more trouble for the obama white house over a controversial clean energy loan program that already haseft taxpayers holding a more than half billion dollar bill. the house committee laying groundwork to subpoena white house documents about a loan to a california company. the republicans who run the committee say they're being stonewalled by the white house and have no choice. the white house says they're providing enough documentation and accuses the republicans. this is one of increasing testy showdowns who say the republicans are conducting tough oversight investigations and the white house seeing witch hunts, not legitimate inquiries. jess, any sign the white house will give? you were here when they first got the request and they said no, we've given you enough. any threat a subpoena will say, here, more dock plns? >> reporter: no signs it will. the white house has maintains they through their agencies turns over more than 70,000 pages of documents and that the white house itself has turned over 900 pages and as you have said, they have made it clear there's an important precedent t

a loyal irishman, oppose white house the ministration. the attack supporting memos from the white house police and the department of interior he joined him in opposing the idea of the guidebook. behavior that could not be called a profile in courage, my father just give the memo to his secretary to afford to my mother who was on the case. [laughter] it was accomplished by the fact that there were no obstructions to slow up traffic. the secret service and winehouse police contend that moving crowd as a sieve crowd. domestic into consideration the possibility of severe criticism from the public. secret references are made like commercialism does not and has never existed in any form in the presence of. consideration must also be given to the impressions formed by visiting dignitaries who expose such a commercial venture in the presidents of. members of congress. as examples of the criticism that might result we would like to cite the unfavorable publicity that was given and the efforts of the eisenhower administration to keep squirrels of t

and in the white house. caroline kennedy presents her mother's recordings next followed a panel discussion that includes michael beschloss, ted widmer and richard trained 10. >> the evening. you've read the news stories, but your copies at the book, watched the abc primetime special, morning television and even "the daily show" with jon stewart. and now tonight, live from the kennedy library, with its early history was so carefully house for the past half-century, we hear directly from jacqueline kennedy about her life with our 35th president and from their daughter who has practiced by state to history today. and tom putnam, director of the john f. kennedy presidential library museum and our behalf of the executive director of the kennedy library foundation, members of our foundation board and many of whom are here with us tonight and all of my library and foundation colleagues, a thank you for coming in on those watching on c-span acknowledge the generous underwriters of the candy library for them, boston

she, of course, died in the white house. mary peck had wanted to go to the white house, but she wound up in a boarding house on the wrong side of the tracks. edith had to nurse an invalid in the white house. but ellen could have been speaking for all three of them, when she wrote woodrow at the end of her life, this has been the most remarkable life history i ever even read about. and to think that i have lived it with you. i wonder if i am dreaming and will wake up and find myself married to a bank clerk. thank you very much. [applause] >> so i think we have a few minutes if anyone would like to ask a question. sir. >> i'm really looking forward to reading your book. i've probably read a couple of biographies of woodrow wilson and most recently went to his childhood home, et cetera. and i saw a documentary about the women's party and the women's suffrage. and he let women be jailed for protesting at the white house. >> that's true >> alice paul led a number of women in prison on hunger strikes. and he comes across as a sout

go and picket the white house. demonstrate in front of the white house. the thing this administration does not get is that the business sector is the engine of economic growth. that's key. they don't get that. so this president and administration wants to continue to try and spend our way to prosperity. part of it is jealousy. i stand by that. >> as you might imagine, civil rights veterans such as the reverend joseph lowry have a much different perspective. >> the people know that he is not responsible for our financial dilemma, and they know that the financial community is responsible. that the greed, the corruption, the selfishness of the financial community, and even today when the wealthy are not willing to share their wealth. they want to keep less than 10% of the people own more than 90% of the wealth. that's unfair. >> dr. joseph lowery turned 90 this week and is a living legend of the civil rights era. >>> why are so many people ignoring the similarities between the occupy wall street protest and that other dissatisfied citizen powered movement, t

>> of the white house? >> oh, well he you know, he was interested in a.lways get so interested in anything. he was nervous about it. i mean, he wanted to be sure it was done the right way so he sent clark clifford to see me. i think clark clifford was really there because he tried to persuade me not to do it, which jack never. he said you just can't touch the white house. he said, it's so strange. america feels strains about it. if you try to make any changes it would be just like that. and i said it won't be like the truman balcony come and i told him all about how i would do upon and all the people i hoped we would get. it's how you would set this committee up and certain things come and clark is very good about setting up a guidebook. so once jack thought was going along with good counsel, i think him he was so excited about it. >> was there ever any criticism about what you did in the white house? >> no. the most incredible interest. then the tourists would start going. and every night he would come home saying we have more peopleú than the eisenhower

