obama. all the polls show that americans are furious the government could not settle an obvious problem without a chaotic exposition. people are getting hurt as the stock market plummets. the dow down more than 500 points today. 1300 points in the last two weeks. everyone is nervous as retirement and education funds get pounded. the president came off as weak in the debt debate and the bad economy speaks for itself. how can any american be optimistic when the national debt is growing by more than $4 billion every single day. the only thing the debt compromise did was keep america's bonds from being downgraded and allow the feds to continue paying their bills. the deal did nothing, nothing to improve the very shaky economy as the stock market is now telling us. analysis by politico.com today says that president obama is in serious trouble for re-election. but, again, talking points has told you that for months. mr. obama knows he is in trouble. he also knows that republicans will not cooperat

mitt romney goes after president obama. teacher under fire for criticizing her students' bad behavior on the net. did you see that? moments away. >> bill: back of book sellingment. did you see that. mitt romney has been laying low this summer. but now is he beginning to open up on the president. >> change has come to america, america, america. ♪ ♪ >> yes, we can. thank you. >> if i don't have this did you know don in three years, then there is going to be a one-term proposition. >> bill: all right. here now to analyze fox news correspondent juliet huddy. 48%. >> up from 7% to 10%. yeah. >> bill: the employment rate -- the unemployment went up 48%? >> in the last three years since obama gave his speech there at grant park. >> bill: if you look at it objectively, not a party one way or the other, pretty effective ad. >> it's a beautiful ad, very slick ad. takes obama's words and uses them against him and his passion, as you see there, that victory party in grant park there and uses it against him because this is essential

obama's re-election campaign. if they're hoping the president's political skills bus a loser republican opponent will get him through next november, don't count on it. i worked for president carter against reagan and vote letters not accept the argument had you no choice but to stick with the incumbent. it's a losing strategy. plus, how exactly did the tea party, a minority in one-half of one-third of the government, the house of representative, manage to shape the direction of the country to its will. facts, history, evidence, do not matter to them. all that matters is a commitment to ideology, and willing to risk among other things bringing down the economy if they don't get their way. senator pat moynihan of new york said you're entitled to your on opinion, not your own facts. the tea party disagrees. up in the air, 200 construction projects haumted, why? because of another quibble in congress. by an effort by republicans to make it harder foreairline employees to unionize. it was solved today and we'll hear fr

i think for a lot of people who like obama and always will like obama. we love him as a person, you know, he's such a breath of fresh air as a president, a hip, smart law professor. you know, but -- there's just something missing there, as far as the way he fights back. unless he's just more conserve tev than we thought. whatever it is, i have to tell you, the magic is gone. after the bush tax cuts, he rolled over on thatting and a number of other things. and this latest one, he has no credibility with me. i heard him the other day, getting right back on the podium saying, now we need tax increases, we need to get some revenues and those corporate jet owners and the oil companies, it's like, wait a second, i just heard this for three months and you gave up on all of it, and didn't get any of it. why would you get it now? why would the bully now give you what you want? >> well, let's talk a bit more about obama when we come back from a break. bill, stay right where you are. we'll have more with bill maher next. >>> tonight the president is celebrating his

if obama had lost, hillary won, saying, gee if he only had obama. >> exactly. exactly. we blew this opportunity for hope and change in history, and -- >> and there's not all that much difference. that's not like reagan and rockefeller or something like that. they're not that far apart. obama and hillary. >> here's a question. why -- >> they work so well together. >> the heart of progressives who watch this program. it seems to me that the clintons were able to do things like ball, the budget over eight year. worked with -- newt gingrich and did it. voted for welfare reform. got rid of welfare as a right, basically. they did nafta, which drives labor crazy. they were forgiven on every point, gene. this president gets health care through. the greatest social evolvement since the '60s, and he gets nothing but grief. >> well, you know, were the clintons entirely forgiven? i'm not sure they were entirely forgiven. well, you know -- but imagine a hillary clinton administration, imagine bill clinton in the white house. imagine bill clinton in the white house. >> that's good. >

obama won them by an overwhelming margin. that's an interesting class divide, not so much a race divide. >> that's pretty traditional, the white working class feels threatened by change. what do you say when you hear republicans like reck perry say, we're going to take our country back, not the white house back, what does that mean if it doesn't have a racial ting to it? >> i think it absolutely has a racial ting. that's not the same thing as calling, saying that they're racist. but they are using what activists call, political activists call something, sending a signal to their base to say, we understand the grievances that you have. and there is an interesting, not just a class divide but an interesting psychological divide, too, among black voters that separates black and latino voters from white voters. many white voters are persuaded that the future is not going to be any better. it's going to be gloomier for their children than it was for them. blacks and latinos were hammered more by the recession but they believe the

