bill clinton becomes harder and crying. there is that this idea will be sold out the soviets if you vote for democrats but i think persisted format of the 60s and 70s and helped keep the coalition together. >> loop mode from the institute of democracy. we said we towards that is the the obama administration has all but given up on the white working-class male. is there another coalition member that is looking to perhaps pick up the slack in your analysis on that. >> is actually a great debate that's been going on at the new republic and and a few of the other left-wing sites about whether obama should proceed in 2012 with what they call an ohio strategy, a focus on white working-class voters for what they call it colorado's strategy, which is the emerging -- kind of the indianapolis, the upscale white voters. it is clear upon has chosen the latter strategy, the colorado's strategy of freedom bakery and suburban upscale suburbanites. i think it's problematic because i think without 401(k)s -- i think a lot of the reason the

repeated and it's true bill clinton was impeached he survived that and you know to the extent that there seems to have been a court of public opinion most people agree that it didn't need to go as far as it did although everybody was concerned that he lied under oath and remains a legitimate piece of our history i almost wonder if there's another thing that's a factor here that you very mention timber folks and we're out of time i'm sorry i just flat out tim tim thank you but nice to meet you. as much appreciate it thanks allen and i talking with you thanks tom thank you coming up. coming up after the break mitt romney has dodged questions left and right throughout the primary debate circuit will tell you about what he's being accused of dodging now and it's not flying here is a magical underwear. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right in the us. i think. the tipping point well. we never got to that shows there's. safe ready because freedom. will or are all who who. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse s

. >> is it when bill clinton took on a rapper in the democratic party. a defining moment. but could i ask you about the money advantage regardless of the case of the republicans. the president has a significant advantage. mitt romney has more money for now. but money follows momentum. are they running up hill here. >> mitt romney doesn't have a money advantage obama. >> obama has more money than the republicans. but obama has 90 million and mitt romney has 30 million . obama has done 127 fund raising and twice more than bill clint and george bush. bad news for him. in 2008, he got 24 million from the financial industry . right now he has 2.4 million and i want to defend people who contribute to political campaign. we think we are helping our country and we do it because we think that elect the the right government makes the country better. they need to to help their business. i am not naive to believe we do it all for good. but most believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. >> who will you give? >> i will sit on sideline with respect for the money. i did a lot

bill clinton becomes harder and crying. there is that this idea will be sold out the soviets if you vote for democrats but i think persisted format of the 60s and 70s and helped keep the coalition together. >> loop mode from the institute of democracy. we said we towards that is the the obama administration has all but given up on the white working-class male. is there another coalition member that is looking to perhaps pick up the slack in your analysis on that. >> is actually a great debate that's been going on at the new republic and and a few of the other left-wing sites about whether obama should proceed in 2012 with what they call an ohio strategy, a focus on white working-class voters for what they call it colorado's strategy, which is the emerging -- kind of the indianapolis, the upscale white voters. it is clear upon has chosen the latter strategy, the colorado's strategy of freedom bakery and suburban upscale suburbanites. i think it's problematic because i think without 401(k)s -- i think a lot of the reason the

smart government for a strong economy. >> president bill clinton coming in your new book back to work you talk about the fact the u.s. should get back in the future business; what do you mean by that? >> i mean that we should have a strategy to build a future of shared prosperity and shared responsibility is based on a cooperative relationship between a strong private economy and a smart government. i think this battle we have been in over whether the government is the source of all our problems and there is no such thing as a bad tax cut or good tax or bad deregulation our good deregulation as obscure what is really going on out there in the world is we still have a lot of the enormous advantages in america but we have lost ground relative to a lot of other countries and the percentage of our young adults with college degrees and our performance and standardized tests in the competitiveness of our health care system where we get what we pay and our ability to generate manager during inclement and ability to export in our research and development capabilities in the areas that we know

i was not a voice in the public when bill clinton was president. and now you want to draw a parallel -- why didn't i defend bill clinton? i was not in politics then. i was not a voice out there. i think that newt gingrich did the right thing to push back, people need to make decisions based upon solutions of how we fix problems. what happened to newt gingrich is the same crap that they did to me. so i was happy to see him push back on that, so it's not even an adequate comparison to talk about bill clinton and what i said in defending newt gingrich. that is not valid. >> briefly, mr. cain, you were out there in a town hall meeting talking and newt gingrich is the one with the record here and he was the one you were talking about. >> that is true. talking about today. back during when bill clinton was president i was fighting against hilary-care. i did not discuss bill clinton's personal life, i stayed focused on the political life. >> you have been vocal on this issue, you have the 999 plan, and one of the parts of it is transparency and tax has be

