tony, bill clinton said this. he said there's tho evidence anywhere in the world of a successful country that has such a bitter antigovernment philosophy like the republicans do right now. especially rick perry. he says it's hypocritical of perry that countries have benefitted from those government jobs and aid to texas over the past few years. does bill clinton have a point? >> it's great to see bill clinton out there campaigning again. he's conveniently forgotten there was once a candidate called ronald reagan, i worked on the 1980 campaign, who said government isn't the solution, it's the problem. he had a pretty successful eight years in the presidency. fakihture in ''79 ran, a decade of very successful governance and bill clinton was mischaracterizing the debate we had in august, the republicans were to a person the leadership boehner, mcconnell. were saying that we were not going to let a default happen. it was in fact, the secretary of the treasury warning the world there might be a default. i think preside

was bill clinton did want to see osama bin laden dead. he was rooting for the saudis and the cia and folks at the cia were impressed with his willingness to assassinate osama bin laden. but they were surprised to discover many people around the president were reluctant and frightened at the prospect and george tenet in particular because of the cia would come up with capture or kill operations for osama bin laden and this seriously these projects would disappear from the screen and they would learn later had to do with george tenet calling off the operation. >> host: the discussion about what bill clinton was able to do or not able to do there was clear confusion the commission had about whether clinton had at some point ordered the issue to kill bin laden and there was question that the record eventually made clear he had but that kill order came with a footnote. can you spell out what that footnote was? who was going to be -- >> guest: it does appear in december of 1988 on christmas eve bill clinton essentially signed osama bin laden's

chris christie and bill clinton. joining us now from grand rapids, michigan to explain the purveyor of dick morris.com. mr. morris. you heard the christie debate. what say you? do you think he is going to run? >> no, i don't think he is going to run. i'm sick and tired of his teasing the united states. i think that he should either cut bait or fish. put up or shut up. stop this bs of waltzing around the issue and being so could you tell use in his denials and get up there and say if nominated i refuse to run. if elected i refuse to serve. sermon. >> bill: does he hurt the republican party by the dance. >> yes. candidates can't raise money people are not focusing on the message enough. people are rooting on the man that isn't there. this entire nominating race has been overshadowed by people who self-indulgently floated their name adulation and then said ooh no thanks. we had three months of donald trump. we had one month of mitch daniels. we had mike huckabee. we have sarah palin running all over the country in buses

bill clinton was elected. bill clinton, because of the whole ross perot thing, bill clinton was elected with only 43% of the vote. not exactly starting from a position of strength for that new democratic president. and then when the first midterm elections came around in 1994, two years later, president clinton's hand grew weaker. republicans picked up 54 seats in that midterm election. they took control of the house for the first time since 1954. and right after that midterm election, magazine covers like this one started gracing the nation's newsstands. in case that's not subtle enough. i'll never let you live this down, "time" magazine. see what's being crushed under the elephant's foot? the donkey with the eyeballs squirting out of the donkey's head. the eyeballs have to be extended out of the donkey's skull. really. what's holding the eyeballs in? really, "time" magazine? in the wake of the results in 1994 it did not look like the clinton presidency was longed for this world. it turned out, it turned out

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there's no one better at that than bill clinton. president obama has shown one weakness throughout his time in national life is he has not been a great explainer in chief about the new economy and how his policies will actually make things come about. it's the same on this jobs bill. if you break it down, the individual elements are popular in most cases. it doesn't have, though, the public support it would need and the congressional support it would need if the president could explain this is why this will work. he does not have, the polls show, credibility on that. >> helene, is there a broader vision for the economy that the president goes out and runs on? >> i think there is. and he's -- he's put that out there with his jobs proposal. he said, these are the things, i think, we need to do. but he's very much hampered by the political reality of where we are right now. that said, i wouldn't -- i was out on the campaign -- not the campaign trail. that's a very -- but i was out with him this week as he went to try to pass his jobs b

