alisyn: senator mike lee we really appreciate your time this morning. thanks so much. thank new part of what is so fascinating, we heard from rand paul on this a bit earlier, is you know, what is being proposed that could or would have stopped what happened in newtown, connecticut? that s part of this whole debate right now. alisyn: hard to connect those. bill: jon scott standing by on this holy friday, happy easter to you, jon what is going on. jon: a good easter weekend to you as well, bill. there is more sabre rattling from the north korean as again as thousands gather to shout death to american eupl pearl lists. kim jong un says he s pointing missiles at the u.s. is he all bark and no bite or should we be worried. the dow and s&p hitting new highs. marty time on wall street, what about main street? ben stein joins us. we ll ask him about the fundamentals of the u.s. economy. it s been quite a week in the debate over gay marriage, two major cases before the supreme court, so how d
viewership. jon: you and alan just agreed and i have to wrap my head around that and bring you guys back on the other side of the break because there is the matt lauer thing to talk about. back with more on that in a moment. jenna: a golfer in the arnold palmer invitation algoes out on a limb to make a shot. sergio garcia gets a bad break when his ball lands in a tree. how does doe that? that s part of the question we have in the story. he doesn t just leave it in the tree and take the one stroke penalty, he climbs up into the tree and takes the shot. back hands the ball onto the freeway. some considered it a great play. that didn t help his game. later he ended up dropping out. that was one for the record books somewhere. jon: that shot will live on forever. we ll have our news watch panel back with us in just a bit. also, cyprus reaches a last-minute bailout deal to save its financial system from total collapse, but look out the aftershocks to the global
they collaborate, and people are a little happier with the relationship right now than they, let s say, were a year ago. but overall it hasn t improved from three, four years ago very much at all. and i really think the pakistanis are sort of playing both sides of the fence. jenna: it s certainly a complicated situation, but that s where the enemy is right now, it bears longer conversation and, mike, we hope to have you back to continue that conversation. thanks for the time. appreciate it, as always. thank you, jenna. my pleasure. jon: as jenna mentioned, we are marking a decade since the war in iraq began. we re going to take a closer look at media coverage of this decade past in our news watch panel. that s coming up. [ male announcer ] dunes, desert, or trail,
to explain anything, obviously i believe you re a sitting duck. jon: he s talking about a new report from the rnc that says the party needs to change its ways essentially. do the media, though, bear any responsibility for the republican party s image? let s talk about it with our news watch panel. alan colmes is host of the alan colmes show author of thank the liberals for saving america and why you should. jim pinkerton is kr-bgt editor and writer for the american conservative marks he is also a fox news contributor. alan does the g.o.p. get a fair shake in the press? yes. and to blame the media for the g.o.p. s more problems. i thought reince priebus was very, very candid in what he said. if democrats had said some of those things running up until now the media would go crazy saying democrats shouldn t be take those theurpbgs we are putting down the republican party. if the press said the very things that reince priebus said you d say it s the liberal media going after republican
magazine. alan colmes is host of the alan colmes radio show, author of thank the liberal also for saving america. they are our news watch panel today. jim take on what nancy pelosi has to say. president obama has always been respectful she says of republicans in congress. [laughter] jon: we ll give you a second. i mean, look the president has clearly done a 180 in terms of his dealings from dismissing republicans and simply trying to beat them to now trying to work with them, and as chart krauthammer put it on friday night it s like the mainstream media are now part of it and they are covering for the president. they realized that the old strategy isn t working. the president sent a signal and the mainstream media are shifting to support the president in what charles krauthammer called a charm offensive. is this a profound reverse signal. i m glad he s reaching out. then srut conservative media like the washington times saying