debate comes up on thursday and we want to talk about this coming up as well, a new book is getting a lof of attention lot of attention this morning and it claims the white house was a hostile work environment for women, and now the white house is hitting back against this, they re saying it simply is not true. so who s telling the truth? we re going to talk about that. bill: also she s 69 years young, five grandkids, loves to read but bad guys, beware! he told me get away, lady, get away. i said no, you get away. go while you can, and i had the knife in my hand, and i just smacked him across the wrist.
you ve got the big straw poll, so it s a very crucial week in all of this, and carl is already on it. good morning, carl. reporter: it is indeed, martha. we should point out that in between the fox news debate on thursday night and republican party of florida s presidency five straw poll on saturday, there s also a conservative political action conference taking place in florida that will also have an impact on the race. so we take a look at how things stand at this point, rick perry remains the national frontrunner, he and mitt romney are in a close dead even tie according to the polls in florida. florida is a very, very important state and for mr. perry this will be his third debate appearance in just 15 days in which he s been the center of attention and he can expect a lot of crit civil and attacks from his rivals. for mitt romney, it s a very big deal today and today he s already issued a statement in advance of the president s remarks saying that the president plans to raise ta
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so we ll wait for the president to come out and to come out and listen for the headline. thank you for your time. you bet, bill. bill: britt brit hume. martha: we ve got that in a few minutes, stick around for that. in the meantime the next straw poll is going to northbound florida, which is of course a huge battle ground state in all of this, the governor there, republican rick scott, is already making this morning a very big prediction about that straw poll. watch: 3000 very active republicans, they are going to be delegates and i personally believe whoever wins that straw poll, they will be the next president of the united states. martha: and he says that s backed up by history. so we ll see if rick cott is right, the president speaking moments from now from the white house which should lead to a round of fresh reaction from his would-be rivals on the gop side and chief political correspondent carl cameron is already in orlando as he gets ready, the president dark the fox ne
martha: all right. let s get to politics now for a moment here. a chicago newspaper has a pretty stark message this morning in their editorial page for president obama. basically, they re sayg just bag the campaign now, and it is coming from the chicago tribune, his home town paper endorsed mr. obama back in 2008, but this time around the editorial board is singing a very different tune. this is a quote from it, quote, i checked the constitution, and he is under no compulsion to run for reelection. he can scrap the campaign, bag it, fundraising calls, an never have to watch another republican debate as long as he s willing to vacate the premiseses by january 2013. that s a pretty harsh message for a sitting president in his home town newspaper. we re joined to talk about this, sally cohen, founder of movement vision.org, karen henretty is communications director for the national republican congressional committee. karen, welcome to you, good