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About the cable chatter and dont follow it, they do, and they want to win each news cycle and the administration officials are aware of that. >> and it is not everyday, john, that we hear donna brazile, our cnn political contributor, and the democratic strategist say that the white house is wrong, and the administration is wrong, and she was critical of the naacp even though now the naacp is reversing itself and saying that the woman should not be fired. theres a lot of angry people right now. >...

The circumstances of his death. there were questions of detainee abuses that were on mcchrystals watch in iraq. so he -- theres a lot on his record. and if obama goes ahead and dismisses him, it will be for cause. >> what if he doesnt? what if he still doesnt want to do it? what if he sees value in not wanting to do it? >> well, it might be that he concludes that in some ways the braver, tougher thing for him to do is not to dismiss him. and the way he would conclude that, and he made this clear...

The cable chatter, all of the demands of the media out of the equation and he makes a very rational decision on whether this will help or hurt the mission. and the problem for mcchrystal is he hasnt been performing well. and obamas favorite president is abraham lincoln who was happy to change generals when he needed to. so if obama had a really good -- excuse me, if mcchrystal had been really delivering and getting it done in afghanistan, this "rolling stone" article would roll off his back. and...

This is what i got fascinated with in "the promise," is what happens when the cameras are off. and what he does is he strips all the extraneous emotion, all the cable chatter, all of the demands of the media out of the equation and he makes a very rational decision on whether this will help or hurt the mission. and the problem for mcchrystal is he hasnt been performing well. and obamas favorite president is abraham lincoln who was happy needed to. so if obama had a really good -- excuse me, if m...

From any common viewpoint. >> the hollywood squares. >> i think the president believes, having traveled around this country for so long now, that theres far more that unites us than divides us. that the truth is, what makes really good television are not two people that are at the end of a four or five-minute segment are going to come to an agreement, but at the end of a four or five-minute segment are maybe 30 seconds away from doing each other bodily harm. f >> how much cable news does the pre...

>> savannah, the president traveling in maine yesterday, went out of his way to tie health care reform to the economy. said, this is about tax cuts, about small business, this is about job creation. he also went out of his way, i noticed, over and over again to mock not only republicans but people like john heilemann and the press. what was he doing there? >> reporter: his favorite target. i was struck about this. he riffed on the fact that pundits and reporters, as he says, are noting that hes ...

Its been a week, folks. >> well, hes not wrong. >>, no i was going to say, first of all, it was pretty funny, i have to say and i think hes got washington media and political culture pretty nailed. its an age old complaint. everybody always covers the horse race as to whose up, whose down. president obama does not miss an opportunity to rail against what he calls the cable chatter. so, you know, i think he makes a fair point, no question about it, but this is obviously something that gets talked...

President needs a strong world view, a fundamental vision of why things are the way they are and how they ought to be, which can be simplified into a few key ideas and imjs and short idea allege. for obama and his advisers, there is no worse pejorative. pretty strong words. >> yes, it is. this is a group of people that dont like the typecasting of washington. you always hear the president talking about the cable chatter, right and left, and they wanted to break through that and find a center. ir...

I dont know, probably not deserving of very much, but i dont know if we deserve all the attention were getting from the president. but were here and having here for a while. >> ed, youre a part of that cable chatter. >> ive been -- i was in the white house when available was in its infancy, but certainly its had an impact. the bottom line hes the 4th man to serve in the oval office. every single president at some point in time has complained about the immediaty, whether it was pamphlet in the ca...

House, a story like this would send nixon nixon was spying on people because of leaks. president obama strikes me as a guy who is uninterested in the inside baseball stories. he even committed the heresy, and this annoyed me, not to watch cable chatter, and as a pundit, you for found that offensive, but i like the idea hes not obsessed with the inside nonsense of that article. >> and you cant blame rahm emanuel not for making the president do something he should have. ultimately the president of...