[unintelligible] it's not about obama. my question is what would happen if moscow becomes barack obama's frustration? >> what would happen in moscow that would disappoint or frustrate the american president during the visit? baker, do you want to take a crack at this one briefly and then go to fritzl >> the only thing i could imagine would be if the russian side of the negotiations did not put forward a list of things they would want the u.s. to go along with, because i think that basically the obama administration has been in a very accommodating mood with regard to that. but it is clear that the russian side at the end of the day is really not that interested in significant nuclear weapons reduction. essentially, it puts forward a list of items that the obama administration continues to pursue with no finality. in other words, these things continue to be stretched out. i think that from the perspective of this administration, that they would be disappointed in that. >> for i don't know what would frustrate the president,

>> kremlin has no interest in gathering big crowds to listen to obama because obama is quite popular here for many reasons, as far as with president bush and russians know the life stour about as an american, you know, getting to the top of the american political office and the kremlin didn't like the obama mania and they want today make sure that his visits will be within the very small official state controlled by the state media. >> all right, gary, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> when would he come back. first mark sanford and then sarah palin. not a good summer for g.o.p. up and comers. who is set to lead the party into the 2010 and 2012 elections? our panel weighs in after the break. opportunity. at amway global, it's the foundation of our business. because opportunity built nutrilite, the world's... top-selling vitamin, mineral, and supplement brand. and artistry, one of the world's best-selling beauty brands. which makes amway global the online... health and beauty leader. and worldwide, amway has over 8 billion in annual sales. for your opportunity to be part

obama. the deficit as a result of the tax cuts and the drug plan, katrina, and the wars was $485 billion. it went up to $1 trillion when bush left office because of the tarp program and $1.3 trillion because of the tarp program under obama. now it's not $1.3 trillion. it's $2 trillion. the extra $700 billion he added. in the six months this guy has been in office, federal spending went from $3 trillion to $4 trillion. bill: let's cut to the chase. how much trouble is he in six months after he took office? can come back quickly? say he hires you tomorrow. can you change this or is it now three and a half years of chaos? >> it's right on the cusp. health care reform could pass or could fail, ditto cap and trade. and it's right on the cusp. it could go either way, which is why people need to write their senators and express their opinion. that really works. but it's right on the cusp. now, health care reform and cap and trade fail, which i'm inclined to believe they will, but they still could p

a deal on climate change was obama's other major goal. he was able to convince the nations to agree to a limit on a rise in the world's temperature. the major industrialized nations also agree to cut their carbon emissions by 80% by the year 2050. still, he couldn't convince the wider group to go along with that target for reducing emissions. opposition was led by the so-called g-5, a group of important regional players that includes brazil, china, india, mexico and south africa. obama acknowledged the growing importance of such countries. >> for us to think we can somehow deal with some of these global challenges in the absence of major powers, like china, india and brazil, seems to me wrongheaded. >> reporter: afterwards, the president met in rome with pope benedict xvi. the two greeted each other warmly. this despite their differences over issues like stem cell research and abortion. >>> now for more on the president's meeting with the pope today we are joined by the reverend drew christiansen. editor in chief of the national catholic

obama. the deficit as a result of the tax cuts and the drug plan, katrina, and the wars was $485 billion. it went up to $1 trillion when bush left office because of the tarp program and $1.3 trillion because of the tarp program under obama. now it's not $1.3 trillion. it's $2 trillion. the extra $700 billion he added. in the six months this guy has been in office, federal spending went from $3 trillion to $4 trillion. bill: let's cut to the chase. how much trouble is he in six months after he took office? can come back quickly? say he hires you tomorrow. can you change this or is it now three and a half years of chaos? >> it's right on the cusp. health care reform could pass or could fail, ditto cap and trade. and it's right on the cusp. it could go either way, which is why people need to write their senators and express their opinion. that really works. but it's right on the cusp. now, health care reform and cap and trade fail, which i'm inclined to believe they will, but they still could p

