cantor, you call my bluff, i ll go to the people. that s his attempt, let s see if it works. bret: ab does this sway, change the dynamic with seven days left to go? first of all ronald reagan, as everyone at this table knows, would not be able to win the republican nomination in the republican party of 2011, period this is one of the reasons that president obama continues to mention him. this is, if you look at polling from last week s national polling that came out on how vastly these numbers have moved on the debt ceiling question, i believe the president believes that the momentum is on his side. people are paying attention, worried about mutual funds and their mortgage they are afraid of default and they are going to respond to his call for a balanced approach. i think the president spoke 60 times during the health care crisis we saw it become less popular. we ve seen the same since july 1st, to today the president s approval ratings have dropped.
colt. whatever that means. a story you ll want to see. the school superintendent who says forget tax hikes, he s going to he s getting all the supplies students need for free. and the president told republicans don t call my bluff. michael is in the green room and says he has a real gun to his head. he didn t blink then and won t blink now. the congressman joins us next. first, time to play your trivia question of the day. boy, i m glad we got aflac h aflac! oh, i ve just got major medical. major medical. .but it helps pay the doctors. pays the doctors, boyyy! [ quack ]
and the president told republicans don t call my bluff. michael is in the green room and says he has a real gun to his head. he didn t blink then and won t blink now. the congressman joins us next. first, time to play your trivia question of the day. boy, i m glad we got aflac h aflac! oh, i ve just got major medical. major medical. .but it helps pay the doctors. pays the doctors, boyyy! [ quack ] oh yeah? what about your family? we added aflac, so we get cash! it s like our safety net. to help with the mortgage or whater we need!
the guardian. how much is the press being spun by the president and the republicans. i m howard kurtz. this is reliable sources. the murdoch media empire is in all-out damage control mode as the scandal at the british papers continues to spread on this side of the atlantic, the fbi opened a preliminary investigation on whether phone hacking took place in the u.s. and the dizzies pace of developments has made headlines around the world. mps finally forced murdoch to withdraw his bskyb bid. his empire has cracked, but is it broken. following breaking news in london where the embattled chief executive of murdoch s newspaper has resigned. news international will issue a statement to say that rebekah brooks has resigned as the chief executive of news international. more damaging details are emerging in the phone hacking scandal. other news corp properties are being implicated in the growing scandal. rebekah brooks resigned leaving the fight for news international s
meeting. cantor said he shoved back said i ll see you tomorrow. eric don t call my bluff, i ll go to the american people that s all he does is go to the american people and try to scare them to death. what do you make of his temperament now? i think it suggests that i m right about this mcconnell deal. that it does call the president s bluff. these republicans are screwed six ways from sunday. democrats refuse to cut spending. in the midst of impending financial disaster and the democrats will not cut spending. they cross their arms and ask republicans what they are going to cut. and then they demagogue republicans and say republicans are waging a war on the poor. republicans can t win because they only have a majority in one half of one branch of government. so what mcconnell does is say then they try to use the debt ceiling to force the democrats please tell us what you will be willing to cut.