so the ousted former u.s. ambassador to ukraine she goes to congress today to testify in the context of course on impeachment inquiry to the president s high crimes and misdemeanors and she s talking about this really bizarre campaign to smear her and threaten carried out by a bunch of people but ultimately at the correction direction of the president of the united states himself and she s talking about how she felt threatened by the president. and while this is playing out two huge things happen, okay? one, in the middle of her testimony the president s longtime adviser gets convicted by a jury in a federal courthouse on several counts including witness tampering. that s one thing that happens. and number two, in realtime the president himself attempts to tamper with the witness. he attacks marie yovanovitch
did you feel threatened? i did. so the ousted former u.s. ambassador to ukraine she goes to congress today to testify in the context of course on impeachment inquiry to the president s high crimes and misdemeansers and talking about this really bizarre campaign to smear her and threaten carried out by a bunch of people but ultimately at the correction direction of the president of the united states himself and while this is playing out two huge things happen, okay? one, in the middle of her testimony the president s long time advisor gets convicted by a jury in a federal courthouse on several counts including witness tampering. that s one thing that happens. and number two, in realtime the president himself attempts to tamper with the witness.
are we talking about contraception? of course, these cultural issues that matter to people on a personal, deep level are nice way or a distractor of those real issues that republicans aren t quite having the same traction on they hoped they would have one or two months ago. the unemployment rate is not where they thought we were trending. we must change the conversation. rush is uniquely positioned to be that sort of fire bomb thrower because he doesn t really have a boss. he owns his own show. he can say what he wants. this is not the position of don imus where he can get fired. he can push the conversation this way and say this is just rush talking. it s a really disgusting correction direction for the conversation. any krgs about contraception that doesn t allow women to do what they want with their bodies is bizarre to me. guy, i heard some theorize
lead yet, in fact, the biggest lead any republican has posted. but we should say that romney s level of support is 45%. he has earned that level of support before. the reason for the or bigger gap is that obama has dropped to a new low of 39% against romney. you say that s not very significant. he was at 40% prior. that s right. and, look, the reality is it s still primarily about the president. if economy gets a whole lot better between now and next november, if other things break his way, the president s support will go up. if the economy heads in the other correction direction, it will go down. mitt romney in polls right now is the strongest republican against the president, but the election is still primarily all about barack obama. patti ann: and speaking of that, the question was asked to the people who were polled about whether or not the country is moving in the right direction. only 20% say it is. that is down from 22%. 72% say we re on the wrong track, that s up from 71%.