she says where are the republicans in terms of weighing in on this. reporter: the republicans have weighed in on all of the president s past proposals on jobs, obama care and the rest of it. republicans have proposed and passed two major pieces of legislation, number one, the paul ryan budget for 2012, and number two, cut, cap and balance, which would have created jobs. megyn: why don t they get out there and talk about them. reporter: they have repeatedly talked about this only to be met by a stonewall by the other side. they will let the president have his time, propose nothing new tomorrow night and let it go off into the ether. megyn: let me ask you, dan is it me or is she criticizing the republicans for not criticizing the president? you know if they came out and gave a response it s not going to be, we agree. reporter: this is the perfect example of the gamesmanship that makes people hate washington.
dan, monica, thank you so much. we have a troubling story now about how some dangerous stunt went terribly wrong for some teenage girls. and one 17-year-old paid an awful price. i wapt to warn you this is disturbing. she was trying to climb aboard a moving train in colorado. she apparently slipped and fell onto the tractio tracks underneath the moving train. the chilling 911 call that saved her life was caught on tape. again we warn you this may be upsetting to some. we ll go right to trace on this. go ahead trace. reporter: it really is hard to listen to, megyn that s the part of this thing. this was a girl with three of her friends and they were jumping on this freight train trying to get back to fort collins to colorado state university where they go to school. one of the girls made it successfully on board the train and the second girl, 17-year-old ana bennenti slipped and fell. the person who saw all this was a nurse, an emergency medical
and it happens on both sides. we are whining about a speech that someone is not giving from the democrats, whining from the republicans and the tea party about something this a labor leader said at a rally. the house is on fire and we are arguing about who left the dishes in the s eupg. american people are desperate for real leadership, people to stand up and say we have a national jobs crisis in this country and these guys are continuing the same old gamesmanship and partisanship. megyn: why does she care? there is one thing for tv people to talk about those things, she is the house minority leader. reporter: i m in never position to defend nancy pelosi. i never thought she should be speaker and she was the albatross around the president s neck since his first day in office. megyn: dan, jumping off the party boat. reporter: i ve been off the party boat from day on on that one. megyn: normally when there is a joint session speech like this one there is a response. a joint session s
megyn: fox news alert president obama preparing to unveil a high stakes jobs plan to america tomorrow night. we could hear more details on the proposal he will unveil in the white house press briefing set to get under any way moment now. you can see inside the white house, it s 1:30 almost eastern time. there is a growing controversy over what is not happening tomorrow night, namely an official gop response following the president s address to a joint session of congress. house minority leader nancy pelosi calling the absence of a response, quote, disrespectful. monica crowley is a fox news contributor and a radio talk show host. dan gerstein is president of gotham ghost writers. she says it s disrespectful.
politically for this white house it s not such a bad thing for them to have a low bar set of maybe $300 billion in the initial reports, and then have some democrats who have been saying you need to go big and bold maybe criticize that over the next 24 hours and then have the president step out tomorrow and say, no actually it s 400 billion, or 500 billion. there is a little bit of mystery here. there is also a lot of pressure on this president. the last time he used a setting like this. a joint session of congress to push one single plan it was healthcare on 9-9-09. he won in the end on that battle. at that point he had a much different political standing. in fox news polling in september of 2009 he had an approval rating on handling the economy of 55%. now it s down to 34% approving among the american public. that is a 21 point drop in two years because of the high unemployment number. megyn: reportedly a third bail out package is included for local governments to prevent so