went to libya and managed to get abu khatallah, believed to be one of the ring leaders, one of people tied to the benghazi attack. he went down without a struggle we re told. what about this? 642 days after the attack. let s bring in our panel, steve hayes, mara lie ason, and charles krauthammer. well, they got the guy. i think that s important. the white house made it extremely clear he s not going to guantanamo. he s going to be tried in the united states. i think this really exists on a separate track to the controversy over benghazi which continues, you know, new cnn poll out today saying people are dissatisfactoried almost two-to-one about what they have heard, doesn t think that hillary clinton handled it well, and whether the obama administration has been honest
will find those responsible and we will bring them to justice. he said that at the beginning right after this attack 642 days ago, simon. he was talking about the guy who made the youtube video and not this guy. he s been emphatic that america goes after terrorists and we apprehend them. simon, how do you balance that out today when you ve heard reporters saying that they got to this guy before the government did? well, i think, gretchen, remember that george bush tried to seven years to get osama bin laden. we didn t know where he was. media did interviews with him throughout that entire period. that s not true. our own media did interviews with osama bin laden during that period. the key thing is that the administration got him in 2 1/2 years, these things can take time. republicans understand this given how few of the high value targets they were able to get
obama care is not one of them. linda dewright is losing her health insurance. linda, very much, welcome to the program. it s very good to see you today. well, thank you for having me. first of all, i understand that under your current plan, the one that is going to be canceled, has just been canceled, you re paying $642, correct? we are. that s for two of us. we no longer have dependents, so $642 and we re 59 years old. and i can see on the screen that that is going to go up to, to what? over $1,000 for the plan that you ve been offered to replace it? well, that s one choice we have. it went up to $1,050 on our old plan. they mapped up into a new plan. and i think we re going to end up going with a plan on the exchange, which crazily enough will be at $1,148, so we re almost at 1,200. so flat-out, you have doubled your costs right there? we ve definitely doubled, yeah. we ve gone from i think our
down, or only down to 642. it was in the trillions. that s nearly half of what it was in 2010. meanwhile, the dow jones, adds i said, is finishing the month up 3%. consumer confidence is higher than it was. ever since july of 20 07. and home prices, as i said, are up about 11% over the last year. it s the biggest increase in home prices in seven years. today the president emphasized measuring the country s progress on the economy is more than just about the stock market. it s about how ordinary families are feeling. he made it clear the economy is, indeed, picking up steam. let s watch him. over the past 4 1/2 years, we ve been fighting our way back from a financial crisis and an incredibly punishing recession. the good news is today our businesses have created nearly 7 million new jobs over the past 38 months.
the value of your house is heading upward because the average selling price is up 10%. your 401(k) is probably doing better if you re retired because the stock market is. you ve got a better chance of finding, also holding a job right now. the unemployment rate which still ain t great has come down from where it was down to the mid-7s. when somebody calls up, a pollster, for example, asks whoever it is how you re doing, you re more likely to say president obama is doing a better job on the economy and that s what s going on right now. will it still be going on next november when we have the next congressional elections? we ll see. jim cramer is going to help us. he s the host of mad money weeknights at 6:00 on cnbc. u.s. congressman steve israel is chairman of the democratic congressional committee. thank you, gentlemen. there s strong indications the u.s. economy is on the upswing right now. gross domestic product rose 2.5% in the first quarter of 2013. the deficit is projected to b