the clinton administration actually started bringing down the debt, paying off the debt during the clinton administration. then we saw what happened in the second. administration. the debt absolutely skyrocketed going up over 2-1/2 times. when we look at the record of economic growth is very interesting. reagan who more than doubled the debt had a pretty good record of economic growth. 3.5%. . i who ran the debt up even further, 2.1% economic growth. clinton who actually paid down the debt had the best record of economic growth, 3.8% on average. bullish ii in place the massive tax cuts that. and deficits into debt had the worst record of economic growth averaging 1.6%. let's connect the dots. let's connect the dots. big increase in debt during the reagan administration but pretty good economic growth. . 1 --bush i economic debt faltered. clinton administration has the best record on deficits and debt and the best record on economic growth and bush ii who had huge tax cuts never offset by an adjustment as reagan did had the worst record of economic growth and finally on job creation of the

he actually was paying off debt during the clinton administration. and then we saw what happened in the second bush administration. the debt absolutely skyrocketed, going up well over two and a half times. mr. president, when we then look at the record of economic growth under those different presidents, it's very interesting. reagan, who more than doubled the debt, had a pretty good record of economic growth, 3.5%. bush i, who ran the debt up even further, pretty paltry record, -- 2.1% economic growth. clinton, who actually paid down debt, had the best record of economic growth, 3.8% on average. bush ii, who put in place the massive tax cuts that ballooned the deficits and the deb had the worst record o economic growth, averaging 1.6%. well, let's connect the dots. let's connect the dots. big increase in debt during the reagan administration, but pretty good economic growth. he took the number-two spot. bush i, massive increase in deficits and debt, economic growth faltered. clinton administration has by far the best record on deficits and debt, als

president clinton's heart troubles were not over. when the devastating earthquake struck haiti in 2010, president clinton flew to port-au-prince to support the relief efforts. i spent time with him and saw that he looked tired, not himself. >> got all pale and weak and then i got all these letters from the doctor crowd saying, yeah, it's normal because fools like you won't do what you're supposed to do because you don't eat like you should, don't exercise like you should. >> reporter: the doctor said it was a mechanical failure of the bypass and he needed stents to open the blocked artery. >> i got so lucky they were able to put those two stents in, you know, and fix an artery that was pretty bent and ugly. >> the goal of the treatment and i think it will be achieved is for president clinton to resume his very active lifestyle. this was not a result of either his lifestyle or his diet which have been excellent. >> reporter: but dr. dean ornish didn't see it that way. >> so i wrote him a letter. i said the friends that mean the most t

president clinton's heart troubles were not over. when the devastating earthquake struck haiti in 2010, president clinton flew to port-au-prince to support the relief efforts. i spent time with him and saw that he looked tired, not himself. >> got all pale and weak and then i got all these letters from the doctor crowd saying, yeah, it's normal because fools like you won't do what you're supposed to do because you don't eat like you should, don't exercise like you should. >> reporter: the doctor said it was a mechanical failure of the bypass and he needed stents to open the blocked artery. >> i got so lucky they were able to put those two stents in, you know, and fix an artery that was pretty bent and ugly. >> the goal of the treatment and i think it will be achieved is for president clinton to resume his very active lifestyle. this was not a result of either his lifestyle or his diet which have been excellent. >> reporter: but dr. dean ornish didn't see it that way. >> so i wrote him a letter. i said the friends that mean to most to

the clintons did not get health care through. the clintons did. the advantage, she wouldn't have tried it again. >> she would not have tried it again. he got it through. and you know, for -- republicans, i know, don't like it, but he got it through and -- >> it's an al ba tras around his neck. >> politically, got something through. >> politically got through. i will say this. i think hillary would have had us in a confrontation with iran. in the middle east, much closer to israel, much tougher. >> yeah. >> and i think -- >> yes, but let me ask you about the economics. >> when we -- have another war? >> now -- i think you're -- let's talk about the things that bother liberals, progressives. senate rules that seem anti-progressive. you need 60 votes. it's very hard to get 60 votes for anything. you got to get 217 1/2 and 216 in the senate. if you want something done positively for government it's very hard to get it through unless you break the rules. would hillary have broken the rules? >> i will say this. her personal skills with the senators when

