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But its a very large can. >> robert gibbs had a great line, said ive never been to a meeting where somebody says we have a policy problem. its always, we have a communications problem. thats effectively what the president is saying. is that all -- is that legitimate? >> i, you know, i think if you look at the poll, the country wants to fire him on economic mismanagement. the problem is theyre not sure about romney yet. hes going to have to do a lot better than that to fix his problem. >> grover ...

Right, unfortunately he, and the republicans in congress, they have not come up with a plan, ever, in the last 3 1/2 years, to get the policy right. >> right. >> in fact, they havent defined the policy. in fact, what theyve done is -- is everyone says, kick the can, but its a very large can. >> robert gibbs had a great line, said ive never been to a meeting where somebody says we have a policy problem. its always, we have a communications problem. thats effectively what the president is saying. ...

Smarter than you and explain it. i think its a very fair self-reflection actually. >> well i -- i can tell you, though, i can -- i think we can all look at what weve done over the past 24 hours and think of some pretty big mistakes. think of some substantial mistakes. in this case, you have barack obama who decided to go after [ inaudible ] health care reform, while millions and millions of americans were out of work and the economy wasnt turning around. i think thats a pretty -- i think -- i wo...

Implode over time. he shoved politics aside and did what he felt was right for the future of this country and for americans. im proud of him noor. it has been a communications problem and were going to plow forward with it. again, the larger issue sheer that its already -- here is that its fully implemented and already giving greater security to the american people and were going to make theyre ssure the understand it. >> david axelrod. you only vote once now in chicago? no more vote early and a...

Would have perhaps had an even more dire forecast. but once we got new information we are then able to say now we know exactly how bad it was. martha: im not sure any of this matters. you look and go 8% unemployment, right and people are going to go to the voting booth, they will decide whether they were better off than four years ago, right, tucker? >> thats true. i think its more like 17% in real unemployment. this is a theme here and i think its revealing of the presidents management style. t...

Industry. >> dana: there is no law against this. when the u.s. government gives state money, the states have losses they pass themselves to hire american workers. there is no law and there shouldnt be. democrats and republicans look at this differently. how do we make sure the money goes to the right places? instead of giving it to the company give everybody a tax cut. this is a communications problem. here is the thing. you can explain this all sort of way. globalization, visa holders. if you g...

Trash trash. megyn: in the wake of him saying rightly or wrongly he thinks the whole problem on healthcare was the messages that is the less own learned. he didnt give it the right message. people disagreed with that. then he comes out with this message, i dont regret wasting $535 million. >> he does have a communications problem and a policy problem. you can acknowledge they are both there. granted, at the end of the day its about results. and no one would be talking about solyndra if the stimu...

Secretary of state clinton didnt call on iran to release him. president obama hasnt made that statement yet. we could do more at the united nations. why is the united nations not doing any more. at aclj we think that is our next step this week if we confirm he is still alive. im hoping that is just a communications problem. we provided the documents on fox news. it is on fox news .com in the latest story. we translated the court trial for everybody to english. never once was there any other crim...

Office, perhaps suggesting that the country may have missed the memo on his administrations accomplishments. >> in the first year or so, we spent a lot of time just doing the right thing and not worrying about selling what we were doing. um, and i think that the more youre in this office, the more you have to say to yourself that, um, telling a story to the american people is just as important as the actual policies that youre implementing. and theyve got a sense of where it is that were going t...

Not to mention the joint session of congress he had on it. really? it was the messaging? >> well, um, i have to say i think the presidents self-analysis is totally accurate, but its also totally inadequate. he has failed fundamentally to communicate to the american people a vision for the country, um, and where we are and where he wants to take us. and part of that is setting expectations that this recession was going to take a long time -- megyn: he also speaks to that. >> he does, but he did n...