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You voted reluctantly for john mccain in 08 but did not agree with his policies but felt hed be better on the economy than barack obama at the time. wasnt president then. youre from illinois. you didnt vote for him. if you do all these conservative things what makes you not a conservative? are you an independent in title? >> im fiscally conservative. the republicans have strayed from that in the last several years. i feel betrayed by them. i adhere to a fiscal conservative message. >> you feel b...

Market tanked between late 08 and early 09. the forecast was we would pull out of the recession by the middle of 2010. we pulled out by the summer of 2009. >> we lost more than 2 million additional jobs, so i guess we could have created or saved some. all im saying is there has to be a point at which you claim the responsibility for the economy. three years from now, assuming hes running for reelection, will he still blame his predecease summer. >> with all due. >> reporter: fdr did that and won...

Doing all this stuff, goinging to baltimore with the republicans, going to the duke-georgetown game on saturday with joe biden. isnt this all part of just reminding people we like them? >> i think this is about, look, fixing his own -- look, if he fixes his own political problems with the middle right now, right? where weve seen him lose sort of independents, or lose sort of casual washington observers, meaning folks that are fed up with what was going on in washington in 06, 08, voted for chang...

>> you know this isnt fair or right and glossing over it is implosion of the internet and what it meant to the stock market misses a couple key points. it isnt fair, it isnt right and moralely reprehensible. >> what is reprehensible is pounding the notion this president is doing something off the charts when in fact -- >> neil: richard, it would be like me saying its not what im eating, its a thyroid condition. people will say, will you stop it. >> during it is 08 campaign john mccain asked what...

Spending productions. >> i do appreciate your time today. >> thank you, dylan. >> what were seeing today is that it was grass roots efforts that helped get barack obama elected in 08. obamas campaign manager writes in his book the audacity to win "without this hunger for change, driven by a belief that washington was fundamentally broken, the idea of a barack obama candidacy could not have taken flight. now, that same hunger could be what drives democrats ironically out of washington, in their q...

I mean, the problem with t bernanke here is that theere is markets are going to be to wondering, does this guy haveisy the stomach, the guts, the intestinal fortitude to take the punch bowl away when heforto sees that the inflation couldnfi be a problem. a proble i think a lot of people areeo worried about that.ie the fed chairman does not haven that credibility. they could be in a lot of b trouble. >> especially with the interest rates having been the near zero now for over a year.ra the questi...

Beginning in 08, not being transparent to the american people and there are a lot of senators who were not, before this vote, who were not able to see the memos going back and forth at the fed prior to the decision to bail out aig. >> paul: so this is about transparency and the lack of being able to see what the fed did when and how? >> well, paul, senator john mccain himself used that word explicitly. he said if the fed is going to involve itself this deeply in the economy were going to need mo...

Sigh of relief this new year and a federal judge is dropping all charges against them. the judge says the prosecution made a number of mistake while gathering evidence. and, in the process, violated the guards constitutional rights. and the decision is upsetting many iraqi relatives of the victims, and government prosecutors are considering an appeal. u.s. stocks ended the year with their best annual gains in six years. the dow jones industrials 30, rose 19% on the year and the nasdaq was up wit...

The wonderful speeches -- all of that had to do with the spirit of 08, vibrant, change, youthfulness. then things crashed, and it took a while to figure out how bad the crash was economically. what obama began governing in was the spirit of 09. it was not expansive. it was more dug in. it was anxious. it was afraid of losing jobs. thats the reality this president has been dealing with. so the tonal feeling between 08 and 09 is huge. what does he do to begin 09, the president? he puts forward a b...

Job instead of basically needing to be a policeman the whole time, and just lecturing people on what they can and cant do, where they can and cant do, where they can and cant go, the masks they wear, what they touch, what they track and trace. it is going to be strange to adapt it again, the notion of people coming to the notion of people coming to the public again, being able to go to the tables without being directed. as of midnight, almost all restrictions have been removed. face coverings ar...