no. 2, when mr. obama came out, -- i did not vote for him. i am a republican. he made me very afraid. when he comes across that teleprompter and he says, my voice, my men, -- my voice, my men, -- my boys, my men. i would not salute him. he has no respect for the government. i have lost four under -- 4000 of my men in iraq and afghanistan. it makes me sick. host: we will leave it there, robert. alex, one of the big players in all of this is representative bart stupak in michigan. on the abortion, opponent. thyear announced his decision to change his position on the bill. explain how this works. guest: there is a law that is annually renewed in congress that is generally called the hyde amendment. it is a number of different amendments, but they do the same thing. they basically say that federal health programs cannot spend taxpayer money to fund abortion. mr. stupak has been trying throughout the health-care debate to get language into the health care bill that he thinks would reflect those hide amendments and prevent those subsidized and taxpayer, the insurance

marcelas owens was the young boy standing next to president obama when mr. obama the landmark health care reform bill. owens' mother died after losing her health insurance, but his story became a punch line for conservative hosts, including limbaugh. >> i would also say this to marcelas owens. well, your mom would have still died because obama care doesn't kick in until 2014 if they sign it this year. >> now, marcelas says he's taking the attacks from limbaugh in stride. he says his mother taught him that everyone has an opinion but it doesn't necessarily make them right. >> it's amazing. the one who's going to bring civility to the argument is an 11-year-old? maybe that's what we need right now. certainly also a contentious decision that could put the end to diversity in one city's public schools. this one got a little ugly as well. that story is coming up just ahead. >>> usually we pick a new hero to highlight here on cnn each week. well, this week one of our old heroes has actually topped herself so if you have not already, you'll meet her next. [ male announce

caller: back when mr. obamain the trickle-down effect, if they had come out with some kind of voucher to people -- like in my case, i do not need to pay off my home, but if you give me a doctor to buy a new american aid car, or give people a voucher to add to their home, or their farm equipment or upgrade their housing, you know, giving the money to the actual people who would spend it an instead of giving it to these corporations who have these bonuses for their ceos that we hear about. host: thanks, mike. it would using about -- what you think about what he is saying? guest: if the economy is going to grow for the longÑi term, we need to create private-sector jobs. the caller is right in the long term in the the long-term demand is for products and services. we do use the tax code to help do some of the things that he suggested be done in vouchers. there is a home buyers tax creditÑiÑi that provides $8,500r a first-time home buyer. it is for a limited time. there are tax credits for the cash for clunkers progr

when you hear that stuff? >> if anybody is fomenting dissent, it is rush limbaugh. the politics of division, the cruel denial of the utter humanity of mr. obama. those who disagree with him have the right to do so but to disparage his character and to assert these unfounded ideas and propositions about mr. obama is just dumbfounding to me. i think beyond that it doesn't do any good to help the conversation in this country between conservatives and liberals and progressives by people trying to make out of whole cloth assertions that cannot be emperrically verified. there is nothing in mr. obama's demeanor or reaching out to the right to say he is in any way inclined to make this an empire of color or trying to derail what he sees as the benefit for all americans of the social policies he puts into legislation. >> is it possible, michelle, to draw a link between rush limbaugh and when he talks in a clip we didn't play but how supporters should be wiped out, that sort of venomous language and you create this picture, rush limbaugh creates this picture of facism and nazism on the march and you then start to have people going out of control acting

mr. obama. and i was inspired when he appointed van jones and until he fired him a few months later. then i was depressed when he appointed larry summers. i'm wondering if you had any -- did you have any include during the complain of hope after one year, there would be so little hopeful signs from him? >> well, i mean, it's the next(t what has happened in the year since he was elected. we sit here and, you know, the complain, it's like star wars. it's like a long time ago in the galaxy far, far away. what was that about? i know as haynes and i have gone around to talk about the book, the question that you ask is one of the regular questions that we get. and were there includes to this? now, i would be lying if i said that i had any sense of where we would be a year after the election. you know, i don't think anybody foresaw what happened. and it's a reminder than there's nothing linear about american politics or politics in general. you can never draw a line from any moment and project out. people happen, events happen, people do things. if you look at the complain, i always thought

