bill o'reilly is digging himself into a deeper hole. bill clinton rallies house democrats. he has the plan. karl rove attacks ashley judd again. and bieber mania is alive and well here at 30 rock in new york city. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. the northeastern portion of the united states is still recovering from the devastation of sandy, and tonight the region is being hit by another powerful storm. the massive nor'easter could be one of the worst in history. well, you've got governors declaring states of emergency in new york, connecticut, and massachusetts, along with rhode island and maine. in boston, the city is the epicenter of two storms which could break boston's all-time snowstorm record of 27.6 inches. up and down the northeastern coast, between 1 and 3 feet of snow is expected to fall. forecasters warned of blizzard conditions including wind gusts of up to 75 miles per hour. this could cause widespread power outages this evening. the national guard was activated in states of connecticut, ma

bill clinton's elder statesman role is the key one here. and he is, again, he is most well regarded on economics. and when he went in there and said we don't need austerity right now, that i hope is the message that democrats take in, because they're going to go into a lot of big fights over all sorts of fiscal and debt issues. and i hope they'll keep bill clinton's message in mind. >> well, another policy as we just brought up a moment ago was the gun control issue. the president didn't shy away from that. this is mr. clinton urging democrats not to shy away from the subject, and now is the time. >> i see this whole gun issue as an opportunity, not a toxic land mine. but it depends on how you do it. >> mike, is that a political jump right there? because back in '94 when they passed the assault weapons ban, some democrats paid for it at the polls. >> well, what bill clinton knows is that the last cycle, the nra spent $13 million on their clients. they had a 1% success rate. he knows that between 2004 and 2010, they had just over a 1% succes

clinton did not. >> i'm sure bill clinton didn't hear that. anyway, president clinton landed in hot water after he compared candidate obama's primary victory down in south carolina to that of jesse jackson's years earlier. some accused clinton of marginalizing obama as the black candidate. let's watch. >> jesse jackson won south carolina twice in '84 and '88. and he ran a good campaign. and senator obama is running a good campaign. he is a good candidate. >> well, there you have it. let me ask you about a deeper question, not the cheap shots or the obvious analysis based on either sides point of view, david. you know this better than anybody. but the natural rivalry, the stuff that just happens because you have to be a rival. if barack obama is a transformational president, meaning he is the guy that did health care. he is the guy that has his successor elected, a democratic successor elected. he is the guy that starts a real era. can he win and the clintons not win? i mean -- can they both win, or is there a natural rivalry here between the t

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would bill clinton has been without a second term? we had a balanced office and a surplus by the time he left office. that's what history honors about bill clinton. could not have done that without a second term. we do not dwell on ronald reagan's iran-contra debacle. margaret thatcher said reagan won the cold war without firing a second shot. he took those trips in his second term. this notion of a division of first and second terms is a little bit overwrought. if second terms were so bad, fdr would not have a third or a fourth. clock isalize obama's running in a second term. it can be harder to do deals in a second term. he can use executive order. host: what will george w. bush be with a second term? we have this from twitter from sea dog. guest: the bush library is opening this april. recently got a chance to tour it. a piece of steel from the second tower at 9/11. the museum brings you back to 9/11. the right wasn't thing to do, the iraq war. there were no weapons of mass destruction. history plays crazy tricks. 43 get higher mar

and in a way that bill clinton did not. >> i'm sure bill clinton didn't hear that. anyway, president clinton landed in hot water after he declared candidate obama's prior to that in jesse jackson. >> jesse jackson won south carolina twice in '84 and '88. senator obama is not a good campaign here. he's a good candidate. >> well, there you have it. let me ask you about a deeper question, not the cheap shots and the obvious analysis based on either side's point of view. and you know this better than anybody. the natural rivalry, the stuff that just happens because you have to be a rival. if barack obama is a transformational president, he's the guy that has the democratic successor elected. he's the guy that starts a real era? can he win and the clintons not win? or is there a natural rivalry here? >> well, there is a natural rivalry. but, right now, that i hey're inextricably linked. that's what's interesting about this moment in history for the first time, really, starting with the last campaign. bill clinton was needed by barack obama and clinton loves to be needed.

