easier. this will help a lot more homeowner refinance at lower rates which mean consumers save money. those families save money. and it gets those families spending it and it makes it easier for them to make their mortgage payments so they don t lose their home and bring down home values in the neighborhood. i m going to keep on doing everything in my power to help to stabilize the housing market, grow the economy, accelerate job growth, and restore some of the security that middle class families have felt slipping away for more than a decade. tonight, conservatives already are calling it another misguided government bailout. some democrats call tight little too late. whatever you think, the president is fighting his own history here. did you get a sense of a bit of deja vu listening to the president? this is president obama a month after taking office 2009 in hard hit, mesa, arizona. the plan i m announcing focuses on rescuing families who played by the rules and acted
disbursed here and there not easy to understand. and two, these are the kinds of stories that, you know, people, by and large, don t watch. if you give someone the opportunity, the choice between watching, say, lindsay lohan s latest, you know, arrest video even a birther debate. don t have to go that far, just talk about birthers and get better ratings than would you talking about banks. right. exactly. so i think the media is complicit but also the american people are complicit in their own screwing to use the term it. that s it. if you look at it, mark tapscott, ever seen a situation where the people being taken advantage of, the taxpayer in aggregate, is the exact one who is then paying it off so that they are literally paying on both sides and there s nothing, it s been years and the best we have got ireland is going to tax private pensions to give the federal government money to make jobs for people?
to be doing this such that somebody like myself can harass them as such, david? the chairman of the house and senate intelligence committees and the ranking members and the other senior congressional leadership. so-called gang of eight. they know all the secrets and they have to police them and ride herd for the nation because the public won t know and shouldn t know. they will and they have to do their job. thank you for the analysis and helping to educate us and see through some of the musical chairs, gentlemen. david, a pleasure. tony, it is always a pleasure. thank you, guys. we ll take a little bit of a break here. coming up as we just mentioned, the mill tarization of america, particularly the intelligence agency. we have the story you probably have not heard about this latest game of white house musical chairs. plus, is the president now the one who refuses to let the birther debate die? keeps bringing it upality
ears. i certainly hope. the one thing i think to susan s point that s important is panetta and general petraeus command a tremendous amount of respect both from the national security teams, from the sort of national security community, as well as from congress. so i think these moves for that reason i think will help also ensure that the president can have some continuity, you know, i read somewhere that the president decided to basically continue on the path along the decision that is he s already made, not necessarily signal kind of a shift. so i think that s part of what we should read into this. we ll set down the defense conversation for time being and bring it up later talking about bradley manning but while i have you i feel like i have no choice but to bring up the birther debate. not because i want to but the president keeps bringing it up. listen to the president. my name s barack obama. i was born in hawaii.
and when you look forward to these thing, the only wait, wait, wait, wait the transcripts, you mean his college records? yeah, that s probably next. why is that relevant? well, think it s not. he s been president of the united states for two-plus years now. he ll be president for almost four years when he runs for the re-election. whether he got a c or a in greek studies i got kept back in french one year, i hope my employer doesn t i m only concerned with the fs in the stimulus package and the fs in obama care he gets from me, that s for sure. the same thing with foreign policy. so those are the things i m worried about. i think we ve got to move forward in the campaign and the candidates as well. one of the things we try to do here is hold people accountable and we try to hold everybody accountable. you saw part of a contentious conversation with mr. trump there. there s more of it to come. one other things the president said. the white house making this dec