Allaccess pass to a meet the press conversation. This week inside press pass from new york to chicago to the white house. Its all in a book called believer by David Axelrod who joins me now. David, wewelcome. Good to be here chuck. Youre one of the advisers who decided to write a book while the president is still in office. Should you be criticizing yourself for doing this . I thought about it actually because i have been dismayed about books titten, and especially the reporting of them. I think bob gates book was more balanced instead of the nuggets that were pulled out of it. As he said over and over again. Hes right about that. My book is not just about barack obama. One of the reasons i wrote the book is people think i was somehow born in 2007. I actually had a long life before that. The Obama Campaign was a culmination of that life and i wanted to reclaim my life. And so, you know, it isnt an obama book per se. I knew it would be evaluated as such by some but i wanted to tell that
Push the middle class tax cut message by spending time with an actual middle class family. The message that i got from tiffany and the message that i think we all want to send to members of congress is, this is a solvable problem. Im not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 , but i do remain optimistic that we can get something done that is good for families like this ones. And this actually appears to be working. A new poll shows the president is running ahead of the boehnerled republican team. What about basketball you say . We go to charlotte last night, and the knicks treasury secretary, carmelo anthony, top paid and big star got hurt in this dive and had to leave the game. Then the at the end it came down to this. Looking for felton and finds smith. Two seconds, one second. Smith for the win. Game over. No overtime. Deal, end game, done. Is this meaningless nba game in charlotte lead us to how the fiscal fiesta ends . We
Marriage. And toronto the mayor that has big news that may keep his name in the punchlines for years to come. We begin with a winter storm of 2014. This is a live picture of midtown manhattan, the wind and snow picking up. Its bad, worse in boston. This is a live picture from there. Parts of new england have two feet of snow on the ground as 1 million americans are in the path of this extreme weather. John terrett has been following the situation and brings more. A good evening to you. This is the end of the boston marathon. You know where we are. We are in the square in the downtown, as you can see, the snow is coming down steadily and its been this way since lunchtime today. I have to say we were expecting more blizzard conditions by now than we have, to be honest with you. Its freezing cold. And its important to remember that what we have is two storms coming together. One is a noreaster and they clash and the effect is a huge dump of snow, and massachusetts is the epicentre of the
We begin tonight with with that monster storm that has the northeast on high alert. W thousands of flight delays and cancellations from chicago, to new york. Some areas could get up to two feet of snow overnight, and tomorrow, temperatures can plunge to record lows. Kevin is here now with the latest. John, absolutely, this is a storm we with have been watching in the making for a couple of days now. 18 hours ago, this is what it looked like. The storm was starting to make its way from the west, and 18 hours ago, this is what people were doing to get ready for the storm. Getting ready there, you can see the snow in boston. And a lot of people around new england were out buying salt, and they were out buying sand, and they were out stocking up their groceries. D. O. T. Was filling up their trucks for the eventual snow we are going to see coming into play here. Now come back to the weather wall, what we are looking at. Notice most of kentucky, is all seeing snow right now. New york city,
Shot and get your reaction after we hear from the president. Here now, president barack obama. Hello, boston its good to be back in boston. Its good to be back in boston because one of americas best governors introduced me, duvall patrick. Give him a big, long applause. Its good to see congressman bill keating here. Give bill a big round of applau applause. I want to praise somebody who is not here. I just left him. But he wears his heart on his sleeve. He loves this city so much, and it shows in what hes been doing for years now. One of americas best mayors, tom menino. And its good to see all of you. You know, i was just at the airport, duvall was nice enough to meet me and mayor menino. Mayor menino went back to city hall to work so he could wrap up in time for the first pitch. Im well aware a president ial visit is not the biggest thing going on today in boston. I understand that. I tried to grow a beard. But michelle, she wasnt having it. I am old enough to remember when the red s