seen since perhaps the race speech he gave when he was running for president way back in 2008. when i was listening to the president s words today, it was not really a marshaling of resources. yes, he has gotten assurances for about $200 million for at-risk youth. this was a marshaling of presidential power and the bully bull pit to go into those inner city communities and say to these young men not just that you can be president, but i the president was once you. i think that was a very important message. jim, speaking to many people who have been at the white house, stationed there for a long time covering the white house, producers, correspondents, i don t get to the white house that off except for the occasional invite to the christmas party. but this according to most was one of the more interesting days at the white house. one of the busier days at the
responsible families to them. so, you know, i m not the picture of optimism here but i think what we need is some resolve and also we could use a little help from the bully bull pit the most public official in the world and that is president obama. i wish he would have at least raised the issue with the president of russia. in wicker, thank you for being on the show today. thank you. tweet of the day. congress was hoping for a verdict that would make the next bradley manning think twice before he leaked secrets. ] made just a little sweeter. because all these whole grains aren t healthy unless you actually eat them multigrain cheerios. also available in delicious peanut butter. healthy never tasted so sweet.
whether it s right on the eve of sequestration or if god forbid it has to take effect for a few days, the devastating effects will be so strong, the president will be out there on his bully pulpit, that i believe republicans will come onboard. that bully bull pit, we re seeing a taste of it today. remember government runs out of all funding on march 27th. morning bowles and simpson will be here and are pushing for a rolling out a $2.5 trillion plan to reduce the white house deficit. it s roughly a quarter of those savings, 600 billion dollars comes from savings from a detailed list of reforms to healthcare programs. another 600 billion dollars comes from new revenue/taxes. the remaining $2.1 trillion coming from a mandatory spending cuts, and other changes like adopting the so-called chain
yeah. sometimes i say what we ve been doing is performing unethical experiments on human beings and every place that austerity has been applied, there has been a slump. some places worse than others. whether it s ireland, greece, britain, it has had the adverse impact that people like me said it would. now, i think the white house does actually get this. at least the people in the white house who talk to me get it. they have made a decision, right or wrong, that the president is not going to use his bully bull pit to change their minds about macroeconomics. boy have we gotten this totally wrong. we ve lost all of the lessons of history and we did it all wrong in this crisis. and it actually isn t that hard. the history on this is not that complex to have a reasonable mastery of it for political purposes. no. this is econ 101 stuff. yeah. it s been amazing, though. people policy people with
of conscience. that is fundamental to what it means to be a christian and i believe it s critically important to make sure that we protect matters of public policy from issues of subjective theology. and i believe that people are going to see that african-americans are not just a one issue people. when i talk to people, reverend sharpton, be people are concerned about schools. yep. education and jobs. sure. and whether they disagree with marriage equality, they still believe that these other issues are equally important. bishop, how do you respond to that? isn t this really about people s civil rights being protected? i think the presidencies it that way. you see it that way. i want the president, brother al, to define what he s going to do next. he says, i say he s a private citizen. i want to know if he s going to use a bully bull pit. i want to know what he s going to do. is he going to have another don t ask, don t tell kind of turn around. those kinds of things concern