out prosecuting the trump family which i think is a critically important aspect to this, and then larger issues with new york city policing. i have a lot of confidence in bragg. if we don t get one of these cronies to tell the truth, what actually happens? what s your take away. there are people that say after years of all this, if it is not going to go all the way to the top for reasons that are arbitrary or structural, time to move on? what do you say to that? i mean, you have to keep trying. you have to keep pushing the rock up the hill. it may roll back on you, but you have to keep trying to hold people accountable, not trying to hold them accountable in years from 1980 to 2015. it is how we got trump in the first place. you have to keep trying, keep pushing the rock, keep going to
grand hopes for a just society and what drives him, that hope. two positions, one the humility of what he can achieve and the other the grand aspiration he has and what he said kept him going as a politician, president was to achieve small victories in regard to social justice. spoke about the myth, pushing the rock up the hill. that is not transformational but a process. incremental. i was amazed he gave the interview. you know how hard it was to get that much time with him. i had 40 minutes. it was amazing, extraordinary. he talked about he s very concerned right now about trust. i talked to a member of congress
character. something that this, he stands for what this country was originally based on. but new hampshire is fiercely independent and widely seen as one of the least religious states in the country. contrast that with the next primary state, south carolina, which is one of the most religious. santorum went to south carolina over the weekend telling an audience there the presidential race will soon be on their shoulders. in south carolina doesn t stand up and say we want a conservative on the ticket, ladies and gentlemen, we very well may not have one. which raises the question, why didn t santorum just go to south carolina and camp out there rather than trying to push the rock up the hill here in new hampshire? the answer to that is, he hadn t had a lot of money so in order to capitalize on all the free media he had to be where the action is. wolf? good point, joe. thank you. jon huntsman is gambling that
is spending millions of dollars to flood the airwaves with anti-romney attack ads. is this payback time for newt gingrich? i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. president obama dropped a bit of a bombshell a little while ago in an unscheduled appearance announcing bill daily is stepping down after just a year. he ll. replaced by the budget director, jack lou. here s jessica yellin. she s working the story for us. jessica, what s going on over here? well, wolf, first of all the president actually said that bill daley wants to spend more time with his family. let s listen to part of what the president had to say and then we ll talk about it a little bit on the back end. here s the president. obviously, this was not easy news to hear. and i didn t accept bill s decision right away. in fact, i asked him to take a couple of days to make sure that he was sure about this. but in the end, the pull of the hometown, we both love. a city that s been synonymous with