, not only america, but in some sense, the world. the president of united states. president obama is in some ways a mystery man. he was perhaps the most unknown guy to come into the white house, of any president. a set of very unusual circumstances, including of course and economic nosedive put him in there. and two years later a lot of people, not only obama's critics, even some of his supporters, are asking the question who is barack obama. richard cohen, columnist for the "washington post," and in general a supporter of obama, had a column in the "washington post" a few weeks ago entitled who is barack obama. and what richard cohen and others is getting at is it is very close that obama has a set of policies. we know about those. but what is missing is a description of what is underneath that, what is behind that, what is the ideology, if there is one, that is driving those policies. what motivates obama? now, interestingly, in the last couple of years we've had a whole bunch of theories about what motivates obama. these theories are in response to the fact that obama does think peop

because my first experience with obama was people saying he wasn't black enough. so this was, you know, they don't like him, they don't like how he's doing, and so that's what, that's the word they used to describe him. >> can i tell you what's funny about that? there were actually comedians who joked about that at the election. sure enough, it took all -- [laughter] a few months for that to move from humor. so now on to the books. jelani -- or, excuse me, dr. cobb. [laughter] okay. i thought one of the most interesting observations in your book which i actually had not thought about until i read it in your book is the fact that black candidates have historically done better in states and districts where there are less black voters. why is that? >> well, one of the things that's interesting is this, when barack obama won in iowa, people had this kind of hallelujah moment and were like, you know, a black person won in a state where there's, where there's a 4% black population. and, you know, i was saying of course he won in a state where there's a 4% population. but as i was saying

in a year-long battle in a head to head battle with obama over obama care. it may go right to the supreme court and obama care could go down, and cucchinelli will go down. >> he says this is non- constitutional. >> there are a lot of ifs on the way to stardom. my choice is steny hoyer. he's been in congress 30 years. he's always been overshadowed but he's in a position to deal with john boehner and the republicans. i think if anything happens in congress next year that's positive he will be in the middle. >> i've got four newly elected republicans, marco rubio, alan west, from florida, susanna martinez the newly elected governor of new mexico, carolin >> biggest winners? >> destined for plately cal stardom. >> jeb bush because of his national leadership in the field of education, which is going to become day? >> manicuring. >> destined for political stardom in 2011. new york city mayor mike bloomberg, approval ratings from both republicans and democrats drop the more people will ask bloomberg to throw his hat in the ring for run for president in 2012 as an independent destined for

influence is encouraging some in the u.s. to look east to make for months. up next as president obama marks the end of his second year at the top the alona show takes a look at his achievements in u.s. domestic and foreign policy and she looks at america's relationship with china all that and more coming your way next. well can they learn a show where they get the real headlines with none of the mercy or can you live out of washington d.c. now it is president obama's second anniversary as the president so we're going to have a panel discussion on everything that's happened while he's been the commander in chief will cover the spectrum on everything from domestic issues to u.s. foreign policy and while obama is hosting china's president hu jintao many were questioning the far east country should we categorize them as a threat or as a country to emulate we're going to talk china with lawyer michael barnes next we'll ask is ten percent unemployment the new norm some say that we should get used to this number because this percentage is here to stay but how does america deal with a tenth o

. relationship for the 21st century. >> china's president hu jintao and u.s. president barack obama convened this week in washington. the two leaders met for frank and friendly talks about outstanding matters of contention. >> this is our eighth meeting. together we've shown that the united states and china, when we cooperate, can receive substantial benefits. the positive, constructive, cooperative u.s./china relationship is good for the united states. >> the major disagreement is over chinese currency. the white house believes that the ren ming-be is overvalued making u.s. goods more expensive in china. some thing it is the big reason why u.s. unemployment is at 9.4%. lawmakers like new york democratic senator charles schumer insisted president obama tell president hu how frustrated americans are. >> we are fed up with your governments intransigents and currency manipulation. if you refuse to play by the same rules as etch else, we will force to you do so. >> the time for talk is over. the time for action is now. >> reporter: the obama/hu meeting ended with an obama call for a spe

