president obama wants to make universal background checks the law of the land. and he wants to make sure gun manufacturers can finally be held accountable when their guns are used to kill our children. it s time to pick a side. either we stand with the gun lobby. .or we join the president. .and stand up to them. i m with him. please join us. i m hillary clinton and i approve this message.
reporter: entering the capitkap capitol president obama was met with so much energy it took a good five minutes to get started. let s bring to it order here. for this final one i m going too try to make it a little shorter. i know some of you are antsy to get back to iowa. i ve been there. we won t agree on healthcare any time soon. but ha ha, little applause back there. but wasted no time in repeatedly sharply digging republican candidates for their criticism. anyone claiming american s economy is in decline is pedaling hetoric you hear.
listening to this. and he was calling what president obama was saying sound bi bites. that it wasn t a real path forward. that it really didn t pose a solution to isis or the economy. and that we can do better. also, you know, the white house for days was saying that in this speech you are going to hear a lot of passion from the president. some were using the word non traditional. i don t know that this is really anything we haven t heard before. he focused on optimism and moving forward but when you go back and look at his prior speech, especially his first one, you can definitely see the difference there. and he makes reference to a lot. all the gray hairs that he s gained in his nearly eight years now as president of the united states, carol. yeah. i think we just saw the contrast there. i wouldn t want anyone do that to me. i don t want to see a split screen of myself almost a decade earlier. just keep that in mind carol. amen sister. michelle kosinski live from the white hou
crisis, different circumstances but they held our embassy personnel more than 400 days. and this was resolved in one day. which is a success. thanks for your insight. president obama focused on selling optimism to a nervous nation. if we want a better politics it is not enough just do change a congressman or change a senator are even change a president. we have to change the system to reflect our better severalourel. president obama also touched on hot button issues. cnn s michelle kosinski has more for you.
the politics of it all as we were talking about like terrorism. so will he stick his toe into the deepened of ocean or will he skim the top? melissa: exactly. the real point americans are feeling very insecure. that is a lot of what we saw in the last block, if you were watching. there is a lot of tension and apprehension. people are afraid based on everything going on everywhere. it didn t sound like that make began at all. meghan: seven out of 10 americans in a wall street journal poll. one. many reasons why i think president obama is unbelievable failure. he ran on hope and change this country is angrier than ever. we re more polarized than ever. right now my generation looking at future if first time in american history doesn t look brighter than one before us. it is total mess. i expect politics as usual and yelling about people gun owners and love second amendment are bad and baby killers. that is what i expect tonight. yikes! that good, huh?