change in terms of being tougher or syria but putin has authority, if he does want to change he could do it. there s no sign yet that they want to be on the side of regime change in syria. there are call for the u.s. to do more, john mccain most importantly in terms of the domestic politics here. is there any option for the u.s. short of some kind of military step which this president is not going to take in election year? i m not sure he won t take it election year. it s a function of three things, how bad the situation s on the ground, what happened in hula tips the balance on one side. what are the options on the diplomatic said, any reing and the third one is politics. the other factor, he need to be convinced there s a military option. and that s the problem, so many of the options people put on the table could have devastating
several hundred thousand homeowners and minimizing further cost to all other homeowners and taxpayers. indeed, roughly 80% of fannie and freddie homeowners are current on mortgage payments. tim geithnerial urged demarco to take another look at the math. arguing the writedown estimated to cost taxpayers $100 billion would spur recovery and offer net gain for treasury. we think there is a set of cases where it s clearly in the interest of the taxpayer for them to do principle reduction upfront. not overwhelming number but where it make sense we should do it. congressional democrats support the write-down. how do we get fannie and freddie to run the same play as the rest of the economy? conservative analysts call it election year bail-out. it s costly for taxpayer and are dead last in terms of priorities in what we should be doing here. there is no evidence by the way that they ll work.
debate over the best way to restore growth and prosperity and balance and restore fairness. throughout the country it sparked protests and political movements from the tea party to the people who have been occupying the streets of new york and other cities. this is not just another political debate. this is the defining issue of our time. this is a make or break moment for the middle class and all of those who are fighting to get into the middle class. jonathan, is it the defining issue of our time? no question. i think the president did a good job of laying out the stakes, what it election is about. it s what we owe each other as a people. are we going to continue to be a country with a basic sense of fairness or go back to the cowboy capitalism that got us into the mess? the president went on to say
afl-cio. the president speaks for himself. i speak for the president. the precedent you are setting now for it election the republican candidates are the ones that we need to pay attention to, introduce them at rallies their surrogates i think i ve said all i can say. sean: bill cunningham when you sidebar rock hussein obama, the words he used himself when he took the oath of office. as soon as i used the name barack hussein report hussein obama, they got on the networks and said do you repudiate the remarks of cunningham. i didn t talk about red meat issues, hanging blacks, the progeny of canines, i used his full name and the media leaped on mccain who leaped on me,
consider it his, it is coming down that is a good sign. it is. but the real rate is about 19%. you know that and so do it. greta: donald, nice to talk to you. thank you greta. greta: what if donald trump ran and did not get the nomination, would he be a spoiler, run as an independent? he said last week he would consider the idea. he had this to say in an interview. are you worried that you are run as an independent and slit the vote and hand the election to barack obama. split the vote and hand it election to barack obama. i m worried about that also. if [ unintelligible ] i m very proud of this country. barack obama is a disaster. i would never do anything if i didn t win the republican