white house says it's not campaign event.n mccain replied on the senate floor today. >> i was somewhat taken aback since the president and his spokesperson billed his trip as taxpayer paid visit. in his remarks, the president was strongly condemning of the plan we put forward. >> bret: what about this, the push for jobs plan and where things stand? bring in the panel. steve hayes for "weekly standard." mara liasson of national public radio. nina easton, columnist for "fortune" magazine. start with you. >> the most interesting thing is president obama's decision to co-op the wall street movi movement, anti-wall street movement. he could eat it or be eaten by it. the guys could have turned their wrath on him. show up in protest. instead, he made decision to coopt the movement that is leaderless, agendaless. they hate greed. that is the main message. so in order to coopt it though, he needs to elevate it. he uses a martin luther king quote. he is comparing it to the civil rights movement. i think what you will see him increasing

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up next, are the media ignoring white house scandals?from the failures of an illegal gun sting gone wrong, to the ongoing investigation into questionable funding of solyndra and others. a growing list of scandals is plaguing the white house. are the media doing their due diligence or turning a blind eye? that's next on news watch. there's only one bottle left ! i've got to tell susie ! the vending machine on elm is almost empty. i'm on it, boss. new pony sorry ! we are open for business. let's reroute greg to fresno. growing businesses use machine-to-machine technology from verizon wireless. susie ! the nding machine... already filled. cool bike. because the busine with the best technologyules. listen to this. three out of four americans don't get enough vegetables. so here's five bucks to help you buy v8 juice. five bucks. that's a lot of green. go to v8juice.com for coupons. you can count on us. >> i was going to stand on win, lose or draw, that's what america is-- pick yourself up and go back to work, ford is that company for me. >> j

martha: the white house denies claims that u.s.ed congress during his testimony back in may regarding what and when he knew about the gun running string operation which became known as fast and furious. the house ove oversight committee very much darrell issa says he wants a clear-cut explanation. here he is on our show yesterday, watch this. >> these inconsistencies in, if you will the duty of candor by the attorney general have to be resolved and they have to be resolved before the judiciary committee and they have to be resolved quickly. you cannot come before that committee and answer without candor questions. he may or may not have pupblg urd himself but hpurjered himself. martha: it's a paper trail that seems to be gathering here. and i have in my hand copies of the memos that were sent in july of 2011. they were sent from michael walther, the director of the national drug intelligence center, and they are memorandum to the attorney general is the way that they are stated at the top. what is the importance of these then we'll

the post-white house memoir in which a senior white house official who says how screwed up the white house was, except for them, of course, they were fighting it the whole time, that is a great and rich modern american political tradition now. the godfather of that genre, the mother of all "i worked in that white house and boy was that white house screwed up" memoirs, was actually from the reagan era. it was from ronald reagan's chief of staff back in 1988, his name was don regan. don reagan resign/got fired in 1987 and by 1988, he was already out with his book. his book about the reagan white house in which he broke the bombshell news that the first lady, the president's wife, had been controlling president reagan's schedule based on advice from an astrologer. joan quigley, astrologer, would read the heavens and tell nancy reagan if that day would be a good day, bad day or average day. astrologically speaking. then president's day would be planned accordingly. conflict between the astrologer's advice about the president's calendar and what the president's chief of staff thought presi

the program is "white house chronicle."joined by linda gasparello, by tim folley, mark hamrick, and kris chambers of georgetown university, a self confessed all go. this program can be seen around the world on the english language stations, the voice of america. we do not know about anything. is that the answer this panel has? we do not know about the economy, and we certainly do not have -- know about politics? how do you think that the candidacies of the republicans are going after one of debate where nobody seemed to come out with too much? >> i think we have seen eight debates now among the republican candidates. it has come down to probably two or three candidates, i would guess at this point. it has become much more contentious. but all we have heard about is the economy. there are going to be some foreign policy debates on the way. i think that it has been somewhat surprising to see the level of, shall we say, bitterness, if you will, but there is a longstanding angst between rick perry from texas, and mitt romney fo

up next, are the media ignoring white house scandals?> from the failures of an illegal gun sting gone wrong, to the ongoing investigation into questionable funding of solyndra and others. a growing list of scandals is plaguing the white house. are the media doing their due diligence or turning a blind eye? that's next on news watch. ♪ [ cellphone rings ] cut! [ monica ] i have a small part in a big movie. i thought we'd be on location for 3 days, it's been 3 weeks. so, i used my citi simplicity card to pick up a few things. and i dot have to worry about a late fee. which is good... no! bigger! bigger! [ monica ] ...because i don't think we're going anywhere for a while. [ male announcer ] write your story with the new citi simplicity card. no late fees. no penalty rate. no worries. get started at citisimplicity.com. >> i was going to stand on win, lose or draw, that's what america is-- pick yourself up and go back to work, ford is that company for me. >> jon: a new controversy surrounding that ford commercial now is the latest in a laund

