counter a rise of increasing numbers of terrorist groups. the roll-out comes just days after the president announced his plan to end the war in afghanistan by the time he leaves office and just days before he leaves for another overseas trip. this time to europe. that trip is all about foreign policy. the president is traying to convince nato allies he will stand by them in the face of any possible aggression from russia. he will also meet with the g-7 for the first time since exiting russia from a from the group. before he leaves, the president is under intense pressure here at home to use a heavy hand. none of us who will worry about americans national security and have lived through these crisises for many, many years want to send americans into harm s way, but we do want to have a strong and steadfast america. it not that we re weak. we re not. it s a matter of our reliability, and around the world they believe we are
don t have the leverage around the world. i was talking yesterday about the president s record on climate change and paraphrasing someone who had written about, we can judge this administration based on the reality or the threat of politics. you can mount the same argument on foreign political. we can judge the president s record on the number and the severity of the crisises facing him. as you point out, what he is dealing with in terms of the global stage right now is not unprecedented, but it s certainly quite a bit more than any other presidents have faced. statement, he is ham strung not just by republican congress, but if you look at the polling on war in journal, we re still in war in parts of the middle east. there s zero appetite from
pretty nice. cle clearly we re in the wrong business. he s been nursing the bank back after the financial crisis. most of that is stock. only a million and a half, only, is in cash. he s getting paid a lot less than his peers, jamie diamond at jp morgan. many rising their your brows for the bank. bank of america comes in last place in customer satisfaction surveys. rode has been riding legal bills now north of $50 billion to clean up the mess stemming from the mortgage practices and financial crisises. it s still raising concerns. thanks so much. still to come in the newsroom. politicians are out for every
congressman, good to have you on with us tonight. is it a watershed moment? there s a lot of people on the right that are mad at john boehner right now. great to be back on your show. we re at the end of these manmade fiscal crisises. there s enough going on in the world in terms of national crisis taking place and wars. we don t need additional crisises here in the united states. they re playing to the far right wing element, the tea party. it s the overwhelming majority
he ll mention on a night like tonight. the president outlined five big ticket items including the minimum wage, infrastructure development, did not get to complete the task. you know the man. how frustrating is it for him to be reminded of the things that didn t get done and how does he take that mantle and say we re doing it this year? this is not part of my legacy. i think he is frustrated by the lack of an inability to move these things through congress. i think he s deeply frustrated again due to the unfocused nature and the buffeting crisis that hit all through last year, that the white house was unable to make progress. so i think there s that dual frustration. some of that you ll never be able to control. some of the crisises you ll never be able to control. tonight he gets to outline for