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>> i'm 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 although

His attitude on gay marriage, let each state decide. >> more libertarian. >> exactly. that's not the rick santorum or the mike huckabee attitude. i'm waiting to see how that plays out in iowa. if rick santorum gets on a debate stage with him, i think he'll expose some of that -- >> did you say if rick santorum gets on the debate stage? >> yeah. >> i don't know if that's going to happen. i've been hearing this argument that cruz is grabbing the libertarians from rand paul and some of the populist conservative movement -- populace, but as he tries to put it all together, he runs into some policy...

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. >> he's got a major major speech, a lot of pressure is on him right now. brianna over at the white house, john king, the challenges are enormous. right now, if you take a look what has happened over the past year. >>...

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 obama's reelection campaign, 2012. the president accused president obama of not caring about policy problems but only about his reelection. word of caution. i don't have the president obama side of the conversation, but i'm only reporting what the president of south sudan told us. if you have an issue you t...