pain caused her to stop. she was the first person to swim without a shark age. i don t know if you had a chance to see a video. there is an tried to do this han blown off course because of the currents, as you can understand. she was following that orange strip in front of her that you see in a moment to keep her on track, but the winds started kicking up and that moves the tides and when the tides blow west to east you get off course, and it costs too much time and energy. alisyn: we were really rooting for her. bill: a woman, 61, come on. alisyn: maybe she can try again. bill: good luck. alisyn: back to politics. republicans and democrats jumping on the politics of the economic crisis. two brand-new attack ads hitting the air waves, frank l u.n. tz on what the average joe thinks about the dirty politics. bill: she spent three nights alone in the wilderness, no food, no water, a broken leg and fractured back, and today she is talking about it.
bussed out of sendai, a city in the north. 14 buses were sent overnight and should arrive in the next few hours to take the 600 americans to safety. we understand president obama will speak from the rose garden at 3:30 p.m., megyn. megyn: you can catch those remarks on shepard s show. jennifer griffin, thanks so much. back here at home, folks there are new developments in the budget showdown. that could ultimately still prompt a government shut down. 30 prints from now the u.s. senate is expected to vote and pass we think a sixth stopgap bill to keep the government running into early april. it s only a three-week extense. trying to find funding through september, they don t have it yet. we have seen and heard a lot of finger pointing from across the aisle and now we are going to check in with what americans think about this whole mess. pollster frank l u.n. tz is offer of the book win the key principle to take you from ordinary to extraordinary. this thing has already hit number five o
over act, 2010. megyn: george lake off does a great job on the left branding things, frank l u.n. tz does a good job on the right. frank, the term death panels became a defining term and now apparently they are back now although it s voluntary, you voluntary get an adviser, you re not forced to get one. look megyn: the death panel monitor worked to the detriment of that healthcare act. when you have something that pithy and that defining it hurts people they are after. democrats have to do more of that on their side. megyn: that s an interesting thought. it raised my eyebrows, that was the problem with healthcare was the branding. you can say that but then it did pass. megyn: not just that, even now the numbers against it are high. it can t all be due to the name of it. that s temporary i think. obama s numbers are getting up. as people get more into this and
i m thinking parting it with peo is not good. lincoln chafee when he came up with the hard act. they asked what does it stand for? he said we ll figure it out later. you have to have something that is sexy, catching, i have to say republicans are better at branding. frank l u.n. tz is brilliant at the language. ricklanguage. megyn: you also are not a fan of ppupaca. a lot of people name it obamacare republicans have always been better. they call people on my side libs. megyn: your old friend san
a longtime and it shows. either you don t have enough of a resume or you re too much of a player inside washington so you can t have it both ways. the fact that he doesn t have that kind of resume may be good for him. the end result is it s a deal that we should of and hopefully democrats will come on board and realize it s the best we can do. megyn: thank you. coming up next frank l u.n. tz with a very interesting focus group. [ male announcer ] when you eat kashi golean,