bill clinton is perhaps the world's best kploen r known heart patient. he had bypass and stents. he opens up about his health in a new documentary. dr. sanjay gupta reports the last heart attack. joins us is sanjay gupta, our chief medical correspondent. sanjay, it's really looking forward to your documentary, but this is an amazing story you have to tell about a lot of people, but the former president of the united states particularly. >> i think, wolf, the thing that was strike suggest arguably he had access to the best health care in the world. certainly for all the time he was president and then afterward as well, without his knowledge really, he was sort of developing significant heart disease to the point where he had to have surgery. how could that happen? if he had access to the best care in the world. what is the lesson for anybody who worriys about heart disease? i asked these questions of former president clinton and doctors and what he is doing to stay healthy now. >> i was lucky i didn't die of a heart attack. >> former president clinton lik

demdeps having remorse not electing hillary clinton. i agree with them . broken promises and allegations of physical abuse is some of the charges brought against george soros in a lawsuit filed by an ex-girlfriend. the five starts right now. first a roller coaster on wall street and a wild finish. industrials soaring more than of you points and sending the dow back up above 11,000. the president went to michigan and blamed the wild swings on the grid lock in washington. >> unfortunately what we have seen in washington in the last few months is the worst kind of partisanship and grid lock, and that grid lock has undermined public confidence and empeded our effort to take the steps we need for our economy. >> what is in store for the economy in the short run. the market is on wild swings like never before in history. every since the debt deal allowed the president borrow 2.4 trillion . congress is on vacation and the president is about to go on his vacation . do we need more government, juan williams or law supply and demand. >> that would crash this economy

i would take the top rate to where president clinton had it. when president clinton raised rates at those levels, he was criticized, and i remember one republican lder went on television and said, we'll have a recession, every single job that's lost is president clinton's responsibily. instead we had massive job creation, as well as increasing incomes and the rest. i would raise the rates. the general framework of doing it n, deferring effective date for a uple of years, robust public investment in areas that we need, yeah, i think that framework is -- and the $4 trillion over 10 years, getting to where the debt-to-gdp ratio goes down. i think that's right. >> rose: if they had eliminatedg over $250,000, the effective rate would have been the same as when clinton was president, correct? elimated or about the same? yeah. if they eliminated the bush tax cuts for people over 250, it would take you back to the clinton top rate of 39.6%. it is said that one value you brought to the white house, beyo your experience, or in part of your experience, wa

and bill clinton agrees. as he celebrates a milestone birthday, the former president says he's slimmer, fitter and feeling more energetic than he has in years. >> are you intrigued? >> reporter: i tried a vegan lunch and it tasted great. >> so, one lunch at a time for ron claiborne >> reporter: just a start. >> okay, thank you, and happy weekend to you. >> reporter: thank you. >>> coming up, watch as one of our biggest neighbors in the ocean says thank you for saving his life. mosquitoes or mosqui? huh. [ female announcer ] try the new design of off!f!lip-on repellent.. lab tests show this sprayless repellent really repels. in minutes, its fan surrounds you from head to toe with effective, odorless proroction. [ mosquitoes buzzing ] so don't spray it on. clip it on. off! clip-on. keeps bugs off. sc johnhnn. a family company. off! clip-on. keeps bugs off. a mouthwatering combination of ingredients...e for you! i know you're gonna love. [ barks ] yes, it's new beneful healthy fiesta. made with wholesome grains,

