seekers and, worse, cutting the jobless benefits would suck billions of dollars out of our economy and wipe out another quarter million jobs. so why this crazy masquerade? in the end they re just hoping you re going to blame obama for everything and give the republicans more power. now that s what i call some great acting. you know, van, in order to believe anything you just said, you have to act as if president obama wasn t president for the last five years. so in the spirit of you mentioning the golden globe, i would say that s american hustle. oh, we came to play! well in the crossfire tonight, democratic senator ben carton. since you re the guest host i ll let you go first. senator, aren t we getting mixed messages from the democrats? on the one hand we say the economy is coming back, the white house when the jobs numbers came in last week, touting all these good numbers. then on the other hand you say we have to spend a lot of money
about why. the left right now is very excited about what we just learned about governor christie because what we learned about governor christie is helping take the sting off the front page. the point is the media has just glommed on to that like bees in a honey comb so they don t have to talk about the gates book. that book written by former defense secretary robert gates has damning information about hillary clinton and president obama. president obama wasn t committed to the afghan war after he sent 30,000 more troops in harm s way. pretty big news but nothing compared to the chris christie traffic jam controversy out this morning. listen to the morning news shows. roadblock? new jersey governor and potential presidential candidate chris christie on the defensive. e-mail suggesting a top aid deliberately orchestrated a massive traffic jam on the world s busiest bridge. what did the governor know and
get off the beat. the point is, he wasn t shocked by the callous tone in the e-mail, he was pissed off it was in the e-mail. your final thoughts? my final thought is by the way i have not done this segment. there will be a word count later. if you read the latest book, there was a double down about the vetting of christie for vice preds. he would not show up with all of his stuff. he was very late. there were questions raised about his brother. romney and obama said you can t get the stuff, we have to go buy it. the difference? you can t run new jersey and not have a few things in your background that are going to be a problem. democrats, they ll leave this alone. eric real quickly. the u.s. attorney had some issues with his brother, whether his brother is in trouble or not. i find two things very interesting. number one, i haven t heard any republicans standing up saying, hey, we back him. the rnc, i haven t heard anyone saying he didn t do a good job. they re wa
it s about oil. and anything like that. now it s going to be different. we re not going to have to treat the saudis as a gas station anymore. basically we re going to you think that because under president obama we have increased energy production so much. what happened after 9/11, it wasn t we got carried away. we thought we would reform the world and create democracy. you remember people saying the way jerusalem is through baghdad. and people were saying we can t take care of iraq and then we can go to iran. i think we got carried away. the key issue we have is the nuclear weapons. that s very critical. but in terms of who runs egypt or who runs tunisia, it s much
negotiating with gorbachev. he was wrong about osama bin laden which according to what i read he does admit in the book that he didn t want to go in and get him. i think that if gates wants to come forward and start analyzing everybody else s record he is going to get a lot of that. one of the most peculiar, bizarre criticisms apparently in the president is the president had misgivings about the war in afghanistan. surprise. the vast majority of the american people shared those misgivings. the fact the president was in touch with the feelings of most americanst that this war was not in our interest anymore, why he was elected. do you think it is a fair criticism of president obama that he is getting us out of these land wars? well, i suspect president obama wasn t terribly in favor