mr. obama has kansas, kentucky, villanueva, and upstart state to the final for. who has it when it's all said and done? kansas. we should note last year he picked north carolina to win it all and the tar heels came through. now the pressure is on the jayhawks to follow suit. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> well, kim car da shan's show may get canceled, and you're not going to believe why. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus folks give a hoot working to save these three cutis. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back on this thursday. very interesting setup in the central plains. it's going to be in the 60s today from denver to kansas city, but, yes, this is the snowfall forecast over the next 48 hours. into the front range we get the upslope enhancement. we could see some areas with 6 to 12 inches of snow. even downtown denver is going to see accumulating snow, probably significant snow. and then as the storm system moves through missouri, the backside of it, we could get a band of snow, accumulat

mr. speaker. yesterday, president obama spoke about health care. he said if not now, when? if not us, who? president obama was correct. he knew that the duty and obligations of this house are to pass momentous legislation to help the american people. it's engraved above the speaker's rostrum, let us gather our resources and do something worthwhile and momentous and great while we are here with the resources of this country. something to be remembered. health care has been on the american agenda for 100 years starting with teddy roosevelt in 1912. it went through harry truman, through richard nixon, bill clinton, and today barack obama. we are there to fulfill ted kennedy's dream and the work of many congresses and many people. i have had several constituents come to me andle it me of serious illnesses they have had that they would have gone broke if they didn't have insurance. and if they didn't have insurance and their cancer surgeries were covered, we would pay for it and the tax we pay we don't know about of $1,000 for person for uncompensated care. let's do something worthwhile. let's

mr. speaker, president obama has said he will begin to bring our troops home next july. but he didn't say when the job will be complete. representative kucinich says, let's bring them home by new year's eve this year. we must continue to debate this issue, debate it today, debate it on the supplemental, debate it on defense bills. let's debate it when we're begging for resources so our kids can go to quality schools, when we're trying to find the money so that he have american has a decent job and affordable health care, so we can maintain our roads and bridges and waterways, so we can guard our ports and borders, so we can keep our cops on the beat and our seniors safe in their homes. let's debate the war in afghanistan. how we will pay for it, how it will end, when it will end and when our sons and daughters, husband and wives, friends and neighbors will be able to come home. let us continue to ask the hard questions and demand straight answers until we get it right and all our troops are safely home. mr. speaker, i urge a yes vote on the rule and on the previous question and i yield back th

i have to look away when you are talking. mr. savage, mr. obama was very rude in addressing the supreme court while they sat there. the democrats were approved by standing up and clapping like a bunch of teenage girls. thank you. host: i am not sure that we spoke earlier about justice alito, the discussion about whether or not he mallet the words "not true." guest: john roberts said that he had to set their expressionless, and perhaps he meant four of them work expressionless. i heard alito speak in the argument. the president began by saying the supreme court overturned a century of law. most people think it is either 100 years or 60, depending on how you count it. he described this as a relatively recent thing. in the early 1990's', there was an amendment about that. he took the view that this was a relatively recent thing. why is everyone saying that this is a century-old law? it is a strange dispute, but he does not agree with the criticisms. host: minnesota. bob on the democrat line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i think the supreme c

mr. obama's job performance. 51% say he is not doing a good job. whenou consider that the president's approval rating was 76% just 13 months ago, that is a stunning reversal of fortune. nevertheless, democrats celebrated today. some actually gloating. vice president biden was especially afusive. >> everybody knows the story, starting with teddy roosevelt, they tried. they were real bold leaders, but, mr. president, they fell short. you have turned, mr. president, the right of every american to have access in the decent health care into reality for the first time in american history. [ applause ] >> bill: and a few moments later the vice president echoed dick cheney actually saying the f word. >> ladies and gentlemen the president of the united states of america, barack obama. [ applause ] >> bill: sorry. as the loyal opposition -- as for the loyal opposition, well, they are seating. that's not good. some shouted racial insult at democratic congressman are now being played big by the far left who want to brand all americans who oppose barack obama's agen

