Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100817:17:04:00
Dinner friday night, a ramadan dinner, thissi iftar dinner and they didn't take on this issue they felt that would be inappropriate, it runs counter to everything the president believes about himself in the sense that when there are tough issues he feels we take them on, we talk about them, put them out in the forefront. i think where this really became a problem for them is being torn apart so viciously by jon stewart, which is this notion of then backtracking the next day. again, i think the white house would try to argue that there's nothing inconsistent between the friday night statement a...