floating the idea of a primary challenge to the president? of americans were deeply disappointed in the president. i think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him. and i think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what obama is is doing. so is that a real possibility? will someone step up to take on the president? dick morris is back to respond. it s interesting because after bernie sanders said that, then we had the president s press conference the other night where he came out and he was still sounding pretty progressive asking for all the tax hikes in this debt plan. well, i think that sanders press statement was designed to try to move the president to the left. in this whole debt discussion. and it was kind of a pressure tactic.
the tea party is a revolution of democrats, independents and republicans who are holding the career politicians accountable for their failure of leadership and to ignoring the warning signs that our economy is about to derail. so what they re trying to do is create a distraction, again, to discredit, let s say, the boy who is saying the emperor has no clothes. and that s exactly why i started christine pac to help fight back against these attacks because as they go into the 2012 elections, they don t have a record to stand on. they re destroying the whole debt debate and making mistake after mistake, not laying out a plan. they re going to lean more on the dirty tricks they used in my campaign, that they used in this statement and that s exactly why we re here today to talk about how we re fighting back. we will in just a moment. i think a lot of people would believe the premise that we wouldn t be having this debt
floating the idea of a primary challenge to the president? of americans were deeply disappointed in the president. i think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him. and i think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what obama is is doing. so is that a real possibility? will someone step up to take on the president? dick morris is back to respond. it s interesting because after bernie sanders said that, then we had the president s press conference the other night where he came out and he was still sounding pretty progressive asking for all the tax hikes in this debt plan. well, i think that sanders press statement was designed to try to move the president to the left. in this whole debt discussion. and it was kind of a pressure
the president said that the mcconnell plan and harry reid plan, that they are working on is still on the table as a last-ditch effort. but he seemed somewhat positive about this. we ll talk a little whao eul with little while with abunch og major garrett about what all this haoepbs and where we go from here in the effort to raise the debt ceiling by that august 2nd deadline. the on going hearings that we are watching for the news of the world newspaper in britain with rebekah brooks testifying continues. and we want to take you back there for the time being. then we ll get back into the debt discussion with senator tom coburn here a little while from now. for now let s go back here. i can t comment on what who know it, when they know it and how they knew it. i can only tell the committee what i knew while i was editor of american s newsroom and editor of the sun and my actions
major garrett about what all this haoepbs and where we go from here in the effort to raise the debt ceiling by that august 2nd deadline. the on going hearings that we are watching for the news of the world newspaper in britain with rebekah brooks testifying continues. and we want to take you back there for the time being. then we ll get back into the debt discussion with senator tom coburn here a little while from now. for now let s go back here. i can t comment on what who know it, when they know it and how they knew it. i can only tell the committee what i knew while i was editor of american s newsroom and editor of the sun and my actions trying to get to the bottom of this story. in 2006, from my own personal point of view i was the editor of the sun, and i had been approached by the police to explain the nature of access on