barack obama -- the difference between governor palin and barack obama, barack obama was paid for 18 months for doing nothing. for 18 months traveling the country so he could be a president because he had the selfish ambition you're so critical of. and similarly rambo emanuel. >> she didn't say she's going to run for office. she is quitting her job because she couldn't take the pressure. sean: she has a higher calling. >> people who think sarah palin seems dumb or insane are mad she's not governing the state of alaska. it doesn't make sense to me, the argument. if you think she's a bad governor, shouldn't she quit? >> i didn't think she was a bad governor. sean: if you're going to call her a quitter, by your definition sebelius is a quitter. >> no, that's wrong. sean: let her answer the >> these are other people that put it on the line, sean, and basically said i'm going to do something else and this is what i'm going to do. she hasn't done that. she quit her job. we don't know what she's going to do and the most inartful statement i've ever seen in politics. so -- to say that americ

obama emission. following that, a discussion on u.s. foreign policy. . ]. we want to talk about growth and progress. it is a big piece of our future. as our economy adapts to the challenges of a new century, new ways of producing and saving and of distributing energy offer a unique opportunity to create millions of jobs for the american people. there is a -- this is a timely discussion on a day so brain is. the job figures released show that we lost 460,000 jobs last month. while the average loss is about 4000 jobs per month of this quarter, it is less devastating than the 700,000 jobs per month that we lost in the previous quarter. while there are continuing fines of the recession is slowing, this is little comfort to the americans that have lost their jobs. we have taken measures to blunt the hard edges and to offer assistance to those who have borne the brunt of this economic storm. as i said from the moment i walked the door, it took years for us to get into this mess and it will take more than a

obama tried. what we believe him when he is now hiding the numbers and he has been wrong about the american economy estimates? >> i heard you and michael steele say we have not saved jobs. look, pa. has received in the last fiscal year that has just ended, we received over $1 billion in federal aid, and this year, we will receive over $2 billion, and that has allowed us to not lay off at least 5000 to 10,000 teachers, scfiremen, policemen. sean: i appreciate that, but you and i both know that the historic measure, ronald reagan, he created over 20 million new jobs, and since january, we have lost over 3.5 million jobs. this is some sort of mathematics doublespeak. >> but the question is, sean, what we have lost more without the stimulus? i know you are coming into pennsylvania -- would we have lost more about the stimulus? we can interview the workers. they had not a word in six months, and they are back on the job. we will interview contractors who are providing his concrete and steel, and i can

obama tried. what we believe him when he is now hiding the numbers and he has been wrong about the american economy estimates? >> i heard you and michael steele say we have not saved jobs. look, pa. has received in the last fiscal year that has just ended, we received over $1 billion in federal aid, and this year, we will receive over $2 billion, and that has allowed us to not lay off at least 5000 to 10,000 teachers, scfiremen, policemen. sean: i appreciate that, but you and i both know that the historic measure, ronald reagan, he created over 20 million new jobs, and since january, we have lost over 3.5 million jobs. this is some sort of mathematics doublespeak. >> but the question is, sean, what we have lost more without the stimulus? i know you are coming into pennsylvania -- would we have lost more about the stimulus? we can interview the workers. they had not a word in six months, and they are back on the job. we will interview contractors who are providing his concrete and steel, and i can

>> i came to meet obama. >> reporter: the man everyone says he resembles. >> they call me, obama, obama, obama every time. >> reporter: what part of you do you think looks most like barack? >> everywhere. >> reporter: felix sees himself in obama and he is not the only one. obama has changed how many people here see themselves. >> the flame of change that we are lighting today and it is going to burn for the rest of our lives. >> reporter: now along with the excitement is a little bit of disappointment that the president won't be holding a large public event as so many people are hoping to catch just a glimpse of him in person. lester. >> mara, thank you. we turn now back to this country and to fri. and a double-murder that has stunned a community just outside pensacola. a couple killed in what was apparently a home invasion while eight of their children were also inside. nbc's mark potter is miami with the latest. mark. >> reporter: good evening, lester. police say they're looking for three suspects seen leaving the crime scene in a red van. the murders occurred after a break-in at a la

