we wants to run a campaign where he drowns me in mud with money he raises from people foreclosing floridians. i think he has a lot of gall to start raising the issue. i think we ought to find out, so how much money has he made over the years foreclosing on floridians. now aside from the personal attacks and i m sure we ll hear enough of that in the debate, hasn t the president really changed the conversation? because now we have them talking about foreclosures. we have them talking about the economy. hasn t the president really began making them come back to what the american people are really concerned about? well, there s not a lot of times i d say i d agree with newt gingrich. mitt romney does have a lot of nerve talking about foreclosures. not only because he invested $500,000 in fannie and freddie, but because a few months ago, remember reverend al he said he
communities. we don t know that. so the question might be asked here, you know, why didn t the president stop in michigan which is certainly the worst off right now as he went through the midwest? well, for one, am not going to attempt to say what the president s schedule should be, but the real question is when you have a city like detroit that s 21.6% unemployment and the real numbers are around 50%, i think people in detroit are saying why is there not more attention being placed on those urban communities and why hasn t the president come through there, and that s what we heard over and over again from frustrated people, as you can see in that video that are citizens and in many cases some of whom have not worked for over three years. jeff johnson, thank you so much. next week tamron hall will anchor a newsnation live from the cbc jobs fair in miami on august 22nd and 23rd right here on msnbc. don t myth miss that. the fate of real housewives of beverly hills up in th
announcement today. go for political transition or leave. they re still leaving that window open for political transition, even though the united states has no idea, no there s no belief at all that he s going that assad is going to change. elliott, the white house in the past, toward the end of the mubarak regime, called on mubarak to step down, gadhafi obviously. why hasn t the president made the same demand of assad? well, one thing is they still believe in this reform nonsense. this is a regime that survives by murdering its own population. but it s been very slow to get particularly secretary clinton to turn away from this idea that he s secretly a reformer. the other thing is they re afraid of what comes next. there s the boogeyman of the muslim brotherhood taking over syria. no one ever produces any evidence for why that would happen. but that s the other argument. you have no concerns about what comes next?
with a lot of older voters. are you prepared to stand up to them and say, sorry, folks, we ve got to do this? because a lot of republicans think this is handing something to the democrats that will be potent against republicans. the ryan plan doesn t cut medicare, it actually increases funding to it and the only people that have voted to cut medicare supported obamacare, which cut trillions out of medicare and is using it to fund a science experiment somewhere outside of medicare. the only people who voted to cut medicare spending are the people who voted in favor of obama care. that s a fact. the truth is but you don t deny, if you introduce a voucher system into medicare, that there is going to be a set amount of dollars seniors have to go into the private marketplace. that is not medicare as we now have it? well, medicare as we now have it goes bankrupt. it s not an option. here s my challenge today anybody out there who thinks there is a better way to save medicare should
jenna: so does the president need to explain himself? let s talk about this with josh block, a former clinton administration official and state department spokesman, also steven yates is with us, former deputy assistant to vice president cheney for national security affairs. welcome to you both, gentlemen. josh, starting with you. why hasn t the president made this type of address? it s a really good question. at the end of day, a speech is not a strategy. so if president does give a speech, he s going to have to lay out quite clearly what our objectives are, and at the end of the day, you know, colonel ghadafi has said he wants to die a martyr. i think it s america s opportunity and duty to give him that chance. jenna: do you think he has a strategy, josh? do you think the president knows exactly what we re doing? well, i mean, the white house has articulated quite clearly that the no-fly zone is engendered to enforce the u.n. resolution, america s policy and that of some of our a