karl, for the life of me, i mean, look, i know the media is biased, yada, yada, yada, i get it, but thiss a whole new world, and i for the life of me -- you know, i've been saying for a while, well, maybe i'm wrong. i'm praying i'm wrong. not one correction. nobody is taking the facts of this show on that we have laid out. 3 million people watched us last night. nobody is taking apart the facts. they're taking me apart, so i'm clearly not wrong about the people advising our president. why is that not a problem for anybody it seems but me and the regular schmoes in the world? >> well, this is what is disturbing about this. this president has centralized power inside the white house in a pretty profound way. he is, in essence, running policy and running the government and running elements of our economy out of the white house in a way that no other president has ever been able to achieve. if we in the bush administration had tried to centralize as much authority and power inside the government, we would be eviscerated every day on the editorial pages of "the new york times" and "the washin

karl, for the life of me, i mean, look, i know the media is biased, yada, yada, yada, i get it, but this is a whole new world, and i for the life of me -- you know, i've been saying for a while, well, maybe i'm wrong. i'm praying i'm wrong. not one correction. nobody is taking the facts of this show on that we have laid out. 3 million people watched us last night. nobody is taking apart the facts. they're taking me apart, so i'm clearly not wrong about the people advising our president. why is that not a problem for anybody it seems but me and the regular schmoes in the world? >> well, this is what is disturbing about this. this president has centralized power inside the white house in a pretty profound way. he is, in essence, running policy and running the government and running elements of our economy out of the white house in a way that no other president has ever been able to achieve. if we in the bush administration had tried to centralize as much authority and power inside the government, we would be eviscerated every day on the editorial pages of "the new york times" and "the wash

, yada, yada. >> white sox. >> you proved to us at the beginning that you didn't have the gift to gabe, let's try with savannah. see if she talks. hey, savannah, what's up today? >> wind me up. i'll just keep going. let me do the schedule first, just to short circuit any questions. 11:00 he's going to meet, love the music. 11:00 he will meet with former senator tom daschle and talk about health care, as you might expect. at 1:00 he is going to camp david for the weekend. and then taking off from there, he is going to go to martha's vineyard next week for vacation. >> very good, savannah. >> nobody is meeting with daschle. oh, am i done? okay. >> savannah, just so-called, say don't worry about anything, we're fine, we're fine and yet it's the democrats that he's trying to sort of herd right now, correct? >> i think that's true because i do think it's donning on this white house that the proposition for a bipartisan deal is growing dimmer and dimmer although i think they're still holding out hope. the gang of six had a conference call and they're still committed to doing something on a

after bank bailouts, auto bailouts, the economic stimulus package, yada-yada-yada, the president is tryingalth care reform while reducing the ever-growing national debt and deficits. there aren't a lot of choices here. you either raise taxes or you cut spending. white house press secretary robert gibbs today insisted the president will not break his campaign promise. but treasury secretary tim geithner and national economic council director larry summers both sidestepped questions over this past weekend about raising taxes on the middle class. and you can just bet their answers weren't accidental. geithner said they're not ready to rule out a tax increase to lower the deficit, and summers said that health care overhaul needs money from somewhere. quote, it's never a good idea to absolutely rule things out no matter what, unquote. the problem with all this is it's the president who ruled it out. remember? we all remember how former president george herbert walker bush famously promised, read my lips -- no new taxes. a couple of years later, he raised taxes. that was the end of his presidenc

yada that's going on in the interest groups. nobody on the hill feels really accountable to execute a play. >> you know, there are three presidents presented at this end of the table, but also three vice presidents and probably the three most influential vice presidents in history, mondale with carter and gore with clinton and cheney, of course, with george w. bush. and i wonder, during the campaign and then the transition and then into governing to what extent was the vice presidential candidate steering you towards certain promises and then maybe holding your feet to the fire to try to achieve those promises? burt, you worked for mondale before he became vice president. >> he always said he wanted to meet the guy that we had hired to work in omb who had studied his career and go down there and try to cut every single program -- [laughter] and take entire, entire life. >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> well, and in my case i think as is famously known, the vice president's primary interests were not necessarily in the domestic agend

have been watching all of the town halls, listening to all that is going on about death panels and yadai have had two of my closest relatives did not have a will, no living will, we struggled as a family trying to settle things for them. my father was on life-support, there was nothing written by hand as to what he wanted to do so he was kept on life support at a hospital in illinois. i finally went to them and said, listen, he can lay here dead on life-support -- i am going to have the va, and given in the morning, they can do the same thing and we don't have to pay this exorbitant bill. i left the hospital at 6:00 that evening, i got to his home at 7:00, by 7:15 p.m., the hospital called me to tell me to come back to the hospital because my father had expired. they took him off life-support -- he was dead. but my point is -- i have another point. host: our time is short. lots of callers. audit of this is america at -- caller: in a crisis we should join together. we are pulling apart. i am not rich. i have no problem if i have to pay higher taxes to help those that are less fortunate,