indiana. we ve had it in ohio and wisconsin and had it in michigan. all four places we ve had protests. all four places the unions lost, and they were not able to pick up much in the aftermath of it and in all of three places that have had is to far, i understand, ohio, and wisconsin, the unemployment rate is lower than the national average, and you are going to have republicans and business groups making the case that there is job creation, take a place in those states. i don t think the two are necessarily but that s been the argument particularly in michigan. let me ask you, jim. snyder said initially it would be too divisive. he is now having to walk that back. i mean, undermining the argument this is, you know, going to steady the michigan economy where the unemployment rate is 9 parking lot 1% higher than in surrounding states. he did this in a 24-48 hour period in wisconsin. it was a more protracted. who knows if we had that kind of time frame in michigan where we would be
phoenix. i want to start with getting to the fortune magazine issue right now. what is the issue here, i read the issue and it seems to me saying there is no substance to the charge that they walked these guns, they purposely allowed laws to be broken and guns to fall into the hands of the cartel in mexico so they could track those guns. tell me what the piece says about that. what it says is that there was no operational tactic by the atf to choose to let guns flow into the hands of criminals. rather, there was a protracted, intensive fight, debate, with federal prosecutors about the grounds, legal grounds, for seizing these guns and arresting suspects. so, what is this whole fight about if there wasn t an attempt to give guns, allow guns to fall into the hands of killers what s led to the killing of those
they have enriched uranium to 20%. that simply has to disappear as well and be shifted over to an international group, either any of the permanent five plus one. they have to go much further than that if they re going to satisfy the united states and the international community that they re really going to reach an agreement which takes them off the path of developing a nuclear weapon. i think they have been on that path. they continue to pursue that path and you re going to have to have some pretty serious rejections in order to satisfy anyone that they re serious about it. at the same time, we understand that president ahmadinejad is no longer the power brokers. i think ultimately the decisions have always been with the ayatollah who is the supreme leader and decides what happens with the nuclear program. there is no sign iran is going to concede. are we headed to a military confrontation or is this going to be a protracted, prolonged negotiation? well it can t be too long a
rival. not until late june did the two make their first joint aperience in aptly named unity, new hampshire. fast forward to the current g.o.p. primary where a four-man field aided and abetted by unlimited super pac fund raising and spending racked by charges of lying and plundering. this is the worst kind of trivial politics. the lesson of 2008 loom large, even if they re not universally agreed upon. my recollection of the 2008 contest that they were 50/50 positive to negative. maybe 60/40 negative to positive. but you didn t have nine or ten negative ad for every positive ad. pennsylvania are you ready to help us carry this state to victory? one prominent veteran of the 2008 cycle argues the protracted and sometimes nasty nature of today s republican primary offers the g.o.p. no real cause for concern. i think that the competition strengthens all the candidates. the truth is, it all sounds
let s go outfront. we have breaking news on the crisis in syria. it could be the most significant development since the uprising began a year ago. at this hour, it is reported that a possible peace deal is in the works. this is one that has the backing of arab states, it s a draft resolution being circulated by saudi arabia which condemned the actions in syria today. we re getting word this is making its way through the u.n. general assembly. we re trying to confirm this report. we ll have an update as soon as possible. one again breaking news on a possible peace plan for syria. now to our other top story. groundhog day, failure on repeat. the president is going put out his budget on monday. it s going to let the bush tax cuts expire on people make being over $250,000 a year. excuse me. impose a minimum effective tack rate on millionaires. make cuts to health care and run a trillion dollar deficit. it s pretty much like the budget he passed last year which didn t pass. it