here's jimmy carter giving advice to michael dukakis in his 1988 campaign for president. >> i'm about to lose as bad as you did. maybe worse. how did you deal with it afterward? >> i accept the fact that i was a downer. a liberal downer. malaise liberal downer. >> jimmy, believe me, i understand. chris: the democrats, that's just one image. for al gore it was his nerdyness. >> now i want to pick up where we left off in our economic's textbook page 326. y'all are going to need to get your homework out. and you know, really, i was very disappointed on some of your performances on last week's pop quiz. idaho, i'm looking in your direction. today we're going to focus on -- we're going to -- we need to tint -- come on, would you get out of here? >> ooh, sorry, teacher, are you on? >> yes, i'm on. >> let me get, internet blah, blah. i'm just kidding you. oh, by the way, we're out of beer. >> and john kerry. here was s.n.l.'s take on his problems with james carville coaching him back in 2004. >> john, we've got to get you more tough. you know what i'm saying? we've got to get you more republ

on the other hand, i have heard not that i'm disputing you, people like ted kennedy and maybe michael dukakis and others being ones that have been in there to help the underdog, the immigrants, giving out free food stamps or freeway to those people. you agree or disagree with that? >> agree with? >> the fact that kennedy and the other people are sort of on the other end of what you're saying with the government service in the rich rather than -- >> i see. >> and thirdly, who you see as a good president -- >> you are skipping one. >> the book was the other one. >> ic. >> to do like to see beyond ex-president? >> i would just as soon have a lottery and two somebody from this audience. [laughter] [applause] i would gamble that anybody in this audience would probably do a better job than whoever is elected by the democratic party. [applause] so i am have serious. but to answer your question about kennedy and a caucused doing good things for the poor. there are congressmen who are better than other congressman, who are more liberal and congressman who have a better idea of what our tax structure s

and the upper but on the other hand, not that i am disputing people like ted kennedy and maybe michael dukakis as once you are there to help the underdog, the immigrants, a free food stamps, but do you agree with that or disagree? >> the fact that kennedy and some of the other people are on the other end were the government serves their rich? >> and to do see is a good president? >> i am i heard one. [laughter] you are skipping one. >> the book? i see. who would you like to see be our next president? >> i would just as soon have a lottery and chooses somebody from the audience. [laughter] [applause] i would gamble that anybody in this audience would do a better job than whoever will be selected by the democratic party. [laughter] i am have serious. but with your question of kennedy and dukakis doing good things for the poor, yes there are congressmen that are better than others and some are more liberal and some have a better idea of what the tax structure should be and it is nice to have those congressmen and we should do encourage them and support them. but they always need to be encouraged

bush, and fox news contributor susan estrich who managed the presidential campaign of michael dukakis. what gives here, susan? we weren't having a war on terror for the first year of this administration, now all of a sudden we seem to have a war on al-qaeda. why? >> well, i think the president is angry, and he's right to be angry. at these failures of intelligence. and i think what he's trying to do is shake up the bureaucracy. i don't think he's any more or less determined than he was a week ago. i really don't think tone is ultimately the issue. but the challenge he faces, and i think president bush also faced, is how do you sit on top of two, three huge bureaucracies that deal with intelligence and get them to do the work of connecting the dots and making the country safe? jon. jon: jon cynics would say, though, matt, that the president was sort of reading the tea leaves, hearing the public anger about all of the dots that were not connected here and decided to come out with a strong statement because people are demanding that. >> well, first, i just want to say, jon, i really appl

us now an angela mcglowan, a political analyst and susan estridge, former campaign manager for michael dukakis nice to see you both. nice to see you. >> susan, nancy pelosi says she's not going to roll over and accept the senate version of the bill as written. what choice does she have? >> well, i think she'll identify priorities. i think she'll push them in negotiations and i think if you're asking at the end of the day, is this going to be a tango, yes, both sides understand that the worst thing that could happen at this point for the democrats is to not get a bill through. you might have people already mad at you who don't like the bill, but there's also a lot of people who would join in being mad if you didn't get it through so they've got to come up with a bill, come up with a compromise. it will be the art of the doable. >> angela, let me ask you about that. >> yes. >> because it does seem like somebody's going to be ticked off no matter what. we're talking about different democratic constituencies who are all sort of fighting for a piece of the pie here. the speaker is in a tough spot.