to come back again, they are threatening to ring the parliament, storm the par parliament, riot police are out there in force, and you ve got to believe it s going to be more of it tomorrow. gregg: we ll be checking back in with you, greg palkot, live from london, thanks. martha: president obama is headed to the all important state of iowa, but says he s not campaigning. really? we re going to answer that question for you live at the white house. gregg gregg a shocker in the windy city, rod blagojevich stunned seemingly by the guilty verdicts on 17 of the 20 counts against him. our legal expert weighs in on whether blago could spend the rest of his life behind bars for calls like this:
iowa, the house off this week, senate off next week, there s not much time before the nation runs on the of borrowing authority august 2nd. martha: and word is that s an inflexible deadline, though we ve seen it move before. wendell, thank you very much. wendell goler on the debt negotiation discussions. where are we going to go with this, folks? foxnews.com, check it out, that is, of course, america s election headquarters, 24/7, so you can get everything you need to know about the races and how they re shaping up for 2012, foxnews.com/politics. check that out during a commercial break, folks. gregg: well, he said he was stunned. kind of looked like it, didn t it? a jury finding former democratic governor rod blagojevich guilty on a slew of charges in his corruption trial and afterwards blagojevich reportedly turned to his defense attorney and asked what happened? patti and i obviously are very disappointed in the outcome, i frankly am stunned, there s not much left to say other tha
to voters who are frustrated with the way things are run in washington. i have real crossover i m appealing to disaffected democrats and independents and libertarians as well as republicans and people who have never been political a day in their lives. i think that is why the white house is so threatened by my candidacy for running. because, i will have a broad appeal, as a general candidate, and, i think people are intrigued. they want to have someone, of substance, someone with background. gregg: doug schoen is a former pollster for president bill clinton and a fox news contributor. and joins us now. along with the chairman of the civic forum pac and former director for rural outreach for john mccain s campaign. thanks for being with us, both of you. doug, let me start with you. let s start with the latest des moines register poll, and, we ll put it up on the screen. i think it took a lot of people by surprise. look at that. the alleged front-runner, mitt romney, is neck and ne
against the teenager. he suffered a broken elbow. boy, he was lucky. if he had landed differently, he would not be telling us that story. good for him for acknowledging that he was acting like an idiot and hopefully a lot of kids see that. you go to a concert, have a good time and goofing around on an escalator can end badly. maybe he helped somebody, though. land softly! gregg: but don t do it! we have heard from family and friends and forensic experts in the casey anthony murder trial and today, the man who found her daughter s body in the woods is set to take the witness stand. casey s defense, helping to paint roy cronk as, quote unquote, a morally bankrupt man who moved caylee anthony s body so he could receive the $250,000 reward. judge jen rene pirro, host of justice with judge jenin has been inside the courtroom, stepped outside to talk with us about it. first of all, as i understand it, judge, there
michelle bachmann who of course was born in iowa. is she the anti-establishment candidate? very clearly, yes, gregg and if you are mitt romney, you look at these numbers and say i m not sure i want to compete in iowa, especially, if the straw poll doesn t go the way he wants, and, sarah palin doesn t compete, and, michelle bachmann wins the victory, august 13th, i think she is going to win, and becomes de facto, the dtea part candidate and is consolidating tea party support, literally, as we speak. gregg: i wonder for who is the tea party candidate, really? you have a lot of people to choose from. herman cain, sarah palin, rick perry, maybe, ron paul? well you have a few candidates to vie for the mantle and i m not sure trying to solidify the mantle beyond iowa is good, because, generally,