my name is michelle obama. i'm married to this guy, barack obama. >> and she came under fire for this controversial statement. >> for the first time in my adult lifetime, i'm really proud of my country. >> and it caused this enormous firestorm, and it was one example of several that the campaign cringed over. >> after some polish, and some practise, mrs. obama's campaign skills would culminate here. >> you see, that is why i love this country. >> as soon as the american people could see her and judge her for themselves, she was a hit. and it's been that way ever since. >> the sacrifices, travel and hard work would pay off, in an historic election result. >> the nation's next first lady, michelle obama. >>> coming up, an unconventional first lady. [ male announcer ] the new new york is open. open to innovation. open to ambition. open to bold ideas. that's why new york has a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state. move here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten yea

as obama stops -- lisa stop being nice and call republicans out -- to stopt obama needs being nice and call republicans out. john boehner would not even bring it up for a vote. you have a jobs bill. john boehner would not bring it up for a vote. it is a huge opposition to obama. i think it is personal. i think obama needs to acknowledge it and call it out for what it is. >> thank you. independent line. because i amalling concerned about the unemployment as well, especially extended benefits. i want to see what president obama has to say about that. >> and you have been out of work since? caller: may 2013. i'm a veteran. i'm 60 years old. is they income we have money she gets from social security. >> what have you been doing when the unemployment benefits are cut off? caller: living off the money i have saved up. right now that is pretty much gone. >> thank you for the call. the president will address the long-term unemployment issue and extending the benefits for americans who lost their benefits as of december 28. this is the scene outside the white house. we will continue to watch as

ok sam what i have to go back to what president does barack obama. mind you can you name one one that he is the mutilating of successfully or unsuccessfully. i think he's aspiring to be a democratic reagan i think he's someone who has had a number of bold policies particularly with obamacare he's inherited a great recession he's had to face two wars that he inherited so i think that is probably the president that he wishes to be and he mentioned this in his initial campaign in two thousand and eight really got under the skin of the clintons when he made that comparison to ronald reagan it's very interesting doug it seems like any president now that wants to be successful has to be one variant of ronald reagan one way or another because we saw the clintons you know bill clinton tried very much the same thing and even george w. bush did and at least imagery in language maybe not necessarily in policy but perception and in politics perception is about ninety nine percent of the job that's true and particularly they like to copy reagan's lack of guile he

obama's psyche and state of mind. just when you thought the polar vortexas a thing of the past, another round of bitterly cold air sweeping across the nation, temperatures near zero in upper midwest, expected to hit northeast torrow, experts believe this will last a week or more not just a few days, freezing temperatures also brings with them, snow. 4 to 8 inches forecast for the east coast from washington to new york, news d, last month's polar vortex helped make it coldest december on record since 2009. >> directv whether or no weathel blocked out, second biggest pay tv operator wants to reduce fees it pays to weather channel by more than 20%, channel wants a slight increase. directv, which accounts for 50% of the weather channel's poll revenue has replaced the channel with weather nation. on wall street, markets closed for the martin luther king holiday, police arrested two mexican citizens in connection with a target security breach, the man and woman were arrested at the texas border, nearly 100 fraudulent credit

i'll be interviewing president obama there on thursday. in an interview that's going to air friday on cnn. i believe that the democratic candidate who is running against the incumbent republican governor scott walker, i believe she is not going to be appearing with president obama in wisconsin. that also happened when president obama went to north carolina and your colleague senator hagan did not appear with him. if president obama wanted to go to alaska to campaign with you, would you want him? >> first i'll tell you when i ran and won was the same year he ran for his first election for the presidency. he lost alaska by 22 points. i still won my election. if he wants to come up, i'm not really interested in campaigning. what i'd like him to do is see why his policies are wrong on anwar for example. he opposes oil and gas development. i'd like to show him why we need to create jobs in oil and gas. he talked about energy a little bit tonight. we have it right there, a store house of energy. i'd like to be able to show him some of the issues

