it s a very, very pro security guy and he just says, where does this end? i think we re having next thing you know, elliss and cal are going to be agreeing. (laughter) and if we can get through the debate, the serious valued debate, that would be terrific, we re nowhere near that, we re still bickering. depends what you read. and most of it has been naked picture and full body the media knows what needs to be done and what needs to be done is profiling. we had on this network over last, a weekend or two ago, the former head of el-al. i ve known it, they do profiling, not ethnic or racial, they ask you questions, zip code, area code your mother s maiden name, all of this stuff. why are you going to israel and ways of finding out who the threats are. we don t know that because there are so many groups that
paul: okay. the other thing striking to me about the deficit commission draft the new chairman put out and something i m critical of, they do almost nothing on medicaid and medicare. no, didn t touch it. paul: who are the big cost drivers in the budget. why aren t they touching those two programs? i don t think they touch it because the administration didn t want them to touch it. i don t think the president s commissioners were going to go after his health care law. elliss and i are offering a premium support plan and medicaid. we think one of the glaring problems in this plan, it doesn t touch health care, health care reform and that s why the democrat for the institution, former clinton director, vice chair, she and i are offering a plan that the health benefit plan for future medicare retirees and offering that. paul: i m old enough congressman to remember the last time the republicans
membership took a shellacking because of it. and now, a lot of people, even in her own party are urging her to step aside. are the media giving that the right amount of coverage, do you think? i think this is a major fight in terms of the direction of the democratic party and the media are responding as one would expect them to. i mean, what standards are we holding her to other than her ability to continue to raise money for a lot of people? look, she is the emblem of the left wing democrat, if she maintains that seat, i think it says something about where the party is going. elliss, you have a little shrine to nancy pelosi? not a little shrine guy. it s hugely important i would put my money on her, however, because the electorate here has gotten much closer to nancy than the one that elected her the last time and the caucus is more liberal than before. some of the blue dogs are chased away and i think she s probably going to win. it s time for a break and first check out the
jon: elliss. well, it s also what we call the planet earth. you know, that s how most people are today. we re the outlighters in that equation, plus, remember, that this president follows one whose reaction to most of the world is to thumb his nose at it. so, sure, people are going to like this guy better. i wouldn t underestimate the ability of the american press to continue to adore him. clare shipman campaigning michelle obama to jackie kennedy, that s the coverage on good morning america. that s mrs. obama the they adore mrs. obama. i haven t heard a lot of adoration when it comes to the man on the mountain, the anointed one as sean hannity calls him. i haven t heard that, jim. having a little bit of a down beat, but (laughter) first time he calls the name, he ll come back up j talk about for a minute, nancy pelosi. some people say that she essentially was doing what the president wanted in the 111th congress and her party, her
always call alaska home. i d rather be out here being free. this is what life is all about. and on a really clear day, you can see russia from here! almost. . jon: she has gotten a lot of heat from that new show. some lefty groups, elliss, are pushing discovery communications to pull the plug. how about at that for freedom of speech. a strategic miss steps on the part of the lefty groups as you mentioned, let the woman talk, the more she talks the better off they are. interesting that some of these folks who don t like her, i mean, she puts eyeballs in front of television sets, right. yeah, aen she got a network to pay her a million dollars per episode to do this, but i found the most interesting review to come from karl rove, who is not exactly a left wing who said this is not going to advance her presidential prospects, it doesn t make her look presidential. i d listen to karl. and the numbers keep going down every time she makes appearance. her popularity numbers, you