law and wanted to join in and be a party to his state s appeal of the ruling. 9th circuit said no way. co-sit in the audience not in the well of the court. what now? he joins us live. good evening. did you want to argue the case and get a chance to go into the well of the court and argue the appeal? well, greta, yes i do. first of all, nobody knows this issue, i wrote the bill. i wrote the bill,. in is critical. this is inherent authority of the states. not delegated authority. states have a constitutional duty to their citizens to enforce the law. if congress had wanted to preempt the states they would have used [ unintelligible ] never have done that. in the in they ve codified
people to consider. what was robert gibbs thinking when he said those kinds of things today? greta: now let me put the other hat on it for you and ask you this, if you were a democrat, running for a national office now in light of the fact that you ve got in situation where they ve flit from town and haven t done anything, you ve got the health care bill hanging out there, very unhappen unpopular with the american people, american people still think they are in a investigation you want to win and you are a good hardworking democrat. how do you get that vote between now and november? i think you ve got to emphasize what you are far without looking like you are trying to distance your sieve from the president. if democrats go out and say i am opposed to the president on these measures or critical of the president on these measures, they are going to despirit part of the democrat base. they have a difficult task saying this is what i believe we ought to do to contron the
growth karl rove is back with us. of course the news greta: karl rove is back with us. the news is rahm emanuel may be leaving tomorrow going to run for mayor. karl, what difference does it make who is the chief of staff? it makes a lot of difference. the chief of staff has traditionally played a role in essence the chief operating officer of the white house, the principle pal responsibility is to make sure the president s schedule is managed and he receives a robust and diverse set of view points on all issues and there s a process buy which issues are managed inside the white house, decisions are made and then decisions are executed throughout the government. so it is a very important post in the government. rahm emanuel has been a unique chief of staff in many ways. heretofore most have been reluctant to express an opinion. they ve attempted to be impartial umpires, managing the white house policy process and the decision-making process in a way that their role has been dimini
economic challenges. if you give me a chance here s what my priorities are gonna be. the problem the democrats have is their credibility is shot. if you look at polls democrat margins on issues like which party is better able to deal with the economy, health care or the deficit or spending, the democrats are way behind on all of those issues. the most dangerous is jobs where the democrats have enjoyed a healthy lead and health care where they ve enjoyed an enormous lead, both of those leads the lead on the economy and jobs has disappeared and turned into a republican advantage. health care, which used to be a high 20s, low 30s advantage at times has in essence turned into a dead even battle teen the two parties. it between the two parties. it is going to be impossible to say i m a good democrat. it has to be i m a good individual who wants to represent the people in my district by working on these things. it is not going to be easy. greta: aren t they lucky
though. because? greta: i guess i didn t want to see all the sausages made. i hoped when i read it there would be strong certainty and direction in the war. it is an impossible war. but i was hoping i felt better about how it was being executed. fair point. what it shows is that on an intellectual level obama realizes how dreary everything is. and so, as the commander in chief, he designed a plan which reflects his inner obama, who wants out of afghanistan. he does not like this war. he does not like war. as you may note when i interviewed him, he never uses the word win. he never uses the word victory. greta: going throughout book, all these national security meetings in the situation room which you chronicle in here, they are constantly asking like what s our mission?