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Hero on civil liberties. he's also a villain on civil rights for not supporting dr. king's strategy to bring in the federal government for discrimination. so let us have a real debate and not have it just break down on party lines on every single issue. >> shorter answer, because i want to get to this next thing and we're rung out of time. let's talk about what some people are calling the president's charm offensive. he hasn't exactly been a back slapper since taking office, negotiating with republicans. now he is taking them to dinner, calling them on the phone, more meetings are on the way. ...

Face what is coming next there are so many obstacles that he doesn't even know about that he'll have the face. but i think the campaign itself will be very far receded into the background. >> another criticism from inside the beltway has been the president's approach to governing to a certain extent. he is not a schmoozer. he is not a back slapper. he doesn't like to play golf with members of the opposition party. do you think that we might see a different approach in his second term, or do you think that's just who barack obama is? >> well, who barack obama is someone who is very uncomfortabl...

And then we're going to get this whole thing set up. >> you know, cynthia, one thing that i liked about this, and this isn't politics, when the president said the other night, i'll return your call in 15 minutes. that has been a critique of this white house, that it has been a bit isolated, a bit in a bubble. you know what i'm talking about. hard for politicians to get to this president. >> yes. but this was a crisis, chris. what you've heard mostly from politicians is that the president isn't a schmoozer. he's not a back slapper. and i think that's probably true but i haven't heard anybody sa...

>> we're going to help you get it all together. i promise. i promise. you're going to be okay. everybody's safe. that's the most important thing and then we're going to get this whole thing set up. >> you know, cynthia, one thing that i liked about this, and this isn't politics, when the president said the other night, i'll return your call in 15 minutes. that has been a critique of this white house, that it has been a bit isolated, a bit in a bubble. you know what i'm talking about. hard for politicians to get to this president. >> yes. but this was a crisis, chris. what you've heard mostly f...

White house, that it has been a bit isolated, a bit in a bubble. you know what i'm talking about. hard for politicians to get to this president. >> yes. but this was a crisis, chris. what you've heard mostly from politicians is that the president isn't a schmoozer. he's not a back slapper. and i think that's probably true but i haven't heard anybody say that the president isn't available at the important moments and i think it was krit blee important that the president said to the governors, to mayor bloomberg, you can have my number at the white house because they were in a better position to...