which is a starring role in the mitt romney misunderstanding book club this week. mr. schreiber, thank you very much for joining us. thanks for having me. i also want to apologize for mr. romney calling you schreiber. par for the course. the first time that mr. romney raised your book on the campaign trail, that we know about, a couple of weeks ago, he said, in the book, talking about you, he talks about how larry summers, who was the president s chief economic adviser advised the administration that if they put in place obama care, it would slow down the recovery. he repeated that last night. for the record, in a way that he ll understand, is that what s reported in your book? no, the argument, if i understand it correctly, is that there was something sort of intrinsic to the american to the affordable care act, the health care reform act, the expansion of government or whatever it was, that would slow down the recovery, that would hurt the economy, and that, you know,
the campaign trail, in at least these two instances, i don t know, there may be more, have you had any communication with the campaign? did you get any response after your initial note that you published at the new republic, saying that you were being misread? no. i ve been in touch with them. i consider myself a reporter. i report on both the obama campaign and the romney campaign. i try to be sort of as disinterested and respectful as i can be. i ve certainly been in touch with them about other things, but we have not we have not discussed this directly. well, if they don t want to talk to you about it and they do want to talk to me, please send them my way. i will point them in your direction. yeah, that ll work. noam scheiber, thanks very much for being here and helping us to understand this. i really appreciate it. thanks for having me. all right. we will be right back. [ kimi ] atti and i had always called oregon home.
which is a starring role in the mitt romney misunderstanding book club this week. mr. schreiber, thank you very much for joining us. thanks for having me. i also want to apologize for mr. romney calling you schreiber. par for the course. the first time that mr. romney raised your book on the campaign trail, that we know about, a couple of weeks ago, he said, in the book, talking about you, he talks about how larry summers, who was the president s chief economic adviser advised the administration that if they put in place obama care, it would slow down the recovery. he repeated that last night. for the record, in a way that he ll understand, is that what s reported in your book? no, the argument, if i understand it correctly, is that there was something sort of intrinsic to the american to the affordable care act, the health care reform act, the expansion of government or whatever it was, that would slow down the recovery, that would hurt the economy, and that, you know,
the campaign trail, in at least these two instances, i don t know, there may be more, have you had any communication with the campaign? did you get any response after your initial note that you published at the new republic, saying that you were being misread? no. i ve been in touch with them. i consider myself a reporter. i report on both the obama campaign and the romney campaign. i try to be sort of as disinterested and respectful as i can be. i ve certainly been in touch with them about other things, but we have not we have not discussed this directly. well, if they don t want to talk to ab want to talk to me, please s i will point them in your direction. yeah, that ll work. noam scheiber, thanks very much ing he understand this. i really appreciate it. thanks for having me. all right. we will be right back.
book club this week. mr. schreiber, thank you very much for joining us. thanks for having me. i also want to apologize for mr. romney calling you schreiber. par for the course. the first time that mr. romney raised your book on the campaign trail, that we know about, a couple of weeks ago, he said, in the book, talking about you, he talks about how larry summers, who was the president s chief economic adviser advised the administration that if they put in place obama care, it would slow down the recovery. he repeated that last night. for the record, in a way that he ll understand, is that what s reported in your book? no, the argument, if i understand it correctly, is that there was something sort of intrinsic to the american to the affordable care act, the health care reform act, the expansion of government or whatever it was, that would slow down the recovery, that would hurt the economy, and that, you know, despite that, despite knowing that, they went ahead and did