on okay I'm gonna wear
are so proud and delighted to have a president to Brock Obama on the program
but not a a
with this booking comes a great deal of pressure a great deal of pressure I
think you folks
feel it as well because you're all pulling for me not to screw this up. am
i right
but that's not where the pressure Rams that's just for the pressure begins I
have an 8-year-old son
and the last time the president was on the show my son was like
545 something like that and he said to me
than we're taking my little stuffed kitty for the president
shock he didn't care he just thinks bring in the stuff getting for the
president so
that was four years ago everything's fine we think it's blown over we think
is forget about it will now is 80% stake in his drivers test
any sense to me this morning he says
tonight is the price isometric yes he's on tonight Lisa
see if you remember is my cutie and I said I'm telling ya
I said atau pushing your luck this is a long shot son
you get more important things to worry about than than your kidney and if so
what do you think it anyway
so now all day long thing you know God do I upset the president or do i
disappoint my kid
what away
Paul
death even he didn't even like the cat anymore
it just me be in a dope I see what I'm sayin
you're a good dad I'll thanks for
and
how does anyone know I it's an honor at to introduce our
guest this evening a visa on to talk about the a wide variety of things not
just stuffed animals
please welcome the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama
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pack after a yeah
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but before we get started here
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area alright I think you made the right choice now
I have them here and were what what's more so than here
all hell get him outta there but we'll get him outta there getting outta there
because
I i wanted to know before we get started if you would like to say something to
the empty chair
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how do you how do you feel your convention went
well it was terrific except a as usual people always realize
a how much better michelle is the me and then so then I have to go through the
whole way
people say and boy your wife she was really great meeting
you know a you're okay you
you know Saar she welcome to my life she has a
she's been here many times and and I don't need to tell you this but gosh
very smart and and and easy to talk to and very friendly at
I feel very good when I'm with her she is a
look I'm biased obviously but the she's a
she's a wonderful person and she's a genuine person so you never
doctor I never see her in different settings and somehow she's different
with different people Jesus she's the same
is a close one twenty years his or her 20 years next
the that %uh
I'm just trying to figure out what day today s I
by anniversaries on October 3rd and we will but it will be twenty years
although I want to point out that
our first anniversary she's the one who forgot
is that right know where it was like
Wednesday night Wednesday night and I said the so honey what you want to do
this weekend
you know what we want to on Friday and she said what what's on Friday
as another the we've been married a year
I she added it is just completely one-year
in and it slipped her mind but the line cool for Paul
falwell yeah here at all or some photos
a I you tell us what we're looking at mister president orbit this is
Moglia and Sasha me a the
backstage right before we went up bread for
want to speak to the democratic convention in Charlotte and a
ill will serve an enclosed space and
million Sasha explain to me that this is a lot like
in now the Hannah Montana movie where
hannah's about to go out and a
billy ray says you know go get em baby and they
reenacted the entire thanks so that was rate was lower
what I've got right that why what up to there you go now
a now I don't feel so bad about the cat I
but I when I saw you and your family I was taken by
have grown up the girls look at it said kill you edit it worries me but
the they're surrounded by men with guns as I think that every fathers bring
girl viagra
now i watch the year republican convention
and up to I i don't know whether you watch that I don't know
did you watch you know I've been watching I gotta yeah
babe I i understand maybe talked about me a lot here
I but here's what I found troubling and I want you to help me through this
they had the clock the the Dept a countdown clock
and I mean this thing here's go on like the crazy
and its was several trillion dollars on now we're all
or what what is that well here's what happened
a we had a surplus when Bill Clinton was president means extra money extra money
it was projected to continue to be a surplus up
we decided to launch two wars a
on a credit card we cut taxes
twice without
finding offsetting cost for or are ways to pay for
a prescription drug plan and then we had a massive recession and and so
when I walked in office we had a a trillion-dollar deficits a
debt head-mounted and then we have to take but from the murder scene measures
that cost money saving the auto industry making sure that
a the financial system got back on track and
so now what we've got to do is we gotta a pare down that deficit
get that under control and that
I think the only way we've ever been able to do that effectively is one you
do in a balanced way
so you cut out spending you don't need their programs that don't work
and the OI I tell by my democratic friends all the time
if you're going to be in favor helping the American people
you can't just assume that every government programs working the way it
should
it can work better but what is also true
is that we're gonna need to ask folks like you and me too
do a little bit more and if if if you're tired pay the same tax rates we did
under bill clinton
than that helps to close a deficit and and if we do those two things then the
then we can manage very effectively and and and get our
get our books in order to do you remember what that number was well was
it
10 trillion was a guy I don't remember what the number was precisely right but
we know if this is me