>> i think it comes down to ma michelle obama brings eyeballs. michelle obama is more than a political figure, she's a pop culture phenom and that's why she's getting all this etension. i have interviewed her twice over the year, she is a rock star, if you travel with her, people come out in droves in the street. i have seen it in pennsylvania and i have seen it in south africa. she's bigger than a political figure. >> the news media has made her a rock star. laura bush was an incredibly popular first lady, i don't remember them celebrating her like they celebrated michelle obama. >> she's very media savvy. >> dynamic character. >> she goes on jimmy fallon or elon and she dances and she does a lot of stick, but just because she's popular and drives ratings and we're all sensitive to that, it does raise questions of fairness, that if we're in a position of celebrating her and she's a democrat and a republican first lady didn't get the same treatment, that trouble mels a little bit. >> where's the agenda, the high turnover in the east wing, some of

and the inner obama doesn't like war. >> well, the inner obama went out. when the military said we need this many troops to do the mission, he gave them considerably less. >> and bob gates' recommendation. that is gates' number. >> and, again, i repeat. he told people out in the middle of the fighting season. if you really didn't believe in policies, if he didn't think it was important to inflict maximum damage on the taliban and extremist elements and then why did we even have the surge to begin with? >> george, 30 seconds left. where do you think the biggest impact is going to fall? >> i think it will fall on the general assess. of the obama presidency. that is particularly the statements of hillary clinton and barack obama saying that they opposed the iraq war surge for purely political reasons. >> we have to take a break. when we come back, more on the legacy of former israeli prime minister aerial sharon. stay with us. >>> a live look in jerusalem as the body of aerial sharon who passed away at the age of 85 lies-in-state. the body will travel later t

i did not see president obama do that. >> and president obama had a chance to respond to some of the comments in the book. >> secretary gates did an outstanding job for me as secretary of defense. as he notes, he and i and the rest of my national security team came up with a strategy for afghanistan that was the right strategy, and we are continuing to execute it. and i think that what's important is that we got the policy right. whenever you've got men and women that you're sending into harm's way, after having already made enormous investments of blood and treasure in another country, then part of your job as commander in chief is to sweat the details on it. war is never easy. and i think that all of us who have been involved in that process understand that. >>> okay, he had a lot more to say and a lot more coming out about the book. we got a first glimpse last week. now the book will be on sale tomorrow, and both gates and president obama have been able to comment. amongst many other people. one of the things i wanted to ask is that robert gates for a long time has always been pra

>>> michelle obama turned 50 on friday. she had perfected a mean forehand working on her yoga poses, dishes with girlfriendes and bruzel sprouts and dirty martinis. people magazine has a first spread in which the first lady doesn't rule out using botox and cnn made it a special titled extraordinary first lady turns 50. joining us now, julia mason in washington who hosts the press pool on sirius/xm radio. isn't the tone of some of this a little over the top? >> howie, she's turned 50. this is a huge milestone. and let's face it, michelle obama attracts eyeballs. if you want to sell people, if you want people to click on your site, put michelle obama up there and your page is looking fabulous at 50 and you're going to move product. maybe that's why everyone is doing it. the first lady is popular, she's a mom. not taking anything away from her. there wasn't even skepticism. >> no. and there's plenty to say about michelle obama. she's much more complex than that. sure, should he she's not an elected official, but she's an impor

the republicans want obama to go further than the nsa is already going. the parameters of the debate in washington are, should we figure out a way to streamline this and sell it to the american people or do more surveillance? nsa, one issue of the this issue being debated even within the white house, the attorney general eric holder question whether edward snowden should be pardoned. talk more about what is happening inside and then what he is demanding. >> first of all, mike rogers, the chair of the house intelligence committee, made a public allegation that edward snowden is an agent for the russian government and that the russian intelligence services may have been involved with snowden prior to snowden taking the documents and giving them to glenn greenwald and laura poitras. my understanding, and i work with glenn and laura, edward snowden did not take a single document with him to moscow. and that he is not cooperating at all with any aspects of the russian intelligence apparatus. so these are unfounded, unproven allegations being made by the head o

i think in the general, obama will have terrible ratings and obama care will be her big obstacle. but there is a real challenge that a left wing challenger like elizabeth warren could derail her in the democratic primary. there is a new finite defined left wing of the democratic party that is emerging. elizabeth warren is probably a prime example, bill de blasio. they want to raise the social security benefits, reduce the retirement age, eliminate the ceo salaries. and those are not positions that hillary will support. and with hillary's contributions from goldman sachs and others she is really vulnerable to a left-wing challenge, just like she was in 2008. >> why do i keep hearing whis r whispers that she had health issues that were par more severe than was publicly revealed? have you heard the same things, and if so what? >> no, you know, i don't have any information. but the minute she left the secretary of state, the first two things she did wasches for goldman sachs at $200,000 each. the left wing of the democratic party is not going to be happy about that. and hillary's clos

