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Sign that says ten for difficulty. is he smart to say it was hard or look, i'm turning things around. don't blame the other guys, blame me? >> you can see them getting away from that argument. americans have been feeling that pain for years and years and years. they immediately say it's the president's policies. if you dig deeper, they say the downturn has been going on for quite some time. they are getting away from the blame game. they are trying to have a narrative to say they are turning things around. he's out on the campaign trail. i talked to folks thinking that's going to give him mome...

Blame game. they're trying to have a narrative where he can say that he's turning things around. they got this american jobs act. he's obviously out on the campaign trail. i talked to some campaign folks just before i got on the air, and they think that that's going to give him some momentum. give him something to argue. and then, you know, at the same time, he can sort of point to the republicans and also say that they aren't doing anything. that not only did they sort of implicitly get us into this mess, but now they're also being obstructionists as he's trying to create the jobs. so they fe...

Say, oh, well, it's the president's policies. but if you dig a little deeper, they say, this downturn has been going on for quite some time. they're getting away from the blame game. they're trying to have a narrative where he can say that he's turning things around. they got this american jobs act. he's obviously out on the campaign trail. i talked to some campaign folks just before i got on the air, and they think that that's going to give him some momentum. give him something to argue. and then, you know, at the same time, he can sort of point to the republicans and also say that they aren'...

>> if china slows down and china may very well slow down, we have a lot of time bombs ticking out there. >> and some of it america can't control, but some of it can control. and the politicians aren't doing anything. you have this group coming to congress who also aren't willing to compromise. there's going to have to be tax raising as part of this deal, it's going to have to happen. why not do what needs to be done? you almost wonder -- what i love about this country is there is a sense of optimism that things are possible. >> do you still sense that? because i've always heard that from peopl...

That it's armageddon is the administration itself is forecasting that we would be getting in $2.6 trillion worth of revenue in the next year. that would be $800 billion more than we're spending just 10 years ago. so it doesn't have to be a crisis if we actually plan for it. and this administration is being irresponsible not laying out a contingency plan just in case congress doesn't increase that debt ceiling. i've been here 4 1/2 months and i've been watching washington for over 31 years. this place is broken. and it's being very irresponsible to just assume that this debt ceiling is going to...