him to be his vice president. but there is this lingering energy and maybe some animosity who feel this was secretary clinton s time and now they want to make it happen in 2016. extraordinary is really the right advice of words for abiden presidency. all joking aside, he has a very impressive resume. the experience that he would bring to the oval office would be unparalleled really with many modern presidents. let me move us back two years and talk about the mid-terms this november. want to show you first of all what we call the jenmaker ballot. 42% of registered voters said, 39% said democrats, on down the line to don t know or won t vote. what does that mean? seems we always dismiss the generic ballot but truth is, it used to be a huge margin so you have to watch which way a poll is going. the generic doesn t mean as much in an era when
gone ahead with an armed invasion of its neighboring country of ukraine. we ve got josh rogan, gloria borger, jim sciutto. gloria, let me start with you. you hear an escalating amount of rhetoric like this coming from the president and his top aides, all of us have to be deeply worried about what s going on. we do. the president has said he might not it s not a direct threat, i m not going to go, he says unless the troops are removed, he wouldn t go to the g-8 summit. you have to wonder how our allies are going to respond to that. will the british then say the same thing and on down the line, number one. number two, the thing that interests me is that both senator john mccain, you know, senator john mccain and wesley clark, who is on the other side of the political spectrum both said that they believe that putin is involved in a little bit of empire rebuilding here and that they don t believe the
we ll use what tools we can even if congress won t give us more to go after you. the fact that holder may continue on with similar kind of settlements or probes, i mean, that does that change things, measurably, going into the future? i don t know. i really don t. with all these things, we re not at a point right now where another financial bubble is likely. in the periods after these kinds of terrible, terrible crises, you have a lowered level of risk-taking on wall street. you have a somewhat more safe approach to asset allotment. and so these things don t happen that quickly. what you want to watch out for and be careful about is the next period of confidence. because even now people are still insecure about new assets. they don t really understand, which is, of course, true for which is what happened with mortgage-backed securities. so it will be the future we really need to worry about that. who knows if eric holder s successor, and on down the line will continue with that
it would put a dagger in the heart of college football. the way to do this, i haven t done this yet, all those big names to stanford, google guys, on down the line say this is inappropriate. i m giving money to an elite institution and it is inappropriate to take the resources i m investing and squandering them on a football field. that s what has to happen. malcolm gladwell, pleasure to have you on. we called the university of pennsylvania to ask if it had dough done anything to combat head injuries and ctes in it s athletic program. the spokesman said two years ago they did make changes but couldn t say if it was related to owen thomas passing and they limited the number of full contact football practices per week. during the regular season they only hold two such practices
program. let s go back to what ronald reagan said saying that social security will be solvent for 24 years. does it add to the deficit? there are two different things but they are related. let s be clear, the president touching social security in this way, putting up this chain cpi, a different way of doing the cost of living, this is a political move to tell republicans that he is ready to deal and you re right, if stephen moore is agreeing with something that the president is doing, the president is really, really ticking off progressives. they are furious. the symbolism of a democratic president putting social security changes into his budget, they hate it. paul krugman hates it. robert rice hates it. on down the line, people hate it. carol, you made two very good points, raising the retirement age and raising the cap on your income that you pay taxes on for social security. a lot of people are saying the biggest fix is right there. make rich people pay more of their income in s