i think he is strongly considering a bid. he had some push today from several prominent republicans. mitch daniels, i spoke with this morning said he thought paul ryan ought to get in the race. bret: the governor of indiana. jeb bush, mitch daniels. jim jordan, leader of the house conservative, and i spoke with scott walker, governor of wisconsin before i came on the air tonight and put out a strong statement saying the country needs courage in its presidential candidates and the president. that s paul. can i express a tiny bit of skepticism with my friend steve. i wish he were running. volunteer to be head of a posse to rund him up, tie him up and bring him in to washington. he couldn t be found. i know there is all this pressure on him to actually enter the race, but when i hear this, and all the pressure and all the rethinking again and again, i m reminded of the speech
commentator who said to endorse him over the years and i think he is strongly considering a bid. he had some push today from several prominent republicans. mitch daniels, i spoke with this morning said he thought paul ryan ought to get in the race. bret: the governor of indiana. jeb bush, mitch daniels. jim jordan, leader of the house conservative, and i spoke with scott walker, governor of wisconsin before i came on the air tonight and put out a strong statement saying the country needs courage in its presidential candidates and the president. that s paul. can i express a tiny bit of skepticism with my friend steve. i wish he were running. volunteer to be head of a posse to rund him up, tie him up and bring him in to washington. he couldn t be found. i know there is all this pressure on him to actually enter the race, but when i hear this, and all the pressure and all the rethinking again and again,
9:00 am on the east coast, 6:00 am out west. marathon talks lead to a new debt deal. at least in theory. the president backs it. so do leaders of both parties. still, no reason to celebrate just yet. in syria, a violent crackdown on anti-government protests. more than 7 0 people killed and counting. and new this morning, a big change to health coverage. the federal government will require insurers who provide birth control without co-payments. now, in just a few hours, we could see the beginning of the end of the debt crisis. it s been the issue in washington for weeks. and you re probably tired of the finger pointing and doomsday predictions. today, that could all come to an end if the house and senate approve a compromised plan. the deal identifies about $1 trillion in spending cuts over ten years and raises the debt ceiling by about the same amount. bipartisan committee must find ways to trim another trillion a, a so-called deficit posse. the president and house spea
drilling off of virginia, florida, alaska. what does that mean political which? why is he out there saying let s drill. because democrats have been losing independent voters by 60 to 40% in the last two or three elections we ve done exit polling in. and the president understands that 63% of americans think we need to do more to explore offshore reserves. it s not just oil that s going to be drilled for. it s natural gas. and you know which is clean. which is clean. and there s nobody in america who thinks that fossil fuels are going to go away even as we try to become this is a smart, down-the-middle thing, do you agree? absolutely. smart move politically, not only for the reason that steve laid out. but he needs to do this now if he has any hope of picking up moderate republicans to support his cap-and-trade legislation and as we head into summer, gas prices spike. if he wasn t doing something to show that he was alleviating the supply and demand problem that causes the
it. and the approval for the democratic party is down to 41%. which is the lowest ever seen by the gallup poll for the democratic party. they ve been taking the polls since 1992. that s 18 years of polling and it s the lowest number ever for the democrats. i want to take the defensive fellow, my friend steve before i go to my friend todd. how do you defend when it looks like your number, the generic, are you likely to vote democrat or republican, has dropped below the other party s? the fact that democrats are behind right now is troublinging. but it s serge not something that is surprising, given the fact that a very partisan bill just passed. the public was pretty deeply divided on this, largely because the republicans were able to demonize it and make it something it s not. the president has to go back and make the case to the country that this is a good bill. not just for the people who didn t have insurance, but for the people who do. because it will give them stability and brin