but president obama is forcing this debate. he wants this year to be about his inequality agenda and we know what happens when republicans do not have an answer for that. look at mitt romney in 2012. so it is good news that you have a newer and younger generation of republicans who are coming out. and i disagree. i think the fees are innovative ideas. what you are seeing, republicans acknowledging, yes, we need some sort of safety net for some of these programs. some of the ideas are great. returning to the states, control over how you administer a lot of these programs allowing for a lot more innovation. getting rid of some terrible things like the earned income tax credit. these are not tweaks. these are important changes. and they're overdue coming from the republican party. >> i would say an economic, excuse me, education reform as a tool of economic upward mobility is crucial. so take on kim's argument. i'm all for that and i'm all for republicans and conservatives discussing that. the problem with debating income inequali

i can understand why the obama piece is damning. hillary clinton, every politician makes political decisions when they're running. >> obama after i sent 30,000 troops in, i'm not sure. >> i said that was damning. >> highlight. >> he wants to not bury the lead. >> what about it? should they have covered both of them equally or did they do it right? >> that's fantasy land. when you're a conservative politician, that will never happen to you. if you're not the target to it, it's fun to sit back and watch the media lose its mind for a while over it over any topic. also in this situation you have a sitting governor who has just won re-election in a big way and you have been a private citizen, hillary clinton, although everybody assumes she's going to run, she's not right now. this is why i think it's good for the christie administration, state governor, to go through this right now, because this is just the beginning of what will -- you know romney. romney's dog on top of the car? this will be christie's dog on top of the car. imagine du

we are now more than five years of the obama presidency and despite the big legislative successes of his first year in office has for years have been very difficult for those for president republicans have done their best to sabotage and obstruct his every move and at times he has seemed all too willing to compromise with his opponents on the right according to pew research center poll numbers on the eve of last night's state of the union address show that the president had an approval rating of forty three percent just two points higher than his all time low forty one percent last november last night's state of the union was no doubt an important speech for obama he needed to both redefine his own agenda heading into the second year of his second term and at the same time as the effective head of his party give democrats campaigning in this year's midterm elections a message to run on so how did he succeed joining me now for more on this is shannon bellows democratic candidate for the u.s. senate in maine and adam green co-founder bolpur resins and the progressive change campaign co

now obama-- (laughter) i think obama must do this. ladies and gentlemen, it is important obama has to do this because once you've been at war in a place, you are always responsible for anything that ever happened there. that is why-- and i've said this before, that is why you must never end wars. think about this. if you think about it, they're never, ever would have been a world war ii if we hadn't stopped fighting world war i. that's just math. or are you a a fan of hitler, president wilson. or take that, or take that pussy napoleon, he retreats from moscow, pretty soon rasputin, the commies move in, crush chef bangs his shoes, the next thing you know putin is topless and johnny weir can't go to the olympics. and soon what's happening-- i ware this is going to happen what is happening in iraq will happen in afghanistan. and there's only one person to blame for that, alexander the great. in 323 he cuts and runs and a thousand years later islam is founded boom, muslim extremists. i am going to say t i'm going to say it, macedonia's be

obama and mr. harper have signed an agreement that suggests that they be at the ready for each other. so obama and mr. harper to send into america to help quell the rioting and vice versa. >> you heard that. the president's secret canadian army will try to crush the uprising. beware the mounties. they're coming for you. and listen to another conservative explain why this uprising is necessary. >> we don't have another great awakening, we're going to experience a tyranny and a totalitarian. oppression far worse than anything experienced in the 20th century. >> these are the kinds of extremist ideas making their way into mainstream gop talking points where they can actually do real damage to the country. joining me now is dana milbank from the "washington post" and drew courtney, director of communications at people for the american way. whose blog right wing watch monitors this activity. thank you both for being here. >> hi, reverend. >> thanks for having us. >> drew, you see this kind of talk on a

obama was against the war in iraq. my guy, john edwards, had come out and given a speech saying he had made a mistake when he voted for it. at this point everybody in the party was moving towards being against the war, which, you know, and so she -- yeah, it's a political campaign for president. i don't think there is anything wrong with had she been secretary of state and done that, yeah, i think that would have been a mistake. >> i think it's lousy any time. this is one place you don't play politics. >> you know, again on the schizophrenic nature of the book, he says that she was a great secretary of state, a really strong on national security and an ally he could count on on security issues. in the book he says that and then does this sort of off handed, said that she was political in her decision against the iraq surge, not afghanistan. >> that's what i said with mayor giuliani. so weird on one hand he slams someone and then he says he is the best person. >> he slams himself. in the book he does. it's pretty intere

