but for barack obama, i think this happened early. >> tay, we got the obama plan for leaving iraq... >> president obama announced the current phase of the war is coming to an end... >> narrator: early on, obama had set a timetable for withdrawing troops from iraq. >> within 19 months... >> he came into office promising to get out of iraq. his rise had a lot to do with his opposition to the iraq war. and i don't think he ever looked back. >> narrator: but there was another, secret side to obama's approach to the world. candidate obama had been critical of much of the bush administration's top secret war on terror. as president, it was a different story. >> his people made it clear that in the terrorism arena, he was going to be as tough if not tougher than the bush people. he was going to be extraordinarily aggressive. he and his people reviewed all existing ongoing cia covert operations and with the exception of aggressive interrogations, endorsed all of them, and doubled down on a number of them. >> narrator: at the center of obama's covert war: targeted killings-- death by drone. >

so why the leak of an obama plan? >> yeah, well, first of all i think this is something that is worth keeping in mind through all the big policy debates coming up. for instance, look at sequester and potentially another grand bargain where obama says he wants to balance the approach, more tax revenue and the republican response to that is always okay, now be specific, put a plan forward. this is what is going to happen if obama puts a plan forward on the entitlements and everything else. they're going to immediately reject it. that said, i think there is a dance here. it is a really messed up, screwed up dance that will ultimately get us to a kind of immigration reform. basically, if the psychology of the republican party, can't be obama-led or obama's bill, it can't be obama leading the republicans around. it could be obama putting the plan out, republicans talking about how it is tyranny, king obama, everything they're doing now. eventually, maybe a week or month from now, whatever it is, they come back with somethi

on the other, he has president obama. he's in the middle and neither side seems to be cutting him a lot of slack. >> narrator: finally, boehner concluded that the negotiations to reach a grand bargain with the white house were going nowhere. >> when i gave the president my bottom line, it was my bottom line. and the white house response was, "well, we don't think we're going to get anywhere. it's a waste of time." at that point i had no choice but to go to some other plan. >> narrator: the president's team doesn't remember it that way. >> we were disappointed, but we were also puzzled that, once again, we were this close to an agreement, and then inexplicably, the speaker decided to leave the negotiating table and try a different strategy. >> growing concerns over how the u.s. markets will react... >> economists have warned that going over the cliff would cause a spike in unemployment... >> narrator: boehner reverted to what he called "plan b." house speaker john boehner embraced what he called a plan b tuesday... >> plan

obama hasn't fundamentally changed obama's political sfraukture. he goes onto declare that "republicans just have a perception problem with hispanics. a perception problem? does he understand the amount of change that we've seen happen in this country? and how people are not just talking about perception? but reality and the realities have changed? >> well, i think carl rove of 2012 needs to have a conversation with carl rove of 2004 when he realized in 2004, carl rove nuf that he needed the hispanic vote. and he recognized he didn't need every single catholic and he didn't need every single person of color. he just needed a percentage off the top in order to move the republican agenda forward. since then, the republican party has gone off the deep enld. and they're also losing, as a result of caterering to the tea party so quickly. they're also actually losing a lot of moderate republicans. not only is the country more diverse, its's younger and it has a lot of single women and it has asians running and african americans and latinos. it's a whole

bush and now by barack obama? soon after he succeeded bush, president obama announced he would not permit torture and would close down the detention camp at guantanamo bay. he also said this -- >> our actions in defense of liberty will be just as our cause. and that we the people will uphold our fundamental values as vigilantly as we protect our security. once again america's moral example must be the bedrock and the beacon of our global leadership. >> four years later, guantanamo not only remains open, but a few days ago, the state department announced it was eliminating the office assigned to close the prison and move its detainees. meanwhile, president obama has stepped up the use of unmanned drones against suspected terrorists abroad. those drone attacks have killed a growing number of civilians and have prompted the united nations to launch an investigation into their legality and the deadly toll on innocent people. >> the central objective of the investigation i'm formally launching this morning is to look a