former president bill clinton stating that he will work with house speaker john boehner and they both have agreed to do a bipartisan event to help raise additional 10 million dollars needed to pay for the rest of the flight 93 national memorial. thank you for your reporting from that occasion that's taken place there that reminds us all of the bravery and courage of all of the 40 passengers aboard flight 93. >> and by the way, that website, when they're still looking for donation, honorflight93.org. they need another 10 million dollars to finish this tribute to these 40 american civilian heroes. in the meantime, washington and new york city on high alert, let's look now at the scene in new york. police clearly more visibility just about everywhere you look on the streets at popular tourist spots and on the subways and the rail systems. this, as the government is hunting for three potential suspects who may have been sent by al-qaeda to set off a car bomb in d.c. or new york. so, what are we to make of all of this? let's bring in fox news middle east and terrorism analyst, the author o

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and with bill clinton it was a similar deal. september, the september prior to the election, 14 months earlier, 34%. flash forward to the election, it's up to 54%. president obama's numbers are in the low 40s, some high 30s depending on who you ask. could he do it? could he do the same thing? >> i mean, anything can happen between now and november of 2012, but when you look at those two presidents, my father and bill clinton, ronald reagan stayed the course with lower taxes, less regulations, and the economy came back. he knew it would because of the history of this country. what it's done before, whether it was the '20s, the '60s or what have you. bill clinton, the reason it turned around for him was he looked at the election of 1994, newt gingrich took over as speaker of the house, republicans took the congress, and bill clinton finally on the seventh try came to newt gingrich and decided to sign a balanced budget. he also reformed welfare. so he came to the republicans' side. he went up in thels and won re-election mightily.

bill clinton is here today, and george w. bush and vice president biden, who is much a pennsylvaniaen, as well. >> that sense of unity is going to be back here today and throughout the country tomorrow and one hopes that it lasts, particularly given the stakes that we're facing, whether it's the economy or the fact that we're still at war in two different spots. >> i don't think either party anymore is the hawk party or the dove party. we're all trying to figure out things right now. a lot of republicans are saying we should stop these what they call adventures. so we're having an interesting debate about how to end these wars in afghanistan and iraq. we're on a very muddy field. everyone here has sloshy boots on. this is a day where people have to go through some effort to honor these people. we're in a field, once it was part of a strip mine and covered over. we're look t a couple of tents behind us. we've got two former presidents and the vice president here, and this is an iconic event today and our enemies love to hit ic

reagan never lost it and obama never had it. >> bill clinton, peter alexander, bill clinton was the dream candidate for wall street. he sees most republicans too extreme on social issues. bill clinton could always keep that balance. we talked yesterday with what it was between the republican congress and president obama, the time and place of the speech, there's no fear to stand-up to the president. president reagan changed the way we thought of ourselves. i think, if you cut back to 2008, everybody in this country anticipated, not everybody, but a large population across the board that president obama would have that same success in changing how we think of ourselves. >> he said that. >> because it's failed to happen, i think it's created a deeper cabin to crawl out to, you know, the higher standard for the next candidate. >> that's one of the thing that is concerned me. i have a lot of problems with the president's domestic programs, from the beginning because of a small democrat. there were so many people that were excited about this president, about this man, about the belief that was

so, of course against bill clinton, bill clinton could talk for two and a half hours on any given question, but in order to get that, clinton also wanted a town hall thing. so they swapped, the negotiators swapped come he got what he wanted which was short answers on some of the debates, and in exchange for clinton's people getting what clinton wanted which was a town hall d date for the first time, and everything about the size of the holding rooms are, everything about it is negotiated. >> host: including moderator. and that may as you deposit that may be why they ended up with a single moderator because they couldn't agree on anybody other than you. >> guest: this is not false modesty. it is just the truth that a couple of times i ended up moderating the debates is that they could not agree on anybody else and they could agree on me and they threw up their hands. >> host: because politically this person said some things. >> guest: or they were looking for an advantage. the are always looking for an advantage and one side fought well this would be a disadvantage. this person for whatever

you saw that with bill clinton and al gore in 1992. it depends whether rick perry goes tea party or someone from the north to help him give geographical and idealogical balance? >> mark murray, we don't want to cut into chuck todd's time. i appreciate you. >> i'm craig melvin. cha chuck todd is in for andrea. >> you could have cut into my time. up next we have john boehner set to call on the super committee to reconsider broad tax reform.

