on what josh just said and what they had, that this was just part of a spontaneous reaction. they got bad intelligence. we get bad intelligence all the time. wait a second. so if it s part of a spontaneous uprising five days later, then why would the president call that an act of terrorism the day of the event, which he really didn t do? and i m still trying to figure out i m still trying to figure out why candy crowley decided she was going to weigh in on something that really wasn t accurate. he used the words i m not sure that he meant a traditional act of terrorism. look, we re parsing this. but think about it. why would the administration have any reason what motivation would they have to misconstrue this? that s actually a great question because you have to say a month later, ed, i know what you d do. we would know what the hell happened to three, four, five days later. josh, here we are, a month out, and we still really don t have a good idea. the answer to that qu
what my guy howard dean went through. there you go. we went to the lead right about now, a month out, and from that point on everybody else in the democratic party he killed himself. well, we made mistakes you didn t make mistakes, he made a mistakes. they came after us with everything they have got. if newt can survive that it it l make it very tough for romney. can he? i think he can. i think he can survive it. i think they are are looking for somebody with passion, not howard dean passion. too much passion. there will be a key fox debate this weekend right here on the fox news channel next thursday. what do you think? i think so far newt has been winning all of those. so what advice would you do him in terms of when they all start ganging up on him, attacking him, and, you know, he s the quintessential establishment, whatever. how would you recommend he respond? focus on obama. this is an anti-obama election.
what my guy howard dean went through. there you go. we went to the lead right about now, a month out, and from that point on everybody else in the democratic party he killed himself. well, we made mistakes you didn t make mistakes, he made a mistakes. they came after us with everything they have got. if newt can survive that it it l make it very tough for romney. can he? i think he can. i think he can survive it. i think they are are looking for somebody with passion, not howard dean passion. too much passion. there will be a key fox debate this weekend right here on the fox news channel next thursday. what do you think? i think so far newt has been winning all of those. so what advice would you do him in terms of when they all start ganging up on him, attacking him, and, you know, he s the quintessential establishment, whatever. how would you recommend he respond? focus on obama. this is an anti-obama election.
the airlines are showing some signs of improvement when it comes to their on time performance. phil lebeau is here with a best and worst. this is the report card for the month of july. what it shows, things improved from june to july, and the top five airlines are the ones that we usually see at the top in terms of on time performance, hawaiian, alaska, southwest, airtran. the bottom five is similar to what we tend to see month in, month out, jetblue, united, frontier, express jet and asa. bottom line is this, you re starting to see a gradual improvement in terms of on time performance. overall the last 17 years, so far the first seven months of this year have been right about in the middle compared to where we were 17 years ago, so an improvement but we still have a
tea party demanding more cuts in federal spending, a cap on future budgets, and a balanced budget amendment. but at a republican caucus meeting speaker of the house john boehner told everyone in his party, and i quote, get your ass in line. and listen to senator john mccain. what is really amazing about this is that some members are believing that we can pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution in this body with its present reputation, and that is foolish. that is worse than foolish. that is not fair. that is not fair to the american people. to hold out and say we won t agree to raising the debt limit until we pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. it s unfair. it s bizarro. and maybe some people who have only been in this body for six or seven months or so really believe that. others know better. the ground is still shaking in d.c. over this tonight, with no doubt many late-night phone calls going under way right now. we ll cover all of the a