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Coming back. now you have john podesta coming in. hell take a counselor role overseeing health care, climate issues. one thing you hear from people, criticism often of this white house is that theres so many smart experienced people who just want to give advice and they are so insular they close themselves off to that kind of advice and podesta is positioned to do that. podesta has maintained that independence being part of the obama orbit but not directly inside. so hes going to be able to brin...

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Got 2 1/2 years left of governing and the question is how will he spend 2 1/2 years. ingrid lock with republicans? yes. they do not like him. he does not like them. is he going to borrow from nelson mandelas playbook and do the extraordinary and take a chance by stepping across an aisle and trying once again to come to an agreement, whether its on the budget, whether its on the immigration deal, whether its about, on a variety of issues, on health care, a better way to do health care. ate good q...

50 million americans are in poverty. 20 million unemployed. and racial disparity keeps growing, plus this impact of violence. those issues must be confronted in the second go-round. >> joining me now is angela rye, outgoing director of the congressional black caucus. welcome, angela. >> thank you. >> were listening to jesse jackson. do you think the point that he brought up means that the president has or has not adequately addressed the issue of poverty over the last four years? >> i think hes ...

National day of service, which the president established four years ago and he hopes other presidents will follow at their inaugurals, people in all 50 states today are giving back to their communities as part of the inaugural activities. >> thomas jefferson famously said in his first inaugural address, we are all republicans, we are all federalists. is the president going to make an overture to bipartisanship as president jefferson did in this deeply divided time for our nation? >> well, i cert...

Health almost are an afterthought or a postscript. when you look at the situations, the horrible tragedies in tucson, aurora, virginia tech and now newtown, there are two common denominators. certainly guns were involved but mental health issues were also involved. >> dont you think in the wake of newtown -- ive heard a lot more about mental health now, also about background checks. do you think getting lost in this discussion is peoples full understanding of whats on the table? were talking abo...

Has to get something passed? you always hear about a lame duck presidency. some have suggested hes got 18 months to two years, others even saying hes got like 100 days. then we look and reassess to see how much more time he has. >> he definitely has no more than 18 months. and i mean 18 months to et g-20 it passed. hes going to spend the first 100 days trying to roll this out so aggressively. and hes already really made his move to go toward voters. hes trying to bypass congress right now, telli...

That were taking is the most important. i think we need to get over this idea that because theres one person on the extreme fringe who says one issue doesnt mean that somethings controversial. >> so you say noncontroversial issue there relative to climate change. can you say the same about gun control, based on the news from that meeting? >> well, we spend a lot of time talking not necessarily about gun control but reducing gun violence. theres a big difference. the point of it is that mayors in...

We just havent totally fleshed that out. but i think we need to understand that people are passionate about constitutional rights. and i know that the tragedies are horrific and everyone feels that. any group that sees the first amendment rights, the second amendment rights, choice rights, all those things involve constitutional right and people get passionate about that. >> i want to ask you quickly about what happened in williamsburg. you had the house gop constituents all there together, all ...

Our city has for 11 years been acting on climate issues. its everything from dramatically changing the fleets that we have to looking at water strategy. theres no single one thing that you do. but its, i think, really about saying that, look its not an accident that theres no snow in minneapolis aretha there are huge climate issues going on around the world. we have to act. and i think mayors at a local level are doing that all over the country and we have for a long time. >> what about taking t...