the white house does need to think about those issues. we found ourselves in the cyber war scenario, the president would have to make some decisions, particularly if the internet was part of the battlefield. guest: i think a lot of people at home are wondering, if we were to see events a similar to what we're seeing in london or even at the san francisco transit authority, is that something under this cyber security proposal that could take place? could the federal government shut down portions of the social media site if they felt it was being used to stop violence? guest: it would be difficult to do, but we have recent experience in the u.s. that is a bit of a warning. that is surrounding wikileaks. when the u.s. government began to express concerns about their activity, and you had secretary of state clinton and senator lieberman talking about the problem. there were talking about companies that were providing cloud-based services to wikileaks. we began to explore the question was the u.s. government putting pressure on u.s. firms to b

people would also ask what is the white house? why is it called the white house? will obama change the name if he becomes president. i did not have the answer to those questions. i knew he would not change the name. but i did not know the history of the white house in terms of why it was called the white house and specifically the history of african-americans to that icon, to that institution. so i thought i would do a little research, right about 150 pages and then trace it through there. what turned out to be the case was that i began to discover just fascinating individuals whose mark on the presidency and whose marks on the white house were virtually unknown except for a few scattered stories here and there. everyone knew that george washington and thomas jefferson had slaves. but most people probably do not know that eight out of the first will presence had slaves. -- first 11 per the -- eight at the first 12 presidents had slaves. this history kind of threw itself at me and then the book started to right itself. instead of being a strip political history of

the white house could be doing more to promote specific legislation. the white house talks a lot about self-regulation, another way of saying they hope the problem will solve itself, but i don't think most people who experienced identity theft or read about the recent intenses of security breaches feel the problem is solving itself, so we would like to see them do more to the extent that it's been consistent and not setting out a legislative agenda, i guess, that's true, but not so good for us. >> host: marc rotenberg, when you read through the white house proposals on cybersecurity and see the references to private industry and public-private partnerships, does that concern you? >> guest: well, here what the white house is trying to do is manage the relationship with the private sector in a way to maintain private sector support, so, for example, the private sector has said they don't want a legislative mandate. they don't want to government to take over some of the critical infrastructure that they are responsible for. the white house and the departm

rotenberg, you talked about some of the new authority the white house calls for. could you give an example of that? >> guest: well, the department of homeland security is pursuing a new security technique which they call first intrusion detection and then intrusion prevention. i think the name for the project is einstein three, and maybe we'll see an einstein four soon. what they are trying to do is to identify specific activity on the internet that looks malicious, and they want to have better tools to identify that activity and to prevent it. but that technique also gives the government new ways to capture information online. our obvious question is how else might that technique be used? and i would say before we go to gautham, the other point to make is we've just recently seen how governments can use these kinds of authorities in ways that cause us concern. and this is not just, you know, about china and its firewall that blocks access to internet web sites or even egypt where, of course, they suspended access to the internet for a period of time. now we have

it will go to the white house for the president's signature. within minutes after this roll call is complete, the president will then go into the white house rose garden and make a statement to the nation. we expect it to be about 10 or 15 minutes. the president will outline what has happened, why he supports this, but then he's going to try to move the story forward a little bit and get into the bigger issue of a frail u.s. economy and the need for job creation. he'll have some ideas and i think he will put them forward at that point on what the country needs to do. we're watching all of this. we've got our correspondents, kate bolduan on capitol hill. jessica yellin will join us shortly from the rose garden. we are watching what's happening on wall street as well. gloria, pick up this notion that there's obviously going to be between now and thanksgiving a real intensification of this debate, because it hasn't been -- they may have agreed to keep the debt ceiling as a nonissue between now and the start of 2013, but the whole issue over taxes,

side and to the white house. that would allow some attention to be given to the depression- level unemployment numbers in the black community. depression levels. i mean, what group in america with those kinds of numbers could be ignored? but yes, we're putting pressure on the senate side, and we believe we're getting some support for the things we are pushing. the problem is the senate has those arcane rules, and now you have to get 60 votes to get anything across. it is unfortunate. we have introduced, we, the congressional black caucus, 40 different pieces of legislation designed to create jobs. but the reality of washington, which i hope your viewers understand, is that majority means everything, and because democrats are in the minority in the house, none of our 40 bills are being considered. none of them have traveled to a committee. certainly, none of them have come to the floor. but that is not going to stop us from continuing to push. this is a major crisis in america. look, i represent a district about 1

