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.

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

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

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

if we see obama? another battery plant, i think everybody is ready to give up on wind, solar and hydro. the idea that that will pull us out of the ditch we remain in. i was talking with emanuel cleaver earlier this week, and we were saying, look, there's bound to be disappointment, but at the end of the day, people don't understand what these green jobs are. if that's the only plan he has, i think the white house is in serious trouble. >> what stops them, jon, from proposing -- why don't they have a well-advertised program to put 2 or 3 million people to work on public works projects. put out a list of bridges below code nationwide, all the subway systems, put out the lest, on numbs, on tv, show it, use the advertising ability, and say we want these jobs done. it's the republicans who are stopping it. let's talk about it in the next election. at least they put out in public what they would like to do. i don't know what the president would like to do. >> i think that's a great idea, you know, they reje

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

no vetting of obama. zero, i've never seen anybody in the political arena get away as much as this guy with as little scrutiny. >> right. just a footnote, bull connor was of course a democrat, as were all the southern segregationists. but the silver lining to all this is, when we do elect a president because the media will investigate back to our ancestors in 1861 for our candidates and investigate the relatives not only of the candidates. look at how karl rove was investigated and ripped apart. even advisers to republicans will be investigated. the bright side is, we don't end up with a republican president who is suddenly having an affair with an intern. or a republican president who votes prince for his entire term as the economy falls into the toilet. democrats are always surprised when these scandals develop. maybe if the media did five minutes of vetting of their candidates the same level they will do to a ran presidential adviser, it wouldn't be such a big surprise to them. >> sean: you have been a

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 we see obama? another battery plant, i think everybody is ready to give up on wind, solar and hydro. the idea that that will pull us out of the ditch we remain in. i was talking with emanuel cleaver earlier this week, and we were saying, look, there's bound to be disappointment, but at the end of the day, people don't understand what these green jobs are. if that's the only plan he has, i think the white house is in serious trouble. >> what stops them, jon, from proposing -- why don't they have a well-advertised program to put 2 or 3 million people to work on public works projects. put out a list of bridges below closed nationwide, all the subway systems, put out the lest, on numbs, on tv, show it, use the advertising ability, and say we want these jobs done. it's the republicans who are stopping it. let's talk about it in the next election. at least they put out in public what they would like to do. i don't know what the president would like to do. >> i think that's a great idea, you know, they re

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 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

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

what has barack obama done that in the course of 2 1/2 years? you might argue he should start doing that and they are started to contemplate. the fork in the road, put forth a jobs package with a chance of passing or put forward something we know won't pass but can score political points with? the second of the options is one basically closer to yours, which is to say, we're going to put this forward. republicans can stonewall, they won't pass it but we'll gain by waging a fight. all i can say is, i said it a second ago, contrary to the way barack obama governed over his entire first term so far. >> and there are people that -- michael smerconish, not full mooners who will see the necessity of voting for jobs as they seek reelection. that's a thought too. i don't think it's just for show. it's to get it done. the way i look at it. >> a couple things. first of all as a native of pittsburgh, there are 900 bridges about 500 of which need repair, i'm all for it. number one. number two, barack obama as john indicated probably should have spent for ti

the vote for obama was not a vote for obama. it was a vote against bush. that's what elected obama. the president doesn't make law. that's done by the congress. the president doesn't set a budget, that's supposedly done by the congress, although we have been operating for almost three years without a budget because the senate can't pass one as a cons sequence, it's not whether the president has it, it's what we do in congress that's going to make a difference. >> leadership factor here as ronald reagan demonstrated. the stronger you are as a leader, the more you can can a july congress con joel congress to do the right thing. >> the word pojule that mist phis me. what is this guy going to do and what can he influence? he certainly can't make the law and he can't make the budget. yes, he can get on television and speak. and he does that quite often. and apparently it's not working. there is something more fundamental going on here. and that is maybe containsian economics doesn't work. >> bill: it doesn't work. obviously. not in this country and no other countries. >> why are people l

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

president obama was more than up to the task. but republicans, they just can't give him any credit at all. now so let's just imagine for a moment that president bush would have delivered the death of osama bin laden and end end gadhafi's reign of terror. i don't think we would have ever heard the end of it. this is freedom on the march. gadhafi was a bad guy. and this is the end of an evil-doer. and i think that president bush and the conservatives would have jumped in frontst cameras and said, we smoked out a tyrant. i mean -- you can bet we would have seen another mission accomplished banner. you know, do you remember the days when some questioned and criticized the war after the capture of saddam hussein. i remember the howard dean story. he came out and said he wasn't sure this made the country safer. he was accused of criticizing the troops of being unpatriotic and endangering our troops in the field. i remember the rhetoric. dean wasn't the only one. congressional members took heat. media people were labelled as anti-americ