whenever that president obama will make a speech -- we know that president obama will make a speech. [unintelligible] and we very much look forward to hearing what president obama has to tell us. it is a very open forum because it counts numerous experts who are graduates of that institutes. if you read one moscow newspaper, hit you can read >> -- you can read every publication. i am looking forward to a very thrilling speech telling us that the u.s. is ready to change the way the world is changing a dramatically, have because we are not used to feeling ourselves as an object of change. we are not yet ready to except that we can preheat the initiators of change, but we want to go in line with a -- we are not ready to accept that we are the initiators of change. i would like to voice my admiration for president obama for his voice in america possibility to change in itself. you have your own problems. -- admiration for president obama for his voice in america's change in itself. thank you. >> just one follow a quick question. do you think this visit is going to influence the internal

obama do with this dynamic now? >> i think what he has to hope for is that we don't spend another day or two talking about it, to be totally honest with you. that this essentially goes away. that the police officer does not talk more to the media. that the -- that the issue goes quietly away and we move back to health care. if it stays in the limelight. if it comes out that this was, in fact, as the police officer was doing the job that he's been trained to do, then you get more to shaky and tenuous political ground for the president. what he wants right now more than anything is to start talking about health care, even if we talk about the fact that the health care vote has been slated for september. he would much prefer that to this conversation. >> at "the washington post," chris, thanks for coming on. >> thank you. >>> governor schwarzenegger, as you might imagine had a bit of explaining to do after he was seen brandishing this knife in his office. and later, new jersey living up to its corruption reputation, bu

he is the first black man to the president of the united states of america. >> obama, obama, obama! >> it's a very genuine outpouring of affection towards the president. we can't do away with the idea we feel he's one of us. >> reporter: if there was a sour note, it was that there were few opportunities for ghanaians to see obama. just about as many ghana security officers saw him in person as did the local population. barack oba barack obama managed to touch the heart of nation and continent. >> the picture from ghana tonight. taping his weekly address while overseas. the president said the plan was not to design to work in four months. . it was designed to work over two years. >>> meanwhile the deintat growing in washington this evening about whether the cia during the bush administration withed held information about sensitive counterterrorism operations. new york sometimes reporting is that information was kept secret by vice president zadick cheney. here's john hend rern. >> reporter: the new york times is reporting is that the cia didn't inform congressional overseers for eigh

that is what obama said. they ran on the idiot that this was the worst economy since the great depression. now, they're saying, well, we misread the economy. everybody guessed wrong. >> you and i both said at the time that it was filled with pork, backslapping from one politician to another. it has not worked. the states have abused the money. they have not used effectively to create jobs. they have not improved productivity. people are beginning to think about much as republicans, not just independents, the democrats as well, when you look at the mass of plans that have come out of washington, everyone is asking, how are our kids and grandkids going to pay these bills? you are beginning to see obama's popularity began to drop and you see people beginning to question whether this man really does have the right formula. we can see in the stimulus package that he does not. sean: if he ran on the idea this is the worst economy since the depression but they are claiming they misread the economy and they guessed w

there were stain books on michelle obama and the obama administration in january. so i thought what was interesting is up until the very last second hit that went to press, i was updating it. every day in the headlines there's a relevant story that i think that points to the deficient as is. because i would see a story that sort of glossed over a lot of the conflict of interests and croney ties and i would say see, we need this book. it definitely has filled a vacuum. host: you were on the "today" show with pat lauer. >> i was shocked at all that they had me on, grateful for that opportunity opportunity and they graciously reprinted the entire introduction of the book on their website. but you know, you've got three or four minutes to try to get your point across and most of the questions had nothing to do with the book, which is fine, but i really think there was was really a game of trying to beat the clock and in the end i think matt lauer got beaten. it was a very entertaining experience. host: michelle malkin thank you for being with us on c-span for a full ha

not president obama, senator-elect obama. a 2004 interview with air america's randy rhoades, where senator elect obama complains about the bush administration. >> when you rush these budgets that are a foot high, and nobody has any idea what's in them and nobody has read them -- 14 pounds it was. >> yeah, and it gets rushed through without any clear deliberations or debate, then these kinds of things happen and i think this is in some ways what happened to the patriot act. you remember there was no real debate about that. it was so quick after 9/11 that it was introduced that people felt very intimidated by the administration. glenn: i think i am in an upside room here. rushing through it? no time for debate? intimidated by the administration? wow, that sounds familiar. kind of like what we have been doing for the last six months. it's almost like he doesn't want anybody to read these bills. or was that george bush that was doing that? i can't tell anybody apart anymore. by the way, did you get your v.i.p. mortgage yet? no? o

