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Back in 1964, we looked it up, a pew study, 76% of the american people believed that most of the time almost always the federal government did the right thing. now it's down to less than 20%. the trust question. the commitments you made before the rollout with health care. what is it? it's a serial decline, mr. president. it keeps going down. what's going to stop it, arrest that decline? of you being honest, anybody who's president, there's skepticism out there. >> the cynicism and skepticism is deep. and i distinguish between, you know, just management of government and the basic blocking and...

During the primary season that that inhibits a lot of cooperation that is there. and i actually think there's a bunch of republican who is want to get stuff done. they've got to be embarrassed. the truth of the matter is they've now been in charge of the house of representatives, one branch -- or one chamber in one branch of government for a couple of years now. they just don't have a lot to show for it. >> let's talk about the executive branch which you control. back in 1964, we looked it up, a pew study, 76% of the american people believed that most of the time almost always the federal gove...

Representatives, one branch of -- or one chamber and one branch of government, for a couple years now. and they just don't have a lot to show for it. >> let's talk about the executive branch, which you control. the -- back in 1964, we looked it up you. pew study. 76% of the american people believed that most of the time, almost always, the federal government did the right thing. now it's down to less than 20%. the trust question. the commitments you made before the rollout with health care. what is it? what is it that's just -- it's a serial decline, mr. president. it keeps going down. i know ...

Do you agree with that analysis, victoria? >> you know, thomas, i think all of this talk about hillary might be a moot point come 2016. right now she is the candidate to beat. but we don't know what the mood of the american public is going to be in the next three years. a lot of that is going to depend on how we view the trust in government. it's near an all-time low. the pew study showed only 19% of us believe that washington is doing the right thing. so if we come to that spot and americans want someone who knows washington, then we're going to naturally see hillary emerge. if we want anothe...

That's one of the reasons why we saw the unemployment rate fall. the truth is that the economy is not growing fast enough to add jobs to absorb all the people that are out of work. we need to see the economy expand by 3 or 4%, and at best now we're doing between 1 and 2%. a lot of people have just given up. >> i understand another problem with this and prior jobs reports is the quality of jobs created. >> yeah, part-time workers are all-time high. in fact, last month we added more part-time workers than total jobs. how is that possible? some full-time jobs were cut back to part time. 77% of th...