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Because -- a counternarrative that has come up in the last year. a lot of people started to conflate the act. the $70 billion act with the bailouts of wall street. so in a lot of ways the president was getting lumped with that kind of mr. bailout narrative. so this is a way for him to say, i'm fighting back against wall street. i'm trying to crackdown on them. and frank lie, that's why democrats were not freaking out when there were 41 republican senators signing on a letter in opposition last week. they felt like at the end of the day, republicans are going to get cold feet, a few will peel o...

To you than he's been in some these more barn-burning statements that he's made on the air? >> reporter: i do, chris, and i think that's because he senses that a deal is beginning to come together between democrats and republicans. i'd talked to a top staff or the banking committee this afternoon who said we're close to make a deal with the republicans, and i think the president dialled back the rhetoric a little bit. you didn't hear all of the stuff about, you know, fat cats and obscene bonuses and all of that sort of stuff. he was trying to present a rather cool and tempered demeanor i think...

So you don't mind. let's take a look, just so he beats j.d. hayworth, that's all you care. let me two to congressman bilbray first. you're a republican. what do you make of the state of arizona saying you have to have a birth certificate to get on the ticket next time? do you think this is ad hominem. is this a bill of retainer as we used to say in the constitution classes. is this aimed directly at the president of the united states, himself, barack obama? >> no, chris, actually this is arizona. this is really aimed at mccain, because mccain was -- there's been an issue with the fact that he ...

And if we go to the bank and try to get money out and if it's not us, it's fraud. if we fry to check into a hotel and use a phony name it's fraud. go the other congressman. what about arizona? why does states try to get into the business the federal government is into? which is protecting us from illegal immigration. >> well, i think the same reason they're involved in the drug war, too, chris, is that this is a community problem. it's not just a washington, d.c. concern or just a border problem. this is something across border. you can imagine how successful we'd number fighting the -- of dru...

The board rather than piecemeal in their state and that's why it's being implemented and it isn't that big of a leap and it shouldn't be. >> go ahead, congresswoman. >> that's just not true, in fact one of the sheriffs there in arizona is under fbi investigation because he hasn't followed the rules and his deputies have not followed the rules. they haven't gotten the type of training that we get -- give to our i.c.e. or our federal agencies -- agents that do this immigration issue. so there are quite a few, in fact, the border chairwoman for over four years, one of the things that i saw was, y...