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it was a reflection of the respect and fear they have about bill clinton. he has continued to set his sights on service. after eight years in office, he had seen the terrible effects of poverty and illness of those living in the developing world. in launching the clinton global initiative, he continues to widen the constellation of challenges in which he has applied his extraordinary talents and energy. limits on religious freedom, every impediment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. after president of the united states, he could only become president of the world. the praise the respect he receives from both sides of the aisle says big volumes about his character. the man he defeated, former president george h. w. bush said, if clinton were the titanic, the iceberg would have sunk. it has less to do with this sharp political acumen and more to do with his deeply held values and ideals. bill clinton believes in an america that is tied in a single garment of destiny. our fates are bound together and we should work together. a man from hope contin

. >> bill: how does president obama stack up against president clinton? >> he needs to go into the room >> bill: here come the lawsuits against carnival cruise operation. he millions of dollars will be sought with the ship falling apart on the high seas. is it legal? >> caution you are about to enter the no-spin zone. factor begins right now. ♪ ♪ >> bill: i'm bill o'reilly, thanks for watching tonight. what is the biggest problem facing the country today? that is the subject of this evening's talking points. on paper the biggest problem is the national debt approaching $70 trillion with no end in sight and failure of pinheads to deal with the debt in washington. if the massive borrowing continues the u.s. economy could very well collapse, but in reality, no on the paper, the biggest problem the nation has is us, our mentality. it is changing. after the allies defeated nazis in world war ii millions of people returned home to start families and careers. prevailing wisdom was simple, work hard, respect your country, provide a good education for your kid

bill clinton talking on friday about the 2014 election. we are already talking about the next campaign when we have two years before voters goal to the polls. no plan and decide to get to these -- voters go to the polls. the plan on either side to these issues. guest: i offered it with jim cooper, a democrat of tennessee. we got 38 votes the first time we did it last year. they are up to 75. senator mcconnell is talking about the fact that we are not interested in raising the rates. at the end of the day, you could take away every private jet and every cayman islands account. it does not get there from here. it is a more complicated problem than that. i think it is time for my former colleagues to stop worrying about the next election. i am living proof. the congress did not end when i retired from the congress after 18 years. it is time for people to reach the conclusion that we need to take care of the next generation and we need to take care of america rather than focusing on how am i going to win in 2014? host: we are talking to steve

>> no one quite rallies democrats the way bill clinton does. so there's a little bit of a pep rally feel to something like this and i think that's what bringing in someone like stephen colbert does. but it's fundamentally not serious to have a comedian at something like this. we'll see if he's in character -- >> right. presents himself as a republican. >> and ribs some democrats. or if he presents himself more what his off camera appearance is. democrats kind of, people forget, dropped the ball having colbert testify at a hearing that became an embarrassment. they need to be careful with a little bit of that. >> thank you. one other point worth mentioning on colbert, his sister elizabeth colbert is running as a democrat for running in the congress in a special election it to replace tim scott. so there is -- >> yeah, the race mark sanford is in. >> mark sanford, ted turner's son -- it is a circus. thank you. >>> now a blizzard of historic proportions is expected to drop three feet, yes, you heard that right, three feet of snow in parts of the n

asistente dijo que bill clinton y su esposa pasaron vacaciones en su casa, el f.b.i. registró las oficinas por fraude al medicare y dijo que supuestamente puso prostitutas que estuvieron con ellos. >> (habla en inglés). >> Él pudo confirmar el senador bob menéndez es amigo del doctor, pero nunca pudimos confirmar esto, el senador menendez niega haber estado con prostitutas. >> el senador es mi amigo y es le nuevo jefe del comité de relaciones exteriores. >> bueno, bob menéndez ocupó esta semana la presidencia del senado y la organización que inicio la investigación reiteró que el hombre que hizo la denuncia se indentifico con varios nombres falsos. >> vamos con félix de bedout. >> gracias jorge, mucho se ha hablado de este tema, y ahora fuimos a recorrer la zona para saber qué tan segura es, ahora temen a la hora de reclamar su dinero, le diremos qué pueden hacer y regraremos a méxico con la explosión de la torre de la ciudad de méxico. >> continuamos con las noticias del día, tenemos amplia cobertura, ¿qué tienes joaquín?. >> buenas noches y de ac

