material impact on our standing in the world. the president didn t agree with these strategies, reversed them, and things have gotten better. this is just what presidents do. they explain what they ve done in office and what they plan to do next. i mean, it s like what s he supposed to do, not talk about what he s done for the last four years? megyn: do you feel uncomfortable at all with there s a new confidence in our leadership, says the leader of the free world? i think that s manifestly true and a fact. and so i m totally comfortable with it because i think it s true. [laughter] just to build on what marc said megyn: i can t let you build, they re giving me the hard wrap. thank you both so much. thank you. megyn: we ll do it all over next week with the center-left simon and marc thiessen. well, the man who helped bring osama bin laden to justice convicted of high treason in pakistan, and apparently there s nothing our government can do about it. just ahead, how did this hap
delivering what was, essentially, a campaign address at a military academy. let me read you some of the things he said. when he took office, al-qaeda was entrench inside their safe havens, many question whether the united states had the capacity for global leadership. i mean, he used them as a prop to attack the commander in chief stood before men and women he was about to send into war, send in to risk their lives, he used them as a prop to attack his predecessor. what are the values we should be instilling in these young people? what is the message that sends? we should with telling them that america backs them no matter what party is in office, they should be above politics, we should respect the office of commander in chief, and obama uses them to attack the previous commander in chief, and it was really unseemly, and i was embarrassed for him. megyn: you know, marc, he says specifically there s a new feeling about america around the world, there is a new confidence in our leadersh
humility? oh, absolutely well, that s never been a megyn: i m sorry, that was for simon. my apologies. megyn, didn t we cover that last week? no, so anyway, marc, i feel bad for mcbecause he s shocked every week about something the president s done, and i think on this you re right, i shouldn t be shocked. marc, come on. clearly, what the president was saying was based on fact, right? this is not a question of opinion, it s no, it s not! there has been tremendous progress made under this administration. the world is substantially safer than when he took office. america is better regarded. george bush was not only the most unpopular president domestically when he was president that we ve had in the last 50 years, but he s the most unpopular global president around the world that america s ever had. and the point is the feeling towards the united states is material in the way that we can build alliances and get things done in the world. this president, let s go quick,
democracy in the middle east, egypt voting yesterday, al-qaeda s on the run, right? there has been tremendous progress made in basic, some of the most daunting challenges that we face in the world today. i m proud of my president. i think it was a very patriotic speech. megyn: you speak to that, marc, those comments. around the world the united states is leading once more and that there is a new confidence in our leadership. i think that s absurd. i mean, look, president obama continued bush s counterterrorism policies, and that s why we re doing well on al-qaeda. all the drone strikes, all the tools he s using megyn: he got bin laden. we led an international be coalition in iraq and afghanistan. we had more progress with nato. we just had a nato summit, not one thing on expansion of nato, so bush did more to build the alliance. think about this, megyn. imagine if four years from now president romney gave the same kind of commencement address at the air force academy. he could do
candidates are rising and falling on obama and his policies. and now you are seeing races like the one in connecticut really tightening up. you want to know why? specific to connecticut. linda mcmahon turned to him in the debate last week and said how do you create a job? dick blumenthal could not answer that question. he stumbled around for two minutes without being able to ain t most basic question. you got thiessen narrows where you show tna and have these smiley suggestive scenes in a world wrestling federation. come on, alan. she created a highly successful business. bill: she employed a lot of people. you may not like it. that s family values. bill: there you go. barack and a hard place. next on the run down, a story that may make you angry. the general electric corporation received 25 million in federal stimulus money but let thousands of workers go. charles krauthammer taking a look. later, former secretary of state condoleezza rice will be here. is the world more dan