we are going to see a profound change in obama care. model doesn't work and exchange doesn't work and system doesn't work and the taxpayer is on the hook for 1.8 trillion. this will not travel well with the voters in november. >> great to see you. >> strong statement and lou, great look with the book "upheaval". >> her finances may be on the rocks. does the queen need a loan? and stranded in the frozen tunedra. cutting off a town of 4,000 americans. wow. wow. that is my initial wow. that is crazy. and that a va lafrn comes down every year but not like that. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®. nutrition inharge™. >>> the royal family is reportedly royally strapped. new report by british law makers show that queen elizabeth is down to the the last million pounds in available reserve funds and an alarming number of palaces are

president obama doesn't like to do that. chris christie met with the press and took action right away. you don't see that in d.c., don't see that in the white house lately. with that said, chris christie left himself zero, zero wiggle room, so if an e-mail pops up with christie's name on it, copied, cc'd, sent, returned, replied, he's dead man walking politically. >> you would think he'd check that out but with a quick turnaround. >> to his credit, kimberly? >> ballsy move. >> dana? >> that's exactly the description i would use so i'll let eric use those words instead. chris christie, welcome to the big leagues because every move he makes will be scrutinized by everybody, and in some ways he's asked for that, right, because he puts himself out there. gets great funny youtube videos and every once in a while he'll have a situation like this. now, what happens is actually an abuse of power. power is very intoxicating and when you surround yourself as a leader very much matters. i think -- i'm going to take him at his word. he

their argument being made on the right is obama has become a tyrant and that this is. too much executive power well the beltway is all about blame that's how you get ahead and this is at least two countries and obstructionism when you have deadlock you have gridlock that's an expression of the democracy of the electorate itself but one thing that i do believe that i think the politics of this may work this executive action i believe with the numbers you showed with the fifty one percent and what over eighty percent may be good politics to try to point out to the american people i'm not to blame they're to blame or they're more to blame but again the executive action is going to cut both ways i think even especially progressives are going to start to say wait a minute if you're so willing to unilaterally at why are we still at war why is one top of the not closed why haven't you shut down the n.s.a. as a lot of how do is not close because there is actual law this in all cases this is like reagan you know with the senate needs to i mean by a late at the law there is some

seattle, clouds today, a high of 49. >>> first lady michelle obama turns 50 today. she started celebrating last week with friends in hawaii, and the white house plans a big bash saturday. as chip reid reports, mrs. obama is embracing the mid-life milestone. >> reporter: add an education event at the white house president obama made sure nobody forgot about friday's big event. >> it's her birthday tomorrow. >> reporter: not just any birthday. the big 5-0. in an interview in "people" magazine mrs. obama describes her life as ever evolving. robin, a "washington poswashin" contributor covered mrs. obama firsthand. >> i also had the sense that she was choosing her words so carefully and now it seems she is more comfortable expressing herself. >> reporter: mrs. obama was asked by "people" whether she would ever consider plastic surgery or botox. >> she said i don't imagine i would go that route but i have also learned to never say never. >> i think that was pure unadulterated honesty. >> reporter: with a focus on healthful foods, exercise, and education, she's a big part

then president obama became there was tremendous change. people in the pentagon realized here was the guy that did not like the military, not supportive, things that he said talking about guantanamo like it was shameful and that was insulting. talking by repealing don't ask don't tell that is what he was the most energized about. he had a whole different set of priorities to usher in all these cuts over the next decade so people knew president obama was going to make the military smaller and weaker in bow progressive and people in the pentagon understood that lori: so what was the white house response to his comments? >> it was bin to say they established a team of rifles? that sounds like what they said about benghazi. oh ya. the video after 12 versions of talking points. is seems like damage control the white house is very concerned about obama is a legacy because this is very hard-hitting talking about how obama was making decisions based on politics like in 2007 a purge -- oppose the search also hillary clinton is damaging for purchases

same thing with president obama. he's gone through a series of difficult times during his presidency. this, the one thing that really has dented his popularity, more than anyone else was obamacare, and it was dented for the first time because what voters saw was which was somebody that they felt like they could no longer trust in the way they once did. >> i think that all presidents are loyal to a fault. this president is no exception. we had that with bush and rumsfeld. waited until after the election to fire him. i agree with amy, christie had to fire those aides. he just had to. there was no choice about it. did he do okay in that press conference? >> yes, if his story holds up. but to this point, it has. i think that a lot of democrats on capitol hill wanted at least one head to roll, and it didn't happen. >> i want to credit christie, but i want to observe, doing better than obama in scandal management isn't really the highest bar to clear. it's become this very cliched textbook of what happens when you got caug

