seen the records. i don t know that hillary rosen, i know three personally, named hillary rosen. i m not sure that those represent the person we re talking about. necessarily. so i really can t comment on the number of visits and i m not sure that is accurate. how about the degree of this particular hillary rosen s i don t know how many times she s been here the she is not, she is a democratic strategist. she s a cnn contributor. as far as i know, and, i, i don t know how to assess her overall relationship with people here in the white house but i do not, i have not seen her here very frequently. do you expect that relationship to continue at whatever level it is? again, i don t know what the relationship is. let s focus on what the issue here is. this is a, when it comes to, what this administration has
you and i are going to have to do the seeking. you know what s interesting? after obama has great moments, you see that kick in his step on the tube. here he is coming off pretty much the defining moment as far as him winning this moment, and nothing has changed. there s no loosening. there s no carrying himself a certain way. it s still well, let s focus on what he s saying and if he offers an alternative. has he put out a budget? he s embraced the ryan budget. so that s what he s taking under his wing as his signature in terms of his concepts moving forward? yeah. let me ask mike really quickly, because i do want to talk about this for a bit. it was a bit stilted. but, mike, i think the romney people have to make a choice. do they let their man go out and be relaxed and make some mistakes along the lines, you know, the jokes about his father
jon meacham, let s focus on what willie said. that was the most astounding part of it, challenging tom delay as he did, attacking the judges. it s the point. it was, you know, this was a carefully raw system. john marshall did it. he did it in very interest ways by never pushing things so far that he got into showdowns with the president. it s a very it s not a simple story. it s a really interesting one. it s an achievement, you are going to snore for a second. when you knock that out of wac, people get nervous. look, anybody who is going to vote on this issue is probably already with the president. so, if you are going to attack
iran in a better direction, although we re, frankly, aware that sanctions take a long time. i mean, the sanctions have changed, apartheid, south africa took 12 years. twelve years from now iran s going to have long-range rockets that could hit new york. i don t think we want to wait 12 years, but we re going to give it a chance. and all that speculation going back and be forth in the press, let s focus on not having public statements by too many officials and focus on getting rapp to adhere to its iran to adhere to its obviously gaitions. megyn: is there a split? is there a megyn: a split? is there a division at the highest levels about how to handle well, you know, the story, you pointed out there is a front page headline in one of the big newspapers in israel this morning that the president has a different view than the israeli government. he has now denied that, and he s made clear just like israeli ministers, just like the united states says, all options are on the table,
reporter: well, there s no question we are recovering from the worst recession in our lifetime and we need to continue to get job growth. he said, look, let s focus on what we can do toke redo or energy grids, invest in job training, improve manufacturing, all of those are themes that we have heard in the past, but the president is right to say this is the time we could do things to create more jobs for people who need it in our country. you know how it town works in an election year. of what he proposed last night what are the two or three pieces that you think might get passed