first person they had to the white house, to the family quarters. and they were there was more of a sense that they had to cut a deal without, again, not kumbaya, to use tom s image, it wasn t that. when things really mattered and you had to cooperate, they were able to get these two deals. tom? chris matthews likes to talk about what it was like when he worked for tip o neill on the hill, the speaker. he said once a week in the back room, jim baker would be sitting back there. he was the chief of staff for ronald reagan. he would slip up to the hill and say, mr. speaker, here s where we re thinking about going. what s your reaction to that? and they d have constantly opening lines of communication between the white house and the hill and what was possible, what needs to be done. jon and i both have read reagan s diaries, for example, which are a remarkable political document, in my judgment, don t you think? absolutely. you really get an insight into what he was thinking. af
president obama s most trusted advisors valerie jarrett has a mysterious hold over the president and the first lady and has influenced the president to make some unwise decision. here s how the president describes his relationship with senior advisor valerie jarrett. valerie is one of my oldest friends, over time i think our relationship evolved to the point where she s like a sibling to me. i trust her completely. so who is valerie jarrett? and why does she have such an influence on president obama? ed klein is the author of the soon to be new york times bestseller, the amateur, barack obama in the white house. good morning, nice to have you here. thank you. congratulations on the book. she has unique power for someone working inside the white house. we haven t seen anything like this in modern presidential history. one person who is the best friend of the first lady and the soul mate of the president who is the last person to leave the oval office after a meeting? goes upstai
the white house to meet the president. i said yeah, let me work on that. and we set it up for her to come to washington, d.c. to the white house to meet with the president. she came down with her family. and before she spent time in the oval office, i took her to the oval office to meet with the president, and mrs. bush, and we spent time in the white house mess, and talked to her a couple of hours. it was just a wonderful time to get to know whitney, her mother and her brothers who were with her on that trip. and we had a great time, of course. president bush was wonderful with whitney in the oval office, and whitney was wise to ask to see mrs. bush. she got a personal tour after that of the personal family quarters in the white house. what did president bush and whitney houston discuss? they talked about the president bush was always funny. he listens to a lot of country western music, but he did know whitney houston s music because
and returning troops. he was arrested in his apartment on saturday. police say he was almost finished completing three bombs. the nypd released this video showing the potential damage that one of the bombs could have cause. penn state s trustees have brought in louis freeh to investigate the jerry sandusky scandal. he says he will look back as far as 1975 for information. sandusky s first alleged victim has reportedly dropped out of high school because of bullying over his role in the case. the idaho man suspected of firing shots at the white house on november 11th is back in court. oscar hernandez is facing live in prison. he was charged with attempting to assassinate the president. one of the shots cracked a window in the second floor family quarters of the white house. hugh grant is taking a different stage as a witness in london in the rupert murdoch hacking scandal. are you suggesting there that
researchers believe you may be doing yourself more harm than good. it is tuesday, october 11th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello joining you live from new york. president obama s $447 billion jobs bill faces its first vote in the senate later today. in a warning to republican critics, the president s senior campaign strategist says that voting against the measure could cost them the election. next year in a member row release the by the obama campaign david axelrod wrote the more people know about the american jobs act, the more they want congress to pass the plan. axelrod also takes aim at critics of the bill s millionaires tax quoting while republicans claim it is class warfare, the american people are seeing right through their opposition to asking the wealthiest to do their part. some democrats have doubts and while they control the senate there is no guarantee the bill will get the 60 votes needed to clear tonight s procedural hurdle. the occupy