthcare law in 2014. for me, that was the most damaging tweet of 2013. >> twitter sometimes does not give -- allow for context and nuances depending on what she meant. >> no. >> all right, steve, what about you? >> susan's was a lot better than mine. it was more relevant and i think more pointed. i had a similar idea. i went back and looked at some of the tweets that were coming out of white house communication shop. in the early days of obamacare,

kavita batel, senior adviser to valerie jarrett in the obama administration, a fellow at the brookings institution. how are you feeling today? >> oh, a lot better than about a month ago, chris. >> well, you hit it well when i talked to you. you brought optimism and cheer to me when i was letting some of the panic get to me. what do you think this means? how big a deal is today? >> so, it's a big deal for all the reasons you've outlined, but going back to even why i was optimistic a month ago, as you covered it, in california and in other states, like kentucky, even despite this horrific website kind of rollout, it was working in places. so, i think that today is important. i don't think we should kind of say, all right, you know, hands up, we're done. >> nope. >> i think we still have -- let's be honest, we've got to make sure that we can get to december 23rd, which is, like, the last day possible to get people started on coverage on january 1st. and that's why people on the ground in the united states that are actually doing kind of the outreach and enrollment, i mean, they're honestl

biden, they were visited by the white house chief of staff, dennis mcdonough, senior adviser valerie jarrett, the agriculture secretary, tom vilsack, labor secretary thomz perez, the white house domestic policy council was down there. they have each been visited by two republican members of the house, jeff denham and david valedeo, who say they want the vote. they say they would vote with democrats to pass it. tonight on the house floor, florida congressman joe garcia recognized those hunger strikers, five of whom were in the house gallery tonight. he called on republican leaders to allow that senate immigration bill to come to a vote. barring a hanukkah miracle, a prekwanzaa miracle? i don't know. barring some kind of late-in-the-year miracle, this congress is going to be the least productive congress in the history of the united states of america. republicans have been very, very good at repeatedly fake repealing obama care, almost four dozen times now, but that's not actually policy. and now, that time is over in our politics. health reform is done and they've stopped trying to repeal it.

valerie interviews jarrett. talks between iran and world powers resume over the nuclear program. a former obama administration advisor said there is still though agreement on a key point. the level of uranium enrichment that would be acceptable to the u.s.. this is part of an event hosted by the asia society and is one hour and 10 minutes. [applause] >> you laid out exactly the questions. if you have questions, i know they are bringing up the ipad. ambassador, let me begin. the history could be a history of non-relations. no direct talks. even this interim agreement appears to be a hiccup. secretary has talked to the foreign minister. is this a real agreement? is this a breakthrough moment? >> it would take inventive imagination to believe that it is not a breakthrough in the context of 30 years of almost no contact. where does that door lead? is it leading somewhere? can we see this particular opening take us through to a stage where we recognize that the agreements -- and i put the plural there because we are waiting to see about follow on arrangements -- that the agreements ha

we also heard this morning from the president's senior adviser, valerie jarrett.ons push will boost that from now until the end of march. >> we are anticipating delays. giving people as much time as possible. reporter: one week from today is the deadline to sign up for new coverage. 103 days remain for the entire open and woman period. they are not old by then, they could get a fine. jenna: what about the president and first lady? are they signing up? >> they do plan to sign up, but we are not sure when that's going to happen or which exchange they plan to sign up for. but some are saying that once they finally do go online, they won't necessarily like what they see. >> he is going to find higher premiums and higher deductibles and less options and i think that is what millions of americans are experiencing. reporter: we are also hearing from kansas senator jerry moran. including the amount that they have spent with all the technical problems and they have spent a great deal of money building a website. jenna: thank you. jon: a warning for the gop about the proble

. >> we know valerie jarrett said we'll find this out. it is finding and grinding and grinding. >> it is. martha: when people start actually going to the doctor this month and we'll be seeing day after day of this entire process and how ugly it could potentially get. byron, thank you very much. always good to see you. have a good holiday. >> you too. bill: a new document shows the website still has serious security vulnerabilities. there have been considered two high findings of risk, that is the moats serious level of concern in the past, testing over the past few weeks. also we now know back in september the person who oversees the obamacare website, recommended no launch on the 1st of october due to, you guessed it, security issues. martha: all right, we're just getting word harry reid has been hospitalized. we're working on the details of this and we're going to get you more information as we get it but harry reid, the senate majority leader is said to be feeling better after being hospitalized earlier today. they have conducted tests

referring to white house advisor valerie jarrett. occurrede any shakeups because of the rollout of healthcare.gov? there could be. secretary sebelius is one that could move on. there probably will be some accountability at some point. when you talk to people at the white house, their basic message is we want to get this fixed before we start finding out what happened. they are in the process now. when it is over, you might see some cabinet secretaries and senior staff move on. moving on to the longer view of president obama's eight years in office, "the national journal" has a recent headline. quotes the gallup news editor about approval ratings. where does the president stand on this issue of trustworthiness, and if that is a bigger problem than job approval right now? the start of his administration, this president made transparency and trustworthiness an essential part of his brand. he contrasted himself from the previous administration, weapons iraq thatstruction in did not appear. he said he was not going to be that kind of pres

