live coverage from the press club in washington on c-span2. >> getting things done is what rahm emanuel lives to do. everyday from the time he hits the pool at 5:00 a.m. to his last round of phone calls, he is fighting for the ideas we care about. to create a new energy economy and give every american the skills they need to finish college. he keeps a copy of our book, when he gets another done, those who had a chance to work with rahm emanuel always do what he is capable of doing. it is wonderful to see his personality sweet the town off of its feet. it is a pleasure to introduce a man of ideas, and the greatest champions the cause has ever had, chief of staff to the president of the united states, rahm emanuel. >> nothing like getting through an introduction by bruce without some stories from the path that i prefer no one else knows. i appreciate that. speaking of being busy, i have to be back at the white house as we start our briefings on economics, they don't always go together all the time. that was a joke, you can laugh at 9:00 a.m. in the morning. i want to to one point of overv

leeson gentleman, rahm emanuel. -- ladies and gentlemen, rahm emanuel. [applause] >> i appreciate that, bruce. speaking of being busy, i have to be back at the white house as we start our briefings in the morning on intelligence and economics. those to do not go to gather all the time. that is a joke, you guys can laugh at 9:00 a.m. in the morning. well, you guys are serious. i will do one point of overview. then i will talk about two subjects, education and health care. one topic is dominant in the news, the other one is not dominant lly in the news. it is being led by the administration and by arne duncan, top to bottom. is it me, am i to closo close? exactly what the middle child like me with love to see happen. if you have not seen the president's interviews he did yesterday with "the wall street journal"

of the new democratic cause, chief of staff to the president of the united states, rahm emanuel. [applause] >> nothing like getting through an introduction by burress without some stories of the past i prefer nobody else knows. i appreciate that, bruce. speaking of being busy, i have to be back at the white house because we start our briefings in the morning with intelligence and economics. that was a joke. you can laugh. this crowd is serious. i want to do one point of overview, and then kind of and thentwo subjects, both education and health care -- and then kind of talk about two objects, education and health care. one topic is in the news dominant late and in people's lives. the other one is not dominant, but there is a quiet revolution going on around the country, education reform, led by the administration and our need duncan, top to bottom. -- and arnie duncan, top to bottom. am i to close? pmi you can do whatever you want. >> that would be great. >> -- you can do whatever you want. >> that would be great. if you have not seen the president's interviews that he did yesterd

rahm emanuel is wheeling and dealing on this. why do they need this? why do they need any hundred billion dollar bailout of european banks? i am not convinced that they do. host: do they need this to pass politically? guest: i am not convinced that they do. let's pass these bills on the sleek, debate them on their own merits, and then see where with -- see where they come out. host: let's go to a caller from new hampshire. caller: i was wondering if you knew how much money was being installed for private contractors like blackrock? guest: i do not know if it is broken out in quite that way. the money is going to the imf. the imf operates behind a veil of secrecy. there was a letter signed by 41 members of congress saying we want to know more about this. they want to make sure the money is going into court countries and not just disappearing into european banks. -- they want to make sure the money is going into poor countries. host: from alexander, virginia. tony is on the republican line. gcaller: good morning. thank you c-span. i have a question. i th

that is a good rahm emanuel line. the self-confidence of obama has made him president and helped him tackle although problems we have. that self-confidence can also lead him to overreach. let me read you something he said to a staff member who he hired. he hired him for the campaign. in the job interview, this is him talking to this guy. obama says, i think i am a better speech writer than my speech writers. i know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. i will tell you right now, i think i am a better political director than my political director. that is a high level of self- confidence. when you look at what the obama administration has done, they have taken on issue after issue, and each individual issue, they have done it intelligently. i was in afghanistan a few weeks ago. what struck me was that at issue that the people on the ground and afghanistan, the policy they wanted was the policy obama adopted, and very aggressive policy. he has just taken over general motors. he has create

rahm emanuel and i had a huge team organizing this ceremony. getting yasser arafat to shake hands, similar to me, i was at the center of 2 other things in 1995, was trying, after the disastrous election in 1994, trying to come up with a policy that would preserve affirmative action, worked on acute policy review, the president ended up giving, a precursor to a president obama's race speech, national archives in july and in that was incredibly gratifying. finally, it was the last day of 1995, 1994/1995 were difficult years, our white house was a very kayak -- very chaotic place. very schizophrenic. we were pursuing 2 different political projects at exactly the same time. what it culminated in was discovering the shutdown in 1995, and clinton sympathized the 2 camps he created in the white house. the fact that i was fighting on pretty much prevailed and it was clear in those final days of 1995 that by standing up the way we did, forcing the republicans to shutdown the government, at both preserve a lot of programs that lot of us cared about for a

