his father, barack obama senior. we watched and saw the grave site of his great-grandfather, the person for whom the name derives. a kind of amazing stuff all day. >> host: you spend a lot of time talking about the kind of situations in kenya. what importance does that to your book? >> guest: it explains a lot about barack obama, senior. and this book is more than just the biography. it's about the places that created him come the people created him starting to generations back and moving through to obama himself. his father in some ways represented the promise and the frustrations of africa and kenya and all the more personal level there's a brilliance in the full and some of the tentative it tribalism. the second largest tried in kenya and the colonial period when the british dominated created this sort of tribalism on the different reserves in the different parts of the country so when they got independence and they got power, there was this unfortunate sort of conflict for power, and basically ever since 1963 the

and, again, barack obama, michelle obama both get the puff ball interviews. now, you go back to 2007 when robin roberts interviewed laura bush, she couldn't get through that interview soft first lady interview without attacking her and said did he dd tutu says this country has to do more than bomb people. that's not the time of question you would expect them to ask laura bush but that's what they did. >> bill: bliewble that the do you believe that the production says to their talent mat lauer, charlie rose gail king go light on the president? go heavy on the republic go. after romney and give obama a pass? do you believe they say that to them? >> i'm not sure. but, let's take a look at who these people are obviously george stephanopoulos have to be told to favor the democrats or to be tough on the republicans? gail king, i mean, cbs brought in, you know, we think of gail king as open perhaps best friend but gail king was there celebrating the obama inauguration in the white house the night of obama's inauguration. she was just at the beyonce concert with mich

that falls on obama's shoulders. i do think you will hear republicans talk about that. >> i would take the opposite view on talking about wealth. if you're wealthy, you know what wealth is, and you can evaluate it better, and it's personal to you, and it would make sense. i don't think the american people think any less of you as a historian of wealth or a categorizer of wealth or a definer of wealth or the tax components of it or the public good connected with it. i would think you think more. you're a billionaire. this is very true. >> look, i do think this country has always been a symbol of an opportunity to do whatever you can with your life, and people have -- a lot of people have made money, and that has always been a part of the american tradition. a lot of people have made a lot of money for many years in the middle class. the biggest store house of their wealth was their homes, and those homes have gone down and continue to go down well past the numbers you saw here, so it's well over 40%. it was the larges

obama still has -- >> bob: the misery index only goes to -- >> eric: it's 160. >> bob: obama in 2007? >> eric: no. prior to obama. >> bob: so the last years of the bush administration and first of the obama administration, right? >> eric: hmm-mm. >> dana: we are talking about housing. the elephant in the room. the theory to let it go. president bush before him came up with programs to help the homeowners and help him hold on longer. so forget wall street. people in their homes that don't have government jobs don't feel fine so their misery income is up. the household income is down. they aren't using money to go on a luxury vacation, perhaps that is good but a ways to go to get to the bottom. >> andrea: the stimulus was supposed to make the wildest dreams come true, right? checks and everyone was supposed to have the goodies from the stimulus. it didn't happen. >> greg: speaking of spin. obama treats the economy like i treat my new shirt. i put it in the -- i always put it in the wrong cycle and it comes out, went from a large to medium. >> dana: now it fits. >> greg: that was complet

blue, obama. president obama. pinkish is lean romney. light blue lean obama. this is based on polls over the last 30 days, average of 30-day public polls. these are the latest. the plus or minus is based on romney. plus nine, let's say, it's romney plus nine. minus would be heading to president obama. what has changed since we last met? >> well, only three states have changed. two of them, iowa changed from lean obama to tossup. new hampshire went from strong obama to lean obama. those were both five-point margins on data happening in the last 30 days. one of them, montana went from lean romney to strong romney. but that is really because we haven't had a poll in a long time in montana. it probably shifted to the strong romney category a number of months ago. we just had a recent poll and it was the first in many, many months. interestingly enough, iowa and new hampshire both moved from where they were to favorable to romney. did so by five points and they're based on polls from the last 30 days. >> bret: karl mentioned it's over the 30-day ample so it's impor

