Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140219:03:31:00
Area in the first term of the obama administration, this kind of discussion did not occur. >> in the white house for the first term, there were a lot of other imperatives. getting the economy not to bel faing off a cliff will be the first priority. you did have the 750,000 jobs a month being lost. they had to stabilize the economy first. the white house's way of sort of describing it,aire concern in the first term was that this would have seemed like a side track to the economy, which had to be job one. and then i think there's just the pragmatic concerns of being re-elected in a country where...