mr. bestta. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding time. i wonder if we are talking about fiscal policy or day one when president bush gave to keys to president obama. the greatest tax on americans on health care would occur if we do nothing. today most american families who have insurance pay about $1,000 out of their insurance cost simply to cover the cost of americans who are uninsured and thereby, use the health care system and can't pay. the way those providers, doctors, and hospitals make up for those who can't pay the bill is to charge those who can, who have insurance. and so to talk about doing nothing is to tell americans you're going to provide a hidden tax on them to continue that tax of over $1,000 a year. that's not acceptable, at least anymore. because too many families are already going broke trying to sustain their current health care as it is. but more importantly, talking about making a change to health care, it's tough. reform is not easy. we know that. but you have to do it in a way that lets americans believe that not only will we be good for them but we'll have done it in a way that's fiscally responsible. if i could have cha

mr. obama took a lap with other presidents especially truman who asked congress for universal coverage in 1945. >> when came here three years ago i towed the story of when johnson stood with truman and signed medicare into law that wasn't perfect either. i'm sure there was somebody who was dissatisfied with it at the time. >> reporter: two giants said they are bracing for combined costs to comply with the new law. the by says it closes a loophole that allow big firms to deduct drug coverage twice in washington republicans vowed to fight on. >> tax hikes, medicare cuts, job killing mandates, accounting gimmicks, backroom deals, we're again into -- going to fight to repeal them. >> reporter: mr. obama appears ready president we they are going to run on a platform of repeal in november. you've been hearing that and my attitude is, go for it! >> reporter: hmm, sounds like bring it on. vice president biden talking at a fundraiser with democrats last night explained the potential cost of not getting health care across the finish line he told them we would have been done, absolutely done. >> bret: the next bi

mr. rubio respond. only three republicans in the u.s. senate voted for the obama stimulus when it passed in 2009. olympia snowe, susan collins and arlen specter. are you saying if you had been a senator, a republican senator in the u.s. senate, in 2009, you would have voted for the stimulus? >> yeah, that's pretty clear. i think it was the right thing to do at the time. you have to go back and remember what was happening at the economy. it was literally falling off the cliff. some of these, you know, ideas to try to prop up our economy frankly began under the bush administration, president bush. it was the tarp. they wanted to make sure the financial institutions did not collapse, that people didn't have to have fear and a run on the banks or something of that nature. when it came to the stimulus, it was money to help our economy. things have started to stabilize now and they're getting better in florida. >> chris: mr. rubio? >> i don't know how you define stability, having the highest unemployment in florida's history is certainly not stability, especially to the one out of ten floridians can't

will pass his plan through the house when they take it up about mid-day but victory is still not assured. after weeks of campaign-style trips for health care, mr. obama travelled to the capital to deliver an epithetic message to voters. >> help people who are down on their luck and give them a pathway to success and give them a ladder into the middle class. >> reporter: but victory is not assured. around the capital, protesters gathered to cheer on the plan's opponen opponents. and to hurl insult to democrats. inside, it was a day of hand-to-hand political combat. >> we're about 24 hours from armageddon. >> reporter: hit by criticism they were using procedural slight of hand -- >> this process corrupts and prostitutes the system. >> reporter: democrats reversed course at mid-day and announced an up or down vote on the unpopular senate bill. meanwhile, abortion coverage remains the biggest issue standing in the way of passage. as one member who supported the bill in the past, announced a change of heart. >> tomorrow will be a sad day for me as a cast a vote against what we need. >> reporter: there is talk about having the president issue an executive

