obama. have you know, josh you know, josh, to charlie s point there s that old adage of don t talk the talk unless you can walk the walk. what s happening here with the president? is he off his message? well, it s a good question. you know, ironically, i sort of agree with charlie. i think if white house wants respect, it s going to have to earn it. maybe if president had the stone, they should have gone up to the hill and kicked in the door. [laughter] you know, eric, cantor and johnny boehner are going to run roughshod over football season has not begun yet, gentlemen. you know, i just think we ve got to get you know, the white house needs to take a tougher tack, and when you ve got republicans that reject compromises, they give $10 of cuts for every $1 of revenue, it s obviously they re going to undermine you. josh, on a serious note, we re talking about something that has gone missing, and now
president the white house, basically, saying that this dire straits will last for another year and a half at least. reporter: that s right, kelly. the prediction pretty grim both from the administration itself and from this new jobs report. as you mentioned, the president just left for camp david. two things struck me as he departed. number one, he s walking with his daughter, sasha, he didn t talk to reporters about this jobs report. he could have, obviously, done that. he chose to leave without talking about what is a pretty desperate situation right now. and, number two, as marine one took off, there were some pretty gray skies here in washington as he heads to camp david for a long weekend to start going through some of the final details on that new economic plan that you mentioned he s going to be unveiling next thursday night. bottom line is this new report shows, essentially, the economy ground to a halt in august. no new jobs, so one of the president s top aide z,