shepard: he will be tested again because the unions are calling for more action. jonathan: they want more action and they want it more wide-spread so it will become even more violent than it has already. they have called for two more days of action, the first is next thursday. after that, november 6th. the unions are squaring up very much so to president sarkozy is france is clearly in for a lot more trouble on the street before this whole issue of the raising of the retirement age is worked out. shepard: across the channel in great britain, it is 68 for retirement able and they are announcing huge spending cuts and a change in their retirement. will they have problems, as well? jonathan: we have seen protests. the cuts and the news of retirement age were announced by the prime minister yesterday. again, the unions mobile iefd mobilized on to the streets led
direction except for the 50/50 possibility of florida and missouri. that is quite a change? sure it s going to be a change in republican direction. we don t know how big a change and obviously we don t know the public mood is going to go. as away sit here today, there are five states that are arkansas, north dakota, indiana, delaware and pennsylvania is leaning that way, as well. seven toss-up states that is going to determine how big the gom pickup will be. republicans have to pick up all seven and not lose any of their seats if they want to gain control. julie: let s go to arizona governor s race. as we are awaiting bolton s decision on immigration going forward, jan brewer continues to hold on to the lead against the democratic challenger? this is an amazing race,
an illegal and check with the feds. what arizona has said instead of leaving it up to the individual cop, we re going to make it our policy, our state policy that whenever there s reasonable suspicion, we re going to give it to the feds. there really hasn t been that big a change in the law. the obama administration is, i think, a little miffed that the state of arizona is forcing them to enforce immigration law, and that s really the nub of thish i shoo issue. jenna: you ve also banded with other attorney generals to challenge the constitutionality of health care reform as well. so you ve been out in the front challenging the federal government, is this just part of your campaign, part of attacking the federal government right now because that s going to help you get elected? on the contrary. going back to 1789 there s been a healthy tension between states and the federal government. our federal our system, our federalist system depends on strong and assertive states to insure t
in 2006, this is going to be a huge change. but from where we are now, i don t think it s going to be that big a change. and the other thing that s big about this regulation, and why it worked politically, they left a lot up to rule makers down the road. well, good perspective. and so yeah, again. very good perspective that people need to hear from where we are now to where it s going to take us. then maybe not so much. but that s very good perspective. again, steven gandel. yeah go ahead. you want to finish it up? well, the rules it leaves a lot of leeway in here for regulators to write the rules, so set the capital requirements. this bill forces them to set it, but it depends where they re going to set it. so we have to see how this shakes out in the next months. still got some shaking out to do. steven gandel, correspondence expert from wall street magazine. again, they still have to possibly next week reconcile this now. and have a vote on it. so it still coul
not yet and hopefully there won t be a lot more. mark foley broke very, very late and the one thing democrats are trying to do. they learned the lessons from the republicans is get rid of these guys and throw them overboard fast, nobody lingers around. when you are a party facing almost 10% downemployment in the mid terms these things make the situation even grimmer. i don t think they have risen to the levels of the republicans yet. in 2006, i recall we had a huge headwind and that was iraq. everybody was very unhappy about iraq and then we lost the house by a few seats and to me it was a scandals that a actually tipped it in our favor. chris: in who. in the democrats five sore that is the way they were able to take over. i think we could have barely held on or at least not have had as big a change as we did. i think it is interesting in the washington post story today the democrats are saying that they didn t know who was