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people are said to have been arrested are going to speak to somebody who was there then senior white house adviser david trying to make the case on morning shows today that the president supports americans that are frustrated with financial system aka occupy wall street but the president is part of the problem so do they just not get that horse is a desperate attempt to try to co-opt the movement david sirota is going to join us for that one and the justice department announced today that a plot by iranian agents to kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. has been foiled and two men are being charged we're going to take a look at the details with jack rice and start counting down the minutes until the bomb wrong crowd starts trying to get rid of all that free tonight and more including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. now before the alleged plot to take out the saudi ambassador to the u.s. was announced today which will get to later on in the show there was another terrorism case that has the attention of the mainstream media this mornin

and also joining us, julianna goldman of bloomberg news, white house correspondent for them.ianna i want to start with you because you were one of the questioners at the republican debate last week. things sort of stayed in place. what did you take away from it? >> herman cain came across as very likable, authentic, compelling. but with his new frontrunner status comes the scrutiny of a frontrunner and questions about whether the 999 plan really adds up. rick perry really came to that debate needing to play. he didn't have an economic plan to put forth. this was a debate focused only on the economy. he also did not use the opportunity to really hit mitt romney very hard on health care. instead talking about the need to block grant medicaid dollars back to the states. mitt romney really did seem to be the most confident and comfortable on matters of the economy. at the debate. >> schieffer: it seems to me, john, to be a consensus in the political community that whether republicans are excited about him or not, it looks like mitt romney is headed to the nomination. >> well, tha

>> with eric schultz at the white house. >> jon: a cbs reporter gets a slap down from the white house and justice department for digging deeper into the department's failed fast and furious guns program. now, new information surfaces suggesting our attorney general knew of the plan earlier than he acknowledged. >> no matter how many times i was asked the question, for me the answer was never anything, but no. >> jon: and chris christie gives his final answer. the washington post runs a hit piece on the governor, giving the liberal media more red meat. >> the voice of the people is more powerful than the voice of the media. >> jon: herman cain gets a lift in the polls. is he still being i go poured? >> occupy wall street protesters get more attention, but should they? and how did the associated press get this shot? >> on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor, jean miller. and cal thomas, jim pinkerton, contributing editor, the american magazine. and host of the alan colmes show, alan colmes. i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. >> now, we knew from the start th

the white house did it right politically. it's not good enough.t they did early on, early on in the administration they had a good week in the stock market. vice president biden said here is the obama recovery. i said you can't judge that. >> bob: exactly. the best thing they have going for them politically is low expectations. it's so bad, the last thing they need to do is pump expectations up. you for one are excited about this. aren't you? >> greg: i grew 2.5% while listening to this. >> kimberly: i can tell! >> dana: height or weight? >> greg: both ways. that was just mean, dana. a sign of the times that we have to be excited over 2.5%. we move from latvia to lithuania. i find more change in my change. >> bob: you'd be taller if you sit up. >> greg: i did. >> eric: dana sent out early this morning, piece from the "wall street journal," the op-ed. fantastic. she talked about things that, how the country is changing. things that used to keep us together starting to thin out. starting to divide us. >> dana: peggy noonan is a great person to read

the white house did it right politically. it's not good enough.an what they did early on, early on in the administration they had a good week in the stock market. vice president biden said here is the obama recovery. i said you can't judge that. >> bob: exactly. the best thing they have going for them politically is low expectations. it's so bad, the last thing they need to do is pump expectations up. you for one are excited about this. aren't you? >> greg: i grew 2.5% while listening to this. >> kimberly: i can tell! >> dana: height or weight? >> greg: both ways. that was just mean, dana. a sign of the times that we have to be excited over 2.5%. we move from latvia to lithuania. i find more change in my change. >> bob: you'd be taller if you sit up. >> greg: i did. >> eric: dana sent out early this morning, piece from the "wall street journal," the op-ed. fantastic. she talked about things that, how the country is changing. things that used to keep us together starting to thin out. starting to divide us. >> dana: peggy noonan is a great person to