if we want to get rid of obama care, we're going to have to replace president obama. my mission is to make sure we do exactly that. >> supreme court decision was the good news for the president today. a clear case of you win some, you lose some. attorney general holder was held in contempt by the house over the fast and furious gun running sting. what does all this mean? here to talk about it, ryan liza, washington correspondent for "the new yorker." katie pavish, news editor for the town hall. and author of "fast and furious." and charles blo. welcome to you all. ryan, let me start with you. you've heard all of the people tonight giving your views. what is your overview of who's the winner today? >> i think in situations like this, you probably don't want to get too cute and counterintuitive. one of the candidates running for president wanted the supreme court to uphold this law. one did not. so to me, the clear winner is obama. and his administration. this is obviously the most significant thing he's done in his first 3 1/2 years. and i don't read much into the opin

there are more than 21 separate taxes within obama care and as you point out president obama had promised americans through abc news which i'm going to call out because abc news has a chance for redemption here. they were used as tool by president obama in september of '09 when they let him get away with saying this was and the tax and now the supreme court is saying this was a tax and obama praises the supreme court decision and still wants to say it is not really a tax. anyway, there are 21 different taxes within obama care. this is huge because it is another broken promise. obama has a list of promises now that have been absolutely decimated. the only promise he has kept, sean, is that he with fundamentally transform america. >> sean: very well said. you said on i believe it was a tweet yesterday. might have been on facebook, i believe it was a tweet. the president lies and freedom dies. >> i tweeted that. >> sean: i want to ask you specifically about this lie. david axelrod was on thed to show earlier still insisting in spite of the supreme court decision this is not a tax. watch this

he needs an ice cream sundae and a foot rub. >> bob: clin top or obama? >> kimberly: obama. clin top wants one, too. >> bob: bad week. you listen to you talk about this and it's the end of the world. silly. you don't know anything about politics. >> greg: i agree with bob. >> bob: she is a good writer but she knows nothing about politics. >> greg: i agree. it's five months away. these are little things. dog, dead of summer there is no great stories. but peggy noonan is right, the things are mounting. they're sending a message about the leftism and liberalism after the recall, occupy wall street. people are sick and tired of big government. >> eric: you know why it matters, robert? when we find out yesterday and today the fundraising for the two catches, romney for the first time outraised president obama because they are going in the wrong direction. >> dana: those are 90% of the contributions under $250. >> bob: excuse me. >> kimberly: that is significant. >> bob: under $200 are under 9% for romney. 48% for president obama. >> dana: i must have read it wrong. >> bob: the fa

. >> sean: the supreme court of the united states has now transformed obama care into obama tax and just like that the corner stone of the president's domestic agenda has become his biggest and most expensive broken promise. it turns out that we were all sold a bill of goods by the white house. we were told that the president would not raise taxes on the middle class and he even said that the mandate was and the tax at all. he also promised that the healthcare plan wouldn't increase the deficit and that we could keep our doctors if in fact we wanted to but each and every one of those thing things now demonstrably not true. the rnc is holding the president accountable for his latest greatest broken promise. >> if you are a family making less than $250,000 a year you will not see your taxes go up. >> you will not see one dime's worth of tax increase. >> any form of tax increase. >> the supreme court has upheld the requirement that every american buy health insurance. >> ruling that the mandate was a tax. >> the mandate is a tax. >> you either get insurance or you pay the tax. >> under the

barack obama and congressman joe donnelly are already putting obama care 2.0 together and they're going to try to pass it once again. we cannot let that happen. >> turns out the murdoch campaign is covering all its bases, and preproduced videos for any decision the supreme court delivers. the campaign spokesman no doubt a former boy scout, invoked the scout's famous mantra, be prepared. yesterday, we told you about a bloomberg news report that the romney campaign asked florida governor rick scott to stop bragging about his state's strong economic rebound. very inconvenient for the argument that he has ruined everything. romney and scott aides both pushed back on the story, but not before team obama released a mock letter quote from the desk of mitt romney and it reads, rick, i see you've been touting florida's improving economy. please stop. your facts are undermining my contention that barack obama is stifling the recovery, which is my whole platform. mitt romney's challenge extends beyond florida to states like virginia and ohio where republican governors are presiding over improving

he's making the charge, obama that is, making the charge that obama is the outsourcer in chief. however the president has some selective memory. listen to what he said in 2009. >> a lot of the outsourcing referred to in the question really has to do with the fact that our economy, if it's dependent on low wage, low skill labor it's hard to hang on to those jobs because there is always a country out there paying lower wages than the u.s. not all of the jobs are going to come back. it probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of the jobs to come back. >> singing a different tune. now fast forward to the present. our next guest says president obama doesn't know what outsourcing means. is the president such an amateur economist that he did you want know the difference between outsourcing and offshoring? all right. let's talk. we have kevin williamson, national review deputy managing editor. okay. first, outsourcing. >> outsourcing means contracting k an encore business process. if you're a hotel you don't want maids on the payroll. you hire a cleaning service. not the sa

