whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. i very much appreciate my friend, the senator from alaska's remarks. this is truly a bipartisan concern. there are senators on both sides who feel very aggrieved by what took place -- senators from alaska and maine on the two sides of the country and a great number of us. the sheet that rests on the front table during the votes to make sure that people coming in know what the measure is that we're looking at describes the last vote as passage of h.r. 152, the disaster relief appropriations act of 2013. not the sandy relief appropriations act of 2013 but the disaster relief are appropriations act. well, we've had disaster. we didn't make this up. this wang something that got -- this wasn't something that got snuck into the bill or that we tried to do an army on. the -- an earmark on. the governors of rhode island, of mas massachusetts, of maine,f new hampshire, of new york, o sx governors petitioned for disaster declaration. they got one. the secretary of commerce declared the new engl

todaythe president named four women to serl senior whitehouse post. this includes prosecutor lisa monaco who will be the whitehouse homeland security advisor. critics say he needs to do more. >> i think that the words that the president said in the inaugural were not empty words. we intend to fight for it. there's no reason for this to be held up. >> the presidential spokesman said the president's record has been pro women's issues. thereare issues that the president can push now. a second bill would require paid sick days and family medical leave to benefit working women. >> in one minute, your gatorade will no longer be fireproof. coming up, what the makers are taking out of the drink. >> it is 7 degrees in manchester. a big warm up on the wa . . >> and should you pay your doctor just to be a-their patient? we'll tell you about a trend in medicine that may get your own doctor to give you a doctor on call. . >> in health news tonight, work stress getting to you and your family, make -- maybe it's time to let it out with a good laugh. researchers at t

the whitehouse is planning a big push on immigration. give us an out line of what you're thinking about here. >> the time is now. we can't wait another political season to pass comprehensive immigration reform. this isn't just a moral it's an economic imperative. if we bring these people, 11 million people from out of the dark and into the light it's about a $1.5 trillion impact on the u.s. economy. the dreamers alone is dollars 129 billion impact. we can't do this piecemeal. this has to be a pathway to full citizenship. >> schieffer: what do you want to see happen. and did you get an advance peak at what the president's going to present here? >> i did get to talk to him a bit but i'll let him make that presentation. >> schieffer: what do you want to see happen? >> well, what i just outlined. >> schieffer: what are the most important things. to pass the citizenship but how do you get that. >> well, you get it, obviously you have to have that pathway that allows folks to become full citizens. make sure that you get at the end of the line,

whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. i have the greatest respect for the senator from wyoming and considerable affection. indeed, he is my ranking member on the help committee, and he has been kind enough to offer his perspective on this question of the rules change. i'll reciprocate by offering my perspective. we were in the caucus the other day, and our leader reported that during the time that lyndon johnson was the majority leader, which was a very active and disputacous time in the senate, he faced one filibuster and leader reid said he faced 91, i think he used. the senator from wyoming correctly points out that filling the tree is a challenge to the minority, but i believe, if i recall correctly -- i was planning to speak on something else, so i don't have the numbers exactly accurate at hand. i believe the number of times the tree has been filled is something like 70. there's a huge disparity between the number of times the majority leader has filled the tree and the number of times he's been forced to file clotu

. >> when you party late at the whitehouse whitehouse, you know, those guests who don't leave and you are trying to shoo them out the door, secret service could kick you out. >> they didn't have that problem. i can tell you from personal experience. >> and lady gaga has been dethroned as the most followed person on twitter. >> is that the thing. >> the pope eater? >> he is not in the top 10, bill. justin beiber is now the most followed person on twitter. >> after he mooned. >> 33 million,333,000 followers as of yesterday. only about 4,000 more than lady gaga and barack obama in number 5. hilda solis is still the secretary. a lot of friends of hers, a lot of her labor friends gathered to celebrate her tenure. she has done a great job as labor secretary. she has certainly been good to us. she has been in studio once a month every day monday after the job numbers came out, she was here, and i had a photo, i had a chance to have a good conversation with her and with secretary of transportation ray lahood and tweeted those pictures out yesterday. sign up to follow up on twitter @bpshow. >>

and so you have this perceived pressure on the part feeling pressure in the whitehouse and you have department of defenses trying to do a mission as they understand they've been given in trying to have the necessary resources. i don't think there was anybody trying to do their own thing. i don't think there was any ill intent, but it was natural pressure. then you had the added difference in cultures. and it takes a while to build trust. you think a new team is put together, an administration's a new team. not only is the new team on the field but within that team, they figure out the roles. then you have the integration between department of defense and the military services. and a new administration, which always takes time. so all of these things came together and they put pressure that made it hard. >> rose: you had also the same secretary of defense extending for another year bob gates. >> this was very helpful. secretary gates was able to work through a lot of this and make it more functional but it was still hard. >> rose: you recommended how many troops. what was the nature of the reco

