not just for entertainment. in some ways president obama, you attract more bees with honey. well, of course. i think that there are definite things to get done in congress if the congressional relations were more smooth. the house of representatives is people. it s human nature to get things done with people you re working with. the congress, i think democrats agree with this, we don t feel that the president wants to work with us at all. and not once has he reached out to say, hey, come, let s sit down and break bread and talk about whatever. that just doesn t happen. so again, that s a lack of leadership. and that s a welcome of desire and personally, i really do believe because of political reasons it s more advantageous for the president to keep us divided to use the administrators and people in charge to go around the congress to do an agenda he knows ultimately the people are not going to support. we have 30 seconds. as you ve been home in august for the recess, when s
white house to sit with the president. not just for entertainment. in some ways president obama, you attract more bees with honey. well, of course. i think that there are definite things to get done in congress if the congressional relations were more smooth. the house of representatives is people. it s human nature to get things done with people you re working with. the congress, i think democrats agree with this, we don t feel that the president wants to work with us at all. and not once has he reached out to say, hey, come, let s sit down and break bread and talk about whatever. that just doesn t happen. so again, that s a lack of leadership. and that s a welcome of desire and personally, i really do believe because of political reasons it s more advantageous for the president to keep us divided to use the administra r administrators and people in charge to go around the congress to do an agenda he knows ultimately the people are not going to support. we have 30 seconds. a
we have to have a conversation about how we have balance, public safety with privacy. both are of constitutional significance. how we balance it. there s a belief that we have skewed the balance more towards public safety and away from privacy. that is very difficult for a former prosecutor to say but i believe it. is there an opportunity to work on that when we get back? yes. the amendment almost passed. it didn t almost pass because people want to see it go away. it almost passed because members of congress feel they have no power over this program. so imagine how the people who send us to d.c. feel. we don t think we have enough
that road needs work, let s fix that road. i would say the sewer system is 100 years old, robert reich. here is maureen dowd questions the president in her comment. she noted he waited until the weekend was over to speak about the navy s.e.a.l. deaths in afghanistan. his inable to spontaneously assuage americans fears is strange. if they had died on a monday, he wouldn t have waited until wednesday to talk about it. he doesn t like the bully pulpit, but like the professor s lectern, it s made him seem strangely irrelevant in washington, trapped by his own temperament. he doesn t lead, and he doesn t understand why we don t feel led. robert reich, do you agree with her? chris, let me just say, and i agree with a lot of what bill richardson just said, but i think the president not only has to look as if he s fighting and leading and right there for
he doesn t lead, and he doesn t understand why we don t feel led. robert reich, do you agree with her? chris, let me just say, and i agree with a lot of what bill richardson just said, but i think the president not only has to look as if he s fighting and leading and right there for american workers, but he s got to do it. i would add to my list infrastructure, ball right now you can do so much repairing of bridges and highways and everything else, because the treasury bill, notwithstanding what standard & poor s said, down to a low interest rates. you can borrow very easily. what is stopping this president from putting a bill forth that will put a million people back to work doing jobs we all can see, politically need doing, with a local republican congressman would have to defend not doing? why doesn t he do it? chris, there s a lot of theories circulating around. one may have to do with