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
change. greta: karl, thank you. thank you. greta: next, if you like the day party movement we have surprising news. dick armey is a big tea party player he s here next. plus another new round in that fight overarizona s illegal immigration law. senator pierce is at the center of this storm. he goes on the record, minutes away. bride ] the wedding was just days away. suddenly, i noticed my smile wasn t white enough.
or a family member here. exactly. greta: i took a lot of notes. secretary of defense gates says, you can t defeat the taliban. general tray yes, sir says, you can t defeat general petraeus says, you can t defeat the taliban. i think you keep fighting a little like iraq this is the kind of fight we are for the rest of our lives and probably our kids lives. ambassador holbrook says it doesn t work. these are the people trying to sell american people we are on the right path. yeah, it is painful. reporting it and seeing how this evolved and seeing and connecting to what you re asking about the families, but the soldiers on the ground. somebody was asking me from one of the military organizations, isn t this demoralizing?
karzai government. that sounds nice. in your book i read over and over how everybody, including the vice president, general petraeus, they say the afghanistan government is a criminal syndicate. that is isn t that something? [ talking over each other ] imagine partnering with the criminal syndicate? what is the history of nations or individuals who have made deals with criminal syndicates? it is not a happy one. we see it almost everyday in the news. karzai one day is, you know with us. then he s criticizing us. he s crying in public. the intel reports, which are cited here in the book say he s a manic depressive. and that he s on his medication, off his medication. shakey partner. greta: it was very clear in october of 01 why we went into afghanistan to look for weather. interviewing secretary clinton
economic challenges. if you give me a chance here s what my priorities are gonna be. the problem the democrats have is their credibility is shot. if you look at polls democrat margins on issues like which party is better able to deal with the economy, health care or the deficit or spending, the democrats are way behind on all of those issues. the most dangerous is jobs where the democrats have enjoyed a healthy lead and health care where they ve enjoyed an enormous lead, both of those leads the lead on the economy and jobs has disappeared and turned into a republican advantage. health care, which used to be a high 20s, low 30s advantage at times has in essence turned into a dead even battle teen the two parties. it between the two parties. it is going to be impossible to say i m a good democrat. it has to be i m a good individual who wants to represent the people in my district by working on these things. it is not going to be easy. greta: aren t they lucky