of barack obama? what he has done with the economy? nothing. jobs? >> juan: what are you talking about? he said, look, 4 plus million jobs. we are not in a recession, trying to get out of a recession. he says by the way, tana will get mad at me on this. he said look, what you've got to do is not have a extension of the -- >> dana: said -- he what a walkback. in politics you should only get two walkbacks in their political career. they're using them all up. >> greg: it comes out of this bill is lonely. someone has to set him up. he says other things -- it's better to break the box spring than furniture. >> kimberly: my gosh! >> eric: hillary clinton in 2016. >> kimberly: of course. after eight years total of barack obama it will be a huge disaster, worse than jimmy carter. trust me. then she is going to run. he would rather run after romney. [over talk ] >> eric: coming up, coming up -- >> juan: wait, i'm not -- [ overtalk ] >> eric: trying to prevent another terror attack in new york city. that is not

and barack obama didn't show t. i don't know how he could possibly come back and expect it in return. it's selfish. it's arrogant and i think the best word to describe how people feel about barack obama and wisconsin -- disappointed. >> it is going to be interesting. today there was a report that president clinton and i have been on the road so i don't have the details. but he said the bush tax credits should be extended and that's a break with president obama and with what he has said before. and the past, president clinton has been, he's on board and then he will say something controversial or something that i assume that president obama doesn't like, like bain capital recently and governor romney. i am curious, though, it is interesting that -- bill clinton came here. he said that. and president obama's every there? >> well, for one thing, barack obama's not your daddy's democrat. he is not a kennedy, he is not even a bill clinton. bill clinton is right that the tax cuts should extend. you know, what does barack

i think obama hit it out of the park today. if you had latino voters the day before the elections watch romney's speech and this the president's speech today, i'd be surprised if the split wasn't 80/20. >> thank you. we appreciate it. up next, republicans are celebrating the supreme court's overturning health care reform but the trouble is it hasn't happened yet. stick around for the side show. >>> welcome back. time for the side show. first up, a glimpse into the future courtesy of republican senate candidate richard murdoch of indiana. in video he cheers the supreme court's decision to strike down the health care act. but the supreme court hasn't ruled yet. >> we've had our moment of celebration because the supreme court ruled it is unconstitutional. don't sit back and think the fight is over because it isn't. barack obama and congressman joe donnelly are already putting obamacare 2.0 together and they're going to try to pass it once again. we cannot let that happen. >> turns out the murdoch campaign is covering all bases and

he repeated the line obama used, instead of stepping away and saying that obama thinks the way to increase employment is to hire bureaucrats. he got the wrong word, and he is paying 48. -- for it. >> the revered poster boy of the new republican party, scott walker, governor of wisconsin, immediately took governor romney to past and said this is wrong, we want teachers, firefighters, and police and that is why we provided for them in wisconsin. mitt romney calls barack obama out of touch. being called out of touch by mitt romney is a little bit like being called tasteless by lady gaga. [laughter] it just is really too much. >> do you prepare these? >> they are spontaneous. where is the prompter? [laughter] no, i really think that president obama talking about the private sector since -- 2001, there has not been a net single job created in the united states in the private sector. that is 80 years of george w. bush and at three and a half years of poor -- 8 years of george w. bush and three and half years of barack obama. that is a terrible, terrible record. >> what did you make of it jeb bus

obama care and you. healthcare providers all oh he vert country are reacting to the supreme court decision to uphold the affordable healthcare act and the reviews are mixed. we have two doctors in the house tonight. mark siegel who is critical of obama care. the author of the inner pulse and dave samady who favors the law. both men are fox news medical analysts. okay. well, well, well, now gets really interesting because it is starting to settle in. dr. siegel back in i guess it was january of 2011 there was a survey done by the national physicians survey and the numbers were stark. by a 3 to 1 margin doctors said the quality of healthcare under the new regime would decline dramatically. do you think that still holds today? >> laura, that is absolutely the case. in fact, there was a survey done last month by the doctor patient medical association that said 90% of doctors think this will make healthcare worse and 83% would consider quitting over that. the worse figure is the ones that are stuck and it is