i think for a lot of people who like obama and always will like obama. we love him as a person, you know, he's such a breath of fresh air as a president, a hip, smart law professor. you know, but -- there's just something missing there, as far as the way he fights back. unless he's just more conservative than we thought. whatever it is, i have to tell you, the magic is gone. after the bush tax cuts, he rolled over on that and a number of other things. and this latest one, he has no credibility with me. i heard him the other day, getting right back on the podium saying, now we need tax increases, we need to get some revenues and those corporate jet owners and the oil companies, it's like, wait a second, i just heard this for three months and you gave up on all of it, and didn't get any of it. why would you get it now? why would the bully now give you what you want? >> well, let's talk a bit more about obama when we come back from a break. bill, stay right where you are. we'll have more with bill maher next. >>> tonight the president is celebrating his bir

obama's re-election campaign. if they're hoping the president's political skills bus a loser republican opponent will get him through next november, don't count on it. i worked for president carter against reagan and vote letters not accept the argument had you no choice but to stick with the incumbent. it's a losing strategy. plus, how exactly did the tea party, a minority in one-half of one-third of the government, the house of representative, manage to shape the direction of the country to its will. facts, history, evidence, do not matter to them. all that matters is a commitment to ideology, and willing to risk among other things bringing down the economy if they don't get their way. senator pat moynihan of new york said you're entitled to your on opinion, not your own facts. the tea party disagrees. up in the air, 200 construction projects halted, why? 70,000 construction workers out of work, why? because of another quibble in congress. an effort by republicans to make it harder for airline employees to union

if you are a left wing intellectual, which is what obama is. you believe in a series of principles that don't work. he's been trying for 2 1/2 years now. i saw one reference that a democratic senator said the problem with thex(ipv stimulus package was it should be four times bigger, should be three trillion. i thought there is somebody who has no ability to deal with reality. and no understanding of the real world. that's the base of the modern left wing of the democratic party. it lives a fantasy life. now the fantasies have come crashing to ground. i think they don't toe what to do. i predict if he does -- does come up with some plan in early september it will be dramatically too small. they ought to repeal the dodd-frank bill killing the banking industry now. i met with people in the thai community, korean, chinese community, in every community jobs was the number one concern. in two of the three communities they thought the dodd-frank bill was killing local banks, small business, crippling the housing industry it would be easy to repeal it

they went after barack obama. one -- when newt is saying "i want more substance on why we agree barack obama should be gone, the president shouldn't go on vacation. all of these things during a time of crisis. is there something barack obama could learn from this? >> yeah. i mean it would all attacks being felt they're going to go school on this now and start, and push back hard. but look. the fieldx8ñitself, this was a much better debate. they're getting stronger, these debates are good for them. >> i agree. >> and the only one going after the weaker debate is -- i think everybody else. >> sean: rick santorun got more time at the end. rick santorun. let's talk about herman cane, ron paul who had and had a lot of moments there. and america's got to learn to take a joke. >> that is a great line. >> good line. i like that a lot. >> and more she does that, less political he seems and more real and business-like heÑ seems. did he get enough of a chance to talk in terms of business. >> he should focus more on experie

obama with romney 47, obobama 44. perry 46, question, did these polls show the electriccability of the republican candidate is less important than the ousting of president obama? >> i think you're close to the truth, john. president obama is in serious trouble as a president and a candidate, partly because of a lot of news on the economic front looks like it's even getting worse, but what these polls show us is that as charlie cook said, this race is becoming the republican party's to lose in 2012. the polls also show that the entire republican field it looks like including the controversial ones like michele bachmann may be acceptable to the american people, more importantly acceptable to the independents. everything, though, depends on the -- depends on what happens in the economy, john, because obama is still well liked by the amamican people and they still want him to succeed. >> i don't know how you -- his extraordinary weaknesses demonstrated in the polls. >> the american people have not given up on him. but in

