. >> all i got to say is white america, wake up. i'm talking about all the white folks who refuse to vote for a black man. i got news for you. he's not black. he's half black. he barely passes the brown paper bag test. >> what kind of studying do you have to do to pass that test? >> it's very simple. brown paper bag next to the skin. yes. >> you know, comedians have trouble -- white comedians are having trouble making jokes about obama. do you think that they're scared that they're going to be construed as racist? >> i think for a while they were. definitely when i was doing "chocolate news." because you know, that was during the primary leading up to the election, and i know "the daily news," "snl," a lot of people were afraid to really say any jokes about him for fear of being branded racist. it seems to have loosened up now. >> he wasn't doing anything wrong. when george bush was in office, it was a bonanza. he was so -- he didn't read. he talked crazy. sarah palin is a bonanza for comedians. obama is not that funny, frankly. >>

. >> all i got to say is white america, wake up. i'm talking about all the white folks who refuse to vote for a black man. i got news for you. he's not black. he's half black. he barely passes the brown paper bag test. >> what kind of studying do you have to do to pass that test? >> it's very simple. brown paper bag next to the skin. yes. >> you know, comedians have trouble -- white comedians are having trouble making jokes about obama. do you think that they're scared that they're going to be construed as racist? >> i think for a while they were. definitely when i was doing "chocolate news." that was during the primary leading up to the election, and i know "the daily news," "snl," a lot of people were afraid to really say any jokes about him for fear of being branded racist. it seems to have loosened up now. >> he wasn't doing anything wrong. when george bush was in office, it was a bonanza. he was so -- he didn't read. he talked crazy. sarah palin is a bonanza for comedians. obama is not that funny, frankly. >> he's not. i think

. >> all i got to say is white america, wake up. i'm talking about all the white folks who refuse to vote for a black man. i got news for you. he's not black. he's half black. he barely passes the brown paper bag test. >> what kind of studying do you have to do to pass that test? >> it's very simple. brown paper bag next to the skin. yes. >> you know, comedians have trouble -- white comedians are having trouble making jokes about obama. do you think that they're scared that they're going to be construed as racist? >> i think for a while they were. definitely when i was doing "chocolate news." that was during the primary leading up to the election, and i know "the daily news," "snl," a lot of people were afraid to really say any jokes about him for fear of being branded racist. it seems to have loosened up now. >> he wasn't doing anything wrong. when george bush was in office, it was a bonanza. he was so -- he didn't read. he talked crazy. sarah palin is a bonanza for comedians. obama is not that funny, frankly. >> he's not. i think

. >> al i got to say is white america, wake up. i'm talking about all the white folks who refuse to vote for a black man. i got news for you. he's not black. he's half black. he barely passes the brown paper bag test. >> what kind of studying do you have to do to pass that test. >> it's very simple. brown paper bag next to the skin. yes. >> you know, comedians have trouble, white comedians are having trouble making jokes about obama. do you think that they're scared they're going to be construed as racist? >> i think for a while they were. definitely when i was doing chocolate news. that was during the primary leading up to the election, and i know "the daily news," "snl," a lot of people were afraid to really say any jokes about him for fear of being branded racist. it seems to have loosened up now. >> he wasn't doing anything wrong. when george bush was in office, it was a bonanza. he didn't read. he talked crazy. sarah palin is a bonanza for comedians. obama is not that funny, frankly. >> he's not. i think for america, we like p

