years, since the end of the primary in 2008. bill clinton has he vacillates over the last few years. sometimes he s on his game and sometimes he s not. that answer seemed long to me as he answered you. i want to get a sense, do you feel like he was playing in top form or do you feel he s a little rusty? i didn t think he was that rusty. he was saying a few different things and he was a bit long-winded. i asked him more generally, does a politician of means have a harder time relating in today s populist politics? he said, no, people don t begrudge you doing well as long as you re transparent about it and then proceeded to answer the questions. he made a point of saying the people asking these questions in a couple of instances, he says, were not even old enough to vote when he first ran. i think this first came up in an interview with abc. so i don t know exactly which interview he was speaking of,
have marriage between a man and woman. and king obama and king holder decided different. they went against the will of the people. america is not where we have a king that gives orders from on high but use influence of their office to change america. when president obama first announced he supported smerj we came out the next week against that. first of all he deceived us in telling us when he first ran for president, that he was for marriage between a man and woman, he was never for that. he did that to get elected first and the deal he made with the gay community was when i get elected, in my second go around, i will fight for it. but he did not evolve he was already there. he deceived the american people,
have marriage between a man and woman. and king obama and king holder decided different. they went against the will of the people. america is not where we have a king that gives orders from on high but use influence o office to change america. when president obama first announced he supported smerj we came out the next week against that. first of all he deceived us in telling us when he first ran for president, that he was for marriage between a man and woman, he was never for that. he did that to get elected first and the deal he made with the gay community was when i get elected, in my second go around, i will fight for it. but he did not evolve he was already there. he deceived the american people,
unemployment benefits and by the way, these are earned benefits be then those people go right out and spend the money. it comes back. it comes back and employees people and it would be a jolt to our economy. right now, as you know in the third quarter, we had a 4.1 growth rate. so the stock market is doing great. but the people in the middle class on the bottom are not doing great. so we ve got to bridge that gap and we need to do it fast. and by the way, this is a moral issue. and i m hoping that what the president will do now is do what he did when he first ran. a lot of people said it was impossible for this senator from illinois to win and said that no way. but yet, still he had a tenacious campaign audacious campaign. he s got to campaign along with all of us and many others and the pope to try to get others in the congress to understand that
plenty of pomp and circumstance for the white house. this morning, president obama awarded the presidential medal of freedom to 16 people. those included former president bill clinton and oprah winfrey. the obamas and the clip tons then together made their way to arlington national cemetery along with some of the members of the kennedy family. and there as you can see the laid the wreath at the grave of john f. kennedy. this of course is two days before the formal 50th anniversary of kennedy s assassination in texas. but behind the photo ops, president obama is struggling. his signature piece of legislation, obama care, is on life support. we want to begin our coverage tonight with john king. of course, john, this speech tonight is a very important speech, right? he s going to be trying to sort of be in the shadow of jfk, somebody who he s been when he first ran for office he was compared to frequently. he spent the day going from ceremony to ceremony looking very presidential, tryin