Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140120:16:32:00
About the president's reaction to being a change agent. >> the big currents of history are things that you can adjust only slightly. that's the way he is seeing it, and as i was leaving the oval office at one point, we've been discussing the great man theory of history, whether great men and women effect history, or do currents of history effect things more, and he said, you know, i'm glad that the president of the united states cannot completely transform american society. >> what's your reaction to that and whether this is as important to some as other issues but whether we'll have a real an...