field, all hoping on take on barack obama. we begin our looatk the men and woman who would be the 45th president. we start with the leader, mitt romney, son of george romney who tried to 1968. mitt romney has been in politics for 17 years, ran for the senate, lost to ted kennedy, ran for massachusetts governor and won. four years ago, he ran for president and lost. the party of "wait your turn," will they say, now it's mitt's turn? and finally, pin the tail on the donkey. house republicans will vote wednesday to repeal obama's health bill. the senate is never going to buy it, the president won't sign it. what's the deal? with us today, "new york magazine's" john heilemann, "politics daily's" alex wagner, nbc's kelly o'donnell and nbc's chuck todd. all the republican action is in washington right now but the real republican story is the fight to beat barack obama next year and on that front, the important action isn't here in washington, it's out there. right now, 12 armies are pitching tents, gathering strengge, gttinad rey.th today we launch our 12 for '12 series putting a sharp

in 2008 is that independent voters went in huge margins for barack obama largely because of bush fatigue and because the economy had already teetered off the cliff by the time the election occurred. what we saw last november in 2010 was a hemorrhaging away from the democratic party of that crucial independent voting block. what's so interesting what you were mentioning about a realignment is that these changes in the political cycles now are moving at a much more rapid and accelerated pace. so democrats controlled congress for decades until 1994. the gop took it over in '94. they only controlled it for 12 years before the democrats took over after the '06 election. democrats only controlled it for four years. so you have this much more rapid turnover. i would also add to this, though that we are still a center right country. even though pat is right that the republican party has some built-in challenges demographically, the message of the republican party if they can stick to it about limited government, fiscal responsibility and free market, those are the messages that resonate

>> one magma at it will give obama a chance to go out there to get together and everything we have accomplished so far. i don't think it is bad. everybody needs to be humble. that was a the best things ever happened to his career it taught politicians who he is as a president but chicago is a place where he has some juice. i was at a rally at the saturday before the election when he asked chicago to have his back and black community leaders responded. are in the south side the last numbers were awesome the last midterm election it was between 91 and 94% were voting democrats. >> i like to echo the sentiment that i respect tremendously when i was maybe a junior in college and he asked new-line was doing and from that point*, various structures and i think he has provided an example how can operate and we should just knowledge that going forward. regarding the elections in the results of the midterm elections, that is a good point*. you mentioned over 90 percent approval rating and the 37% approval rating for the rest of americans. of one -- to get health care legislation aligned as

. president obama speaks with the president of pakistan and later on today, both president and vice president will go to the funeral service for ambassador richard holbrooke. a question for you this morning as reflected on the gifford shooting in tucson, ariz. and the public discourse, as well as in the media, should there be a fairness doctrine that balances political speeches on the airwaves? the numbers are on the screen. you can also e-mail us and we are on twitter. let's take a look at what the fairness doctrine is. this comes from the museum of broadcast communications. back in 1949, the fcc took the view that stations were public trustees and have an obligation to afford a reasonable opportunity for the discussion of contrasting points of view. one of the reasons we are talking about that is because there is discussion about bringing it back. with the fairness doctrine be coming back? experts say the chances of a rolls revival are slim to none. our question for you is whether or not it should be brought back as a way to provide balance on the airwaves. if you have a conservat

about conquest and about power. and of course the british ruled kenya, which is where obama senior grew up. the anti-colonialism is the idea that the world is divided into two. the colonizers or the oppressors and the colonized. who are the colonizers? that's the west. used to be the west without america. who are the colonized? before people of the third world, asia, africa, middle east, south america. anti-colonialism is the idea that rich countries, reached by invading and occupying. anticolonialism is the idea that even the rich countries like america, there are powerful concentrations of economic power, the banks, the insurance companies come in the pharmaceutical companies, the oil companies and these are the greedy, selfish profiteers were enough people in their own country and around the world. anticolonialism is the idea you'll have to type this oppression in two ways. first of all you have to do you colonize or bring down within the countries these beliefs. you got to pull them down because their oppressor. and on the international stage, you've got to recognize that the w

obama eulogy. the president held her up as a model for a higher, better brand of politics, a standard we should all live up to, including himself. >> here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy. she'd been elected to her student council. she saw all this through the eyes of a child. undimmed by the cynicism or vitriol that we adults all too often just take for granted. i want to live up to her expectations. >> question. what was it about president obama's tucson eulogy this week that differentiated from other eulogies of this kind? pat? >> because it was much more than a eulogy, john. it was for the six dead, the celebration of their life, celebration of bravery, an irish wake in a way, the president responding to his audience like it was a rally speech, but it was also a stern or fairly stern admonition, especially to the far left in this country, which has been quite frankly, conducting something of a lynch mob against glenn beck, against sarah palin, against rush limbaugh, imputing moral complicity because of their rhetoric. he said incivility did not do this, a

