MSNBC MSNBC Live August 9, 2011
attended a fund-raiser last night where he said he inherited much of the current debt problem, so is the white house caught flat footed by this crisis and underreacting to how the american people want to see the president respond? >> well, thomas, the white house would argue no they are trying to make the case that the president is remaining calm and restorem so optimism given the difficult economic times. we have heard him talk for some time that we are in the process of recovering, and we have made some gains since 2008 when he took office, but there are certainly headwinds that we...