obama, he didn't even fire lois lerner. he allowed her to go on paid leave. >> you're 100% right, michelle. thank you to michelle and bob. happy birthday, michelle fields. coming up. >> thank you. >> we made this congressman an offer he couldn't refuse. but he did refuse. >>> time for what we need to know for next week. wayne, you're up. quickly, please. >> i like something called aaon. it's a gradual straight up chart. recovering economy, this is going to do very well. >> john, yours quick? >>'m building a position in base metals like nickel. nini is an exchange traded note tied to nickel price is. i like it at these levels. >> very good. that's it for the cost of freedom block. thanks for joining us. before we go, last week senator randpaul, a good friend of this program announced he was suing president obama over his nsa policies that prompted representative peter king to say this. >> we listen to rand paul and follow his policies, americans could die. maybe it wouldn't bother him. i don't know. >> we tried to get repres

chooses a obama donor for the investigation. we'll have a debate. >> we were astonished that they would be so tone deaf to have a major figure in the investigation being somebody obviously close to the president politically. óqoqúúÑ@ >>> time now for a quick check of your headlines. massive search for a missing member on board of a helicopter. two of the five on board died. >> president obama expects to talk about the tax incentives and job training programs. here on hq you watched the launch of a rocket ship. it is carrying provisioneds. if could send one thing in space, what would it be? send me a tweet at greg jarret. >> we are getting the favorite mother-in-law. up your game people. >> the justice department defending the obama donor to lead the irs targeting scandal. poll teches did not play a role. darril issa said it is another example of stone walling. this administration took a lot of time and sent false statements that somehow there was targeting withstand conservative and when the facts come out it was a one- si

they are not necessarily seeing obama carry repolled. it is not overwhelming as least keep our data safe. we want to know more about the website. and republicans said we'll write that in legislation and puts democrats in tough position. it is good politics. and it sounds as though republicans decided they will do what polls suggest which is fix portions of obama care? >> it will be interesting to so what happened. they are no brainer bills. one deals with data privacy breeches and the other is a good government reporting bill. tell us the updates and tell us what is going on. it is tough to oppose those. the role question is what the next ones are. they are starting the funding for parts and repeal specific parts and change the man date that's where you will so more of the big fights. they are looking at the polls and translating what voters say they want. and a lot of the folks think that is what congress thinks they will do. you wrote a great piece about the status of the investigation in the irs about them targeting tea party and cons

i knew then that marriage ran deep for president president obama. in fact i came to know it as a enforcement and likely growing up with his grandparents and sing their relationship first-hand the future president embraced the marriage is an island of stability and often tumultuous shouting and then when this globetrotting big thinking ambitious young man met michelle robinson in chicago in the summer of 1989 his itinerant legs grew roots and grew strong. at the end of a full day navigating the world and its challenges michelle is a way of reminding rock of what's most important. in photos and joint interviews she had lied on their private moments we see the presently known as life physically and in spirit. she is his place for punishment for grounding, for rest and for joy. i remember being on the first lady's airplane sometime and correctly referred to as they're forced to heading to nashville tennessee where she was giving a speech for church given. it was the day the united states to cream -- up in court was going to rule on the constitutionality

obama missed the memo. north carolina did exactly the opposite, it lowered unemployment benefits this last summer and look at this, the unemployment rate has plunged. clearly incentives matter, mr. president. let's discuss this. here we have north carolina republican governor pat mccrory. welcome to the kudlow report. we appreciate it, sir. >> thank you, larry. it's great to be on your show. >> as i understand it, you took down the unemployment benefits or you gradually reduced them and you actually met with greater success. i guess if you provide an incentive to work, more people will work. tell us about your plan, because i don't think president obama understands it. >> well, my first goal was to pay off our debt. when i came into office about a year ago last week, north carolina businesses owed the federal government $2.5 billion for unemployment compensation. i mean, we were living off of a credit card and, in fact, we were only paying the interest on the debt with no principle whatsoever. we were havin

