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>> im always optimistic. there are times where i was in the oval office and people would come to me with all kinds of political problems and policy problems and international problems and my team would be getting discouraged and depressed and i would say to them, i have to be optimistic because the odds of somebody named barack obama being president of the united states were very low. and the fact that in my lifetime, i have seen such enormous positive change in the

There are times where i was in the oval office and people would come to me with all kinds of political problems and policy problems and international problems and my team would be getting discouraged and depressed and i would say to them i have to be optimistic because the odds of somebody named barack obama being president of the united states were very low. and the fact that in my lifetime i have seen such enormous positive change in the united states and around the world. tells me that, that ...

His attitude on gay marriage, let each state decide. >> more libertarian. >> exactly. thats not the rick santorum or the mike huckabee attitude. im waiting to see how that plays out in iowa. if rick santorum gets on a debate stage with him, i think hell expose some of that -- >> did you say if rick santorum gets on the debate stage? >> yeah. >> i dont know if thats going to happen. ive been hearing this argument that cruz is grabbing the libertarians from rand paul and some of the populist conse...

Should be having dinner with the first family. something that he does regularly and certainly before big speeches, before doing his state of the union address as he does each year, and after that, he will do what he always does which is take some time, some quiet time to himself away from aides as much as about 20 minutes collecting his thoughts before he heads up to capitol hill. >> hes got a major major speech, a lot of pressure is on him right now. brianna over at the white house, john king, ...

Got a big bit of its oil from south sudan, and when it was turned off, china was forced to go to the international oil market to buy oil, which then drove up the price on the international market which then caused the price of oil to go up in the united states. and this was during president obamas reelection campaign, 2012. the president accused president obama of not caring about policy problems but only about his reelection. word of caution. i dont have the president obama side of the conversa...

Right wing, republicans are going to continue to have major policy problems with women voters. >> and holland cook, the financial issues with clear channel well documented. moving him, the big gun, for years off the big stations really is a statement that hes not the guy to bring him back into the black. >> yeah. that company recently offered to double the interest it owes its competitors on some $20 billion of loans coming due that they dont know how theyre going to pay. just to kick the can do...

Line written down. >> when we were told the old plans were worse. the new plans are worse than the old plans. this is surprising to obama that this is so bad. but everything government touches becomes 10% as as before. it is a confidence removal machine. obama care is the taco bell of democracy. >> why are you talking about taco bell. >> you are stuck in one place for white a -- a while. >> no one can get into the bathroom around here. and dana, how do they clean up this message? if you are jay ...

They can to take it away. >> amen to that. it reminds me of something mark twain says reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. thats not quite where we are with the obama presidency just yet. what does it have to do to move forward? get the website going. its not a policy problem. its an implementation problem. thats a lot easier. if we had significant policy problems, we were worrying than right now we have an implementation problem which it totally is sur mountable. its different tha...

Sfxt let letters we cant get 25,000 people to go to healthcare.gov without it crashing. how are we going to get them back on their policies in a month? >> we are not. what we saw this week was a short-term sort cited political fix to keep the upton bill from going to the senate and passing and going into conference with the upton bill and having a mass defec defection of democrats. he made the policy problems worse. but he skirted by another week which is all he seems to care about when he gets ...

Theyre saying, no, mr. president, we need to fix this fast. >> were on the day eve-- ballo every day, john. i felt like i knew this was going to happen. by the way, the whole key are the young people who are healthy. it will wind up costing them money and there are penals. how much of the 5% are these people and are the democrats frozen by the politics right now instead of arguing the case? >> i think theyre frozen by the politics. thats a great point. theyre frozen by the politics because of wh...