when bill clinton comes in, the effort is expanded to include nation building. i do think you can see some patterns there. george w. bush came in with a clear stance against nation building, which i think influenced the decisions he made in terms of appointments appointing donald rumsfeld and rice saying we don't need the 82 nd airborne taking kids to school. the shock and awe, surgical strike getting rid of saddam, but no intention to remake domestic institutions in iraq in the beginning. the ideas that we're going to take off the head, but leave the body in place, and the institutions are going to hold. it's, of course, later on when paul brenner arrives, there's a much more transformative goal and the goal of rebuilding iraq from the ground up becomes u.s. policy, but the fact that's not the way the united states went in has profound consequences for the next couple of years as the u.s. struggles to catch up with the new policy and build the resources to do it. it's not until 2006 that we get a real strategy for clear hold and build and so forth in iraq. obam

and what you have is bill clinton speaking the truth about it. president obama wants a populous talking point he doesn't want a plan that is actually going to pass congress, even senate democrats don't like this. all he has is a talking point, it doesn't make any substantive sense. megyn: you know, in a way he sounded familiar to me to president obama not long ago, simon, because president obama ten months ago was saying we shouldn't raise taxes in the middle of a recession. now he also believes that we need to spend more, and president clinton was saying, don't raise taxes and spend more keep money bumping into the economy. now president obama has reversed himself saying, well we can tax more khropbgs you spend the money. >> i think the circumstances have changed. in the beginning of the year after two years and there was a successful sometime plus plan and the quantitative easing of the fed things were getting better. when we removed the fiscal stimulus and the quantitative easing it didn't work. the president is saying we can't afford to go ba

bill clinton, you know, there was a period there where bill clinton, most of the summer of 1992, was running third behind president george h.w. bush and perot, and then perot dropped out of the race for a while, and then bill clinton picked al gore. they had the most unified democratic convention in my lifetime. clinton emerges from that in the number one spot and i don't know that bill clinton has ever trade a republican in a head-to-head poll since then. >> ifill: all thanks to the guy who lost. let's go back, richard. would any of these losers have made good presidents? >> oh, a number of them. i think henry clay maybe of may be the best president we never had. >> ifill: how is that? >> well, abraham lincoln said he was by ideal of a statesman. he was a constructive force. first part of the 19th century, he's the bridge between alexander hamilton and abraham lincoln. the idea that government had a significant role to pli. i mean, it's curious, conservatives in the 19th century, believed in using government as an agent of capitalist development. >> ifill: not so much now. >> absolu

actually, bill clinton's not the only one commenting on cheney these day. last week, presidential candidate and texas u.s. congressman ron paul called cheney a dictator. >> when he says he'll support all republicans except some, like myself, which means that he wants to be the dictator, and say, i will decide who is a true republican or not. and i say, he doesn't have that authority. the people have this authority. >> how can you not like ron paul? cheney was wrong about iraq, ron paul was right, and that's the record that counts. and finally, the man who keeps dipping his toes in the presidential waters, or teasing he might, donald trump has another meeting with a republican hopeful next week. trump already met with rick perry and earlier this year had a pizza dinner with sarah palin. well, next week it's mitt romney. but not surprisingly, trump's office is still leaving the door up for mr. drump to run in the race himself. his spokesman says, "if mr. trump is not satisfied with who the republican candidate is next june, he will potentially reenter the pre

bill clinton said exactly the same thing in different words, that they feel that makes them not only better candidates but better candidates because it forces them finally in those last few weeks before the election to be able not only to decide what they really believe, but to people to articulate so they see it in a positive way both george w. bush and bill clinton. >> host: you wrote and i'm going to quote your book each participant remembers the performance as a prism, emotional as well as political. is there any debate performance either there's or yours that sort of sticks out in your mind? >> guest: sure. here one of the problems sitting so close, and remember it's all about television. this is for the millions of people watching on television. it isn't a studio program. this isn't a pep rally for the opposing candidates or any of that and it isn't even an interview program. the purpose of the debate is not to show how terrific the moderator is. >> host: how much you know. >> guest: how much i know and he or she is in responding to all of that. and i, for instance, to answer y

