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Dramatic first in president obamas presidency. today more americans believe our countrys image in the world is getting worse than believe it is getting better. with only 32% saying that perceptions of the usa have improved since president bush left office. fewer than one in three think president obama has helped americas image. pretty startling when you think of the promises he made as a candidate. joining me now, a former speechwriter, chief speechwriter, we just added that in because its true ...

Hobokens sandy aid unless she supported a private development project are not only unsubstantiated, they are demonstrably false in material respects. mayor zimmers object it i have -- subjective perceptions do not match the objective reality reflected in the hard evidence that we uncovered during our investigation. in fact, they are contradicted by contemporaneous documents, witness accounts, and her own prior statements. so no remedial actions are required in regard to those allegations. finall...

Delivered a mench from the governor to her, threat in this to unless she supported a project, they are demonstrably false. the mayors perceptions do not match the objective reality reflected in the hard evidence that we uncovered during our investigation. in fact they are contradicted by contemporaneous documents, witness accounts and her own prior statements. so no remedial actions are required in regard to those allegations. finally i wanted to briefly summarize some of the recommendations we ...

Kelly as this erratic, emotional woman who had been just scorned by bill stepien. and so she would be in a condition to do anything. she is described as nervous. she is described as weepy. that piece really, really bothers me, because its an attack that many women will be familiar with, an attempt to undermine their credibility. and the only person that i would say comes close to the same sort of scrutiny in this report is also mayor dawn zimmer, who they say her subjective perceptions dont matc...

Schools in the inner cities are not of the same qualities as the other educational schools, its absolutely imperative that education be the ladder of opportunity. weve got to figure out ways that these kids can be motivated from the time theyre little to stay in school, to let their talents -- were losing so many people before the system is finished that dont have a chance to go to college, even forget the affordability, theyve lost their impetus before they get there. education is the key to am...

Russias legitimate concerns. foreign minister lavrov and i talked for a good six hours, and the conversation was very direct, very candid, frank. and i say constructive because we really dug into all of russias perceptions, their narrative, our narrative, our perceptions and the differences between us. i presented a number of ideas on behalf of the president which we believe absolutely could provide a path forward for all the parties. however, after much discussion, the foreign minister made it ...

Foreign minister lavrov and i talked for a good six hours. and the conversation was very direct, very candid and frank. and i say constructive because we really dug into all of russias perceptions, their narrative, our narrative, our perceptions and the differences between us. ideas on behalf of the president, which we believe absolutely could provide a path forward for all of the parties. however, after much discussion the foreign minister made it clear that president putin is not prepared to m...

The same time. you would know about this. you were one of those 5% who actually flew fighter aircraft for the military. what was it like being a woman in that position? >> you know, you run into a lot of funny stories like this. i look back over my career. theres a lot of times i remember people coming up to me and saying funny things like this. one time a cross-country, f-18, stopped somewhere for gas. this guy walks up as im getting into the jet and said, youve done this before, right? >> i lo...

With putin. how do you respond to what they said? >> what is clear is putin was responding to events in ukraine, not to any perceptions of the u.s. what happened was he made a $15 billion play to try to wrench ukraine away from the european union, and when president yanukovych or then-president yanukovych took the deal, it created tremendous unrest in ukraine and ended in his being deposed. that created a big crisis for russia. this is not the result of four years of decision making on the part ...

Ukraine, and they are all looking at obama as if hes 20 feet tall and manipulating things. so the reason i mention this is that perceptions are very different in different places, and we tend to assume that the russians are looking at obama as a wimp, when actually they are looking at him as somebody who is meddling in their affairs. >> vladimir putins purposes to say hes the big bad guy whos getting his nose where it doesnt belong, when, in fact, the criticism of the president, and you can, you...