eye then it looks like president obama has a new fan former vice president dick cheney who is very glad that obama has finally come around to his administration's ways of thinking notably on the war on terror so what does it mean when dick cheney gives you his stamp of approval and it's not just obama who seems in line with cheney's way of seeing things yesterday a federal court of appeals ruled to allow the cia to keep documents which detail experience experiences of torture and get most secret so now with the courts gone were all victims of u.s. torture to do next then a kentucky state legislator wants to make all recipients of welfare submit to drug tests so is this just another example of the government invading it's citizens privacy or do taxpayers have a right to ensure that their money isn't going to people using drugs and then should women be able to fight in combat units will make up almost fifteen percent of the armed forces and they still aren't fully equally integrated so is this an antiquated policy in need of removal or are women just fine where they are we're going t

president meets with, as president obama meets with president hu, human rights issues are going to figure most prominently in the discussion, and the white house has indicated some direction in that regard. but since i've been serving in congress, members of both sides of the aisle have boldly challenged on the ruthless treatment, and their families, internet freedom, religious minorities, and women and families victimized by a callus policy of coerced abortion. let's turn to economics. full estimate is that we owe about $2 trillion to china. we have a bilateral trade approaching $300 billion. of course, this pose weighty concerns. where appropriate, i believe we must challenge china to abandon the america thattism in the subsidies to contribute to this inbalance. i think we also must look ourselves in the eye in the united states. and take action to get our fiscal house in order. to revive our stagnant manufacturing industries, refurbish or industrial base, and take responsibility for our economic future. the reality is we buy their stuff, and they buy our debt. and this is a truly dysfu

that one thing that barack obama can do is to deliver one heck of a campaign speech. and that words definitely helped propel him to the white house. in 2008. and what we did is to analyze some of his most important speeches that shaped his political personality and his candidacy. producing this is a joint project -- as a joint project was fun. that's one reason why we did it. ask the -- and the way we're going to do this tonight, since there are two of this, josh will talk about the presidential discussion in the book including how speech writing as a specialty developed as used by obama, and then the process that produced these marvelous words in these speeches. he will also highlight themes obama chose to use and the process of getting these words together this these speech bees -- in these speeches with some behind the scenes war stories. and then i will discuss president obama's style and the issues with communication during his presidency that have been raised since his inauguration and compare those to what went on in the campaign and the book. josh, please, proceed. >> thanks

does president obama try to rebound from the pitfalls of 2010? what's the future of the gop with tea partiers in congress and an unsettled presidential field taking shape? what are the prospects for economic recovery in the new year? snow politics. tough questions for the politicians when a white christmas goes wrong. with us, columnist, david brooks of the "new york times." e.j. dionne of "the washington post." washington correspondent important the bbc, katty kay. senator-elect from president, republican pat toomey. also new book "violence of peace," yale law professor, stephen carter. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. a new year and renewed focus on the economy as the president makes a pledge to the american people in his weekly address this weekend. new year's resolution, getting the economy back on track. >> as president, that's my commitment to you. to do everything i can to make sure our economy is growing, creating jobs, and strengthening our middle class. that's my resolution for the coming year. >> the president returns from his family holi

replace obama care. gwen: efforts to revive the economy. >> the land of opportunity has become the land of shrinking prosperity. gwen: promises to cut the budget deficit. >> american people know we can't borrow and spend and grow our way back to a country. gwen: and as one combat mission winds down, another one drags on. >> our goal isn't to build a 21st century afghanistan. our goal is not a country that is free of corruption, which would be unique in the entire region. gwen: who has the upper hand? we sort through it all with the reporters who covered the year. michael duffy of "time" magazine. and david westle of the "wall street journal"." >> award winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens. from our nation's capitol this is "washington week" with gwen ifill. produced in association with national journal, corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> we know why we're here. to give our war fighters every advantage. >> to deliver technologies that anticipate the future today. >> and help protect america everywhere from the battle space, to cybe

