Video: CNBC Interviews the President

[Clio the Leo]

(of the United States of America that is ....... who just so happens to be Barack Obama.)

CNBC's John Harwood talks to President Barack Obama about pending legislation on financial reform, the possibility of raising taxes, and how the average American should think about Wall Street.

Video here...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1474923733&play=1

[LeftyAndProud60]

1. Why doesn't CNBC get Erin Burnett to do these interviews? NT

[Pirate Smile]

2. Because Harwood is CNBC's White House correspondent and Obama likes John Harwood.

I believe his fly-killing ninja display was during a Harwood interview, as was his Kanye is a "Jackass" off the record comment (which a reporter from a different network reported on his twitter account).

[LeftyAndProud60]

3. believe me, he'd like Erin Burnett too. She's the only reason I watch CNBC. NT

[FrenchieCat]

4. I think Erin Burnett is a piece of shit. Not how she looks,

but the bullshit that comes out of her mouth daily.

[Pirate Smile]

5. She's not their political/White House reporter. It is Harwood's beat so he gets the interviews.

Steve Liesman and Mark Haines seem less doctrinaire RW or Republican then most of the rest of them.

I watch CNBC quite a bit too.

One of the more amusing times lately was after Obama signed the Reconciliation Bill with the Student Loan Reform. I watched CNBC following the signing because I wanted to see how they would spin it. I thought it would be whining about the Banks losing free government money without having to take any risk at all. Instead, the spin went in a different direction which surprised me. They said that this is why college costs have gone up so much - it is the government's fault because by making Pell Grants larger it will just make colleges raise their prices even more. Government provides more $$$ so more people can go to college AND made Pell Grants larger so people would have less debt following college just forces prices to go up more so it is the government's fault. I'm always amazed at their ability to spin anything which is supposed to help the poor, working & middle class as somehow bad, bad, bad.

[DrToast]

9. You're right on Leisman and Haines

They're pretty tolerable. I don't know if they're Dems, but they're not rabid, foaming at the mouth right wingers, that's for sure.

Joe Kernen, on the other hand, is unbearable. He's like a Frank Luntz hand puppet. It's a shame because he's pretty funny otherwise and I used to like him.

Rick Santelli - awful.

Larry Kudlow - rabid right winger, but somehow still a pretty likable guy.

Becky Quick - Pretty Fair. And pretty fair, if you know what I mean. ;)

[HughBeaumont]

7. Both Burnett and Bartiromo are Repuke Corptocracy bootshiners.

And that channel is GE's answer to Faux; right wing to the core and stacked almost top to bottom with insufferable Supply-Siders. They almost trip over themselves propping up the wholesale failure that is Milton Friedman and his brand of greed-above-all disaster corporatism.

I'd rather have someone who is somewhat objective and serious like Harwood interview the President rather than those two cackling corporate mouthpieces.

[FrenchieCat]

6. Just watched it!

Nice when a reporter can conduct an interview with a President, and the President
doesn't get interrupted every 30 seconds! I liked the President's answers.
On that last question, I wished he would have stated that the media is so fucked up,
he's gonna have to find a way around them that works to reach as many folks as possible.

[LeftyAndProud60]

8. I"m noticing the left leaning media is hinting that Obama would sell his soul for $1mil. So what if

Goldman Sachs gave him $1mil. He raised close to a billion. What are they trying to say w/ these questions?