. >> it's former president bill clinton in epcot center. >> bill clinton was going for a walk in amsterdam maybe looking for a coffee shop. >> uh-oh. the president of party time. the president is feeling fine. >> coffee shop, maybe red light district. >> or he's there on stately business probably doing charity work. >> he'll probably do work on charity and hope and gretel, face time. >> why was he in amsterdam? >> you know, standard amsterdam stuff. meeting heads of state, taking in the culture and then see what happens. >> i tried to look it up and everything was in dutch. >> he better get his story straight or he's going to be in dutch with the miss. >> he's getting down a little bit, coffee shop. >> he's not getting down. >> of course not, but in case you need to lay low for a while bill, we know a great place for you to hide right little girl. >> chubby checker is suing over a penis measuring app. he's suing hewlett packard and palm. >> these guys made an app. >> you can tell somebody's penis size by their shoe size. >> there is some sort of equation in there that can tell you how big

they're not really going to get done and it reminds me of bill clinton going small ball towards the end of his presidency. >> the criticism of the republican response, i think, was that they were still criticizing barack obama's ideas but there really wasn't a lot there offered in terms of their own ideas and in that sense, you really sort of think that maybe they missed an opportunity here. john: jeff, there were two responses there from senator rubio and -- what was the response? >> that was the best example of the republican party is still a bit divided. senator rubio who is now the establishment republican, he, of course, ran in 2010 as sort of a tea party candidate but there was also a response from senator rand paul so we saw an early preview to the republican primary in 2016 but i think karen's right. we didn't hear new ideas from senator rubio but mitt romney could not have delivered that speech. he could not have said my father was a bartender, he came over here. it was repackaged a bit but biography is an important thing as we saw in 2006 and 2007 with a young senator from ill

this happened a lot with bill clinton, too. it was pretty vicious right up until they wanted to use bill clinton as the foil for talking about how bad obama was. but they never asked for bill clinton's birth certificate. >> on top of this, the president of fox news comes out and accuses the president of being devicive the president of fox news actually says -- let me quote him correctly. the president likes to divide people into groups. he's too busy getting the middle class to hate rich people, blacks to hate whites, he is busy trying to get everybody to hate each other. when this president has tried in every way he can to do the opposite of that. >> of course. >> i mean, it's ludicrous. first of all, it's incredibly hip critical for the president of fox news to call nibble devicive. that's the whole game they've been playing sinls they started as a news channel, number one. but michelle used a very good term, the "echo chamber." they do talk to each other. that one woman in the series of excerpts you cited, that one woman sai

john: , so, karen, if bill clinton kind the famous phrase that the era of big government over, did president obama launch the era of smart government? >> that's going to depend on what side of the aisle you were sitting on when you listened to the speech. but one thing about the speech, there was just a lot in it. he touched every single domestic policy initiative he has ever put together before, even the things that sounded sort of new -- minimum wage, raising it to $9 an hour. in his first campaign, he campaigned on raising it to $9.50 an hour by 2011 but what really came through to me in that speech was his declaration that essentially after two years of doing nothing but fighting with republicans over deficit reduction, he was no longer going to have deficit reduction define policy setting in washington. he said a balanced budget is an important thing but it is not the same as an economic plan. and i think he did that, in part, because the deficit has begun to come down but also because he realizes that has constrained him in doing a lotg of other things he wants to do in his second term

bill clinton's first budget director. his chief of staff. you left for a while. they almost got you to run for governor i think of california. then cia director and then secretary of defense. it is you, jim baker, donald rumsfeld, dick cheney, you're on this mount rushmore of guys that have held every office other than the president. >> it's been a hell of a ride. i really enjoyed it. in many ways. you know, it's kind of the son of italian immigrants i've kind of lived the american dream, which is i've gotten a lot of opportunities to serve the country. and i've been able to do some great things. i really, you know, in the end i used to ask my father why as an immigrant he came to the united states. he said because we wanted to make sure our children had a better life. i hope that that's my legacy that in some way in all those jobs i gave our children a better life. >> i want to ask you a little about all of it, but i want to start with we've now had back-to-back secretary of defense that did a stint as head of the cia. how important was that stint? having that e

even bill clinton delivered a birthday message and endorsement. take a look. >> in a time when our nation is so bitterly divided, it's important to have a leader who won the respect and affection of our nation in the way that betty has. after all, she's gained praise all the way from president obama to george w. of course, i'm talking about president obama and george washington. i hope we can all look forward to 2016 when we will hopefully be able to take advantage of our opportunity to elect her president. i'm bill clinton and i approve this message. >> and that is an endorse the. if you're endorsed by bill clinton, you don't need anything else. still ahead on "way too early," why are you awake? your gangster tweets and texts are next. >> say that again. >> your gangster. >> straight from boston. we'll be back. ♪ using cloud computing and mobile technology, verizon innovators have developed a projective display for firefighters. allowing them to see through anything. because the world's biggest challenges deserve even bigger solutions. powerful