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george bush never gave obama the deficit. >> and president obama, president obama-- amassed more debt in four years than the previous. you can't escape that. >> under president obama we created jobs every month, and-- >> fewer americans working. >> losing $800,000 jobs. and we were gaining with this economy is recovering under president obama. >> thank you both. and they're unemployed and-- >> senator rand paul will join me for a live in studio interview, that's coming up, first with the help of the new york times, yes, you heard me right. we will reveal next the truth about the obama sequester. in other words, it was his idea, and you'll find out exactly why the president proposed the measure in the first place and robert gibbs admits he was instructed by the most transparent administration to lie to reporters about the administration's drone program. that's straight ahead. she knows you like no one else. and you wouldn't have it any other way. but your erectile dysfunction - you know, that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime t

president obama. >> barack obama is a socialist. he believes in socialism in redistributing wealth. >> this is stunning hostility and venom against the president. >> it is stunning. and there was a lot of talk about whether or not the echo chamber served the conservative movement. >> i will say this, people talk about how much obama gets abused. 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. fi

tonight monday of president obama's inauguration, the first day president obama outlined this wide ranging liberal agenda for his second term, that same day there was a drone strike in yemen. and that drone strike on inauguration day followed drone strikes in yemen on both days of the weekend that preceded inauguration day. so we had drone strikes on saturday and on sunday and on monday, the monday the president was sworn in. it doesn't really make the news. one of the most unusual things about drone strikes for us as citizens in a country that does this is that for so long our country would not admit that we did them, even when we all knew that we did. that was the case. that did not change officially until april of last year. april 2012. and the person the administration put forth to do that, to admit that policy for the first time publicly was john brennan. >> so let me say it as simply as i can. yes, in full accordance with the law and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the united states and to save american lives, the united states government conducts targeted strikes against sp

the picture of barack obama did not match the barack obama most experienced. what lessons did the g.o.p. learn? >> ea accused us of wanting dirty water and dirty air and his favorite attack of all is that those of us who don't agree with hem only care about rich people. but any time the people opposes the president's agenda he and his allies respond by falsely attacking his motives. >> jon:s it's so hurtful. it's enough to mick a perspire. i'm sorry, i mean glow. [ laughter ] yes, how all of it is to misrepresent your political opponents views and proposals. anything you would care to add to that. >> our free enterprise economy is the source of middle class prors expert but president obama -- prosperity, but president obama believes it's the cause of problem. i hope the president loses the on seftion raising taxes and instead tonight would have been a good time to save medicare. >> jon: instead of why didn't he go out there and say something about medicare. something -- what was that? >> i'm medicare i'm prepared to enact reforms that will achieve the same amo

there was a -- >> on obama's mother. >> on obama's mother, which is very good. and those i've read. >> yeah. >> but then once i started my book i put them aside. i wanted ting into a book with no presupposition. so i read them and saw where they ould -- you know, looked for places they could take me in terms of research. but no other purpose. and actually, two of those books came out while i was doing my -- you know, they weren't really of any use in that sense either. i was already -- >> you're so far down the path at that point. did you get any feedback from the big guy on this book? >> that's clinton. clinton is the big guy. >> i'm ssrry. i thought he was the big dog. i thought -- i've got to get this exactly right. >> i wouldn't want direct feedback, but i know -- i mean, he knows that it's the real deal and he's told people to read it. >> so you're a washington post reporter for so many years. how does the association with the post when you're writing a book like this help or hurt or is it neutral? >> well, i have a racket going. i mean, i'm called an assoc

so this is not being an anti obama thing but obama took the bush secrecy regime and expanded that by an order of magnitude everything including classification numbers have gone up the number of people being targeted for assassination has gone up the actual number of people we've been killing has gone up instead of torturing people we're just blowing them off the face of the planet so i think it's gotten worse under obama it has been just stayed the same and his affirmatively gotten worse john i want to address what the judge said in this case when she handed you the sentence judge leoni brinkema she said i think thirty months is way too light she goes on to say that this is not a case of a whistleblower. certainly when i accepted the plea in october of two thousand and twelve judge brinkema commented at that time in open court that thirty months was if it was a fair and appropriate deal. she. i can only speculate of course but in january just last friday the courtroom was packed with reporters and she may have seen an opportunity to to look tough in a case like mine that's one point

if president obama can hear us clouding clear american the american people want his leadership they want his action and they need it now we don't have any time to waste president obama if you're smart you talk to the scientists you know what's going on let's do it. it was a call to action made by people who are seeing the urgency now more than ever before just in the past year alone the country saw the most extreme temperatures on record california dealt with overwhelming wildfires the midwest. experience the most severe drought in decades and recently the northeast felt the wrath of superstorm sandy mr president good to be with you again despite the staggering weather patterns both president obama and former republican presidential candidate mitt romney were silent on climate change in the two thousand and twelve campaign election cycle marking the first time since one thousand nine hundred eighty that the issue went unaddressed in the debates. the president of united states. but now president obama is seeking to turn another page most recently underscoring his commitment in the st