mr. obama defended his proposal as a way to rein in unfair practices by the insurance industry. at the same time, he charged republicans did nothing whenthey were in power. and he said their ideas would only make things worse. >> this is what we heard at the health care summit. they said you know what? if we had fewer regulations on the insurance companies ... (audience booing) ... whether it's consumer protections or basic standards on what kind of insurance they sell, somehow market forces will makes things better. well, we tried that. i'm concerned that would only give insurance companies more leeway to raise premiums and deny care. >> suarez: the president cited a recent report by goldman sachs that insurance abuses stem from a lack of competition. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius wrote to company executives today. she urged them to post on your websites the justification for rate increases. >> health care reform again . >> suarez: back in 1994 the industries harry and louise ads helped sink president clinton's reform efforts. in contrast the obama administration initially tried engaging the industry. at last y

mr. obama said he knew this was not an easy vote for a lot of politicians but he called it the right vote. >> tonight, at a time when the pundits said it was no longer possible, we rose above the weight of our politics. we proved that this government, a government of the people and by the people still works for the people. >> nbc's luke russert is our man on capitol hill covering all the developments. luke, when can we expect the president to actually sign the senate version that passed the house last night and when will the senate pick up the fixes they dealt with. >> all points say president obama will sign the senate bill tomorrow and it will be a triumphant ceremony from what we can expect. here is the ske. president obama will sign the bill. after that we're going to take up the fixes bill. the senate must pass the fixes bill as is, then president obama would sign the fixes bill. word of caution. while last night was a huge win for the democratic party, there's still a long way to go on this. why, david? if just one single word is changed, okay, under the reconciliation process, if something is taken out by the

mr. obama, since you've completely ignored the economy, does the health care plan cover starvation? >> we didn't bring guns. we didn't bring knives. wheng back our country, we are going to do with it with our vote in november. >> a threat doesn't mean anything violent. >> it's not violent at all. >> now the teralternative, the so-called coffee party sponsored several meetings. these get-togethers a lot more subdued. they want more cooperation among lawmakers. a more liberal group, though. >>> we're talking tals this morning. reynolds wolf has been giving us the warning if you will. could be dangerous day weather wise in some places. >> springtime is often a time where you have a pretty unstable atmosphere. you could see lightning, strong winds, maybe tornadoes. >>> thanks, reynolds. >>> she thought she won a bunch of money at the slot machine. guess what? there was a bit of a glitch. we'll explain. thritis going? they're discovering the first self-injectable ra medicine you take just once a month. it's simponi™, and taken with methotrexate, it helps relieve the pain, stiffness, and swelling of ra with one dose a month. visit 4simponi.c

mr. obama's a liar. he is purely a liar. he's gone and done something, larry, where half of the country didn't agree with it. so if you say whene running you're going to do one thing -- stephen, to be fair. >> go ahead. >> larry: many didn't agree because they thought it didn't go far enough. so it wasn't just the anti-against it on the right. >> but when you don't -- when you don't get one republican vote? that's not -- remember i was on your show last time, larry. we said is the government broken? the government is broken. this is clearly a definition of that. how can a broken government fix a broken health care system, larry? >> larry: all right. i'll get ayesha's thoughts, right after these words. don't go away. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 (announcer) we believe in giving every investor a lot more for a lot less. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 that's why, at schwab, tdd# 1-800-345-2550 every online equity trade is now $8.95 tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no matter your account balance, how often you trade tdd# 1-800-345-2550 or how many shares... tdd# 1-800-345-2550 you pay what they pay what everyone pays: $8.95. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 and you still get