it's why bill clinton got away with so much. his heart was many right place, even if his hands weren't. my goal in life is to make a difference, by preventing others from making a difference. because their difference results in someone else's pain. consequence unseen from the confines of a "vanity fair" cocktail party. well, all right. i have a montage here of the media's greatest valentine to president obama. let's roll them, shall we? bob, don't choke. >> bob: sorry. >> i have truth. i have been observing. your dog looks like he is out of control. >> golf. what does it do for you? >> in the first 100 day what is surprised you the most about this office? about serving in this office humbled you the most? and troubled you the most? >> last night at the republican debate, some of the hopefuls, they hope to get your job, they defended the practice of waterboarding. i'm wondering if you think they are uninformed, out of touch or irresponsible? >> you gave up a lot. you said you wanted a balanced approach. you have didn't get it. se

there's bill clinton feeling everybody's pain. there's george bush who can't wait to get the heck out of there. can't understand why these people are so upset at him. so it creates a problem for a guy like romney. too. there's a picture of the shoe shine on the tarmac. i don't know if you saw this one. he's sitting in front of an airplane. here's wearing a suit and he's getting a shoe shine. >> he's not shining his own shoes? >> no, he's getting a shoe shine. we put this on salon earlier today. i'm not sure where it originated. but it never looks good for a politician to be getting a shoe sign on a tarmac. but it looks terrible when it's mitt romney and this is your image and background. it looks worse when it's if year 2012 and the economy is in such a bad place, and the democrats are going to be going after your party for being the one who favors the people who gets shoe shines on tarmacs. >> drumming down on that, though, what is the image that he creates? what is the image that a candidate like bill clinton wouldn't create but

the >> bill clinton -- tavis: bill clinton has said that every election is about the future rather than the past. it does not matter what the polls say. and what matters is the turnout on election day. here is my thesis. make what you want of it. mr. obama definitely has an enthusiasm gap on the left. mr. romney, his speech was more aspiration of and anything else. mr. obama clearly has an enthusiasm gap on the left. and mr. romney has and enthusiasm back on the right. they both have an enthusiasm back on both sides. what gives? how is that going to play out? >> i think you are basically right. you could add one more point to it, which is that groups at the core of the modern coalition, what i called the coalition of the descendant, minorities, young people, ana college educated whites, they are among those being hit absolutely hardest by the recession. obama and need to those groups should turn out that have suffered in the last few years. as you point out, the most conservative elements of the republican party are dubious of romney. generally speaking, both campaigns are relying heavi

clinton's book and what bill clinton has to say, i mean, was any of that in this speech? >> there are some new ideas. >> rose: because jobs are a crucial issue. >> there were some new ideas and energy ideas he talked about and a big job creator. >> military savings, and do public works with the other half. >> rose: doris, that was also today the release of those jfk tapes, 45 hours of tapes. as presidential historian who knows a president's a family well what is the most interesting thing that came out for you? >> well, i suppose in some ways, just the personal thing that right near the end he was talking about that monday looking like a tough day, and of course monday was going to be the day of his funeral, he just got that erie sense when somebody is talking near the end of their lives, but for me as a historian it is so great these tapes took place. i wish all of these presidents had tapes all the time. >> rose: the. >> nixon used to say it all the time. >> there is no question. i mean, i mean, when we looked back at the 19th century we have diaries, we have letters th

that one phrase did a lot in defining bill clinton's second term. where have those bold quotable phrases gone? >> it's a good question. the state of the union address is always are these long laundry list of policies. >> especially bill clinton's. >> he loved that, but the public loved it too. they want to hear from their president directly. what does he want to have happen? the headline language comes from the bold ideas. you had that with george w. bush saying it was an access of evil at one of these state of the union addresses. we haven't heard that from president obama in these speeches. he's been focused on the economic crisis and what he might have a chance to get done with congress. sometimes it's when you're up against an opponent, whether it's the invisibility opponent of your presidential foes or the congress, that clarifies things. i hope we'll hear a strong argument. >> it's fascinating story you have writing some of the most famous words that we have all heard and read. thank you so much. >> my pleasure. >> msnbc will have live coverag

