Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120229:21:35:00
Dead on arrival. so is it right to discount the political realities facing the administration during that time? >> i don't discount the political realities. i think they definitely existed. what i think was a problem was this meshing of economic advice and political advice. in the book, i write at length about how larry summers sort of made the mistake of superimposing the political advice on the economic advice he was giving the president. i think the president should have had unvarnished economic advice from the economic advisers. then he could hudle with his political advisers and figure ou...