but the puff ball question, there are plenty have questions you can ask that are hard but ron fornay summed it up. it was like clinton and obama like a old happy married couple. they wonder if he will do that with vice president biden. >> here is what they wrote this week. it was something would you expect from the state run media. it was that kind of level of propaganda. 60 minutes was apparently being used as a campaign advertisement when there are problems all over the world. judy, was this a squandered opportunity? >> i think it was. i talked to him about that interview. he said, look, she had just had seven hours of testimony on capitol hill. i was not going to be able to draw her out any further on benghazi, but there were so many other issues he could have asked her about. one called it an embarrassing failure and what he did is compare to scott's interview with george bush which was staged 19 questions, like machine rattle attack. i compare that tha to early 60 minutes and is this a choice here we would have made. >> jon: let me read you something. most americans are cheering

ron fornay wrote, president obama made a compromise, farther than republicans, but noticing who is at fault doesn't fix the problem. to quote billy joel, you may be right, mr. president, but this is crazy. they pushed back, saying it is even outright stupid, to think that republicans would want to talk to obama, the conversations wouldn't do any good. the president's agenda would be passed without breaking gridlock, somebody has to be the grow-up here, let it be the president. that is not the problem with the argument, the problem with the argument is the idea that the president should move away from a popular plan because a minority party wouldn't compromise on it. what it says is the boundary of what is politically acceptable, the bar for which we set, for the people who win elections, is the bar that the party who lost the election -- this can't possibly be right, i don't think. but i'm going to find out, because joining me now is chris hayes, host of "up with chris hayes". >> you well be surprised and shocked to know i think it is ridiculous. it perfectly illustrates the problem o