we don't have a new obama, it's a new strategy. and it's one in which he'll press the case and press it in public. and i think so far it's working. >> you wrote about the more visionary obama and a sort of return to liberalism, if you will, or at least it's now okay to say liberal in a way that maybe it hasn't been in a while. what do you make of john's comment that this isn't a new obama, it's a new strategy? >> if you read obama's books which is why i fell for the guy, reading him will, it's no surprise that he is essentially a liberal. he's essentially in that tradition. and it's a proud tradition. he doesn't use the word himself. but the fact that the "new york times" a banner headline and all these papers just use it. that used to be like swearing in public. well, it's okay to swear this public now. so everyone the word liberal -- >> this is a family show. >> i think what the side of all this that we haven't seen is, yes, he's demanding these things out of congress. he's not going to get all of them. he may get none of them or

your response to president obama? >> i agree that the unfinished task is to make sure that those who work hard and take care are the responsibilities can get ahead, but he has not, and neither has anyone in congress laid out how we will get there. the biggest problem facing the country is still and climate. too many people out of work into many underemployed. the president touched on something of the need to do. we need to increase infrastructure, invest in research and development, climate change, whether rising buildings from coast to coast. all those things cost money. he also said that nothing he is proposing will add even a dime to the budget deficit, so one part of the speech is fighting another, so i do not know how we make headway if we are not going to make investments in those things that will put people back to work. >> you pointed out a report that talks among the top 1% capturing 120% of all income gains between 2009 and 2011. to what extent do you think president obama's speech addressed this imbalance?

[applause] president obama... but now congress must act as well by passing legislation to give our government a greater capacity to secure our networks and deter attacks. this is something we should be able to get done on a bipartisan basis. president obama: even as we protect our people, we should remember that today's world presents not just dangers, not just threats, it presents opportunities. to boost american exports. support american jobs. and level the playing field in the growing markets of asia. we intend to complete negotiations on a transpacific partnership, and tonight i'm announcing well launch talks on a comprehensive transatlantic trade and investment partnership with the european union, because trade that is fair and free across the atlantic supports millions of good-paying american jobs. [applause] president obama: we also don't know that congress in the most im've veryished part odd of the world enriches us all. it creates new markets and more stable order in certain regions of the world and also

obama? all i want obama is do it is fix the long island progressiveway and so i can get to work and he won't do it? >> you are a white guy. >> do you think. >> you got a college degree, a car, gas, you could get to scranton, pennsylvania. >> bill: on a college degree i paid for. >> fine so did i. >> bill: i didn't have any money when i got out. i had to move to scranton to make a living and i did. >> that is a death sentence right there to begin with. >> bill: you just insulted scranton. >> that's the nice thing about the show can i insult whoever i want to including you. >> bill: here is my beef. i don't want the federal government running the economy investing in green energy. let the private sector do that if the private sector invests money in something the government feels is worthy, give them a tax credit. i'm for that but obama wants to run the economy. and that's where all the money is going. and it isn't working. not working. >> the private sector is not working. the big private sec

from our president obama's remarks last night and what it means for the u.s. moving forward our to correspondent back and lopez is here and our very own abby maher and always outspoken welcome ladies so going to start off the president is known as being a good speaker and many say last night is an example of that but is it all talk. it's hard to say right now we've seen over the last four years and give so many of these state of the union speeches every single time he lays out this really bold agenda and we want to say that everything that happens comes true comes into fruition but oftentimes that's just not the case certainly if you know the past year and we look at his first term a lot of those promises made and the prior state of the unions not all of them were those policies were implemented to say the least abbi what do you think i think that it's all tone like you said i mean. talk is bigger whatever actions speak louder than words you know i mean it's really just a bit of mrs obama in his first term you really do bring very little promises to fruition s