rahm emanuel leads democrats back into the majority on capitol hill after penning with bruce reed a plan in 2006. in continuing with the tradition of helping young leaders emerge and the stars, the dlc founds a new program with an eye towards the future. a quarter-century later, barack obama and joe biden's historic victory in 2008 proves that the party is ready. the new administration and congress have the chance to build a long lasting change and reform, and the opportunity to carry out a new democratic agenda. education reform, national service, health reform, energy, fiscal responsibility, and long- term growth. on the democratic leadership council, the organization that al built from the ground up is taking on a new challenge. under bruce's leadership, house legacy lives on. the power of a good idea can still inspire our party and to transform our nation. >> 25 years ago, he had the courage to see it was time for a different kind of democrat. today, our party is stronger, and our country is better off. he was right. ideas are worth fighting for. that is as true now as it was when th

some of the republicans were thinking of cutting deals with the rahm emanuel in order to be able to help them pass it because they were having trouble putting progressives in it. progressives like dennis kucinich will have trouble going back to their constituents and say i made a pledge to never vote for any war finding that did not have any troop withdrawal provisions and not operate with that. i think they are right because if they do that, that means they were hypocrites. and it means they were just demagoguing the war for political purposes. i think that is wrong and they think that is wrong, and i hope they stand together. host: our guest will be with us for about a half hour if you wanted to ask her questions about the war supplemental bill. you can send us an e-mail and a at twitter it is c-spamwj. talk about the hesitancy to support this. guest: we are being told we cannot have health care because we don't have the money. we are told we cannot bail out california because we don't have the money. people in california cannot be treated for breast cancer or cervical cancer because w

i just talked to the white house a moment ago, rahm emanuel, and he's indicated the president will not let these photos see the light of day, have you seen the linerman/graham -- lieberman/graham amendment if the secretary of defense certifies them to be a danger to our troops and civilians overseas? >> i have not seen them but -- >> fair enough. i will get them to you. do you think it would be the preferred route that congress would act on this subject matter rather than executive order? >> yes. i think that having congress act would be a preferred way in which to -- >> would give us a stronger hand and a better way to deal with this issue. >> yes, i do think. >> and i'd just like to let the committee know, my beef is not with the courts. i think unless these documents are classified or congress acts, the courts are making a reasonable interpretation of the freedom of information act as it exists today, and i want to applaud the administration for asking them to stay and have the supreme court review that case. quite frankly, mr. attorney general, i would not be surprised if the supre

rahm emanuel indicated that the president will not let these photos see the light of day, that he would prefer the congress to act. have you seen the lieberman- gramm amendment that prohibits the release of these photos for three years? >> i have not seen that. >> fair enough. i will get it to you. do you agree with me that the preferred route in terms of impressing the court that congress would act on the subject matter rather than executive order? >> yes. i think having congress act would be preferred ways -- >> would give us a stronger hand and better way to deal with the issue. >> yes. >> my beef is not with the court. unless the documents are classified, the courts are making a reasonable interpretation of the freedom of information act as it exists today. i want to applaud the administration for acting them to stay and have the supreme court review that case. i would not be surprised if the supreme court decided not to hear this case or honor your petition and let the order stand. i think it is imperative that one of us act. the congress and administration has been assured by rahm

he gathered people in the office of his chief of staff, rahm emanuel. and they literally had a debate. he listened to the debate for an hour and made the decision right there on the spot. that's an impressive level of substance. and this chief of staff, rahm emanuel, from chicago. he's sort of a competitive, aggressive guy. he's lost his middle finishing nar deli accident -- middle finger in a deli accident. he is very confrontational and curses a lot. obama said when he lost his middle finger he was rendered mute. [laughter] nothing else -- my other rahm joke is he's very concerned about education. and he's concerned about the american education system because he's afraid american high school students are cursing at a fourth grade level. that was another good rahm line. but this self-confidence of obama i think is -- has many -- it made him president. and it's made him challenge -- tackle all the challenges we've had. it's also created i think the weakness and this is a thing i worry about. with president obama. that self-confidence can lead him i thin

