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Keep a focus on burnishing that part of his legacy. >> but regarding the format that you were talking about. let's be honest, the white house has been calling for a jobs recovery and a strengthening of the middle class for five years now, so what's going to be different this time? >> i think he'll point out just how much we have achieved in those five years, because there's been an enormous amount of job growth. we're in a much better position now than we were before. but i think he's also going to point to things that he can get done administratively. new initiatives that he can undertake to ...

Liberty. what did we learn today? >> well, it is very clear the public's attention to this problem is growing. and in response to the professor, who actually supports obama care, and supports other policies big time, says the president doesn't have the authority to re-write that law. and even when congress says you know, we should extend the employer mandate he ignores that, and threatens to veto it. and simply does it himself. it is a serious problem, people are waking up to it and that is a good thing. >> but the question is, is it an abdication of duty? the extension he is granting under ob...

War has the government made such extensive preparations for any undertaking. so is that where the obama administration fell short? >> many of the comparisons between medicare and obama care are misplaced. what the johnson administration was trying to do was much simpler administratively. >> reporter: not to mention technologically. >> we're so beholden to computers, and we have such faith in technology to solve our problems. but some of the problems are essentially more complex than that. >> reporter: also more complex, americans' view of the government. >> in 1935 and 1965, people were much m...

Devoting their time in elected office to try to make government not work as often as possible. >> yet you do kind of wonder, carrie, i mean is there anything that either side can do that can make them less popular at this point with the american people. >> i think there's probably still ways that they can do that. >> you're scaring me. >> well, you never know what anybody is capable of, but there's a lot of stuff going on here in washington that isn't making people happy. i think democrats came around to this idea at least the last couple of holdouts in the senate. because they feel like as th...

Can do this administratively. i just don't see within the law their ability to do that. >> so, david -- i'm sorry, go ahead. >> republicans will carry on attacking this. joe, the big question is whether the democrats will rally around the president and think this fix is enough for them if it works. >> that's a great point because mary landru, you heard how she talked about we need to get this fixed. now she's saying this morning it may not be enough, right? that's the real question here, david. whether there's enough for the democrats. so in the middle we're showing the president talking i was...