obama said that is not going to happen. the infrastructure of libya is not that of somalia it is capable of producing a million and a half barrels of oil a day. and there's something in the neighborhood of 50 billion dollars worth of libyan assets that are in the control of nato, the united states and other countries that froze those assets. libya has potential. the problem is, what does in mean for people like assad? in syria he's got an exit. gadhafi has nowhere to run. syria has -- [ talking over each other ] >> sean: probably does. chavez comes to mind first. >> you can't get there from here. his problem is, no planes, now the airport is -- steve harrigan just reported the airport is in the hands of the rebels, there's no way out for in guy. he's not going to get to zimbabwe, south africa, certainly venezuela. >> sean: if gadhafi goes does that mean obama agrees with the bush doctrine on preemption now? >> you make a good point. in there's been ambivalence, uncertainy, certain no coherence to american policy. it was lea

this has been the obama era, i shouldn't even call it the obama era in democratic politics, this is in republican politics, flap flabbergasted republicans. they support pay as you go rules in congress, so does obama, so now they are against that. they support cap and trade, including sarah palin on tape, remember? >> john mccain proposed legislation calling for mandatory cap from global warming gases or co2 emissions, do you agree on that? >> i agree with that, absolutely, he's got a good cap and trade and details are being hashed out right now, but in principle, absolutely i support all that we can do to reduce emissions and clean up this planet. >> republicans support cap and trade. it is a republican idea. obama supports it too, and so now republicans are against it. the individual mandate in health reform as a means of getting everybody covered, not only is that mitt romney's implemented idea from his time as governor in massachusetts, it is a republican idea dating back to the 1990s when people first came up with the idea, so this republican idea, obama is also for that, and so no

thanks for your great article, let obama be obama. cynthia, thank you. >>> coming up, rick perry says president obama is the greatest threat to america -- the greatest threat to america, is what rick perry is saying. he says the fed chairman is treasonist and will get the ugly treatment down in texas. i guess it's like adlai stevenson getting spit on down there. what is this? treasonist treatment? is this guy really running for president with this kind of talk? is it this bad? we want something like this? >>> you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. announcer ] anan anthis...is the netwo. a living, breathing intelligence that's helping drive the future of business. in here, inventory can be taught to learn. ♪ machines have a voice. ♪ medical history follows you. it's the at&t network -- a network of possibilities... committed to delivering the most advanced mobile broadband experience to help move business... forward. ♪ >>> president obama, all-time low in the gallup poll. 39%. even that number is three times as good as congres

thanks for your great article, let obama be obama. cynthia, thank you. >>> coming up, rick perry says president obama is the greatest threat to america -- the greatest threat to merc is what rp vp saying -- saying the fed chairman is treasonist and will get the ugly treatment down in texas. i guess it's like, steenphenson getting spit on down there. what is this? treasonist treatment? is this guy really running for president with this kind of talk? is it this bad? we want something like this? >>> you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. in here, inventory can be taught to learn. ♪ machines have a voice. ♪ medical history follows you. it's the at&t network -- a network of possibilities... committed to delivering the most advanced mobile broadband experience to help move business... forward. ♪ it's pro-cool technology releases armies of snowmen masseuse, who cuddle up with your soreness and give out polar bear hugs. technology. [ male announcer ] new bengay cold therapy. the same technology used by physical therapists. go to beng

that's president obama's conundrum. he cannot seem to break away from his liberal philosophy and admit that the free marketplace is the only vehicle that can drive us back to prosperity. a new gallup poll surveyed each state about mr. bomb maps job performance. connecticut is the highest. 60. iowa the lowest. 27% approve of the performance there all tolled, 29 states are disproving of mr. obama. 20 say a good job and north carolina is tied. you can see statewide sentiment has turned against the president. talking points believes in the election were held today, mr. obama would lose. americans are suffering and the buck will not stop at a tea party rally. or at the home of president bush. no. the buck will stop where harry truman once lived in the white house. and that's the memo. now, the top story tonight. looks like texas governor rick perry will get in the race for president. he may make his announcement on saturday. joining us from washington to analyze radio talk show star and the author of the new big best seller

a picture of barack obama there. same thing with the mitt romney one. mitt romney just has clip art and a stock photo eagle. yeah, it's nudge, nudge, wink, wink, we'll launder the money to barack obama and mitt romney, but at least they are nudging and winking. the rick perry people aren't even nudging and winking. here is a picture, and another picture. want to give the money to elect somebody different than barack obama as president? rick perry, rick perry, rick perry. this is perhaps the larger role of rick perry in our national politics today, to make stuff obvious. and maybe that is a metaphor for his broader role in the campaign. but is rick perry's being this blatant about this any different legally than anybody else going around and nudging and winking about their monlaundering? laundering? thank you for joining us. >> thank you, rachel. >> you probably do not see this as money laundering. but in what ways is it not money laundering? >> one person's money laundering is another's free speech. and it happens in

