everybody feels bad about the community because it is terrible history but we have to do what we have to do. meanwhile palestinians insisted the prisoners were fighting against israeli occupation saying there release allow the israelis to sidestep other palestinian demands such as ending settlement construction and agreement to base a talks on pre-1957 borders, neither of which prime minister netanyahu have agreed to. jon: they get the process rolling, anyway. thank you. the search for peace in the middle east has been a long and winding road. let s take a quick look. in november of 1991 madrid peace conference set out a framework for the peace process bringing longtime enemies in the wake the persian gulf war. roughly two years later israel
inadvertently leave an opening for the president by committing himself to some of the things that he really has not represented and really represented the other side, and by saying some things last night the hard right really doesn t agree with? well, it was a different romney everyone s been pointing out. the people i was watching the debate with were screaming at the screen. and i m not talking about liberal obama supporters. just about the inconsistencieses that romney was talking about. his claiming he would never consider tax cuts for the upper brackets. things like this that i think people are going to smack him for his lack of consistency and everybody s going to be talking about, you know, where did this romney come from p abo. and it has to make his base a little nervous, although i m sure he did it with a wink wink. at this point he s done so much to assure them that he s on their team including picking paul ryan that i m not sure they re that concerned about help anymore.
wisconsin has as tight as a tick in 2000 and 2004. the democrats carried it by just a few thousand votes. it is at base a potentially competitive state. this is going to force the democrats to spend money and to spend precious campaign time for obama and biden campaigning in wisconsin. that s interesting. not enough people talk about how much money paul ryan can raise. romney doesn t need a lot of help, there but 5 million has 5 million in war chest and can raise an awful lot of it. you were saying, aly. a lot of analysts said this helps romney sure up credentials. conservatives were never going to vote for barack obama anyway. does this move the needle? moves the needle in this sense? this election just like i think 2004, is a battle of the two party bases. look, there are hardly any undecides. i keep saying this. i m a broken record but it s
protesters. at least 46 people were killed. you re about to see ads urging people to quit smoking. it s the first time that the cdc has ran a paid anti-tobacco effort. they say they need to spend the money to go up against the multimillion dollar campaigns that get people to smoke. here s one of the ads. we warn you, it is quite graphic. i m mary and i want to give you some information how i get ready in the morning. former illinois governor, rod blagojevich, has one more hour before he hags to report to federal prison in chicago. he s serving a 14-year sentence for corruption including trying to sell the senate seat once held by president obama. here he is shaking people s hands at the airport in chicago. last hour i spoke to a former official about what to expect when he goes to prison. when you go to prison, you re not rod blagojevich anymore. when i went, i wasn t jim laski. rod blagojevich will get this in the next few hours. he will get strip searched and they w
for goodness sake. liberal reform judiciary. he lost the orthodox, of course, he also lost the reform jews, ohio, and florida, walking out the door. bill: so your theory is that there is a tremendous groundswell of opposition to the president? absolutely. and among his base a lack of enthusiasm and lack of willingness to turn out. i was so struck, bill, the atomic bomb for presidents is a joint session of congress prime time televised speech should jump your ratings a points to 10 points. just on the exposure alone. 34 million americans watched his speech. everybody was watching. he went up 1 point. one point from 42. something to 43. something. that means not that he was a bad speech, very good speech. stopped listening to bush when he talked about iraq and they stopped listening to johnson when he did his vietnam thing.