president travels and nothing new. and as of all of that, the travel, 120 miles from andrews air force base to newport news, virginia and the g.o.p. is making a point, saying the distance from the white house to capitol hill is just 2.8 miles and he could use a walking stick. chris stirewalt host of power play on foxnews.com live. it s cheaper to do it that way. what s the point? what s the point, the president wants something the republicans are not going to give him. which are tax hikes in exchange for messing with the not automatic cuts. decreases in increase spending, and anyway, why should he walk over there? nothing is going to get done. we ll face the budget cuts and decreases to the increases happening on friday.
to recruit them for helping to get new gun laws passed. we re counting on all of you, the legitimate news media, to cover these discussions because the truth is that times have changed. alisyn: chris stirewalt is a fox news digital politics editor and host of power play on foxnews.com live. hi, chris. let s talk about the possibly awkward juxtaposition tonight there in the audience with gun rights advocates and gun control advocates all listening to the president. you know, when you get down to it, these state of the union speeches in the modern era are dog and pony shows and they re tout there and somebody s going to bring their dogs and other people going to bring their ponies and they re going to put them out there and they re going to do this. that s always been the case whether it s ted nugent or whom ever it is. though i don t think we ll get to hear cat scratch fever, but
here, days before president obama will deliver his state of the union address that happens on tuesday night. we re getting a new picture of an american public that s somewhat down in the dumps at odds with the government according to brand new fox polls that we have. more than half, 52% of those who responded said that they believe that the worst is still yet to come in this economy. and compared to 40%, hobble th who believe that the worst is behind us. and take a look, government spending, 32%. health care is right after that and they disagree with president obama s stance that government doesn t have a spending problem. 83% say, yeah, actually, they do think that there is a big spending problem in this country. so, is the president listening to the people on this? chris stirewalt joins me now, fox news digital power editor and power play on foxnews.com live. how are you. excellent.
million americans will get kicked off their employer p provided health care in the future. double the amount. ed henry brought it up at the briefing. how can the president still claim that people get to keep their coverage and doctor if 7 million people are thrown off insurance? well, i think the report is oversimplified in a number of areas and hhs can provide more details, more information about that. the bottom line here is that no matter where you live on january 1st, 2014, that insurance marketplace will be up and running and consumers will have more access to quality affordable health insurance coverage. and the fox news contributor and political advisor to new jersey senator, he s with the eye can radio network and at the show, thanks for being here. thank you. good to be here. hold on one second, jay carney, i want to start with you, because that isn t what the president said.
those by the bush team. and both fox news contributors, hey, thank you for being here. hey. alisyn: kirsten i want to talk to you, jay carney says that would kill less than a ground invasion, is that justification for using them? i guess it s not the i m not as bad as bush argument obama becomes worse when it s the war on terror issues. the point here, and that jay carney really isn t addressing is that the president is assassinating american citizens with no due process. and this is a very serious issue and we knew this before the election, actually, before this memo came out. and in one of the people that was killed was the 16-year-old