television series called finding your roots on pbs, and i said, sure, absolutely. you see, i was born in michigan, but my parents were born and they grew up in india. like a lot of immigrants, they thought they would never be able to learn their whole family history. that was lost, they thought, in the old country. i always wondered and so i gave professor gates the names of my immediate relatives along with a cheek swab of my dna. here s some of what he found. reporter: to dig even deeper, we sent sanjay s cousin to hardwar, located on the ganges river. it s a place of tremendous geonoloical importance to hindus. they come to consult with family prooisz who have recorded their male lynnage on their family trees. we arranged for him to meet with two priests who have devoted their lives to writing down family histories. we re hoping that we ll discover other details about sanjay s extended family hidden in these cryptically encoded scrolls. it s all written down then?
the best part of the job is coming to places like this, right here in iowa where you can talk to everybody and everyday americans. there s plenty of fear and anger right here in america s heartland and indeed across the country right now. i sat down with the president just a little while ago for an in depth interview about job, the economy, the 2012 campaign. the war on terror and a lot more. specific about the short-term plans for boosting the economy and how it could make or break his reelection campaign. you said if you don t turn around the economy in three years it s going to be a one-term proposition. do you remember that? when i came into office, i knew i was going to have a big mess to clean up. and frankly, the mess has been bigger than i think a lot of people anticipated at the time. we have made steady progress on these fronts, but we re not making progress fast enough. and what i continue to believe is that ultimately the buck stops with me. a lot of these p