and we know the answer to that from the white house podium.he answer is of course they may say we don't like what we believe but they imitate us. which is true by the way. which is true. the opinion about the united states is low around the world. including in the countries you are wanting to be liked, the arab countries. a poll where americans were voted the coolest nation on earth by a youth magazine. it was not covered here but it was definitely covered in russia. >> if i can add one more difference, you brought up very good points about how americans and europeans are different. one of the things that europeans didn't like in the american foreign policy the unlateralism of the foreign policy. that made a difference during the previous president. a lot of people talk about nipe, how it was a dividing moment between the world and the united states. but what's really divided europeans and americans was the u.s. reaction to 9/11, going to afghanistan, as well as to iraq and not really reaching out to other countries, but doing this by themselv

of course, the white house very aware of that. they are taking this region very seriously, as well. they are calling this a trip for his jobs tour, but, of course, 2012 overshadows all of it, chuck. as you mentioned, we will likely see a lot of the similar themes play out that we saw during his bus trip this summer when he traveled through the midwest when you were there, chuck, to witness that. chuck? >> all right. kristen welker, as we're watching the president go up the stairs of air force one. i think he'll be there in about 45 minutes. thank you, kristen. >>> asheville, of course, interesting that he's starting there. the blue dot in a very red part of north carolina. >>> in 2008, the presidential primaries were won and lost largely in the month of february. 29 states in the state of washington waulg, held primaries in february in that year and this time around, just five states. whose campaign can withstand the february break and come back strong and who will wither away in february cold. mark murray joins me now to wade thr

the white house is being very cautious. they don't want to make too much of the positive economic indicators that we've seen. of course, the unemployment rate remains above 9%, so they are being incredibly cautious but make the point they are going to be rolling out these initiatives in the coming days and weeks, because as you know, president obama proposed that jobs bill, which has now stalled in congress, so the white house's position is saying if congress is not going to act, we will act. they'll be watching closely to make sure they are, in fact, operating in their power. >> what the heck is going on behind you? >> halloween is coming up, i don't know how much you can see, but they are setting up, getting ready for halloween. see the pumpkins out. it's very elaborate. in the past few years they've had trick or treating parties for local school kids at the white house. they haven't announced exactly what's going to happen on monday, but my guess is something similar to the past two years. >> kristen welker from the newl

and congress asked the white house to produce documents and the white house is refusing.ch one do you want to talk about first? the treasury department pointing fingers at energy and saying you are the rat, you don't know what you are doing? >> the story is developing as we go along. from the treasury department perspective, what they came and told congress today, we've been focusing on the original granting of this loan, and then there's the restructuring of the loan that happened last week that. put taxpayers back behind the line ever the investors of solyndra. the treasury department folks say today they were encouraging the department of energy people not to do this. they were concerned even about the legality of doing that. they raised red flags. we had red flags at the beginning and red flags at the end. >> so there's somebody out there. there's somebody out there who knows something who okayed this is obviously is running for cover. >> we have a portrait of a war inside the administration. it's clear the department of energy wanted something and there were official

900 documents from the white house. the issue at end is what to do with the president's blackberry. it is unprecedented technology territory and that's one of the reasons it makes sense to invoke executive privilege to stop it from becoming a political fishing expedition. >> the blackberry new precedent here. >> when obama came president, people said don't carry a blackberry, people will suppress it. bad embarrassing news comes out at 6:30 on friday. i don't think it is going to i don't think this is going to be that legally controversial. if it's about the blackberry, this is the core of presidential decision making. it's like his diary. that's not something that any court is going to turn unless there is direct proof there's something relative to criminality and it is far from any criminality here. >> how much more political fallout is there? the solyndra loan is something a lot of people know it is bad. and or there is something bad about it. >> it is short hand for questions about wasting taxpayer money on green job

she says she is still committed to landing a republican in the white house next year.alin shot down rumors that she would consider running for president as a third party candidate. >>> texas governor rick perry is hoping months of fund-raising make up for weeks of setbacks in his white house bid. perry raised more than $17 million during the three-month period which ended september 30th. several million dollars more than any of his rivals. even more impressive, perry didn't even enter the race until the middle of august. he's had to deal with several controver controversies, though, in recent weeks. they include questions on his vision of immigration and revelations about a racist nickname on a rock near his family's old summer camp. >>> residents are trying to get the chevy chase club golf course to stop using a chemical. they recently issued a letter telling residents that they're yooth methel bromide to prevent weeds. hundreds of homeowners signed a petition to try to stop the use of that chemical. >> the scientists that we've talked to talked about how serious the

of the white house.te house where president obama got good news about third quarter economic growth. >> sorry, one more time. >> oh, boy. awe. >> all right. >> bret: we are happy to report he did save the pocket