. >> tonight senator sheldon whitehouse on today's dramatic day of testimony. plus, dan gross of the brady campaign on the heroes fighting for gun safety and the villains who want to keep it the way it is. >>> the republican obsession with european austerity. kneecap the nation's economy. david cay johnston on today's troubling gdp report. >>> bobby jindal breaks his own rule. >> we've got to stop being the stupid party. >> find out how the poor in his state are about to start suffering on friday. >>> and brand-new polling proves again that we're living in a center-left country. tonight i'll tell you why it's up to one person to keep it that way. good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. an emotional scene on capitol hill today. former congresswoman gabrielle giffords returned to congress for a senate hearing on gun violence. two years ago, giffords was shot in the head during a shooting spree that killed six people in tucson, arizona. the 71 words gifford spoke today did not come easy for her. but her message is one every american needs to

whitehouse: thank you. i appreciate the point that the senator from alabama has made, and i think it's important that we recognize that. that is a floor or minimum number of amendments, and not a ceiling, and i think the more we can allow senators amendments, the better an institution this will be. that said, the calendar is unyielding, days come and days go, congresses end, work periods end, and it's the majority leader and the minority leader who have the responsibility for trying to fit the work of the senate into those time periods. and clearly there is the prospect of vexatious amendments each he either in nature or in number whose purpose is to interfere with their ability to manage the floor in a sensible way for all of us. and i think we do have to be prepared to defend against that, and i think number and germaneness are the usual touchstones. the story that i was telling when the senator from alabama reclaimed his time was of the cyber negotiations and when republicans, democrats got together, the

whitehouse: mr. president, i have three unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. i ask unanimous consent that these requests be agreed to and that these requests be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. whitehouse: i also ask unanimous consent that an army fellow in senator cornyn's office, major malcolm wardrick be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this legislative session and that two fellows in my office be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this congress. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i'd like now to yield the floor to my distinguished colleague and friend from florida, senator nelson, with the understanding that i will be recognized at the conclusion of his remarks. the presiding officer: the ansar from florida. mr. nelson: mr. president, i want to address the issue of g

>> i don't know. >> big announcement at the whitehouse. we will preview that for you but first. >> this is the full court press. >> checking other headlines, making news on this wednesday president obama is getting new license plates for all of his cars. the white house announcing yesterday he is having the dc taxation without representation listens plates put on his limos to stand in solidarity to the dc residents who pay federal taxes but do not get anything for that. they get no representation in congress. he did not have the plates on his cars in his first term. president bush never had them on his cars but president clinton did. >> right. those of us who live in the district are like members of a colony. we pay taxes and don't get a vote for it. we don't get anything for it. didn't we once fight a revolution? >> we should have a revolution. >> conservatives say they think the license plates should say i don't want taxes at all. i think that's interesting because that seems to be the ultimately sort of anti-revolutionary idea. right? >

if not back at the whitehouse pretty soon. thanks, george. >> thanks, bill. >> george condin follow him at the national journal. national nationaljournal nationaljournal.com. >> this is "the bill press show." current tv presents special coverage of the presidential inauguration. the pomp, the circumstance the insight and analysis. only on current tv. [ music ] >> taking your arms on any topic at any time. this is "the bill press show," live on your radio and current tv. . >> all right. peter, what have we got here? >> an e-mail. >> from the washington post a friend of bill in the next hour. >> on what do you want to see done? immigration and marijuana laws no question, that's top of the list for me from hugo. astasia says on today's inauguration, we are witnessing history. this is a historical event we are part of. i look to his speech and i know that i am living history. >> i am excited about being down there. we have a great seat great position. we will there as part of current tv's coverage, cyprian and peter and i on the n

down at the whitehouse. >> this is the full court press. "the bill press show," live on your radio and on current tv. i want the people who watch our show, to be able to come away armed with the facts, and the arguments to feel confident in their positions. i want them to have the data and i want them to have the passion. [ music ] heard around the country and seen on current tv, this is "the bill press show". >> all right. three minutes before the top of the hour. president obama pretty easy schedule at the whitehouse today. no events, public event did planned. we did announce the white house announced a couple of minutes ago that he will be doing a sit-down interview with steve kroft today at the whitehouse this an together with secretary of state hillary clinton. we have been talking a lot built jay carney -- we have been talking a lot about the filibuster. >> comments. >> harry rave catering. >> cyber society says, bill what a we've you've had. first beyonce betrayed you. now, harry reid. who can you trust? bill w. says harry reid talke