i just talked to the white house a moment ago, rahm emanuel, he's indicated to me the president will not let these photos see the light of day. he would prefer the congress to act. have you seen the lieberman-graham amendment that would prohibit the release of these photos for a three-year period if the secretary of defense certifies them to be a danger? >> i have not seen that. >> i will get it to you. do you agree with me it would be the preferred route in terms of impressing the court congress would act on this subject matter rather than executive order? >> i think that having congress act would be a preferred way. >> give us a stronger hand and better way to deal with this issue. >> yes. >> i would like to let the committee know my beef is not with the courts. unless these documents are classified or congress acts, the courts are making a reasonable interpretation of the freedom of information act as it exists today. i want to applaud the administration for asking them to stay and have the supreme court review that case, but quite frankly, mr. attorney general, i would be very --

rahm emanuel will notice it. that is where the battle is right now. it is about that center ground of the population, that is enormously supportive of the president right now. >> i would add to that, i agree that probably 2010 and 2012 look like quite a pill for the republican party. they will have to develop their proposals and ideas out of areas that have become weaknesses for the president and the democratic party. one of those could end up being a foreign policy/national security. what about the war in afghanistan? you already have democrats on the hill worrying about this. worried about the amount of money that might be up there. it might be that they do feel politically some vulnerability there already. the republican party will have to look at the condition of the economy, and the proposals that have been enacted into law. they are barely getting that money out right now, so it is hard to judge those things. there is one bush -- won the busch-obama legacy that our -- republicans are interested in, and that is legislation like tarp, which was pa

later, rahm emanuel talks about the agenda of the obama administration. we will hace coverage -- have coverage on c-span 2. yesterday the state department said that the economic downturn has increased human trafficking. it was listing 17 countries that have failed to make progress in preventing human trafficking. hillary clinton now talks about the report. we are delighted to have with us members of congress who have been working with us on this issue for many years. this is the first time we have introduced this in this way because we want to show that this is a partnership between the state department and the congress. without them we would not have the legislation and the kind of our reach that these members and others have been doing. i am grateful that they could take the time out of their busy schedule, to be here with us. let me introduce carolyn maloney, ben cardin from mar yland. johnson from texas, chris smith from new jersey, and i think that is all of the members with us. there may be some others who will be coming later. this is one of the si

later this morning, rahm emanuel will speak at a meeting of the democratic leadership council where he will discuss the obama administration's agenda in it healthcare. we will have live coverage on c- span2 beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern time. >> online you can look for our redesigned web site for "book tv." it has a redesign is -- a redesigned search function. you can look for it today. .

rahm emanuel assured me that these photos would not see the light of day. they agreed that the best way is for congress to secretary. in light of that, i will hold the bills that i have a hold on and i will support the supplemental. i think it is important for our soldiers, airmen, marines, anybody deployed and civilian contractors to know that there is a game plan. we will support petraeus and all of our combat commanders to make sure that these photos never see light of day. now i think we have a game plan that will work. it starts with a vote in the senate. i'm urging the house to take this up as a freestanding bill. we have 266 votes to include this in the supplemental. it was taken out. i'm disappointed it was taken out. we have a chance to start over and get this right. with the understanding that wee will have a freestanding vote on the lieberman-graham amendment and that the administration will make sure that these photos will never see light of day if congress fails to act, i will lift my hold. and i yield. a senator: mr. president? the presiding o

president obama's top energy adviser, rahm emanuel has been working with them in person. president obama making a public plea today at the rose garden. there is definitely a push right now. >> tell us about house speaker nancy pelosi and why she is getting so directly involved in talking to lawmakers to vote in favor of the bill. >> this has been one of her "flagship issues." this is one of her biggest issues. she is pushing -- -- she is pushing henry waxman all along from the get go. she is probably responsible for spot. that was a decision made right after the election last november that pretty much kept started this entire process to try to move this bill through. she is someone from san francisco who has been a big environmentalist all of her career. they rarely faced opposition. this is poised to be the first vote on cap and trade legislation. for nancy pelosi, this is one of her biggest issues. >> the climate change bill itself, cap and trade, and what else of the key aspects of this bill? >> cap and trade is probably the biggest piece. it allows companies to buy an