tomorrow is one day closer to the white house.eally believe that herman cain will put united back in the united states of america and if i didn't believe that, i wouldn't be here. we would run a campaign like nobody has ever seen. but then america has never seen a can indicate like herman cain. we need you to get involved because together we can do this. we can take this country back. ♪ one voice united we stand ♪ i am america, one hope >> that was mr. cane's chief of staff, mark block, smoking in that ad. it's certainly creating lots of buzz. we are joined by david. i was corrected during the break, and speaker gingrich's tax policy is like governor perry's. there's an alternative, you can do the flat tax or go back to the other code. i want to correct that. the ad, what do you think about it? >> i was going to bring my pack of marlboros but i will leave that to mark. it's interesting. herman cain has the name at this point. five, six months ago you do an ad like this, it can go viral, can get a lot of attention on the campaign n

behind the headlines, former white house insider nicolle wallace on women in the white house, both fact and fiction. hi, i'm patricia murphy in for bonnie erbe. welcome to "to the contrary," a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. i'm pleased to report bonnie will return to the show next week. first a war over women's health. many democrats are concerned president obama is afraid to take on republicans, but one of his cabinet secretaries is not. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius spoke out this week against the republican party, saying the gop wants to roll back women's health 50 years. in a speech before naral pro-choice america, secretary sebelius takes on the republican attempts to overturn the affordable care act and cuts to medicare, medicaid and planned parenthood, which she says, would undo progress women have made. she also says women have suffered discrimination by insurance providers. earlier this year, sebelius supported recommendations to require insurance companies to provide birth control to women cost-free. irene, do women need

chief white house correspondent ed henry live at the white house with more. >> reporter: the president, now, is going to come out at 2 p.m. eastern time in the rose garden, the first comments really from him, and his top aides have been very quiet this morning. officials here say they want to wait for the confirmation of gadhafi's death to come in, the forensics, etc. as you said, there's still a lot of murky details here. the last thing the u.s. wants to do is get ahead of all of that. the president sat down at 10 a.m. with some of his top national security aides this morning for his regular presidential daily briefing. libya was topic there. wendell goler is traveling with secretary clinton, she was doing a series of interviews earlier today, and in the middle of those interviews an aide handed her a blackberry with these unconfirmed reports of gadhafi being captured or killed. she was heard to say, wow, as this was all coming in. in new hampshire vice president biden was giving a speech, we've just gotten the first comments from him on all this. take a listen. >> you kind of see it

the chill white house correspondent. he had been trying to get on the vice president's plane in early two thousand and four there were some things that. did light that we wrote. there was no on the plane it's my belief that a lot of journalists did not ask hard questions of this administration's policies particularly in the run up to the war in iraq because they were afraid of losing access and having happened to them what happened to me and has happened to others an example of why media ownership matters to democracy before reporting. sheds light on the reasons why they are being asked to go and risk life and limb and health and family and everything else. then we're doing our job and if that displeases the circuitry of defense or tears we says the vice president so be it. now still he's a bit out with we trusted him as we knew. his job with the m.p.'s to stop him is the biggest scandal of the bush administration is the story of reporters who protected their access to top officials first and put their responsibility to

the chill by white house correspondent william douglas. he had been trying to get on the vice president's plane in early two thousand and four there were some things that the vice president did like that we wrote. there was no on the plane it's my belief that a lot of journalists did not ask hard questions. an example of media ownership. sheds light on the reasons why. they are being asked to go and risk life and limb and health and family and everything else then we're doing our job and if that displeases the secretary of defense if it just pleases the vice president so be it . we. think it's the biggest scandal of the bush administration is the story of reporters who protected their access to top officials first and put their responsibility to the public laughs. the story really begins with him bastard joseph wilson wilson was the acting ambassador to iraq before the first gulf war when saddam hussein took more than one hundred americans hostages joe wilson stared him down saddam hussein backed off and released the americans for that pre

and 900 documents from the white house. the issue here at hand is what to do with the president's blackberry. it's unprecedented territory. it's one of the reasons that it invokes the executive privilege to stop this from becoming a political fishing expedition. >> what do you think about this, the blackberry new precedent here? >> remember when obama became president and they said don't carry a blackberry. people will end up subpoenaing you. it's been 2 1/2 years and i think it's like the old days in the clinton administration. bad embarrassing news comes out at 6:30 on friday. >> there isn't a company or government in the world that doesn't use that one. >> i don't think it's going to be legally controversial. if it's the blackberry, the core of his ethic decision making, his diary, that is not something that is going to be turned over unless it's clear criminality. >> let me ask you on the political side of things, how much more political fallout is there? the solyndra loan is something that a lot of people are familiar