and and I get the credit card guy calling me every day I start to get
scared I mean
as americans should we be scared that we all that kinda money we owe that money
too well
a lot of what we owe to ourselves right because it if you
to invest in the Treasury bill or
or something like that then essentially you're longing the
the government money a in fact the majority of it as is held by
folks who live here but we don't have to worry about it short term
right now interest rates are low because people still consider the United States
the safest and greatest country on earth rightfully so
but it is a problem longer any medium term
and so we're gonna have to take europe does that mean that
the steps that we've got to do it in a balanced way and and what
or part of what the argument's going to be about during the course of this
campaign is
a I don't want to balance it solely on the backs of middle-class families
I don't wanna got our investments in education or
term the medicare program into about your
just to pay for tax cuts for you and me
I think it's important for everybody to do their fair share
to start bringing it down and a in fact we can do it in a pretty responsible way
but
it's gonna require our a will give on on everybody's part and in is it with the
current and my impression uva
Congress and the Senate that there's an no cooperation as:
pedestrian assumption that it me is meaningful you know
right now a congress
is gridlocked and it is very difficult to get things done
partly because a you got two very different visions for the country right
now in terms of where we're going
a you know when it comes to reducing our debt our deficit
a the view or the republicans is that we will not
increased taxes one single dime. on anybody especially
the the wealthy and the democrats view is that we're prepared to make some cuts
but we've also got a ask folks who
done best over the last decade to do a little bit more until you
you you kinda I get everybody in the same
place were you recognize all this have to give a little bit
it's going to be hard to move more things for an end as your reelection
pivotal
in this if your reelection if you're elected they realized or he's not going
anywhere we gotta play ball now is are my i think
it's helpful but when I came into office back in 2009
a several the leaders on the republican
side in Congress said their number one priority was making me a one-term
president
arm after the election a
that doesn't make sense as a goal cause I'll be my second term
your and so my hope is is that they recognize what the American people are
really looking for
is everybody focus on how do we get the economy moving
how do we put people back to work how do we make sure that
middle-class families are doing well and that their ladders
for folks warn yet in the middle class if they work hard they can succeed
and it what's interesting is when you travel around the country though
Dave up the the gridlock you see in washington
is not a doesn't exist
a out in neighborhoods and cities and towns all across the country you talk to
mosbacher if I go to our molly is or
their Sasha's soccer game and I'm standing there
with a buncha parents I don't know whether they're democrat or republican
and most of them have the same concerns most of them have the same values and
they're focused on
making sure their kids get a great education and making sure that
were still investing in roads bridges and
medical research so if those people said that you meet
a on the on these outings and I did I would meet on the settings if they truly
feel that way and I believe you that they do
then they're being misrepresented by the people in congress
well I R what I will say is this that the American people
are a lot more thoughtful decent and and for common sense
than we've seen a Washington over the last several years
and you my hope is that people start
putting politics aside you can't put them side completely
you know these folks are competing in some cases in very honest way since
their ways about
differences and the direction the country but what you can't do
the is to think about the election all the time
right there there have to be moments where you focus on
I early life daily here what's what's going to be good for the word people and
and in fairness
even ok we've got a lot done since the republicans took bass represented as
we've
cut taxes for middle-class families we've a they are
open up trademark new new markets for
US goods around the world we we've made
some some significant changes some significant progress but we've got a lot
more
more work to do do you feel personally responsible that the the job growth is
is not where you had hoped it would be well a
I feel responsible for everything that's that's part of the job
been president and what I came into office
the month I was sworn in we lost 800,000 jobs
we've now had 30 months love consecutive job growth and we've we've created about
four-and-a-half
million jobs which is a lot faster than the previous eight years
but a we've got a long way to go because we had this huge old we lost nine
million jobs during the Great Recession
a and that was a big hole to fill so
even though we're creating jobs we created manufacturing jobs
at the fastest pace since the 1990s we still got this whole
and there's still a lot of folks out there that are hurting which is why when
I try to
expressed during the convention was my focus is how do we get
a strong and vibrant economy what does that a
what does that require and and I laid out a plan to
make sure that we're not giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs
overseas but giving tax breaks to companies are investing here in the US
that were continue to improve our education system and making college more
affordable the work
expanding a are are energy
including alternative energy and and clean energy as a way of creating jobs
all across the country but also
a making sure that we're independent from foreign oil
and that we reduce our deficit in a sensible way and if
if we do those things and and also put
folks back to work using some I was we're saving
as we end the war in Iraq the rebuild our roads and our bridges
our schools there's no reason why