>> kremlin has no interest in gathering big crowds to listen to obama because obama is quite popular here for many reasons, as far as with president bush and russians know the life stour about as an american, you know, getting to the top of the american political office and the kremlin didn't like the obama mania and they want today make sure that his visits will be within the very small official state controlled by the state media. >> all right, gary, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> when would he come back. first mark sanford and then sarah palin. not a good summer for g.o.p. up and comers. who is set to lead the party into the 2010 and 2012 elections? our panel weighs in after the breaea so what do you think? i think i'll go with the basic package. good choice. only meineke lets you choose the brake service that's right for you. and save 50% on pads and shoes. meineke. [ bottle #2 ] is he better than us? i mean i feel like it took you like three times longer to do whatever he did... dude, dude, he's got...these -- like -- microscrubbers... magic man. he's a magic ma

plus, what was president obama caught looking at? >> after beautiful weather, will rain spoiled your weekend plans? >>> more on the hostage situation in leesburg. pamela brown has the details. >> two elderly people in their eighties have been held by the armed robber cents two o'clock. earlier today, there were reports of gunfire, but there is no reason to believe there are any injuries. swat team members and the snipers are surrounding the house. we're told they will not make any sudden moves unless it is necessary. crisis negotiators are in contact with the suspect hoping to reach a paceful resolution. this unfold it this afternoon when the suspect robbed a bowl jewelry store and fled on foot -- robbed a local jewelry store and fled on foot, then chose a house at random to hide out from the police. right now, the hostages are inside the house. officers are calling this stle. we will keep you updated on any developments. pamela brown, abc 7 news. >>> a photograph of president obama's from the g-8 summit is getting a lot of attention

>> well, obama still was wobbly on that, frank or not. what he said actually is we work through our disagreements on georgia's borders, so it's a matter of disagreement should you innovate or -- should you invade or not, should western russia detach georgia as it has? it sounds that he is equivocal on this. when he talks about a sense of drift, it is coming out of the mutual actions. it was because less than a year ago, russia invaded friendly democratic neighbor and split off the western half of that country. that's not adrift. that's aggression. bret: juan, last word. the president says he trusts dimitry medvedev. that's not like looking into his eyes and seeing his soul but he did say he trusted are him. >>fully close! he trusts him to follow through on the deal, and by the way, he, in the news conference, president obama said you have got to respect georgiaian sovereignty and made it clear they have a difference there. >> juan, thugs always want respect. >> no, respect georgia! >> you get nothing back. from t >> i'm talking about dimi

will obama win? will obama lose? count down clocks, the networks put a countdown clock to the press conference. they sit around with the tingles up their legs all day and marvel at how obama is so smooth and elegant. they are not reforming -- informing anybody about the details about his policies and yet 53%, over 50% in most polls now oppose this healthcare plan. so who it telling the people what's in it? alternative media, your network, talk radio, the conservative blog network. the mainstream media has cashed in its chips and have become nothing more than steno graphers for ram emanuel and it is breathtaking to see willingly sacrifice every characteristic that makes quality journalism. >> greta: up next, rush says president obama attacks pediatricians last night and the president just making up numbers out of thin air. what exactly does rush mean? the radio powerhouse also i never thought it could happen to me... a heart attack at 53. i had felt fine. but turns out... my cholesterol and other risk factors... incre

obama? >> i think it's bad because it doesn't look like he is going to get this over the finish line before the august recess. bill: that's not going to happen. >> he did not give members of congress the big fight. it looks like it's bleeding into the fall. he says we're going to have it this year. that's what he shed definively. this year. once you get into september, as you know, bill, and they try to pass the appropriations bills and get very much closer to the holidays and an election year, it becomes much harder to pass it, and i think if he doesn't pass it, it's a big problem for the rest of his presidency. bill: we appreciate it, guys, thank you very much. again, i just want everybody to know i have no partisan dog in this hunt. i want everybody to know that. all right. i'm not coming at this like obama's some socialist nitwit. that's not what i do here. ok. i am wanting to understand how president obama is going to improve your life and my life in the health care, the vital health ca

