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Explain the bill and he won come on the show. no one has ever said on this show we don't let the person speak. >> i think his attack on the media is misguided, number one. number two, it is misguided because, the democrats are used to being able to feed talking points to the folks on the mainstream media and have them be repeated without question. it's sort of welcome to the world of the rest of washington, d.c.. when you have to go out and earn the public trust by communicating the details of what you do instead of feeding talking points to the folks that can go and parrot whatever you want t...

Focusing on cost reduction. that's where debate needs to go. >> greta: from our perspective from the media and citizens, is that this february 25th, meeting is going to be televised, which is great that's the one thing we've been pounding the white house about. if this is going to be -- if the baseline is going to be the existing bills and deals that means we don't get a chance to fully understand why the union gets a special deal. we don't understand they brass i guess i'm urging that to be part of the -- nebraska, i guess i'm urging that be a part of the dialogue. will you demand there be a ...

>> greta: senator conrad needs to quit whining and quit hiding. he is slamming the media for its coverage of the health care debate. >> frankly, i think the media have done a grave disservice to the american people for chasing every rabbit of an issue that matters very little to dealing with what has to be done. i'm not talking about -- i'm largely point the finger of blame on network media that has a minute and a half for a story and never have a chance to explain to people, what are the things that really matter to this debate? instead they obsess on things that are complete side issue. >> g...

>> greta: does he have any idea how many times we've called him? and saying we are obsessing over things it is bizarre. >> all these rabbit trails were provisions in this bill that people had problems with. if it wasn't for the media discussing these things they would have gone unnoticed. bottom line is one of the reasons this bill fell was because it i was a big government takeover, a lot of money and spending and a lot of little things gave a lot of people a lot of heartburn. >> greta: i'm stunned to have him complain about the media. his team, the democrats they have the white house. they h...

Focusing on cost reduction. that's where debate needs to go. >> greta: from our perspective from the media and citizens, is that this february 25th, meeting is going to be televised, which is great that's the one thing we've been pounding the white house about. if this is going to be -- if the baseline is going to be the existing bills and deals that means we don't get a chance to fully understand why the union gets a special deal. we don't understand they brass i guess i'm urging that to be part of the -- nebraska, i guess i'm urging that be a part of the dialogue. will you demand there be a ...