unabashedly. bill: when did you start thinking that way? well, when i saw that he wants to go, and given the success or lack thereof that we ve had with our financial be markets and financial conditions, today s numbers notwithstanding, i think it s the right time bill apparently, the president likes him. with well, that s good. bill: and they have a good relationship and a good rah port. brad, do you? is that the answer? is. no, i don t think it s the answer at this point because i think the markets want stability, they want confidence. look, the dell we know may be devil we know may be better than the one we don t. quite frankly, does the president really want senate hearings on the new nominee which will take up precious time from the economy? then there s a huge learning curve to get on the job, to learn the job and to be effective. so this president with 13 months to go to a national election would let tim geithner go, the guy who has been the backbone of the obama polic
unique. and there are some people who think it s okay to apologize for america, when i think what we ought to do is extol our virtues, recognizing that this republic is imperfect. we will always have work to do, but america has always been a force for good in the world and john mccain would say that unabashedly. it s also clear there are autocratic close ed models that are competing with our free, opening democratic model, and we have to compete effectively. what putin has been able to do is to operate in a way that has been largeliy euncontested in t free world, not just in the united states but in like-minded countries. so it s time to listen to john mccain and confront this kind of sustained campaign of propaganda, disinformation and political subversion.