over the next four years we can't
drastically bring down the unemployment rate and
get moving again but it only happens if
if middle-class families and those were striving to work to get in the middle
class
if they've got a shot you know what I was explain to people as
if the nurse a firefighter a
a construction worker reception is a bit got your money in their pocket
the May spend bottom computer further kid or
a replacing the 10-year old car and and that means business as more customers
and that meal was missus have more profits they are more workers and you
get into a virtuous cycle
we grow the economy from Middle out that's always been our district beef
before you leave here tonight
I need to have somebody because misses the American Way why I need to have
somebody to blame
who I I II wanna be able to focus
this problem at and and level blame at someone well here's the deal
a that that that there's there's more the not blamed
a fresh round is this his problems been around for for the
for a decade or more but everybody's got responsibilities
and I think that the key for us moving forward
is making sure that everybody says we're going to do our part
and if we do an Airbus get a fair shot are based on their fair share
everybody's playing by the same rules then we've still got the ingredients
that make us the envy of the world best workers thats businesses
best scientists best researchers a
your we've got all the qualities we need to make this
the 21st century the american century just like the 20th but it's going to
require
us making smart choices right now and
there a big choice that are was gonna have to make this right now
a which direction we go on the next four years that's what this election's all
about
can can I blame Biden
a with VR II Trisha
but I love Joe either I lotto
I all when we come back well we'll talk a little bit about your
buddy a governor Romney will be right back about President Barack
the comment
the
president Obama is another for letting them and let me out the whole
talk about now
the and then the other thing I would like you to explain to me is
what happened in Libya I'll well we know what happened with I would like to know
why it happened and I would like to know what we do
going forward now about in that in that part of the world but first wall
a is it true you're making beer in the white house that is true
laser is that legal I don't know
I I I get to that list we thought we started making them
some somebody said the do we need a license for the cell
in and and what kinda quantity are you makin
I well we just had a a big project today go whole
infrastructure under the white house a that's top secret
I thus far no idea what we we r we made a few
your bottles for offense when people come over the white house
to take it up it is too there's some tasty beer the
the way this started was Michelle starter garden and there was a
are guy who helps a man is the grounds he says
you know I'm a amateur beekeeper so can I
sample or higher next to the garden he said
short right so the things about this big and
it ended up generating a 150 pounds upon
while so we're put honey in jars given matter
give said that stuff is very early good get some good stuff up
so then a you got another
geyer in in the masses says I'm up amateur
bro or in so on I he got through security
do you get a but are always opener
the new idea so he says the I think I can make some summer
some beer with the site so we so won't list right up your
and a based he that he made that %uh the
a few bottles and a isn't a stiff ok well
so are now obsolete we got Lola
what little operation go in there and ahead
you know it up if the president said that thing doesn't work up
I got all microbrewery Bengal
for you now
of II I don't know if you have seen that the videotape but I'm sure you know what
were referencing here
up Mitt Romney at a at a fundraiser I believe in Florida
there's a cell phone video taping his remarks and he talks about being
in very dismissive terms why 40s seven percent of the people voting don't
matter to him
and what what does that mean is that just is that would rich guys at country
clubs are talking about
well I don't know
what you he was referring to but I but I can tell you this
arm when I won in 2008 47 percent of the American people
a voted for John McCain made in both for me and what I said
on election night was even though you didn't vote for me
I hear your voices and I'm going to work as hard as I can
a to be your president and
one things I've learned as as president is
you represent the entire country and 1i
meet republicans a a as I'm travel around the country
you know they are hard-working family people a
who care deeply about this country and my expectation is that if you wanna be
present you got to work for everybody not just for some
and the
the other thing you discover is as you travel around the country
board up the american people they work so hard
I mean the progress we've made sense a
the Great Recession is because you got single moms out there who are working to
three jobs
to help make sure their kids can go to college and you've got
small business owners who were keeping their doors opened
and and keep in their their employees on even though it means they may not be
taken out a salary
and you know you go up to Detroit or Toledo and you see our workers who
take huge pride and in the fact that they're bouncing back in
but they work hard and you don't need anybody
who a doesn't believe
in the American Dream in the fact that nobody is entitled to success
that you got to work hard and so it
i promisee there there are now are people out there who think they're
victims
they're not a lot of people who think that they are entitled to something what
I think the majority people Democrats and Republicans believe is that
but a we've got some obligations to each other there's nothing wrong with us
giving each other a helping hand so that if there's a that single moms kit even
after all the work she's done
still can't afford to go to college for us to be able to give them
you know some help on a student loan so they they can end up being
a their puree max Tuerk disease or
or making sure that the the %uh they're starting the next Google