it was bill clinton, the new democrat. he was satisfying that the age of old-fashioned big government solutions to all of our problems was over, but, you know, there's a second part to that sentiment, which is that we can't go back to the time when we left everyone to themselves either. he was trying to create a third way. >> how tough is the environment right now inside the white house? take us behind the scenes, behind that curtain. >> what are they doing right now? >> what are they doing right now, and the pressure on staff and the speechwriting team and what happens when they come back with marks on it. >> every white house is different, right? i don't know this one firsthand. i know the one that -- they've got more than 24 hours to go. they're still constructing. they're still writing. he is still trying to figure out what his voice is and this president obama and which parts are in and out. the biggest challenge of all is you want to keep this to about an hour in length, which as you know in the clinton administratio

the senate democrats not passed a budget for some years and bill clinton said, look, go out there. tell people what we're for. have a ten-year plan and obviously austerity is popular, the idea of cut, cut, cut. we need to bring down the debt and have our ideas out there. the other interesting thing that clinton said is he's the original bubba talking to the rural white americans and bring them in to the democratic fold and the democratic party going to minorities recently. president clinton said, no, try to make an outreach to those voters and not leave them behind because they talk different than us and that's an interesting point and defender of obama care, the president's health care bill and calls it proudly. said it was the best things that democrats could have done and should be open to changing it if it's more difficult to implement. so sort of sober conversation of bill clinton and the master of master politicians, tamron. >> thank you very much. greatly appreciate you joining us. >>> coming up, governor chris christie, poked fun of the weight on letterman this week. then t

this was the trap republicans fell into the '90s with bill clinton. and it's one that the white house thinks politically they may have set for the republicans going forward. all right. >>> up next, second term. second chances. we're going to hear from a guy who knows firsthand just how short the shelf life can be in the second term when working with congress. president clinton's chief of staff, john padesta, joining us for a reality check. how much of that laundry list from last night can really get done. >>> again a look ahead at today's politics planner. confer mags hearing for jack lew is today in the senate finance committee. that could be probably not as fire worky as hagel. but still will come with some tough questions for him on his days at citi bank. of course, the president hits the road. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. humans. even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why at liberty mutual insurance, auto policies come with new car replacement and accident forgiv

bill clinton was incredible at transactional politics. i call him the most brilliant, authentic phony i've ever seen. [laughter] because he could be whatever he had to be and barack obama has a more difficult time with that. and if he were just in another setting dealing with you, you wouldn't say that he's aloof or cool or anything like that. >> so for you the obama who is visible in the first debate -- by way, reminded many of us in texas running for reelection in '94, perhaps not entirely in retrospecttthat fight to be governor again, you snow? but the obama who we saw in that debate did not surprise you based on your knowledge of him? >> no. >> because he seemed to be anything other than interested in being president i thought he was tendency that he has. i thought that he was -- his natural instinct is to not be confrontational, which goes through his whole personality as learn how long to negotiate different cultures. even when he was a community organizer in chicago, it drove the other organizers crazy that barack obama wouldn't co

we impeached bill clinton and bill clinton continued to reach out to us. >> you don't think there's a new level of low here? >> no, absolutely not. >>> keep hearing that and so sick of hearing that from people not around washington in 1993 and 1994 and 1995 and 1996, i have yet to sit here, maybe you have, mark halperin. >> fair. >> you were around, did you know of major conservative leaders that put out videotapes suggesting that barack obama was a murderer. people forget the level of hatred that went mainstream when bill clinton was president. i could come up with a lot of great examples when george w. bush was president. let's just stay with the democratic case right now. the crap that was put out about bill and hillary clinton from 1993 to 1996, '97, '98, i think makes what this president has had to endure, which has been ugly, like what george w. bush had to endure was ugly, look almost like child play. this collective amnesia about the clinton wars is absolutely staggering. people have no memory at all, this is the first time a president has been treated badly. no, we treated bi

then bill clinton talks to a house of democrats. on the next "washington journal" a look at the automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect on march 1, half are from the pentagon. we'll discuss that with ray lock perp and a conversation with the use of legal force. then we'll talk with judith about the 20th answer verse of the medical leave act. "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> having observed a steady improvement and thing with being of our citizens, i can report to you that our union is good. >> once again and keeping with time honored tradition on the state of the union and i'm pleased to report that america is much improved. there is good reason that the improvement will continue. >> my duty tonight is to report on the state of the union. not the state of your government but of our american community and to set forth our responsibilities in the words of our founders to form a more perfect union. the state of the union is strong. >> as we gather tonight our nation is at war, our country is in recession