[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] fáhost: it is thursday, february 18. thank you for being with us. we willok spend a great deal of time talking about the mood of the nation. we have two guests david keene, chairman of the american conservative union. he will be with us from a hotel ballroom in washington as the 35th annual cpac, conservative political action conference, gets all the way. we will have cameras there the next couple of days. later on, thomas frank, columnist for the wall street journal. he will be attending the conference. he writes a lot about the conservative movement in the united states and he doesn t from a liberal perspective. he is our guest later on as we discussed the mood of the country. that is our topic this morning. we will peg off from a column in the new york times. is the country in the need of a pep talk or something more fundamental? call us and let us know