furious at the decision by president obama to bypass congress and point richard cordray as director of the consumer financial protection bureau. they have called the move a power grab. john corpsman is among them. he thinks the moves are political. i think it was arrogant and irresponsible and i do think it will damage the likelihood that the president and congress could work together on other things that we need to work on, including nominations for the good of the country. but the president seems to have given up on that, and is now full-time campaigning and just appeared to be giving up on governing. we ve got too many things we need to do, there is too much at stake between now and november to put all that on hold in favor of a campaign for his re-election. martha: not very veiled there in what is going on on capital hill with regard to all of this. joined by christopher hahn former aid to chuck schumer and
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endorsements but a bit of a dark cloud on the horizon. more on that in just a moment, but, first, his fight for the gop nomination. a new nbc news/ wall street journal poll shows him with a commanding lead over mitt romney. the other candidates trailing far behind. paul steinhauser is in washington. paul, the same poll shows gingrich struggling in a head-to-head race against president obama. tell us about that. that horse race poll and two others indicate the same thing. way ahead in the horse race. look at this, hypothetical matchups next november. president obama versus gingrich and president obama against mitt romney. president obama 11 points ahead of gingrich. among all voters. but, basically, dead even with romney. so, the nbc/ wall street journal poll maybe an electable issue for newt gingrich. you ve seen the democratic national committee go after romney left and right over everything. not so much about gingrich. but yesterday, this is interesting, jessica yellin
bill: coen is denying anything was done incorrectly. he says that donald trump could pay for the so-called testing the waters trip out of his own pocket. martha: a muslim civil rights group says they will publicly challenge muslim radicalization hearings that kickoff this thursday on capital hill. we ve spoken about them in detail over the course of this week. cair says that the organizers, house homeland security chairman congressman peter king is spreading, quote, misinformation. the new york republican says that that is not his purpose at all. listen to what he said. the main goal is to show the extensive radicalization within the muslim-american community, how dangerous and serious that it, and also how it happens and whether or not the muslim community responds to that, whether or not they cooperate with law enforcement. i will have witnesses there to show that this is a real threat, it s a growing threat, and it s not just me saying this, the attorney general eric holder says h
that s what she wants and now this parting shot, almost defiant lee saying, okay the economy is tailing down, but we need more stimulus. megyn: she is leaving, who cares what she thinks? does she speak for the administration? is she forecasting, do we have any reason to believe the views or the plans of the obama administration? reporter: she is exerting pressure on the administration. she is joined by academics, like laura tyson. a new york columnist paul crugland. they want a million dollars stimulus program. megyn: didn t the president say he doesn t think there is the political will for that on capital hill. reporter: yes that s correct. megyn: could the administration do some sort of an end around on a stimulus? reporter: no you need a vote in congress to get a big, new stimulus program through. the votes simply are not there. the democrats worry that they are going into an election on november the 2nd, if they go