investigations into him factor into any of the thinking heading into 2024? no. dana: let s bring in kellyanne conway former senior advisor to president trump. one other sound i want to play from jill biden. it s joe s decision and we support whatever he wants to do. if he is in, we re there. if he wants to do something else, we re there, too. dana: all right. decipher. that sounds like a spouse worried that her husband is growing resistance within his own party including among independents. 64% say they want hunter biden investigated and hear words like china, ukraine, money and want to know what happened. those are countries very much in the news and very much in the crosshairs of americans positively or negatively and also what happened to the pow wow they were going to have over christmas? they were going to get together and discuss the 2024 race, that s what we were told through the reports. also i thought the first lady jill biden missed a great opportunity to
news. what we know in the fate of those four americans kidnapped in mexico across the border from brownsville, tech as. t two americans are dead, two have survived. grim news we learned just moments ago. dana: want to bring in former national security advisor robert o brien familiar with these types of situations in mexico. the news breaking today. give us your initial take. well, i used to be the hostage envoy. this is the type of news that s heartbreaking when americans are kill overseas by terrorists. i count the cartels at terrorists. our hearts go out to the families and victims. i m glad two are safe. for the two that lost their lives it is a real tragedy. dana: what about the mexican government s response on this and how do you think they will react to calls that are increasingly coming from people like former attorney general bill barr and current senator lindsey graham about designating
spending during the bush years, and now i see he hasn t done that. that s definitely right, and in the end, so, it s going to be are jobs created? do we start paying down the debt? and that s where the rubber needs to meet the road here. i think the thing about the vacation, look, when i was in howard dean s campaign we ran ads against bush having a vacation in crawford, tech as, while our troops were in iraq. that is standard fare. i think in the end what is going to hurt if you don t turn the economy around and get jobs moving here the deficit is going to people understand the debt if the economy is starting to turn, they don t understand more spending that doesn t do that. and there are ways for both parties to come together, tax credits, other things that might start creating jobs, and get the deficit down. megyn: wouldn t that be nice. let me ask you about that ad. do you think that kind of thing,
reporter: especially because he s on vacation the president is trying to be aggressive in showing he s on top of this storm. you saw what happened to president bush after katrina and what happened to his own administration after the oil spill in the gulf. they want to make sure they are ahead of this. he had an emergency management conference call with his homeland security secretary janet napolitano. there was a call with reporters after his call with the president coordinating with governors and local official on the east coast. in martha s vineyard they are preparing for the storm late sunday, the early wee hours of monday morning. the hardware stores are selling flashlights. but local officials are seeing a lot of people trying to race off