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Chunk of metal came crashing down to the earth right here. i promise you, we did not plan this originally. press wont believe me. it turns out that it was part of a satellite called sputnik. >> and since he says that was not planned, that is quite a coincidence. back to you. >> no kidding. they still remember the spot over on eighth street where it came down back in 1962. >> no one was hit by it, right? sputnik landed in 1962 in problems. >> 20 pound chunk fell on the street in the middle of the...

This is our generations sputnik moment. >> [ bleep ] yeah! go big or go home, im with you. where we going, the moon, mars, pluto? pandora for their reserves of delicious unobtainium? >> to 98% of all americans. within 25 years our goal is to give 85% of americans access to high-speed rail and become the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. >> thats our sputnik moment? their sputnik moment was we have ten years to reach the moon. our sputnik is we have 25 years t...

>> yeah. >> i think. >> not real presidential. >> not real presidential. i think, mark, does she know its over? >> i dont think its over. shes still got her following. >> okay. im sorry, willie, were bummed out. thats really surprising. >> its news you cant use. >> its the wtf and a lot of people focusing on the name that the claim that sputnik directly led to the collapse of the soviet union. >> lets talk about something even more troubling than that. congressman dennis kucinich, democrat, good...

One of the points we make, its actually a column by ron brownstein, is that the president here made a big pivot personally from being a prime minister to a president. and by that, ron meant that in his first two years of office, overseeing a majority coalition, the president acting almost as a prime minister pushed through a pretty robust agenda, unlike anything weve seen since lbj. now with his re-election coming up, hes acting more like a president, moving very hard to the middle. both tonely ...

Such, i think doesnt necessarily mean its not something people will work on." despite a veto threat on earmarks in the state of the union, senate majority leader harry reid came out strong against the president, remaining defiant yesterday. >> is the president wrong when it comes to earmarks? >> of course. this is a applause line, an effort of the white house to get more power. theyve got enough power as it is. short term he may win the battle, but its short term. even john cornyn, senator of th...

Good morning. its our sputnik moment. president obama challenging america with words from the past to win our future. we have everything you need to know about the state of the union last night. also we are about an hour away from the next remarkable step in her remarkable recovery. gabrielle giffords, her condition upgraded and headed to rehab today on this "american morning." good morning to you-all on this wednesday, january the 26th. welcome to this "american morning." im t.j. holmes. >> i...

He said the idea that each of us deserves the chance to shape our destiny is what makes this country great. thats a fall back to lincolns line back in 1859. thats the great divide here. republicans believe we have to get government out of the way for people to make themselves. and the democrats believe we have to have a government safety net. youre going to have this clash with these policy differences. for him to go into sputnik and his version of sputnik is to make solar panelled cells for hou...

Axis of evil for president bush. by tomorrow or the next day, these things tend to be forgotten. >> they do, except for those moments. and i think the white house would like to think of this as sort of the sputnik moment, if we remember it that way. but i think what they went out of their way to do this time, with a great degree of success, is to not make this just another laundry list of were going to pass this or im going to do that or veto this, although he did say he would veto earmarks. the...

Americans are anxious and discouraged about what we can do. you know, there have been timed when we rallied. but its been less well known in the last few years. the japanese seemed to be ten feet tall. there was a swens they would get swept away with all the technology. but we have had other examples. nothing as dra mat nick the last 60 years. >> heres the interesting thing to me. the president talks about the "sputnik" moment. i think he may have missed a sput nix moment. if we are going to con...

Because they understand they have republicans dominated the house, et cetera, they didnt take that issue head on. that would have been a "sputnik" moment to say im going to be the president who will deal with this. >> good point. i am encouraged to a certain degree. we are beginning to hear specifics. we heard rand paul with a $500 billion plan with specific cuts that we just heard. senator bernie sanders with very different specifics on where he would cut spending as well. well continue this co...