not true. we don t have to pat on the back every muslim that doesn t want to kill us. we expect that. that s our bar. so i know from my own e-mail box that many muslims stand with us because they escaped jihady wars and there have been over 20,000 deadly islamic attacks since 2011 and they need to understand the ideology that inspires these acts of war. i want to bring in linda from the national network of arab american communities. you have seen these ads. pamela says she is including quotes from people like mahmoud ahmadinejad. you are quoting a man who is a holocaust denier. he s not an american muslim. you have a history of pitting communities against each other
in the job of secretary of state a woman of color, condoleeza rice. we have seen this a lot, this kind of talk from the left over the last couple of months. gretchen: it s interesting because if anyone is a proponent of women seeking office it s me. i don t agree with andrea mitchell at all on this. when you look back at recent secretary of states, a lot have been women and african-american. you have madeleine albright, hillary clinton, condoleeza rice, i can t even remember the last male. then you brought it up that it was colin powell. i m not sure it has anything o do with why susan rice will not be secretary of state. steve: it absolutely does not. she went out and many people feel she lied to the american people to give the president of the united states political cover just before an election. brian: 17 days and three days to write legislation. probably less than 17 days til we hit the fiscal cliff. the president invited the speaker to the white house yesterday and our e-m
battle over the bush tax cuts, the headline was trying to herd cats referring to speaker boehner trying to get his party in line over the battle here. how much pressure is speaker boehner under? does he have real allies at this point, since it seems he s being pulled in multiple directions here? speaker boehner is under enormous pressure, and if he needed to have this vote with just his own caucus or conference, he wouldn t be able to get it done. to the vote in the house, i think for every i think there s more tom coles there than we know that won t speak up. why won t they speak up? are they waiting to see the next round of back and forth? well, that could be part of it, but also, they re a little bit concerned about what their constituents are going to say. they don t want their e-mail box bombarded by the heritage foundation. now you see two extreme views. i think you ll end up at the trillion dollar mark, and i think that speaker boehner will
state you know your tv is flooded with advertisement. if are you in a battleground state your phone has messages on the answering machine. there will be mortal law mark ceght calls to get you to the polls. and then there is your e-mail box and your snail mailbox that will be jammed with direct mail over the next nine days to get people to the polls. and as millions lose power for a week or 10 days they are not getting anything. that could be profound for the campaign. the prospect of losing three or four days when there is a week and a half left is a major recalculation on both sides. carl cameron is live in florida. thanks very much. fox news cooer respawn department ed cory spawn dent ed henry is with us. he is covering president obama s campaign and we will hear from ed in a few minutes. fox news alert for you. nearly a dozen arrests in a massive terror plot in
toss the head set fell. zimmerman says he was acting in self-defense and has never been arrested or charged, but martin s family and their many supporters claim that racial bias in the shooting and the investigation. so now the fbi has stepped in and the justice department has opened a civil rights investigation. cnn legal analyst sunny hostin joining me now with more on all of this. why don t we go ahead and start with trayvon s cell phone friend. i understand you actually have a copy of her sworn affidavit. give us the details, sunny. we ll kind of unfold the conversation from there. good morning, kyra. i do not have a copy though of the sworn affidavit but i did speak to one of the martin family attorneys this morning for at least half an hour, and she and i discussed this phone call. apparently trayvon martin on that night had been trading phone calls with a 16-year-old friend, a girl, and as they traded phone calls, one of the last phone calls, w was at abou 7:04. tr