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On the economy. 18%, made it worse. he can appoint -- >> only 13% of the american people think the health care bill will be helpful to them >> greta: all speaker pelosi needs is the presidents spokesperson getting -- >> let me defend him again. they do not have a communications problem. they have a problem of fact. their facts are really bad. theres no amount of spin that is going to chain the fact that the rate is where it is, despite what they promised no one wants the health care bill. they a...

Job at selling them. >> but the numbers speak for themselves on the economy. nobody believed that it was turned on and -- around and theyre going to go out and say they created or saved 3 million jobs? the problem is nobody believes that. and that is a fact problem. i used to love it, you know, when i was at the white house, sometimes youd get people coming in and saying well, we have a really big communications problem, like in iraq, no, a suicide bomber killed four people today, thats our prob...

Running for congress. >> mike: lannie, whats good and bad about the handling of the presidents gulf oil spill. >> i think hes right in shutting down to take a look at technology and whether people are ready for a spill and with the stars candidacy and respect her life and her career, whether her candidacy would do a lot if she was in favor of opening up a deep oil port right off long beach and there was a huge spill right now and she would have it say, well, i thought it would be okay. i think b...

Communications problem. its a national security crisis. and what has not been has the dramatic leadership should have been somebody cracking down. the government, the american people lost faith in the governments ability to do anything. when i said incomplete, the other half of his grade as far as im concerned. i lived through the iranians hostage crisis, ive watched the president. and if they dont stop it soon, it will take a terrible toll on the president. well wait and see. >> may i make anot...

Communications problem. its a national security crisis. we have not had dramatic leadership with somebody cracking down. the american people have just lost faith in government ability to win anything. i say incomplete because i listened to the iranian hostage crisis and i watched the presidents confidence bled out. this will take a toll on the president. well wait and see. >> may i make another comment? >> mike: we have to take a break. one thing ill mention your former boss bill clinton would h...

Communications problem. its a national security crisis. we have not had dramatic leadership with somebody cracking down. the american people have just lost faith in government ability to win anything. i say incomplete because i listened to the iranian hostage crisis and i watched the presidents confidence bled out. this will take a toll on the president. well wait and see. >> may i make another comment? >> mike: we have to take a break. one thing ill mention your former boss bill clinton would h...

You quote somebody from the doj, credibly and say theres no evidence of voter intimidation? >> wait a minute. im quoting the republican member of the commission on civil rights. not just somebody from the doj. >> i dont care. >> who has gone through the -- >> who are you going to believe them or your own ice? >> look it is a legal threshold there. is the operative -- is it a reasonable thing for people to be standing out in front -- >> ron -- >> you have people taking guns to speeches by the pre...

Noncommissioned officer in afghanistan. command sergeant, thank you for your time. its an honor to have you here. >> its good to be here. >> let me ask you about the friendly fire incident richard was talking ability. im not a military expert. it seems there are a bunch of different, simple things that try to prevent friendly fire incidents from reflective patches and tape to gps beacons, that sort of thing. how is it that the afghan troops werent identified as friendlies? >> we sent an assessme...

Complete control. they certainly have allowed this crisis to get away from them. shannon: we heard many in the administration kind of saying this meeting wasnt really necessary, that it didnt need to happen. was it more about message than consent this meeting today? >> so much of this white house is about illusion, messaging. the healthcare debate, it was all about, they say we have a communications problem not a competence problem. this brings into bold relief this is a content and competence p...

Hes saying right now he is deeply effected, but how sincere is this believed to be? >> well, i mean, sincerity is in the eye of the beholder. i can tell you as somebody who has followed the arc of this story over the last ten years the idea that benedict xvith would themselves become the symbol is perhaps the clearist possible index i have seen of the vaticans communications problem. because the truth is, at senior levels of the church, nobody did more to try to move the ball on this crisis sinc...