the obama campaign is out with a new positive ad today targeting women. >> president obama knows women being paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men isn't just unfair, it hurts families. >> the ads going to run in seven swing states. vice president biden is holding an event today at 11:30 at the white house debuting to new public service announcement that talks about preventing violence against women. he'll be joined by espn and pro baseball players. the president the vice president, pro athletes, other role models are going to talk about dating violence and how it's unacceptable. we could finally hear today about mitt romney and what he plans today about immigration policy. so far republicans have struggled to figure out how to respond to president obama's announcement last week that he would stop supporting some undocumented immigrants under the age of 30. if romney decides to keep quiet today and not talk about immigration, he would be doubling down on the strategy linking latinos to a struggling economy and how they're having trouble. we could see backing a dream

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it's obama's fault. and because times are tough and because they're spending the ungodly sums, this is going to be close. >> reporter: while the president did not complain about big money last time when he enjoyed a massive edge over republican john mccain, his campaign aides say romney may raise $100 million this month alone, which is why the president today penned a fundraising letter warning supportersly be the first president in modern history to be outspent in his re-election campaign. not for a lack of trying. the president has now done more than 100 fundraisers this year alone. that is triple what george w. bush had done at this minute to 2004. the problem for the obama camp is they are spending vast sums of money. although, they hope it leads to the organizational strength that will help get out the vote in november. bret? >> bret: ed henry live on the north lawn. thank you. governor romney had new things to say about the u.s. supreme court and job creation. while campaigning in the old dominion.

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we can imagine why women are pro-obama. he's put the focus on health care, he's been supportive of women's rights of equal pay and other concerns when the republican party's become suspect on these issues, or forthrightly hostile. now about the men. if you look at obama's foreign policy record, he's been surprisingly tough out there. he's carried out a smooth withdrawal from iraq, begun a similar pullout from afghanistan. he's gotten bin laden, and just this week he got the new number two guy in al qaeda, so, again, why the obama problem with men? well, the latest nbc/"wall street journal" number has his approval number at 50% and rising among men nationally. that's not good. and obama's losing to men among romney right now, 49% to 40%, a nine-point spread. the reason is something bill clinton's campaign hammered home, i think, in winning the white house back in '92. it's the economy, stupid. men are particularly sensitive to humiliation, as we all know. being out of work is a humiliation. it carries an insult as well as an

the bad pastor hangs president obama in effigy. lynches him up and claims there was absolutely nothing racist about it. that's in tonight's "rewrite." >>> and tonight, we have two men who have helped more people win oscars than anyone else, but they have never been thanked in oscar acceptance speech. they'll be in the studio. coming up. [ male announcer ] what's in your energy drink? ♪ power surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea energy... new v8 v-fusion plus energy. could've had a v8. >>> you, in testimony before congress, said that you are okay, as you well know, with $10 of spending cuts for $1 of tax revenue. >> yeah. >> well, that's a different position than every republican candidate in the primary. >> i know. i know. because we have unsustainable deficits -- >> but i haven't heard governor romney say, i take that position back, that i'd be prepared to raise taxes -- >> no, no. >> that was jeb bush, trying to talk a tiny bit of sanity into mitt romney and the republican p

the obama campaign is trying to find a message that sticks. attacked him on bain and didn't quite work. then attacked him on being governor of massachusetts and it didn't quite work. they are trying to find what attack will stick on mitt romney and they will have lots of opportunities to pick. a big challenge because no matter what happens it is the economy that is going to drive the message for the next five months, this is nothing else. >> chris: briefly juan, at this point we heard from the president and his people on friday. didn't happen quickly and not going to be solved overnight. it has been three and a half years. continue the policies. does he say stay the course or have to come up with some late correction? >> i don't think a late correction is believable. it would reek of desperation at this point and people wouldn't trust it. it has to be a mess thank says we are in the middle of stormy waters, don't change captains at this moment and remember exactly where we departed from. you know we were in bad situation and if you look at the