$400 billion, this movement by students deserves significant attention. >> democratic senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island speaking last month. in light of the weak climate deal reached at the united nations climate change conference last month in doha, many environmentalist have lock on the fossil fuel divestment campaign as the new frontier in their activism rid they sit in the same spirit as the ongoing campaign of nonviolent civil against keystone xlg pipeline. christian parenti recently wrote, "problems with the math." we're joined by bill mckibben of 350.org and christian parenti. bill was just voted for montter of the year, author of "eaarth: making a life on a tough new planet." he joins us via videostream from his home in vermont christian parenti is author of, "tropic of chaos: climate change and the new geography of violence." we welcome you both to "democracy now!" you, bill. with can you lay out this campaign that 350.org has launched around the country? >> sure. let me say, in this case, 350 and the other groups we're working with are more of the vector than the virus. these

if you talk to hard core members of the nra, they will admit as senator whitehouse said, they will admit you don't need an ar-15 to defend your home or go hunting or go target shooting or anything else. they want those guns because the police have those guns. and they believe that they will have to fight the police, and they want to be as heavily armed as the police when that happens. that is the underlying philosophy. >> so they think in terms of a barricade situation where it's them against the law. >> absolutely. >> congresswoman, that is new. it used to be they would say we're sportsmen, we're hunters, and then they would say whatever, self protection if you live in a tough neighborhood or whatever. now they openly say we have to fight the government. that's pretty close to insurrection time, isn't it? we have to be ready to fight the government? >> this is what we've been hearing for a couple months to be very honest with you. we heard these arguments going all the way back to aurora and going back to gabby giffords. this is the fear and the mongering they put out there. remember, l

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whitehouse: thank you very much. i was here on the floor the other day and i heard while i was waiting my turn to speak did, i heard senator hatch give a speech, and i have the very highest regard for my friend, the senator from utah, and his speech was very thoughtful. it was passionate. it was thorough. and so i thought it deserved a respectful response, and so i'm here today to respond to that, and i hope to begin a debate, or engage in a debate if not begin it. senator hatch was talking about the fiscal situation and he framed his remarks with the observation that our $16.4 trillion debt is too high and the observation that -- and i will quote him -- "annual trillion dollar deficits have become the norm with the current administration." senator hatch is certainly right that that debt is too high. and annual trillion-dollar deficits have indeed briefly become the norm, but i would suggest that that's not the norm recently because of this administration. it's the norm because the economy collapsed. we all remember

. >> senators merkley, udall, harkin and whitehouse have made the case for change. they have made the compelling case for change. >> senator jeff merkley gives us the latest, next. >>> and we are back. attitudes may be changing, but the white house has a heavy lift on its hand when it comes to gun control. a task force led by vice president joe biden is looking to reinstate the assault weapons ban. and as the "washington post" reports, broader gun control measures are also on the table. regulations that would require universal background checks for firearm buyers, track the movement and sale of weapons through a national database, strengthen mental health checks and stiffen penalties for carrying guns near schools or giving them to minors. those proposals still under consideration are getting considerable pushback from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. one freshman democrat, senator heidi heitkamp of north dakota is calling them extreme. >> what i hear from the administration and if the "washington post" is to be believed, that is way in extreme of what i believ

whitehouse of rhode island. mr. wicker of mississippi. the vice president: please raise your right hand. the vice president: please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that you bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you god? the group: i do. the vice president: congratulations, senators. [applause] mr. reid: mr. president? the vice president: the majority leader. mr. reid: i note the absence of a quorum and ask the clerk to call the roll. the vice president: the absence of a quorum having been suggested, the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the vice president: a quorum is present. the majority leader. mr. reid: can we have order, please. the vice president: may we have order in the senate. the majority le

