the clinton administration has recognized that. i have been a long critic of the clinton administration in a number of areas. in this area, the clinton administration has stepped up to the plate and supported absolutely everything that has to be done to see the olympics are put on in an appropriate way. the olympics games in salt lake city in 2002 are going to be fabulous. we have the best mountains, the best snow, the best facilities. it is going to be a fabulous experience for the entire world and all americans are going to be very proud of the job the salt lake olympics organizing committee will do in putting that on. but the organizing committee could not do it without the kind of support that has been provided by all but federal agencies who have been called upon in the various appropriation bills that have gone through. as a look to the future, and anticipate the possibility that at some point, some other american city will either gain the summer games or the winter games, we should put in place the recommendations of the gao

started in a serious way in the clinton administration. you know the two guys on the ends. the guy in the middle, you may not know, though he's actually a resident at the moment of this fair state. yes, folks, he's living in super max serving what was initially a 23-year federal prison sentence on terrorism charges, and this chap, the clinton administration thought fit to have create and select and train and credential chaplains for the united states military and the u.s. prison system. he's in prison. his chaplains i'm afraid are still at work which is kind of a problem. next slide. this is also kind of a problem. in 1998 that same fellow, a top muslim brotherhood figure, an al qaeda financier, latched up with a guy most of you know and think of as a great american conservative for his work on tax issues, grover norquist. he started with him something called the islamic free market institute. i happen to have tumbled upon this because i wound up renting space from grover norquist for seven long years and witnessed firsthand what i'm about to show you in terms of the influe

critique of the clinton administration the was called diplomacy by the cruise missiles, and that was his approach. i want to get to other questions that pakistan i actually agree with the substance of what you are saying. my chapter on bin laden in the book and i know the people have written about him i have a different slant of the account, which is -- it is more than a obama ll in it. the stories are correct. he was leading the administration's thinking on this. no one is focused on exactly how many choices obama meeting to say we don't care what pakistan by the pakistanis even if you told them for 30 minutes in advance the fear was a would be ticked off its more hawkish than bush in the go ahead the bush policy was to work with pakistan the plan in which obama was leading to take when a sample, one of the questions was what happens to counterfactual, what happens if the team gets surrounded. all of the military -- there's only a handful of people so sooner or later one of the original first solutions which called talk your way out meant the pakistanis have them. they are in prison

they will go back to the tax rates that occurred during the clinton administration before the bush tax rates went into effect, 2001 and 2003. they will go back up to 39.6% from 35 or 36% right now. so, he will say these people can afford it. they will pay a little bit more. but it's not going to necessarily undermine the economic recovery. republicans will say something very, very different. as you know, ashley, make the point that a lot of small business owners, they will be penalized for this during an economic recovery, as we have now you this is the worst time to raise taxes on anyone. the republicans say let's renew the bush tax cuts for another year and then starting in the course of this year, let's work to achieve broad tax reform. that's the way to do it, so this is an opening gambit in the battle is going to be rather intense, not only over the next four months but then in the lame duck session before the end of the year that follows. >> often, wolf, as you know well in a campaign season you get buzz lines and bumper sticker sayings and a lot of that has been class warfare. d

see, back during the final years of the clinton administration, the u.s. had a budget surplus. in the year 2000, the federal government took in $236 billion more than it spent. and the presidential election that year, then-texas governor george w. bush running against al gore pledged to give that money back to the taxpayers. >> we don't believe the surplus is the government's money. we know the surplus is the people's money and we're going to send some of that money back to the people who pay their bills. >> and send it back he did. when he became president, through temporary tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 known as the bush tax cuts. the first of those tax cuts were set to expire back in 2010 but the economy was still shaky back then, so vice president biden and senator mitch mcconnell struck a deal to extend them for two more years for everyone. now those tax cuts are set to expire again at the end of this year. it is part of the so-called fiscal cliff that economists are warning the u.s. could go over if congress doesn't deal with it. now, president obama says let's extend them fo