>> kroft: if it hadn't been for bernie madoff, the most famous white-collar criminal in america right now would probably be mark drier. he also ran a ponzi scheme and wound up in prison. but unlike madoff, he agreed to talk about it. >> i thought, if somebody would ever interview me in a program such as yours, it would be for something good i've done, not something humiliating i've done. >> kroft: this isn't the way you wanted to be on "60 minutes"? >> no. >> stahl: america gets half its electricity from coal. the problem is that process creates tens of millions of tons of waste loaded with toxic metal. this muck is called coal ash. never heard of it? neither had most of the people in kingston, tennessee, until a retention pool buckled, shooting a billion gallons of coal ash into the river and engulfing area homes. >> you had never heard of coal ash before kingston. >> stahl: never. >> it wasn't a problem. >> stahl: well, it was a problem. we just didn't know. now, we know. and there are no federal regulations for coal ash disposal, which is dumped in hundreds of sites all over the co

agenda makes me think they are on a different planet than the families suffering in america's heartland. >> the whiteouse insists america is recovering and that the jobs will begin building back up. >> it is a lagging indicator but they have to start turning it around soon or what's happening now will affect the election of 2010 negatively for the democratic party and the house. >> now pressure for the president and his party who have to create jobs or risk losing their own. >> the president says he has additional options for creating jobs but he did not say whether another stimulus plan is one of them. in washington, brian mooar, wbal-tv 11 news. >> financial shortfalls are impacting maryland as well, and it seems even places to help citizens survive are on shaky ground. that includes the h.r. poured -- that includes the harford senior center. barry simms has more. >> for years senior citizens in northeast baltimore knew they could enjoy the harford road senior center. it offers educational programs as well as health screenings. >> this belongs to them. they may lose it. >> a difficult decision that

america. she was at the white house today. dr. beams, thanks for your time tonight. is the president being strong enough? >> i think it's time for the president to get a little stronger. i think he's willing strong enough. he's got a lot to handle, especially with -- as you guise were talking earlier, senator baucus not really going far enough, i think, with the finance committee bill and doing what's right for the american people and putting a public option into the proposal and really making a real change in the system that we already have that's going to help the 47 million uninsured americans that are suffering today. >> dr. beems, do you think that congressional members are listening to your organization and listening to doctors? can you see some of the things you're advocating in some of the bills that have been written as they get ready to go to the floor to debate all this in. >> sure. there's a lot in the bills that's really great and we've advocated for. we've advocated for patients to not suffer because of pre-existing conditions. we've advocated for chang

america to fail. >>> plus, the growing divide between the white house and military brass. last week, general stanley mcchrystal campaigned publicly for more troops. while the president was weighing a smaller counterterrorism strategy. well, the president's national security advisor rebuked mcchrystal yesterday on television. two retired generals join us to talk about this open fight now between the uniformed leaders and the civilians. >>> and if you've been thinking that president obama needs a win one of these days, you're not alone. check out "saturday night live's" devastating opening skit. >> it's very clear what i've done so far. and that is -- nothing. nada. >> why the president needs a win, and quick. later in the show. >>> also, is general david petraeus really thinking about running for president in 2012, could he beat someone as exciting as mit romney or deep as sarah palin? check out politics tonight for that big question. and do you remember the famous mccaca remark? we may have heard another one, another mccaca moment in virginia. on the "hardball" sideshow to

america? >> that is right. bill: hang on. i do not want to get too far out there. one thing at a time pyriphlegethon -- one thing at a time. what about handing out of white coats? heard about that. they had meetings before and after words. many of these people were contacted by doctors for america and asked to appear. bill: how do they think that when yesterday? were they happy with that? did they have a chance to express their views to the president? >> they did not have a chance to talk with the president rather than a couple of them were able to meet, obviously there as props. doctors being crops. what we are saying is that this is just shameful that the white house is trying to manipulate doctors at this point, talking about removing legs and tonsils for money? doctors have been vilified. now he needs the doctors, so he is coming out in using them. bill: strong language, calling these doctors crops. >> if we had 1000 doctors and supporters on september 10 who opposed government involvement in madison, if he really wanted to hear what we had to say he would have taken our requests for white house meetings. he has shown that he is not open to what doctors hav

