both senate leaders, mcconnell and reid, didn t like it when the gang of six got together, which was sort of, frankly, a senate version of what you guys were trying to do. if you had both members of the leadership now, i d argue you re elected leadership to get into the majority, period. that s your job, and until that changes to getting rewarded for governing, i don t know how to fix this. but what do you do? you know, i think you re elected to leadership to lead. and that means doing what s right for the american people, not necessarily what s right for democrats or republicans. and what s right for this country is to solve this long-term fiscal problem. we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable. they know it and they ve got to stand up to it. we ve simply made promises we can t deliver on. is there any, you know, if the voter isn t going to reward it, though, what do you do? i don t know, but i took on all those gro
not where it was when he took office. democrats are lacking any kind of unified coherent message for reelection. because of that it is like i said, every man for himself. the president said on another network he thought this election might be a referendum on the economy. are they thinking it is a referendum are the senators, members of congress think it is a referendum on the economy or the leadership by the president? i don t know they draw that distinction. because the american voter isn t drawing that distinction. the american voter sees an economy not recovering, billions in increased spending and they haven t seen results. they are asking where are the job? s we are spending all this money, where is the return? greta: you are at the white house since you represent the white house for your news organization is the white house does the white house see this as business as usual? they understand the nature of the beast. which is politicians need do whatever they can do to ge
are moving in the right direction. we ve spent the last two months going in the wrong direction. this is a sign we are probably not falling back into recession now. but it is such a miserable situation now in the job market there s little hope with the growth we have now it is far too slow to get us back to where we need to be at the pace we are going now we are going to see the jobless rate now at 9.6% rising. a lot of people think it is going to rise above 10%. we are in a very bad situation jobless claims down to 450,000 new claims in a week isn t that great. greta: s of the 9.6%, in terms of the 9.6%, how does it inch up like that if the jobless claims are going down and the president says we are getting more manufacturing jobs? more people coming into the workforce and are these numbers, just playing a game with the numbers? we ve had so many people dropout.
direction. we ve spent the last two months going in the wrong direction. this is a sign we are probably not falling back into recession now. but it is such a miserable situation now in the job market there s little hope with the growth we have now it is far too slow to get us back to where we need to be at the pace we are going now we are going to see the jobless rate now at 9.6% rising. a lot of people think it is going to rise above 10%. we are in a very bad situation jobless claims down to 450,000 new claims in a week isn t that great. greta: s of the 9.6%, in terms of the 9.6%, how does it inch up like that if the jobless claims are going down and the president says we are getting more manufacturing jobs? more people coming into the workforce and are these numbers, just playing a game with the numbers? we ve had so many people dropout.
not where it was when he took office. democrats are lacking any kind of unified coherent message for reelection. because of that it is like i said, every man for himself. the president said on another network he thought this election might be a referendum on the economy. are they thinking it is a referendum are the senators, members of congress think it is a referendum on the economy or the leadership by the president? i don t know they draw that distinction. because the american voter isn t drawing that distinction. the american voter sees an economy not recovering, billions in increased spending and they haven t seen results. they are asking where are the job? s we are spending all this money, where is the return? greta: you are at the white house since you represent the white house for your news organization is the white house does the white house see this as business as usual? they understand the nature of the beast. which is politicians need do whatever they can do to ge