Into this not as a lifelong environmental campaigner, but a person in the area invided by the fossil fuel industry. when you are in the sights of the national gas industry or if you are in the line of the keystone xl, or in appalacia where they are blowing up mountains. it s extreme enery. you can no longer tap and get oil. you are fracturing rocks and scraping off the entire surface to get at this energy. this is a moment, actually, the president can take bold leadership and say, you know what? we cannot allow more and more of the environment and now with the climate, everybody is a member of the front line community. as you describe that, this extreme energy development, part of this is a fundamental,
Demanding it be canceled. some are calling it the jersey shore of appalacia. y all want to swim? for young, free and wild. that s wild. okay. that s going to do it for your morning dish of scrambled politics. the fedex kufl and the best and cheapest travel days of the years coming up. plus, new details surrounding the death of one of the nurses where kate stayed in the hospital. you re watching first look on msnbc. [ male announcer ] it s that time of year again.
Republican landslide that were stubbornly resistant. what s interesting is in the mid 1980s there was the farm economy which basically collapsed in the midwest. what you had was a much worse economic environment in those states and the rest of the country, you had a republican in the white house, two terms of reagan. the voters seemed to take it out on the incumbent party in a way that didn t happen anywhere else. i m looking at, for instance, a state like ohio where obama has been consistent. the economy is better in ohio than it is around the country. you have the auto bailout that obama put in place has clearly helped that state. could it be that he has a leg up in a state like ohio and a few others like iowa that he doesn t have anywhere else in the country and there are two separate elections? i m seriously wondering. there s a point to what you re making partly because if we go against steve on the numbers we re going to lose. who would do that. never. there is definitely n
congressman arthur davis says he s voting for mitt romney this time around. he s going to tell us why. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the cold war is long over, but a chill has settled in in the relations right now. the key shoous, moscow s support in the regime for syria. it may help fuel a brutal crackdown. president obama is addressing that issue headon at the g-20 summit in mexico. dan lothian is joining us right now. dan, what s the latest on this tension between the u.s. and russia? the two leaders met for about two hours. president obama saying the meeting was candid and thorough. i have to tell you, you take a look at the body language, and it gives you a sense of what the meeting was like. they did not sit close together. president obama was leaning towards president putin. president putin was leaning away. you didn t see any smiles at the end of the remarks. they had a quick handshake. sort of half a smile. president obama patting him briefly on
Getting ready to watch the cleveland browns football game on sunday. before that, we were watching some of these shows. you heard all these conservative republicans and conservative politicians in washington say the president s committing class warfare. and when the president didn t back down when they accused him of this this is a group that s committed class warfare for the last to years. they re committing the class warfare. the president is standing strong, he s driving forward. he means it. there are a lot of rural people in appalacia, ohio, that are interested in this. going to ohio on thursday to begin to put people to work on that bridge. we have that all over our state. rural areas, urban areas, people wanting to go to work.