care and replaces obama care. >> day one, job repeal obama ca. >> wait a minute. doesn't he have other number ones? wasn't it the keystone pipeline was number one? >> she key thing to look for, chris, you know this. >> watch, you'll find out what's number one. >> it's easy to do. it doesn't cost you anything. are they going to put money and put these ads in swing states? particularly we talked about the obama campaign. they've already targeting women, targeting hispanic voters have used health care and in a proactive way as a positive. so they think -- if you ask the hispanic voters, they put health care as number one in a lot of surveys. >> hispanic voters are high on health care. i know. >> they're going to air this ad in virginia, colorado, nevada, new mexico, arizona. i don't know if he's going to do that. >> let's talk about the targeting of this ad. a young guy had a designer stubble. this cool guy in his 20s. who are they talking about this guy is a bit of a rebel. is that the target? a young male in his 20s? what's that all about? is that the guy -- that g

i'm not obama. i don't know if you can win a presidential race that way. >> they believe that bill clinton never really fully convinced voters to be for him in '92, that essentially he was just not bush and if you look at where the direction of the country was at that time, 70 plus percent. >> back and look at those debates. he was masterful at that. >> that's the difference though. bill clinton is a very different politician than mitt romney is. >> he stepped forfor that african-american woman who bush couldn't understand how to talk to. embraced her emotionally. >> the romney people are betting this is '92 and '80. you're seeing a different, the two parties, they're hardening in this new coalition if you will of minorities and college educated whites for obama and base and everybody else for romney and guess what? >> that is a divided america. by the way, when the young people vote as much the the older white people, i'll be surprised. >> there's no evidence that's happening. >> that's the problem

obama did. that's interesting. finally, do you know if you lose two percentage points in an election, it reduces your chance of winning a popular vote by 33%. so if you lose just two points based on racism, that will effect an entire election. so that's why it's an absolutely critical issue for the 2012 election. now let me bring on a guess. sheryl, one of the cofounders of jack and jill politics.com. sheryl, it's great to have you hear. the resurfaced the survey because they said, look, in 2008 president obama had actually really for a democrat an ideal situation. tailwind behind him. the iraq war was a disaster. the economy was a disaster. that's part of why he won by such a comfortable margin. if it's a tight race then race might make more of a difference. what do you think of that theory? >> well, it's clear that race conditions to becontinues to be an issue for barack obama and he has largely avoided racial topics because of it. he wants to be seen as president of the people. that has left the african-american

if we want to get rid of obama care, we're going to have to replace president obama. my mission is to make sure we do exactly that. >> supreme court decision was the good news for the president today. a clear case of you win some, you lose some. attorney general holder was held in contempt by the house over the fast and furious gun running sting. here to talk about it, ryan liza, washington correspondent for "the new yorker." katie pavish, news editor for the town hall. and author of "fast and furious." and charles blo. welcome to you all. you've heard the people tonight giving their views. what is your opinion of who's the winner and who's the winner today? >> i think in situations like this, you probably don't want to get too cute and counterintuitive. one of the candidates running for president wanted the supreme court to uphold this law. one did not. so to me, the clear winner is obama. and his administration. this is obviously the most significant thing he's done in his first 3 1/2 years. and i don't read much into the opinion that even, you know, conservative le

but team obama's trailing. of course, team romney had to win some primaries so i can see where there would be a spending difference. >> yeah, but you look at the proportions here, this is obviously abstract at this point because who cares about campaign finance apart from people like us? but in the end you're going to face a situation, easily before the fall, where romney is being outspent by his own super pac who is taking the lead of who here? yes, he had expensive primaries to deal with but there's no equivalency, there's no democrat super pac. it's a teeny pac. it's barely a pac at all. >> richard wolffe, that's going to have to be tonight's last word. thanks very much for joining us, richard. you can have the last word online. the last word @lawrence. "the ed show" is up next. >>> good ing, americans. welcome back to the show from new york. republicans are resorting to the dirty tricks to win the 201 2 election. early on they are. but now election officials in florida are standing up against governor rick

the increase for the obama administration is 134%. so, it's not -- what i find amazing about this, the more you talk about mitt romney's record and, you know, that the -- the desire to look back, the more it shows that the obama administration is not putting out any ideas for the future. and the more you do that, the more this is going to be a referendum on barack obama's first-- >> but, mitt romney does not want this to be a referendum on massachusetts. doesn't want this to be a referendum on-- >> on obama. >> well, part of the reason he doesn't is because you have a massachusetts legislature overwhelmingly populated with obama voters, overwhelmingly democratic-- >> overriding his vetoes, where he did try to cut spending and try to cut taxes and the results are-- you would have to say mediocre in you're a small business government person and worse, because he gave us romney care, but if you wanted more spending restraint in massachusetts, you probably would have needed more people to-- >> and fewer, what does that say about the point