I think that's a good investment for america and thats it if you want to be
President
and you want to bring people together I think that's the attitude that you got
it do you
having the run many campaigns yourself
is this up a misstatement of on his part
the is this really what he feels you yourself have
I mean you got to be conscious and every word out of your mouth and in the
2008 campaign some things here but people in Pennsylvania being
love tied to their guns and religion or something and then you gotta go back
next when
was at one of those moments or was it something else is this the true
a Republican ideology well I E here's what I'll say
a when you run for president
your honor microscope all the time all of us make mistakes all this
say the wrong thing once in a while you know that in San
2008 a where your
what I said I immediately said you know I regret this
the because I think it sent the wrong message to the country
so your people understand I think that
you're gonna make mistakes on the campaign trail up what is
what I think people want to make sure a vote is that you're not
writing of a big chunk of the country because
the way our democracy works there's a there's a big country and then people
disagree a lot but one thing I've never tried to do
and I think none of us can do in public office
is suggest that because somebody doesn't agree with me
bat their victims or their unpatriotic
or they don't have a sensible iight AI and I and II shows
I should be I should live with this and love it but I am sick and tired of the
divisiveness
ahead with that we perceive and I'm completely ignorant about politics and
how the government works
but you can just smell but some is not working anymore and people are
if I'm second but you lord knows but in speaking over
and by the way every night I sent the wrong message to america but
you you were you were in Florida and you had a republican lift you didn't shoot
at the end
a I think you fix something in my back I
one back yeah %uh there you go that's rather
I'll be right back President Barack Obama
go
there the guy the
them letting you if this woman can't believe what's happening I
all my god and this this is that a member other secret service rather that
one now that just doesn't look right that is the
the president up the world being lifted bio
pizza guy but I mean it really was it was all
is a wonderful guy and a he was so excited that we came
and was great about him is that there has been very successful
makes great pizza like about four but
E this guy started a blood drive in his pizza shop
that over the years has become the most successful blood drive
maybe in the country and a you know he's been
the receive commendations from the president and from
the surgeon-general and and just a big hearted guy
and he is a great example a somebody who
I don't know what is when I met him I don't know what his party affiliation
was just a
a great guy built a successful business and
there is a republican buddies voted for you which I very much but I here's the
other thing that disturbs me is
after this episode he got a lot of criticism
from republicans now that the traditional place for that
I mean it's a gesture it's a warm spontaneous gesture
and that a symbolic for what the country really needs what what's up
so this gets ginned up frankly because up
you know the news operates on controversy and
so you know a lot of folks who get on TV
they like to stir things up and now there's blogs and all this different
stuff
are but you know it's interesting
he is typical I think love how most folks think about
Paul to create what you at all at a table out on the way out in the country
they just wanna see issue a
work together and and like I said is pete was really got
there well this this could maybe be an outlet for the beer
if you play your cards right you know what I'm sayin you're out there now
on
American some connections I get a guest in case
i'd like a distributorship now I
0 when we come back another a laughable battered all will talk about Libya with
President Barack Obama everybody
ok
time
the
the now I don't understand
the the
a ambassador to Libya killed in an attack on the consulate in Benghazi
arm he is this an active war
are we have more now know what happens here well here's what happened
you had a video that was released by the
somebody who lives here the server shadowy character who
as a extremely offensive video directed at
the at Mohammed and Islam
making fun of her profit-making making fun of the Prophet Mohammed and
so this caused great offense
in much love the Muslim world but
what also happened was extremists and terrorists
the use this as an excuse the to
attack a brighter pharmacies including the one
the consulate in in Libya and the irony is as
be ambassador Chris Stevens he was the person who
was first in Libya and help to advise us
in liberating Libya from Moammar Gadhafi the former dictator there
so this is a guy who was actually beloved by a
the vast majority of Libyans and these extremists do not represent
what the Libyan people think a the it is an example though
love a broader challenge that we've got which as we do for l6
you know what we've got it our first job is obviously make sure that were
reinforcing security at these embassies that were
fully investigating what happened in bringing these murderers to justice
that's our number one priority but the broader issue here is
is there's a lot of changes taking place in the middle east and
we as americans always stand on the side of democracy
we we want people they have opportunity that to determine their own fate in
their own destinies
but the message we have to send I think to
the Muslim world is that a we expect
you to work with us to keep our people safe
and as offensive as this video was
a and obviously we'd announced that the United States government had nothing to
do with it
that's never an excuse for violence and and and and
the in this part the region as they emerge into a new form a government part
of what they're going to have to do
is to recognize that democracy is not just casting a ballot
its respecting freedom a will speech in
tolerating people with different points of view and it means that you've got to
make sure that