. >> juan: yeah, the clinton administration had large deficits. this is when the president said we need to behave normally, go shopping. >> dana: the tax cuts were done before that. >> eric: let's fast forward to what this means. where is harry reid? is he going to bring this to the floor? let's talk about options. where is claire mccaskill who will have a tough night missouri? is she for this? she was in favor of only above $1 million. now it's $250,000. more people get taxed. where is bill nelson? are they voting to raise taxes on this many more people? >> juan: what many more people? it's not that many more people. you are right. a split among democrats between $250,000 and million. republicans bring it up and you did -- >> kimberly: why are you punishing people? >> greg: one side of the mouth they say the tax cuts are bad, prolong the recession, so they are keeping 98% of them. the philosophy has more holes than gut -- [ inaudible ] the reason they are taxing 2% it's a political maneuver. to use a phrase, paying your fair share, we should tax

came in, the clinton administration did nothing in response to the attack, exceptac try to get k,out of office witht leaving any political baggage og the table. the bush administration came in with an attitude that the attack on uss cole was somewhat stale,t and if anything should have be done, it should have been done by the clinton administration,a or started, but they were forward looking, not backyard acting, and nothing happened.g it was a great deal source of frustration and crew that theren was d no response to 17 sailors killed. >> so much more to talk about, and so little time too do it. but we appreciate you coming in. we want to give you the information on the book signing. it is an hour, noon to 1:00 p.m: tejera damage foundation -- at the heritage foundation. are commander lippold will be there. it's my pleasure to meet you have. >> thank suyou for giving me the opportunity. [ crows cawing ] [ male announcer ] strange things happen in the black forest. [ metallic bell toll ] [ car speeding down the road, lightning strikes ] where things aren't always what they seem. [ wo

administration because he had arguments, so we know there were arguments about what the clinton administration was going to do by severing the ties with the aid to families with dependent children. but here's the point. the point you made so powerfully is the fact that there has not been a dependence established in the last several years, but there's been an escalation of numbers of people on the rows because there's been downgrade in the economy. >> what they are talking about is food stamps. we really shouldn't call it welfare. it's, you know, basically food stamps. because the economy, even if you're working, if you're not making enough to feed a family, and so democrats and republicans, by the way, bob dole was one of the biggest backers of the foot stamp program. they were the ones who got this through just to give people a little bit of a break, a little bit of help, so that's what's surging right now, and on the other dependency issues, what they are talking about, and looking back to 1962, that was before medicare and medicaid. if you got sick and didn't have money, you died. if you we

rips to shred popular ones put in place by bill clinton. >> obama administration is gutting welfare reform to claim the authority to waive work requirements. work requirements, of course, were the heart of the success of welfare reform passed in 1996. >> president clinton embraced republican ideas and worked with newt gingrich to pass awe a low in 1996, directing states to implement requirements that able-bodied adults should be required to work or prepare for work as a condition for receiving welfare assistance. it remains one of the most popular acts of the clinton administration, both because it was bipartisan and because it was successful. >> almost four decades prior to welfare reform we saw no significant decline in the roles. after welfare reform, we saw the roles drop in half. and child poverty reached an historic low. >> work requirements were not subject to waivers, the health and human services requirement claims it can issue waivers using other provisions of the welfare reform law. republicans are outraged. senator orrin hatch calls it, "an outright abuse of the federal

my sense is that in my lifetime it seems to really start with the clinton administration where it seem like the generation gap that preceded it was really coming to fruition with his presidency and from my observations it just seems like it's been getting worse and worse every cycle every election cycle and it seems like it's largely media driven the partisanship because all day every day we're exposed to talking heads on either side sort of demonizing the other side and it makes for good entertainment i enjoy it but i don't know that it's particularly conducive to a mature political process certainly you don't have to look far to see people yelling at each other from both sides we have this twenty four hour cable network driven culture that we live in and you're right it does sometimes make for good t.v. depending on how you define good i've let me ask you this what did you learn about conservatives anything that sort of changed do anyway. well i never really spent a lot of time among my conservative brethren. and what i discovered is i didn't know what the word was so i didn't say i