obama and what he would do. he was less specific than obama was in 2008. my feeling is i don't believe the guy. i think we're stuck with a hobson's choice. >> there is no specific specificity on either issue. tell us about europe. how it could really hurt or help the president in the next five months. >> well, europe could hurt us in a variety of ways. if there was a complete collapse that would reverberate back to the united states, but then he could blame recession on europe. mr. obama is very good on blaming mr. bush, the congress everyone but himself on the shortcomings of the economy. what would be worse for mr. obama is if europe muddles through. in that context, german exports are coming strong and that is competitive for our high tech companies and that would further slow our economy. >> peter morici, thank you so much for those insights. i think everybody watching the show learned a lot from you. >> thanks a lot. >> when we come back here on "the young turks," we have--we're running down to the wire in wisconsin right now. the democrats feel that

president obama. the supreme court upholding his signature legislative achievement while a disappointment to republicans, this was not a complete win for the obama administration. >> the supreme court up held the key feature of president obama's health care over haul, the individual mandate which will require nearly all americans to buy health insurance. chief justice john roberts wrote that congress did have the power to pass that reform because it has the power to tax. >> the supreme court has made it clear what we have known all along, that those trying to block health care reform are standing on the wrong side of history. >> the ruling also let stand the part of the law that allowed children to stay on their parent's insurance policies until they're 26. the court struck down the law's medicaid expansion. the courts ruling has significant implications for the future of health care and for president obama's legacy. the president made passing reform his top priority. when congress approved it in 2010

of course, that's the intrnl struggle of obama. -- internal struggle of obama. can he keep his own sense of self and survive in this climate? or is it too -- is it too frustrating for him and too frustrating for the country to deal with this way? it's an open question. bill clinton book came out, he was at the nadir of his popularity. february, 1995. when gingrich said that he was running the country. i can tell then that clinton, because of those survival skills, because of his combination of flaws and talents, he would figure out a way to do it. with barack, still an open question. chris: president clinton would say i'm one of those big plastic blown up dummies -- knock them over and you bring him back and they always bounce back. >> i think that my study of obama is he has this same will as clinton. but he has a completely different set of survival skills. chris: let's talk about the hill. you know at that there's a world up there. there's nancy pelosi, the former speaker, maybe future speaker who is a liberal, got about 180 votes of liberals behind her. you

president obama illegal immigration and the law. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. there are many things in play after mr. obama announced a quasilegalization of perhaps 800,000 illegal aliens. on friday the president announced that the u.s. government would ono longer deport aliens brought here illegally when they were 16 years old or under. those folks must not be more than 30 years old now. have a clean record with a high school diploma or military service. the president says it's the fair thing to do and talking points does not disagree with the theory. it group of illegal aliens was brought to america through no fault of their own. however, the president's new policy might very well be illegal. it is up to congress to make federal law, not the president. it's simply son constitutional decency. this is out and out lawlessness, the congress is the ones who makes the law, what the administration does is administers the law, in fact, what it is pretending to do is to use discretion. that's what the homeland

something obama has vowed not to do. now, president clinton seems to have changed his mind saying president obama is, in fact, doing the right thing. >> i support his position. but we really were -- i'm very sorry about what happened yesterday. it was what i thought something had to be done on the fiscal cliff before the election. apparently, nothing has to be done until the first of the year. >> laura: syndicated columnist charles krauthammer analyzed president clinton's flip-flop. >> psychiatry, there's a term that you get a raving lunatic, excuse me, psychotic who comes in the door and makes no sense, you say he's speaking in word salad. this is word salad with a vinaigrette on it. i think you can sort of look at him and you know that he's saying -- essentially, he's doing with a wink and a nod i'm under duress. don't pay any attention to what i'm saying. >> laura: like a hostage tape. with us now, fox news contributor lany davis, a former special counsel to president clinton. first of all, i'm so glad you're here on

