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>> if you look at numbers, obama i think clear politics has him at 41, but then you look at the approval of congress, is close to single digits. if you look at approval of republicans -- >> >> so what is the consequence? what happens in the fall? >> i don't think this plays in heavily except for the confidence issue. that you highlighted with the poll. if people think the president is incompetent, some republicans have said this is his katrina moment. if that becomes a theme, a narrative in the campaign, it could be devastating. >> bob, how do you see this politically? >> it's a mess, and some...

And right now, we don't have the actual fix. and for as long as we don't have that fix, the media -- and that's a problem. >> what if todd park, the guy that's supposed to fix healthcare.gov, what if his testimony is outstanding? will people change their minds if he kind of says, everything is going to be okay, and just chill? will that help? >> i don't think you can really say. at this point it's about doing. part of it is a crisis of confidence issue. do you believe that the thing is fixed. the thing about the american people, they don't always concentrate on big complex things. but they do ...

On one hand you have a confidence issue, on the other hand you have this political party that has no interest in making anything work. so guess what? everything seems doomed to failure. now let me give the administration is looking into one potential asset here during all of this focus on the website. is suddenly the website works or doesn't working does that become a proxy for the health care law working or not working? obviously it not working is a proxy for it not working. but what some republicans i was talking to yesterday are worried about is they assumed the administration is going to g...

Here's what he said about the president at the lunch with the gop. it's pretty late in the administration to start making friendships. if that isn't a great statement. well, your view about this as a guy who understands the hill and how it works. >> the amazing thing about what blunt said isn't that it just applies to republicans, but also a lot of democrats in the house. president obama's much more comfortable in the senate, comfortable with his senate democratic caucus. when he makes calls, it tends to be from those guys, dinners, he tends to brings republicans from the senate in. >> why, be...

Serve another term. mr. bernanke has two reasons to do this to ghetto bam marie elected number two to get him a new job. we don't have liquidity issue we have a confidence issue. there's 2.2 trillion encore pratt balance shee-- on corpora sheets. we are missing competence of the average american being willing to go take a mortgage out because he's not worried about losing his job or buy ago new car because he is make the payments or a businessman doing a capital expenditure in his business because mr. obama is not going to send us off a fiscal cliff. if we had that mr. bernanke knows we don't ...