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4, so they rack waited all of the workers at the plant. there were 50 left. at the time indications seemed to be that that was it. the sort of word on the side was we have given up. our people can't be this close it's too dangerous. then an hour, hour and a half later another shift of workers was back in there saying the levels have come down. but now we are told at computer which monitors the radiation levels is not working. so either we have a serious communication problem or there is a lack of information that's much more serious.

Jamie rubin is joining us, a former assistant secretary of state during the clinton administration. i understand you've had your own private conversations with some egyptian officials. what are they saying to you? >> i did have a conversation with a extremely well-informed egyptian official in the last half hour since the vice president spoke. and at least from this official's interpretation and information, it looks like there's been a fairly substantial communication problem. it appears that there was something dramatically different that today, according to this official, that he etchally d...

President ain't there. there's no there there. the republicans said that all along. people who did support him initially are now pulling away. even paul krugman had an editorial in "the new york times" today says he's going out of his way to prove to the people who put him in office -- >> i can't sit here and let you say he hasn't been here. this economy was in a death spiral when he came in. >> just a communication problem. >> no, no, no. i disagree with him on some things. we're stabilized. the patient is in the recovery room but not getting better quickly enough and merely being in the reco...

He's reading words. it's separating him from us. your thoughts? you go to a meeting with him. businessmen are invited to meet them at the white house, he hauls out the damn teleprompter. he reads it to them. why even bring people into the room, have the teleprompter. i sense it's getting between him and us and i thought the speech last night was a terrible, or a great example rather of him using the teleprompter instead of his heart and his mind. he was reading words to us that any president could have written, had written for him and delivered. >> well, chris, i think most of his problems hav...

>> no, no, that was me saying a point, but, however, if there is a communication problem, i think obama was electrifying in the big halls with cheering crowds. he was funny and flashing that electric smile that he has, you know. he has his shirt off in his shirt sleeves and when he's behind the desk doing the professorial thing it's a little more stilted and not the flash and pizzazz of the obama who swept the country off his feet. it can be more kind of deadly. to that extent i agree with you. the teleprompter doesn't bother me as much. it's more the scale. on the smaller scale he threatens t...