house chief security for white house chief security for the white house under the george w. bush administration and he was vice chair of the president's critical infrastructure protection board. he served as with microsoft as well, and that's just a couple of the things he's got and both his p.a. and his mba from the university of phoenix. one of the proposals the president calls for is this needs to be coordinated from the white house to do you misuse as a cyber securities are to coordinate this activity? >> the term coordinator is what this job is about and interestingly enough and a positive we've seen a similar states around the world do similar things recognizing there is the defense side, the intelligence side, the commerce intelligence side, the commerce site the needs to be somebody bringing those together getting the input and making a device to the president of the prime minister as well so clearly it has to be incurred in the white house the president has put forth. estimates are there any funding numbers in place for this? >> as far as the white house? >> cyberse

meanwhile those so-called white house was at the center of civil resistance at the time it housed the russian parliament where the people's deputies met in session. it was past seven in the morning when the security chief came to my place for work when i opened the door it's old me i had better go to the white house right away. as far as i could tell there was a coup going on in the country that's how i learned about it where you were decided to take a round about route instead of going straight to this building for. the coup was led by top brass and high ranking communist officials they had expected to get support from the population who were dissatisfied with the long drawn process of perestroika. they decided to make short work of gorbachev reforms. the situation was quite all right the country was in turmoil. there was a revolt of the hungry but able standing in line for sausages stoop to fist fights but there were pervis of sort of just on the consumer market. but the country's president waved good bye to everybody and headed down south to the career to relax in. the crimean peni

to work when i opened the door it's old me i had better go to the white house right away. as far as i could tell there was a coup going on in the country that's how i learned about it or you would decided to take a roundabout route instead of going straight to this building where. the coup was led by top brass and high ranking communist officials they had expected to get support from the population who were dissatisfied with the long drawn process of perestroika. they decided to make short work of gorbachev reforms. the situation was quite odd that idea by the country was in turmoil. there was a revolt of the hungry but abel standing in line for sausages stoop to fist fights but there were pervis of sort of jizz on the consumer market. but the country's president waved good bye to everybody and headed down south to the korea to relax. the crimean peninsula southern shore serbia president mikhail gorbachev's private residence near the village of photos. both it and scores of surrounding hecht became a prison for the head of state. here he spent several days in what amounted

host: howard schmidt is the white house cybersecurity coordinator. he has had one of the most intriguing careers i have ever seen. i would suggest you go to the sitee house wouletb to look at further. he worked as a policeman in chandler, arizona. he worked at the fbi. he was a special advisor for cybe space security for the white house under george w. bush. he was vice chair of the president's critical infrastructure protection board. he served with microsoft as well. that is just a couple of the things. he got his b.a. and mba from the university of phoenix. one of the proposals the president calls for is that this needs to be coordinated from the white house. do you see this as a cyber security czar position? guest: i would not collett all a czar. the turn coordinator is what this about. we have seen similar states around the world do similar things. recognizing there is the defense side, the commerce side, there needs to be people bringing these things together and giving advice, in our case the president, and and other countries the prime minist

still, not a good day for the white house, never a good day for the white house when the dow goes down anything like it was. i found most remarkable, jay carney press briefing they are emphasizing a, quote/unquote, balanced approach, which everybody understands to be raising taxes. now the president himself has said in the past repeatedly, raising taxes in a recession is the last thing you want to do. you can't consider it. it would hurt the economy and suck demand out of the economy is the way he put it. here today, you have the president in what is an economic downturn, distressed economy. his smokesman again calling for raising taxes. it just doesn't make sense. if the white house wants to do something to settle the markets at this point i think the best thing they can do is stop talking about raising taxes. >> bret: karen, your colleague at the "washington post" richard cohen brote this. "when the stock market fell more than 500 points last week, and the image that night of the president whooping it up at his birthday party, the juxtaposition seemed appropriate. he does not seem to

the white house has miscalculated. it is so draconian that it will not work, even this president could not implement it. so, because we cannot default on our commitments, because we have to start somewhere on our new journey towards fiscal sanity and this is a good start, because we have to focus on job creation, not more taxes that will kill job creation, we should adopt this legislation. but because of its irresponsible and dangerous, even cavalier treatment of national defense, we will need to work very hard to restore spending necessary for our national security and commit to reject the threat of arm ged don inserted into this -- armageddon inserted into this bill by the white house. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll.

our white house guide with us now . the white house not happy with what s&p did. what can we look forward to or not in the next couple of dayings. >> we don't look forward for the president to come on camera. earlier michelle bachmann wanted the president to come back from camp david. the white house said no on camera statements. maybe he will put a writen statement and they were pushing back hard against s&p. they thought there was a mass error and s&p clearly decided to move forward because of a number of factors, not only the debt but the fact that you look inside of the report, they cited concerns washington not able to govern on big issues. not only at the white house, but congress and democrat and republican leaders up there . i think something else to look for in the days ahead, a republican budget expert saying that there are other countries hit with a downgrade like canada, and australia and denmark, who ended up turning things around and had the downgrade changed you know months or years down the road. it will be a long road for the united states to turn