we played a clip of obama in 2008. he's talking about the four trillion that george bush accumulated in eight years as president. he's done this in 2 1/2 years. he used the word credit card and china and responsibility and $30,000 a kid. then concludes by saying it is unpatriotic. consider this, any other words use against the tea party or any conservatives said about the president that the president is unpatriotic. you questioning -- he did it to george bush. what would the response in this country be now? >> you know what it would be. all the wags at "the new york times" editorial board and the left wing progressives would be up in arms over it. there would be all sorts of apologies and capitulations. that happens a lot they get browbeaten for telling the truth. this man has has wagged his own finger at the right for untoward rhetoric. we've heard a lot of this questioning of conservatives particularly fiscal conservatives, patriotism. joe biden said it is patriotic to pay higher taxes. this is par for the course. yo

ron paul 45%, obama 47%. bachmann very close. obama 48%. bachmann 44%. what about this g.e. deal? i mean, is it me? is it me, mr. rove? you can tell me. is it me? >> look, american companies have the right to partner with whomever they want. i'm worried about two things on this. we know the practice of chinese companies is to require as a price of doing business with them, of being their partner. that you surrender, that you turn over valuable technology. that you, in essence, help their economy along by giving them your intellectual property rights. second of all, g.e. is talking about partnering with a company that does a lot of work with the chinese military. so, g.e.'s sophisticated avionics is going to be put into the hands of a company in essence supplies the chinese military including air force and navy with vital aviation equipment. >> bill: even beyond that jeffrey immelt, the ceo is in charge of the president's council on jobs and competitiveness. this takes jobs overseas to china. and it makes china more competitive against boeing. >> yeah, yeah. >> bill: wait. >> i got

obama care is a disaster. i have people that are going to close up their businesses, friends of mine, so i would have gotten rid of that. i would have gotten much bigger cutting. >> greta: a little the risk of passing that ceiling, because the republicans and democrats were at each other's throats essentially, and if there were no agreement we would have gone past the deadline for the debt ceiling. >> that was an artificial date. >> greta: that didn't matter? >> that was a date set by geithner, totally artificial. i don't think the president would have allowed to happen. if they asked for a tougher deal -- you know, i heard on your show, and many other shows frankly, $4 trillion, $5 trillion. it's nowhere those numbers. those are the kind of numbers you needed. so they really didn't get. they didn't make the right deal. they really launched obama's presidency, because this won't come up again before his presidency. comes up after the presidency. what are they doing? >> greta: the democrats and president say th

>> one thing i have noticed and can't let go knowing the obama administration president obama himself has really been di vieding the country. he's supposed to bring a leader and unity. there's never been a bigger divide. you are supposed to divide the big guys and he is happy to pay more taxes. don't just give it away for his stimulus et cetera, et. i don't like the divide. it doesn't feel american. >> we are downgraded we are all downgraded. >> we get downgraded interest rates go up. >> yes. >> people have less money consumer spending goes down. that further you know the chance of growth. >> it is terrible the whole thing is terrible. gdp numbers came out. we are facing a recession. there is no growth and no consumer spending. we go down to double a then you see higher rates for everything from credit cards, gasoline, 30 year auto loans student loans and also you are going to be paying more when you are selling your stocks and bonds. there are so many things woven into that and we are paying more in our taxes to obama care in the years ahead. >> obama advisors all over tv trying to b

a picture of barack obama there. same thing with the mitt romney one. mitt romney just has clip art and a stock photo eagle. yeah, it's nudge, nudge, wink, wink, we'll launder the money to barack obama and mitt romney, but at least they are nudging and winking. the rick perry people aren't even nudging and winking. here is a picture, and another picture. want to give the money to elect somebody different than barack obama as president? rick perry, rick perry, rick perry. this is perhaps the larger role of rick perry in our national politics today, to make stuff obvious. and maybe that is a metaphor for his broader role in the campaign. but is rick perry's being this blatant about this any different legally than anybody else going around and nudging and winking about their monlaunderinelaund ? might isikoff is now joining us. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, rachel. >> you probably do not see this as money laundering. but in what ways is it not money laundering? >> one person's money laundering is another's fre