strategy in afghanistan, one that would identify al qaeda and not the taliban as america's chief adversary. chip reid is our chief white house correspondent. good evening, chip. >> reporter: good evening, maggie. after three meetings with his war council, the president appears to be getting ready to settle on a war strategy and it's already drawing fire. white house officials say the focus of the president's strategy will be on defeating al qaeda in pakistan while downplaying the need to completely eliminate the taliban in afghanistan. the taliban, the white house argues, simply does not threaten u.s. security the way al qaeda does. >> the taliban are, obviously, exceedingly bad people that have done awful things. their capability is somewhat different, though. >> reporter: the strategy would turn the remote mountains of pakistan into the center of the war. the white house says while there are only about 100 al qaeda in afghanistan, there are thousands in pakistan. including osama bin laden and his top deputies. using special forces, pilotless drones, and a more aggressive effort from the pakistani army, the strategy h

america is a multiethnic society. that the state department and the white house and every organ of the united states would support back and deliver the best games ever if, in fact, chicago got that vote. but there's no sense at all at this point of course whether those two individuals even as persuasive as they are has swung the vote in chicago's favor. we won't know the answer until 1:00 p.m. eastern today. back to you, dan. >> all right, jim, thank you. well, if chicago beats the competition, the whole country could see an impact from hosting the games. the windy city, though, that would be center stage with a global spotlight. kristen dahlgren is live for a look at the city's push. the excitement has got to be building. >> reporter: you know, it really is, dan. if you watch the presentation, a lot of it focused on the people of chicago, including touching letters from kids and athletes that were free here. and you can bet a lot of people here were watching very closely. the local stations actually went on the air 1:45 local time to carry chicago's presentation live. now, not everybody in the city is excited about t

the white house says the meeting was part of obama's on going review of america's strategy in afghanistan and that no decisions were made. for more on all of this, bring in msnbc military analyst, retired army colonel, jack jacobs. jack, what's the temperature of this meeting? is this the first time these two men have ever met? they don't have working relationship. today was the first day in a critical issue. what do you think? >> what i think, i usually don't believe in coincidences, but consider this. yesterday in london general mcchrystal gave a public speech in which he said that he thought that the vice president's idea that we focus our attention on counterterrorism and more or less leave afghanistan to the taliban was a very bad idea. woops. not surprisingly, the very next day he summoned to copenhagen to have a brief meeting with the president of the united states before obama came back to washington. i think the two are very closely related. >> okay. well, with that, if the president were to choose the strategy that vice president biden is talking about, do you think mcchrystal w

white house press secretary robert gibbs want to go there, and talk to employees and thank them for the hard work they have done to keep america big news out of the white house tomorrow is on the topics of afghanistan. in the afternoon, the president has a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers were both houses of congress, including chairs and ranking members of key committees, like armed services, appropriations, a few others. the idea is to walk these members of congress through where the president and national security team are in this strategic review. they have held a few meetings, they're going to have another on wednesday and friday. the idea is to share their thoughts with the members of congress, get some of their opinions. you can expect there to be a lot of opinions from these congressional leaders. and, of course, congress would have to sign off on any new funding proposals for that war evident. so the idea tomorrow is a big meeting with them, and we'll be watching closely. and finally, on capitol hill, people will be watching the senate finance committee, expected to vote soon on their version of the health care bill.

america. this chart shows -- the blue line shows what was projected by the white house and the economic advisors if only we passed the stimulus. the red line shows what's actually happened in real life. we've seen a tremendous increase in unemployment. job losses continue. and ironically christine roemer, chairman of the economic advisors sat where you sat and testified that job gains would be highest in manufacturing and construction. and in your testimony, as it has been for several months, actually the greater job losses have occurred in manufacturing and construction, the very two areas the stimulus was proclaimed would have a jolt to america's economy. what i think is happening in real life is that you have one stimulus that is so small compared to the rest of the economy. if the u.s. economy is the size of the football field, the stimulus spending is about that of the 1 yard line and it's hard to claim that's stimulating the economy and the second problem we've got is that i meet each monday with a number of our businesses in the houston region to try to determine what they're experiencing