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he was a special adviser for cyberspace security for the white house chief security, for the white house under the george w. bush administration he was vice chair of the president's critical infrastructure protection board. he served with microsoft as well, and that's just a couple of the things. he's gotten both his b a&m ba from the university of phoenix. mr. schmidt, one of the proposals that the president calls for is that this needs to be coordinated from the white house. do you see this as a cybersecurity czar type position, who coordinates this activity? is. >> guest: yeah. i wouldn't call it a czar. truly, the term coordinator is what this job is all about. and interestingly enough and very positive, we've seen similar states around the world do similar type things recognizing there is the defense side, the intelligence side, the commerce side, that there needs to be somebody sort of bringing those things together, getting the input from everybody and making good advice to, in the our case, the president and in other countries the prime ministers or presidents there as well. so,

what's the white house hoping here? i don't know how much influence it thinks it has on the syrian leader. are they hoping for a domino effect with other countries? >> as you pointed out, this has been a coordinated response. the president put out a piece of paper, the secretary of state said what essentially she said on camera with the president saying in his piece of paper echoing his comments. you had the canadian leader, the united nations referring this to the international criminal court. you've got the leaders of france, britain and germany all coming out calling for assad to step down. the white house says they have been reluctant to do so so far and as you know, they have walked right up to it over the course of the last several months saying things like assad need to reform or get out of the way, syria would be better off if he left. now they're coming out saying he's got to go in the face of this escalating brutality against his own people. but part of the concern all along was, you know, when the united stat

house, a fact sheet from the white house. it would increase the debt limiby at least $2.5 trillion. sources are saying that number could be $2 trillion. nearly $1 trillion in cuts over a decade, and that includes defense andondefense spending. it creates a committee to find $1.5 trillion more in either savings cuts, including entitlements and tax reform. the committee has to rereport the legislation by thanksgiving. if the committee fails, the enforcement mechanism kicks in, triggering reductions in 2013, and that would be half of domestic and half defense spending. what is prected, not on the table at that point if this mechanism kicks in, social security, medicare, and low-income programs. tim, republican in alabama. good morning. caller: how y'all doing? i've been watching this show and i've been trying to get in on this show a whole lot, and i watch a lot of people say things such as, oh, how bad the tea party's done. y'all,y really been impressed with them boys. they finally got things brought out, they finally got thing

house and from the white house both before and after the terrorist attacks clarke claims the cia not only knew the were about seven to nine eleven hijackers but actually tried to recruit them prior to the attacks and kept the white house in the dark about it after the recruitment efforts failed but this bombshell contradicts what clarke said in two thousand and four about george tenet and the cia. george tenet was saying to the white house saying to the president as he briefed him every morning a major elec fact is going to happen against the united states somewhere in the world in the weeks and months ahead he said that in june july august so what's behind clark's new take on nine eleven and could it be true for more on this i'm joined by phil shannon investigative reporter for newsweek and the daily beast as well as the author of the book the commission the uncensored history of the nine like nine eleven investigation phil welcome thank you for having me great to have you here with us first of all latest allegation your your take on this is which is the latest he actually said this

>> when you say a significant amount of leverage over the white house, what do you mean? >> jon: well done potter ten points for griffendorf. [laughter] go ahead there. tell him when you mean from december. >> a sense that they'll say essentially we're not going to raise the -- we're not going to agree to it unless the white house is able to or willing to agree to significant spending cuts across the board, probably going deeper and further than what you are willing to do. what leverage would you have -- >> here is my expectation. i'll take john boehner at his word that nobody, democrat or republican, is willing to see the full faith and credit of the united states government collapse. [laughter] >> jon: funny because it happened. [laughter] let me do a quick impression of what is going on in the white house at the moment. find me that bow tie boy and let him tell us what happens next. [laughter] it looks like the democrats got hosed. but i'll bet the republicans are creaming in their jeans. i'm sorry trousers. >> ooh! [laughter] mmmmm, mmmmm. [laughter] subtle. [laughter

to hold the white house. at this point his approval ratings upside down in just about every state but one. we'll show you in a few minutes. >>> for weeks leaders have warned the markets would tank if there was no debt ceiling deal. yesterday, the president signed the deal and the markets tankd. expectations for friday's job report are suddenly grim. the stocks posted their worst day in nearly a year, the dow fell 2.2%. closed by low 12,000, the s&p down 2.6% and the seventh straight day of losses, its longest losing streak since october 240u. the nasdaq was down 2.7%. there are warning signs that the fragile economic recovery is simply stalling. consumer spending was down in june, much worse than expected. manufacturing activity is barely above recession levels and the economy grew just an anemic 1.3% in the second quarter. there's been a lot of tumult, whether it's japan and the inability to get things rebuilt there, what's going on in europe. it's all having an impact. the debt ceiling debate seemed to hand

