getting rid of people who tell him you can t do that, you shouldn t do that, that s not a smart thing to do, and surrounding himself increasingly with his legal team, his economic team, and his national security team with people who will say you re exactly right, trust your gut, do what you think is the right thing to do, live with the consequences. ashley, does this match the reporting that the president is finding himself more comfortable within the contours of the job, that he s plainly happier? and subsection of that question, what about the staff? what about the folks who work for him? there s sort of an inverse correlati correlation, right? as the president finds himself more and more comfortable, his staff finds himself increasingly less comfortable and dismayed. it s frupt president is emboldened. he is trusting his instincts more, and he s doing what he wants. i mean, basically, this is a president who was always going to do what he wanted but it s just coming into sharper
beauty salons, you know, in the neighborhoods who are saying to themselves, you know, we love barack, we especially love michelle and so you know it was exciting and now we re not excited as much and you know what, i need everybody to understand that everything we ve done is dependent on me being able to pass the baton to somebody who believes in the same things i believe in. so what s your response to that, stacy? could this also be motivating for republicans, as well? well, i mean, i think he s making the case for blacks to turnout at something near the levels that they did for him. the issue is, there was a historic nature to the election of the first black president and that s not the same thing that s going on right now. hillary clinton has some issues with the black community and so there s it s not a correlati correlation. i think his words will motivate some people to turn out and vote
this is very disturbing that in 09, a very prominent economist said for the first time there is no correlation between our gdp in the stock market and the help of the domestic economy meaning we re reporting all of these great numbers, but they re coming from the multinationals who don t need to rely on the american consumer anymore. so 50 years ago they said to congress, put money into this country, build infrastructure, we ll support the taxes and the policies to do this. now we don t really care because we want more development in china over india. so when you ve lost that correlati correlation, the american people, and that s not just the workers of the poor, the middle class. that s everybody needs to fight for the well-being of our domestic economy because a lot of the money on capitol hill, the big money and the big
no, not in new york, in d.c. p. in a diner. it improves dramatically but no food. it begins this morning with a massacre in afghanistan apparently by an american soldier and this morning as well. the taliban is vowing revenge. the soldiers from the joint base in washington state here s how it went down. door to door he went yesterday morning in kandahar province opening fire, i ll killing at least 16 people while they slept, many children. president karzai said the dead include 9 children, 3 women. and after the attacks the soldier then returned to his base and surrendered. president obama today offering his condolences. karzai, however, is furious. is calling the killings intentional and, quote, acts of terror and unforgivable. sarah is live for news kabul, afghanistan, this morning. hey, good morning to you. what s the latest on this? good morn, soledad. i just saw pretty gruesome images in western afghanistan where this happened and there were some witnesses also tal