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Hectic pace of the presidency, where every decision was sort of life or death and if you didn't do something in half an hour, people could die. but i think that, you know, he certainly is getting more involved in public life. and you see him, he says that his obsession now is to mentor the next generation of leaders and become more of a coach and less of a player. and that's -- and you certainly seem him a little bit more involved from the sidelines. not only doing interviews like with prince harry, but getting out there with his foundation, doing fund-raising and getting more involved, a litt...

For the media to catch up on president obama, but the media today, at risk of looking bad, obama maintains schedule despite the world crisis. this is as the media finally recognizes the president doing fund-raising. >> but that criticism kind of won. you see a lot of that from conservatives, no matter what the xrie sis is, the president is playing golf, the president is shooting pool. and the same thing was said about george w. bush spending too much time at his crawford ranch. but do you think the media is too obsessed to what is actually being doing other than to resolve the international cr...

Put these people back to work. so he's got to change the conversation from, let's not talk about it to, yeah, let's talk about it. it's the central issue facing america today. and i have got a better plan. he's failed. i have a plan that's going to work. if he doesn't quickly move to that dynamic, i think he's sunk. >> joan, when you look at the reality, the reality is that willard lives in quiet rooms. i mean, he has a co-chair of the private equity firm blackstone group doing fund-raising -- two fund-raisers this week. i think he's in west palm beach tonight at a fund-raiser. so i guess quie...

Now. he's doing three days, five states, doing fund-raising, but also talking about jobs, the economy, today he is talking about at active energy here in wisconsin. they want him talking about that basket of issues and less about sort of the side issues so that they can really zero in on the issue that they hope will help them in november. but, of course, with the unemployment high, even as the president talks about jobs and the economy, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to win on that issue. people are frustrated. >> yes, that's tricky. right. >> well over 9%. >> this is an admin...

So they didn't have that handy villain in the insurance companies. well, what a difference a year has made. now, of course, the obama administration is taking that tact, whether it is too late to make a real difference, we will have to wait and see. >> the real turning point seems to to be the election of scott brown in massachusetts. everything changed. the new pop list many, if you want to call it that, coming from the white house, beating up on the insurance industry because of the problem in -- getting things passed and also what they saw in massachusetts. i wanted to bring in now kelly o'...