s narrative and obama's the debt ceiling had anything to do with the budget. deficits why were they. why would they touch the notion of why wouldn't they touch the notion of this is a hostage taking it's. well again here what you have to understand about mainstream recorders is that they're not in the business like you are offering the big picture you know they don't step back and look down on the field and give the big facts what they do is they position themselves they position themselves equally distant between the elites of the two major parties and if the elites of the two major parties are yelling about the debt crisis and ignoring unemployment in the mainstream reporters loathe the elite parties and you know i wrote a column this week talking about how you know if you were recording on this from the sky box you know at the top of a stadium and you're looking down on the big picture you'd say look he's collaborated in giving us these waters that have racked up trillions of dollars the bank bailouts big gave tax cuts to the wealthy first bush and then oba

frankly more dramatically more realistic person than barack obama. i am not going to second ge john boehner. they have got to manage this process to really rethink the federal government. you can't cut the current systems. i would recommend strongly that everybody that is going to be involved in this look at strong america now and a guy named michael strong who has really helped develop a program, i mean michael george who has helped develop a program which is called lean six signature that. they think they can take $500 billion a year out of the federal government by just applying modern systems to it. we have got to go -- >> bill: that is obsolete model we have got to change across the board. we have to start with the tax code. got to get rid of this class warfare business and be realistic about raising revenue mr. speaker, always a pleasure. good luck on the page. thanks for dropping in tonight. directly ahead. new polls tell us interesting things about president obama and the republican field a raid against him. coming up, bernie goldberg on how

they certainly want to start with obama. is this a track you want to veer to the right, safest place to be? >> the only place left, chris. i think the republican party overcorrected when they nominated mccain. and they were trying so hard to get away from bush, and anything that bush represented. they picked someone who couldn't get the momentum and couldn't get the enthusiasm. it was like bob dole all over again. when bob dole was sort of given the nomination because he was the last man standing, people were familiar with him, but he had no chance in '96. and i think if you were to give it to romney, he'd have a tough time getting the enthusiasm behind him. when you're a republican base candidate, you've got a much better chance at getting the kind of mow meant up and the kind of crowds out that you need. >> chris, when you talk to -- >> jennifer, you are so strong. never heard you soy brilliant. you're either brilliantly wrong or brilliantly something. no one's going to doubt what you said tonight. rick perry's to lose. he

frankly more dramatically more realistic person than barack obama. i am not going to second ge john boehner. they have got to manage this process to really rethink the federal government. you can't cut the current systems. i would recommend strongly that everybody that is going to be involved in this look at strong america now and a guy named michael strong who has really helped develop a program, i mean michael george who has helped develop a program which is called lean six signature that. they think they can take $500 billion a year out of the federal government by just applying modern systems to it. we have got to go -- >> bill: that is obsolete model we have got to change across the board. we have to start with the tax code. got to get rid of this class warfare business and be realistic about raising revenue mr. speaker, always a pleasure. good luck on the page. thanks for dropping in tonight. directly ahead. new polls tell us interesting things about president obama and the republican field a raid against him. coming up, bernie goldberg on how

she led the effort against obama care, we got obamawear. -- obama care. it is not her spine we are worried about it is her record of results. if that is your view of results, please stop, because you are killing us. >> chris: congresswoman bachmann. >> i was at the tip of the spear fighting against the implementation of obama care in the united states congress. nancy pelosi, harry reid and barack obama ran congress. but i gave them a run for their money. again on cap and trade i was there from the beginning giving speaker pelosi a run for her money. i asked her about her number one target to defeat last year i was taking them on, on nearly every argument they put forward. when others ran, i fought. and i ran against the increase of the debt ceiling. [ applause ] >> bret: let's hold our applause to get more questions in. >> chris: governor romney, you are campaigning as the man who can fix the economy. you acquired american pad and paper. two u.s. plans closed. 385 jobs cut. later almost 2,000 workers were laid off or relocated. when you were governor mass