a you been ever have any excuses for the kinda
violence against innocence that a we saw over the last week and that's a message
that said very clearly to the leaders up
various countries and a there we expect therefore cooperation because that's the
only way that
the the international order works and thats
a you know how I think we're going to be able to see
ultimately them develop in the countries that are doing better by the people I
was talking to
sure thank you a
talking to a friend of mine
com brokaw excuse the name dropping about this this morning
and he says a his experience years
that the the Muslim world as you referred to it their experience with
americans now
seems to be by and large up a guy in a helmet
and goggles night vision goggles a Kevlar vest
and and boots in fatigues in Harvey carrying an automatic weapon
that is the personification the representation
America and therefore it's very hard for them
to also say or by cash you know we embrace democracy we love America
when that is the perceived present what I'd say well what i'd say is this first
of all
a our men and women in uniform who operate their
under great duress in great danger a they
operate no way that should make every American probe
and are constantly I sensitive to the environment
and working with the people most countries
what is true is that us ending the war in Iraq was very important
and and something that a I promised I would do when we did
we r bring an end to the war in Afghanistan
because I think after a decade of war it's time for us to turn over
responsibility for security to the Afghans
in Libya the fact is that
the face of america were people like Chris Stevens who were there
working to helped them build institutions and help build our economy
in a place like Egypt a the old we've got diplomats and
aid workers we don't have military presence there so
the there's no doubt that we have to make sure that we're projecting
a are not only our military but also our values our diplomacy our economy
a are ideals and we have to we have to be consistent
in the application of those ideals but what is also true is that
a there is a
there's at strain of intolerance and extremism
that is not representative up the vast majority Muslims but
you know al Qaeda's that the greatest example a bit but there are other
examples of that
and these countries if they're going to be successful they're going to have to
a marginalize those forces within Islam because otherwise
you're gonna continue to see the cycles of violence do you think the
the year man on the street in Libya the rank and file the
the people of Libya where they outraged by this attack or
accord where they celebrated on all their where they're they're out
coverage by then in fact what was so touching was a the mid
this happen you actually saw I
vigils not only in Libya but outside the White House
among Libyans who live here talking about how Chris Stevens have been a
friend to them
and a how sorrowful sorrowful they were
and and how apologetic they were so it's not hopeless that I
you know it is not a hopeless in fact the truth is that
I disc this region this part the world was gonna be going through changes they
had been living under
up dictatorships and and autocracies for
decades and now they're going through changes and
it's gonna be bumping it's not always going to be small and sometimes going to
be dangerous
that the one thing that I have to %uh insist the
to the american people is that we can just withdrawal our presence
we can wind out our military activities and places like Iraq and Afghanistan but
we have to remain engaged because whether we like it or not
America remains the one indispensable nation and
even countries that criticize us end up looking to us for leadership
because it without our presence without are involved in Margate mint
things would be an awful lot worse well that's what my friend pointed out that
people
on the street and in this part of the world still no america
but they say if if you your airplanes common bomb
my village in bomb our mosques we will retaliate no question about it
and what about this we pull the military out all together at a reasonable pace
and they can become whatever society they want to become
and we just say but if there's trouble you're going to get a call from SEAL
team 6
that over at that and that's that's that's the message that
the we are sending around the world the apartment
a what I've been trying to do over the last four years
is to say that we can narrowly target
those folks would try to do violence against us or our homeland
and al Qaeda has been decimated because of the strategy
what we can't do is sustained you know a five-year tenure presence in these
countries with hundreds of thousands of our
a men and women that the strains on our budget
the strains on our country and obviously the strains on
our troops and their families that is is the greatest resource we have for these
people over there and put them through that over and over again doesn't make
any sense
rhetoric but we'll be right back everybody
the
you're a if it harder or easier
to campaign as an incumbent ARB
it's actually harder because we've got two jobs and
they are you think about the events last week what happened the Middle East
that something you have to focus on as well as campaigning but
up the plane's nicer now and
a.m. yeah he'll be a bit the other the other thing that you've got the
go on for years the you've done this
you know you've made mistakes you you've had some successes
you experience the stresses you're not
the talking and in theory your
you've done the job and so there there's a certain
a sense that
1i when I speak about
the issues a these are ones that I've actually wrestle with grappled with them
I'm not just turning out some talking point from some consultants are some
poll
but well hopefully I'm tell me where people exactly what I think I
a I can't tell you how much I appreciate you spending this evening with us
because I know there's many other things you would rather do
I'll to all my best wishes to your family god bless your family
I seem like wonderful folks and the god bless you thank you so much
go here thank you President Obama thanks a lot good night everybody
the