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Back. talked about how one of his programs is helping a couple here. mitt romney has helped president obama by making some unfortunate comments about letting the foreclosure crisis, letting the market hit bottom. but you mentioned the briefing booklet buying comments that woodward reported made on early in the administration when he decided not to take an aggressive stance against housing problem. the housing problem here in nevada is why the economy -- it's stalling the economy in any comeback here. >> nbc wall street journal poll shows nevada's vote irs are undecided. but here's the presiden...

>> right. >> this is the debt that was at the core of the crisis. this is the debt that's actually improving. >> finally, you said compared to post crisis recovery, because this to me is fascinating. when you start the -- it was clear in the campaign in the white house thought, you know, the absolute numbers are rough in terms of re-election. we have to make an argument about the counter factual, about how we saved the country from real peril and there's been a lot of debate on the left, on the right about the rescue plan, the bailouts, policy known as extend and pretend which is basically the...

4%? >> i don't know. steve, do you think people are forecasting 3% to 4% growth in the next five years on an annualized basis? >> it's not the conventional forecast, but it's not out of the question. you can make a bull case for america. you can make the case that as we work through the housing problem and housing begins to recover a bit, as households pay down some of that debt that miles was talking about before, if you get some certainty in washington, and frankly, it almost doesn't matter what the certainty is, but just some certainty, you could imagine this economy growing faster. i would...

For you and your branding for the rnc going into the conventions. >> right. again, i'll admit, those are not headlines that any party wants to wake up and see. as you mentioned governor romney and congressman ryan came out, talked about how those were inappropriate comments. they didn't share them, and they pushed back forcefully against them. then they got back on to the issues that are important to america right now. i think, you know, the end of the day, right now america -- you got 23 americans out of work. many of those who actually have worked are in jobs that aren't paying what they wan...

All the schools together immediately. the main problem was we tried to integrate the schools but when it came to housing segregation we didn't do anything to fix those laws. the 1968 fair housing act was basically gutted by republicans who didn't want any amendments that would allow people to be prosecuted for anyone segregating people. when we went and took school buses and tried to move kids or shuffle kids around the map all day long without doing anything to fix the housing problem, it really was a spectacular waist of time. >> tanner, is the housing problem a legal issue or is it that peo...