jon: the aftereffects of this storm will reverberate a long time sounds like. harris faulkner. sure. jamie: the terrorist attack on the u.s. consulate in libya we re still talking about it and this is an interesting and frightening development at the same time. there are new concerns now that jihadists will use the benghazi attack as a model for future attacks which could be on the united states interests here. what to make of the chatter out there? walid phares, our terrorism analyst will join us. he will tell us what he is hearing and what it means. plus, you ve seen stupid criminals before. this one didn t give much thought to his escape plan. smile. he stood there with a clerk who was smart enough to keep him trapped inside long enough for the camera to get a good shot of him. we ll show you again. maybe you can help police nab this bad guy. let s listen n
makes the stimulus okay. not just of his first term, i mean, that s the great democratic achievement of the last generation. yeah, absolutely. so he s got that now, right? and he s now had his vision of having saved the country from the second great depression, ratifying. now he turns to the second term, and he has this opportunity to deal with fiscal cliff. it s a huge problem. if he fails, it could destroy his second term. but if he achieves it and this is what you see in john boehner, you know, everything that boehner has been doing so far since the election is signaling, you know, a willingness to work. he s saying i ll accept new revenue. you know, i don t want to see tax rates go up, but we ll accept new revenue. that was not the republican position 18 months ago. the president now, if he can get a deal done, which on boehner who seems very open at this moment, very conciliatory to getting a deal done, much more so than mitch mcconnell, if he can get a deal done in the firs
i m ready to admit the first thing i ve already been wrong about, the president said the fever will break and a deal will come into place more easily. still difficult but more easily than has happened so far. i was skeptical about that. i think based on boehner s interview yesterday and what republicans are saying in general about the necessity of reaching a deal and kind of moving on, i think it s going to be tough, but i think the president was right that the environment s different. and i think his remarks later today, which are a huge deal in this process, i think will reflect the fact that he sees a different environment, a different possibility. the senate s ready to do a deal. and speaker boehner is a big part of the final solution, and i think he looks like he s ready to do a deal. i think just to get you off the hook a little bit, i think one of the keys here is what you didn t anticipate and very few people anticipated was not just that obama would win, but that he would wi
voters gave the incumbent the benefit of the doubt. another thing we found from the exit polls, we knew this before the election, but his push to raise taxes on the so-called rich, those earning more than $250,000 was very popular, large pluralities approve that. that was a factor, too? yeah, i think so. the polls do show that. and now, the pressure s really on speaker john boehner because the president is certainly not going to go along with extenning the bush tax rates as he did in 2010, when he took a shellacking. so pressure s on boehner. boehner s saying, hey, we kept the house, but the big prize is the white house. brad, did romney need to be more negative? or at the very least, do a better job of responding to all of the negative ads, directed at him? i think that he certainly could have been more aggressive, having said that, i am very proud of the race that mitt
that what the president is saying on manufacturing. 12 years for 12 years we lost manufacturing jobs in this country. as you pointed out, 20, 21 months in a row we ve seen job growth in manufacturing. the president s right on on concentrating this and focusing on this. 12 years we ve been waiting for manufacturing jobs. let me ask you, senator. how ironic that the president is in governor walker s back yard visiting a unionized shop that s only not only thriving but it s bringing jobs back to the country. well, it s great. and, i mean, i think there s several things we need to do. one of them, surely is to pass our currency bill, pass the strong bipartisan vote. john boehner has boxed it up and we know it will pass with bipartisan support. i m asking people to come on sherrod brown.com and sign up. put the pressure on boehner to