while everybody can celebrate the breakthrough for south america which has never hosted the game, this is still a bid for the leaders. white house leader valerie jarrett and of course, president obama. nbc chief white house correspondent chuck todd joins us now. what are they saying in terms of all the reaction from republicans who are saying we told you so. you shouldn't have put the u.s. prestige, the prestige of the presidency on the line. >> they're trying to make lemonade. it's not a very good tasting lemonade, to be honest. the lemons that they were dealt here. they're trying to say, their spin is we won't polyjays for trying to promote america around the world. behind the scenes, is there probably some second-guessing? maybe a little bit. they came under intense lobbying from people like mayor daley in chicago who politically is really probably going to pay a bigger price for this than anybody else that was involved simply because he engaged so much of the city in this and put a lot of his own political stature on the line here. but i think they got to sit here and say it is better to have tried and lost than to be

white strips. >> we have created somewhere between 750 and a million it00,000 jobs in america. we're reinvesting, we're reinvesting and getting people off their knees back to work. >> that was vice-president joe biden on monday, touting the success of the administration's economic stimulus plan. but where are all those jobs? his remarks came just three days after the labor department announced another 260,000 lost jobs in september. bringing the unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.8%. overall, the economy has shed 2.8 million jobs, since the stimulus passed in february. we're back with dan hittinger and steve moore and also, joining the panel editorial board member jason riley. so, steve, we've got 3 to 4% growth as people are saying in the third quarter and probably into the fourth quarter. that's a growing economy, not great from the lows, but it's growing. so where are the jobs? >> well, you know, you've played that joe biden clip and the joke in washington these days, paul, is that barack obama's going to want to trade in joe biden under the cash for clunkers programs

sean: tonight in "hannity's america" despite growing concern over the school czar kevin jennings, the white house is refusing to comment on the controversy, instead robert gibbs decided to criticize media outlets like fox news for bringing the scandal to light. let's take a look. >> i think it's a shame to watch what they do, i think it's a shame -- i hope as people watch they'll match up some of the actual truths to what is being said on some of these occasions. sean: now, the truth, robert, is that jennings admitted he was aware of a sexual relationship between a high school sophomore who now claims he was 16 at the time and an older man. it was jennings who originally said the boy was 15 and jennings admits he did nothing wrong. now, this weekend a "washington times" editorial slammed the white house for turning a blind eye to the jennings saga and also uncovered a 1997 speech jennings gave in which he said, quote, one of the people that's always inspired me is harry hay. he was a long time gay rights advocate and was a big supporter of the north american man-boy love association or the

so for president obama to be elected, for america, white, black, chinese, everything else, that everyone was looking at the whole world to elect a black president was a nobel peace prize in itself. thank you. guest: what john has indicated melds nicely with the notion that the recipient of the peace prize is in a sense, the american people. and it is not only what obama had accomplished on behalf of the american people, but in looking back at the records of the nobel peace prize, the united states has the largest share of peace prizes and also the largest share of other nobel prizes, chemistry, physics, and the others. over 300 of those and almost a quarter of the peace prizes. so it is part of a long tradition of america being engaged in promoting peace around the world and in those efforts being recognized by the nobel committee. host: obama joins three other presidents who have won the prize. jimmy carter, woodrow wilson, theodore roosevelt. what were their accomplishments? guest: theodore roosevelt received the prize in part for being a russian-japanese conflict at the time, and also

america. the debate has been silly in the last few days about the blame and the white house and i am happy to alk about that. i do think that brazil, you know, and latin america is an important economic both competitor and cooperator with the u.s. but i would venture a guess that this is the only place on television right now where we are having this conversation and not talking about whose finger is getting pointed where. >> this is a new peculiar television show, and we could be cancelled by lunchtime, but for the meantime we are here. >> if you look at so much of the corporate communism to make sure there is no competition and no choice for americans in health care, and a political system interested in playing finger-pointing as we watch economic powers around the world, whether it's brazil or china or india that may not be anywhere near this country yet, and they are coming. and we are doing everything in our power, it would appear, to try and basically turn ourselves into a bunch of corporate communists that have no choice or competition. this is for karen, and she is used to it from me.