or the briefing room or the diplomatic reception room or some foyer over at the white house. i guess it's a beautiful day, sunny, and they just decided make it different. >> the optics. it looks more bright and sunny, exactly right. the president wants to have an upbeat spirit here. he is trying because the tools at his disposal, any president's disposal, are limited when it comes to fixing the economy. he's trying in some ways to help will it to get a little better. >> here he comes. the president of the united states. let's listen in and hear what he has to say. >> good afternoon, everybody. congress has now approved a compromise to reduce the deficit and avert a default that would have devastated our economy. it was a long and contentious debate and i want to thank the american people for keeping up the pressure on their elected officials to put politics aside and work together for the good of the country. this compromise guarantees more than $2 trillion in deficit reduction. it's an important first step to ensuring that as a nation, we live within our means. yet it also a

and now like from the white house. there seems to be a difference between democrats and republicans whether the agreement allows tax hikes in the future, right? >>reporter: the committee that jake was talking about is a joint congressional committee with six democrats and six republicans and it would require seven votes to approve a plan so while republicans say tax cuts are off the table, democrats say, not so fast. >> if they decide part of a balanced deal is to eliminate tax royalties for corporations or limit itemized deductions for high income earners, they can do that and they would raise revenues from doing that. >>reporter: republicans could put tax cuts off the table by refusing to name someone to their side the committee and denying democrats the 7th vote needed to pass the higher tax rate but if the committee reaches an impasse the president could veto the bush administration tax cut which will expire at the end of next year. >>shepard: liberal democrats do not seem to like this agreement any more than, well

house this is not something reported in mainstream media and came into the white house with a lot of wall street democrats as his advisors and they want to tighten down on social security and medicare the public doesn't but obama's advisors to. so interesting why did the corporate media go along with the g.o.p.'s narrative or perhaps the g.o.p.'s narrative and obama's the debt ceiling had anything to do with the budget. deficits why were they. why would they touch the notion of why wouldn't they touch the notion of this is a hostage taking it's. well again here what you have to understand about mainstream recorders is that they're not in the business like you are offering the big picture you know they don't step back and look down on the field and give the big facts what they do is they position themselves they position themselves equally distant between the elites of the two major parties and if the elites of the two major parties are yelling about the debt crisis and ignoring unemployment in the mainstream reporters loathe the elite parties and you know i wrote a column this week t

cnbc's chief white house correspondent john harwood joins us now. john, how closely do you think the white house is following today's performance by the dow? >> reporter: extremely closely and it's not -- it's the last thing that they wanted to happen. we were all talking, martin, about the possibility that the market would tank if we did not have a debt ceiling deal, if the country either defaulted or was teetering on the brink of default. and now what's happened is we got the deal but we also got the tank. this is very bad news for the administration. it exacerbates the feeling of anxiousness in the country about the state of the economy. jay carney, the white house press secretary, was peppered with questions at his briefing about this. any white house doesn't want to talk about the day-to-day or hour-to-hour movements in the market because they can't control them. but he pointed back to the economic fundamentals and the things that he hopes and that the president hopes the congress will do when they come back, extend the payroll tax cut, approve

joining me is julianna goldman, chief white house correspondent for bloomberg. i'm pleased to have her to give us an update of whatmeeting is . >> thanks for havingjfcharlie. >> rose: do welc<] the answer?t and bracketbuster talked about 4e$9Ñs, the economy, the long-tr long-term defici reduction. also]utk talked about the european debt career,egfefollowy in the stock market. the fed had yesterday said that it was going to keep rates at historic lowsá7p2013, so past ts re-election campaign. so the white house seems to be in some ways in reactivenow, the public schedule earlierwy1y tot mid-afternoon. >> rose: the white house thoughe agreement, the appointment of taside this talk about debt, leave it to the super committee, see what they did, and they could make a pivot to jobs, but they can't get away from the news of the market. >> no, that's right. and that's the biggest challenge for the president. really the challenge that has dogged him his entire presidency, which is on the o hand the need to be able to stimulate this economy, get this recovery moving,

the white house, as we said, needs some good news. it's not really surprising that mccain, graham, lieberman take this shot. they were to the right of president obama, to the right of congress in wanting intervention much sooner. but this, one big issue here for the president is the fact that the economy remains such a big problem. domestically, we know that just thigh months ago, bin laden was killed. that bounce didn't last very long. >> amazing. >> three months ago. >> right. >> people were proclaiming he was a shoe in for re-election. >> and now people are saying there's no chance he's going to be re-elected, right? so the truth is probably always somewhere in the middle. but the thing is, and look, his supporters are not really celebrateding this. one supporter said to me, look, this is a notch in his belt. it's another notch, but look, with the economy being what it is, that is going to determine what happens next year. >> and the president acknowledges that himself. the president onlies the focus is still on the economy. >> you