bill clinton had a false start from '93 to '94. got shellacked in '94 because he over read his mandate and had the good sense to learn from that mistake. and that is what really brought back the progress that he had run on a 1992 to the as far as -- you are right about george dalia bush and his presidency. i'm fairly critical of it in the book because i think that there was a sense among republicans that they had finally overcome. they had brought together -- the eddy elected the unified control of the congress for the first time since 1952 and then really liked it for the 61st time since the 1920's and the trajectory was just going to keep going up and i think that drove of the decision in 2005 and 2006 that kind of brought about a backlash pity the as far as where the rebel within scope, and i feel that the compassionate conservatism of george w. bush did a lot to kind of reenforce the frame many americans had of the democrats, the clinton democrats as a party of the fiscal responsibility. the deficits are the most obvious compar

bill clinton's economic success was based on that budget deal, nothing anything bill clinton did. you have to remember there were very tough spending controls in the bill. there were caps on discretionary spending which exceeded the cost funs to be sequestered. those were rigid controls. they were pay as you go. if you wanted to increase spending you had to raise taxes or pay for it and cut other spending. it is interesting. i remember the 1998 convention clearly. i remember sitting in sessions where the president never wanted -- the then-vice president never wanted to put the no new tax pledge in the speech because he thought it was irresponsible. the political folks prevailed and said you must do this for your conservative base. 1990 came around. it was clear to him that the no new tax pledge could sink his re-election but he did what he thought was right and he let the political chips fall where they may. points of light. 1,000 points of light. the national community service act of 1990. john sununu talked about the civil rights ability revision of 1991 and our opposition to cr

this was not when bill clinton was president. it was a primary. bill clinton was seen also as being of the dlc, the conservative wing. he was a southern governor of the democratic party. so it wasn't like mitt was rushing to the barricades to stop liberalism from grabbing the throat of washington, d.c. you're right. it doesn't add up. you have to say, newt gingrich accusing mitt romney of being a fibber is like someone calling donald trump. >> susan, you're using the glove. i personally think he was a moderate democrat, somewhere on the 50 yard line. now he's trying to deny what he was. mitt romney was never a right winger. he was a moderate in the middle. you and i know, susan, songas was things for like social security. he was trying to fix the system. why doesn't he brag for once about what he was, a moderate, thoughtful voter trying to do something intelligent. now he runs away from it. >> throughout this entire campaign, he's run away from a lot of his more moderate past. one of the more charitable explanations is that this is someone who com

republicans won the big term election against bill clinton and democrats in 1994. by the time he's running for president in 96, newt gingrich was really the most famous republican in the country. he was speaker of the house. and he used to carry a bucket around with him everywhere. heres with why. apparently there had been a long standing practice in congress for whatever reason that the office of every member of congress every day got a bucket of ice delivered in the morning. they always had done this in congress and still did it in the 1990's. i find it charming. newt gingrich found it wasteful which it was. newt gingrich as speaker put a stop to the ice delivery tradition while he was speaker, was so pleased with himself for doing that he carried a bucket around with him everywhere, to remind everybody that he had cut that wasteful thing. that is the relevant context for what happened yesterday. >> yesterday in the midst of the new waive of republican establishment piling on to defeat newt gingrich the romney campaign released a statement about newt gingrich fro

and what did bill clinton do? bill clinton actually said the era of big government is over. barack obama is not going to say that. what barack obama is going to say, if you believe everyone you talk to, is he's going to say, we need to find a government that works for us. we need to find a government that cares about the middle class. we need to find a government that can reduce this gap between the rich and the poor. but he has to do it, i think in a way, that doesn't seem like class warfare. because if you do it that way you're going to turn off an awful lot of independent voters. >> and he's going to also say you might be mad at what's happening in washington. don't just blame the incumbent president or these guys on capitol hill as well. an interesting speech for the president. gloria will be with us all night as well. >>> tonight's speech will not only be president obama's cry for re-election, it's also a shot at what democrats like former speaker nancy pelosi say is a do nothing republican congress. the former speaker has hopes of a democratic comeback this fall. a bit

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