the difference between clinton, we look at this, clinton shifted. clinton signed the third welfare reform bill that congress passed. clinton reversed course. clinton went along with the balanced budget plan to balance it in seven years that the republicans passed. the republicans are more fiscally conservative. this president cannot see through his -- >> there's a big difference between what clinton had and what obama has. clinton had a congress that was willing to work with him. this congress will not give him a victory no matter what. obama put big cuts on the tables. >> and they came back and he wanted tax increases. because he jumps when his base says jump. >> sean: he didn't put forward anything. we were asking and waiting and the country was begging for him to put his plan in writing. he never put his plan down. the republicans put their money where their mouth is. ryan plan, cut, cap and balance, dead on arrival. then they went along with a compromise. >> then offer something -- [ talking over each other ] >> i believe the president, with spe

clton, >> we'll all the way up to billk clinton. the monica lansky scandal. we like to think about, it was just recently that the political parties started to throw dirt at each other and review each other's sex scandals. that turns out not to be true.o the founding fathers were doing that at the beginning of thelu republic practice but to be included, the course of the nation's history. >> that's right. we are not out to dig up dirt>> and tar the president of first lady. we were up to show that the portant in the granraditionally consider personal were actually important in the grand scheme of the american political story.or we showed how these had impact on policy. >> i want to jump to the conclusion. you have a political message for today's society which i listow which has led as grow. can you tell me what you're a trying to say to americans. >> well, survival. effe obviously it has a huge effect on our lives. we use it to communicate more than any other media. lighten up. to your defense, much different reaction than we do. we have a very knee-jerk reacti

i mean, clinton is in the middle. i mean, he's got to always balance what he would like against what is achievable. and that, in fact, is the art of politics. >> you do... you do read, from time to time, some language out of everyone's mouth in this book, and here's another one. "he's..."-this is sheila burke saying... she's talking about her son; i won't say it, but anyway-- he's tick. there's another wordhat she used. >> right. >> "why don't you quit that stupid job and come home?" this is seven-year-old daniel saying this to his mother? >> well, this is her interpretation of what he said, "quit that..." he didn't use any language. she did, as i recall. but it's an intesting exchange because i think that women, especially, will relate to it. working women everywhere will relate to the fact that here's a woman in a job close to the majority leader of the senate, bob dole-- he was the majority leader at the time-- who practically has nother lif other than his job. and so she had to devote a great deal of her life to i

one person who is giving it a go is former president bill clinton. he was on the verge of a heart attack. it took quadruple bypass surgery to get him to change his mind. he brought his weight down to what it was when he was a teenager. how is he doing it? i sat down with him one-on-one next. ounext g mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service, with thousands of new cell sites... for greater access to all the things you want, whenever you want them. it's the at&t network... and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. ♪ [ recorded voice ] onstar. we're looking for city hall. i'm sending directions to your car. [ recorded voice #2 ] turn right on hill street. go north for two miles. ♪ [ man ] this is onstar. i got a signal there's been a crash. do you need help? yes, please. i've got your gps location. i'm sending help. [ female announcer ] introducing onstar fmv. get it installed on your car at best buy or visit onstar.com f

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of a heart attack. >> reporter: former president clinton, like too many people, was busy. and for years, he ignored warning signs of his heart. but in 2004, during an exhausting book tour, there was something different. >> i had a real tightness in my chest when i was getting off the airplane and it was the no pain, but tight, only time i had it unrelated it to exercise. i immediately went down to our local hospital and they did a test and said you got real problems. they hustled me down to columbia presbyterian and they confirmed the determination that i had serious blockage and needed surgery. >> reporter: the doctors immediately knew, options were limited. the 58-year-old clinton needed to have his chest opened, his heart stopped, and surgery performed. >> there's no medical treatment for reversing the obstructions that already formed in his blood vessels. >> so, i got hillary and chelsea there and all i remember it was happening fast and everybody who cared about me was scared and i felt rather serene. >> reporter: on labor day in 2004, mr. clinton had four blood vesse

