medicare. these were the remember this is the great tea party insurgency that wants to see smaller government and the number one problem of their president s bill was douts medicare. if they can bait the president into proposals to cut things that their constituency likes they will go after him. is it even broader than that? could republicans have studied the coalition in britain and how it has been brutalized by the public there for making these budget cuts even though it was necessary to make it happen. republicans hoping to try to avoid that by making the president go first and in some way blaming all cuts no matter who they were directed at on the president? is that what we re hearing in these sound bites particularly that stuff from cantor? i think that s part of it. part of it is trying to figure out what this middle path will be. a bigger part of it is trying to sort of ratchet down expectations particularly for the base. basically, my understanding of
smaller government and the number one problem of their president s bill was to cut medicare. if they can bait the president into proposals to cut things that their constituency likes they will go after him. is it even broader than that? could republicans have studied the coalition in britain and how it has been brutalized by the public there for making these budget cuts even though it was necessary to make it happen. republicans hoping to try to avoid that by making the president go first and in some way blaming all cuts no matter who they were directed at on the president? is that what we re hearing in these sound bites particularly that stuff from cantor? i think that s part of it. part of it is trying to figure out what this middle path will be. a bigger part of it is trying to sort of ratchet down
9th circuit court of appeals scheduled arguments with the 1st of november with the midterm election. megyn: really? i don t think there is any doubt at all. nor do i think there is any doubt that the district court judge that made this absurd decision behaved as she did and tried to find some sort of to her view a middle path. the absurdities are just compounded in this case, as you know. the judge, judge bolton left, for example, in fact a prescription against day laborers so long as they were not impeding traffic. that is a metaphor. this is about traffic, illegal human traffic across borders. megyn: if politically this may help in california, which has a high latino population, maybe nevada which has a high latino population but the latest abc news poll says that 60% of americans still support that arizona law. those that go into the voting box tomorrow who care about this issue and law, lou does it help democratting or republicans. i think there is no doubt
exclusive at that world is waiting to see and now reacting to soledad o brien s riveting one-on-one with imam rauf. the mosque is being built near ground zero in manhattan. the imam has not talked about this until now and telling cnn that he regrets such pain but it may be dangerous to back down now. soledad was up late last night and she s here now. what did he have to say? i think this is a person that s well-known for being a moderate. in the muslim world, there are many people who find that this moderate position, the fact that he supports america so much is say problem with them. so he sort of navigates his tricky middle path. and i think he s dedicated his life to finding peace, bidding bridges and talking about tolerance. those things are all true but in
disruptive to say okay, gay couples can get married now and then maybe at the end of the appeals process the marriage would not be allowed to go forward, and maybe there might even be some question about the marriages that were consummated in the interim. but professor, the appeals court judges, they did agree to expedite the hearing schedule and set a december 6th date for the oral arguments. what does that tell us? well, exactly. it seems that the appeals court here was in a way trying to steer a middle path. they said they were going to keep the ban on gay marriage in place. at the same time, though, they were going to speed up the process so that it would bring sooner the day when there might be a final decision allowing same-sex marriage. and what s more, in something else that must cheer the supporters of same-sex marriage, the court of appeals noted a potential legal obstacle to taking the appeal. that is, they raised the question of why exactly the