that is followed by a conversation with valerie jarrett. on the next washington journal, the likelihood of places like afghanistan, syria, and iran becoming military hotspots 2014. richardtial historian norton smith talks about president obama's second term in office and how others fared in the past. we look for your comments by phone and e-mail. >> i think radio is the longest and best form of media. rose read books the way i read books. it is revealing when an author has had their book read these days. they don't get many people who have read their books and know what they are talking about. it is rewarding to them. i love the interview on things that matter. some of which are old, but it is autobiographical. that makes my day. is an abundance of time. i can do so many things. >> next, discussion on race, gender, and the incarceration rate among women. of women's rights advocates, some who have been incarcerated themselves. this is 1.5 hours. this is an hour and 35 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be here this evening

and later this morning on c- span3, white house senior adviser valerie jarrett will speak with the politico 9:10spondent ben white at eastern. " begins in aournal moment. we will take your phone calls and tweets, plus we will look at today's news. a senate finance subcommittee hearing on pensions and retirement savings begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern. later today, the senate commerce committee investigates the marketing of consumer information, live at 2:30 p.m. eastern. and coming up this hour, an update on the u.s. district court ruling on the constitutionality of the nsa surveillance program. we will talk with james andrew lewis of the center for strategic and international studies. then a discussion on the productivity of the 100 13th congress. thomas mann of the brookings institution ornstein join us. they co-authored the book "it's even worse than it looks." ♪ host: good morning, everyone. by a vote of 67-33, the senate cleared a procedural hurdle on the two-year budget deal, paving the way for passage as early as today. a dozen republicans joined 53 democrats and 2 independents. final p

the review is pretty thorough here. >> following on something valerie jarrett said, wouldn't it be easierded to something in an interview with mathews about his management style, how, you know, it's not his management style, it's the fault of the internal bureaucracy of the government, but that is an issue of his management style. good managers understand you see the whole field of play, you take the problem, you take a big problem, break it down into little problems, you assign people and task them with the responsibility of fixing it, and you hold them accountable. you check on them constantly. he doesn't check up on things. he doesn't know what's happening. every time he's asked a question, his answer and everyone in the administration, i don't know. he found out about that when he read it in the papers. saw that on tv. this is the most amazing president who is unaware of what he's managing. >> this is what the president said during that interview about his management style. let's listen. >> the challenge i think that we have going forward is not so much my personal management style or

an interview with senior white house adviser valerie jarrett at an event cohosted by the peterson foundation. and then on c-span at 10 a.m. eastern, a senate finance subcommittee hearing on social security and retirement savings. >> when now, part of the national consumer led conference on identity theft and data security. that include a discussion on the role of the federal trade commission and the financial services industry. we will show you as much as we can and to our live coverage of the senate. >> good afternoon, everyone. we are about to get your last epic weapon ever an in up frontf folks want to move up into a little closer to the action. the are a couple tables here so feel free to make the jump if you would like. i also wanted to just remind you that if you are thinking about tweeting about this conference, the hashtag or twitter is every3seconds. we have a really great closing panel here today. thank you to all of you who have sort of stuck it out through the end here. we are, i think we got a great keynote session. this final panel of the day has three folks who we have invited

an hour later just after nine, on c-span3, senior white house adviser valerie jarrett speaks at an event hosted by politico and peterson foundation. hispent justice ruth bader ginsburg was interviewed yesterday. we were shown as much of this as we can until our live event shortly after eight eastern. [applause] >> [inaudible conversations] >> someone will have to control the microphone. it's also a great privilege for me to have an opportunity to ask questions from justice ginsburg instead of the other way around. [laughter] and i want to thank all of you out there who planted questions with mean in the hopes that i would ask those questions, but i probably won't ask any of those questions. but let's start, justice ginsburg, with the supreme court of the united states. you and your court handled the most ethical and most controversial questions of our day and of our society involving life, death, voting, property, race, freedom, campaign contributions, all of those things. what's so special about this court, despite the fact that you decide these controversial questions, the supreme cour

except for valerie jarrett's leg, which is there.are.gov war room. you see a technical team there and it is a room full, as far as we can see, all men except for the one woman right there up front. and in some ways this photo is the one that is more troubling. because tech jobs are the knowledge jobs, the well paying jobs, in our society now. we have got to get more women to embrace technology. >> well, i absolutely gagree. i think it is one of the interesting parts of mary's story. she was an engineer. and this whole push to get more women interested in what are called the stem subjects, science, technology, engineering and math. i think it is critical and not just if you're going into a business like the manufacturing of cars, because technology is influencing every kind of business, every company is becoming a technology company. and women need to be fluent in and comfortable with technology if they're going to be successful. >> what is the barrier there? >> well, two things. first, you're correct, that we do need to encourage wom

