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People trust him, but he can't let his integrity get dented. don't talk abt. if you're dwoik to close guantanamo, close it. if you want the keystone pipeline to happen, say it's going to happen. there have been too many trial ones. >> good point. what i sense is a lot of action, talk, you know this covering him all the time. he's good at words and go back to reagan and the patco strike. all the history of iran contra. reagan didn't put that behind him until his wife got him to admit it, he did trade arms for hostages. until that, it wasn't over with. roosevelt tried to pack the court until he ...

Barack obama and i think he has an opportunity to just, i'm sure his poll numbers are going to stay high. people trust him, but he can't let his integrity get dented. don't talk abt. if you're dwoik to close guantanamo, close it. if you want the keystone pipeline to happen, say it's going to happen. there have been too many trial ones. >> good point. what i sense is a lot of action, talk, you know this covering him all the time. he's good at words and go back to reagan and the patco strike. all the history of iran contra. reagan didn't put that behind him until his wife got him to admit it, he...

Right. and that goes to one of the deep problems that we've faced for the last 30 years. and i do think that the patco strike has something to do with this. as ford and others were negotiating with unions this year, there really wasn't much threat that there would be a strike. in fact, strikes have fallen off the table in terms of a tool for american workers. even in situations where employers are not being very fair. workers are much less likely today to strike than they were in the years before patco. and so i think we start to see an imbalance develop in labor management relations, one in w...

>> well, no, it's not enough. but it is a good start. this kind of problem has been going on for so many years. when i was inspector general, we had instances of air traffic controllers sleeping on the job. and some were quite organized about it. one would stay in the tower, and the others would go out in the parking lot and sleep. they had all sorts of schemes and plans. and the faa would sweep it under the rug. this time it appears the first amendment worked. with the public attention on the problem, the secretary of transportation stepped in, ray lahood, stepped in and is acting. it's a sta...

Very important point. faa pulled them out a long time ago because some controllers were abusing it. but the people i've had in the cockpit have always come away with their eyes very much open, especially when we went into a busy city and they saw how hard we worked, depending on the instructions the controllers gave us. they're sitting in a chair and they don't move and we're in a very dynamic position. >> something else and eliot was talking about this earlier. we heard it from a guest previously in the week. that is we are so low in the staff of air traffic controllers. elliott was saying in...