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obama. mr. axelrod, good to have you on the program. >> good to be here, maria. >> can you talk to us about the most important part of bill, and when itl take effect? >> sell with, there are some things that will take effect immediately that are important. tax credits for small businesses, and millions and millions of small businesses across the country to help pay for health insurance for their employees. and then to end discrimination for children with pre-existing conditions will take place this year, so they can get coverage. parents will be able to put their 26-year-old kids, up to 26 on their insurance, and end to caps, lifetime caps, so that if people are chronically or seriously ill, they won't be bankrupt and thrown off of their insurance. the doughnut hole will be beginning to be filled in on prescription drugs. so there is a series of things that will happen immediately, but the core of this is an idea that democrats and republicans agreed on, and that is over time in four years, there will be a competitive marketplace where small businesses and people who don't get insurance through the job can get insurance at competitive

. >> when i am president, i intend to keep in place the moratorium here in florida and around the country that prevents oil companies from drilling off florida's coast. >> reporter: but mr. obama's stance softened as the campaign progressed, and at his state of the union address this year, he said "tough decisions" were looming. in his speech today, he addressed those on both sides of the issue. >> ultimately, we need to move beyond the tired debates between right and left, between business leaders and environmentalists, between those who would claim drilling is a cure all and those who would claim it has no place. because this issue is just too important to allow our progress to languish while we fight the same old battles over and over again. >> reporter: in response, a spokesman from the environmental group greenpeace called it a disappointment. >> i think it's a real let down, and i think it's a betrayal of people that voted against drill baby drill and for president obama's vision of a clean energy future. 00 but florida governor charlie crist welcomed the drilling announcement. >> i think that america ohm >> reporter: in any event, it's likely that actual drilling in much

when mr. biden let a profanity slip during a live bill signing ceremony and says he'll mail biden one of his no cussing club penalty jars and official club t-shirt. >>> first lady michelle obamal to the pizza wars between chicago and new york. according to a "new york times" blog the first lady reportedly said to a waiter at new york's famous grimaldi's pizzeria that the pizza was better than chicago. that's what she said. having lived in new york and chicago, the best pizza is -- i don't have an answer because i haven't been to grimaldi's yet. when i go i'll answer. those are the things we thought you should know. grimaldi's sorry for mispronouncing the name of your famous store. >>> we know kids like to play cops and robbers. however, some parents in new york city are fuming after an interesting addition was made to the neighborhood playground. take a look. a play jail, complete with bars, a lock, and a sign that reads, jail is being called inappropriate. the jungle gym outside a housing development has been on the playground for six years but when a picture was posted on the website black brown news.com outraged complaints followed and it prompted city officials to remove

mr. obama talk about race? it is almost like none of us of color can talk about race or racism. as john mitchum's said on the two the press comment white people get queasy when black people talk about racism. >> host: why? 11 a society with all of the changes and progress but speaking to race if we really know our history with the white unearned advantage with black supremacy and white interior day that we realize that these are lies and when you check but history to say the enslavement of black people was the economic engine that builds in this country, how proud we do be if you were to realize all of the advantages you have with the disadvantage of other people? they made us the legal and subhuman in order to justify their christian notions of enslavement. from every first president even abraham lincoln called a great emancipate your he was not inviting the union or south for our liberation. he was fighting to help hold and the union together and we were free of the process. i think when light-- whites looked at that when it is revised and changed and obscured truth is a hebrew word that means truth. the truth is hard to take. and some people cannot believ

mr. cardoza: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, it never ceases to amaze me how the republicans use selective memory when they talk about american economic policy. on the very day that president obama was inaugurated into office, he came in with a $1.3 trillion bush hangover in a debt for that year. i will not yield, mr. dreier. madam speaker, the prescription that we are offering today reduces the national debt by closing foreign tax loopholes. there is plenty of things that we can do to start closing the tax cuts and loopholes that shouldn't be in the tax law to pay for tax cuts for honorable americans. i do support reducing capital gains fees. i think we can do that, but they need to be paid for. we put those pay-go rules in place in the mid 1990's and we left, the last time we had the white house, with a $5.4 trillion projected surplus. and in eight short years we saw that turned around to what we have been left with, the mess we have been left with now. that's not mr. obama's fault. that's not the democratic party's fault. this bill will reduce the deficit by $2.6 billion. we are paying for our tax cuts. we are going to stimulate the economy. we are going to rebuild america wi