host: valerie jarrett has set up the political brick is that the president will pop -- will not funde while in office. you might see the front story in the new york times this past week that the president i'm we go to bob in pennsylvania. hi, bob. not understand that you seem to be playing all of the host there. all of the host seemed to be playing games with the buttons. you take three or four democratic called an independent i'll stew everyone republican. we are taking the calls as they come in. caller: maybe the republicans concede that slant. they are called names the whole time. ornstein is the radical. >> there is a judicial were on. every day -- i will leave it there because that obviously is an attack on a population of people. that is something we do not endorse here. i will move on. let me go to bradley and pretend -- in pennsylvania. republican caller. caller: i am a retired veteran. what are we supposed to do? the v.a. has declared me on the list, but will take away the veteran benefits. how do they expect us to live? i do not understand how they could do that. host: you'

and this includes kevin jennings in the west wing of the white house under the leadership of valerie jarrett and i'm wondering if doctor summers took notice of the january 2006 magazine and realizes that every school has a poll today where children are assigned to go and disrobe with members of their own sex only. >> host: okay, i believe we've got the point. let's get a response. >> guest: i have not heard of that. when we mentioned lesbian separatists, there was a theory where it there was a movement, and you might have readings on this but it didn't have anything to do with this. i'm afraid to find out. >> host: kenny, you are on c-span. >> guest: thank you for your call. >> caller: thank you for everything you said. my question is do you talk about how some boys are destructive and some are more, not destructive, has anyone done a study in this service? and a second part of this, as far as the women's liberation type of thing, do you feel that when on the frontlines, front lines, do you think it plays a psychological effect on e-mail pending to be a protector and provider for women? i wi

that's hillary clinton, valerie jarrett, eric holder and michelle obama, the first lady in the cornern, i'm thinking hillary clinton is going, if bill ever tries this painting thing, i'm going to kill him. the former president takes such pride in his painting. >> he does. in that interview with jay leno he said he'd been taking some lessons and he painted a portrait of jaly leno. i have to tell you, it was good. >> he says it has changed his life. he's proudf it there. everyone in that room was taking a great deal of joy out of it. looked like a flun flight. >> definition of a retired president, that's for sure. >>> let's go to montana now, an emotional day in the courtroom of a trial of a new bride who's ayou ayou -- accused of murdering her husband. here's cnn's kyung lah. >> reporter: jordan, what did you think as you're watching yourself on the police videotapes. >> jordan doesn't have anything to say. >> reporter: nothing to say after a damaging day listening to herself lie. the jury saw and heard jordan graham lying to police in two extensive taped interviews. in the first video

. >>> president obama along with vice president biden, susan rice, valerie jarrett, did meet with thehouse today. it turns out they talked a little house of cards. take a listen. >> i'm just wondering if we brought advanced copy of "the house of cards"? >> a cameo. you willing to do a little cameo? >> well, i wish things were t t that -- it's true. with kevin spacey, man, this guy is getting a lot of stuff done. >> this guy is getting a lot of stuff done, as he talks about kevin spacey's part. >>> when we come back, one outspoken judge is taking on too big to jail and why we haven't seen more high-level wall street prosecutions when we come back. we're aig. and we're here. to help secure retirements and protect financial futures. to help communities recover and rebuild. for companies going from garage to global. on the ground, in the air, even into space. we repaid every dollar america lent us. and gave america back a profit. we're here to keep our promises. to help you realize a better tomorrow. from the families of aig, happy holidays. >>> federal judge jay rakoff has harsh words fo

but then again, what about valerie jarrett?they did. >> perhaps. >> the american people are smart. they know accountability means the most and they'll be looking for it. we're look over to heather nauert. >> hi. we begin with a fox news alert on that deadly train derailment in the new york area. the train's blacks box reveals that train was going 82 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour zone around that very dangerous curve. this happening early sunday morning. all seven cars jumped the tracks, killing four people and injuring dozens of others. the engineer of that train, william rockefeller, said he tried to apply the brakes, but the brakes didn't work. the black box also showing that the brakes were not fully engaged. investigators are now trying to determine if rockefeller is to blame or if there was a mechanical problem. we'll keep watching that story, of course. >>> mourners remembering the victims in a vigil at the crash site last night. take a listen. >> she took amazing care of the children and if you were to ask any of

other than valerie jarrett, how many people can say, i'm close personal friends with president obama?. >>> coming up here on the show, the white house hiding the facts about the health care law. are they about to lose their loyal friends? chris wallace is here. >>> move over robin thicke. miley cyrus has a new twerking partner. let the twerking commence. more twerking news ahead. >> hey, hey, hey. ♪ ♪ >>> leaking out some positive news about the health care law while holding out negative stories. even the most negative supporters perturbed. is the president in danger of isolating his allies in the mainstream media? >> joining us is chris wallace zbl go. >> good to see you. >> your thoughts. we want this. we're trying to get the white house logs, the visitor logs as peter schweitzer was reporting. do they run the risk of isolation? >> yeah. i think that worm has already turned. ever since october 1st if you've been watching any of the white house briefings, the mainstream media has been pretty tough on jay carney and this administration because, look, you can't avoid it. the fact is th