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But commensurate with the risk it wasn't close. taking away their organizing power in michigan. so to argue that this was some giveaway and sop to the unions is absurd. >> the treasury posts this t.a.r.p. tracker on its website, says it's recovered 89% of the money invested in the automobile industry, aig, and the banks. generally good news here? >> oh, yeah. we're getting out of this stuff, which we should be out of. what we need is to have a real discussion about do we get economic rules so to provide viable companies so this doesn't happen again. the problem isn't going to be gm. it's wall ...

Trading after the government's announcement. so and here is a look at general motors earnings over the past two years. david, is general motors recovering? >> oh, absolutely. general motors in 2008 was out of cash. they've now got $32 billion of cash. so they're doing very well. and going forward, they should do well. >> which is going to help them invest in an infrastructure and development of better product. >> creating more jobs. >> of course, product is not their problem. worldwide, they have really taken some strides. now, let's talk about aig, which you mentioned. the government says tha...

Won a mandate? >> bob, on this particular issue it wasn't close. as i said, if you look at the exit polls, i think it was somewhere around 60% of the american people agreed with the president's position on this issue of taxes. >> i think that the president has a very clear mandate. he made it a central tenant of his election that people of this country clearly gave him a resounding victory on election day. >> at least he was honest about something on running for re-election, the fact he wanted to raise your taxes. but unlike class warfare there was something he didn't want to know about before...

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It was beautiful. i guess "the wall street journal," again, richard, a bit more nuanced and balanced than i expected. >> interesting, in turn, they seem to be thinking the gamble will pay off. i don't remember them complaining too much about president bush's re-election campaign style in 2004, but maybe that's just a trick of memory. >> you talked about mandate. you used the word "mandate." one of the things that concerns me is that this race is going to be so close at the end that both sides -- because democrats, harry reid's saying it on the democratic side. republicans are going to be sayin...