Rahm Emanuel

Every day that you're not doing health care is a day you're not going to get it done.

And if you look at the history of health care going all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt, pretty good analysis, especially with Hillary care being kind of front and center.

The economic team did not want to do anything, but they also thought specifically financial reform would prevent banks from lending that was important for getting the economy moving again.

Representing the political group around the table, myself and David Axelrod as a vocal, I was for doing first financial and banking reform.

One is if the history, as I told the president, if you want to pass health care reform, the industry, insurance, pharmacy, have to be on your side of the table.

That's a lesson from Hillary's fail.

In financial reform, the banks and the insurance executives are going to be on the other side.

And America, after the Recovery Act, after the TARP, need to see you fighting for them against the people that they think have wreaked havoc on their lives, making them lose homes.

Obviously, you know history.

His first child, he said, was health care reform.

That's why you get – no.

And that's – look, I kind of argue you got universal health care reform, but you also got the Tea Party.

Not everything is 100 percent.

That's life.

But that's why he gets paid the big bucks and you have to have judgment in the Oval Office, which is something that's thoroughly lacking right now.

So to me, that's kind of the choices.

Now, why corporate America goes from –

kinda okay with the uh... president obama's policy and i do i think it's a little short change not all of corporate america was there understood yet that's kind of a but you had some support i can i can't really republican area yeah i would say you did in i mean i could give you steve schwartzman yelled at the president for so they called him you know i think his policies i mean it was i don't even get in the language about nazis and stuff like that and me images of you know i mean just things that were said about the president from court voices in corporate america

They were also violently against him doing health care when they said just talk about the economy and et cetera.

So it was not like they were always applauding.