you were called not a true democrat after that. reporter: the country is in trouble, sometimes rise eye pwof the politics. gretchen: if the president tomorrow came out with an economic plan, would it change the poll numbers? reporter: if people believed in it if it was a plan that gathered by san support. if it looked like it was a evangelist about how to grow the economy, as long as it continues to be, here is my upping anteagainst the republicans and i m positioning this and i want more money spent. the problem right now the president needs to be a consensus leader of a hard policy we have to do. nobody is interested in him being the head of the partisan head of the democratic party doing this. that s what he s playing with, because remember he s trying to satisfy his base, his money people. it s a real problem. gretchen: maybe he feels with this august 2nd deadline looming that the closer he gets to it the more he ll get. reporter: maybe he thinks that, but the problem is we
it looks like it is changing rules mid stream, mid game, i understand that s politics. has your party ever done anything like that? i would new direction for america document that nancy pelosi put out she attacked us we were in the majority. she said she would have this transparency and openness. could we have done better? yes. but never before has this kind of thing taken place where they are looking to avoid accountability on a measure that would have the federal government take control of 1/6 of our economy. when social security and medicare passed there was by partisan support. by san support. greta: do you think the slaughter solution going to be the table? any attempt they can find right now to to an individual accountability they will pursue. they are wise in not trusting the united states senate.