the whole agenda. growing the economy isn t just about cutting spending, it s not about rolling back regulations to protect our air and water and keep our people safe, that s not how we are going to get past this recession. we are going to have to do more than that. and that s why when congress gets back from recess i will urge them to immediately take some steps, bi-partisan, common-sense steps. shannon: all right, let s talk about it with leslie marshal, syndicated radio talk show host and fox news contributor. also lars larsen syndicated radio host as well. i feel like i should ding a bell before we get started on this. leslie i m going to let you take the first by the at this apple. is it a campaign speech and if it was is it wrong for the president to be doing that? i wouldn t think it would be wrong for him to do that. i didn t hear any campaigning. i heard the president basically saying, okay, here is the next order of business. here is what we re going to do when congress get
this program. and joining me is michael smerconish, syndicated radio talk show host, and so many people feel this is singling out fliers. well, it is not singling anybody out, because of your caricature, but everybody is going to be scrutinized. we are going to use the hairy eyeball test, and you can size up people and see if they are acting with a nervous tick or some other outward expression, and i flew in tel aviv, and the israelis know how to do it, because we look for bombs, and they look for bombers, and this is a page out of their page. and since you have flown on el al, what is happening in this situation is far cry from what is happening in other foreign airports. i don t know if americans would stand for on a day today
slaughter of new york a democrat wants to police the political language being used on the air r wave. is this necessary. jonah goldberg is a fox news contributor and nancy skinner is a syndicated radio talk show host. all right panel we are seeing it from both sides of the aisles. got to crackdown on the guns, the language people are using, the ability to get near a federal official if you have a firearm on you, now some are talking about building a plastic pen around the house of congress much as you d see in an nhl game so people can t throw things down upon the lawmakers, which to my knowledge has not been a problem, yet they are a little, understandably skittish right now, nancy. does any of it make sense to you? well, because it s such a shocking tragedy, you know, everybody is looking at what we can do to prevent it. but it brings up interesting questions constitutionally. the first amendment, the second amendment and the 14th.
repeal it, it will add to the national deficit. leslie marshall is a syndicated radio talk show host, andrea tantaros is a fox news contributor. thanks so much for being with us, braving the unplowed roads, at least in andrea s case. our viewers are like, quit your whining. who cares,ing it s snow. so here s the deal, there s sort of this rule now which is paygo and anything you do legislatively needs to be paid for in the u.s. congress, and the republicans are paving the way to say, well, that doesn t apply to repealing health care even though according accordinge congressional budget office it would cost at least $143 billion, and the republicans are saying don t pay any attention to that, we don t have to justify this. and in many response to that you say what? well, i say this is hypocrisy because the gop has promised it constituents and the american people representing all of them when they go to the house and
the tax deal a moral injustice, and that is a term being used by many who say they oppose these tax cuts. that s what they call them. for the rich. so do the rich have a moral obligation, a moral obligation to pay more than they already do? michael reagan is the chairman of the reagan group, reagan.com and a political consultant, and leslie marshall is a syndicated radio talk show host and fox news contributor. michael, let me start with you on that because the argument has sort of spilled out of, okay, you know, is it good for the economy, what s it going to do for the deficit and so on to there s been sort of a shirking of one s moral responsibility by the rich in supporting this tax deal. there s no shirking of responsibility. the rich already pay more in taxes than anybody else. the poor don t pay taxes at all. the rich are talking about small businesses that create jobs, if you will, and the reality of it is if you take it away from the