reputation," and a quote from that editorial says, "where to begin? how about with a simple observation: the president of the united states is a racist." with these harsh assessments, why isn't the president responding perhaps more forcefully to these accusations that are being made against him? >> well, it's a really curious, you know, situation. i often wonder what they are thinking in their communication shop, because you always want to get ahead of the story, right, and you want to control the story or control the message as much as possible. i don't know if they are thinking, you know, no matter what i say they are going to beat me up, so i'm not going to say anything at all, or that he's saying i don't want to talk about it, you know, i don't understand sort of why they don't push back. but i do know this, and this is something i observe because of where my coverage is. so, you know, two days ago michigan -- chrysler announces