pero muchos son escepticos ante las intenciones de obama... david campos "no mas excusas, no mas deportaciones" justamente hoy, la junta de supervisores de san francisco aprobo por unanimidad una resolucion que prohibe las deportaciones... esta es la segunda ciudad, que aprueba una medida de tal magnitud. con esto esperan mandarle un claro mensaje a la casa blanca.. david campos "pero mientras la reforma migratoria llega, es importante no separar a las flias. porque muchas de ellas tal vez podrian beneficierse de esa reforma migratoria" en el 2013 fueron deportados mas de 360 mil inmigrantes, y segun reportes, si esta tendencia continua , para este aÑo la administracion obama pudiera llegar a de dos millones de deportaciones... mayra hernandez "yo creo que no ha hecho nada, todos queremos reforma migratoria porque no queremos que los ninos se separen de sus papas pero yo creo que no ha hecho nada hasta ahora" de las 20 paginas que tenia su discurso, el presidente obama solo le dedico un parrafo a la reforma migratoria... en vivo.... cesar ---

when obama came to power. he wanted what he called a reset with russia and maybe it failed maybe it succeeded but it ended and there is a debate who caused this reset or what you and i larry used to call detente they got all these new words but it's the same thing who caused it and moscow blames washington washington blames moscow but here's what's interesting in katrina made the point and the point was made to us to katrina and i me when we were in moscow last week by some of our friends that were before putin came forward with this plan that syria would turn its chemical weapons over to the united nations for total destruction. and that was putin's doing he compelled syria is partial ally to do this at that moment we were on the verge of a i have a reward against syria or if you remember obama was begging congress to authorize a military strike and it looked like congress even the democratic party was not going to give it to him which would have been the collapse of obama's presidency i mean it would have be

obama was elected to the u.s. senate. >> thank you so much, gentlemen. >> cassandra west was a "chicago tribune" reporter who interviewed mrs. obama in this time of transition. >> at that point, how important was her career? >> i think her career was still important to her. the candidate's wife part was new to her. that -- when i talked to her later, that was never part of her plan. >> and just three years later, another curve ball. mr. obama planned to run for the white house. she was stunned. >> no. you can't be serious. because we had just come off of a few years ago, a tough u.s. senate race. we're going to press the easy button for a little while, right? >> wrong. the campaign hit full swing and sacrifices had to be made. one of those sacrifices? mrs. obama's own burgeoning career. >> it was not an easy decision. >> jane newton-small covered mrs. obama for "time" magazine. >> it was something they obviously spoke a lot about. and they used to have these sort of kitchen table sessions where, you know, they wou

you blame liberals on a sore foot. >> i blame president obama. >> okay, fine, you blame obama. okay. all the liberals. but let me say this about hillary clinton. i think she's comes out of this great. everything i have said about her, she's been an exceptional secretary of state, gates backs it up 100%. i think hume is right. gates could have waited. he decided not to, and the other thing that, what brit said was, why didn't you say something about it? where is the courage to stand up and say this is wrong? he didability have the guts to do it then. >> i don't think it's about bravery or guts. i think it was about respect. one of the things he says is he was so surprised as he was sitting there in the oval office and obama -- or it might have been, i don't know if it was the oval os, but in a white house meeting, that both obama and hillary clinton are talking about very openly how they made political decisions to oppose president bush's surge strategy in 2008. maybe you can paper that over as oh, well, that's politics, but people who oppose hillary clinton say that's one of th

"michelle obama turns 50." >> please welcome the first lady of the united states, michelle obama. >> december 16th, 2013. michelle obama shares the stage with santa claus at a washington, d.c. children's hospital. one 13-year-old patient has a very important question. >> i know your birthday is coming up. and i just wanted to know what you're going to be doing. >> you know, i'm going to be 50. yeah. 50. 50 and fabulous. january 17th. and i'm not exactly sure yet what i'm going to do. but it might involve some dancing. >> it's all about dancing. the guests have been told to wear comfortable shoes. >> "people" magazine reporter sandra soberi westphal scored an exclusive interview with the first lady about her milestone birthday. >> she had a girls week with her girlfriends from chicago, oprah winfrey, gayle king. they spent a week in hawaii. now she's coming back for a dance party being thrown by her husband. michelle had thrown him an epic 50th birthday party. and they are so competitive that he really wants to one-up her. >> mrs. obama was extremely candid about ageing and fitness. >

my name is michelle obama. i'm married to this guy, barack obama. >> and she came under fire for this controversial statement. >> for the first time in my adult lifetime, i'm really proud of my country. >> and it caused this enormous firestorm, and it was one example of several that the campaign cringed over. >> after some polish, and some practise, mrs. obama's campaign skills would culminate here. >> you see, that is why i love this country. >> as soon as the american people could see her and judge her for themselves, she was a hit. and it's been that way ever since. >> the sacrifices, travel and hard work would pay off, in an historic election result. >> the nation's next first lady, michelle obama. first lady. hey guys! sorry we're late. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. ♪ [ sportscaster