steve kroft came running down taped it friday at the whitehouse. and of course, it was kind of a love fest. in fact, when you look at the two of them. they look sort of adoringly at each other while the other one is talking, like nancy and ronald reagan match. of course, they were once pretty -- they were very arch rivals. >> yeah. there was not a lot of love lost there for a while. >> likeable enough. >> you are likeable enough hillary but they have become quite a team. and something terri of state last night saying how much she enjoyed it. >> one of the things that i say to people because i think it helps them understand i say, look. in politics and in democracy, sometimes you win e elections. sometimes you lose elections, and i worked very hard, but i lost and president obama asked me to be secretary of state, and i said, yes. and so this has been just an extraordinary opportunity to work with him as a partner and friend to do our very best on behalf of this country we both love, and it's something i am going to miss a great deal. >> bill: i thi

hagel has since apologized for that comment, and he did not address either controversy today at the whitehouse. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: but hagel strongly defended himself in an interview with his hometown paper, charging critics with completely distorting his record on israel. the white house is feverishly lobbying key jewish groups. it's an effort that soften criticism from the anti defamation league who wrote today senator hagel would not have been my first choice but i respect the president's purgative. hagel, a republican has drawn sharp opposition from his own party's senators. >> this is an in-your-face nomination by the president to all of us who are supportive of israel. >> i think it would be a lot of tough questions of senator hagel and -- but he'll be treated fairly. >> reporter: and it wasn't exactly a warm welcome among democrats either, brian. senator chuck schumer, the number two most powerful democrat in the senate has said he's undecided in this nomination and has a lot of questions. bottom line, this could be a long january confirmation battle for chuck hagel. >

whitehouse: okay, thank you, mr. president. we are now entering a postfiscal cliff phase of budget negotiations and a troubling but familiar refrain is already beginning to echo through this chamber, which goes something like this: in order to fix our deficit, we must cut medicare and medicaid benefits. this is wrong. this is flat-out wrong. it is factually wrong. it is wrong. a recent "providence journal" editorial touched on the dangers of that misguided approach. the editorial read, "we need a better run on medicare and medicaid, not one that covers fewer people. quality can be improved and costs contained without throwing people off the rolls and into the streets and back into the free care of emergency rooms mandated for the uninsured and into expensive private insurance. in the end, we all pay in some way in quality of life and in money for the gaps we tolerate in our health care system." attacking medicare and medicaid is consistent with a particular political ideology. it has been part of that political ideology for dec

el compañero de kat, gerry whitehouse un guardabosque de nueva zelanda, vino para ayudar con los cachorros en sus primeras semanas. ♪ Éste es el primer día en que a los cachorros se les permite pasar un tiempo afuera en el jardín. y parece que están disfrutando la oportunidad de ejercitar sus veloces patas. ♪ defecar es muy importante para los cachorros. asegurarse que hagan regularmente, que sus heces tengan buena forma, que no estén aguadas, ni muy rígidas. si están aguadas podría ser un problema de bacterias o virus. muy rígidas es estreñimiento y se inflaman y cosas así. entonces es muy importante que tomemos nota d.. la consistencia y del color. como ésta... ¿qué tal se ve? se ve muy bien. así deben ser. ♪ (narrador) déjamos a los cachorros divirtiéndose en el sol. y nos vamos a cheetah outreach, para reunirnos con liesl, en la sección de entrenamiento de baggins. ♪ baggins usa la correa ♪ en las instalaciones principales liesl smith, empieza a entrenar a baggins con la correa. ser capaz de usar correa con confianza es una habilidad vital para un gato embaj

[laughter] so he came home from the of whitehouse in the city must cedeno right to beaches the wanted to ask how you were. but it was a wonderful job. i loved it. to talk about the sex life of a snake. it was incredible with the art museum. with the wonderful things i could do. >> host: you were married to dick over 30 years and his secrecy got him in trouble with congress. we discussed how he was surprised the spouse of people who worked in the cia had a difficult time he could not tell you certain things and you were fine with that. >> i have to say i did not come up through the ranks. to live the clandestine life it was difficult for some people and much more difficult for others that they did not know what their husbands were doing. i and stand if you live in japan and your husband is out of sight to. it is incredibly difficult. you have to be a very self-contained person. i did not find that with dick. i was fine with my life. the extraordinary thing he was not only the man who kept secrets but he was always quiet. he loved to talk about things that had nothing to do about his li

