i think steve is exactly rht. i think the president spoke eloquently about ourational virtue, our idea of religious rance and the fact that there s a constitutional right for people to build this place, this mosque there. he could have said that it wasn t quite at ground zero. he spoke about the extraordinary sensitivity of theeople who saw their loved ones die on that day. but i thought that he missed an opportunity here to say, you know what, in just the way that we ve talked about this man who threatens the hideous act of burning korans, we should talk about in the musl community having some sensitivity to those, if not everybody who died, relatives died at 9/1ho1 on 9/11 whoeel this way, but some feel it s somewhat offensive and maybe we should be sensitive. i thought the predent had an opportunity there to speak in a way you know what, healing is very importt in this moment. just as important as anything else. bret: charles. i thought he was vy subtle and clever the way he t
trillion in federal debt in two years, we have $14.9 million unemployed. what happen? that s the question the wall street journal wasks, what happ? what happened is we whipped into a recession, beginning in decemberf 2007 that was the worst since 1929. it s a deep holeru we ve been o struggling to get out of. after 22 straight months of lost for the last eight months, there has been private sector job creation. what the predent has emphasized repeatedly and outlined again today in his remarks in ohio is that the only way that our recovery is sustainable is that we get the private sector to stand up. let us not forget when the president took these policies, it wasn t for fun, it was because the economy and the privateec sector were in free fall, following the policies, many of which it sound like representative boehner wants us to return to. when we were following those
flooding back as you look to voices of the family members at ground zero this morning. we all remember that day and watching it all unfold. wman, as we remember, who had the task of telling president bush that america was under attack. page 153. you cannot forget those moments. cameras were rolling in the classroom. the predent was in florida visiting students. they were talking about reading. the white house chief of staff andy card as you saw ahe moment ago approached president bush as he was in the classroom. then got word in his ear that the second tower had been attacked. and that inde america was under attack. he said thi ws was no accident
can i tell you my facts are right. president said no, no, no. it reminded me, the president of somebody who hasn t been cross-examined since he sat down with bill o reilly because hs the predent and not many people go to the president and say excuse me, you re wrong. now you have a senator there, probably got 15 years on him and a lot more experience saying i think you re wrong and i have the facts here to show you re wrong and the president seemed to filibuster a little bit. couple of interesting points from your point of view on tt is that the president to me, one note i wrote on my little post-it pads is that he claimed he went long on his opening statement because he said i m the president. i thought that was not a line maybe a line he would want to take back this morning. it kind oflays into that whole elitist perception of him as well. the democrats here want to try and win any remaining support out there with the american public. the republicans just wanted to prove that the
what i m told by sources that are familiar w his thinking is that there was never really an expectation that he would go into a serious criminal justice process with the legal counsel he has right now. the people he had on his team were basically brought on to deal with the con investigations and document production and not really to hash out either a plea deal or to go to trial on some kind of a criminal charge which i think likal cohen had no idea he would possibly face when this process starred. so i think what we re seeing here is some movement in that direction which could lead to a plea deal and maybe flipping on the predent and could be part of the normal process leading to some criminal charges. just to clarify, these attorneys are retained by cohen before he finds himself raided by thefbi? that s right. they were involved in sending those documents up to capitol hill that were being demanded by various committees investigating the russia trump affair. we should say that,