also chris weiss was absent for the last six meetings. we are not the managers, where the drivers.e the one that communicates with the people. those people i have communicated with do not agree with your recommendations. you should revise this plan and you've got. this is supposed to be a liberal city and this is the most conservative plan. your like conservatives -- republicans view. çóas far as the waiting list goes, i have been on that waiting list for 17 years. i give up a lucrative position in the music business to drive a taxi because i liked it. and now,Ñi you're screwing me again. i have already been screwed by these sales you have allowed. why take money off the taxi driver when you can take it off a lot of other people. i believe you are all racist and you think all immigrants drive taxis of the cares about them? i believe that. you do not care about long-term drivers. you do not care about the people on the commission. you have never taken any advice from the commission. never. so what is the point of being there. it is a bad -- about time you listened to the real driver

chris matthews up in new york. let me start with the big one. next weiss' first huge bedate between barack obama and mitt romney. no matter what we say now trying to figure this thing out, it's impossible to know what it will feel like when these two men meet, shake hands, and take their positions. the studio where we do "hardball" in washington was the sight of the second great debate between richard nixon and john f. kennedy. right before that debate the kennedy brothers arrived to discover something weird had happened. the temperature was meat locker level. so cold they couldn't believe it and they knew why. kennedy's television adviser went racing to the basement and found nixon's guy standing watch on the thermostat. nixon had sweated in that first debate and it cost him. this time the nixon people were intent on freezing the room so cold that nixon couldn't sweat at all. well, after a standoff in that basement in our headquarters and some threats to call the police, they agreed to bring the temperature up. well, think this stuff doesn't matter? it all matters. just like everything we do, wear, look like, a