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. >

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

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

it's going to be president obama and maybe romney, and romney's going to make a point, and obama's going to say, you're weird. [laughter] no, no, it's not. >> well -- megyn: i gotta go, guys. thank you. >> no, it's not. >> bye-bye. megyn: back, now, to our fox news alert. there is a major court ruling on the health care overhaul that just came could down. a federal appeals court, the 11th circuit, has now ruled that the individual mandate portion of the president's health care overhaul is unconstitutional. a trial court judge had found that months ago, then the obama administration appealed the case. well, the 11th circuit, the court of appeals, has upheld that ruling saying it is unconstitutional, it goes way beyond congress' powers under the commerce clause, under the tax and spend clause, under any clause. however, that court of appeals, i should say, has also said that the law can stand notwithstanding the fact that the individual mandate must fall. now, we hope to talk to one of the attorneys general involved in this lawsuit just ahead. stay tuned, we're getting our -- like i said,

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

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

in just minutes we'll hear from president obama. he's in cannon falls, minnesota, talking about jobs and the economy with families and small business owners. last week worries about the recovery and debt problems in europe sent the market on historic roller coaster ride and there you're sighing the live picture out there from minnesota where we're expecting to see the president. let's take a live look at wall street from the dow jones industrials up in a big way on the day. 155 points. google helping lift the market higher after announcing plans to buy motorola mobility. i'm joined by mesy sa francis. let's start with goog. . >> they're famous for the an droid operating system. they're trying to move into devices. it can cut both ways. it's one way of protecting the operating system which has been dominant and is a challenge to apple. on the other hand, they have to partner with a lot of hand set makers right now. they're then competing with the people they partner with. there's a chance it could backfire. it's an interesting move.

>> 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

-- opponents and president obama. i do know that nothing gets us more excited here in washington than a presidential campaign. today at the national press club we are welcomed -- pleased to welcome one of the candidates for the gop presidential nomination. buddy roemer served four terms in the u.s. house of representatives, so he is no stranger to washington. before being elected governor of louisiana, as both a democrat and republican. he served as the chief executive officer of business first bank, a community bank in baton rouge, louisiana. the wreck his career, buddy roemer has been known as a reformer not afraid to cross party lines. a longtime proponent of campaign finance reform, governor romer has made fighting the special interest money in washington a platform of his campaign. last month, governor romer promised to reveal and challenge the control of the special interests over our nation's capital and demonstrate what he calls the freedom to lead that can only come from reducing their money. putting his mone

i'm talking about obama. current day. >> i'm talking about double standards. >> laura: substantive thing he talked about oonels and the need for these car manufacturers not just to try to dine out on suv and truck sales and our brain room in new york found out a couple of statistics, 63.75% of all vehicles sold in the united states year to date have been trucks. g.m., second quarter 92% earnings, strong earnings increased because of the global sales and because of the huge production of high margin pickup trucks sold in the united states. this is big money for detroit. and, yet, the president comes in and lecturing detroit about you need to build smaller cars. either of you can chime in here. how does that help america start working again when the chevy volt sold 120-volts in the month of july. 120. >> doing away with trucks. need to buy trucks. talking about fuel efficiency and what is going to sale and what sales on the global market. people want smaller more fuel efficient cars. not dictating it. not takin

obama looks terrible. all the polls measure him against boehner, but boehner is not running for anything. >> sean: mitt romney is beating him by eight points. >> and before that was trailing. >> sean: the independents in this country are turning. >> they've turned. the point is, if you make him go through this again, which you could do, if you do what i'm suggesting, he'll look even worse. but this debt deal served one political purpose. it doomed barack obama. >> sean: all right. i hope you're right. dick morris, good to see you. only as much as we need to live within our means. coming up, we need to keep our eyes on news out of washington tonight. plus we'll get reaction from congresswoman michele bachmann up next. she says this bill does nothing more than put us on the same more than put us on the same road as greec at exxon and mobil, we engineer smart gasoline that works at the molecular level to help your engine run more smoothly by helping remove deposits and cleaning up intake valves. so when you f

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

>> he is responsible. >> sean: is obama irresponsible? is obama unpatriotic? >> the bush numbers that he is citing were during a boom. official, if you go into the worst downturn in your lifetime. i'm surprised you are not giving him credit. at the same time spending had to go up to deal with the crisis he's had the lowest taxes in 60 years. >> sean: because he couldn't get his way he tried to raise them. >> sean, he cut taxes for 150 million workers, the biggest middle class tax cut ever. >> sean: for get sean hannity and i'm a conservative. look at his numbers on the economy, on the right track/ wrong track. faith in the government to of problems. obama's personal approval ratings this week the lowest in his presidency. the american people are judging as of this moment that his economic policies have failed. you won't acknowledge his broken promises on cutting the deficit in half, on 8% unemployment, on turning the economy around. you are going to say he's been a success that he has met his promises? >> look, i'm saying we are laying a foundation for growth.

