magazine. alan colmes is host of the alan colmes radio show, author of thank the liberal also for saving america. they are our news watch panel today. jim take on what nancy pelosi has to say. president obama has always been respectful she says of republicans in congress. [laughter] jon: we ll give you a second. i mean, look the president has clearly done a 180 in terms of his dealings from dismissing republicans and simply trying to beat them to now trying to work with them, and as chart krauthammer put it on friday night it s like the mainstream media are now part of it and they are covering for the president. they realized that the old strategy isn t working. the president sent a signal and the mainstream media are shifting to support the president in what charles krauthammer called a charm offensive. is this a profound reverse signal. i m glad he s reaching out. then srut conservative media like the washington times saying