would you like it more than having rahm emanuel spend it? you suddenly have a conversation when they could to their accountant and know how much money you are talking about, they will want to go to the second town hall meeting. we need the courage to offer america would be like that reported work, savings, investment, risk taking, and was prepared to take on corrupt politicians and their allies had on. that is the gap we need. [applause] some will say, how do you cut taxes when we have such a big deficit? big deficits on the left remain -- mean raise taxes. as our budget committee chairman who i believe is the next governor of ohio -- [applause] could report to you, stopping spending is a lot better way to balance the budget. reforming government is a better way to balance the budget. modernizing and replacing bureaucracies and failed programs is a better way to balance the budget. let me say this very directly. i am the only speaker of the house since the 1920's to have offered four consecutive balanced budgets. we pay of $405 billion in fe

carol browner, president obama's top energy advisor, rahm emanuel the chief of staff have been working the phones in person. president obama making a plea in the rose garden speech, spoke about it at his press conference the other day. there's definitely a push there as well. >> tell us about house speaker pelosi and why is she getting so directly involved in talking to lawmakers to vote in favor of the bill? >> this has been one of her quote unquote flagship issues for as long as she has been the speaker of the house. she took over in 2006. this is one of her biggest issues. she's been the one kind of pushing the chairman of the house energy and commerce committee henry waxman all along this process from the get-go she's probably responsible for henry waxman sitting in the energy commerce and -- spot. that was a decision made right after the election last november that pretty much kickstarted this entire process to try to move this bill through. she's someone from san francisco who's been a big environmentalist her whole career. this is an issue that environmentalists have been trying

rahm emanuel, larry summers, jan napolitano, the president thinks they share his values and his thirst for ideas. i was delighted that after the stimulus bill passed the first major bill signed,, after the stimulus bill passed, the first major bill signed -- after the stimulus bill passed, the first major bill signed expanded -- that is what al from and i advocated in 1992. it took 25 years, but it was 25 years well spent. [applause] the president and vice president biden have revived the cops program. it is important. the president has advocated a sweeping national loan program to cut the cost of college. that, too was a dlc idea. we made that an option with contingent repayment for college students. when we get it, the students of america saved $9 billion repaying their college loans. $1,300 for every $10,000 they borrowed. the taxpayers -- it made it possible to repay them. barack obama is right about this. but the dlc first proposed it. i am pleased that a revitalized the community development financial institutions bill and found it, funding micro credit. again, it is something th

question a few moments, republican members that the house and-chief of staff rahm emanuel discuss plans for the future of health care. in little less than an hour, attorney general eric holder testifies about a variety of issues facing the justice the permit included the guantanamo bay detainees. >> in washington journal tomorrow morning, we will discuss the situation in iran with a visiting scholar at johns hopkins university. the reaction to president obama's plant for regulating financial markets from 10 members of the house financial services committee. and we will be joined by syndicated columnist george will. it is like every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. the senate health committee continues work on health-care legislation tomorrow morning. live coverage is on c-span3 at 10 eastern. every weekend, book tv has the latest of fiction books and others on c-span2. saturday on "after words" they will talk about a book from eduardo galeano. it airs sunday night at 9 eastern. also sunday, but some the economy. former investment banker will expose miss about the recession and what it will tak

tomorrow morning, white house chief of staff rahm emanuel speaks and discusses the obama's agend administration opposed the agenda -- administration's agenda. >> every weekend, stream "book tv" programming write your computer -- right to your computer. the redesign booktv.org, look for it today. >> and now the confirmation hearing for it the president -- for president obama's nominee to head the federal communications commission. julius genachowski work during the clinton administration. it also includes testimony from robert mcdowell, a republican appointed by president bush. his term expires june 30. this hearing is two hours. >> in welcoming you, i want to set a communications technology is sort of the vibrating, pulsing driver of our nation. it has been let to lapse a bit. for our nation to meet any kind of challenges, no matter what you look at, if communications aren't perfect, between different strata, different parts of the country aren't perfect. we are in lots and lots of trouble if we are not already. because the communication is policy -- because good communications policy will lay

especially since rahm emanuel and a corn will be running it? guest: a think use talking to the cantor bill, rather. it is talking about putting it into citizens' hands to draw maps. that must be a good process, especially if you are concerned about politicians picking who their voters should be. oftentimes the citizens commission will have a lot more redistricting meetings out and open rather than in smoke-filled rooms. host: the issue coming up in new york with an article this morning in the paper writes the state senate -- are the got you down? no worry, the end is in sight. the state senate should be back in business by 2013. an analysis suggests that democrats are poised to gain as many as six seats after the 2010 census, given them an ample margin to untangle the tie that has decimated the senate for the past three weeks. they write, redistricting is more abstract art than exact science. guest: that is certainly true. the situation in new york is very interesting. what you have had for decades is republicans controlling the state senate an