obama campaigned against that. an employer mandate. obama campaigned against that. taxation of benefits, health care benefits. obama campaigned against that. so baucus is actually out to the left of obama on a few things. it's very hard to tell how those campaign contributions affect that. >> great point. lawrence o'donnell of msnbc and "the huffington post." thanks, as always. appreciate your coming on tonight. >> thanks, david. >> you're welcome. >>> the senate judiciary committee has put off its vote on supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor for one week. meanwhile, support for sotomayor among gop moderates is growing. the committee vote is now scheduled for july the 28th, after republicans requested more time to study miss sotomayor's record. democratic chairman patrick leahy says he's confident sotomayor will win confirmation by a bipartisan vote of the full senate in time for the first supreme court's session. this as susan collins of maine becomes the fourth republican to break with conservative leaders and publicly support sotomayor. collins joins republicans

obama's first midterm economic report has been delayed. though the robert wood johnson foundation says americans are more confident about their ability to obtain and afford healthcare, polls suggest the president's handling of healthcare reform has been going down. he would like to avoid giving republicans the chance to push it down further. the white house admits some democrats are trying just as hard to put on the brakes. >> his response is different to democrats than it is to republicans about the fact that we can't afford to delay this, that we can't afford to simply wait months and months or another year and add that to the other 40 years we have waited for comprehensive reform that we will actually cut costs. the blue dogs say they would like the healthcare reform proposal to add tract more bipartisan reform and so would jim clyburn of south carolina who says he would be willing to put off a vote for a week or so if he thought he could get consensus. the president's aides point out one of the two senate plans contain 160 republican a

and president obama does not seem to. now, millions of americans voted for barack obama because they were fed up with the establishment who failed them. obama ran on hope. some folks said ok. but hope can turn to disdain pretty darn fast. and that's what we saw last week. to be fair, the president did show strong leadership on one vital issue. nuclear weapons and iran. secretary of state clinton made things very clear. >> what we want to do is to send a message to whoever is making these decisions that if you're pursuing nuclear weapons for the purpose of intimidating, of projecting your power, we're not going to let that happen. first, we're going to do everything we can to prevent you from ever getting a nuclear weapon but your pursuit is futile. bill: good. on the record. in stone. no wiggle room. good. the u.s.a. will prevent the insane mullahs from getting the ultimate weapons of mass destruction. that's strong leadership. and now president obama must show more of it. that's the talking points memo. now for the top s

obama pals around with terrorists? obama's not an american. he was born in africa and lied about it. did you hear? this one's the best just in from glenn beck. obama's a racist. he hates white people. like his mother and his grandparents who helped raise him and all the people who voted for him? got you. the worst part is that people are getting paid to say this stuff. to dump on our election, saying the when he will thing was illegitimate, the guy is from a another country. to dump on the president saying he holds a deep seated hatred for white people. that's also from glenn beck. that's what we're starting with tonight. back to the real stuff of politics what, most americans think. we've got the latest from the new nbc news "wall street journal" poll out tonight. the headline, the president's health care plan is losing ground and so are the democrats, at least from where they were in inaugural season. chuck todd and political analyst charlie cook will go through the numbers with you. >>> also, just because the democrats are hurting doesn't m

so and so has 100 obamas, somebody else has 80 obamas. the good side to that is because they know they're so much smarter than you are, they take your criticism with a degree of exwhat anymority don't. the bush administration, after you criticize them, they call you and say, you're a complete and total loser. my the obama people call you and say, we like you, it's so sad you're a complete and total loser. the other positive thing is his ability to hire hillary clinton and get this cavalcade of brains. if we're attacked by terrorists in the harvard-yale game we're screwed, they'll all be out in new haven. but they do have this intellectual superpower and the people who can rise in this administration are thee the people who can dominate a table with sheer brilliance. like peter or s.a.g., so those people -- orr s.a.g., is those people. the negative side to self-confidence is the decision to do everything at once, with eight people. so they had to hand off a lot of power to capitol hill, which led to a mishmash of mediocre policies and seco