white house felt strongly about. this they made a fundamental mistake. if they wanted the olympics to come to the united states they should have made it about america not obamathings other than cap stone to his time in the white house. should have made it less perm and more about the country as a whole. juan: karl, let me help you out because i want to advance your argument. while he is overseas we get the unemployment rate skyrockets to 9.5%. this is the highest in years. people say he was distracted while he was off making the pitch for his hometown we got this going home at home. it seems damaging to his credibility for the people that have to vote for him in 2012. am i right? >> you are right. i have been monitoring this. the unemployment rate is not the key impact on president obama's job approval. but his handling of the economy is. so, if people think he is disengaged. if they think the answers that he has provided like the stimulus where he overpromised and under delivered. that's really damaging to him. if you take a look at the job approval line for obama this year, it matches the approval for his handling the economy, which is even worse. remember

. >> anne, how important variable is the pr campaign that is the united states of america, to the president and the white house at this point? >> very important. the study dovetails what the president has been saying since he was a candidate which he would be able to bring the diplomacy back to the united states. the trip he took the last couple of days is extending his global popularity. the study took place during some of the years anyway of the bush administration, if i'm not mistaken, so that this administration is hoping that they can reverse course around the world and he can bring some of that popularity back to the united states and that he can actually show he is willing to negotiate. what we're seeing with iran this is a real departure from the bush years and sitting down with the iranians. maybe it won't work in the end but maybe the administration will be able to make the case they tried and if it tails, they were talking. this is probably one of the biggest breaks that the obama administration hopes to make from the bush era is demonstrating they are part that they are engaging with the worl

are working every single day here in the white house to accomplish, whether it involves implementing the recovery act that's already helped to bring back america from the brink of a much worse situation or lowering the cost of health care for businesses and families. and that's why i'm working closely with my economic advisers to explore any and all additional options and measures that we might take to promote job creation. when ever i see statistics like the one we saw today, my mind turns to the people behind them. honest, decent americans who want nothing more than the opportunity to cop tribute to their country and help build a better future for their friends and families. and building a 21st century economy that offers this opportunity, an economy where folks can receive the skills and education they need to compete for the jobs of the future will not happen overnight. but we will build t of that i am both confident and determined. and on behalf of every american, i will continue in that effort each and every day for as long as i am in this white house. thank you very much, everybody. >> president obama in the rose garden at the white hou

for obama from the presidential campaign, or doctors for america, which the a grass-roots political organization formed independently of the whitese to push the issue forward. shepard: the spin from the opposition is that the debate is already over and that the white house just had to fix it down. >> that is right. the louisiana governor had a piece today that everyone knows the debate is over. that might be the wishful thinking perspective. if you look at the skittishness on capitol hill, the boats do not appear to be there. >> having 50 doctors at the white house is a good photo op, but they will not be in a situation where they will challenge the president's thinking or reading on the health care reform he wants without creating an embarrassment for the president. >> republicans are on the sidelines decidedly at this debate. this is an internal one between the white house and senate and house democrats, and their families still very much talking. shepard: thanks. some breaking news, continuing coverage from tampa, florida. we reported earlier one suspect is under our arrest or has been taken into custody, at least. students h

america. can you imagine with bush had done this and we hadn't gotten it? cowboy unilateralist. obama falls into that trap and they weren't for us. >> juan, does the staff of the white house -- should they receive some blame for sending the president over there in this environment when south america now looking back, it looks like they kind of had it in the bag? >> i don't know if they had it in the bag. what's clear is that the united states did not have the votes lined up. i think that valerie jarrett, david axelrod, rahm emanuel, deciding this is going to happen. we can get the african nations. they didn't have anything lined up and it is a temporary embarrassment. i agree with mara. it's not going to have any long-term effect. the way it looks internationally, with the president saying, you know what, this is -- we need to confirm this is america working with the world and it's different than the bush administration, he just got himself in a quagmire. and he got stuck. >> it occurs to me that when you look at -- now that we know what everybody was thinking more publicly tn we did before the vote was taken, that it was a longshot, maybe it was poor intelligence o