what can obama do about it? i think knowing cordell west, he would like to see some direct payments. that ain't going to happen. fact of the matter is obama is on the right course, which is a color-blind approach aimed at helping people based on income and opportunity, try to help people across racial lines, knowing that the need is in the black community so the black community will be held. >> amen. the hispanic community lost 66% of its wealth, and the reason is the subprime mortgages wiped these folks out of their prime asset, which was houses. it went down -- look at the states where the subprime disaster hit. california, nevada, arizona, and florida. hispanic communities extremely heavy, then you go around the cities and the point and homes is important. but the white community lost 20,000 dollars per family, john. and i know that's a smaller amount, but everybody is being hammered, and i think clarence is right you ought to try to do policies for everyone. >> more time from this -- can recall [everyone tal

barack obama is missing in action. he should have the kind of leadership i had when i was governor of the state. >> next to representative bachmann. you were in the minnesota state legislature, at the time. you said you opposed the tax. in the end you voted for it. now you promise never to raise taxes. why would you compromise then, but not now? >> that's right. i was very vocal against that tax. i thought against that tax. the problem is, we the deal was put together, now pawlenty cut a deal with the special interest groups. he put in the same bill, a vote to increase the cigarette tax as well as the vote that would take away protections from the unborn. i made a decision. i believe in the sanctity of human life. i believe you can get money wrong, but you can't get life wrong. that's why i came down on the decision i paid. [ applause ] >> governor pawlenty do you have a response to that? >> what is wrong in the answer is the answer. congresswoman bachmann didn't vote for that bill because of a stripping away of pro-li

and democrats are so wedded to barack obama and so afraid of weakening him they will put up with any number of moral indecency to allow him to keep his vaunted position including including the situation and also because barack obama had no lead there is no lead a public lead up to libya's there's no chance for organization either the fact that democrats are free to criticize obama in fact or so little public debate on libya says really terrible things about the future of democracy in the u.s. so this is a very it's actually that the whole the whole situation is a bit of a i think a microcosm a reflection of what's actually going on in the u.s. right now that he is defying the you also in los angeles. the empire he has no it's appetite for war is insatiable so was the anti-war movement really all about george w. bush is angela pointed out and i'm sure michael is going to tell us in a few minutes go ahead. i agree with everything that angela said i think that in large part the anti-war movement during bush was really. unfortunate about personality i sense i mean he was seen as sort of

lying about the state of the economy president obama inherited. and lying about a fact as important as the one is just bald faced psycho talk. >>> if you live in rick perry's texas, then you probably don't have health insurance. even if you have a job. the real life implications of perry care coming up. at exxon and mobil, our smart gasoline works at the molecular level to help remove deposits and clean up intake valves. it helps your engine run more smoothly and leave behind cleaner emissions. it's how we make gasoline work harder for you. exxon and mobil. >>> you saw some shots of that huge bus the president has. it's owned by the secret service. i was shocked to find out where it was made and who got paid. >> the right wing hiss tear ya over president obama's bus tour. karl rove's group plan on creating attack ads on a bus tour? the eventual republican presidential nominee will be using an identical secret service owned bus on the campaign trail. fox & friend crew found something else to criticize the president obama. here it is. >> guess where

disaster right here in near the nation's capital and it looks like mission accomplished for president obama on the libya crisis but republicans are not ready to give the president any credit at all and according to a new wiki leaks cables master wonder just whose side the republicans were on from the beginning obama's record office. you need to know this the concerns raised by yesterday's five point nine earthquake here in the virginia d.c. area are still reverberating long after the quake itself in a few small aftershocks are over today schools and government buildings are closed in washington d.c. the fear of aftershocks and damage has been discovered at the national cathedral and the washington monument was the largest earthquake to strike virginia and well over one hundred years and near the epicenter is the north anna nuclear power station rated the seventh most likely nuclear power plant in america to receive core damage in the event of an earthquake but due to budget cuts the quake sensors at the plant were removed back in one nine hundred ninety. luckily diesel backup generators kic

, not no-drama obama. a new poll out there as we speak. gallup, the best poll out there. 26% approve the president's handling of the economy. 71% disapproved. so this stuff on the road he as been doing, what he's been saying isn't working. talking about what you talk about. payroll tax deduction. what you're saying isn't working. >> chris, i'm looking at the numbers, first that's an outlier, i'll bet. that is a very bad numb berm. but give him a chance. he just made a mistake of wasting two months completely offtopic with the debt ceiling and the debt. he's pivoting and pivoting hard. i would argue that number will go up. the question is 35 or 45? that we'll have to see. he's got some fight back on him. >> let's go to congress, he spoke about needing to work with congress, and the congress is split, to create jobs. that requires a working relationship as in previous administration this is the way he's still talking about compromise. let's listen. >> there's something we can help on, but frankly we can do m