and other obama they will pay zero. and, in fact, what he is going to do is to take the number of people that don't pay taxes and all and raise it from about 35% to about 55 percent of the total country and then give them money back so that 55 percent of the people will have a party on april 15th, it is going to be a good day, not because of birthday but because they're getting refunds of money that they never paid. and really means that 55 to 60 percent of this country will have a net positive transaction with the irs. they will receive money and a smaller and smaller group of people will pay more and more of the taxes and they become politically impotent. he could raise taxes as much as he was -- who cares? we are not paying it and where the majority of the voters and as the class warfare system that obama socialism is predicated on >> [inaudible] >> you got that right. [applause] i don't know, do groans count?m [laughter] but listen, the point is that this top 1% and top 20 percent may be important politically but n

>> torture has been abolished by obama. we are now observing the loss, the geneva convention. -- we are now observing the law is, at the geneva convention. that has been done. the problem is, obama got left with this population of prisoners in guantanamo whose rights were so violated by the bush administration that it is very hard bring the back into the courts. they have been tortured before. you cannot just put them on trial because their rights have been violated. the evidence that is against them has come from people who were tortured. those confessions should be thrown out in any decent american court. the problem is the evidence is tainted, the cases are tainted by everything bush did before, but these are very dangerous people, some of them, and you cannot just let them go free. tavis: what has obama said or what are we debating about the options? >> they have gone through this process of trying to figure out who is innocent so they can let them go. then they have tried to come up with charges against the people they

barack obama during the campaign was often praised for being very logical, no drama obama, and there's a lot of good things about that. but he could not connect emotionally. you could see he was attempting to tell this story about this average person who was asking for health care. ronald reagan would have told that story. bill clinton would have had you tearing up. there were no tears when barack obama said that. >> karen? >> look. ly agree and can see the point that i think democrats need to get back on offense in talking about health care reform, and i don't think it needs to be just emotional points being made. again, i think there are economic points to be made about why thisimperative. and we need to get out there and combat some of the misinfor make. there's not going to be rationing of care. >> that's ridiculous. you know, as the president has said from the beginning, if you like what you have, you can keep it. if you want something different, there will be a public option. >> he said a lot of things about the bailout too. >> they're saying they're against competition in the ma

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obama does the opposite. he is increasing the deficit that when you go to borrow money to refinance your home the fed is elbowing you out of the way now the fed knows that if it let interest rates go as high as they can go with this massive borrowing that we will be in the great depression. do you know, what they're doing? they are printing money. they don't call is printing money they say buying treasury securities. or buying stocks but they are buying stuff and putting money that is not there into the economy burma obama's said i will give you always -- give all of you a full tank of gas then they went to iran shooting gas into your car and every car in the country was now on goal but people did not want to drive because it was no wing or raining or lousy rather so they put the car into the parking garage and then when the weather improved and the economy got better they come out of the parking garage then they use the gaspar the problem is they will do this all at once. you are no strangers to traffic but

that's notfo anti-obama! i'll show you anti-obama material. if you believe this country is great but the government is using fahrenheit 451 as a playbook, it's time to become firemen. stand up and come follow me! hello, america. welcome to the program. tonight i want you to know if you're an enemy of the state, i'll be watch you with my button eye. if you are making minimum wage, your life is about to change. it is time to celebrate. you just got a raise. oh, i'm making $6.55 an hour. tomorrow i make $7.25 an hour. isn't that great? what are you going to do with all your money? i'm thinking of buying a boat. increasing minimum wage is like hugging a polar bear. oh, how cute it looks so cuddly and then you hug it and it rips your throat out! because it's a polar bear. liberal rags like "the new york times" are all for the increase. the raise is badly needed they printed today, but they also say it doesn't go far enough. it needs to be even higher. president obama agrees with that assessment. he has regularly voted for wage hikes on the campaign

