buddy romer gave an interview to "gq" in which he interviewed a doum of people, one of his potential vice president candidates was you. >> that is correct. that is correct. >> why don't you tell us how you would have structurally fixed this? >> from the get-go, the first thing that you've got to do is you have got to deal with the housing market. remember, what was the problem? the problem was the housing market imploded and cratered. >> it was complete capital misallocation. >> complete capital misallocation, the housing market is the beginning of the story, because that's where your collection of revenue is, where you get your unemployment revenue and the local tax revenue and it was manufactured through the collapse in housing and the spike in unemployment. if you don't understand the deficit came from the collapse in housing which precipitated the spike in unemployment, then you do not have any capacity to solve the problem. and instead of actually resolving housing by restructuring the housing debt, writing down the first liens, restructuring the bank, by doing that with the fol

joining us tonight for the interview is as to have day former republican presidential candidate buddy romer for whom campaign finance reform was the centerpiece of his campaign. governor, it is great to see you again. >> good to see you. >> i'm not going to ask you why you dropped out of the race because i think i know. but i want to know if running for president -- this experience gave you new insight into how to fix the problem that you ran to address, this problem of money and politics? >> yes. i realize we now live in the worst of both worlds. the old debate between the liberals or progressives and conservatives. we're between full disclosure and limits. conservatives want disclosure. we have neither now. neither. it's wide open. i mean today's case with john edwards was about personal integrity and corruption. we're talking systematic corruption now, where policy, whether it is military, trade policy, budget policy with earmarks, a tax code you cannot read, rachel, these issues, these policy issues are moved by catch and big checks. they're not moved by debate anymore. in fact, when on

buddy romer made it official he was ending his presidential bid. this is this morning's "new york times" -- i'm sorry, "washington post." buddy roemer has ended his presidential campaign. host: on cyberattacks, our last call is from water. craig is a democrat there. good morning, craig. caller: hi. my name is actually greg. host: well, good morning, and welcome, greg. caller: i understand that there's a problem with cyberattacks security in the whole country, but 25 states in particular, where a bunch of criminals have attacked my city, county, and state, and for some reason, we got the federal government here, the healthcare authority denying me transportation to medical appointments because i'm disabled, and it seems to be the republicans that do the attacking, not the chinese. but the cyberattacks, being a regular thing for disabled people to have a cell phone, i can't seem to get a ride to a doctor, and i didn't have a problem six months ago, but these people that do the attacking, it's not just the chinese. these are federally protected communi