discouraged that they can t get through on phone lines. no one has shine on their streets. it is cold. they don t have power or water. what s the frustration level like? people are somewhat moving from the deconstruction phase to the desire for a reconstruction phase. they want to put their lives back together. the help is not forthcoming. the biggest disappointment for me has been through con-ed. i have 10,000 people in the beachfront communities that were hit the hardest and they had 100 inspectors going door to door. when is that going to be done? i lost it yesterday. i said i can t believe this is acceptable on behalf of anybody in the company. i called mayor bloomberg and governor como s office and both of them respond and they agreed. and we have more people 225 on the ground today with more
documents has been thrown out there so many times in nine hearings that eric holder has participated in in front of this committee and yet you have this frustration level from darrell issa saying this is not what we requested in the subpoena. you imagine the subpoena it has a specific 20 items or something like that that they are looking for, dated documents, exchanges and emails, all that kind of thing that they haven t got even. now you go to the extraordinary length to bring in executive privilege saying we don t have to ever turn over the documents and it raises a huge number of questions. because the obama administration doesn t have a history of asserting strong executive power or making the principle plain that they believe in a strong executive power that complicates their case. the other thing that needs to be said here is that darrell issa has been asking this for a specific time now. this is a specific request for specific documents. he knows what he wants to get and he kn
we were told by organizers he would take questions. as he walked in, one of the organizers said due to time, that he would be unable to answer questions. he is back on the hill right now. there is a slew of reporters hanging out outside the capitol where he is expected to walk in at any moment. given his fwhaifr last couple days because there are so many people camped out outside the capitol, you can bet he will find a different way to get in there. another scene like we saw right there is not something that will look good for the campaign. let me ask you about mr. compaign s demeanor. i know in a lot of this, he is saying he is joking. that joke between united states and mexico electrocuting people, he said that was a joke. in this case, this is a serious matter and it seems at least from this video, that this may be getting to him. his frustration level is at least what we saw today,
think what we all know and what we should focus on is the fact there is a common enemy, and that s unemployment. the frustration we have is the fact that we as the black caucus, we ve introduced over 40 bills this session to create jobs, and the republican-controlled congress will not bring them up so we can act on it. that s where our frustration comes in. and congressman, what has the reaction been, congressional black caucus has done a number of job fairs around the country. you re in atlanta. what s the reaction been from folks you talked to? is there a frustration level at president obama, directed at republicans? where do people put the blame, if there s enough to go around? i think people are very, very frustrated. most of the frustration is targeted at republicans. the unfortunate part, the american people are very smart, and they can see that the republicans have waged a war on the president, and they want to win the white house by any means necessary, and the casualty of
martha: huge frustration level over the situation and you watch the debt commission and a glimmer of hope, maybe it would be taken seriously and now, oh, we ll talk about it in the spring. what you have here is they didn t go far enough, for example, in reforming the tax code, instead of in effect cherry picking the things they wanted to cut back on or get rid of, get rid of all of the dedix like the flat tax would do and give people a choice between the new system, old system and there are ways in which you can move forward on this. and, in terms of real deficit reduction, they kind of danced around some of the things, and, in terms of fundamentally reforming social security, medicare and medicaid and had some suggestions, but not really a fundamental overhaul, particularly for younger people, where you can make big changes and on spending, let s go back to the levels, in terms of the economy, where we were in 2008, just two years ago, that would go a long way. martha: steve, i unde