president obama is overexposed. franklin roosevelt, the great communictor as president, would give these fireside chats over the radio every five or six months. the audiences waited for them. the audiences were eager to hear. a huge audience, and obama, we see his ratings going down when he is on television. people are getting tired of him already, i think, and they're losing interest in him. it was a question before -- remember, i guess, a month ago or two months ago when obama's numbers were high and his approval ratings were high, but the ratings for his policies on healthcare and cap and trade, they were 15, 20 points lower, and the question was, well, will obama pull those numbers up on his policies and make them more popular or will they drag him down? we know the answer. they dragged him down. that's exactly what is happening. i can't think of a single example -- but maybe there is one -- where obama has given a big speech, gone on television, had a major pest conference where he blabs for the first 15 minute

obama. most of the students we talk with are friends of mr. obama. some of them say they agree with some of his policies. >> i think international programs using power or firearms but instead power of negotiations. >> reporter: almost all of them zeroed in on mr. obama's motto, change. >> very vibrant and lots of change is happening. >> reporter: but russia is also being hit hard by the economic crisis. >> this crisis is like the economic times changing. the best time for economists. >> i think he's a great revolutionary president. >> reporter: you know, you have your own young president, president medvedev. >> there are concerns about our president but, yes, generally i'm hopeful about a relationship between medvedev and mr. obama. >> i heard that mr. obama's name is associated with the word hope, hope for change. what i'd like to hear from him probably isn't some good news that we are -- we have something to hope for, to hope for. this hard time that we have right now, it's really tough bu

they are enabling obama to [ inaudible ] obama has outsmarted himself. they spend all their time focus grouping every word he says, go through the mail and look for anecdotes that tug on heart strings and they get it perfect. the problem is a boring package that marion francis berry contribute for call it bloodless. it drained away the interest and it is not doing him any good. >> another interesting thing that caught my eye talk about the president trying to go over the heads of the press. he held a meeting with important n his words bloggers some of the more, i guess, more read blogers -- more red bloggers and said they are best at debunking milts that can slip through media outlets that is why you are going to play such an important role in our says in the weeks to come. first of all cal, blogs are better than al -- traditional media at debunking myths? >> it is talk radio from limbaugh to hannity to levine, these guys have read the 1,000 page house bill they are dissecting it, putting out the true information that's the reason the support for it is i

nobody meant this, except, perhaps, the people who were really listening to obama, and obama himself. i want to replay something for you, something that president obama said. this is five days before the election. remember, my theory has been that we are transitioning. we are not collapsing. we are transitioning. he said something that even i didn't really. even understand or listen to, because even i didn't have the real clean ear -- and i was on to this guy two years ago. listen again to what he said five days before the election, with clear ears. here it is. >> we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the united states of america. glenn: that is what is happening. we are fundamentally transforming america, and he has got a lot of buddies now in washington that only answer to him. david martusco is -- help me out, dave. >> i have heard far worse. glenn: i have been looking at your name all day and i thought i'm going to butcher this. >> you mono syllable person, you. glenn: he is the director of the research center for consumer freedom. i want you to tell me about the e

obama. leslie, let's begin with you. have you noticed the growing secular in america? >> i would have to say it's definitely a change from the administration. i number one being a liberal democrat who voted for this guy i like it. i voted for a sprafings church and stayed. our state is complied of various religions and i for one as i believe the majority of voters did not elect barack obama for him to go to church, for him to pick a church or for him to be religious for him to get the country back on track economically. bill: every year the people of idaho has a festival god and country. the air force out of respect for idaho they spent a couple planes over and everybody waves the flag. you can't do that under president obama. no way can you do that that's just dumb, leslie. leslie. you know it's dumb. come clean. >> i don't think it's done. i will tell you why when we have so many americans losing their out of work. bill: like the flyover has anything to do with americans out of work. it's

obama want? what is the understand about the russians? some money that may not be very much unfortunately. and some people over there they can never regard president obama as a kind of gorbachev, somebody they can do business with, and, of course, gorbachev is not very well liked in russia because he put an end to the soviet empire. so that could be a bit of a backhanded compliment, russian civil society and what they expect president obama, arms control and economics, the gamut of all the issues that will be addressing in the next week. join us for our panel of experts, our first speaker, our first moderator rather obey serial: who is senior research fellow and the heritage foundation in russian and eurasian studies, an expert on u.s.-russian relations hearing he has been extensively on both in terms of his own books and have his published pieces in newspapers and journals over the world so i know that you're familiar with his name as a hub for television audiences as wow. over to you. >> thank you very much. thank you for coming and tha

