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The perception that mr. summers might have an inside track simply had to do with a bunch of attacks that i was hearing on mr. summers preemptively that i don't like. i tend to defend folks who i think have done a good job and don't deserve attacks. >> welcome back to "hardball." there's no such thing as a shoe-in in washington. larry summers came in as close as it could get. summers was clearly president obama's top choice to run the federal reserve. as you saw in that clip, however, the president's been a vocal defender of summers. overseas newspapers were even reporting he would be named to ...

I don't think it's going to be particularly constructive for us to have an open audition, if you will, for the fed nominee. >> unfortunately for the white house, the casting call is already out. while the president vacations in martha's vineyard, the white house continues to fend off criticism from within his own party from one potential nominee of the chair of the federal reserve. larry summers. or the man described by one former colleague as someone you sometimes feel like smacking. after a capitol hill meeting in which he scolded congressional democrats for their criticism of summers, last ...

And they're both terrific people. i think the -- the perception that mr. summers might have an inside track simply had to do with a bunch of attacks that i was hearing on mr. summers preemptively, which is sort of a standard washington exercise, that i don't like. because when somebody's worked hard for me and worked hard on behalf of the american people, and i know the quality of those people, and i see him getting slapped around in the press for no reason before they've even been nominated for anything, then i want to make sure that somebody's standing up for them. i felt the same way when p...