it's the right direction/wrong direction poll which so many politicians look at going into an election. asked whether the country is going in the right direction, 14% of americans said it's going to the right direction. 78% said it's going -- it's on the wrong track. >> you want to meet those 14%. >> yes, you do, because i think this speaks a mistrust of the federal government, and while i understand that republicans, you know, think that's healthy, you have to somehow believe in your government. isn't that also one of the by-products of this mess? >> we distrust the federal government and we ought to. we have a government shutdown but we're still paying the people. that's the cost of running government. secondly, if you really want to cut the cost of government, you have to get it from social security, health care, medicare, medicate, and get it from defense. when people talk about i'm going to shut this down, those are rounding errors. if you want to talk about the