democrat congressman tim ryan. only 54% of democrats approve of the president s handling of the economy as whispers of a recession grow much louder and inflation straps family budgets. let s bring in buckeye state republican congressman jim jordan. he s the top republican on the house judicially committee. congressman, great to have you on. this is the sixth time the president has visited your state. he clearly believes he s got a captive audience there. your thoughts. he might believe that. but what is it? nine out of ten fellow citizens think the country is on the wrong track. that s up 15 points from two months ago. that s how bad things are. i don t know that making a trip to ohio will change things. you mentioned the senate race. where is tim ryan? i don t think he will be with president biden today. the president makes the sixth visit to your state and you re running for senate and you won t show up? that tells you about this administration and how wrong the policy is
from comey when they had dinner a week after he took office and the former fbi director told the president he couldn t promise loyalty. but that he would always be honest with him. joining us, doug showen fox news contributor and former advisor to. bill clinton. ed rollins, from the 1984 presidential bid. thanks for being here. ed, give us your first gut reaction to that presidential tweet about hoping that there are no tapes. well, certainly no evidence. any time you mention tape, after watergate, it raises concerns. there s no evidence whatsoever that comey has been a leaker or comey would do anything disrespectful. the president had every right to dismiss him, could have dismissed him on january 20th, would have been more effective. to attack him at this point, you should say thank you for your service, i want to thank you and all of the men and women of the fbi, let s move on. you know, you make this a bigger story than it is.
i think the key thing is don t challenge the fbi, don t challenge the congress, their right to move forward, they will. jon: doug, you have said an independent investigator is called for here. yeah, i think g given what the president has said and done, given that we have competing investigations in the house and the senate, i just think this is, as chris stirewalt indicated, an important enough issue that we need an independent special committee or special counsel as i ve written, to get to the bottom of the facts. without partisanship. like the watergate committee. i don t know what the facts, are it may well be there is no collusion. but i m very worried between the president s efforts, his communication staff, which has been at the least off-message, competing investigations, the firing now of james comey, we need at best to have a separate body or separate investigator get to the bottom of what did or did not happen.
i think to a certain extent, comey is a man who spent many, many years in government, is well respected, and had a difficult task. i think the president has a lot on his plate, he needs to get focused back on these issues that matter, and this basically ought to be thank you very much, we re done with this, i made my choice, and again i will have a first rate choice in the near future and move forward. jon: doug, what do you think of ed s advice? well, i think ed is right. i think that to get into a twitter war with james comey now, is absolutely counter productive. we should move on, move forward. i think, really, though the issues that we haven t talked about this morning is the russian investigation. and it appears to me that it is at the very least very possible that that is what led president trump to dismiss james comey. the letter that was sent alludes to that possibility when
he experienced an extreme emotion moment before he heard the news of his brother s death and he took that as a special spiritual message from phil, saying good-bye. phil everly was 74 years old. president obama is urging congress to reinstate jobless benefits, a bipartisan proposal in the u.s. senate would actually restore the unemployment insurance for three more months. the president warns that failure to reinstate this will cause the economy to slow for all americans. so when congress comes back to work this week, their first order of business should be making this right. right now, a bipartisan group in congress is working on a three-month extension of unemployment insurance. and if they pass it, i will sign it. joining us now to talk about it, fox news contributor doug showen and the politics editor in chief martha shoulder. good to see you both. happy to be here.