we've not heard that kind of rhetoric from president obama. we certainly didn't hear anytime second inaugural. >> i think he's spent many speeches calling for civility. as president bush knew calling for it doesn't make it so. >> you expect tonight to hear him reaching out? >> i think he'll definitely reach out. i know he will. reach out to both parties and real will he urge members of congress to work with him wherever he can. he'll cite republican ideas as models of working together in cooperation. i think it will be very similar -- >> john does that matter reaching out in a speech like this? >> i'm sure in part because they're about to run campaign ads beating up the president, beating up his agenda. if he can position himself swom way you seem more real like the person in the middle it can help. i'm fascinated moments like this john and karen can give insights, these guys whether they're democrats of republicans they're competitive people. you don't get to be president of the united states without being a fiercely competitive person. now y

president obama moves to limit the nsa's surveillance powers. what he is proposing, will it put america at risk? and newly released enrollment numbers raises concerns over just who is signing up. and it will send the administration to attract younger. and as the west gets set, the iran nuclear record, will it be the window of opportunity that president obama hopes it will be? >> welcome to the -- to "the journal editorial report." president obama laid out his plan to secure the once secret surveillance programs on friday setting limits on the collection of foreign intelligence and appointing a public advocate and making major changes to the agency's controversial collection of bulk telephone records. the president's speech is after a month-long review of the intelligence-gathering practices prompted by last year's leak of classified documents by former nsa analyst, edward snowden. june -- joining the poll will you please. matt, what do you make of the proposals the president is making here? >> i think he has gone very far toward unilaterally ris

barack obama at this point in his presidency, 167. yet your boss reince preibus said it was childlike. who are you calling a child, president bush, president clinton or president obama? >> for the first two years this president did have a democratic congress, the senate and the house to get everything he wanted. >> and we got a lot done. >> when you're going out and chastising congress after not wanting to reach across the aisle and work with them -- >> you know that's not true. that's not true. that's not true. >> obama was the classic example of -- >> and those were republican ideas. >> and try to fix it. >> those were republicans ideas and they walked away. >> that's just not true. >> based on massachusetts plan which was mitt romney, newt gingrich our co-host. >> nobody who was involved in the massachusetts plan says it's part of the massachusetts plan. no one involved in congress says it was -- >> there's plenty of outreach. >> i just like to point out that in the past two months we've got a deal on the farm bill, we've got movem

she supports obama care, i'm against obama care. i'm for energy production, she's for embracing the obama style epa practices in texas. so she's a dead loser on the issues that matter most to texans and so her only hope is to get caught up in all these kind of ridiculous a arguments that are taking place right now. >> it is disheartening when a race gets to that point, but anyway, attorney general nice to see you, sir. >> you too, greta, thanks. >>> joining us a panel jason riley from "the wall street journal," a. bmt stoddard. am i being too sensitive of this use of standing in so much literature or is this sort of a covert way to mock greg abbott because he's in a wheelchair? >> i wouldn't put it past some of these activists to go there. but i think it's the davis campaign that's desperate. it's interesting that they're calling abbott desperate. but if you look at the polling, in november, there was a poll that showed abbott 15 points ahead. davis got caught in a lie and it's brought her this national attention, and a lot of ameri

attacking obama care. eric cantor's schedule shows two of the first items of business are anti-obamacare bills. way to go. new year, same old far right agenda. what about immigration reform? cantor says immigration bills may be brought to the floor over the next few months there is that republican urgency. and nowhere on the january agenda is increasing the minimum wage or extending unemployment benefits. the real leader of the party weighed in on that today. >> the president's been speaking for the last 20 minutes, 25 minutes, 30 minutes, whatever. on the morality and the economics of extending emergency unemployment benefits, anything to get obamacare off the front page. to get obamacare off the radar. it's nothing more than a distraction. >> helping people is a distraction and a trick to get obamacare off the radar? how about republicans get anything else on their radar? after all, the house is only planning to meet 112 days this year. we're just 97 before election day. it might be another record settin

