President Obama's latest book, "Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to my Daughters" releases today. It's a children's book.
Close to 5,000 people have already reviewed it on Amazon.
In other Presidential book news, President George W. Bush's memoir, "Decision Points" is still number one on Amazon's best selling list. It released one week ago, today.
Immigration Reform was one of the big campaign promises President Obama ran on, but we haven't seen much action on yet.
USA Today reports the White House may go for it during the Lame Duck session of Congress.
Interestingly enough, POTUS is meeting with Sen. Robert Menendez and Reps. Nydia Velazquez and Luis Gutierrez of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in the Oval Office this afternoon.
Earmarks are all the rage right now in Washington. Lots of elected politicians like to talk about how they're against earmarks. Then, when they go home to their districts, they're quick to point out the bridge or road that was built because they "fought for it" or whatever.
This is a part of "Washington." It just is.
But when politicians, specifically a newly elected majority in the House, and a White House who sees everything in the world (pretty much) from a different perspective go back and forth about a topic - even earmarks - I do find it interesting.
The capacity to feel angry is natural and good. So for all of us it’s important that we learn to listen to our angry feelings, speak the truth in love, and forgive people who offend us.
Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House who will decide whether he will run for President in the next few months, tells The Brody File that, while President Obama's policies are "very dangerous" and that he's "academically aloof," he does not believe Obama is a bad man or believes that he doesn't love America.
Watch the clip of my interview with the former Speaker of the House below. Transcription also provided.
Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House who will decide whether he will run for President in the next few months, tells The Brody File that he's not concerned about what his critics might drudge up from the 1990s.
Instead, he actually began to explain why he sees himself as someone who has solutions to the big challenges that will face the country in 2012.
As you read the transcription below and watch what he has to say, you start to see the policy framework he might highlight if and when he runs for president.
Possible 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich tells The Brody File that President Obama should borrow a page from Ronald Reagan's playbook and leave the Beltway behind for an extended period to, "reflect on what happened" during the Midterm Elections.
Newt Gingrich, the man who led the last Republican Revolution in 1994 and who may very well run for President in 2012, says the current GOP leadership should "cooperate but not compromise" with President Obama during these next two years.
Watch the clip of my interview with the former Speaker of the House below. Transcription also provided.
Newt Gingrich will be part of next week's Brody file show. Also on the show: Live in studio with George Allen and Tim Phillips, the President of Americans for Prosperity.
Will President Obama bring this up in discussions with Pakistani leaders? Don't hold you breath. From Asia News:
Pakistan has :crossed a line" in sentencing a Christian woman to death for blasphemy. Asia Bibi, a 37-year-old farm worker mother of two, was convicted of committing blasphemy before her fellow workers during a heated discussion about religion in the village of Ittanwali in June last year.
Newt Gingrich, who is a strong candidate to run for President in 2012, offered at least a partial defense for Mitt Romney's healthcare initiative that he signed into law as Governor of Massachusetts.
Romney is expected to run for President and has come under criticism from staunch conservatives over his support for the plan. Watch Gingrich's answer below along with a transcription.