republican base may love them obsessing over the overturning of health care and holding hearings about it. middle america doesn t give a damn about it. that don t like it, but they want to get back to work. it s jobs, jobs, jobs. will republicans, jon, make the same mistake democrats made for 18 months? i doubt it. the uberous of newly-found power has a per wren y all capacity to make people go off track. chuck, i wanted to ask you, my sense of the the goolsbee appearance yesterday, was that they were pretty smart yesterday tactically. as overheated as the rhetoric was about the full faith and credit and the fact that the debt ceiling gets raised, it has been i think 80 times in the 20th century alone, it did manning for the first time in a long time, to my mind, the white house managed to frame a debate
and optimistic about the american economy and i heard one say a few minutes ago that he thought the risk of a double dip recession had greatly diminished, and so they re feeling more optimistic about the economy. nbc s savannah guthrie, as always, great to see you. thank you. sure. take care. so what do the ceos want from the president and is all this talking ever likely to lead to more hiring and better jobs? we want to dig deeper. william cohen is the author of house of cards a tale of excess on wall street. so good to have you with us, william. will this meeting really do anything to change, to kickstart the change that you refer to as huberous and wretch he had excess on wall street. there s $2 trillion of cash on the ballot sheet collectively of these companies that savannah was referring to when we were at the white house today. so why aren t they spending it? and the real matter is she was describing is there is concern about uncertainty, the tax rules, budget deficits
mabel an adviser got excited. uberous. state of delaware. those national things won t help to get votes. and could hurt. could very well hurt. especially the stuff where you ve said things. this witchcraft thing, seriously. i don t care about that. it s nothing. i would hate for people to go back and bring back the things i said. sometimes you say stupid things. i say stupid things all the time. we re not talking about you, but yeah, some of these things are silly. there s a lot of tape on you, joe. there s a lot of tape on me. and there s ugly tape on me, too. but i ve repented. it s okay. and those it was the summer of love. who remembers what happened in 67? mika says politico. let s go to mr. mike allen from politico with a look at the
attitude she didn t drain it she over flowed it. the chickens are coming home to roost. i think this is a damming indictment not just of charlie rangel and the arrogance and the huberous in which he clung bitterly to his seat and gavel as chairman of the house weighs and means committee but it is an indictment of speaker pelosi and hypocrisy with which she has ruled with her gavel as house speaker down-playing these violations and remember this is just the tip of the iceberg. the issue here that he was so weekly admonished for by the house ethics committee which involved corporate sponsorships on a junket in the caribbean is the tip of the iceberg as i say. he s got all of these lapses with his financial disclosure forms, there s rent controlled apartments in new york city. there s the use of official stationary to try to solicit
for programs named after him. so this what would you do, is it money grabbing or greed or is it vanity or anything to get your office more applauded. it s huberous. it s a common ail plant among the old bulls, people that have been in power a long time. is it a firing offense from your perspective? it would be if it were treated fairly. in other words, if everybody that did this kind of thing that calls into question their ethics, that were called into carpet for it. i can imagine congressman rangel thinking there s a double standard because republicans have done the same thing and nothing has been done about it. he looks like a broken man. it s journalism. a valid story. but just to have to see this play out. he s so beloved in new york.