President of AFL-CIO claims that every economist in the country knows that "we don't have a deficit problem"

I guess that I am surprised that the reporters questioning the AFL-CIO president didn't call him on his assertions about the deficit and that they and everyone else knows that there is not a deficit problem. Possibly they thought that everyone knew he was nuts, but it would have been nice for one reporter to say that there was at least one reporter who thought that there was a deficit problem and say that they were the one or that they could cite some economists who thought that the deficits were a problem.