privacy information center e and larry clinton of the internet security alliance. this is part three of a month-long series on cybersecurity. >> host: and this is week three of the communicators series on cybersecurity. this week, we're talking with interest groups who have a stake in cybersecurity issues. first up, marc rotenberg of the electronic privacy information center. he's the executive director there, and we want to talk to him about the privacy concerns from the white house cybersecurity proposals. when you look at what the white house has released over the past few months earlier this summer, where do your concerns lie when it comes to privacy? >> guest: a lot of what the white house has done with proposals is actually pretty good. it's a complicated topic, a lot of different agencies that need to be consulted, and i think the white house has done a good job of coordinating across several agencies. the key issue for many americans, how to security in cyberspace. there's civil liberty issues here because the white house is also claiming some new authority

you said i support president clinton. you come up intact to me like i'm helping you, that will give the impression that i am somehow behind this so i'm okay and i won't let that happen. and he arranges for five months in congress. but i was pretty bold. he said mr. chairman, that is not an acceptable answer. he spent 40 years as a member of this house. use of this house. i've been assigned a job on behalf of the house of representatives to make sure we track a protocol that is fair and you are a person with unique knowledge and you have to give me her time. so i am going to fly up there you have to meet with me. peter rodino said fine, you can have one half-hour and that's all you get. so i flew out to new jersey to go see him. i had her deputy chief counsel with me in a chief investigator, dave schippers and we told her councilman, you guys wait outside. i'm going to go when and see if i can get him to loosen up for me. if i can't, i have an ace in the hole that i will pull and see if that works. i'm going to see chairma

i understand you helped put together clinton state of the union address and were there. pretty much you know the democratic convention the farewell that's that's a bit of an arc of any quick thoughts on the clinton presidency and what it's like to be a speechwriter in the white house well it's a challenge to be a speechwriter for president who doesn't necessarily need a speechwriter we all know that president clinton famous last name or podium gives the speech forty five minutes with better know so if that's the case how do you add value to that equation how do you actually help him to be better at what he already does so well already so it was a challenging job it was as you would expect it really i can imagine the eleventh let's add like to dig jump right into this this is this i'm reading this book right now and supreme power your book and in addition to being just one of the most brilliant pieces of good historical literature in terms of the quality of the writing it's also. it's a remarkable story as an american or a mark of a conflict in this battle of the titans o

we will be right back with larry clinton of the internet security alliance. and now on your screen is larry clinton who is president and ceo of the internet security alliance. mr. clinton, if we could start by finding out what the isa is. >> guest: the internet security alliance is a trade association, it was created back in 2000, and it represents virtually every aspect of our nation's critical infrastructure, aviation, banking, communications, defense, education, financial services, etc. and we are, our mission statement is to take advanced technology and blend it with public policy and economics to create a sustainable system of cybersecurity. so we're a security organization, and we represent our company's security interests. >> host: well, when you look at the cybersecurity proposals put out by the white house this summer, what's your general reaction? where do you support it, what concerns you? >> guest: well, there are a number of things in the administration's proposal that i think have broad support, things such as providing more cybersecurity educat

quote will be right back with larry clinton -- we will be right back with larry clinton of internet security alilance. mr. clinton, if we could start by finding out what the isa is. trade association created back in 2000. represents virtually every aspect of our nation's critical infrastructure -- aviation, banking, communications, defense, financial services. and our mission statement is to take advanced technology and blend it with public policy and economics to create a sustainable system of cyber security. so we are a security organization, and represent our company's security interests. host: when you look at the cyber security proposals put up by the white house this summer, what is your reaction? the support it? what concerns you? guest: there are a number of things and the proposal that have broad support. things such as providing more cyber security education, developing a much better system with in the government to manage their own cyber security research and development on next-generation items. i think where we feel the administration has not met our expectations is when the dea

