you have larry sommers, another harvard larry.his weekend. >> nothing to talk about, really. >> nothing to talk about. >> nothing to talk about at all. >> i think everybody wants a sense of where the economy is. i spoke to someone recently, let's not forget about what the economy is based on. it's base and housing and jobs. your house and your job. that's still the biggest challenge is, where are jobs? are they being replaced? even if there are signs ever the recovery, the president talked about at the beginning of the end the recession. what'sing that going to mean for people actually looking for work or stopped looking for work, working part time, but want to work full time again? a very real issue. >> look at the new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, everything that larry sommers touched, a guy i like from afar, the president's upside down on the stimulus package. more americans think it's a bad idea than a good idea. the economic recovery. even the president's economic policies. they're still blaming george bush for these d

is there any argument to be made that larry sommers and others have made that -- that theyth should haveen more money? >> how can you say that when unemployment now is approaching 10%. the president has promised that we were going to save unemployment from going past 8.5%. that's why evacuee needed to act with such urgency as chris indicates now, all of a sudden we're realizing that there's a lot of waste involved when you brush hot 800 billion from washington. never does federal government perform the way that we could see small businesses perform. we've got to go put in confidence back in to our economy, we do that by helping small businesses. we need an investment-led recovery not washington spending our way out. all we're doing is pig up the debt right now. i think it's reflected in the lack of confidence in the economy and market an certainly in the polling over the last few days. >> ifill: chris, listening to what eric cantor had to say it's clear no you're not going to get support for second estimate pulus from his side of the aisle. is there going to be support for another infusi

sommers next time. i caught it on the internet. -- listen to larry summers next time. be our next catastrophe. it is not only in new york. it is literally across the country. a friend came to visit me on my 25th anniversary of my nomination last week, so we were chatting about a whole bunch of otherç things, and she said baltimore is having the same problems. it is city after city after city. i think they have to take some of that part of money and say to the banks, -- some of that tarp money and say to the banks something. they will get the economy moving. neil: if you spoke to joe biden, with any part of you say that for the good of the administration, for the good of the guy ahead of you, you have got to shut up? >> what it is, neil, is he is going and is saying, "this is what happens before." neil: he scares people. >> how does he scare people? two months ago, -- you tell me any doctor in this country who would not agree with them. >> the vice president -- neil: the vice president of the united states. a lot of people. if we ground air travel to a halt because the