for instance, one debate was a three-person debate with bill clinton and ross perot, and when he looked at his watch, famous moment, and so they are all over me. it has nothing to do with issues, nothing to do with whatever, but he said in the interview with me. i said why did you look at your watch? he said, i i looked at the watch because it was boring me, yeah, i was looking to see when it was going to be over, but see, those kinds of things to the audience say, you know, it leaves and impression, and it's a language impression, but it's a body language impression rather than a spoken word impression, so and so from george h. w. bush's point of view, he thinks it's ridiculous to have so much riding on these two or three 90 minute exchanges in a presidential debate. >> host: you know, his son though, as you pointed out in the book, feels exactly the opposite. >> guest: absolutely. he thinks it's terrific. he and bill clinton said the same thing with different words that it makes them not only better candidates, but better presidents and it forces them finally in the last few weeks of

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never talked to me bill clinton. hillary has not him. what's the. >> major force. has billions of dollars. they have done a tremendous amount of work in haiti and overseas. >> bill: trying to help poor people. >> all around the world in desperate situations after earthquakes and tsunamis and haiti. they have done tremendous amount of work. >> bill: not sure about the haitian deal as we reported a lot of the money there is gone missing. all right. tony bennett. are you a big tony bennett fan. >> i love tony bennett. >> bill: he goes on the howard stern radio program. roll the tape. what do you do do with these terrorists that blew up the world trade center. >> if don't have weapons they don't make them themselves. >> who are the terrorists? are we the terrorists or they the terrorists? two wrongs don't make a right. >> they are the ones that started flying that plane into the world trade center. >> i don't know about that. >> you don't think so. >> it's another story. i want to stay. >> are you one of those conspiracy guys who thinks they didn't fly the plane. >> in

. >> jon: (as bill clinton) i mean, it's nobody's business where you're sticking it, right? (laughter) i mean, who are we to judge, you know? >> jon. >> jon: (as b.c.) jon? >> emmy? >> jon: did sunday night mean nothing to you? (cheers and applause) it was a wonderful evening, it meant a lot to me. >> here we are not 48 hours late we are a reheated clinton joke that would have been a stale leftover in 2000. (laughter) (laughter) >> jon: i guess you're right. but, you know, you only have to submit one episode so it's not like... >> i should have slept with colbert when i had the chance. (laughter) >> jon: i beat you to that, too, huh? >> you monster! >> jon: of course the real concern with repealing "don't ask, don't tell" was how it would encourage immorality and indecency and not a day after its repeal we already see the types of people that now feel free to flaunt their life-style. >> one soldier who had been post-ing anonymous videos about his experience under "don't ask, don't tell" called his father just hours after the repeal. >> hello? >> hey, daddy. >> hey, bud! >> c

emanuel cleaver said if bill clinton had been in the white house and failed to address this problem we would be marching on the white house there's a less volatile reaction because nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president. james carville. mark penn. senate democrats saying no to the so-called jobs bills. it seems like defections are en masse. >> instead of them arguing what is not working now they are going to play the race card that's a racist comment if that was a white house conservative in the white house -- >> sean: or democrat for saying bill clinton. >> absolutely. they would be screaming racism because they are doing policies tar harming black americans. >> sean: why didn't the president when the congressman andre carson, when he said tea party members want black people hanging from trees in america. why didn't the president say stop it. instead his answer was we are not going to be the speech police. >> why didn't he. you didn't hear anything from jesse jackson, al sharpton, not that you would. you didn't hear from the black caucus membe