you know, if you look back to the clinton administration, we had a top marginal tax rate of 39.6%. that's higher than it is right now and yet we grew the economy. we reduced the federal deficit and we created 22 million new jobs. under the bush era, however, we've lowered the tax rate, the economy has begun to shrink and we had the wrors economic crisis since the great depression and what you're proposing and what mitt romney and the republicans are proposing, let's go right back to the failed economic policies of the past decade and let's ignore the history of the previous decade when we were actually making progress. it doesn't make sense. it doesn't add up. and that solution is not going to sell to the american people. >> so, chip, you know, you can argue with opinion. you can argue with philosophy, but numbers at least in my grammar school class, in math, that's the wonderful thing about a number. it is absolute here. again, 98% of americans would get this tax cut saving them $2200. 97% of small businesses would get this tax cut because most small businesses do not make over $2

robert reich was the secretary during the clinton administration and jared bernstein served with vice president biden. secretary, let me start with you before we get to the politics of it. explain to me the substance. what's going on? what's in the big picture? >> essentially, michael, unemployment stalled. the same as last month, but we also exceed that 80,000 jobs were created in june. that's nothing to crow about. the average monthly job growth of the last three months has been about 75,000 jobs. a substantial decline from the job numbers we saw in january, february and march. now, it's a similar slowdown to what we have seen in previous years. the hope, obviously, is that we get more job growth later in the year. that's a hope politically, but it's very hard to make good news out of today's job numbers. >> mr. bernstein, where is it headed? i think we're aware of the statistics that since world war ii, no president's been re-elected when the rate has been north of 7.4%. is it likely that 8.2 could get under 7.4 between now and november? >> absolutely not. you never know, but that

he was released in 1990 and became south africa's president in 1994 during bill clinton's administration. clinton visited mandela on tuesday. >> i saw in him something that i try not to lose in myself which is no matter how much responsibility he had, he remembered he was a person first. and then i learned a lot about living from him, about living with adversity, living with setbacks, living with disappointments and living without anger. >> in 2009 the united nations designated his birthday july 18 as nelson mandela international day. happy birthday to him. >> indeed. >>> michael phelps says the upcoming olympics will be his last but first he has to face off against a u.s. rival. >> we have the olympic duo in knoxville. >> reporter: michael fell:s is back in the water -- fell fell:s is back in the water. he has 16 medals, eight from the last summer olympics in beijing. >> the only thing i'm worried about is myself and preparing myself to go out and represent my country and step up wearing the stars and stripes and try and swim as fast as i can. >> reporter: but this time he finds himself

as a matter of fact, it happened in the clinton administration. that's where we increase production and in large part came from, but that wasn't entirely true because the american production of oil is coming from state and private land, not from federal land. federal land production the last two years is down under this administration. but it's because of principally north dakota and west texas we are founding more production. i think that is good, but should we ignore the potential resources we have on federal lands and not allow that tore produce our american energy? this amendment really does not help that process. all it does is add red tape to the process. so i urge a no vote on the amendment than i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from massachusetts. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it and the amendment is not agreed to. mr. markey: may i request the yeas and nays? the chair: pursuant to clau

the clinton administration recognized that. i've been a long critic in the clinton administration in a number of areas. in this area, i must say that the clinton administration has stepped up to the plate and supported absolutely everything that has to be done to see that the olympics are put on in an appropriate way. and i salute the people in the omb with whom we have worked, the people in the white house staff with whom we have worked, in a collaborative way to bring this all together and see that we will have a responsible olympic games. the olympic games in salt lake city in 2002 are going to be fabulous. we have the best mountains, the best snow, the best facilities, it's going to be a fabulous experience for the entire world and all americans are going to be very proud of the job that the salt lake olympic organizing committee will do in putting that on. but the salt lake organizing committee could not do it without the kind of support that has been provided by all of the federal agencies who have been called upon in the

he worked with the clinton administration on the welfare reforms that happened. >> i was governor along with tommy thompson and john english from michigan when we worked with the administration back when clinton was president to get the welfare reform passed to make it a focus on job training and work and we helped move millions of people off the welfare rolls into permanent employment. we reduced the cost of welfare and medicaid as a result of it. it was very successful. now we see this administration trying to gut it. i think it is illegal because it is in the law. i don't think they have a right to wave it. i know tommy thompson is saying he's thinking about suing over it. it is absolutely wrong and a move in the wrong direction. it is unfair to move from welfare to work not making people permanently dependent on the government welfare program. >> we will be hearing more about this one. in the meantime florida's republican governor rick scott weighing in on the issue saying the federal government taxpayers simply can't afford this. >> it is time to brew on this. last week we told you

