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The army saying that they will protect us and that wait for an announcement. wait for an announcement? it is 3:00 in the morning. what kind of announcement will be made now. >> you raise the military and the relationship between the protesters and the military. again, there will be this enormous credibility gap because as jim traub refer to earlier, the senior military spokesmen visited tahrir square and that your demands will be met. building this sense throughout the day that there would be a ...

Because the news that keeps coming out day after day after day, foreclosures, and now this g.d.p. downgrade. downgraded by 50%? i mean, that was a stunning figure. >> well, it certainly was. and joe biden has put the obama administration in not a great spot. the president certainly has a credibility gap on this issue. just look at the facts. you know, stimulus, it has been helping. its just not helping fast enough. and as you said, we saw housing data, poor jobs data. the terrible g.d.p. revisio...

G.d.p. downgrade. downgraded by 50%? i mean, that was a stunning figure. >> well, it certainly was. and joe biden has put the obama administration in not a great spot. the president certainly has a credibility gap on this issue. just look at the facts. you know, stimulus, it has been helping. its just not helping fast enough. and as you said, we saw housing data, poor jobs data. the terrible g.d.p. revision. and the president is going to have to find a way to fine tune his message on this becaus...

G.d.p. downgrade. downgraded by 50%? i mean, that was a stunning figure. >> well, it certainly was. and joe biden has put the obama administration in not a great spot. the president certainly has a credibility gap on this issue. just look at the facts. you know, stimulus, it has been helping. its just not helping fast enough. and as you said, we saw housing data, poor jobs data. the terrible g.d.p. revision. and the president is going to have to find a way to fine tune his message on this becaus...

Under reported. more pay for good teachers but were getting rid of bad teachers and you can tie that money to performance and able to get the bad teachers off the payroll. >> and she is able to have her desknees do the evaluation as opposed to the unions doing the evaluation. >> well, to point out jasons point, the dismal performance of the students, one of the worst districts if not the worst school district in the nation and yet 95% of the teachers received the highest evaluations before miche...

Its a very selective portrait of the war. we dont know what he left out. we spent a whole week last week talking about somebody who maliciously put out an edited version of what a woman said. it strikes me theres some similarities with that here, too, with an organization thats clearly very anti-war that did this. in terms of a comparison, the pentagon papers, the size of the document dump is bigger, i think. there is a very, very big difference. the pentagon papers fundamentally showed that the...

>> you have a credibility gap. the vice president goes out a couple of days ago and says the stimulus plan was a success. it created or saved three million jobs. spend a trillion dollars, it was a success. it worked ahead of schedule. you just saw that poll, voters simply dont believe it. you got a credibility gap which, of course, raises huge political problems for anybody standing for re-election in four months. >> im sorry, steve, the cbo backs up some of what the vice president said. i think...

Credibility gap. >> heres another poll that we want to show our audience. the question was -- what would you do with remaining stimulus money and the answer is 32% say help small businesses. 28% say not spend and reduce the deficit. 12% say pay debt with china. >> thats what gets me. 12% say pay back the debt to china. did the other 88% say -- >> maybe. >> did you realize there was 1 in 8 americans really want to pay off that debt to china now with stimulus money? >> theyre worried they will be ...

From the u.s. economy. >> when they say saved or created, that metric has never been used before and theyre making that up. >> how do you prove it? >> easy answer is if you give the states this money, theyre able to keep teachers employed. theyre able to keep workers employed, is that the way you save a job? >> assuming those jobs were in jeopardy in the first place. were we really going to lay off 10,000 or whatever it was? >> when we had that poll up just a moment ago, ali mentioned that peopl...

Numbers. >> i disagree. i think thats a mirror image. if you look at virginia and new jersey, independent voters who voted for obama in 08 swung hard towards the republicans. thats the narrative i see. >> the young voters and african-american and latinos, core base voters for the democratic party. >> the white house is kicking off what they are calling "a recovery summer." they are still really worried about a nearly 10% unemployment rate that looks like it will hold for the time being. >> and i...