tavis: good evening, i am tavis smiley. president obama's date of the union address is tuesday. his improving poll numbers will soon be tested as the host of the republicans will announce their bids for the white house. tonight is a preview of the speech and a look at the state of american politics with former u.s. senator, bill bradley and presidential historian douglas brinkley. bradley mounted his own campaign for the white house in 2000 and was an early obama supporter in 2008. douglas brinkley has the latest installment on the american series of "the quiet world.' we are glad you can join us. our state of the union preview and our interview with douglas brinkley coming up. >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help>> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference, you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance proudly supports tavis smiley. tavis and nationwide insurance, working to improve financial literacy and the economic empowerment that comes with it. >> ♪ nationwide is on your side ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from view

that president bush has not maintain -- president obama has not maintained campaign promises. he presents this evidence at the jerome l. green performance space of wnyc in new york city. it's about an hour, 15 minutes. .. that kind of thing. it became a real dynamic hub for political strategies to get those policies put into place. we just incorporated a few months ago and when the process of expanding that this is our first program that we've done in the nature and were delighted to have both of you with us. thank you so much. and just a quick reminder to the folks in the audience, even though i'm sure you party type, check your cell phone when my time and make sure it's off if you don't mind. and then also for those of you in the audience, we have somebody selling both of these great books, so be sure to head they are when done. and so we are here at a really interesting moment. the midterms are mere weeks away and according to polls we have an ecs and gap, which liberals would say is because obama has not done quite what they expect it and conservative democrats and independen

tired of being pushed around by a dictator. i just what president obama to come out strongly for the people in egypt. host: headlines from the l.a. times -- looting grows and lawless egypt -- in lawleess egypt. they expected big demonstrations across egypt and it is time for mubarak to go.to sni patrick mch it was inspired by tunisia's overthrow of their authoritarian president. john from texas, good morning. independent line. caller: i've been watching the news every chance i get. and the amount of aid that we give this dictatorship in egypt each year ranges from $1 billion to $3 billion a year. how long have we been paying that? we see the politicians that we put in office here, all of them, saying we have to cut the old people's social security. we will have to cut this or cut that. how come the people of this country do not see how much we are paying these other countries? because these people in egypt, they make $1 to $2 a day, if they're lucky. all i can say is, wake up america. let's see what -- where our money is going. host: we are now looking at some of the live scenes from

strategy for 40 to 50 years and came back to bite republicans on the tail. you had barack obama on the other side of the aisles running and making history but you look two years later, michael steele that came in as the rnc chair, diversity throughout the state level and federal level of candidates. you're starting to see that change within the republican party. now again it goes back it to, are these going to be seeds that are going to take root. is that where the challenge comes in it. we have to make sure the communication of what we're doing as far as diversifying the republican party as we go through this culture war, because you have the establishment republicans that aren't necessarily down with this as much as the new school republican is. >> i want to -- i don't necessarily agree with you. you know, i think lenny, and vanessa, a very important sign of the progress that the party is making. i think that the democratic party, the unions, and the left has done a very good job demonizing republicans as being racist, an it ti black, you're not rm there. members of the ku klux klan

díaz balart justo en las aeras enl sitio donde o sendos abo hablar el presidente obama cebrando la vida de las 6 psonas que murieronst sábadpasado aquí en suk tocson arizona, y parteea ticia que qujusto antes d venir al recinto donde habló estuvo en el hospital en la habitación en el crto de hospital dde está la congresista giffords y dice el esidente que por pmera vez desde el sába cuando fue herida en la caba por una bala abrió sus ojos. eh aquí estas palabras del esidente. > luo dealir de su habición algunas de sus colegas del congreso estaban allí gaby abrió sus ojos por primera vez, gaby abrió sus ojos por primera vez. (aplsos) >>> gaby abrió sus ojo. (aplsos). >>> gaby abrió sus ojos, para e youdiera derle que ella be que eamos aquí, ella sabe que la amamos y estaremos au lado en lo que sin duda será un trayecto difícil. >>osé: se une a est trsmisión mi colega y igo, rogelio mora tagle, vimos que la primera dama mhel obama comenzó a llorar en el momento que todo ese publico, 13 mil personas en el auditorio se pusierone pie y la primera dama abraza al espos

