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There are some people who have made the argument to me in the past couple of hours that the president might have been better off actually letting this nancy pelosi codel go ahead, and then you could criticize her if you wanted to, if you were him, while she was overseeing and say come back, i'm here, negotiate with me. it's a little harder to do when you're visiting a war zone. >> she is being videotaped, photographed. >> with military personnel. exactly. but it still would have been a potential opportunity. and instead he just brought the hammer down in a way that felt very personal and very ...

The president himself was very unlikely to go. they were preparing for a lengthy one. they tried having a delegation going. look, people like that trip to davos. frankly, so does the president. i think they were trying to preserve it and i think they see a value in it. there was really no way to go ahead with it once you canceled this codel earlier today. there has to be one uniform plan here. >> it would be hard to argument. >> that's right. >> you shouldn't take this trip during a shutdown. >> there are some people who have made the argument to me in the past couple of hours that the preside...

Why? >> hey. hello. >> hello. >> how does it look? >> it is like our perfect environment. >> really? >> yeah. >> it is so rare to have an enthusiastic cameraman on "somebody's gotta do it." walking into a setting like this, cold and hear that it's a dream come true. a fantasy about to come true. why are you so happy with it? >> it has a very industrial vibe. we have a couple of great characters. >> and truth be told, we have such brilliant video because we've had time to do some sexy footage. we're calling it sexy time. there we go. pick up your hammer. that is really good. and set the hamme...

devices. why aren't you being allowed to see what's going on inside the courtroom? a mistake -- dick cheney coming out swinging, being one of the few top republicans to say john mccain's pick of sarah palin as vp was a bad choice. and they call her the missile, missy franklin, just 17 and already turning heads in london. the female michael phelps, as some call her, dives in today for two very crucial races. "newsroom" begins right now. good morning. thank you so much for joining us. happy monday to you. i'm carol costello. we begin in poland this morning where just a few minute...

Impact consumers and these very large banks can have a residual impact on the rest of the economy. before dodd-frank we had hundreds of trillions of dollars in trading in these over-the-counter markets. i call them dark markets as we talked about before. that was totally off of our radar. dodd-frank put that onto our radar, but we haven't put the rules in place to get the reports from the bank, to look at these things, ed. we need to put the hammer down, put the regulations in place to protect markets and consumers. by the way, i think it's exactly the opposite of what the chairman said, the r...