obama's re-election campaign. if they're hoping the president's political skills plus a loser republican opponent will get him through next november, don't count on it. i worked for president carter against reagan and voters not accept the argument had you no choice but to stick with the incumbent. it's a losing strategy. plus, how exactly did the tea party, a minority in one-half of one-third of the government, the house of representatives, manage to shape the direction of the country to its will. facts, history, evidence, do not matter to them. all that matters is a commitment to ideology, and willing to risk among other things bringing down the economy if they don't get their way. senator pat moynihan of new york said you're entitled to your on opinion, not your own facts. the tea party disagrees. up in the air, 200 construction 70,000 construction workers out of work, why? because of another quibble in congress. an effort by republicans to make it harder for airline employees to unionize. it was solved today a

obama was elected to have a third war in the muslim world good for him and. in a post in the post the rock world i think. in terms of real political everyone knows that it's political suicide to recruit in iraq and to try and come all the way through that one again so i mean i personally think they did it with that he's done that in afghanistan or trying to be possible yeah i think you know. the situation about is that everyone knows that he sent in thirty thousand more troops so i don't really think that this is there but and this is again this i think this really is the crux of the reason i ask you is that you support this intervention ok you're a libyan ok if it's your country fine but i mean this is this isn't this is it isn't this well i mean even i'm willing to admit to people that have a personal attachment to an issue ok that's fair enough ok but at the same time isn't this just bush lite this is another intervention and this is this there is a difference to is that the american people and the world were lied to for months on end preparing for the war

obama is worthy of criticism, as is any public official. but it should be principled criticism, not unprincipled assault. some black critics have claimed that their loving hearts belong to martin luther king jr. at his to martin luther king jr. at his to martin luther king jr. at his best while their la tongues seem to belong to malcolm x at his worst. from the mainstream attacks on the president have often projected the worst of our racist past. obama as monkey, tar baby, terrorist, and unpatriotic un-american rather than the glorious possibilities of our rich and diverse future. as barack obama turns 50, let's wish him the courage to embrace the full range of his remarkable challenge to change america for the best. and let's give him our steadfast support so that he won't be punished for doing so. and so america to america, citizen to citizen, brother to brother, black man to black man, happy birthday, mr. president, and many returns. joining us now is california attorney general, kamala harris. attorney general harris, welcome to the sho

barack obama is a type. he has been trained by his parents and his grandparents, as i was trained by my parents and grandparents, not to get to agree with white folks. right? that has the opposite effect of what we want to do. we want to be participants in american life. if i were angry and bitter and walked around frowning all day, i would not have many friends in life, or business partners. we are trained in a largely professional white world to behave a certain way. i learned that from my mother. he learned that from his mother and his grandparents. we can get angry. my wife can attest to that. but in our public persona, we are trained. our behavior is to be upright but not uptight. the real, not phony. but also listen and try to convey we are not going to jump you. i say let's hug them, not mug them. [applause] i am 1000% a supporter of the president. i was four years ago, and i am now. he can learn. they all learn on the job. ender johnson couldn't even read. he had to be taught how to read by his wife.

under the policies of barack obama. not before him, but on barack obama's policies he put us on a trajectory to accumulate more debt than every single president before him combined. >> yes, sorry the trouble is that the president came in before and doubled the national debt. never vetoed a seungle spending bill in eight years. isn't that a problem for your record? >> listen, the president's going to be judged on his record. his record right now is a catastrophe in regard to this economy. i think we know that. we've got a president who's whistling past the graveyard, chris. he's out in mart yast's vineyard while the rest of america is waiting in line for jobs. >> you've got all your points. i think you've got them on the record now. let me ask you a question, a serious question. what's the difference between the republican party and the tea party? >> i think there's -- obviously we're an organized, structured party. the tea party is not. i think it's a group of people who are conservative, independent, people who are dis

president obama took on partisan gridlock in washington. some are seeing it as a strategy to put himself on the side of the public, the people in a deeply unpopular congress. in a new fox poll, 33% of voters are hopeful about the direction of the country. 64% are not. is this part of the president's 25012 campaign strategy and should it be? doug schoen, former bill clinton pollster and a fox news contributor and david president of go-pac. good to see both of you gentlemen. >> good to see you, jamie. >> jamie: doug, preying on the fact that folks are not hopeful or happy. and is that the president's best and winning strategy? >> i think it's part of the overall strategy. he's going to decry partisanship all the while attacking the republican congress for effectively blocking his program and blaming george w. bush for getting us in the mess we're all in today. so, i think it's basically a deflect strategy and also, suggests that he had ideas that if only the republicans didn't block the country would be in better shape. >> before i go to davi