mr. shapiro how did you come up with this idea? guest: it came last year when president obamaannounced he would cut billions from the federal budget and the staff would find this money and get rid of it. and it was widely critized by both sides, and described as cutting coffee out of a $100,000 salary. i didn't feel that anyone was getting to the scale of the really tiny cut. so i made a video about it, it was a goofy video i thought. and it ended up getting a lot of attention, over 1 million people saw it and i started making more. and really have kind of a passion for taking big numbers, which everything having to do with the budget is enormous. and visualizing it so we &#tca get a get sense and feel of what we are looking at. host: when you say big numbers and we have those from the public debt and today it's 12.5 trillion and something called intergovernmental holdings is 4.5 trillion, how do you make these devices to show the viewer at home. how do you make that simple? guest: i try as much as possible to bring it into something real. i dislike using kind of all computer

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mr. speaker, to a question i have and that is statements that were made as late as september of 2007 when then can dit obama said, this is -- candidate obama said, this is an area where we are going to have a 60% majority in the senate and the house in order to actually get a bill to my desk. we are going to have a majority to get a bill to my desk that is not just a 50 plus one majority said then senator obama. you got to break out what i call the sort of 50 plus one pattern of presidential politics. maybe you eek out a victory of 50 plus one but you can't govern. you get air force one and a lot of nice perks as president but you can't, you can't deliver on health. we're not going to pass universal health care with a 50 plus one strategy. that later quote again was the next month in october. so i'm having difficulty understanding, mr. speaker, why now the president and the majority seems to have done a 180 when it comes to using reconciliation with a bill, $1 trillion bill that could very well alter 1/6 of our economy and i yield. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for yielding. his 180 was incorporated as a

when we moved into this building. mr. president, you are to repeat myself literally about to make history. our children and our grandchildren, they are going to grow up knowing that a man named barack obama network in this country to provide the single most important element of what people need, and that is access to good health care. [applause] >> and that every american from this day forward will be treated with simple fares and basic justice. look, the classic poet virgil once said that the greatest wealth is health. the greatest wealth is held. well, today america becomes a whole lot wealthier goes tens of millions of americans will be a whole lot healthier from this moment on. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states of america, barack obama. [applause] >> thank you, everybody. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. please, have a seat. thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you, everybody. please, have a seat. thank you, joe. [laughter] >> stack good to be here with you, mr. president. >> today after almost a century of trial, today after over a year of debate, today after all the votes have been tallied, health insurance reform becomes law in the un

. >> when i hear brother obama say this, black people helped make him president of all of america. >> coming up, travis smiling's form. at 830 eastern on c-span2. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> whether you are researching former presidents or just watching their spouses or if you missed an of an from the white house yesterday, you can watch it or share it online. every c-span program since 1987. this is cables latest gift to america. >> this is c-span's america and the courts. up next, the justices scalia and justice briar. the supreme court historical society hosted this discussion at the supreme court on tuesday. >> thank you, ralph. i think the supreme court historical society for and biting my class to attend but tonight. we're very fortunate in having to distinguished the justices so willing to discuss publicly the differing approaches to constit. in our core said georgetown, we have taken a historical look at cases involving civil liberties. it will not surprise to that one of our justices saw all the laws but one. this was a decision written by the chief justice that president lincoln did not have the authority to suspend the writ o

mr. speaker, then senator obama, now president obama did support the tarp bailout. he was in support of the $700 billion and when it came back as a vote of $350 billion now and $350 billion to be requested by the next administration and approved by the next congress, president obama, then senator obama, voted for that legislation. he was in favor of it. when they went to the white house john mccain and senator obama to sit down with speaker pelosi and mitch mcconnell, the leader in the united states senate, and roy blunt was there as well and the list of people in the house side goes on, at that table then candidate obama, senator obama, was in agreement with the request for $700 billion. and voted for it. so it doesn't work very well for a democrat to come to the floor of the house and point his finger at george bush when he can clearly see that his president, and by the way my president, was in support of tarp. i was not. i stood in opposition to tarp, the wall street bailout was approved by then senator obama, the first half at $350 billion and later on the other $350 billion that was requested by the preside