impressions during the first two years of the administration. when obama's offer the vice presidency to biden, he was not seeking it. he told obama's that he thought it as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee he could be more useful to the country. and to his own career. he sets out conditions to obama that if he did take the vice presidency, first and foremost, he wanted to be involved in the governing of the country and did not just want to be a showboat or a ceremonial vice president. and he would be in the room when the big decisions were made. obama agreed to all of the conditions and that is how it has worked out over the first two years. obama has looked to by been increasingly for his counsel and for his friendship. in terms of personality, they are not that much alike with pride in being open and outgoing and obama at times more aloof and protective. but as we have seen with biden's role to oversee the withdrawal of troops from iraq and monitoring the surge in afghanistan, that biden has been a key figure and at home we have seen in the last week, the important ro

for action. president obama delivers his state of the union address. >> what comes at this moment is up to us. what comes of this moment will be determined not by whether we can fit together tonight but whether we can work together tomorrow. >> the republican party gives its response with a call for spending to be cut and the deficit tackled. >> we believe the days of business as usual must come to an end. we hold to a couple simple convictions -- endless borrowing is not a strategy. spending cuts have to come first. >> in other news, violence on the streets of egypt as protesters demonstrate against the government. welcome to bbc news forecasting to our viewers in america and around the world. i'm allistar yates. we focus on who is in the frame for next month's oscars. >> president obama has delivered his annual state of the union address. mr. obama used the occasion to urge the parties to work together and to help america to succeed in a changing world. the need for congress to work together was a theme he repeated throughout the speech, focusing on the economy, he said it is bi

pursued over the last couple of years with the democratic colleagues, stimulus bill, obama health care, and i think it made economic recovery more difficult, he will find a partner if he will come our way when it comes to creating jobs and controlling spending. the mandate of the last election was clear to me. the democratic policies from 2008 to 2010 were rejected by the american people because they created too much debt and they grew the government too much. if you want to reduce the size of the government i think you will find a willing partner in the republican. >> where do you see the economy right now? you know, holiday spending was pretty good in terms of shopping. you look at the house market. prices coming down. interest rates going up. do you think economic recovery is still going to be stalled? >> i think what got us into this mess was the collapse of the housing and it is very -- bad numbers came out recently about housing. the one thing with the ex-tending the tax cuts for two years helped a bit but the obama health care is a real burden to small businesses and large busin

weekend president obama addressed to the challenges ahead. >> even as we work to boost our economy in the short term, it's time to make some serious decisions about how to keep our economy strong, how will we attract the companies of tomorrow to set up shop and create jobs in our communities? what will it take to get those jobs? >> joining me now, the president's top economic adviser, austan goolsbee. austan, thanks so much for being here and happy new year. >> thanks for having me. >> quickly and concisely where are the jobs? >> well, we've added 1.2 million private sector jobs thus far in the data for 2010. we've got a long way to go. the president is the first one to say that. i think the coming out of the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes, it's always a messy bumpy road to get out of that, but i think you saw in the weekly unemployment claims, they went to 388,000, the lowest level in years. you're starting to see encouraging signs, i'd say, and so, you know, we just got to juice this and pump it up and get it going faster, but that's clearly the direction that we're headed. >>

their cue. >>> u.s. president barack obama is going to have a tougher time working with congress now that republicans have a majority in the house of representatives. as the 112th congress started on wednesday, republican john boehner took over as house speaker from democrat nancy pelosi. >> our spending has caught up with us. and our debt soon will eclipse the entire size of our national economy. >> the republicans plan to overturn obama's health care reform legislation which he managed to push through congress last year. president obama hopes to put the country's economic recovery on a solid footing by swiftly passing a new economic stimulus bill. but with republicans in the house of representatives adopting a confrontational approach, he faces an uphill battle. >>> obama is reshuffling his staff, and white house press secretary robert gibbs has said he will leave his post soon. gibbs made the announcement on wednesday and looked back on his two years in the job. >> i would not trade the worst day i've had here for many of the best days that you might have in another job. >> gibbs

say the united states very. now after john roberts flub president obama had to be sworn in again during a private ceremony in the map room just to be on the safe side so maybe john roberts needs a little practice or maybe roberts and boehner are so cool with blurring the lines of what's appropriate and what isn't when it suits their interests and that's why chief justice john roberts is tonight's told time where. now the new congress like i said is getting sworn in tomorrow including a number of tea party elects but are they going to stay true to the people who elected them or are they going to become washington on them while a number of tea party affiliated groups are already heading to d.c. to keep them in line but what exactly they expect well here to discuss with me is a co-founder of the tea party three sixty five tea party three sixty five and the project manager of b.p.a. now thanks so much for being here and i think now when i hear that the tea party is coming to town or tea party affiliated groups i'm not seeing you know hundreds of thousands of you protesting on the str