for instance, president obama. [laughter] just listen to former press secretary, robert gibbs. >> when i went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was you're not even to acknowledge the drone program. you're not even to discuss that it exists. >> stephen: though, truth is, the secret got out a long time ago. i don't know how, but it was leaked to at least 4,700 people. [laughter] i just don't get why the administration is so ashamed of its extrajudicial robosassination spree. [laughter] after all, a whopping 83% of americans approve of it. even among liberal democrats 77% endorse the use of drones. and those remaining 23% of liberal holdouts are just the same spoilsports who eventually ruined the iraq war, the japanese internment camps, and the 1902 law permitting the irish to be catapulted into the sea. [ laughter ] why don't these liberal peace-humpers get how successful our drones have been? i mean, over in pakistan drone strikes have made travel to the tribal are

parts of the left the reaction was obama gave away the store. actually strategically and psychologically as joy says it was a huge victory. >> minute he heard if you were watching, i know he's playing golf with some rich guys. >> i'm going to disneyland. >> he's not a '60s guy. if he were hearing us talk about him mounting mt. rushmore, getting up there with the great presidents, secretly, what would he be thinking? that's exactly what i'm doing? >> i don't think he would ever admit to that but you have to believe whenever any of these guys run for president, they all think about it. >> it's about children. it's about the other people. i'm sorry. i'm sarcastic sometimes. president's day i should not be sarcast sarcastic. thank you so much. >>> selling the war in iraq now information on how the bush administration decided from the very start to link saddam hussein to 9/11 to justify a u.s. invasion of that country. ten years later the administration's shameless deceit remains as disturbing as ever. >>> also, is it time to get rid of the voting ri

this is an on going narrative with president obama and michelle obama do not get the same level of respect as previous presidents and first ladies. >> no question. >> we've seen it before. >> joe, rush limbaugh really went over the top, though. watch this. >> the optics, of course, are what matters. i thought of 1984. i thought that the macintosh ad from the super bowl of 1984 where exact type of scenario except michelle obama was actually the dear leader of this obviously a totalitarian state. a lot of people think that this was a giant propaganda effort by the white house to put michelle up there either to have an optic for low information voters who watched this event last night set up the 2014 olympics maybe some people even telling me this that was the opening salvo of a michelle obama for president. >> now let me show you the ad he is referring to. this is what he compared michelle obama, the first lady, giving the award or announcing the award for best picture to this ad. and this was a takeoff on 1984. i mean every time i think rush has gone as far as he can go, he does it again, j

obama care. the governor of ohio is going to join us next up. free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. don't forget, lower marginal tax rates across the board. all right? if you can't deal with reagan, think john f. kennedy, who launched a budget during the 1960s. why would you raise taxes now? i'm kudlow. we'll be right back. >>> ohio republican government john kasich in the news these days. conservatives are heaping praise over his tax cuts but some don't like him taking expanded medicaid money from obama. conservatives, some of them, don't have any nice to say about john kasich at all. more or less you have 20% income tax cut across the board, joining a whole bunch of republican governors across the country who are leading the way while washington is raising taxes. the liberals of course i was reading the "columbus dispatch" and what not, they were saying tax cuts for the rich, that's all you're doing. >> larry, in addition to lowering the income tax so everybody doesn't scoot ou

, isn't this about obama? >> no, i don't. i think its principled opposition. these are people who worry about the extent of the power of government. it would have been the same in bush administration. the real hypocrisy is the liberals. if this had been the bush administration dropping drones onto americans -- i think there are principles at stake. i respect the opposition on this issue, but i don't see any alternative to having unity of command in the conduct of the war and the principle here even if you attack an american as we did alaki, if you take up arms against the united states, you for fit the privileges of citizenship and the fifth amendment due process. once you do that by being an enemy combatant we can drone you the way that we do an afghan or a saudi or a yemeni. there is no difference. >> bill: charles, go to the results of our poll. do you support the president for drone program. 55% do not support the program. very interesting poll. and we have a brand-new poll this evening. does it matter tha

the obama administration's legal rationale for assassinating u.s. citizens without charge has been revealed for the first time. a secret justice department document obtained by nbc news says the administration can target citizens who are "senior operational leaders of al qaeda or an associated force" even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the u.s. the documents describe is a white memo, provided to members of the senate intelligence and judiciary committee last year. its release follows failed civil liberty groups fighting legal justification for the targeting of an american. we will have more after headlines. and the report has revealed a detailed look at global involvement in the cia secret program of prisons, rendition and torture in the years after 9/11. the open society justice initiative says 54 countries aided the cia until president obama halted the program in 2009. the report also reveals that at least 136 people were held by the cia during those years -- the largest tally to date. the count