you said i support president clinton. you come up intact to me like i'm helping you, that will give the impression that i am somehow behind this so i'm okay and i won't let that happen. and he arranges for five months in congress. but i was pretty bold. he said mr. chairman, that is not an acceptable answer. he spent 40 years as a member of this house. use of this house. i've been assigned a job on behalf of the house of representatives to make sure we track a protocol that is fair and you are a person with unique knowledge and you have to give me her time. so i am going to fly up there you have to meet with me. peter rodino said fine, you can have one half-hour and that's all you get. so i flew out to new jersey to go see him. i had her deputy chief counsel with me in a chief investigator, dave schippers and we told her councilman, you guys wait outside. i'm going to go when and see if i can get him to loosen up for me. if i can't, i have an ace in the hole that i will pull and see if that works. i'm going to see chairma

to think like, -- he doesn't feel the pain that president clinton did, if he goes off and lets people hang out there hoping when he comes back that he's got something. >> and he makes another promise that he has a plan that this time he will actually present. we don't know if that is going to be another speech or if it is a written down plan that people can hold him accountable to. what his jobs' plan will be, i guarantee you, it will be based on spend more money, incur more debt. spend money that we do not have so we will have to borrow from countries like china or print more money so we can spend more money. it has to do with government. his ideal that government is the answer. when it is proven in these last 2 1/2 years that government is not the answer too often it is the problem. truly, he needs to allow the private sector to start stimulating the economy the way that america used to. that was based on development of our natural resources and reward for work ethic. we've gotten so far from that in our political -- the policies coming out of washington that it is going to take a w

he actually was paying off debt during the clinton administration. and then we saw what happened in the second bush administration. the debt absolutely skyrocketed, going up well over two and a half times. mr. president, when we then look at the record of economic growth under those different presidents, it's very interesting. reagan, who more than doubled the debt, had a pretty good record of economic growth, 3.5%. bush i, who ran the debt up even further, pretty paltry record, -- 2.1% economic growth. clinton, who actually paid down debt, had the best record of economic growth, 3.8% on average. bush ii, who put in place the massive tax cuts that ballooned the deficits and the debt, had the worst record of economic growth, averaging 1.6%. well, let's connect the dots. let's connect the dots. big increase in debt during the reagan administration, but pretty good economic growth. he took the number-two spot. bush i, massive increase in deficits and debt, economic growth faltered. clinton administration has by far the best record on deficits and debt,

flynt to normal ize deviance of bill clinton. his deviance had nothing to do with sex, it had to do with the chief law enforcement officer in the united states engaging in perjury and obstruction of justice, and evidence of this, of course, is that president clinton was the first president to lose his law license because of his perjury and obstruction of justice. so this attempt will, you know, just be a way of larry flynt of normalizing himself. >> well, i would say that's not accurate. what we were doing is we were telling an important story in the case of bill clinton in which this trial, this national saga over sex captivated the public mind and distracted us from a serious threat to america. one of which was al qaeda. in the 9/11 commission report, the commissioners flat out lay it out that monica lewinsky scandal distracted the administration and kept us from doing what we should have been doing, protecting the american public. rather than focusing on the silly sex scandal. >> but you are never going to convince everyone on

i really liked what bill clinton suggested president obama should have done which is basically appeal to the 14th amendment, the constitutional option, and raise the debt ceiling and refuse to be held hostage, and more important refuse to allow the economy and the lives of the american people to be held hostage by a party that simply does not understand economics. >> on your splendid website you are launching today huffpostwomen and huffpostparents, and get real here, what is the deal that the house passed today and the senate will pass tomorrow will do for families in america? >> well, that is the problem, piers. it is going to make their lives harder, and that is why we launched with a powerful and moving story with amanda fairbanks about how many college students right now who cannot afford the pay their debts are actually resorting to prostitution, and literally selling themselves in order to pay their college debts. and the stories are so moving and powerful, and you read about the african-american student from college who takes a train to greenwich to sleep with a guy who is hel

