trying to protect his flank on the right, trying to join this filibuster. ted cruz, rand paul leading the charge here. from folks i ve talked to on the hill especially on the house gop side it is a very long reach for them to accept any type of gun control. boehner can kill it very easily by just putting it to the side. democrats will be upset. they ll be yelling for it for a few weeks and can count on sort of running out the clock. then if immigration comes to the forefront we won t even remember gun control in the house gop. no. and john boehner is going to, if he is going to buck the hasert rule basically republicans are handing the president an easy political victory. he doesn t have to get anything passed and he wins. i don t get it. even with the idea immigration is going to somehow eclipse the gun debate is just a boneheaded position to take. i don t understand the idea of positioning the party, positioning the leadership against an issue that is a 90%
interested in running out the clock, changing the subject, or drowning out the majority of the american people to prevent any of these reforms from happening at all. they re doing everything they can to make all our progress collapse under the weight of fear and frustration or their assumption is people will just forget about it. i read an article in the news just the other day wondering, has washington missed its opportunity because as time goes on after newtown somehow people start moving on and forgetting. let me tell you. when people hear they don t forget. grace s dad is not forgetting. adida s mom hasn t forgotten. the notion that two months or three months after something as horrific as what happened in
running out the clock until after election day by refusing to comment on the libya attack. they insist that s not the case. the administration has released information as it became available and beyond that, the obama campaign insists the president has no reason to withhold informs and refused to provide security where it s needed. this president is 100% committed to the people of the he sends overseas personally to represent this country. he is the one who met the coffin when is they came home. any suggestion we would not take the necessary steps to protect them makes a decision not to take the steps to protect them is just nonsense. as we move toward a new investigation, this remains a hot political issue. that says it right now, steve. that s for sure. ambassador john bolton is here, the former ambassador to the u.n., quite a roundup that steve provided for us. how do we get answers here?
romney said bill clintons it plan would hurt the economy and kill jobs. sounds familiar, doesn t it? now, poll puts the race for new hampshire foss four elect yoel are votes dead even. mitt romney closed the gap some what in ohio. the president only a two-point lead there. that is progress for mitt romney but the obama campaign counting on running out the clock. jenna? something to watch for today especially in new hampshire. thank you very much. john roberts is is traveling with the romney campaign. what is going on there? hey, jon, good afternoon. just getting the warm-up going for governor romney s appearance just outside of cleveland just by the airport, as a matter of fact. this is so, so, so important
romney, he just waseven looking disengaged and so rather than playing it safe and running out the clock, he actually did harm to himself. bret: altitude? i think it was altitude, yeah. bret: charles? they re playing mumble in my answers because i was on an airplane today. i m recovering from altitude. look, people say, obama was off his game. this is his game. you take away a prompter, this is his game. he ll occasionally give a great speech, but if you look at him in his news conferences, which you don t have a prompter and the president has more control, he gets to decide who the questioner is and how long he talks, and what parts of an answer he ll give, he never does well. so this is who he is. i think people he s intelligent, but he isn t half as intelligent as he thinks he is and as most of his acolytes who have treated him in a messianic way for a half decade or so think he is.