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Civil rights, voting rights marriage equalty violence against women, and funding the cop programs and so much more. he served our country with honor and i thank him but most of all i thank sharon and his wife and family. he has a beautiful wife -- sharon, his wife -- thank you for their service. and i have confidence lynch will exceed the high standards set for her because she is cut from the same cloth. they embody the mantra of one of their predecessors, the man whose building is named in his ...

Predecessors? >> in sort of the laugh-o-meter? >> yeah. >> i think the one thing that he has in common is most of these people dont like to come to these dinners. it is not just radio but tv correspondents. they make a speech and are expected to be very funny. naturally, most of them are not comedians. not only on c-span but msnbc tomorrow night and all over the place, they feel they have to perform almost to the level of the hired comedians who are there. that takes a lot of time. and barack ob...

Speeches at dinners and so he was very much in his element. and so it greats expectations after that. >> how does obama, say this is his seventh one. how does he stack up against the predecessors. >> the laugh-o-meter. >> i think the one thing that he has in common is most dont like to come to these dinners. the large dinner when they have to make a speech and they are expected to be very funny because most of them are not naturally comedians and in recent years because these things are so publi...

Promised the american public he would deliver. and this im sure we saw him express a lot of anguish and he put a human face on this. and you could sort of feel in his words how dramatically uncomfortable he was in this. and that is how this should be. this should not be a rootenized sterile process. >> and finally, mr. korb why the announcement now when the air strikes were in january? >> because its only two weeks ago that the director of the cia, john brennan, was certain about what happened a...

Republican congresses. if you dont like the treaty, vote against it. but to deny this president the ability to negotiate request the same authority as his predecessors, i dont understand why democrats would want to do that. >> congressman, did you support nafta? did you support the free trade agreement with colombia and panama? >> i wasnt here for nafta but i was here for clom yarksolombia, panama and korea and i voted for all three. after the break, well zoom through other top stories, includ...

United states in september. the pontiff played a key role in the effort to normalize relations between the u.s. and cuba including hosting the final negotiations. his two predecessors also visited cuba. house speaker john boehner showed democratic leader nancy pelosi some love greeting her with a kiss on the cheek at a white house event last night. our nbc news producer also caught a close up of the kiss and posted this hilarious vine. the event was to celebrate the path -- but there was no lo...

>> you tell me whether this is wrong smart communications people are saying it is not to our advantage to put our candidate out there. i interviewed you many times barack obama was just a senator and i dont remember that message. why dont they want to put her out there? >> well two things on this. one, the president took a lot of heat in the white house and campaign trail he didnt do as many media availabilities as his predecessors. he did some. >> you have to talk to people you want to elect yo...

Fox news alert. the iraqi prime minister meeting with the iraqi prime minister. chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox us in military analyst. good morning to you. we saw brets interview. what are we doing and are we doing enough to help the leader in iraq? >> this meeting is important. when leaders of countries get together those are critical meetings. particularly in my mind because president obama has a tendency to talk more to the leaders in middle east than his predecessor...

Resentment. saying she is wearing clothes that are more effective than several years of working. and when kim jong-un came to power there was indication was this a thought that kim jong-un would be different from his father. but the bloom is off that rose. weve seen that hes just as resistant to reform as his predecessor and just as bridge bridge -- belligerent to the neighbors. but with his father we never saw him with his wife. we dont see pictures but every few months. but she is so pretty an...

Considered that at the end of the gulf war george h.w. bushs approval ratings sereoared to 89%. two years later he got just 37% of the popular vote. and bill clinton captured the white house ending 12 years of republican reign. clintons eight years in office saw the dawn of the dot com era. and presidency will long be known for scandal. >> i want you to listen to me. im going to say this again. i did not have sexual relations with that woman. ms. lewinsky. i never told anybody to lie. not a sing...