clinton voiced concerns over the growing demand for big cuts in military spending. she said the united states is a pacific power and needs to maintain its presence in the region. >> we can't be abruptly pulling back or pulling out when we know we face some long-term challenges about how we're going to cope with what the rise of china means. >> panetta also warned against defense spending cuts saying they would result in a hollowing out of u.s. forces and weaken the country's ability to respond to threats in the world. earlier this month the u.s. congress enacted a law that allows the government to raise the debt limit in order to avoid default. in line with the law the u.s. defense department may have to cut its budget by up to $1 trillion over the next decade. >>> at the same meeting panetta talked about libya saying the government under moammar al gadhafi was living on borrowed time. >> i think the sense is that gadhafi's days are numbered. >> panetta said anti-government forces are moving on the capital tripoli, suggesting the rebels have gained the upper hand in

clearly they would do and hillary clinton was a great great help she said listen what happened last year so you go there on your own but i had an a c. contact told me indirectly that they would be happy to see the coal bodies of activists shown on us t.v. as a result of their trying to perfect the blockade of gaza now when i wrote that i wrote that before we left and besser craig murray a person who so happens to be a friend of mine he said you know raise usually pretty pretty objective and gets exaggerate but this is over the top he checked with his own sources at the state department not the white house the state department he's in touch with all manner of british ambassador's and so forth and he got exactly the same story ok and we knew what would be for all us at the hands of the israelis we get no support from the u.s. government quite the contrary they pretty much say well you risk what you're doing but then cooler heads prevailed finally obama somebody took over and said look you know if the israelis attack alice walker the eighty six year old not seem so five heavy epstein matter

bill clinton was an example. when you've been a governor a long time, there'sality of things to point to it to say i should be elected. there's stuff in his record that will cause both the right and the left some concern. >> well, as someone might say, it's kind of an inconvenient truth. susan page, ron fournier, cynthia tucker, stick around. we're going to talk about the president, iowa and jobs next. trivia time though, we asked, how did the first-ever heisman trophy winner jay berwanger leave and indelible mark on the u.s. president ji in 1943. a game between the university of chick achicago and the universiy of michigan. berwanger got tackled by a future president. gerald ford. left him way bloody cut and a permanent scar left eye. we'll be right back. [ male anno] this is coach parker... whose non-stop day starts with back pain... and a choice. take advil now and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. way to go, coach. ♪ photo center prints and... two htc sensation

i mean hillary clinton has launched initiatives talking about the need for internet freedom in other countries as they watch the arab spring unfold and the u.k. also of course was supporting it and then once there were riots on the streets you have prime minister david cameron coming out and talking about the idea of shutting down some of these social media tools like twitter and like facebook for some of the riders i didn't hear hillary clinton come out and speak up then i haven't heard anybody in the administration decry what bart did and say that it was wrong either . i agree with you i mean it's very curious that hillary clinton was quick to criticize and condemn hosni mubarak after you know he tried to take social media away from the protesters why is it that hillary clinton is not speaking out against bart officials that the exact same thing i find that curious and very strange but you know i think that we as people should look at this situation take it seriously and hold bart accountable for it i know the a.c.l.u. is thinking about investigating the case and possibly bringing

his all holiness, bartholomew ii, who i met with first lady clinton. the head of the syriani church and head of the armenian church as well as the baha'i community leader. it has a constitutional reform process to strengthen turkey's democracy. we regard freedom of expression essential to democracy and we believe the reform process offers the unique opportunity to protect journalists, to nongovernmental organizations and to minorities. . the president and secretary have established economic cooperation with turkey as a strategic priority and have emphasized the support of american firms and promoting turkish american trade and investment. during the president's april, 2000, meeting with turkish president, both leaders agreed to elevate our economic relations to the level of our already strong political and military relations. . tur see is the leading focus in the export initialtive to double u.s. exports globally in five years. it's been a special privethroge return over these last six months to strengthen the communications between our two peoples in

