i m the guy who gets things done. it s not to say the market couldn t use a little bit of a pullback. we ve seen things really frothy. some might look at this as a buying opportunity. whether it is thursday, whether it gets pushed off a week or so, the question is will it get done. it is not make or break for the market on thursday. but it is make or break for is this a guy that is going to get things down. health care is important to the market. it has investors saying why was replace and repeal the first thing you did when taxes or infrastructure could have been more reasonable, but this is the hand they re dealt. your old colleagues in the investment banking world, the men and women who populate wall street and the rest of new york, like to see familiar faces on the president s team. are there enough? do they see confidence there? you know, it s not about new york or wall street saying, wow, filled with goldman sachs again. that was as surprising to wall street as anyone. no one
been said. and now has a new perch at the top of the investment banking world at kkr in new york. so he is in a very different position now than when he first left washington. let s talk about the poll. what you re seeing in the poll and what you ve been reporting is that the president still has the same kind of general overall approval, but what are the warning signs that you re seeing, noting the three controversies in terms of the public attitudes toward the white house,ç not the presiden he s withstanding the controversies for now, but the public has a wait-and-see attitude, but they re not happy about it. for now the public has separated what they believe is a poorly managed administration, whether it has to do with the irs, what the justice department did, or with benghazi, and they separated that from president obama personally. they don t other than a partisan republicans in our survey, most of the majority do not believe he was personally involved. but when you look
pig and say that he s utterly n inauthentic and that he s soulless and coreless and that s what they ve started to do that, have they not, bringing out testimony from former employees? yes. who have been laid off. it s worth mentioning that nbc and bane are both part owners of the weather channel but the white house is bringing out testimony from folks laid off during romney s tenure at bain. and but in the end, i have to say, you know, there are now, if you talk to people in the investment banking world who are doing forecasts for the macro economy in 2012, people are again starting to think the unemployment rate is going to rise back 0 over 9% and gdp growth under 2%. you can run $7 million worth of adses against romney but those will be a huge anvil around the president as he goes forward. it s going to be a very close and tough election even with all the president s political skills, his organization and his money. not only political soothsayer
pig and say that he s utterly n inauthentic and that he s soulless and coreless and that s what they ve started to do that, have they not, bringing out testimony from former employees? yes. who have been laid off. it s worth mentioning that nbc and bane are both part owners of the weather channel but the white house is bringing out testimony from folks laid off during romney s tenure at bain. and but in the end, i have to say, you know, there are now, if you talk to people in the investment banking world who are doing forecasts for the macro economy in 2012, people are again starting to think the unemployment rate is going to rise back 0 over 9% and gdp growth under 2%. you can run $7 million worth of adses against romney but those will be a huge anvil around the president as he goes forward. it s going to be a very close and tough election even with all the president s political skills, his organization and his money. not only political soothsayer but an economic swami.
information vacuum that was out there. and it was just so hard to go through, and think about all the lives that were being lost at the time. and to really reflect back on that. and think about what i was going to be doing next. and teach for america, as dane mentioned, was a great opportunity for me, as well. you couldn t reach your family, like other new yorkers, no communication. and you ended up going to compton, one of the toughest districts in the country. right. it was such a stark contrast from being in the investment banking world for two years. where you re working long hours with the expectation of, you know, large bonuses, and sort of an accelerated path in the finance world. and to do a 180 degree shirt, and to get sent out to compton, and to teach second grade for two years was a 180 degree perspective change. and i loved every minute of it. how did it change you? i think for me, in several ways. i think one of the things before, i d see interesting thing and be,