when bill clinton was president, we had the highest tax rate of 39%. we grew 3.8%. six -- since the clinton, we have had the tax rate lower. our growth has been 0.4%. those are the facts. if you raise taxes on job creators you're going to kill the economy, we can debate whether bill clinton's tax increase did anything to stimulate the economy or not. but it sure as heck did not kill job creation. it was the best job creation. in the last 50 years. the republicans, it is going to kill the economy. we're going to have a major recession. >> one second. say let meallowed to correct you and redefine the term. i said the marginal tax rate is 35%. you talked about the effective tax rate. >> that is what they pay. i am talking about what check the companies gives. come on, admit it. be honest. they do not take a 35%. -- pay 35%. >> i assume you understand the difference between a marginal tax rate and when a company earns an extra dollar they make decisions. the whole story that you cannot drown costing -- crossing a river of to introduce -- two inches is not interesting. >

clinton and that encourages grocery stores to donate food and it protects them from being sued so i'm just asking him to consider moving trader joe's into the next step of simply not wasting as much food and getting it to people who need it i figured the c.e.o. of trader joe's probably wouldn't get back to me after one letter so i've decided to send him. a letter a day for the next month a letter went out to t.j. c.e.o. dan bain every morning and we continue diving as normal time passed dumpsters swelled with food and then suddenly the landscape changed we began seeing more people at the dumpsters not your typical diverse people that seem to need the food a lot more than we did. as i waited to hear back from trader joe's about all the food in their trash cans the world spiraled into a food crisis a kid. again he claimed. to be. coming. to. shoot to. paint. seems to be. a slant. or. to. close. to. the edge. after sending letters for two weeks i got a call from the trader joe's headquarters allison from public relations asked me to stop sending letters and to please stop bothering them

bush and bill clinton along with vice president joe biden were there today to dedicate a memorial. president obama has declared this weekend national days of prayers and remembrance. he and the first lady spent time today at arlington national cemetery and visited a section for u.s. troops killed in afghanistan and iraq. a short distance away at the pentagon, former president bush and his wife laid a wreath of flowers at the site known as the 9/11 stone. 184 people died at the pentagon on 9/11 when american airlines flight 77 smashed into the building. ♪ at st. patrick's day cathedral a service was held for the 343 new york city firefighters who lost their lives at the world trade center when the twin towers collapsed. ground zero where the twin towers once stood high above the skyline is now a large memorial plaza. homeland security secretary janet napolitano walked through it today ahead of tomorrow's formal dedication. >>> let's go right now to today's dedication ceremony in shanksville, pennsylvania. cnn's david mattingly joins us live from that site. david, you were there te

it doesn't take much from bill clinton. all it takes is once impulse and the guy can move mountains. you've been trying to raise money for that incredible memorial out there, it's way out in the middle of really nowhere. there's nothing else around. a former strip mine, filled in now. it's an open field, basically. and it's where that plane crashed, where those 40 people stood up against terrorism. the first americans really to know what was going on on 9/11 and went out there, defiantly and at the risk and ultimately at the loss of their lives, really challenged the bad guys. michael, your thoughts. you have a lot invested in this. >> it's a 2,200-acre site, as you mentioned, a former strip mine. there were initially some problems, chris, in pulling together the parcels, because many of them were in private hands and people were anxious to get top dollar. but in the end, the park service, i think, has done a terrific job. and what's amazing is that 130,000 people have been showing up annually when, frankly, there's not muc

bill clinton was an incredible candidate. he was a master campaigner. and he raised significant amount of money to win. there have been very few people on the political scene in my lifetime that have been as good as he is. >> skip, when the 25th reunion comes around, five years from now, is there another clinton that's going to be running for president? >> i don't know. but i think she certainly has been a great secretary of state. i'm wearing a bow tie today, chuck, that commemorates the dedication of a pedestrian bridge. bill clinton's presidency was a great time for the economy and hillary clinton, i think, will go down in history as one of the finest, maybe the most effective secretaries of state of all time. >> all right. skip rutherford dean at the university of arkansas clinton school. and a close friend of the clintons for years. back before it was cool to say you were an f.o.b. good to see you, sir. >> thanks, chuck. >> okay. >>> we'll check on what's moving wall street next. it is a tumultuous end to the third quarter there. could angela merke