congressman henry waxman and sheldon whitehouse. they are asking for the white house with these rules in place to prevent climate change. that is what they say. they want to accelerate federal investments in green energy. and they want to a -- they want to lower gas emissions by 2020. what you think? this is a crazy thing i've ever heard. >> what worries me about that letter is the idea that we can do this by executive action. but the president alone is the one with the stroke of th pen that is going to impose these kinds of policies. second, i think perhaps more importantly here, the united states is already leading the world. the international agency said the u.s. is already leading the world in reducing co2 emissions. it's not because of some government programs, but rather because of this. gerri: these are the real culprits when it comes to climate change. greenhouse gas emissions rated the top of the list every single year we met that is the remarkable part about what is happening now. any of the ipc meetings that have happened

margaret, nice to see you. >> we were together in friday down at the whitehouse. it's been a busy time since the president gom back. >> it has been, you know between the fiscal cliff and trying to get -- him trying to get his agenda on track before the next sent ceiling fight trying to pack in stuff. gun violence moved to the forefront. immigration, talking about it looks like the next two years are going to be pretty action-packed. >> a week to the next six months. >> we go from there . >> all right. >> exactly. a lot to talk about today and our whole team is in place ready to go. peter ogburn and dan henning. hi guys. >> cyprian boulding. >> two years. >> trying to make us look good. >> the entertainment. awards program. they did a great job. amy the poehler and tina fey. can't do better than that in hosting. some of the awards raised some eyebrows. july julia roberts got to present the best award for the best motion picture drama. >> the golden globe goes to "argo. ". >> uh-huh. "argo". >> interesting. not "lincoln"? >> not "lincoln" and not "zero dark thirty".

el compañero de kat, gerry whitehouse un guardabosque de nueva zelanda, vino para ayudar con los cachorros en sus primeras semanas. ♪ Éste es el primer día en que a los cachorros se les permite pasar un tiempo afuera en el jardín. y parece que están disfrutando la oportunidad de ejercitar sus veloces patas. ♪ defecar es muy importante para los cachorros. asegurarse que hagan regularmente, que sus heces tengan buena forma, que no estén aguadas, ni muy rígidas. si están aguadas podría ser un problema de bacterias o virus. muy rígidas es estreñimiento y se inflaman y cosas así. entonces es muy importante que tomemos nota de... la consistencia y del color. como ésta... ¿qué tal se ve? se ve muy bien. así deben ser. ♪ (narrador) déjamos a los cachorros divirtiéndose en el sol. y nos vamos a cheetah outreach, para reunirnos con liesl, en la sección de entrenamiento de baggins. ♪ baggins usa la correa ♪ en las instalaciones principales liesl smith, empieza a entrenar a baggins con la correa. ser capaz de usar correa con confianza es una habilidad vital para un gato emb

they sent a lot of memorandum to the office of whitehouse council and the bush administration and down to the justice department and they got a lot of opinions saying to a certain exat any time some of these things could be legal. once they had that sign off a stack of legal memos saying they wouldn't be committing a crime the c.i.a. started doing these things. >> rose: is there difference what the bush administration did and what the obama administration does. >> obama administration does not enhance in interrogation techniques or the -- it ended during the bush administration. the obama administration has other stories. they engage in drone attacks. but torture has been a no-go. >> rose: raising some questions about what drone attacks are. it is called the killing of so is ma bin laden. did torture play a role in finding osama bin laden and killing him. >> yes it did. it played a role it didn't play a key role but definitely speaking specifically, the fact that there was this fellow called ahmed from kuwait surfaced in a number of the early coercive interrogations. at the time the in

senator sheldon whitehouse is next. his book is "on virtues: quotations and insight to live a full, honorable, and truly american life". >> we were coming and we were passing through the open ranks of the other day. we were ragged and we had no shoes. gettysburg was bloody and in shreds. there were 8000 of us. this is a book that is a somewhat personal and quirky book. but it is one person's book through history and to what people have said in the past to talk about things that have meaning that i think still have meaning in modern life. i have collected things that i like for my own use. and then as i got more into it, i begin to think that this is something i can pass on to my own children. kenya key new agent, so i wrote to him and i passed it on to him. so my old journal was turned into a book. i started collecting quotes when i was working for the governor. when i went to the u.s. attorney general's office, kept adding to them. reason was twofold. one was to keep a record of things and the other was to talk about t

