i m martha maccallum. back in new york at fox news headquarters today. this is the story. john kirby, mike pompeo, clay travis all here on the big stories of today. but first, former president trump s big win in new hampshire has team biden claiming that the race is on. from politco today, biden s re-election team took trump s win as the starting gun for what will now be the longest and most grueling general election campaign in modern american political history. with that, we bring in marc thiessen, former speechwriter for george w. bush and lisa boothe, host of the truth with lisa boothe, which i m having trouble saying. that s okay. a long few days. exactly. martha: great to have you here. both fox news contributors. thanks for joining us. mark, let s start with you. the longest and most grueling presidential race, if it s a head-to-head between biden and trump. do you agree? yes. though, you know, the primary is not over yet. nikki haley hasn t conceded. he has to
78 will not pay off anytime soon. bill: my bet they figure it out in time. thank you, dan springer live in seattle, washington this morning. back to one of the big stories of today. the white house is saying president obama will be surrounded by children when he makes his announcement on gun recommendations. 11:45 this morning we expect that. white house spokesman jay carney explains the reason he will do that today. they will be joined by children around the country in wrote the president s letters in the wake of tragedy expressing concerns about gun violence and school safety along with their parents. martha: joined by alan colmes, host of the alan colmes radio show and tucker carlson, editor, daily caller and fox news contributor. good to have you here. i m kind of two minds about issue and you guys are probably of two minds as well. alan, what do you think, good move or not? i think it is a great move. these are kids that wrote to the president, doing it with
their turn, losing once but then going on to get the nomination down the road, like bob dole or john mccain, you know. that s the kind of thing, george h.w. bush. it s happened before. and maybe he s still a relatively young guy, jon huntsman is thinking along those lines. one of the things i noticed, wolf, about huntsman is that he really is relatively he walks away relatively unscathed in this process when you think about it, because he hasn t been hit by all that money from the super pacs to really bury him in criticism like newt gingrich is talking about. and at the same time, he gets to walk away from this, he still has his own money, his own reputation in tact. he doesn t have that kind of really harsh criticism that would have happened if he had gone on to south carolina. do you think he s positioning himself now for, say, a position in the romney cabinet, potentially secretary of state? i don t know about secretary of state, but certainly he could position himse
and a reminder tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. is our debate. i ll be back tomorrow at the same time, but for now, jim costa is next. nice to see you in person. this doesn t happen very often, but nice to see you. i m jim aacosta. let s get you up to speed on this november 21st. after months of talks the congressional supercommittee is expected to announce today it simply cannot agree on a debt reduction package. everybody is pointing fingers on what caused the mess. we ll explain that on capitol hill in about ten minutes. speaking of the supercommittee, already markets are reacting badly to fears that the debt committee won t reach a deal. u.s. stocks opened sharply lower today. right now the dow is down over 300 points. this follows last week s losses on wall street, the worse in two months. former fbi director, louis freeh, will lead the internal investigation into the penn state scandal. jerry sandusky is charged with molesting eight boys, some on campus. freeh pledged a
now, actually pretty good since where it started pretty much in the 100 level, stocks are negative even though one of the big three credit agencies affirmed the u.s. government s aaa rating today, calling its credit worthiness exceptional. that s a sharp contrast to this month s downgrade by standard & poor s. we told you this this was going to happen yesterday. it did. protesters make san francisco s rush hour commute a mess. bay area rapid transit shut all four downtown b.a.r.t. stations last night to protesters angry over shootings involving b.a.r.t. police officers. b.a.r.t. blocked cell service at some stations last week so protesters couldn t coordinate on social media. well, phone service stayed on last night. news corps exec james murdoch may have to answer new questions in parliament on that phone hacking scandal. a british lawmaker says murdoch may have misled his committee about settlements paying to hacking victims. they want him clarify his statements. murdoc