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Something. he needs to stand up for what he thinks is right. he needs to say this is the right thing to do, and then he has to say this is the do nothing congress in the way of getting people jobs. >> back to that, john, you have to answer the question now. it seems if he said he wants more, and didn't get it, we would have had nothing. this is the problem of dealing with congress. >> it's a problem, and i would never put myself in a position of arguing economics with paul krugman, but the white house worries about the next news cycle for sure, but there has never been a white house in our lif...

To pay taxes. also, there's a big thing in the business world that says, you need confidence. and that that translates into you can't say anything remotely critical about big business or remotely critical about wall street because that would hurt confidence. if you say we can create jobs by providing aide, then we don't need the confidence so much. this is a club they're holding over the head of the president, and they hate there is an alternative that would make that club not so valuable. >> the name of the book, end this depression now, paul krugman, everybody reads you as the ideal. john he...

We could end this now, and end it fast in 18 months. >> what about john's question. how do you sell a deficit over 2 trillion. you get to 1.6, 1.9, americans would see two to one spending over revenues without the rationing and bond sales. >> i think the political people tend to think way too much about the next news cycle and not how things play out. let me say, even in terms of the short run news cycle, last fall, obama made a bid for more economic support which wasn't enacted, but he went bigger and bolder than people expected. i was happy. apparently his team was saying don't do that. the ...

Conspiracy theories is it was a crime of opportunity. he was trying to get nixon. it couldn't have been put there because nobody knew what the parade route was going to be. it was a commi sympathizer. did you form any conclusions? >> he was a lone shooter. >> let me ask you about the jackie kennedy. what was she like? >> a wonderful woman. really a great hands on mother. dedicated wife. a very athletic woman. she loved to ride horses and very good at it. loved to water ski. >> she loved you guys. i got a hold of her first typed text after the assassination and she talked about you. how much yo...

Demographics of the state, who is going to win? anyone who pays passing attention to politics can tell you. >> you're in washington so you can't see the head nodding. >> is heilmann nodding? >> heilmann is nodding. >> if traynham and heilmann and nodding -- >> there's almost nothing to add, except to say the religion thing really matters. it's interesting that the income thing matters and it matters in a great deal in the sense that of the -- if you look at those income brackets, 60% of the vote tonight was under $100,000 a year. that is rick santorum country. so if you think about the religio...