Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110127:12:10:00
And that hasn't happened. i hope mark halperin is right, that we won't see this happen through the budget process. i think it is san opportunity lost where the president could have called for a sputnik moment and called for a sputnik activity or sputnik commitment. i didn't see that. so -- but unless we tacking the entitlements, everything else is just around the edges. >> mark, i think it's sad that you believe that this president, instead of leading, is saying i'm going to wait for the republicans to step out first. does that not strike you as weak? >> it is. >> given the state of this weakn...