incredible reaction? well, first of all, great to be with you. i m a big fan, so is annabell, and it s great to talk about someone that we have known and loved for about 42 years. and i can just say this, i know that president trump made a late afternoon statement that he thinks he would beat oprah, but that she won t run. and having talked to her, i m not sure that she wants to. i believe she does not want to run. i believe that she would rather be focusing not on moving into the white house but her movie that s coming up a wrinkle in time which i think debuts in march. she would be, erin, a formidable candidate for anybody who would run, whether it be against trump or some other republican. because she, as you saw at the golden globes, the different people that were standing up and standing ovations. it wasn t just they who were excited about it. the next day, in fact, later that night, social media exploded. and oprah told me that she was
base. i think they re in a different place than they were during the george w. bush administration. look out, marco rubio. there might be a stress ball with your name on it if you re not careful. the huffington post s sam stein, thanks for that speed round. can i say one thing? yeah. the best part of the day was donald trump got up there and he talked about jim m carter, said the late great jimmy carter. jimmy carter is alive. he s not late. i feel bad. want to send my sympathies. roundly insulted multiple times today. poor president carter. we ll end on that note. poor guy. thanks, sam. coming um, president obama plays the role of explainer in chief, answering questions today at a town hall on the affordable care act and immigration reform. we ll talk with the co-host of that event, telemundo s jose diaz bullard. but first president delivers a tough afternoon statement on ukraine plooif the white house briefing room. isle ask deputy national security advisor ben rhod
coming out of the mouth of the pope. there isn t such unferted capitalism that doesn t exist. that is a liberal socialist phrase to describe the united states. reporter: the pope never used the words unfetterred capitalism. christopher said limbaugh read what he wanted to read. the pope isn t against capitalism, he is against capitalism that is serving profits. he wants a human centered capitalism. he wants a capitalism that promotes people over profits. reporter: and headlines aren t helping to clarify the pope s message. the liberal media latched on to his recent comments about how the church has become obsessed with abortion, gay marriage and contraception. hale warns against slicing and dicing the holy father s words. if you try to say this is a liberal statement, this is a deserve afternoon statement, liberals cheer for one side, conservatives for the other side, you re missing the point. what does the pope want to change about the catholic
to the security of the full faith and credit of the united states of america. the tectonic thing that happened in american finance and also in american politics over the last three days is that a ratings agency, standard & poors, said don t buy u.s. treasury bonds. standard & poor s said if you loan money to the united states, we are less sure than we used to be the country will pay you back. the whole point of the downgrade was to say the u.s. treasury essentially can no longer be trusted. the market responded by giving the u.s. treasury all of their money. it s kind of hard to sell treasuries when you have a market meltdown here. the fight to quality is still the u.s. treasuries, it s the best thing out there. flight to quality. best thing out there. that was also what president obama was talking about today in his mid afternoon statement on the markets at the white house. on friday, we learned that the united states received a