. >> rahm emanuel speaks to the democratic leadership meeting. a meeting to consider and make changes to the health care administration, with live coverage beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 3. both events are also online at c-span.org. right now, look for our redesigned booktv website, and every weekend, stream programming right to your computer. it is also easier to search for and watch videos with the refined search function and player. you can share videos with everyone you know. look for it today. >> july 4, discover an unfamiliar side of the george washington, live from mount vernon with a story and the author on the ascent of george washington. join us live on c-span 2's booktv. host: our guest now is dave camp, republican of michigan, fourth district, a 10th term. he's also ranking on ways and means, so he plays a key role in health care legislation that is expected to be coming up in weeks and months ahead. so your side will come up with its own outline. tell us about it. >> this is obviously a critical issue, and what we will ann

caller: [unintelligible] if you would replay that clip that rahm emanuel said, he said most of the jobs would not go to white males. another thing, when they did the bailout of gm there were first talking about how many thousands of jobs would be lost if gm went under once the close all those plants -- [inaudible] host: 2 clinton, maine on the independent line. caller: i am concerned the economic stimulus package was named improperly -- is should have been economic investment package. if america spends precious resources on one-time projects -- and the ones i have seen locally are good ones which have been in the pipeline for a while. but as soon as they are over the jobs will become. i would prefer the long-term investment for these billions of dollars. once spent the jobs created would continue to create more jobs and boost our economy. but spending money once is not a solution. host: might it be too early to tell on something like that? caller: what i have seen is that these products don't have a generational reoccurrence. we will spend the money and move onto another project. if it

madam secretary, i introduced legislation with then congressman rahm emanuel, and congressman chris smith from new jersey, called the independence at home act, and the bill created a medicare pilot project focused on improving the coordination of care and reducing costs for the vulnerable medicare beneficiaries, those with multiple severe chronic conditions, such as alzheimer's, als, parkinson's and other complex debilitating diseases who also need help with two or more activities of daily living, such as dressing, feeding, et cetera. cbo has reported that 5% of medicare beneficiaries account for 43% of overall medicare spending, and cms has noted that approximately 20% of medicare beneficiaries are with five or more chronic conditions account for 66% of program spending. could you talk a little bit about how we can focus on those medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic diseases, and how perhaps a program like that focusing on home and better coordination can help reduce the costs? >> well, we have not only the demonstration that you are responsible for, but i think a number of proje

rahm emanuel leads democrats back that a majority after penning with bruce reed "the plan" in 2006. and continuing the tradition of helping leaders emerge into stars the d.l.c. found a new fellows program with an eye for the future. the quarter century after the d.l.c. took up the challenge of bring being back the forgotten middle class barack obama's and joe biden's victory proves that the party has been reborn. the new administration and congress have a chance to build a broad lasting majority for change and reform and the opportunity to carry out a new agenda for a new era. education reform, national service, health reform, energy, fiscal responsibility and long-term growth. in the democratic leader council the organization that al from built from the ground up is taking on that new challenge. under bruce reed's leadership al's legacy lives on proofrpg once again how -- proving once again how the power of a good idea with build the party. >> 25 years ago al had the courage to see it was time for a different democrat. today our party stronger and our country is better off because

. >> in a few moments, republican members of the house and white house chief of staff rahm emanuel discuss plans for the future of health care. in a little less than an hour, attorney general eric holder talked about a variety of issues including guantanamo bay detainee's. later, president obama announces new plans to regulate financial institutions. on "washington journal" tomorrow morning, will discuss the situation in iran with a scholar from johns hopkins university. we will hear from two members of the house financial-services committee, republican jed h ensarling and republican luis good year as. "washington journal -- gutierrez. "washington journal" is live every morning at 7:00 eastern. live coverage of health care legislation markup is on thursday. >> every weekend, "book tv" has the latest nonfiction books and authors. writers and artists, gods and visionaries, from the garden of eden to today. eduardo galeano with a collection of short stories. he talks with john dingus. also sunday, books on the economy. former investment maker john talbott exposes the myths about the recession

