years, and their answer to the problem is to double down with yet another speech that americans are sick and tired of. i think we need to get serious about putting people back to work and good paying jobs again in america, and right now this president is content with speeches and forensic contests to see obviously how well he can deliver to a joint session of congress that we just don t need. jenna: just a final question about the election overall. i was looking at a report put out by the democratic national committee about the tea party poll sews and whether or not republicans are taking on extreme, as they call them policies for job creation policies as well. they were mixing the tea party movement and the republican party together and attacking both. my question for you is, do you accept the tea party movement as part of the republican party, is that the way that you view the tea party movement? or is this something separate? and the reason why i m asking this is i m curious whether
there is a $1,000 reward leading to gumby s arrest, back to you. jon: i wonder what a gumby costume costs. jenna: you ve just taken on somebody wearing green, both of you. jon: it s not directed at you at all jenna. jenna: i don t know, both of you. the heroes who may have saved the nation s capitol on september 11th, a coach rage us act that cost them their lives. passengers on flight 93 overpowering the hijackers and sending the plane into a field in pennsylvania, we re going to talk to one of the mothers of those heroes just ahead. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement
republican regardless of which candidate in the current field the gop nominated. jenna: as far as the seven swing states, do you think whoever gets that swing state will it still be because of macro issues, the economy overall, jobs overall or will it be important for these candidates and for the president obviously to focus on issues that really relate to each state? if you re looking to explain this election, more than half of it is going to be the economy and jobs. i don t think there is any question about it. then you get down to the particulars about each state because we have a 50-state contest for president, plus the district of columbia. you do have to focus on individual issues, individual factors in these key swing states, the seven i identify and others that could surprise us. every election night we have a couple of shockers. who knows, maybe it will be pennsylvania. pennsylvania hasn t voted republican presidently since
senators, republican, democrats, talking about some of these issues, and infrastructure seems to be one that everyone is kind of galvanized behind. also tax reform, this is another issue that there seems to be strong bi-partisan support on. i think we have heard, i ve heard for months, and i think a lot of my colleagues now coming back from their august recess back home have got even an ear full from their constituents saying you better get on the stick and do something and don t do it in such a way that you re creating new programs. work with what you have and create some incentives and at the same time create an environment that the private sector can excel in. jenna: last night with the 26 senators that got asked from both sides of the aisle we don t hear that happening very often. what did you guys do, have a couple drinks, share a cup of coffee? how did you get together and talk about what was happening in d.c. a couple of members called the meeting, we all got
this law. lower court rulings. a lot of folks hoped, those who want this go to the supreme court this would be a slightly different ruling. that you would get to the issue of that individual mandate because without getting to that part of the ruling or that part of the argument this doesn t really set the case up for a direct route to the supreme court. i would be surprised if it is not appealed anyway. but it doesn t give us the conflict with the slit of the different circuits ruling on the merits of the individual mandate. this case doesn t go that far. it makes it a little tougher to factor into the rest of the cases out there and put it directly on point with those. it may be appealed on a standing issue but won t be appealed to the court on basis whether or not that individual mandate is constitutional which is the key question in all of the other big cases out there, jenna. jenna: shannon, thank you for the instant analysis. thank you very much. you got it. jon: just in washing