arms o soldiers of the islamic state and fight, fight! joining me now, nbc news chief correspondent richard engel of baghdad and andrew linkman, analyst and spent over 30 years at the cia working on some of the issues, ro del moladu and also david anvela president of go pac. thank you all for coming. richard, let s start with the recording. does this give us new information? it doesn t give us much new information but i think it gives us a characterization of the organization. baghdadi doesn t consider himself the leader of isis anymore. he considers himself the caliph leading a caliphate and reaching out for organizations across the world, muslim original saiss, individuals to wear allegiance to him.
robert zimmerman is a democratic strategist and david avela is the president of go pac. robert, i ll start with you. we know that democrats are making this part of 2014. we go into the midterms here. i want to read something from the new york times. top democrats see not only a wedge issue that they hope will place republican candidates in a difficult position, but also a tool with which to enlarge the electorate in a nonpresidential election when turnout among minorities and youths typically drop off, end quote. that s a lot of possibilities here, based on that one point of it being a wedge issue. are they right? actually they are right, but they re not the democrats, i would say, i m saying this not just as a democrats, but the democrats are not making this a partisan issue. it s the republicans in the house and the senate who refuse to move on issues like raising the minimum wage or unemployment insurance despite the strong support in the country for those initiatives. they re t
facebook, to all of those non-cowboy fans who have their panties in a ringer because the governor of new jersey is a cowboys fan, get a life. the gov has been a cowboys fan his entire life and all of you would sit with the owner of your favorite team in a heartbeat if given the chance. sting. jessica tarloff is a democratic pollster. david avella, the president of go pac here to debate this today. welcome to the show. david, were you offended at all, i guess some people were with chris christie hugging jerry jones and not showing alean jams to a new jersey or new york team? there s one person gretchen that is directly impacted by the governor s hug and that is scott walker, who now doesn t have to buy his fellow governor a ticket to this week s game and can instead give it to another cheese head and enjoy some beer and broughts with the packers fan sits beside him. from a political point of view, i thought you were iffing to say maybe scott walker liked it because he might run
congress. in a new fox poll, 33% of voters are hopeful about the direction of the country. 64% are not. is this part of the president s 25012 campaign strategy and should it be? doug schoen, former bill clinton pollster and a fox news contributor and david president of go-pac. good to see both of you gentlemen. good to see you, jamie. jamie: doug, preying on the fact that folks are not hopeful or happy. and is that the president s best and winning strategy? i think it s part of the overall strategy. he s going to decry partisanship all the while attacking the republican congress for effectively blocking his program and blaming george w. bush for getting us in the mess we re all in today. so, i think it s basically a deflect strategy and also, suggests that he had ideas that if only the republicans didn t block the country would be in better shape. before i go to david, which