grumpy. you are grumpy. i m not grumpy at all. bob was the one who raised the e-mails in the first place. david can you just at least admit this? in washington a lot of times, if you want to get something done, you don t get in somebody s face and say let me tell you. you go up to them, you say, listen, we re friends. we know how this works. what is gene sperling going to do to bob woodward? oh, my god, sperling? now, now, now. bob woodward who faced down as a young man h.r. halderman is worried, feels intimidated by gene sperling? do not diss gene sperling. he is a fierce, fierce man. he s the albert schweitzer of economists. there you go. he s the taupeony soprano of politics. do you know what kind of threat that is? we ll be right back. we ve got so much going on. chuck todd s here. we ve got the general coming, david gregory. blah, blah, blah. we ll be right back.
was his friend and apologized for raising his voice. i think you cannot read those e-mails and come away with the impression that gene was threatening anybody. megyn: and yet, that s the impression that bob woodward walked away with. that was jay carney the white house press secretary moments ago facing tough questions from the press corps about the escalating battle, escalating weird battle between the washington post reporter bob woodward and the white house. mr. woodward who used to be loved by the folks at the white house now clauims he received a thereiniy think e-ma from gene sperling, and sperling upset over mr. woodward s reporting on the big budget fight happening in d.c., and who is to blame for these automatic spending changes, the president s been railing against for weeks. da dana perino former press
confidence to consumers and markets alike laid out a timetable for the two sides to produce, at least the blue prohibit for bipartisan deal. timetable that now appears to have vanished. work on the thig recess. we ll meet with the friends and come back the first week. that is as i understand it. the white house called secretary geithner the lead player in ongoing talks with the house republicans adding he is to be joined by the top white house aides like jack lew and sperling. when asked if geithner showed up today at the house to negotiate, carney said he could not account for geithner it go precise whereabouts. bret? bret: james rosen live on the north lawn. thanks. none of that was encouraging to wall street today. the dow lost 89. the s&p 500 fell seven. the nasdaq dropped nine. one of the main talking points for both sides in the fiscal cliff negotiations but especially the republicans, making sure the u.s. does not become the next greece.
us to july 4th to be patriotic and we have another physical cliff to not go over. to do that you have to reach across the aisle and work with democrats and republicans to get something done. so that, to me, is sort of day one even though i ve heard a lot of promises from both sides, particularly from the republican side, about what they will do on day one. so i plugged in obama s current economic team. i plugged in geithner and sperling and bernanke. i chose the wild card. i came up with a pretty high number. i got a 68. that s a good number. economy is not so great. things are not looking so good. so how is this economic team performed so well in your test? that s a very good question. it s about experience. the five things, how are they how do they score on these things? if you had looked on job creation, they had scored poorly. that explains it. i mean, that s a very good
to back up his position. it probably was because obama made the phone calls. i guess the question is, when we talk about the relationship between obama and congress, which has been frosty, i mean look at the next four years ahead, is there going to be a thawing of relations. obama has not had the appetite for the back and forth of getting legislation passed. but i asked sperling, what can we expect if he is re-elected in the future? he will have more respect particularly from the republicans, i think of the example of bill clinton in his second term. the republicans did not like him enough to try to impeach him, but you had the budget deal and children s health insurance and you had welfare reform. that was a far cry from their posture in the first term when