president william j. clinton>> i have to admit i was pretty pleased with that endorsement. >> he actually read the book. i thought he would skim it. >> charlie: could you tell for sure. >> i wasn't going to do that. i think it's impolite to a former' president. >> charlie: you think he read the book. >> he said he read the book. charlie: here was the question though. before we talk about the book. let's talk about where we are today. we had a dip in the fourth quarter. do you read anything into that? >> not very much. we had a dip in the fourth imparter in the g.d.p. we didn't have a dip in jobs you might have noticed. a few strange t

president william j. clinton>> i have to admit i was pretty pleased with that endorsement. >> he actually read the book. i thought he would skim it. >> charlie: could you tell for sure. >> i wasn't going to do that. i think it's impolite to a former' president. >> charlie: you think he read the book. >> he said he read the book. charlie: here was the question though. before we talk about the book. let's talk about where we are today. we had a dip in the fourth quarter. do you read anything into that? >> not very much. we had a dip in the fourth imparter in the g.d.p. we didn't have a dip in jobs you might have noticed. a few strange things happened to make the third quarter higher than we thought. one was inventories one was government spending. they both reversed in the fourth quarter. we got a zero. you need to average through the third and the fourth to get a clearer picture of what the economy is actually looking like these days. >> charlie: most people think that the key to the economic recovery is demand. >