republican side is whether anybody can get rid of the obama cooties once they have them. so, joy, what does mr. christie need to do? does he need to become divorced in some formal way from the president of the united states? does he need to say offensive things? does he need tro perhaps introduce a few racist gibes or introduce the idea of birtherism? you laugh, but isn t that necessary? chris christie who was able to win in large part because he could push off the toxic republican brand, 57% of the voters in the exit polls said they do not like the republican party but they separate him from it. he s going to be head of the republican governors association. he s clearly going to run for president. when he has to go to iowa, he will have to do a few things to gain credibility. look what marco rubio had to morph himself into. he had to turn against sonia sotomayor and against the dream act and every other form of immigration reform.
bush before him the challenge of giving a second inaugural message to the american people. what advice would you give him? i would say be very conciliatory. that is what whether he feels it or not, that is what i think he has to do. if he is not it will be an insight whether or not he is experiencing that second term malady that many presidents experience, hubris, there are too many rhetorical flourishes, these is thinking about his lebanon si after gibes that he wants to do battled in 2014 and take complete power and move this country further down the road he wants it to go. i would watch for that. is it conciliatory. heather: i want to take a look at favorability ratings. president obama is down as he heads into second term, it s 48% compared to president bush who was 57% as he entered second
oppone opponent. let me bring in a.b. this retort i ve heard all day from republicans, some of alice s colleagues this isn t working, this is a distraction, i don t know that gibes well when you have a series of conservatives from bill crystal and the list goes on and on to say governor romney needs to send out more information on his tax returns. can you say this is the obama team when i can lay out a laundry list and play sound bites from that republicans and conservatives who say now is the time. the reason why you see conservatives coming out on the record. as you know the governors gathered in the last couple of days. many republican governors were speaking on background to reporters expressing their concern that the longer you refuse to release something, the more you look like you re hiding something. this is really not any longer about when he left bain, what he was doing there, even the outsourcing that happened at bain capital.
believed the muslim brotherhood made a deal with the military that they could have some power in order for the military not to crack down too hard to the brotherhood or prevent them from assuming the presidency. that gibes frankly with what we re seeing in washington where the washington power establishment has been blowing kisses from the muslim brotherhood. gregg: things that they are moderate. they have a long and distinguished history of lies and deception. most recent of which when mubarak was ousted from power, well, we re not going to run a candidate for president. don t worry about that. they, did they ran morsi. they have an 84-year existence of adopting anti-american, anti-israeli policies. will that continued? i think it will. you have to ask why would a group that has strived for this
enough nuclear war heads to blow any attacker to kingdom come. there s a couple of news conferences that we re looking at. this is lindsey graham and john kill with h jon kyl with him, too. on the right white house briefing room and we expect robert gibes to come to the podium. this is certainly something that he will be addressing any minute now. ken strickland joins us now from the russell office building and this is all really just developing over the last hour or so, but it does look like they have the votes, ken, right? every democrat, every senate democrat is here and present and votes yes for the treaty, yes, they will get the votes. if there are 100 senators listed, the constitution says you need two-thirds of those here and present to ratify a treaty. that would mean with 58 democrats, they would need nine republicans. today we ve had four republicans who have pretty much said, yes,