reception today at the white house. here now fox news correspondent eric shawn to tell us the truth. first of all let s take the individuals. we should say this source was unnamed. anonymous source. i never like that but obviously the journal has some credibility itself so we will go with it. who was at the ceremony, 15,000 people showed up, right? 11,000 on the lawn. 11,000 on the lawn. that lawn is going to have to be resodded. who were there that might have offended the vatican. here is the issue. of the white house invited a variety of activists who positions are at odds with traditional catholic doctrine. let s start with one of the most famous sister simone campbell. she is executive director of network, a catholic social group. she supported obamacare, defied the u.s. conference on bishops because of contraception abortion, drafted the nun s letter signed by nuns that went to congress to supporto bama care. also runs nuns on the bus which goes around opposing the ryan/ro
reception today at the white house. here now fox news correspondent eric shawn to tell us the truth. first of all let s take the individuals. we should say this source was unnamed. anonymous source. i never like that but obviously the journal has some credibility itself so we will go with it. who was at the ceremony, 15,000 people showed up, right? 11,000 on the lawn. 11,000 on the lawn. that lawn is going to have to be resodded. who were there that might have offended the vatican. here is the issue. of the white house invited a variety of activists who positions are at odds with traditional catholic doctrine. let s start with one of the most famous sister simone campbell. she is executive director of network, a catholic social group. she supported obamacare, defied the u.s. conference on bishops because of contraception abortion, drafted the nun s letter signed by nuns that went to congress to supporto bama care. also runs nuns on the bus which goes around opposing the ryan/ro
oh, yeah. that was an acknowledgement even in the case of disaster relief we would turn this over to the states or private sector. chris christie has given president obama a warm embrace and maybe in so doing has validated the notion that government has a role to play. we got word that jeb bush added his threw his hat in the ring as far as the role of federal government, he is no stranger to disaster in florida being the former governor there. my experience in all this emergency response business it is the local level and state level that really matters, that if they do their job right the federal government part works out pretty good. trying to shift the onus not the onus but the job on to the state and local level which, of course, is more in line with republican priorities as far as spending is it not? i think that s right. the broad vision of the romney budget if you take almost everything you can think of in the federal government, you give it this big cut and hand it to
independent. it is hard to believe if romney is leading among republicans and by independents that he is not going to win. chris: one last question. you have the map like it is set in stone but you hear talk about the possibility there could be new states that come on. talk about pennsylvania and michigan and minnesota. could romney have a chance in any of these other states that we he had previously thought were pretty solid for obama? he bought television in minnesota but only minneapolis tv to hit the far western counties of wisconsin. i would say that we ought to watch and see what happens this next week in michigan and pennsylvania. chris: they could come into play? they lean obama but moved from obama to lean obama if there s a national trend as it appears to be since the first debate moving in romney s direction. chris: , ten seconds. i don t think those states are really in play. i think they can sucker romney budget economy in to spend time there but i you wouldn t
our poverty programs, they re really fairly marginal as michael was saying. now when governor romney made that gaffe or whatever it was that heather mentioned what he said was i don t worry about the poor because we have a safety net. the safety net as they just mentioned is very porous and barely there. but secondly these guys whack the heck whack and sack out of the safety net. whatever holes were there, medicaid, they cut the romney budget cuts $800 billion for medicate. you are talking about the obama budget and the ryan budget as if they are actually the current law of the land. but you got to listen to what they re saying. the bottom line is ryan did a budget. he put it on the table. it has been a discussion for almost two years. that s a good thing. let s see what a romney/ryan administration actually does when they get in there and do doesn t matter what they put in the budget? look, it s a framework. i agree with that. it s a framework. yeah. i don t