but in the obama economy, in the obama economy saying let's cure income inequality, let's raise taxes, soak the rich, that doesn't work altogether. we're living in the fifth year of the obama economy, you think things are going well? then tell the 54% of americans that disapprove of the job he's doing. >> let me switch gears because there's a big story out of "the new york times magazine" about hilly land and the planet that is the center of the universe that is now hillary clinton. the president is going to lay out benchmarkers in his 2014 state of the union address next week. do you think that he has to consider hillary when he lays out those benchmarkers and think about the fact that she will have to own or disown many of the failures or successes that he lays out over the next year. is that something he is thinking about as he prepares this speech? >> i can't speak for him. i highly doubt that he's viewing a speech in 2014 as a benchmarker as anything more than what he wants to set down as his stake in the ground to continue bringing our economy back from the crisis that we walked

esidt oba >>> president obama getting ready to bulldoze washington. his master plan now exposed in an e-mail blast to supporters white house senior advisor promises the president won't be waiting for congress to act, and will use every, yes every executive tool available to get what he wants. apparently the years of action will be all about executive action. >> if congress continues to stand only for dysfunction and delay, then i'm going to move ahead without them. i'm going to do everything that i can do without congress. >> whatever congress refuses to act, joe and i are going to act. >> with or without congress. >> i am going to act on my own. >> i have a pen. i have a phone. i can use that pen to sign executive orders. >> did president obama miss the class about the three equal branches of government and separation of powers? rush limbaugh is not holding back. >> he can do executive orders to make things there. he can do executive orders and executive actions to get rid of the unfairness. he will make this lousy country finally fair. you have thes

obama. to some degree the president is promoting his friend and his friend's company. at the same time i think slightly trying to shame walmart. >> how? >> walmart is did etested by th left? >> they adopt shop there. >> i didn't say that. >> come on. >> walmart is nonunionized and has always opposed unionization and the left accuses it of being big, bad, and ugly. i think the president is trying to shame them tonight. >> he talks about executive orders back in 2007 he said there's been tendency on the part of this administration, speaking of president bush, to hide behind executive privilege. every time there's something a little shaky taking place. sounds like himself right now. >> may i suggest one executive order right at the beginning of his speech tonight. ladies and gentlemen, please hold your applause until i finished, so we don't have this constant bobbing up and down countless times which makes the hall of congress look not to -- >> the speech goes on. i'm going to high-five you. gr

then the dismal roll out of obama care. yale university's library gave its top spot on the list of quotes of 2013 to the president's apology to health care. >> with respect to the pledge that i made if you like your plan, you can keep it, the way i put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate. >> and the first session of the 113th congress now holds the dubious distinction of being the least productive in recent history. it has all laid the groundwork for the important midterm election that his come up in 2014. so what should we expect in our new year? joining us now from los angeles, is michael a political contributor for al jazerra america. from washington, d.c., bill schneider an al jazerra english contributor and professor at george washington university. and here in our studio tom doherty a republican strategist and former senior advisor to new york governor george pataki. great to have you all. >> thank you. >> bill, we don't expect a government shutdown now because of budget deal bull we have the debt c

obama and the speech begins. we expect the president to conclude his speech somewhere between 9:50 and 10:15 tonight. g.o.p. will deliver their response. after president obama leaves the house the response begins. the highest ranking republican woman in the house of representatives, john. >> no pressure there. libby, thank you very much. while economic issues are expected to be a main theme as tonight's speech look for immigration reform to be another big topic, and one that many people may want to see resolved. jennifer london has that story from los angeles. >> a popular rally call that means yes, we can. it's been shouted at dozens of pro immigration rallies throughout the state of utah. it's a show of support and also a demand for comprehensive immigration reform. there are some 2.5 million undocumented immigrants living in the state of california. during the president's re-election campaign and during his 2013 state of the union address the president promised to make immigration reform top priority but immig

critics of obama care said health care plan ands access to obama care are two different things. the walmart plans doctors and hospital networks far superior to those offered in the obama care exchanges. >> those exchange plans don't give you access to the center of excellence like mayo clinic and cleveland clinic and medical centers where if you are seriously ill that may be the only place to help you. >> reporter: an independent insurance agent in the president's hometown said the difference in chicago is essential. 1948 doctors in obama care compared to 25,000 through walmart plans. the data could be more relevant given the fact by the administration's own estimate. 80 million on employer sponsored plans could lose that coverage when the man date kicks in. in washington shannon bream, fox news. >> reporter: a final word in from the saints versus the seattle sehawks game. that's next. stay with us. hey linda! what are you guys doing? having some fiber! with new phillips' fiber good gummies. they're fruity delicious! just two gummies have 4 grams of fiber! to help support gulari