. >> tomorrow rahm emanuel speaks at a meeting of the democratic council. we'll have live coverage beginning at 9:00 a.m. southeastern time. >> how is c-span funded? >> i have no clue. >> maybe some government grants. >> maybe donations. >> advertising for products >> public money, i'm sure. >> my taxes. >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ook ago, america's cable companies created c-span as the bubblick service. no government -- as a public service. no government money. >> witnesses include health insurance executives and people who's policies were canceled while they were being treated for serious medical conditions. this is a little more than three hours. >> hearing will come to order. today we have a hearing entitled "terminations of individual health spolsis by insurance companies." >> the chairman the ranking member will have five minute first opening statement. other members of the subcommittee will be recognized for three minutes. now before we begin, i'm going to ask unanimous consent that the contents be entered into the record, provided that the co

emanuel at 9:00 am eastern. >> good afternoon, everyone. it's a pleasure to have with us today ambassador lewis de-baca who is the director of the office of to monitor and combat trafficking in persons so so the ambassador is going to make some remarks and answer some questions. without further ado, i'll turn it over to the ambassador. >> this morning the secretary unveiled the annual trafficking in persons report, which is statutorily mandated for the secretary to report and rank on the progress that countries are making to fight human trafficking around the world. human trafficking defined in american law and international agreements as obtaining or maintaining the labor or services of another through force, coercion and, in effect, modern slavery. one of the things that the report looks at this year is the affect of the global economic crisis on the human trafficking issue. and the report concludes that in a time of economic crisis, victims are more vulnerable, affected communities are more vulnerable and persons who are under economic s

rahm emanuel met -- the white house chief of staff -- met with several of the undecided members. carol browner, the senior adviser on the -- a lot of the secretaries have been calling in meeting directly with members. the energy secretary has been active in this. so really the white house has just fully deployed be forces to try to push this over the edge. host: what about republicans? do you expect to get any house republicans on this bill today? guest: well, there is a group, a lobby -- overall, republicans are adamantly opposed to this, but because the vote looks like it will be so tight, the democrats -- there is a group, a group called the independent 11, 11 moderate republicans, most of whom have not declared their results -- have not declared their votes. they may get just a handful of moderate republicans, and they will be grateful to have them. host: if this bill passes today in the house, or maybe it early saturday morning, what are the prospects in the senate? guest: is a really hard lis

i'm delighted that hillary and rahm emanuel, larry summers, ken salazar and janet napolitano, kathleen sebelius and tom vilsack all occupy hi positions. the president thinks they share his values. i was delighted that after the thrust bill passed the first major bill signed was the dramatic expansion of america co corp. of service opportunities. that congress passed a bill which will by 2017 expand amer correspo correspond. that is what we advocated in 1992. it took 25 years but it was 25 years well spent. [applaus [applause] >> the president and vice president biden who have revived the cops program. and it is important. the president is advocating a sweeping national direct loan program to cut the cost of colle college. that, too, was a d.l.c. idea. we made that an option with income contingent repayment for college students much and when we did it the students of america saved $9 billion repaying their college loans, $1,300or every $10,000 they borrowed and taxpayers saved $4 billion because no one defaulted on their loans. barack obama is right about this but the d.l.c. first propo

why is rahm emanuel involved in directing this, the man from chicago, the chicago politics, visits and arrives at the white house with the president. by the way, if one goes back also and even begins to think that president obama wasn't involved with acorn and this is just a random hiring process that took place because it made sense, i would point out also that president obama chaired, for a time, sat on the board for a longer time thombing woods foundation in chicago, which distributed funds to community organizing groups and directed funds to acorn. as chairing the woods foundation he sent money to acorn he also set sat on the board of the chicago annenberg challenge. this is a liberal education initiative, the brain child of the unrepen tant terrorist william arrest. william arrest re-- william ayers recruited president obama, to sit on the board of the annenberg foundation to give money to acorn. president obama is tied in with acorn, part and parcel. he's been their attorney, been an employee under project vote, he's hired them and written them a check out of his campaign for ove