. >> and who was hillary clinton dais -- clinton's -- >> roarj clinton. >> oh, we all remember roger clinton. >> i was auditioning for "the knew gong show" in the late 90s. >> that sounds fun. >> yes, it was to be the host. you know who was after me in line to addition? roger clinton. >> and who got the job? >> it was a guy named chuck boom, if i am right. >> we should have a gong on "the five." >> that's a good idea, but bob would try to smoke it. >> oh i thought you said gong. >> exactly. where is the hole? >> there is a lot of -- martin van buren's brother, clyde was on "the smack." he can't control his half nephews and nephews. that wasn't even a question, really. >> know your history. as far as this guy is concerned, again he is obama's dad's half brother. half brother. i'm sure he has not played that card and explaining that away. as far as i'm concerned a half brother, you are not even related. >> well uare half related. >> and you are wrong. are you a jennette tau cyst. were you in oxford for four years. >> i did not drink the coffee. >> are you not even supposed to be here.

i could imagine her making a similar statement even if hillary clinton had not been the second choice in the 2008 election. we know that barack obama's approval ratings are low, we know that congressional approval ratings are low, we know that people are frustrated with the status quo, so republicans are even trying to get democrats to think about alternatives. >> sure, that said, in the same class where i teach your book, i also took a week where the students, mostly young feminists, by the way, self-identified by feminists, read hillary clinton's aud biography and even though most disagreed with palin's policy positions, they found her life story to be pretty compelling. is sarah palin actually a good feminist role model, is there something we ought to learn from her in the context of women in politics? >> well, there's no question that she opened up the political process for women. she was a mother with young children, she started out at the local level, she was a mayor of a very, very small town and was able to climb her way up very, very quickly, so i think she demonstrated you d

former clinton adviser dick morris is back. welcome back. >> good to be here. >> sean: 55% approval, how do you get him reelected? >> you don't. 27% of the people that voted for barack obama now do not approve of him. 13% actively disapprove of him. the statistics are more dramatic than that. the people were asked who approve of obama, what do you think of him? 34% of them said we are disappointed in him. but not yet to the level of disapproval. obviously, his disapproval is going to mount. his approval will drop. when you look in particular at his base vote, like latinos, two years ago he had an 85% approval among hispanics. now it is down to 44%. his rating among young people has dropped by the same order of magnitude. ratings among african-americans remain high. but, you are talking about a man whose potential for reelection is slipping away, as we speak. >> sean: we've been following the independent numbers closely. 27% of democrats not wanting to vote for him for reelection is astounding. i said let me make a comparison to

clinton karnlgy. welfare reformer tommy thompson and budget cutter paul ryan. 0 to progressives wisconsin is the loam of fighting bob who took on big business and fought for liberal wage or nelson or russ feingold. two very different traditions living side by side for decades. my high school friends and i to this day can have friendly debates between the thompson republicans and progressives. that's how it used to be. but not anymore. governor scott walker by aligning hems with out state wealthy conservative zealots like the coke brothers in citizens for strong america turned this quiet state into a political war zone. the other side is not blameless, taking lots of union money from washington to fuel their side the debate, but this election today broke all funding records with a vast majority of the over 30 million compare dollars coming from outside groups. just match fn that money had been spent on schools like my old high school here. could the coke walker crowd, destruction and division are the g

>> on the part of the voters or secretary clinton taking the job. martha: like sarah palin suggested. >> secretary clinton has not played in most of the page foreign policy issues of the administration. she goes to africa and makes trips and, talks to the troops but has not been front and center of the middle east decision and she has not been front and center in u.s. relations, with the former soviet union and has not been front in center in the economic stuff, certainly when she has been most effective is on a podium with the secretary of defense, gates, now panetta but is not the strong secretary of state that say, my old boss, henry kissinger was and you have to wonder what regrets what. are the voters regretting they didn't vote for her or is she regretting that she took the job? martha: thanks as always, get to get your in sight. all right. gregg: heart break for a little 11-year-old girl, who wanted to honor one of america's biggest pop singers, justin bieber. caroline gonzales used her short-term to rename the street after the teen sensation

