jon: i m there. jenna: angela seems like a pretty good boss. jon: looks like it. i ll get my resume in. that cargo plane bomb scare highlights airport security and screening, but are the workers who operate the screeners really trained to do the job? we ll get you a full report on that just ahead. jenna: keep the questions coming for the tea party panel. the next hour we have so many great ones already. jon was just about to leave to start his new job, but before that you have the panel to do jon and everybody has to get ho pb and chat with us. there are great questions ahead for some of our great guests. jon: three tea party leaders of the movement will be here. you can link to the live chat on our foxnews.com home page. go to our show page you can get us on our blog, email, twitter, foxnews.com/ happening now. naturally colorful vegetables are often a good source of vitamins, fiber, or minerals. and who brings you more natural colors than campbell s condensed soups? campbell s.® it
miller tabak. jon, over to you. jon: jenna, a lots of questions coming in from the newsroom. let s bring in our town hall panel. kirsten powers, columnist for the new york post. . ron bojnean served as communications director to former house speaker denny hastert and senior advisor to former senate majority leader trent lott. john lord, the for the daily caller. get s get to our questions. ron, interesting one from eric johnson about the whole process as it happens now. he wants to know many newly-elected representatives or senators have no experience in national government. how do they learn the ropes? from experienced legislators, aides or workshops? that is really great question. what they have is freshman orientation. that takes place during the lame-duck session which i believe is begins november 15th. they will come to washington and like being a freshman in high school, they will be a freshman in congress.
a lot of questions coming into our newsroom from viewers. let s bring in our town hall panel now. bob beckel is a professor of advanced political studies at george washington university. larry sabato is directer of the university of virginia s center for politics, and peter maw race si was chief economist at the u.s. international trade commission, now a business professor at the university of of maryland. welcome to each of you. bob, a question for you, and i ve lost the name of the viewer who sent it in, but we appreciate that viewer for doing so. the question is, how can president obama go to ohio 11 times as he has since becoming president and not visit the southern border once? could we go back to a lindsay lohan question? [laughter] jon: no, bob, i m sorry. we brought you in to answer the tough ones. look, i think, frankly, right now ohio is more important to obama s political future than the southern border is. i mean, i don t want to be blunt
foxnews.com/happening now. and, you can weigh in with our all-star town hall panel. clinton campaign manager howard wolfson and romney campaign manager kevin madden join us, you want to hear about taxes, midterms or maybe what happens after the mid terse, we ll talk about that and midterms and we ll hear from a juror in a well-known death penalty case about what it is like to decide something like the home invasion conviction in connecticut. what should happen to the convicted? and we look at governor s races across the country, two weeks from today, why state races are so important this time around. see you in less than 18 minutes. martha: german chancellor angela merkel rocking international headlines this morning. after saying that the notion people from different backgrounds can live or work together happily, just does not work, in her country of germany. here s a quote, she says he kidded ourselves for a while and
people would ask, it s america asking and a whole lot of fun, back to you guys. jon: we ll be answering those questions with our panel in just a bit. harris, thank you. jenna: and what we wanted to do with this town hall. we have less than three weeks to go to election today. we want to know what questions you want answered before you go to the polls. every day until november 2nd we ll take your questions to some of the brightest political minds. and we appreciate your comments. you can email us directly, chat with us live at america s asking tab right there. there is even a twitter account if you want to use that. this is all in an effort to provide you the best perspective so you can be the most informed voter you want to be come november 2nd. let s bring in our town hall panel today. charlie hurt is the washington bureau chief for the new york post. nancy is a former senior adviser for john mccain. doug shoone is a fox news