capable moving more to the middle in the consensus is he has governs from the left. the left thinks he has governed too much from the left. they are not happy on afghanistan. he s capable he s a master politician. he s capable of connecting with voters. you don t get elected president of the united states by not being at top of your game. i think he can do it. i would not count him out. i would not count the democrats out in the mid terms though it s looking difficult. megyn: you agree with robert gibbs and not nancy pelosi? i agree that since we have nancy pelosi in the house we ll keep the house. megyn: you don t criticize nancy. i think she has been a great leader. megyn: of course you do. richard socarides.
now, may god have mercy on your souls. megyn: dan gerstein is a columnist for forbes and a communications director for joe lieberman. and joe goldberg is an editor at large or fox news online and also a fox news contributor. what is with this guy grace son? to me this is representative of all that is wrong with washington. on the one hand you have grayson trying to make an important point but he s done it in a clown i shall and over the top way and it is devisive and ineffective. on the other hand you have the conservatives leaping on this and sort of say this is out of control, liberal democrat. but distracting attention from the kind of out of touch reality economic realities in this country the republicans are. they have no solution to these problems. and, you know, it s just a shame that this has where it has what it has come to.
interesting the new york times of all places yesterday ran a story about oakland, california, which you just mentioned, they took a lot of their municipal services, took it out of the hands of the public employees unions and actually privatized some of it, and the headline was they did all this and the sky didn t fall. what meg whitman is saying, look, i give her a lot of credit for doing this before the election. it takes a lot of guts to say i m going to cut 40,000 public jobs in california, i m going to renegotiate these lavish pension benefits and other benefits i m going to do all of this once i get into office. that takes political courage, but you know what, abdel basaet al-megrahi, we are at a moment in this country where voters across the board are saying stop spending, don t give me any more entitlements. voters are behind chris christie whose job approval has not suffered because of this. i think the same thing will be true in california if she stubgs to her guns and gets
i think people were calm, people behaved. there was a calmness inch spite of the concerns. and the injured were attended to. i thought it was very professionally done and people were very good. there was not pandemonium and screaming. everyone realize thred was a problem and efrpb behaved i think accordingly even though we had 30 people that were injured pretty badly. megyn: congrats to that pilot for getting that flight down and to the crew for taking care of everybody. i ve heard the same from others. deborah we are glad you are okay. thanks so much for telling us your story. thank you so much, take care. megyn: all the best. can you imagine, folks, can you imagine. well eight days until the kickoff of arizona s immigration law and in just three minutes we will give you a live look at what police are doing right now to get ready. plus, we are moments away from the white house media briefing you do not want to miss. we are expected some pointed questions about reports that the
the 2-minute warning. so we wait. megyn: as somebody who lives in that glass house i can t cast that stone. if this show didn t come on at 1:00 with or without me, i may not here on time. major sits in that chair and he sees robert gibbs walk out and he blackberries up and we tell you. you won t miss any of it. yesterday at this time president obama and prime minister david cameron were answering questions on the pan am bomber. killing almost 200 their cans who were onboard that flight. the one man who was convicted in connection with that bombing was released. was released early. he had prostate cancer web was released. if the question is whether his release had anything to do with bp lobbying of libya because they wanted some oil deal.