counties even meet the federal government s recommended standard for number of doctors. what s more, almost 30% of california s doctors close to retirement age and that has some suggesting that the state expand the definition of doctor to allow nurse practitioners, pharmacists and optometrists to act as primary care physicians. let s debate this. a syndicated radio talk show host and fox news contributor, and welcome to the show both of you. hi, good morning. chris, are you comfortable with your pharmacist giving you your full exam next time you go into cvs? this is just classic big government tripping all over itself to try to correct their last error, isn t it? now we ve got what, the cuban model, venezuelan model for medicine in america. no, no i am he not. no, i like going to a doctor. that s the way that i grew up, call me a spoiled american, but california once again, the condor in the coal mine is leading the way.
well, there s an eye-opening report out this week about the growing number of americans who are getting federally-funded disability payments. for many years disability insurance was a small but relatively inexpensive program, but the ratio of disability cases to new jobs has exploded during the sluggish recovery from the recession and even over the last decade or so. between january 2010 and december of 2011, so about a two-year period, there were a reported 1,730,000 new jobs added, 1,730,000. while 790,000 new people started collecting disability. in a program now running more than $130 billion. total to the taxpayer. leslie marshall is a syndicated radio talk show host, and chris plant is the host of the chris plant show. welcome. so even before these past two years, between 96 and 2001, private sector generated 8.8 million in new jobs according to
megyn: a growing debate emerging on the campaign trail about america s standing in the world. take a listen to what president obama said to a group on this yesterday. because we re leading around the world, people have a new attitude toward america. there s more confidence in our leadership. we see it everywhere we go. megyn: well, the mitt romney campaign fired back suggesting that the president actually, quote, has diminished our moral authority around the globe and it went on from there. joining me now to discuss it, leslie marshall, a syndicated radio talk show host, fox news contributor, lars larsen syndicated radio talk show host with compass networks. barack obama says our standing in the world has improved thanks to our current leadership and mitt romney, this is all mitt romney is about to embark on this, you know, foreign policy extravaganza
you saw there, jay carney, insisted that republicans were to blame for killing this project, and that s not all. listen to what he said. the president didn t turn down the keystone pipeline. there was a process in place long, with long precedent run out of the state department because of the issue of a pipeline crossing an international boundary. megyn: so it wasn t the president. but now there are reports that the president himself is personally lobbying senate democrats now to reject a new amendment that calls for the construction of this pipeline irrespective of what the president says. we expect that vote to happen later today. joining me now to discuss it, leslie marshall, she s a syndicated radio talk show host, and lars larsen, also a syndicated radio host with compass media networks. so jay carney was trying to say the president only said no to the pipeline when he said no because he was being forced to give a decision prematurely. he didn t want to issue a decision until mor
raged across that country, some afghans even turning on the very u.s. troops working alongside of them. charles krauthammer now among those asking whether president obama s apology did more harm than good. i think what s happened over the last few days is definitive evidence of how ineffective the apology has been. if i thought the apology would save one american life, i d swallow hard and say it s all right for the president to go ahead and do it, but he did do it, and it did not soothe the savage mob. in fact, it intensified the violence. megyn: joining we now, leslie marshall, a syndicated radio talk show host, and lars larsen, host with compass be media networks. thank you both so much for being here. we re hearing more and more of this, and it s not just charles krauthammer. many are starting to say, a, he shouldn t apologize in the first place, but b, it s made things worse because it s made us look