thing. i m sure the chinese who probably got a translation probably got some kind of a code. reporter: the chinese are trying to figure out when the national security adviser walks over and says, mr. president the mice are feet down. they are probably like what does that mean. megyn: that is going to catch on i think. thank you. breaking news from the middle east, israel is trying to send a threatening message to iran. a showdown that could get dangerous very quickly. new calls today for the attorney general to resign. up next the latest discoveries in the gun trafficking scandal causing big problems for mr. holder. a pregnant mother and military vet separated from her child and tossed into the slammer all because she forgot to pay for a sandwich in the check out line? a story getting national attention. rérésékérékékéréúékék>
remember the one word president obama used to define his campaign for the white house with? remember this? we are choosing hope over fear. [applause] we are choosing unin a tee over division and send ago powerful message that change is coming to america. it s been a longtime coming, but tonight because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to america. now if one voice can change the room, it can change a city. and if it can change a city, then it can change a state. and if it can change a state it can change a country. and if it can change a country it can change the world. megyn: now it seems that message is changing, as he campaigns for a second term. sometimes the pays of change
condoleezzaa rice was with president bush at a summit in china they are at the summit, during a secure video conference the vice president comes on with an urgent message and he says they have detected botch list eupl in the white house and those exposed were going to die. listen to condi rise. i remember everybody just sort of freezing and the president saying, what was that? what was that. reporter: the president tells condoleezzaa rice to find out what is going on. her deputy is steven had lee who apparently had kind of a dry sense of humor. and had lee tells condoleezzaa rice, let me put it this way, if the test come back and the mice are feet up we re toast, if the feet are down we re fine. we did not know the results of those tests. about noon that day at a lunch in china i got to him on the phone, he says the nice are feet down. i went back to the president and said, the mice are feet down. the president said that is good
monica. and tone. a couple of months ago he went on the daily show with jon stewart. and jon stewart who is a big supporter of president obama said what happened to change we could believe in. president obama responded it s change we could believe in but and he went onto say. it became a tag line, change we could believe in but. in 2008 he had a very resonant message of hope and change. he was positioning himself as the transcendent guy who was going to sit above all of it and change the way washington and the country worked. none of that has come to pass. in fact his economic policies did take a bad situation and made it worse. so he s got a very difficult time because what i think his huge challenge is, even more so than the economic news, which continues to be very bad for the united states, his challenge, megyn, is that he built his whole brand, the obama brand, on the up lifting message of optimism, hope and change, change you can believe in. so now to turn around, and he can t
more, so now what he has to do is do sort of the fear and loathing message, and a scorched earth campaign against whoever the republicans put up, and that is so jarring to the 2008 brand. megyn: there is no question the message has changed. separate and apart from his economic policies, does this affect him? because there was a ground swell of, maybe this guy is different. you know, maybe he will bring a new kind of politics to washington. and even just hearing his own shift in tone it sort of leads to you believe his shoulders are a little lower, even he feels dejected by what he s seen since he s got even there. megyn you re absolutely right. there has been a shift in his tone and message and the president has to face the fact and this is what he s doing. the reality is the economy is getting better. we were losing 750,000 jobs a month when he took office. last month we added 103,000. so it s getting better. for those not touched by the progress they are suffering.