, everybody, and thanks for joining us today, i'm betty nguyen. when president obama looked out at the house chamber during his state of the union address last night, he saw something unusual. instead of their usual partisan blocs, some republicans and democrats sat side by side. it was a gesture of unity that mr. obama sought to encourage throughout his speech. ines ferre is in washington with more on this. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, betty. in his state of the union speech, president obama asked both parties to work with him, but today, he'll sell his ideas directly to the american people. now that president obama has laid out his agenda -- >> we can't win the future with a government of the past. >> reporter: -- he's taking his message on the road. today he'll visit a renewable energy company in wisconsin to continue promoting investments in research, innovation and education. >> we know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time. we need to out innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world. >> reporter: while job creation dominated

contagion of overthrow, will it end up threatening our oil? and what about israel? obama shows sympathy for the protesters. and does our man in the white house has the troops, the rtsmas, the stuff to be another lawrence? i'm chris matthews. welcome to the show. with us today, david sanger and andrea mitchell. helene cooper and then phac kara. and now it has come to egypt. the domino effect may bring fire to other arab states. the president that has been in the watch and wait position for much of the last three days vifri spoke to the listing, revolutionaries in the rest of the arab world. >> around the world governments have an obligation to respond to their citizens. that's true here this the united states. that's true in asia. it is true in europe. it is true in africa and it is certainly true in the arab world, where a new generation of citizens has the right to be heard. chris: we had a euro-centric foreign policy for years. this is a third-world look. he seems simm thick in talking to the people in the streets and possibly the people in the streets of the other countries. >> he is

obama officially welcomes china's president, in a lavish ceremony this morning, followed by a state dinner later tonight. >> as this visit begins, a new poll shows many americans still don't know what to make of china. 42% have a favorable opinion of the country. china is trying to change that with a new image-boosting ad campaign. showing stars like yao ming and jackie chan. >> can the visit bring the two nations closer? here's karen travers. >> reporter: the obama administration rolled out the red carpet for chinese president, hu jintao. last night, the ceremony was a rare honor for a foreign leader. it starts a two-day visit that includes an oval office meeting and two dinners with mr. obama. beyond the pomp and circumstance, there's substance. and three, key issues on the agenda. first, national security issues, including north korea's nuclear prom. and u.s./chinese military relations. second, human rights and military reform in china. president obama is a nobel peace prize winner. the chinese are keeping a nobel peace prize winner in prison. >> the longer china represses freedo

. tell me why i should not blive that the sthradge president obama is going to employee over the -- strategy that president obama is going to employee over the yeast is going to be clintonian to the core, for pages stolen out of their play book which means more compromise and capitulation. >> would you like to go to david to do that or to me? before i would not -- i would like to respond this fascinating discussion because actually we need dr. west. basically what we are talking about is something very fundamental about human nature. we've seen it in every period of history. when there is an economic crisis that fundamentally affects people's survival, the worst comes out in people. we've seen that again and again and again. [applause] that's why i'm saying we need to go to the source rather than immediately assuming these are the racist people. no, these are the anxious, scared people. these are the people who think they are next. these are the people waiting for the next shoe to drop and the entire country, with the exception of a few people, really, are in that state. when you

personas, anoche presidente barack obama pidió tolerancia y. >>> hoy que comienzan los en en en teestierros cristina nació e de septiembre el mismo día que esta bandera traída desde mayor palabra maeb en las torres, gemelas quién vinieron a despedirla todavía están tratando de entender. >>> es una tristeza una niña inocente uno se pone en el lugar de la mamá de ella. >>> anoche en tucson presidente barack obama recordó a cristina haciendo un llamado a la unidad al algunos dicen que esta armonía na vaya a durar. >>> hay que tener esperanza que la gente después de haber escuchado mensaje de presidente barack obama que se vayan a tomar a pecho sus consejos de hacer a un lado mri ticas de dividen a la gente. >>> frente a la oficina hoy la gente sigue llegando a demostrar su apoyo médico dijeron que la congresista gabrielle gifford ha abierto los ojo, y puede mover la pierna. >>> paty a fwaj por año con ella, debería haber estado el sábado con ella pero por esas cosa del destino, fue su día libre. >>> cuando pasó la crisis cuando pasó todo no, no más quería, estar

