even when he wasn t feeling anger, he would make sure to give voice to the people who had the anger. the other thing is the crisis is just beginning. should he have gone down earlier, now is the real crisis. just as you said, he s got to take command of that. i think this speech could be as important as johnson s speech in selma was, to mobilize the country for a climate energy bill if he does it right, not just get the votes in congress, push at that congress from the outside in to say, you think this is ugly like the troopers were ugly when they were beating at northern trust, we understand. that while you may come from the same family. you know, son, you should take up something more strenuous. you have different needs and desires. - i m reading a book. - what s a book? so we tailor plans for individuals, featuring a range of integrated solutions. you at your usual restaurant? son: maybe. see you tomorrow. stairs? elevator. to see how our multi-faceted approach. can benefit your mul
a media-generated anger. that the media really cares about his displays and his optics and his stagecraft a lot more than ordinary people to. but what really drives him crazy is statements that we just heard from carly fiorina. small government republicans now saying, where s the government? you know, bobby jindal screaming into a microphone, where are the booms, where s the equipment, where are the ships? these are the same people who say government i want to go back to carly fiorina. respond to that point, carly for one, but two, what is good government going forward in a crisis like this? good government needs to be efficient and effective. i m not talking about small or big, but i know from the real world that when things get too
how much pressure has the president felt, have you felt, for, frankly, the president to make up for lost time in terms of showing leadership on this, projecting a sense of compassion and connection with those who are involved. i mean, you have the president ramping up his own rhetoric and his own anger level and you have the decision to make an address in that particular address, he was responding to matt s characterization. go ahead, finish how much pressure do you think the president feels to connect on this? do you know what pressure is? we ve been down to the gulf several times. i was with him on the last time. pressure is what those fishermen are feeling down there whose livelihoods have been destroyed by this. people have been there for five generations. not just their livelihood, but their way of life being threatened by this. the people down there are the ones who are under pressure. i know there s a great deal of speculation in this town about the political implica
showing enough anger. and i think one of the problems with that is he s not a man who does by nature. he s not t.r. by theodore roosevelt, would have been blustering, i can imagine what he would be saying about bp, but on the other hand, he has to work with bp. and chuck and roger, the president is critical of the media, yet responsive to some of the demands of what s been brought up here. well, what s ironic, the comment to matt lauer, and yes, it was a response to the whole kick butt part of the question, but when he used the harsher version of the word, it was because he was responding to media criticism. listen to his whole answer. he goes, i don t sit around with academics just because and that was a direct response to criticism coming from columns, particularly in the times and the post, that have just gotten under his skin. media criticism gets under this president s skin and he lets it show more than any president we ve seen in a long time. and he believes that th
else. i want to bring you in, doris, on something that roger wrote based on his interview with the president. this is what the president said to roger about the role of regulation. he writes, i think it s fair to say if six months ago, before this spill had happened, i had gone up to congress and i had said, we need to crack down a lot harder on oil companies and we need to spend more money on technology to respond in case of a catastrophic spill, there are folks up there, who will not be named, who would have said, this is classic big government over regulation and wasteful spending. even though it s a democratic congress, he could have made it a priority. but that s his righteous anger, in a certain sense. he really was getting worked up. one of the things they said about fdr, he understood he had to be an actor at certain times. even if he wasn t feeling anger, he made sure he would give voice to the anger people were feeling. whatever he should have done more, now s the real cr