i got a lot of gray hairs covering this 58, bill clinton at the beginning, and bill clinton at the end of his presidency, an eight-year presidency, a two-year presidency and george w. bush, you can see a big wear and tear. let's look at our current president, you see then 47, now as he turns 50, politically as i bring in my guests here, ron brownstein of "the national journal," lynn sweet, the years have not been good on our president. you look at 2009 and now you look at the president today, come on up, mr. president, there you go, make it work. if you pull up the numbers, the unemployment ratings 7.8% when he took office, and unemployment now, 9.2%, approval, 45%. look at that. 45% approve, 76% when he was just getting started disapproval. now, a majority of americans say they disapprove. ron brownstein, thinking about his re-election campaign, ouch. >> the presidency is marked in dog years, john. you know, it ages everyone, but especially when you're governing in times in difficult and tumultuous as these. these have been extraordinary years and decisions that he faced in the first

today we asked secretary clinton about america's role. when you see these pictures that are coming out of the famine emergency, what do you think? >> well, it just breaks my heart because there's... there is no doubt that some of this is the unfortunate consequence of weather patterns, of drought, but i would say most of it is because of bad policies and bad people. >> pelley: what are your concerns about al-shabaab in somalia? >> well, i have many concerns about al-shabaab. al-shabaab is a terrorist group. al-shabaab has been particularly brutal, even barbaric to the people under their control, even before this famine. but what we've seen in recent weeks just beggars the imagination, scott. i mean, it's one thing to have a view of religion that is so brutal and totally at odds with anything that anyone else believes, but it's something entirely different to prevent women and children from getting to a place where they could be saved and i've called on them and their leaders to show some mercy and some compassion. so far we've seen no evi

clinton would always rise above in a sense. he was never too confrontational. >> from what i recall, i don't remember -- he could be very partisan. when you are head of the party, you have that role at certain places. but he didn't bring that into the white house from what i remember. i think that there has been a line has been crossed. now president obama is the head of the party. he's going to have to walk a lot of lonely rope lines like he did today. where he's going to be heckled. personally, i'm uncomfortable with it. i think i would have tried to move him on. i understand the frustration, but i wouldn't have said what they said. >> greta: big news in iowa, at least for representative bachmann winning the straw poll now on to new hampshire. very different environment. very different electorate. she obviously -- obviously the people in iowa in the republican party loved her enough to make her number one in this round. how is she going to do in new hampshire and what does she have to do? >> first congratulations because she

does he listen to bill clinton? they're saying this, i assume. >> i was at his births day party, and we talked briefly. he knows the severity of the situation. all i'm saying, chris, is let's not panic. let's do it right. let's have a jobs plan that makes sense, that involves a private sector, infrastructure. i'm with what everyone is saying. all i'm saying is let's do it right. he needs new creative ideas and listen to ordinary people out in the midwest about how to do this. >> all i'm saying is every time a job opens in a big city, the line goes around the block of able -- another old phrase-able-bodied men and women who want to work. they may not have enough money for a cup of dove, but they wait in line for hours to put their name on the list. you go through a big city people are up at 6:30 catching a bus if they're lucky to have a job. this country likes to work. and this president has to do the thing. i agree with bloth you guys, but we've got to move. thank you robert reich and bill richardson. >>> coming up,

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reagann and clinton 01 strong reelection campaigns. the president whose numbers were higher than obama now was george herbert walker bush. august's of the year before an election is not the best time to predict. there is a lot that can happen, and i am not ready for. perry -- for rick perry >> remember when we were predicting that rudy giuliani and hillary clinton would be the nominees? >> the thing about george herbert walker bush is that he got a republican challenge in pat buchanan, who made him spend time and energy treasury paid by the time he got the nomination, it was not -- >> i am trying to think of mark in cowboy boots at the inaugural. >> looks like gaddafi is finished in libya. >> there is no way back for the gaddafi regime, and many of its key members are on the right. >> i wish i could talk like that. that is william hague, british foreign secretary. looks like the rebels have won. evan, who can take credit? >> everybody will until it turns bad. i been a critic of the obama administration for working -- intervening on thi