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From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Good evening. I am jon meacham, filling in for charlie rose, who is on assignment. We begin the program with a conversation about politics. In particular, why a polarized washington seems incapable of action on issues ranging from immigration to entitlements. With fewer than 1000 days left in office, president obama must govern with an Approval Rating around 40 . By comparison, at this point in their second terms, Ronald Reagan was at 63 , bill clinton at 62 . Obamas current standing is roughly akin to george w. Bush, who stood at 39 , a...

Focus on the speaker is because it is the speaker with the full majesty and weight of his position who yesterday made certain allegations which he has not at this point answered to. I will yield you have an audience that you dont normally have in the 26 hours that you presented the case to the public. The interesting fact is the whole tenor of your remarks, going back to 1970 and going back to 1972, taking out of context on mr. Born. You were there for one purpose alone and that is to imply that members of this side were unamerican in their activities. You waited. When you responded, you knew ...

Freeman became secretary of agriculture. We organized the agriculture department, so Conservation Service was affected. He could gooice to great falls, montana, or casper, wyoming, and he opted for casper, fortunately. I used to tell a story that if that had not happened, i would never have met lynn, and she would have married to someone else. Her responses, yes, and then he would have been Vice President of the united states. He has a dry sense of humor, and you hear this from people who were his compatriots and colleagues over the years. This guy who seems somewhat humorless went on camera i...

I mean yes we are going to be living i mean i have an economic forecaster but everything i read suggests we are going to be living with an unusually high levels of unemployment, a lot of pain from over indebtedness and a quarter of the country is on food stamps. I mean its not a great depression. We are not repricing exactly what happened in the 30s but its a version of that. See the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimates that Student Loan Debt is more than a trillion dollars. Up next the Senate Budget committee looks at how that that affects borrowers and the economy as a whole. This ...

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