pharmaceutical plant in the tower region was destroyed under the clinton administration there was never any apology. given on the part of the united states government for that aggressive military action the us has been a major encourage person a major state that has encouraged the partition of sudan for example the breakaway of south sudan was heavily encouraged by the united states in the state of israel so this is very clear that they have maintained a very aggressive and very hostile position towards some done a lot of it has to do with the way in which the sudanese oil industry a structure. many of the concessions for all approximately eighty percent had been controlled by the people's republic of china the u.s. as well as britain and other western countries have not been able to get into sudan and exploited or resources as they have and other african states so it's an economic crisis is also political pressure from outside of sudan as actually causing a lot of these internal problems that are going on inside the country many of these opposition parties have been around since the en

. >> i wouldn't single him out the administration, not just this administration, but even the clinton administration, they had part of the continuum of slowing deregulation and allowing the market to work with the oversight. i do think we've turned that corner and we're starting back for the right goal and would i like to see certain things? of course i would. that's my job to push but it doesn't mean that i'm ready that tim geithner has done his job. i think he has. i'll give him the grade of a b. i would like the grade of an a an "a," and he's capable of doing it. >> eliot: how do you get all these entities-- >> you have to get the elected president to appoint the right people. you need people who know the industry. you can't just pick anyone otherwise you have no regulation and they run roughshod on them. there are good people. from what i know of tim geithner he's one of them, who straddles that a little bit. there is some fair argument that overregulation is bad. so you have to work with any industry, i don't mean just the banks, but any industry that you regulate, you have to re

at the end of the day what happened was the clinton administration gave us a ten-year period before unlimited sugar could come in from mexico. that expired, that unlimited sugar provision expired about the same time as we did the '08 farm bill. we were concerned about a bunch of sugar coming in from mexico that we would screw up the system here in the united states. every other country in the world has support for the sugar program including mexico and including brazil, including all of the people that produce sugar. so it is not realistic for us to unilaterally disarm when everybody else is doing this. the industry in mexico, the government owns 20% of the industry, you know, and we have been able to deal with the mexican sugar that's been coming in. we're up to over a million pounds, tons of sugar coming in from mexico, but we have been able to deal with it and operated at no costs and haven't had to use the feed stock flexibility, so it worked, but we're not sure the mexican government is kind of screwed up and the industry has kind of screwed up, and they're trying to get better. they hav

administration and the paper's metropolitan area coverage. he returned to reporting in 2005 and began covering the court in 2006. next to him is jesse hollins with associated press he began covering the court for the ap in april of 2007. he has been with them since 1995 previously covering legal affairs and judicial nominations at the white house and on capitol hill. before that covering state capitals in new york, south carolina and other states. his book is black men built the capital, covering african-american history in and around washington, d.c. published in 2007 and today is his wedding anniversary, happy anniversary, jesse. we offered to comp his wife, but he had to work. at the far end having arrived in the knick of time is covering the supreme court for reuters. she covered since 1989. previously at "usa today" and before that covering the supreme court for "the washington post." and before that as a legal affairs writer for congressional quarterly. along the way, she earned her law degree at georgetown law school. joan specializes

administration that's right you know the commodity futures modernization act which came about the year before and was pushed really hard by senator phil gramm whose wife wendy gramm was on the board of enron and he put a nice little enron loophole in there there's there's a lot of blame to go around i found very interesting about the occupy movement is how many of those taking part in demos and stuff are aware of the financial influence the corporations and the banks the u.s. have on u.s. politics they know the amount of financial contributions and donations that are being made to every u.s. alexis social all the way to the top all the way to u.s. president barack obama. is that the biggest hurdle for this movement to really overcome because if you have corporations that are so powerful and giving so much money to the people in the united states that are governing and making the decisions and writing the laws how do you change the system i think i think you're right i think that is the biggest hurdle i think there if there is one general theme that unites all of occupy it is that money