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This requires a huge strategic response for the country. >> jonathan alter, you write about this in "the center holds" in your new book. you write this about the presidents economic legacy and how it impacts him politically. it was impossible, you write, to predict how obamas agenda would fair. fights over the debt ceiling and 100 other issues laid down the road. he would almost certainly be judged turg and after leaving off on whether the american economy finally shook off and began to thrive a...

Response for the country. >> jonathan alter, you write about this in "the center holds" in your new book. you write this about the presidents economic legacy and how it impacts him politically. it was impossible, you write, to predict how obamas agenda would fair. fights over the debt ceiling and 100 other issues laid down the road. he would almost certainly be judged turg and after leaving off on whether the american economy finally shook off and began to thrive again. if the economy revived mo...

Washington to just hold hearings? >> i think probably it would be viewed as success by both the democrats and republicans. republicans from the standpoint that, okay, we havent implemented any more of this wacko agenda from the president. the left saying, now weve got something to go into 2014 and talk about how republicans are still the party of no, the party of obstruction, the party that wont allow the president to actually help the economy move through various stimulus or other programs that...

Backlash. by 1934 business is mobilizing against roosevelt already. the american liberty league is formed. its business leaders were not on board with the new deal and they go after the president often equating him with socialism and far left ideas. the second is in 1938 after the mid-terms, southern democrats and republicans in congress form a coalition and their main concerns are any issue related to race, any effort of the federal government to end lynching, for example, and the second is a b...

Like as much as the other parts. he obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch. therefore he has to find a way to run the executive branch so he can give the best speeches. that means having a really good deputy system where he has people that he trusts and gives them the power to make sure what he wants done is done. there are solutions. weve seen them with reagan who was the most hands off guy in the world. ended up having -- he knew his weaknesses. he said ...

So do you think there might be a double standard looked at here? >> no, i dont think theres a double standard at all. its entirely legitimate to look at the tea party. heres a group of people who are admittedly racist, overly political, who tried as best they can to harm president obama in every a way they can. i dont think there are correct parallels between the incident. it was wrong for the irs to behave in this heavy-handed manner. they didnt explain well before or now what they are doing an...

>> call me when you can fax a pizza. >> you wouldnt need it if you have your own printer. >> and it would be messy, double jerk. >> i fell right into that. >> you did. you are the meat in a jerk sandwich. >> here is kobe wilson from the defense distributed explaining what this is really all about. he said, quote, what this project is all about, [bleep] your laws. it is stepping up and going i dont like this legal regime. it is time to step outside of it . you know? >> going baying to what bill s...

What ever you want. >> exactly. >> call me when you can fax a pizza. >> you wouldnt need it if you have your own printer. >> and it would be messy, double jerk. >> i fell right into that. >> you did. you are the meat in a jerk sandwich. >> here is kobe wilson from the defense distributed explaining what this is really all about. he said, quote, what this project is all about, [bleep] your laws. it is stepping up and going i dont like this legal regime. it is time to step outside of it . you know...

Million to support a proposition to fund energy projects and defeat another that would have suspended the states global warming law. he took to the stage to promote the presidents vision of a clean energy future. >> i say this not as the head of greenpeace or the sierra club, i say it as the head of an investment firm thats spent the last quarter century crunching numbers and making tough calls. president obama knows that advanced energy is americas future and my bet as a businessman is that he ...

Comes to play in the 2014 mid terms, but the way in which the districts are drawn, where is it an issue? maybe a few of the republicans and a few suburban soccer moms, but other than that were -- >> kellie ayotte is not -- i mean, she works in cahoots with lindsey graham and john mccain. youre talking about more moderate republicans, maybe they will face blowback for not having gone maybe the way of sort of the moral choice. >> the problem is, even if you succeed in congress with some kind of le...