president obama is limping. according to a new poll, some people approve of this plan to overhaul health care. but the poll numbers are down. does this spell a bad omen for president obama? we have a guess who will talk about that with us now. welcome, senator. i never looked at george bush's favorable number. i am working with the sky. it is job approval number is down, my number is going to be effected on election day. greta: how bad can that gap be? >> it can be huge. in the case of obama, the media beat up on him personally as well as his politics for bush. obama is a very likable guy. the public does like him. they are enamored with him as a star status. even though his popularity numbers are still very high, his job approval numbers on a lot of subject areas are starting to take. -- tank. the guys in the house have to be sweating. they have been put through the wringer once on the stimulus. twice on capt. trade. now big -- twice cawnpore cap and tra de. g -- trade. greta: i think the taxpayers are saying,

>>> tonight on "nightline," a day in the life of president barack obama. we've got exclusive one-on-one access and a critical moment of his young presidency. on the day when his healthcare plans may have been dealt a major blow. >>> race debate. the morning after he sparked national controversy by saying police acted stupidly, arresting his friend, scholar henry louis gates, does the president stand by his comments? >>> power of prayer. president obama reveals the new deeper role of spirituality in his life. all the questions, all the answers on a special edition of "nightline," starting right now. captions paid for by abc, inc. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm terry moran. and we're in cleveland, ohio tonight. president barack obama took his healthcare proposal here directly to the american people today at a town hall meeting just outside the city. and as the president fielded questions on costs and quality of care, back home in washington democratic leaders acknowledge that his goal of passing sweeping reform in both the house and the senate before the au

demint saying that health care could be obama's waterloo. looking back at inauguration, campaign season, does this white house feel like maybe they should not have made health care reform the be all, end all before the end of the first year? >> they are insisting this is a must-do this year. a lot of talk this week that he's on a three-week tear to be out there all obama, all the time, to do a press conference wednesday and different apeerns to make the case to the american people. so they are not backing off of that at all. although this august deadline does seem to be dialling back. they believe if he does not get this done in the first year, that 2010, all the members of the house, it just gets tougher to get any big piece of legislation through, especially one as big and costly as health care reform. >> i know it's difficult to compare decades, but compare how president obama has done with clinton and bush. >> president clinton set some type of record. he passed a large tax cut and major school reform package by june of '01, so that's pr

obama's waterloo. rush limbaugh is somebody not i elected but still a powerful voice saying he wanted the president to out and out fail. >> sure. i think the senator wanted a health care plan that he agrees with, he doesn't want it to fail. i don't think anyone does. >> the republicans have targeted 8seats they think have vulnerable. they need 40 to turn the house around. if i was a democrat, i'm concerned if for two reasons. midterm elections for an incumbent is difficult. a 6% spread between democrats and the republicans. you would think the republicans would be so much further behind of where the country is and what george bush did. right now that's starting to take kind of the ownership -- all this is going on and obama -- i'm very concerned with that spread. >> i think, as you say, this is typically what happens in the first term of a presidency. you know, typically, they lose seats in their party in congress in the first year, so in the first midterm, i don't think that the swing is actually that

obama, like his predecessor george w. bush wants an antimissile defense system in poland and the czech republic, the backyard of russia. and dimitri medvedev and his predecessor vladimir putin has exported russia's military presence to latin america, our backyard. with medvedev it's a fleet of 1,600 naval officers and conducting exercises late last year off the ven venezuelan coasts and using venezuela and cuba for bases for strategic bombers. russia is now supplying $150 million in military helicopters to bolivia. and $4 billion, repeat, $4 billion in military hardware to venezuela. both bolivia's morales and chavez are tight with russia and with each other. question, what advantage does this mutual nuclear warhead agreement give to the u.s.? >> not much at all, john. i hope we're not going to cut delivery systems. i'm less worried about warheads. let me say this. what you put up there is russians are clearly reacting to what we did in the 1990s. reagan, of course, called it the evil empire and was being patted on the ba