do, he s in prison. and we need our state department to be as aggressive as theirs has been for his safety, as theirs thr-s been defending nare judicial system, which has just been a sham at this point. martha: seems like a pretty reasonable request, right? the question is why aren t they getting anywhere with all of this. fox news bill o reilly has been following this story from the very beginning. he is the host of the o reilly factor and the author of the book killing kennedy bill good morning. hey, martha. martha: what do you think of this letter, is that encouraging? where are the others? why didn t everybody in congress sign the letter. 69 of them signed them. where are the others? their hand sprained? i mean this is really, really, as i said last night on the factor, a disgusting story on a lot of different levels. number one, the president of the united states should have made a public statement saying, this is unacceptable. where is president obama? he doesn t have time
filed paperwork on the u.s. side, and then he they told him to proceed and he went to the mexican check-point and asked them what he needed to do. here is my paperwork. so for asking what you need to do he s in prison. and we need our state department to be as aggressive as theirs has been for his safety, as theirs thr-s been defending their judicial system which has just been a sh-pl at this point. martha: the u.s. consulate general in mexico says that they have been in touch with your son, that they have visited him in prison four times, that they have made phone conversations, phone calls to him in between to check on his well-being, that they are very concerned about his safety. that when they heard that he was restrained they made sure that he was not restrained. is that your understanding, that they ve taken the chain off and are looking after him? as of last wednesday. but they ve been telling us for
earnest, so well-spoken, so intelligent, he knows his facts. i mean it s going to be great for people to really a chance to get to know him. martha: if time you ll be able to yell at the tv screen while you re watching. you won t have to be quite as a church mouse in the front row. sitting on my hands. martha: thr-s romney than mrs. romney thank you for coming in. thank you. martha: they are clearly feeling good obviously about what happened. the thing she really felt the strongest about was her husband she felt got a chance to be seen the way that she sees him, that he was unfiltered that he had an opportunity. you could feel it when both of those men walked on the stage they had not been on stage together in that environment. they got to look each other in the eye and lay it out and present their best case. they want to be in the position they are in going into it but the pressure is clearly on. bill: that s the first time i heard her say that 50 minutes into the debate that i ga
and when he says easy pwof politics and only interested in what is good for the country unlike these rascily republican thr-s are a lot of folks who tend to believe him. if it turns out that the president helped a connected donor get a big loan that otherwise he shouldn t of that would be a disaster for the president s credibility on that discussion. megyn: hence the distance that jay carney wants to put between this scandal and the president. chris stirewalt thank you, sir. i want to tell our viewers the house is holding hearings on this right now. one of the things that they are focused on is the taxpayers gave this company $535 million but then private investors came in when the company continued to struggle and it looked like the money was not going to be a great investment. private investors came in with another 70 million or so and the private investors took priority over us. now that the company is bankrupt they are in line before we are to get whatever money solyndra has. the