america will make the world proud. shepard: it was not enough to convince the olympic committee. it would have been seen as a huge victory at the white house, no doubt, and tonight, it is the critics who are applauding. there are politics and everything, including disk, and it was a gamble, one that did not pay off. tony blair helped london get the 2012 games. vladimir putin helped get the 2014 olympics. but this time, but try failed, and critics of the president insists that he -- insist that he failed. first we go to wendell in copenhagen, denmark, where they may be decision. >> back and the white house after his city lost in the first bid of voting, if president obama was glad he came to copenhagen. he said chicago's bid was as strong as could be, and that is what matters. >> you can play a great game and still not win. although i wish that we had come back with better news from copenhagen, i could not be prouder of my hometown of chicago. >> critics were not so understanding, and it was not just the $900,000 cost of 14 hours aboard air force one they objected to. >> for the president to be reduced to a pitchman for the united sta

america. the single biggest reason they won in their very passionate layout of their plan. they did the most unbelievable job -- >>> meantime, the white house is dismissing republican complaints the president shouldn't have made the trip. david axelrod said the only thing the president missed was a good night's sleep. >> lester holt starting us off in chicago tonight, thanks. >>> now, a word about the winners, rio deja nar owe. the picture is more complicated. they mounted a huge effort and they won. you could almost hear the celebration from here. somehow miguel almaguer found his way. >> reporter: it's not blanketed the enthusiasm here in row owe. they are celebrating on the streets and beaches. today, the city made history. >> the games of the 31st olympia are awarded to the city of rio de janeiro. >> reporter: with that, rio erupted. the beach shook with excitement. frenzy of yellow and green sprinkled with bikini. in copenhagen, brazil soccer legend celebrated with hugs and cheers. luis made a case the olympics should belong to all people and all continents. >> translator: our time has come. it's time. tonight, the olympic calder

america. >> president barack obama made an overnight trip to denmark to lobby the voters for four hours. the white house says he is disappointed in thethe decision but is proud of chicago. >> our athletes and this nation is excited to compete in 2016. >> a stunned silence seemed to linger over chicago in hours. a stark difference to rio de janeiro that won the honor of what will be the first-ever south american olympic games. >> chicagoans can hold their heads up high. we are sorry we did not bring home the victory. there is only one gold medal winner. >> the second city finished fourth. the effects are undeniable. wbal tv 11 news. >> grab your cellphone, because we want to hear from you. which you support and another push to bring the games to the baltimore area? standard rates apply. most of you say that you do support another bid to bring the games to this area. others of you said you did not. >> some believe the economy is improving, but the latest unemployment numbers tell a different story. >> more on the seasonal fluke and why health officials are taking an unusual step to look at the pedia

white house successful in framing this? the republicans criticize the trip, they're, in fact, rooting against america. >> not only rooting againstrooting against american workers. talking here about jobs at a time when american workers need jobs. and i'm afraid that some republicans, maybe a little bit insensitive to that fact. >> august of last year, the economy was giving the gurgles. as it approach the drain. we had wars in two-countries and president bush spent four days in china, opening ceremonies and so to speak, back slapping the athletes. double standard? >> there's a bit of a double standard.

