refrain. we ve heard it a lot lately. he likes to talk, he s not a shy guy, and neither is mike gallagher, fox news contributor. hi, mike, good to see you. hi, martha. how are you? martha: i m fascinated because this is riling up a lot of folks who are getting a little bit concerned, it would appear, about the possibility of this. and, mike, let s listen to this from karl rove, and we ll jump right in and get your reaction to that. mr. trump, donald trump can run his campaign any way he wants. if he wants to run down george bush and ask for the republican nominee, i don t think that s a winning strategy. and if he wants to base his entire campaign on the whether or not barack obama was born in the unite, that s his privilege. i just think it s a losing strategy, and i think it s beneath him. martha: karl rove also came out and said he thought this whole thing was in danger of becoming a joke for donald trump. you know, mike, what do you think about, what do you think about all that
least force the conversation? not on social security, but on medicare, particularly with regard to containing health care costs. the president could have gone further than he did under his health care law and he could have continued that conversation, yes, indeed. david walker, how do you get the conversation out of this, it s literally a who goes first game. the president nor the leadership in congress is dealing with 85% of the problem. which is medicare, medicaid, social security on the debt, et cetera. what we need to do is have a civic education engagement program to educate the american people on the facts and truth and tough choices and we need to bring back tough controls as part of the budget increase starting in about 2013 because right now there s no consequence for doing nothing and doing nothing is driving us over a cliff. let s focus on now what is before us. the president puts before us
from blood. and if that is the case then therefore in knife could not have been the murder weapon. and we think this is extremely important. once the independent examination of other independent experts examine the knife and examine the reports that have been generated by the prosecution, we believe they inevitably will come to the same conclusion that this was not the murder weapon, it could not be the murder weapon, and it s a substantial step hopefully towards the exoneration of our compliant. just last week that italian prosecutors asked the courts to toughen amanda knox s sentence to life in prison. were you surprised to have the judge give the okay for this evidence to be re-examined? let s focus on what the judge said. he said the only thing certain within this complex case was that meredith kercher was murdered. and that is something we agree with. this case is highly fraught with
after the election said we owe it to the american people to focus on their concerns, which are jobs. and right now we need to do that and the way to do that is to provide some certainty so people can get hired and the way to do that is you don t raise taxes on anyone in the middle of a recession, chris. but it does seem to be drawing a line in the sand and it does seem to send a message, excuse me, that the senate can only get one thing done at a time. and while i understand the republican argument that this was a change election, i also have to say that 75% of people in our nbc poll said that they re afraid the country is headed for a period of division with parties showing little willingness to work together or to compromise. does this letter, in fact, send the signal but by drawing a line in the sand the republicans are all about business as usual? the line in the sand and the message i think that this letter sends is, let s focus on, as the president says, what we owe to the am
not have a we ve got this reporter intimidated so bad that he won t even stick up for his rights to into his job. well we ve got voter suppression going on down in texas, we ll do that story in a moment. and of course they re running an ad to latinos now the nevada to say, hey, don t vote, don t vote. what s going on here? it s a whole different brand of politics. look, this is what happens when sort of professionals aren t in charge of campaigns anymore. and these tea party folks, a lot of them, are novice candidates and they re running sort of novice campaigns. they re eliminating the old rules. and the rules have been eliminated the most are journalism. and, oh, you answer questions from reporters. and you don t get arrested when you ask a reporter. joe miller over a week ago announced he s not answering any more questions. he s running for statewide office. he will not answer any more questions. so we have this independent journalist right toing to get legitimate question