. >> senator sheldon whitehouse is next from providence rhode island. this book is on virtues quotations and insight to live a full truly american life. >> we were coming on that dreadful field and passing it in the open ranks in the country. we were ragged and we had no shoes. there were less than 8,000 with farms and our hands though they were burned still. this is a book that is a somewhat personal and quirky book, but it's one person's look through history and through what people have said in the past to call out things that have meaning that i think still have meaning in the modern life. i collected things i liked from my own views and then as i got more into it i thought this was an america that i could pass on to my children and i ran on to a college friend and he saw the book and he said you know, this is pretty good. you ought to consider publishing it and he knew an agent and it went from there. so my sore left hand written old book has now been turned into -- and this is my second thing. i started collecting quotes when i was working for the

so if i say a man walked off a dusty road towards a whitehouse. well you just supplied a man that worked toward a house. there's a third thing we're creating together. that makes intimacy and as a writer you can try not to ever condescend, make the participatory and then 80 pages down the road we've got a man we made together who is going through something hopefully major and who is making it. not me, not you but the two of us together. now that kind of happens in know fiction but the fact the fiction writer, for example, i don't -- >> rose: let me just understand. non-fiction the other person's not a part of making the character because the character's already been created. >> i suppose he is actually because even writing a non-fiction meese but it's my projection. but i think somehow in fiction because you're free to invent you're free to exaggerate and compress that whole process is more vigorous. so for example i love writing non-fiction but i don't like writing about someone's feelings. if i had a dark truce to tell about a certain group of p

whitehouse: thank you. i actually came to speak on another subject, but i had the opportunity to hear the minority leader's remarks as i was waiting to speak, and i would point out in response that our friends on the other side love to characterize the spending that has taken place in recent years as something that was the will and choice and desire of president obama. what they fail to recall is that during that period, we actually had an economic meltdown. most americans remember that economic meltdown. states like rhode island are still in the aftermath of that economic meltdown, an economic meltdown, by the way, that occurred at the end of the last republican administration and was caused by those policies. and the economic meltdown was relatively global, and we have very practical examples of countries that went the path of spending cuts that the republicans recommend, recommended through the whole economic meltdown. you just have to go through -- you take a tour of europe and you see that where the au

. >> gail trotter, i want to listen to the exchange that you had with senator whitehouse today. >> ms. trotter, quick question, sarah mckinly, in her home, used the assault weapon that would not have been banned. >> i don't know what type she used. >> well, trust me, it was, and that would not have been banned under the statute. so i think it proves the point with ordinary firearms, not 100-magazine peculiar types of artifacts, people are quite capable of defending themselves. >> gail trotter, the hearing is about legislation that would ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. and you used an -- anecdote of somebody defending themselves, in fact, in the hearing there was not a single anecdote of anybody defending themselves, anybody, you or any republicans, successfully defending themselves with an assault weapon and/or a high-capacity magazine. every weapon that was mentioned was a more traditional firearm that would not in any way be affected by legislation contemplated by anyone. could you not find a single example anywhere in the country of anyone successfully defending th

and i think in fact as senator whitehouse asked to see some folks of the white house talk to them about this, but we need to change assad's calculation. right now president assad doesn't think that he's losing and the opposition thinks it's winning. that is not an equation that allows you to reach some accommodation for transitioned. the goal of the obama administration and the international community is to effect some kind of orderly transition. now it's complicated by the fact that now a second envoy has been engaged after kofi annan's and our intense -- in intransigence. i've had personal conversations prior to being nominated as the secretary with the minister lavrov, which indicated a russian willingness to in fact see the president assad leaves, but they have a different sense of the timing and the manner of that. so, our hope, my hope would be that if confirmed, and when i get in there, to have an ability to take the temperature of these different players can get a sense of sort of where it is, but we have to increase, i think, the ability of the opposition -- strike that, we hav

in 2011 taylor was awarded national medal of arts from the whitehouse and highest arne for artistic achievement. yesterday he performed president obama's second inauguration. ♪ america america god shed his grace on thee ♪ and crown thy birth with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea. ♪ from sea to shining sea. [applause] >> rose: i spoke to him on sunday for cbs this morning about his remarkable life and career. here is that conversation. my impression is that the first line of your obituary which is 25 or 30 years from now, you might like it to say songwriter. that's first. >> yes, i think so. i'm an entertainer of strengths, sort of an entertainer but i'm a musician songwriter. i'm a song right. >> rose: you're happiest when you feel a song. >> that's right. that's the most filling thing, the most delightful thing that happens to me when the pieces fall together and it makes a song. >> rose: what's that like? >> it's just very satisfactory. it's just very, you know, it's like a puzzle fits together somehow. we all do it. writing music is a lot like listening to music or appreciating mus