america. >> president barack obama made an overnight trip to denmark to lobby the voters for four hours. the white house says he is disappointed in the decision but is proud of chicago. is excited to compete in 2016. >> a stunned silence seemed to linger over chicago in hours. a stark difference to rio de janeiro that won the honor of what will be the first-ever south american olympic games. >> chicagoans can hold their heads up high. we are sorry we did not bring winner. >> the second city finished fourth. the effects are undeniable. wbal tv 11 news. which you support and another push to bring the games to the baltimore area? standard rates apply. >> 63% of you say you support another bid to bring the summer games to the baltimore/washington area. >> the employment numbers are out and the news is not good. >> and an alert for bank of america customers near the bel air branch. >> the baltimore city fire department annual parole show. that story is coming up. >> it is christmas -- annual liberal shelthrill show. >> there is bad economic news out. month. that is the highest in 26 years. our reporter

white house. hillary clinton was the favorite to replace him. unemployment was 4.9%. today, it's doubled that. america's economy has lost jobs for 21 straight months. more than 7 million jobs gone. there's six americans competing for every open job. yesterday, president obama promised to make that problem his top priority. >> i'm working closely with my economic team to explore additional job opportunities. i you will et up, until businesses who seek capital can thrive. until all responsible home owners can stay in their homes. >> with that, let me bring in the man who knows more about the america economy, former fed chair alan greenspan. welcome back. >> thank you. >> for most americans, this jobs issue is the one that hits home the hardest. and that report on friday, much worse than people expected. how much worse is this jobs situation going to get for how long? >> it's very difficult to make judgments at a time like this, largely, because we don't so many instances in country to compare to it. basically, the issue is, the jobs report was pretty awful. no matter how you looked at. indeed, not only di

white house to accomplish. whether it involves implementing the recovery act that's already helped to bring back america from the brink of a much worse situation, or lowering the cost of health care for businesses and families. and that's why i'm working closely with my economic advisers to explore any and all additional options and measures that we might take to promote job creation. whenever i see statistics like i saw today, my mind turns to the people behind them. honest, decent americans who want nothing more than the opportunity to contribute to their country, and help build a better future for themselves and their families. and building a 21st century economy that offers this opportunity, an economy where folks can receive the skills and education they need to compete for the jobs of the future, will not happen overnight. but we will build it. and that i am both confident and determined. and on behalf of every american, i will continue in that effort each and every day for as long as i am in this white house. thank you very much, everybody. >> president obama at the rose garden. his first comments after l

america, what does tt mean for afghanistan. the theory thenis, being discussed in the white house is that the talin doesn't actually aspire to attack the united stas proper. anso then questio becomes, would ey be enaer of qaeda if we don't manage to get rid of them in afghanistan. can they provide safe hav once again for al qaeda. those are the issues that are gog through right now in this debate that you'reeeing in the adminiration. >> charl: what is the politicshat's driving the debate, not that the national security not the first and morps interests, where are the politics if there are any? complicated. and multi-layered as we saw the other y when 30 members of congress leadingembers of congress went to the white house to dcuss this wit the president. yohad democrats who said, we'll be with you. we think you ought to do what general mccrystal aed in terms ofroviding more resources, democrats sai the posite. who said not timeo send mor oops her just sending mor oops down a rat hole. then you had republicans pressing hard sang, new don't go what neral mccryst is asking you're effect signing a prescription for failure. >> crlie: ep

white house successful in framing this? i mean as republicans criticize the trip, they're in fact rooting against america?ly rooting against america, keith, but i think rooting against american workers, we're talking here about jobs at a time when american workers really need jobs, and i'm afraid that some republicans may be a little insensitive to that fact. >> august of last year, the economy was already giving it's gurgles has it approached the drain, we have wars in two countries, and yet president bush spent four days in china, opening ceremonies and so to speak back flapping the athletes, double standard between that situation and the current one. >> i think there's a little bit of a double standard, i think

