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and a charmer, buy his album. every one is great. greg gutfeld, bye-bye. the day bn white house healthcare summit has more political posturing, we have fox team coverage. president obama talks to business leaders about the economy and republicans agree with what he says. toyota s chief executive talks to congress about his company s problems. and the 50th state talks about moving forward by taking a step back in time, we ll explain. all that plus the fox all-stars right here, right now. bret: welcome to washington, i m bret baier. president obama says he will use thursday s healthcare summit to seek common ground. chief washington correspondent jim angle reports others were spending today digging in for what is shaping up as an increasingly partisan/bipartisan meeting. [ chanting ] reporter: the political jockeying is well underway in advance of the healthcare summit as union and liberal activist marched on capitol hill today with supporting democratic lawmakers in an eff
history tell us you can have a marvelous first year as president or absolutely horrible first year as president. and that doesnepu determine if you ll be re-elected or defeated. reporter: hess says two things politician needs to prepare for campaign are record and ability to paint a clear picture of the opponent. for president obama, the healthcare summit may put both in shae sharper focus. at the white house, wendell goler, fox news. bret: former vice president dick cheney is out of the hospital following what doctors say was a mild heart attack monday. his office says cheney is feeling good and will resume his normal schedule shortly and he will not participate in a planned bush white house staff reunion breakfast friday. native hawaiians may soon say aloha to a new form of government. we ll explain that. and we ll update the effort to establish a real government in southern afghanistan.
secondly, it s a permanent campaign because it s so expensive. the president told abc s diane sawyer a politician s job is not to get re-elected. it s to serve the country. i would rather be a really good one-term president, than mediocre two-term president. reporter: but the trend is toward earlier campaign starts. president bill clinton announced his election in the spring after the midterm election, former president bush did the same, but informal planning for both likely began earlier. one democrat on capitol hill called the report of 102012 planning disconcerting saying, we have lots of people up in 22010. 2012 is a hell of a long ways away. they note the healthcare is consuming capitol hill and3 away. they note the healthcare is consuming capitol hill and white house and mr. obama is offering to compromise with republicans. hess says they can t count their chickens in 2012.
the white house is denying that president obama is already laying groundwork for his re-election run. if if he is, is it politic poli prudence or wishful thinking? we report, you decide. here is white house correspondent wendell goler. reporter: with a barack obama s presidency barely a year old and job approval below 50%, his 2008 campaign manager is reportedly already making plans for 2012. split toe says they ve held informal talks with senior advisors but white house officials say they re not thinking about 2012. with the magnitude of challenges facing our country now, i assure you the last thing president obama is thinking about is planning an election campaign. reporter: still, steven hess of brookings institution says early planning is natural an evolution of the permanent campaign. partly we have a permanent campaign because there is a permanent profession. permanent cadron who are interested in this full time and they re in businebusiness.