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the next hour i'll be joined by former white house chief of staff bill daley. then at noon, brian takes up the seats on capitol hill. their lineup kicks off with patrick mchenry from north carolina. i want to bring in my co-anchors back at the new york stock exchange. >> and jim, it's remarkable to watch the markets, at least in today's sessions, all three major averages are higher. dow higher by 91 points, nasdaq helped by the big mood we're seeing in apple today, up by more than 1%. jim, i was talking to edgar denny yesterday on fast, and he said, we have a deal, a fiscal cliff deal, and bob pisani was delivering a talk on the floor. a deal would signal the start of american austerity. what's your take? >> no, we get a deal going, look out above. i think there's lots of ceos i talked to who want so much. they want to bring money back here higher. this is the cheapest place to build and hire people in the world. but they're just not sure exactly how much they're going to have to spend because of the government. that's the impediment. these guys want to built h

daley, the chief of staff, hadn't asked her permission to allow bowlen to see the president. suddenly with her power of control was challenged, it was at that point that daly started to lose his power in the white house and eventually he realized he couldn't get things done and he resigned. >> host: what is or was valerie jerrod's relationship with rahm emanuel in the white house? >> guest: not a good one. to this day rahm emanuel does not have good things to say about valerie jerrod. he was opposed to the president, not only my reporting but other people's reporting as well, the president going for broke on obamacare. he thought he should do incremental steps first, small steps, popular steps that he could get republicans back and forth. valerie jarrett and michele obama were the two people who said listen, mr. president, valerie calls him barack, the only person in the white house other than michele who does, you were elected to be not just president but to be a special president, a transformational president, a person who is going to change the direction and course of amer

i did and bill daley met him. he said, i made my decision. we're going to go with the raid. write up the orders. >> at that point, what do you do? >> i returned to my office, drafted the orders and signed them. >> how was it operationalized? >> we developed prior to that, literally, a playbook of every step that would have to be taken from the point that the president made a decision and we began to implement that. we came into the office on sunday morning and began a 10 1/2-hour principals meeting. >> continuous. >> yes. >> you were watching the operation. >> yes. >> when the meeting began, how nervous were you? >> i don't know if it was nervous. focused i think is the better way to describe it. >> were there drops when the helicopter malfunctioned? >> yes, okay. the tail hit the wall and promptly came offnd it had a hard landing. but contingencies were planned for including that contingency. the operation went forward without missing a beat. >> when did you breathe a sigh of relief? at what point did you know the mission was successful? >> no one breathed a sigh of relief

daley met him and he turned to us and said i made my decision, we're going to go with a raid. write up the orders. >> what do you do? >> i returned to my office and drafted the orders and signed them. >> and then how was it operationalized? >> we had developed prior to that literally a playbook of every step that would have to be taken from the point that the president made the decision and we began to implement that. we came into the office on sunday morning and we began a 10 1/2 hour principals committee meeting. >> 10 1/2 hours continuous? >> yes. >> and you were watching that? >> yes. >> when it began, how nervous were you? >> focused is a better way to describe it. >> were there any drops in mood when that helicopter malfunctioned? >> yes, of course. yeah, a helicopter did malfunction and a tail hit the wall and it had a hard landing. but contingencies had been planned for including that and the operation went forward without missing a beat. >> when did you breathe a sigh of relief. at what point did you know that the mission was completely successful? >> nobody breathed

bill daley is back with me. the fbi is now assisting the local on enforcement with this for the white house. what did you pick up on a? >> as much as we'd all like to get more information with details, i think the way they approach this is not to be too much ahead of the curve. to notify the next of kin, understand what is happening before they say anything. from our standpoint, we are wondering what else is going on. it is quite inspiring that within a few hours, but they move very quickly on a number of different fronts. they're probably getting subpoenas. the fbi is insisting that local law enforcement goes across state lines. in an effort to get more information about this individual, or another individual that they are questioning. the lieutenant who was speaking, it may not mean that it is certainly -- you know, a fact -- but he did not say that they confronted the gunman when going into school. so suggesting that the gunman was already deceased when he went into the school. as he went through his walk-thr