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america to a quagmire, but a senior mcchrystal adviser tells me if the president doesn't commit to those troops, he's risking another attack on american soil. russ? >> mitchell: kimberly dozier at the white house, thank you very much. a reminder now that our special three-day in-depth series, "afghanistan: the road ahead" begins tomorrow on "the early show" and the "cbs evening news." indonesian officials now say there is little hope of finding more survivors from last week's massive earthquake. the u.n. says that quake killed at least 1,100. hundreds are still missing after the 7.6 magnitude quake on the island of sumatra. cbs news correspondent celia hatton went to the unexplored quake zone to bring us the latest. >> reporter: five days after a pair of deadly earthquakes struck the indonesian island of sumatra, and some are still digging for buried bodies using their bare hands. rescue crews are straining to reach uncharted quake territory. our cbs news crew flew to a remote district north of most aid operations. these soldiers have just landed in an area that's been hit by land slides. no one has visited here yet. the troop works quickly to set up a makeshift landing platform for more

ago when we were talking to folks that the white house really didn't want him to go because they knew that because the olympics had never been in south america before, that there was a very decent chance that rio was going to get these games. so there was this big debate the chicago people were pushing hard for him to go on the off chance that they could catch, you know, win at the tape. and he finally decided that if he didn't go and they lost, he would then get blamed for it, so he might as well go and give it the big effort. >> and this is a job creation. i mean if you bring the olympics to chicago, you're going to push an awful lot of jobs in that direction. so this seemed to me to be a perfectly reasonable use of presidential time. >> it wasn't very much time. i mean most of it was overnight, the complaints about this are kind of pathetic, really, i mean sure it's embarrassing for him, for a couple of days, but does it cause any lasting political damage? can you imagine somebody at the next election, you know, an independent voter, i was going to be for president obama, but then he wasted those 18 hours back in 2009 going across the oce

the white house would have preferred for the president to have come home from denmark yesterday and said congratulations, americawon the right to host the olympics. as you mentioned this is not something we're going to be talking about a week from now. if the president continues to have a difficult fall this might be seen as one in a series of disappointments but all indicates are he's about to rack up some pretty significant wins. >> what do you think the president's trip to copenhagen did to his image here at home? >> well, i think that as early as the presidential campaign when he was running against hillary clinton and the democratic primary there were some critics of then senator obama who said this guy thinks his sort of soaring rhetoric and forceful charismatic personality can accomplish anything and it can't. i think for the few americans who may still have believed that to be the case this is another reality check, that no matter how charming or appealing the president may be, politics is a complicated thing. and the international olympic committee's politics are probably as complicated as any out there

fact of the matter is that the president of the united states of america traveled all the way to copenhagen for this, but i think for the whitehere's a huge plus in all this. i mean, four years ago when new york city was the bid city, nobody wanted president bush to go to singapore where the decision was made because president bush was wildly unpopular. so, the fact that all of the folks in chicago were tripping over themselves to get the president there shows that president obama is very popular. and i also think that the white house made a calculation even if they were to lose there would be a benefit down the road. illinois is the president's base and come 2012 when the president is seeking his re-election and launching, yes we can, again, campaign, all the folks in illinois and chicago are going to remember that he and the first lady did everything they could to bring out the olympics for chicago. >> michael with the "new york daily news" thank you for joining us. >> we're going right now to senior white house adviser to gauge the sentiments of everything in washington right now. david, how are you guys feeling? >> obviou

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of course, everybody knew all along there was no way in hell america was ever going to get the olympics. what went wrong and who in the whitese is taking the hit? >> first of all, the president was under enormous pressure from hometown folks in chicago to go. that's number one. number two, the perception here was that there was a very tight race between rio and chicago. i think -- >> who pushed him inside the white house to go? >> i don't know who pushed him. i know the first lady was very interested in going. valley jarrett was instrumental. i don't know that they would accept the premise he was pushed. they say he wanted to go. >> who didn't protect him then? >> that's an interesting question. >> you always have people around you to protect you saying, mr. president, listen, we have health care. we have afghanistan. we have things going on. you lost ten points over the last couple months. we don't need you flying across the atlantic and being embarrassed, mr. president. >> you wonder where that voice was. it was clearly lacking here. no question. unforced error. the other issue is communication strategy. even if you're go