no wonder that faith in our institutions has never been lower. particularly when good news doesn t get the same kind of ratings as bad news anymore. every day you receive a steady stream of sensationalism and scandal. and stories with a message that suggest change isn t possible. i will leave everyone on this quote from mark mckinnon who said it s an interesting development that the presidential campaigns have ceased kodsling the press or trying to manage the press. they seem to have concluded they can t win no matter what they do so why try. now they often seem to adopt a hosti attitude toward the press. a long time until november. after the break, kent conrad joins us live to talk about the debt ceiling battle and congress. managing my diabetes is part of my life,
the president saying sensationalism and scandal and its effect on the news and americans. no wonder that faith in our institutions has never been lower. particularly when good news doesn t get the same kind of ratings as bad news anymore. every day you receive a steady stream of sensationalism and scandal. and stories with a message that suggest change isn t possible. you can t make a difference. that you wouldn t be able to close that gap between life as it is and life as you want it to be. megyn: joining me now, david webb, host of the david webb show and josh block, former spokesman for the clinton-gore and the gore will lieberman presidential campaign. what s wrong with what he just said. what is inaccurate about what he said. nothing is inaccurate about what he said. what he doesn t like is when you
obama is hopelessly in over his head, he s mike dukakis in the tank when it comes to domestic politics. obama has to answer that. i thought tonight he did a pretty darn good job of it. karen, let s listen to more of what president obama said tonight talking to people in his audience about giving them a realistic kind of frame for how much progress he was capable of making in his first term and how much time he needs to make progress. let s listen to this. i know the last 3.5 years, 4 years have been tough. i know there are times where we think change isn t happening as fast as we d like. remember what we said during the last campaign. i said this was going to be hard. change takes time. sometimes it takes more than a year, more than a single term. karen, it sound like he s finding the language to rechallenge his audience to get the strength up to go at this
obama is hopelessly in over his head, he s mike dukakis in the tank when it comes to domestic politics. obama has to answer that. i thought tonight he did a pretty darn good job of it. karen, let s listen to more of what president obama said tonight talking to people in his audience about giving them a realistic kind of frame for how much progress he was capable of making in his first term and how much time he needs to make progress. let s listen to this. i know the last 3.5 years, 4 years have been tough. i know there are times where we think change isn t happening as fast as we d like. remember what we said during the last campaign. i said this was going to be hard. change takes time. sometimes it takes more than a year, more than a single term. karen, it sound like he s finding the language to rechallenge his audience to get the strength up to go at this again, that there s more to do and it takes longer than four
a lot of the change is concentrated in the world s most powerful countries. four of the five u.n. security council members could see changes at the top. that s russia, china, france, and of course the united states. these four countries alone represent 40% of the world s gdp. of all of them, china will not have democratic elections but will see the biggest wholesale change at the top. 70% of the country s leadership will be new. we re not expecting any surprises. it s widely believed hu jintao and wen jiabao will be replaced. get used to their names. you ll be hearing them a lot. russia s election will be the most predictable. we know prime minister putin will become president putin again. even that change isn t as clear-cut as you would imagine. for the first time in years it seems like it s becoming acceptable in russia to criticize the kremlin. putin was recently booed at a boxing match and his party had a