come on, obama. at least throw it at a puma! >> bret: don't forget the dick cheney special tonight 10:00 eastern time and i'll be anchoring "fox news sunday" this weekend for chris. abou busy around here. thank you for inviting us into your home. that's it for this report. fair, balanced and unafraid. 3: eastern, 12:00 pacific and "the fox report." coming up next, the factor. >> the o'reilly factor is on. tonight -- >> we can reverse the recession but over the last six months, we've had a run of bad luck. some things that we could not control. >> president obama said that it's bad luck that's causing all of our economic problems. is he counting on luck to get us out of this mess? >> i don't need luck! i need a miracle! >> charles krauthammer has some thoughts. >> i tell people, i say one of the quick ways you can tell the difference is, you know, he's a yale graduate and i'm a texas a&m graduate. >> there doesn't seem to be any love loss between texas governor rick perry and former president bush. karl rove will be here to set t

obama's own submitted budget and deficit projections. and then when speaking of the effort to reduce the deficit, the president has the human being riss to tell conservative -- hubris to tell conservative republicans to take a balanced approach and to eat our peas. if there's anything more catastrophically out of balance than our federal budget it is the arrogance to competency ratio of this white house. we have watched as president obama ran up a trillion-dollar deficit for the first time in history and then break that record the very next year. and then say that we would have, according to his own projections, a trillion-dollar-plus deficit for, quote, years to come. we have watched as the obama administration promised that if we would just allow them to spend $800 million on their stimulus package the economy would rebound. and unemployment would never reach 8%. well, of course that didn't happen. and then we watched this administration bring us obamacare or the health care takeover by government. and, mr. speaker, let me just suggest

you need to know this while president obama woke up this morning to an unscathed washington d.c. after hurricane irene roared up the coast this past weekend he was hit by a wave of bad news on the political landscape according to the latest gallup poll the president's job approval ratings are at an all time high but fifty five percent of americans now disapprove of the way president obama is handling his job a summer of double dip recession worries and a debt downgrade are taking a toll on the president is desperately looking for a way to shake the big spending debt piling job killing label republicans have stuck on him before the two thousand and twelve elections and he did what maybe the best way to shake these labels off is to look at the facts take a look at these charts that tell the real story of the obama presidency as for spending compared to former president bush obama as a tightwad over eight years of president bush federal spending increased by eighty eight percent so far president obama has only added seven percent in extra spending and that was mostly to deal with th

that's exactly what's going to happen anyway and barack obama if he were a as you put say if you were a real leader and had the gall and ace of was a richard nixon which i can't believe i'm saying that after having been dragged through watergate as a kid and be and been humiliated but compared to barack obama richard milhous nixon looks like a genius statesman compared to this no spine and leader list none nobody bagga nothing a bag of worms and that's a genius idea simply and it's going to happen anyway they have to bring back the gold standard you know that the smartest guy out there in the punditry universe jim records you know he points out that those who criticize this idea say there's not enough gold and he would point out and i would point out that there's something called the price discovery mechanism you know markets reflect supply and demand if you have six hundred trillion dollars worth of worthless to rivet of well you some of that's going to end up being repurposed as a gold standard at twenty twenty five thirty thousand dollars an ounce that's just the way markets work e

they went after barack obama. one -- when newt is saying "i want more substance on why we agree barack obama should be gone, the president shouldn't go on vacation. all of these things during a time of crisis. is there something barack obama could learn from this? >> yeah. i mean it would all attacks being felt they're going to go school on this now and start, and push back hard. but look. the fieldx8ñitself, this was a much better debate. they're getting stronger, these debates are good for them. >> i agree. >> and the only one going after the weaker debate is -- i think everybody else. >> sean: rick santorun got more time at the end. rick santorun. let's talk about herman cane, ron paul who had and had a lot of moments there. and america's got to learn to take a joke. >> that is a great line. >> good line. i like that a lot. >> and more she does that, less political he seems and more real and business-like heÑ seems. did he get enough of a chance to talk in terms of business. >> he should focus more on experie