mask of their qualities of joe biden that led barack obama to give him the picking for the ticket and give responsibility that he has had in the first two years of the new administration. obama -- obama offered the vice presidency to biden, biden wasn't seeking it. he told obama that he thought as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee he could be more useful to the country and to his own career. so he sat down conditions to obama that if he would take the vice presidency, he wanted first and foremost to be involved in the governing of the country. he didn't want to be just a showboat for a ceremonial vice president and that he would be in the room as politicians say when the big decisions were made. obama agreed to all those conditions, and that's pretty natural it is worked out over the first two years. obama has looked to biden increasingly for his counsel and for his friendship also in terms of personality they are not that much alike, biden be really open and outgoing and obama can be at times more protective. but as we've seen and biden's role in overseeing the w

and business leaders >> white house press secretary robert gibbs said president obama will talk about human rights and currency values with chinese president hu jintao during the trip. this briefing is almost an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> sorry. let me get semi-organized here. mr. feller. >> thanks, robert. on the executive order and the president op-ed this morning, when you look at the timing of this, is the intent here at all to tap the widespread concern, as voiced by the tea party, the business community and republicans, about government intervention in government overreach? >> no, ben, two others this is something that the administration and elements of omb have been working on for quite some time. and i think it sets out what the president believes should be are very common sense approach, which is to ensure the health, safety, security and protection of the american people as well as understanding that we shouldn't do anything that unnecessarily limits our economic growth. that's been our approach. i think if you look at the history, look at things like the rules

and now it is called organizing for america. it has not been a top priority for the obama administration, especially in the beginning. people wanted this grassroots thing from the president. by and large, they were not made part of the transition, part of the team as they could have been. and i think obama has been playing catch up on that issue ever since. if you look at the electorate, it is radically different of the 2008 electorate. it would have voted for john mccain. that is the way people registered -- in some ways, democrats registered their complaints with the obama administration. he stayed home and he cannot afford to do that in 2012. he has to be attention to the legitimate complaints of his supporters and try to balance what they want with all of the pressures he is facing on capitol hill. host: we're looking at numbers from gallup that came out this month. party identification is looking at the trends in the republican and democratic leanings. ari berman, d you think it is significant to look at how people self identified, what the percentage of people is the

obama going to do in his year three? you may not have any resolutions this year. but some need them. our panel tears hillary clinton and sarah palin and her liepubn rivals what they should be different. could t lheibertyle need an upgrade? what do the colonials wish for will and kate? i like her already. let's look at the predictions we made in 2010. tell me something i don't know about something you told me i didn't know. come on. were we right every time. hi, i'm chris matthews. welcome to the show. with us today. "new york magazine's" john heilemann, cnn's gloria borger, nbc's kelly o'donnell and the atlantic's andrew sullivan. this new year may be make or break for president obama's chances at a skecked term. he has to change things if he is going to be a two-time winner. he is looking at near 10% unemployment and poll numbers below 50%. 58% of this country is saying we're head in the wrong direction. what does that predict for obama? what's history say? at this point, ronald reagan had worse unemployment and poll numbers, but reagan pulled himself out of the dive in his third y

and daughters of millions of people suffering under china's authoritarian rule and president obama is not only the president of the united states, but also the father of two beautiful daughters. i know that he understands our suffering and i expect him to raise suffering of -- and urge the chinese president to release -- and to release all those leaders who were imprisoned and who also disappeared in relation of the july 5th massacre of 2009. [speaking chinese] >> translator: i also urge the chinese president to stop the persecution of my family members including my children, grandchildren and all other relatives. [speaking chinese] >> translator: the chinese government was very careful in persecuting the leaders or chinese people. [speaking chinese] >> translator: in recent years the chinese government has increased publicly and boldly disregarding any kind of international concern especially the persecution of the minorities, tibetans and others sued i would like -- thank you very much. >> to emphasize that i hope the press will do some stories on this. not only repressing indivi