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for every an hour -- >> it is no bill daley and al gore. >> it was going to that. they even drafted a speech for paul ryan to give down at the podium saying folks, go home, we'll see you tomorrow morning. they were nearing that. what happened was they got portman on the phone, senator portman from ohio on the phone. he says the provisionals region gnt to go our way, first of all of. second, we're going to know the results in hamilton county and everywhere else in a matter of minutes or an hour or so. let's not have paul go down there. >> now let's talk about what happened on the obama side of things. one person -- you guys wrote about this -- valley jarrett. what was her role in the campaign or not? she traveled with the president quite a bit. you guys implied maybe she was -- had been pushed out of the inner circle? >> after the president's performance in denver and widely panned, she was fiercely critical of the staff for not preparing president obama in her eyes for that first debate. what we found out is that it was basically created a sort of bad vibe, that th

daley was on the panel. and he spoke after me. and he started his talk by saying, you know, actually, i guess it is okay to talk about income inequality. it's not class war to talk about it. and i said, yes, mr. daley, that's right. it is okay. so what are the drivers? what is causing this really, really big gap? now, here, um, you know, rather obviously the people who are most interested in talking about income inequality tend to be on the left. and the left really likes to talk about the political drivers. so the left likes to talk about how taxes have fallen, how the culture has become much more open to really high ceo company saying than it used to be, decroon in the -- decline in the rights of unions, deregulation, and all of those things are factors. but i think it's a real mistake to ignore the economic drivers as well. and i think there are very, very powerful, underlying economic drivers, and those are pretty obvious; globalization, the technology revolution. and one reason i think that it's really

i also served in the commerce department for secretary bill daley during the clinton administration and got to see just how effective business leaders could be if you make it easy for them. host: also the communications team for the clinton-gore reelection team. let me find out what members say about the jobless rate. here is "the washington post." it is less than clear that the same can be said about the -- republicans have pointed to a shrinking rate. the president put the proposal is $50 billion more in stimulus funding. how do the ceo's in your group characterized stimulus funding? guest: it is interesting. there are a large funders, and then there are the business owners from small companies. what we have noticed in 3.5 years is that most business leaders, when they think about the stimulus they assume it was a $1 trillion investment in bridges and light rail. what they do not always know is that about one-third of it in terms of tax relief, was direct aid to states and support for first responders in teachers. -- and teachers. so, there is a lot of misinformation out there about t

i also served in the commerce department for secretary bill daley during the clinton administration and got to see just how effective business leaders could be if you make it easy for them. host: also the communications team for the clinton-gore reelection team. let me find out what members say about the jobless rate. here is "the washington post." it is less than clear that the same can be said about the -- republicans have pointed to a shrinking rate. the president put the proposal is $50 billion more in stimulus funding. how do the ceo's in your group characterized stimulus funding? guest: it is interesting. there are a large funders, and then there are the business owners from small companies. what we have noticed in 3.5 years is that most business leaders, when they think about the stimulus they assume it was a $1 trillion investment in bridges and light rail. what they do not always know is that about one-third of it in terms of tax relief, was direct aid to states and support for first responders in teachers. -- and teachers. so, there is a lot of misinformation out there about t

bill daley. we really try to work through how to raise enough revenue to hit the simpson-bowles target. we calculated that to be about 1.8 trillion dollars over 10 years. and that is a little bit higher than the president and higher than the republican offer. we did that by removing the -- we eliminated unjustifiable loopholes. we have restored the top rate to 39.6%. there is a lot of debate. our judgment was that we needed that rate in order to have income. it is incumbent upon other people to come forward and show how they can get this that is necessary to deal with our fiscal problem and be specific about how they would take that loophole out of the system and how much that would hit the middle class. over all, the plan tries to protect people in the middle. it is an important contribution to tax reform going forward. we do not anticipate that we will have a full-blown tax proposal, but hopefully the parameters of real budget deal will get to that $4 trillion mark that includes significant tax

when valerie jarrett heard about it she went ballistic but bill bailey, the chief of staff had asked for permission to allow dolan to see the president. so suddenly her power and control was challenged. it was at that point that daley started to lose his power in the white house and eventually he realized he couldn't get things done. >> what is or was valerie jarrett's relationship with the rahm emanuel in the white house? >> not a good one. to this day rahm emanuel does not have good things to say about valerie jarrett. emanuel was opposed to the president -- and this is not only in my reporting but other people's reporting as well, the president going more broke on obamacare. he thought he should do incremental steps first, small steps, popular steps that could get republican backing for it. valerie jarrett and michelle obama were the two people who said listen mr. president, actually valerie calls and barack. the only person in the white house other than michelle who does. you were elected to be not just president but to be a special president, a transformational president, a pers