journal editorial report tomorrow at 2 p.m. eastern right here on this network. and then do not go anywhere because i ll be hosting fox news watch 30 minutes later, 2:30 eastern time. some fascinating developments in the media world to talk about this week. jenna? jenna: well, we have a fox news alert for you. moments ago eye rain man president mahmoud ahmadinejad saying he has no problem meeting with sarah shourd, the freed american hiker who told her story to us earlier today. mahmoud ahmadinejad went on to say he meets with many americans, hundreds even during the trip. so that was his statement about this freed hiker that we wanted to bring you. ahmadinejad also meets with the press on these trips, and he just sat down for an exclusive and wide-ranging interview with fox news own eric shawn. eric just got back to the newsroom, so take it away. reporter: yeah, jenna, it was an interview that touched on a variety of topics, but i wanted to start off with his controversial topics a
country and meanwhile the latest usa today gallup shows that he has hit a record low in his approval ratings, 41% of americans say they approve of the job he is doing and, so, could it show the whole blame bush strategy is not working, perhaps? guess who is here, alan colmes, a host of the fox radio show, the alan colmes show and, i bet the president at this point would be happy to switch his age, of his birthday and his approval ratings. i d love to wish him a happy birthday and people are saying it s not really his birthday. but, look his ratings are similar, to gallup pointed out, ronald reagan went down to 35% at one point and george w. bush s ratings were, so low and you can look at it as a snapshot or a marathon, not a sprint. martha: it is. takes a long time to go through the changes. martha: that is an excellent point an presidencies have all kind of ebbs and flows in them, as we have seen, but the biggest
say today, molly. reporter: the president will want to keep that segment of the democratic base in the democratic column on the democratic side, especially with the midterm elections coming up, and the president, you know, and other democrats, have counted on the unions for money, and for votes. so, he ll likely talk about the administration s efforts to get these people, people across the country, back to work, and, the accomplishments for example on the new health care legislation and the president is likely to urge them to, quote, look forward, not look backwards as he did, the democratic fundraiser on monday, and, one more note, martha, the president is celebratie ining his 49th biy today. martha: happy birthday to the president. absolutely, molly henneberg at the white houses. bill: and, fear in the water, a young girl attacked by a barracuda, only 9, and, finally going home, now, check her out. sweet. she under went 6 hours of surgery, the young girl now had
areas turning against the president it is significant and one web site bill pointed out when the explosion happened somebody yelled death to the hypocrite. bill? bill: some of the reporting we re getting is that a lot of iranians can get close to him, there is not a lot of security and we ll figure out what we can when we can, thanks, amy kellogg. reporter: you re welcome. martha: more pictures from the scene in phoenix, arizona, a plane crashed at deer valley airport, north of downtown phoenix, a couple of pieces of information that have come out of this, and the first is that it apares to have happened during the take off. witnesses saying the plane took off, circled around and then crashed into this warehouse area. in this airport, a smaller airport, deer valley airport, north of phoenix and there s a lot of training and private aviation in the airport and you can see, sadly, the plane is
martha: we are pictures of this plane crash that happened at deer valley airport in north phoenix. you can see this plane is demolished, it went into a warehouse, apparently trying to land on runway seven at deer valley airport. we re going to get more details on who was on this plane, what the size of it was. as you can tell, this is a devastating accident that has happened at the deer valley airport, about 15 miles north of sky harbor airport in phoenix, arizona. as we get more information on this pilot, on who was on this plane, we will certainly bring it to you. bill: also at 932 time time., breaking news out of iran, was there an assassination attempt on mahmoud ahmadinejad, iranian