his campaign. i can t tell you. he s a master brander and there is a macho appeal to saying, i m just sick of nothing happening, i make things happen, vote for me. what mr. clinton didn t talk about much is his wife. by the way, i think he need s a cheeseburger, don t you? couple of burgers for the president. looks a little all right. here to explain this, martha mccallum, a close personal frent of colbert. how do you have president clinton on and not ask about hillary clinton? the only rechbs to hillary, bill said he thought he d vote for the nice lady he saw singing on saturday night live. pretty much the only reference we got. val, the bartender. when you talk to a former president and there are two categories. there is news and late night entertainment host which is a different category. when you talk to somebody like bill clinton or any former
president obama s gun control plan appears to be taking shape now. peter doocy standing by with some of the top stories. a senior administration official says the white house is taking a broad approach with gun laws being only part of the issue. the washington post reports a working group is considering universal bangground checks for buyers and tracking the sale and movement of weapons. new jersey governor chris christie says there are more important things than playing politics. he came under g.o.p. fire for praising president obama after hurricane sandy and slamming house speaker john boehner s handling of a sandy aid vote. but christie says, what he did was just part of the job. a spokesman for royal dutch shell says the company will try to drag its drill ship off the rocks of a remote alaska island
outreach for many politicians including some of boehner s stellar republicans who represent the hardest hit states. we cannot believe that this cruel knife in the back was delivered to our region. i think it s inexcusable that we did not have this vote. the federal government doesn t have a role in this? absurd. absurd. absolutely absurd. we demand nothing less than we have given the rest of the country, an emergency in disaster means emergency in disaster. we ve been devastated. and i would hope that the speaker will bring this to the floor as quickly as possible. okay. so those guys seem pretty angry. the anti-boehner performance went to new jersey governor chris christie who said he repeatedly tried to call the house speaker late at night after learning that sandy aid vote had been canceled. there s only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims, the house majority and their speaker, john boehner.
the president warns he s ready to act independently if the senate won t provide his selections with an up-or-down vote. in our meeting, i asked congressional leadership to put a stop on the holds which nominees for critical jobs are deny aid vote for months. surely we can set aside partisanship and do what has been traditionally done and if the senate does not act to confirm these nominees, i had consider making several recess appointments during the upcoming recess. because we can t afford to allow politics to stand in the way of a well-functioning government. we had the last three presidents, come in, talked about bringing america together. actually you could say four, george h.w. bush, remember the age of the extended hand. kinder generaller. bill clinton and eight ugly years there. george w. bush, and then i keep