obama. at this point it's gobble to say which man has the most going for him even though governor perry leads in the polls he is untested in debate and americans don't know him very much. governor romney has big name recognition but many are suspicious of him not popular in republican primaries. the perry romney battle is a toss-up and could go either way depending on how the candidates perform in the upcoming debates. as they like to say in texas. there will be a high noon between these two men. a verbal shootout that will leave just one standing. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. let's bring in the aforementioned carl cameron fox news political correspondent joining us now from washington. what about this feud? is there anything to it? >> a little bit. spot on analysis though, bill, you got it pretty much right. you can almost sum it up by saying look, rick perry has perfect pitch for a texas republican. and when governor mitt romney was leading massachusetts he was very

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

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

obama showing him is a still not george w. bush and something a very powerful card they still play because you have to admit if you like the man or not he is at least eloquent and some of the things he about his liberal. intervention humanitarian intervention which is really hogwash if you really look at it carefully if you watched anti-war dot com read there you would have known that but how do we get away from that i just really addressing michael's question well it's really hard to know what you can do to oppose somebody like obama in a very direct way because i think that the left is very confused about what to do with right now and so really i think that you know the opposition to obama on his war policies if it comes ball from the left and from the right that may be the most effective way of dealing with the issues so you may see that the left doesn't come out in full force against obama's war policies but if the if some of the more reasonable elements of the right also do then there will be a general erosion of support

obama showing him is that you know east still not george w. bush and selling a very power. well card they still play because you have to admit if you like the man or not he's at least eloquent in some of the things the above is liberal. intervention or humanitarian intervention which is really hogwash if you really look at it carefully if you watched antiwar dot com read there you would have known that but how do we get away from that i just really addressing michael's question well it's really hard to know what you can do to oppose somebody like obama in a very direct way because i think the left is very confused about what to do with right now and so really i think that you know the opposition to obama on his word policies if it comes ball from the left and from the right that may be the most effective way of dealing with the issues so you may see that the left doesn't come out in full force against obama's war policies but if the some of the more reasonable elements of the right also do then there will be a general rosen of support that is obama looks forward to two thou

obama showing him is he still not george w. bush and selling a very powerful card they still play because you have to admit if you like the man or not he is at least eloquent and some of the things he about his liberal. intervention humanitarian intervention which is really hogwash if you really look at it carefully if you watched antiwar dot com read there you would have known that but how do we get away from that i just really addressing michael's question well it's really hard to know what you can do to oppose somebody like obama in a very direct way because i think that the left is very confused about what to do with right now and so really i think that you know the opposition to obama on his war policies if it comes ball from the left and from the right that may be the most effective way of dealing with the issues so you may see that the left doesn't come out in full force against obama's war policies but if the some of the more reasonable elements of the right also do then there will be a general erosion of support and as

obama, president obama, hits legitimacy and his creative contribution to strengthen this economy. the politics of austerity will do nothing to get us back on track. we need to stimulate this economy, create jobs directly, stimulate the economy through consumer spending, as opposed to enormous attack on people's reality. >> create jobs. >> so people will have a contribution to the economy. >> i have to ask you this for the sake of consistency. when you attack the presidentç who is now on a bus tour in iowa, was in minnesota, for going on vacation later this week, did you also have that position when president bush kept going on vacation when he had us in the middle of two wars? >> the president bush he went home to his ranch in texas. >> it was called vacation. >> a working vacation. >> no, i'm talking about the fact of the matter he's -- i'm saying never let the republicans talk. >> we'll be right back. every day, all around the world, energy is being produced to power our lives. while energy developement comes with some risk, north america's natural gas producers are committed

romney and obama can seem similar, if you close your eyes. perry and obama, no. >> the republican party is a very conservative party now and a lot of people in the republican party don't believe that romney is a genuine conservative. there's a piece of it that is very angry. there are a lot of different parts of the middle. a lot of suburban moms are not going to like rick perry but there's some anger about the economic condition of the country and some ire that perry can tap into. >> which is all good and fine during the primaries. but there's a general election coming up in 2012. >> i'm talking about the general election. chris: it's a busy august. turmoil in the markets, a president under heat for taking even 010 days off with so many out of work and the approaching 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. in august, 2001, things were so much different. while bin laden's hinchmen were in the final stages of planning the 9/11 attacks, america slept. the big story, the disappearance of congressional intern chandra levi. local police and the

what about big black cloud says barack obama to you. >> he said it, he said the word. >> he so clearly was talking about the debt that hangs over our country, it's just insane. i don't know what else to say, i don't know, i couldn't even go to that. >> in the segment, schultz says, mentioned president obama right after the clip though. >> there's some connection he is he' making between a big black cloud and barack obama that i don't think most people are. >> rich. >> so desperate to prove the thesis any conservative republican especially from the stout is a racist, this is not a long complicated or nuanced statement from governor perry hard to pars, if you included the next two words, that debt. >> and this is part after pattern. chris mathews with no evidence, saying that perry is bull connor, with a smile. they're desperate to portray him as a racist. >> let the hatred begin. is there such a hatred and why do you think. >> as a texas conservative evangelical, he's going to take his cowboys emblazoned, freedom and go through every trip wire. the george bush, that's inherent and built