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Cyclical. we havent had a recession in a long time because the last one was so deep and took so long to come out of. but presumably there will be a recession, then you wonder how the sort of blame switch gets flipped. >> i dont wonder. hell blame president obama. hell take credit for the economy and the bailout and all the things that led to the economy improving. hell take credit for it. the problem for democrats is they need to fight back. they cant let his messages and what he says go out and...

This isnt about secretary clinton, this isnt about senator sanders, governor omall omalley, senator webb or chafy. what weve all seen -- this is the best that we have. the republicans are out there offering a vision for america thats not even close to what i would like to see and im sure what the vice president would like to see. so this is about his voice in a debate. >> its interesting you talk about the last man in the room, advisor to president obama. because it strikes me that should the ec...

Even as the economy moves to growth, the distributional problems will be worse and not better. >> i want to thank my guests. richard wolffe, susan crawford, carl smith from the university of north carolina at chapel hill, and chrystia freida. >> thank you. and throughout 2012, it has been an amazing year, and we will be back next week when filmmaker oliver stone will be here to talk about his new series "the unhotold history of the united states." and coming up next is the one and only melissa...