emanuel will notice and that is kind of where the battle is right now. we talk about it in this great picture but it's about that centered around of the population that is enormously supportive of the president at this moment but who knows a year from now. >> i would add to that i agree with sheila 2010 and 2012 to look like those are not held for the republican party. i think what the party is going to have to do is develop its ideas, its proposals out of areas that become weaknesses if you will for the president and democratic party. one of those could end up being foreign policy slash national security get what about the war in afghanistan? what is that going to look like six months -- you have democrats on the hill were made about this and worried about the amount of money that might be going in there so there's going to be that question. and maybe i am not saying this is the reason for some of these if you will panache of security decisions by obama, but nonetheless it might be they do feel politically some vulnerability already. i don't know. but i

emanuel and stephanopoulos and cargill -- and james carville talk on the phone and have a chat. i have to be honest, i don't know they're talking about. if they aren't talking about guys off, the football game last night with, you don't believe they're talking that, do you? [laughter] in the comey cynical, right? [laughter] if they are talking just guy stuff i don't have a problem with it. if they're talking political stuff and the political stuff entails i don't thank you should handle it this way or that way, that is so off the charts. it the one reason i am willing to believe it doesn't happen that way, that is outrageous if that were happening in the good turns out something like that, in fact, happening in abc news took no action against their anger then every executive at abc news would have to go and that is what i don't think is happening. well, i shouldn't say that, the minister answer is i don't know what they're talking about. this may surprise you but i am not involved in that conference call para [laughter] but if that is happening, off the charts unacceptable. >> i

rahm emanuel and others are going we can't build that refinery. we don't want any in america. what are we -- i make 58% of the r.v.'s. what are you going to do put a little fan on the roof? international designs 800 people design the big trucks in my district. how are we going to deliver goods to market? the rail is already jammed. the canals are jammed. rivers are jammed. if we can't use trucks, which take up about 40% of the energy on our roads, how are we

fatah" and some of the other articles you have written, could you comment on one rahm emanuel supposedly said that the path to any arrangement with iran license through palestinian israeli peace. again, does that make any sense into him? what is the context of their? and number two, a thing we recently heard king abdullah suggest if there was an peace within 18 months there would be this huge middle east war involving everybody. could you comment on that as well gripes'. >> with regard to your question of linkage which is what we're calling now the l word, we continue to hear that unless the israeli rededicate their efforts toward peace, then the united states can help the or to the iranian drive for nuclear weapons. this is to me, i don't understand the logic of it. i understand how the figleaf of peace could help with the sudanese as you mentioned before, that this unique arab states and they saudi egyptians to get behind israel or in the evidence that israel seized a decision in test tube, iran, but i don't see this as, how you cannot leave one with the other. in my opinion both shoul

they have first hand experience across -- i mean, rahm emanuel basically delivered the democratic majority in the house. he is intimately acquainted with every single congressional district in the country. joe biden has been a senator almost as long as i have been alive and has been at the forefront of every major policy debate since the early '70s. of course, obama is the least amount of experience but nevertheless i think that's gives them an ingrained sense of what is possible, what their limits are. we have seen very little direction surprisingly little friction and given what is on the table so far i think in part because they are so sensitive to how congress operates into the buttons you can and can't push in order to deliver out comes here and i think that is probably the least appreciated feature of this presidency noir. i also thing going back to something i mentioned initially, a lot of it depends on the sort of little interactions that add up so much overtime. the president has so far demonstrated his willingness. >> off immediately offer of policies that democrats don't like. f

emanuel, president obama's chief of of staff, up here mr. or zag -- orr zag, the -- orzag, the o.m.b. bean counter. senator dodd from connecticut. in the upper corner ms. pelosi, the distinguished speaker of the house of representatives. and mr. harry reid, the distinguished majority leader over in the united states senate. so we have narrowed it down to one of these folks. the question mark down there is sadly, and this is really a disappointment to me, sadly some are just saying that it was some staffer that put the thing in. the question mark is this staffer who apparently has the power to change law and make law. i really don't think it was -- it may have been a staffer who was using the pen. clearly a staffer had to be directed by somebody to do that. we thought originally that senator dodd, the chairman. banking committee, might be the person we should focus in on. he's made some public statements. the public statements now have gone back and forth. his office says that they put it into the bill at the request of the treasury. the trea