. >> president obama is fired up on the campaign trail. but a number of not-so-fired up democrats are skipping the democratic national convention. is the president's popularity slipping within his own party? we'll put that question to congressman chris van hole alan. >> did you ever think you would be choosing two people running for president one of them a swiss bank account. >> continues to slam the class warfare drama. is their message resonating with the american people? we'll debate it. >> would you look at margie? she looks amazing. >> well, she told me that food stamp benefits help her eat right and she stays active, too. >> sounds like the federal government wants more people on food stamps with taxpayer dollars going towards this advertising campaign. what's going on here? caution, you where to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> juan: hi, i'm juan williams in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. no talking points memo because we want to get right to the top story. the house of representatives has

does an obama win this fall make it more likely? does an obama loss make it easier for her to win? hi, i'm chris matthews. and welcome to the show. with us today, hdnet's dan rather. "the washington post's" nia-malika. and "the washington post's" kathleen parker. and politico's john harris. first up, barack obama versus mitt romney. will come down to conditions surrounding the election next fall. both sides know it's going to be close. we're going to look at three different historic predictors today. here's one historic formula. we're calling it the party change rule. when the white house changes hands as it did when barack obama took over from republican george w. bush, that's a strong predictor for re-election. in fact, president obama lost, he would be the -- only the second president in 100 years to lose after controlling the white house had switched parties when he came in. the first and only one, jimmy carter. that's a strong predictor. you only have four years, people say that tends to be only the start of your presidential career. they don't tend to want to dump you. >> i'm

obama care is a job killer. businesses across the country have been asked what the impact of obama care is, and 3/4 of those surveyed by the chamber of commerce says that obama care makes it less likely for them to hire people. and perhaps most troubling of all, obama care puts the federal government between you and your doctor. for all of those reasons, it is important for us to repeal and replace obama care. what are some of the things that we will keep in place and must be in place in a reform a real reform of the health care system? one, we have to make shure that people who want to keep their current insurance will be able to do so. having 20 million people up to that number of people lose the insurance they want is simply unacceptable. number two, you have to make sure that those people who have pre-existing conditions know that they will be able to be insured and they will not lose their insurance. we also have to assure that we do our very best to help each state in the effort to inshure that every ameri

ohio went from lean obama to tossup in the latest map. iowa went from a solid obama to lean obama. one state went the opposite direction, wisconsin. went from lean -- went from toss township lean obama. again, apropos of joe's comment about polls, iowa, joe and i both agree that iowa is closer than it looks. there are only -- >> bret: at five 5% for president obama. >> the first poll we have is sometime ago has obama up by 10. and today, the latest poll has dead even. let me tell you this state is getting more money spent per capita by the obama campaign on television ads than any other battleground state. >> i agree. it's not 10. it's not even. but it's probably closer than that. >> bret: iowa. >> in iowa. what about wisconsin? joe, it's moving toward obama even after the, what we saw in the recall election? >> i know the exit poll are questions and we saw in the commit poll that people that day thought okay, gave obama the lead. we saw a new poll come out that shows obama leading. i never thought that wisconsin would be swing state. carl and i disagree with this. he thinks it's i

obama claire brought us obama care. and that's bad medicine for health care. >> back in '94, senator now secretary of state clinton and president clinton both fought for health care. one of the reasons he got in '94 was the vote against it. they didn't like the sound of it. here we are again. why is health care such a hard sell? why is calling it obama care almost like a curse word? why? >> well, the president has endorsed obama care. he said it's fine to be called. he has actually talked about the benefits. but i think joe's experience on this issue is a good one. joe raised a lot of concerns about issues of people who are dying, essentially, and what their health care system needs. there was a small provision in the legislation around this that basically provide -- helped provide information to consumers about it. and that was turned into death panels. it was -- people lied about this issue and they made it into something it wasn't. and that's been the conundrum of the affordable health care act. which is you can dema

obama doesn't go in where it doesn't help obama. i've never seen anyone who never goes to the wall for somebody else. i don't think, i understand why guys on the hill don't feel loyal to him. how many guys has he fallen on his sword for in his whole career? >> do you think obama made a mistake in not going into wisconsin? >> yes, i do. >> let me finish. >> even if he was going to lose, i think you go in there and standby your guy. the union guys, i don't agree with them, he went to the wall for obama. >> you think the well of the democratic party across the country have taken note of it and it hasn't helped the morale? >> it is like the gold water thing. we knew we were going down the tube. >> past the ultimate conviction politician. pat's the you'll mat conviction politician. but he didn't win his races. >> we have got to get out. we've got to get to the queen. exit question. on a national damage scale, 0-10, how much damage has the wisconsin governor's recall collapse done to president obama and a second presidential term? >> prob

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