costing the airline industry billions of dollars. gretch, over to you. instead of hanging chads, england has a hung parliament. for the first time since 1974, there s no clear party majority. therefore, the future of the prime minister is uncertain. so the conservatives were expected to win. people are asking now what happened? should they have just stuck to their traditional policies? and what can our politicians learn from the fallout in britain? joining us from london, columnist and author of welcome to obamaland , james dellingfield. good to see you again. how do we sort out this mess? there were three people running for prime minister and now still unclear as to who actually won. yeah. can you imagine if you woke up this morning to find that it was a republican administration in charge but it was full of rhino republicans like arnie schwarzenegger and lindsay graham and that they had gone into coalition with all the weirdest and worst of the obama
this is onstar. i ve received a signal you ve been in a crash. i ll contact emergency services. all right. welcome back on this monday morning. time for some headlines at 28 minutes before the top of the hour. the latest on the british election turmoil with a capital t, progress being made in talks right now being conservatives and liberal democrats. does that make sense? as they try to form a power sharing deal of some sort. the parties are said to be close on the economy and taxes but far apart on the issue of voting reform. earlier, we were joined by author james delingpole who is appalled at the alliance idea. how can this be good for britain? we were promised that david cameron, the conservative
administration like maybe carol browner and people. i mean, how can this be good for britain? we were promised that david cameron the conservative leader, his new brand of touchy feely conservativism is the one that was going to sway the electorate to vote conservative this time. it didn t happen that way. didn t the parliament increase the number of conservatives by 90 or something like that? absolutely. david cameron conserved his one majority but it wasn t a working majority and that s the key. you know, if you want to get any of your new bills passed, you ve got to have a working majority which is why now he s being forced into this rather unseemly negotiation with the leader of the liberal democrats which is sort of the minority, the third party and he s hoping to find common ground between them. how could there be any common ground, james? because americans are looking at this and saying how can the conservative candidate have common ground with the liberal
present when kagan s nomination to be solicitor general was before the judiciary committee and then switched his vote to no when the full floor vote came up. at that time and for the three decades prior thereto, specter was a republican. a month after that vote, he switched parties and now, of course, is a democrat. on substantive grounds, kagan can expect to be questioned by republicans about her challenges to the pentagon s don t ask, don t tell policy. and she can expect questioning from liberal democrats about her defense as solicitor general before the u.s. supreme court of some bush era national security policies. reporting live from the white house, james rosen, fox news. we know it s a big story, james. i can hear a bunch of other reporters telling the same story next to you. those are just producers telling me what to say. i doubt it. you re pretty on top of things. thanks a lot. james rosen, our guy at the white house. all right. it was from the white house that cle