but these people ever dare to say, for example, to barack obama, how do you sleep at night knowing that your administration has blood on its hands because of operation fast and furious. they would never preface a question for obama, how do you sleep at night? >> right. how about the very first question and actually, it was a statement. the way in which they set the entire tone for the debate. not talking about what all the recent polls in the last three weeks have shown which is president obama, his lowest approval rating ever on the economy. but instead, to say the numbers from a recent poll candidly are jaw dropping. that was brian williams' words, a majority of people in this country now believe the republican policies of the past eight years are responsible for the economic mess. what did you make of that? >> yes, great point, gretchen, about just how out of touch these so-called moderators and objective neutral journalists were from the very start.