i ve also been amazed about how many democrats have been vocal about their feelings about ill-treated they ve been by white house dominated by their own party. i think the first and most important thing would be somebody who can help set a new tone inside the white house more in keeping with the tone that the president promised in 2008. the second thing would be, a chief of staff who could step back from having this sort of dominant role in policy, that rahm emanuel has, that is expressing an opinion early in the process. instead be willing to withhold judgment, withhold opinion in favor of having a policy in which other voices from within the cabinet and administration and congress get a chance to make their case to the president and then and only then and only if the president asks, making his opinion known. greta: presidents will take a member of the opposite party and put that person in a cabinet position. we have secretary gates in this cabinet who is a republican or at last he
support in this country in peril. and then there is the pakistan problem which greta: one quick question. is secretary of state clinton, does he listen to her and take her advice or does he just humor her because of their political history? no. a lot of white house political advisers is david axelrod says to obama when they are considering hillary for a job right after the election, he said how can you trust hillary? obama i think trusts her greta: take her advice? no. i think her impact on the policy is not that great. she joined with gets in the military and i with gates in the military i call four, five blocks of granite that obama could not move around. joe biden, emerges greta: he s the provocateur asking the tough questions. he was impressive in this book.
likely to step that up soon. i suspect that race will come back to where it was inside the margin of error. i think there have been 30 polls conducted matching the two. boxer has gotten 50% only in one of those polls. in most is well below 50% that s a troubling sign for an incumbent like her who has been there for 18 years. i think this race will stay in contention all the way to@(nx te end. greta: i asked you about harry reid. harry reid and sharron angle are like this and they are going to be trading just about like for the balance of the campaign. thrown a lot of mud. he s out-spending her 2-1 or better, 3-1. she has stayed right in there. at the of the day the question is, people say, he has raised a lot of questions about her, thrown a lot of mud, but i really don t like him and what he s done and it is time for a
people to consider. what was robert gibbs thinking when he said those kinds of things today? greta: now let me put the other hat on it for you and ask you this, if you were a democrat, running for a national office now in light of the fact that you ve got in situation where they ve flit from town and haven t done anything, you ve got the health care bill hanging out there, very unhappen unpopular with the american people, american people still think they are in a investigation you want to win and you are a good hardworking democrat. how do you get that vote between now and november? i think you ve got to emphasize what you are far without looking like you are trying to distance your sieve from the president. if democrats go out and say i am opposed to the president on these measures or critical of the president on these measures, they are going to despirit part of the democrat base. they have a difficult task saying this is what i believe we ought to do to contron the
as i say, right now, one out of every three people who are likely to vote in the next election identify with the tea party movement and is values. either party will ignore that at their peril. the republican establishment must understand if we don t get expansive in our thinking, get back to the basics, understand the constitution, appreciate and represent its genius and act like responsible adults in office, we are going to be standing outside of office. because this movement is not going away. greta: kong manning, thank you. thank congressman, thank you. thank you. greta: next bob woodward goes on the record. and a new level of nasty politics. sarah palin just one of the biggest missiles ever lobbed at her. the whole story on a twitter war, minutes way. [ advisor 1 ] what do you see yourself doing one week,