when we move into this building. mr. president, you are, to repeat myself, literally about to make history. our children and our grandchildren, they will grow up knowing that a man named barack obamae final girder in the framework for a social network in this country to provide a single most important element of what people need and that is access to good health. [applause] and that every american from this day forward will be treated with simple fairness and basic justice. look, the classical poet virgil want said that the greatest wealth is held. the greatest wealth is held. today, america becomes a whole lot wealthier because tens of millions of americans will be a whole lot healthier from this moment on. ladies and gentlemen, the president of united states of america, barack obama. [applause] >> thank you, everybody. thank you. thank you. [applause] d)dthank you, everybody. please, have a seat. thank you, joe. [laughter] >> good to be here, mr. president. >> today, after almost a century of trying, today, after over one year of debate, today, after all the boats have been tallied, health insurance reform becomes law in the united states of america. [applause] today. it is fitt

when we move into this building. mr. president, you are -- to repeat myself -- literally about to make history. our children and our grandchildren, they are going to grow up knowing that a man named barack obamafinal girder into a framework for a social network in this country to provide the single most important element of what people need, and that is access to good health. [applause] and that every american from this day forward be treated with simple fairness and basic justice. look, the classic pose virgil once said that the greatest wealth was health. today america becomes a whole lot wealthier because tens of millions of americans will be a lot healthier from this moment on. ladies in german, the president of the united states of america, barack obama. -- ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states of america, barack obama. >> thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you so much. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you, have a seat. thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you. thank you, everybody, please have a seat. thank you, joe. [laughter] >> could be here, mr. president. >> today on for almost a century of trying, today after almost a year of debate, today, after all

mr. enzi: and i appreciated the senator from arizona bringing that up because when he mentioned tax credits in his campaign, he was chastised by now-president obamaas saying that just can't happen, that is that's terrible. but you will find it slipped into the bill anyway. now, so far it just catches the top insurance people. they're going to be taxed -- no, they're not going to be taxed because it's shoved in as a hidden tax so it doesn't expose that they are actually doing what the senator from arizona was suggesting. it's going to be a hidden tax that the company is going to have to pay but the company is going to take it out on the employee. so it's another way that they are going to tax and taxes raise prices and lower benefits. the prices on insurance are going to go up because right now the insurance companies are trying to protect themselves. and on the one hand, they have been protected a lot by this bill, and you would think that we're accused of being -- of helping out the insurance companies. but take a look at some of the stuff that really helps out the insurance companies, and this with the individual mandates, the employer mandates

when bush was in office and he did not care, he did what he wanted to do. no complaints from anybody. and it is just ridiculous. and he is president obama, not mr. obama like your body on the street. host: of the republican line from houston, north carolina -- malcolm on the republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i just got to say -- and i will say it again, and i heard a voice also on c-span -- i know one caller said he is working hard. he is working hard all right. i truly feel that he does not really like this country and trying his best to bankrupt it and leave us with no money. flying from place to place talking about we will give this and that -- where is the money coming from? we are bankrupt? if we did not have the money, we cannot keep giving. my question is, where is the money coming from? i think he has a hidden agenda -- his inner circle. he is just trying to bankrupt the country. my personal opinion. host: might -- an e-mail from b.j. in annapolis. the next caller is owned independent line from leesburg, virginia. caller: i believe that the president is doing the best thing for the people. because, first of all, if w