♪ vamos al punto. el presidente obama anunciÓ que su prÓximo viaje serÁ a amÉrica latina, ir a brasil, chile y el salvador. hoy hablamos con el presidente de el salvador mauricio funes vamos a chicago, falta un mes para la elecciÓn al alcalde,y el jefe de gabinete de la casa blanca se puede postular, es el favorito en las encuestas.hoy hablamos con miguel del valle,como planea ganar el puesto en una ciudad donde el 26% de la poblaciones hispana. >> en amÉrica latina se siguen violando los derechos humanos,1 reporte dice que en cuba se violan todas las formas polÍticas, en venezuela hay temor de que desaparezca la democracia. en mÉxico acusan al ejército de abuso contra la autoridad. porque hay tantas masacres,josÉ miguel vivanco va a estar hablando con nosotros. hoy la mesa redonda tener tres caras y tres puntos de vista muy distinto.barrera,rivera y las caricaturas de lalo alcaraz,y ella y sobre todo,fue directora, maestra y sus papeles como actriz la nominaron a los oscar. comenzamos. ♪ ♪ >> vamos al punto con jorge ramos. ♪ >> vamos al punto,cuando estados unidos

european model president obama is striving for? we have over 300 million people. we cannot pursue the european model. give bill clinton that. when he said he dug european models, he actually meant european models. you have to respect that. [laughter] tavis: is obama not as good source material as clinton was? >> clinton was a treasure trove. he walked around in a perpetual state of eldon tape. -- al dente. obama looks like he is loyal to the old lady. i actually have grown fond of hillary over the years. i sometimes look at barack and he is a little soft core me. i look at hillary and i think bill should have protected some of that on to the terrorists. we know she has been cheated on more frequently than a blind woman playing scrabble with gypsies, so she is always a cranky. [laughter] i was trying to segue in. tavis: i was in a conversation the other day. i am curious we have taken on this. i was curious on the fact that whether obama is an african american has cost canadians in any way, shape, or form to act up a little. >> i disagree with the white house, though. [laughter] i do n

white house with the departures of david axle rod, with rocket gibbs. it leaves obama as the chief spokesperson. daley is going to be a surrogate for the administration and with the business community as well. also, he's fresh blood in there and they really needed someone to shake things up. gwen: even though he was not fresh booed blood in prior administrations. they seem pro business all of a sudden at the new white house. >> they do, but one of the differences i think has been overstated. bill daley is not that much different than rahm emanuel, the first chief of staff. the stance obama said he was going to choose rahm emanuel, the left went crazy, he's to -- too centrist are. they need someone who commands some discipline. i'm told that things in the white house were getting sort of informal. i was talking to governor bill richardson at the end of last year and he said they really need a weiss man at the time of christmas. and i think this is a wise man. i spoke briefly with president obama on the phone this week. gwen: or should we say he called you up? >> he called. he was wa

washington donde en la mañana el presidente barack obama pronunciorá el discurso sobre el estado de la unión en momentos muy importante de la presencia, pero antes la sexto ría de estado de estado cumple hoy visita oficial a méxico a primera horas se reunió con la colega mexicana, edgar tiene el informe, ambas reafirmaron el compromiso político entre sus gobiernos. >> veamos. >> al pisar territorio mexicana la histórica ciudad de guanajuato hillary clinton respaldoó la estrategia del presidente felipe calderón del combatir al crimen organizado que ha desatado una sangrienta guerra de narcos. >> lo que el presidente calderón ha hecho es absolutamente necesario si fuera algo fácil se hubiera hecho es difícil y lleva consigo toda clase de costos, dijo la secretaría, reconoció que falta mucho por hacer para poner un alto, pero dijo el absoluto respaldo del gobierno de barack obama a méxico. >> yo admiro al presidente calderón aplaudo lo que hace, sé lo que difícil es esto lo que hace no es popular, es algo difícil, algo que causa mucha noticias terribles en los titulares

welfare costs play and the obama administration is dissent? doesn't make any sense to use that in defense of the mandate? >> there is the question for a different reasons that you should address to the members of the administration and if you want to know the reasons that i cannot answer the question is i don't know, i have not study the law. that is always a good reason for making an opinion. [laughter] by a greek sometimes it does not stop may. [laughter] but another reason is some of those questions that could come in front of us. the reason that the judge's 10 -- 10 to not to express their opinion not just a moral code of ethics even though it is, it is because you will find, and i have found that very often when you have to think something's through and have a really good argument on all sides, and maybe with their right to die case, 80 briefs are 100 briefs and the affirmative-action case, and we will read those. bid your opinion is not always the same as when you started. be aware of answers you may give at a cocktail party because you do not want to be held to that. [laugh