minimum we would need to find out how congress was lied to on february 4 of last year. and this is the problem we have. the attorney general only wants to answer questions before february, when we were lied to, not about the 10 months in which they didn t come clean. greta: all right. so did you get today, the answers to everything you have asked for, from the attorney general? no. greta: okay. and so now, the attorney general came today. you had the go-round, i heard that exchange. which it got hot. right? we asked questions, he wanted to not give straight are sws and i tended to cut him off to get to the next one. but i think by the time we got down to jason chafits, his answer was that he had superior knowledge to the verbatim reading of an email we were able to discover. this is the problem. he wants to say he has superior knowledge, he knows things, but he doesn t want to provide them. the most important thing was multiple members of our
reservation on the tax cut issues, which he has dialed back, i wonder if that was liberating? i think a lot of democrats, there has been more opportunity to not agree with everything that has happened. as public opinion polls sour on the president, it s tempting if you supported someone else before to say, you know, it may not have been so bad if i had gotten my way a couple ever years ago. greta: early june. november is a distance off. a lot can happen between now and then f. however, this is not a particularly good seven or eight days for president obama. june has been a terrible stretch. the bad economic news a week ago. you extend it to the clinton and now the rendell comments and the results in wisconsin and the news that mitt romney out-fund-raised president obam a. this is a difficult stretch. there is going to be ups and downs. but right now, this is a real down for the obama campaign. they cannot buy a break. greta: i think it s stunning, the fact i keep harping on
ethe battle over national security secrets is heating up. many are blaming the white house. and now, top democratic and republican lawmakers are teaming up to stop the leaks. not only have leaks occurred, but there has been just a cascade of leaks coming out of the intelligence community that puts lives in danger and it infrinks upon the ability of the intelligence community to do their job. this has to stop. when people say they don t want to work with the united states because they can t trust us to keep a secret, that s serious. greta: leaders of the senate and house intelligence committees are drafting legislation to limit access to classified information. republicans have accused the white house of leaking information to help the president s re-election bid. the white house denies that. go to gretawire.com and tell us what you think. back in 2. [ male announcer ] it s back again at red lobster, but not for long! your very own four course seafood feast for jt $14.99.
oppose president obama s position on tax cut exemptions, which he has dialed back. and now ed rendell, taking a swipe at president obam appraising secretary of state, hillary clinton. you supported hillary clinton strongly sure. do you think we would be in a different place if he had been elected. she would have come in with more executive experience. the president was hurt by being a legislator. health care and stimulus, two things i think did good for the american people. but he said, to the congress, here s my concept, you flesh it out. i think hillary clinton would have sent a bill and said, here s what i want. greta: the off-message remarks, will they hurt the obama campaign? rick klein is here. it looks like ed rendell is off the reservation? liberating about being a former governor, not having to face the voters and the obama
this. i don t want to overlyharp on this. president obama doesn t seem to bes on the ground campaigning for others. have you to build up your loyalty within your party and show that you care. i don t see him as the factories with the sleeves rolled up and revving up the unions and the people. instead, he has to make some money, he is out hustling money for himself. he is doing that, breaking his own flight data recorder number of fund-raisers for a president. he is going out there quite a bit. there is whispers of this after the north carolina gay marriage proposal ended up being approved to ban gay marriage and then the next day, he supported gay marriage. the people were upset about that. and wisconsin, the past couple of days, he didn t show up. so you have people in the party saying, where exactly are you going to be paying the chips back? greta: is the campaign rattled at all? or they figure, yes, this is early and let s go out and get money and put it in the bank and then we