>> no, even chris mathews and joe scarboro on msnbc were noting, oh, by gosh, this was a scold lecture, saying something other than no, but the republicans were doing the same thing in all fairness. >> here is what michael gerson wrote in the washington post, a pelel address to the nature, involves the limit the resources, prime television time and public patience. it is presumably the result of a strategy involving policy, communications and speech writing staff and then he wrote, last night's speech contained no new proposals and no serious attempt to reform the public debate so the president comes out on friday morning and makes another statement and it's kind of the same old story, why? >> because i think what the white house was doing. their attitude maybe we know this stuff and maybe the reporters know it and the media culture knows it, but the american people don't know it and he was speaking more directly to the american people and making a case to them. >> haven't the polls showed that the american people are already engaged very much in this? >> very much so. poll after poll