when we moved into this building. mr. president, your to repeat myself, literally about to make history. our children and our grandchildren, they're going to grow up knowing that a man named barack obama put the final girder in the framework for a social network in this country to provide the single most important element of what people need, which is access to good health. [applause] >> and that every american from this day forward, will be treated with simple fairness and basic justice. look, the classic poet vir gill once said, that the greatest wealth is health. the greatest wealth is health. today, america becomes a whole lot wealthier becomes tens of millions of americans will become a whole lot healthier. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, barack obama. [cheers and applause] >> thank you everybody. thank you. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you so much. thank you so much. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you everybody. thank you. thank you everybody. please, have a seat. thank you, joe. [laughter] >> good to be with you, mr. president. [laughter] >> today, after almost a century of trying, today after over a year of d

when we moved into this building. mr. president, you are to repeat myself, literally about to make history. our children and our grandchildren, they are going to grow up knowing that a man named barack obamain the framework for the social network of this country to provide the single most important element for what people need and that is access to good health. [applause] and that every american from this day forward will be treated with simple fairness and basic justice. look, the classic poet virgil once said that the greatest wealth is health. the greatest wealth is health. well, today, america becomes a whole lot wealthier because tens of millions of americans will be a whole lot healthier from this moment on. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states of america, barack obama! [applause] >> thank you, everybody. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you. thank you so much. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. [applause] thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you. thank you, everybody. please. have a seat. thank you, joe. [laughter] >> good to be with you, mr. president. >> today, after almost a century of trying, today, after oth

when they were here and sang "the star spangled banner." at this museum, we are in the forever business. americans trust us with their family heirlooms and prized possessions. we are very grateful that mrs. obama is entrusting us with this wonderful gown that she wore at the inaugural ball last year. i'm sure this dress as many memories for you. it will become part of our country's collective memory. it goes into one of our best known and most popular exhibitions and collections at the smithsonian. it will become part of a personal memory for millions of visitors who come here every year. over the years, our first lady collection has evolved, in response to the changing role of women in american society and the changing role of the first lady. i am pleased to announce that, thanks to a generous gift, the museum will be adding a new gallery called "the first ladies' debut." it offers a 50-year review of first lady fashion at the smithsonian. not only do we have a world- class collection at the smithsonian, but we have a world-class staff. i recognize and thank the production staff and many others who put together this exhibit and contribute so much to the success of this museum. [applause] for

when we ran a full-page "the new york times" ed, what would be, mr. president, change or more of the same? created a lot of debate whether we were being too harsh. a picture of obama on one side morphing into bush on the other and one picture has bush's eyebrows, then bush's nose, and then bush's shape of his head and you see the progress of transition. a lot of people were saying, this was to up -- ross. what is wrong? it was a question, a statement. what will it be? early monday morning we got a call back. then we spent an hour and a half talking about -- and we were able to say, what do you want to accomplish in these trials? do you want a speedy conviction? do you want to put this albatross of a burnett? under establish rules that have legitimacy. where no one will able to poke at how you got the job done. do you want to seek an execution -- but do you really want to execute? do you want to make them poster boys? i understand why you might want to say you are seeking the death penalty but is that really the best public policy decision in terms of relationships with the muslim world? if you back into it that way, you have many more opportunities about venue and

i have to look away when you are talking. mr. savage, mr. obama was very rude in addressing the supreme court while they sat there. the democrats were approved by standing up and clapping like a bunch of teenage girls. thank you. host: i am not sure that we spoke earlier about justice alito, the discussion about whether or not he mallet the words "not true." guest: john roberts said that he had to set their expressionless, and perhaps he meant four of them work expressionless. i heard alito speak in the argument. the president began by saying the supreme court overturned a century of law. most people think it is either 100 years or 60, depending on how you count it. he described this as a relatively recent thing. in the early 1990's', there was an amendment about that. he took the view that this was a relatively recent thing. why is everyone saying that this is a century-old law? it is a strange dispute, but he does not agree with the criticisms. host: minnesota. bob on the democrat line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i think the supreme c