he rebutted clint eastwood did the empty chair and said it s an old comedy return. bob newhart and others have used it over the years, but it s a comedy routine. that s the gag. and it was funny and well received in the hall, but the white house took great offense to it and said this chair s already filled and tweeted out a picture of the president in the chair. i thought, why engage? it was a comedy can routine by an actor to lighten up the room down here in tampa. why put the president in there? and also clint eastwood, people love clint eastwood. he s one of the most venerated americans. the guy made unforgiven, for goodness sakes. he is a well-loved character. i don t know that if i was the president i d want to be in a spitting match with him. alisyn: and we just showed that tweet that the president s twitter account sent out. all right, chris stirewalt, thanks so much for coming in. you bet. alisyn: all right. as we ve been talking about, hollywood icon clint eastwood has c
staffers who tried to core grate of so carefully. let s talk about how mitt romney can cam tappize on this mow d and capitalize on this momentum. the democratic national convention in charlotte. it will be interesting to watch what their message is going to be and how they are going to present president obama. if you are the democrats at this moment, i don t envoy them because they have a tough task. they have to convince americans to re-elect someone who has a disastrous record. he can t run on the economy. his own pollsters are telling him you can t convince people there is a recovery here because there isn t. we ll have another unemployment report which will be interesting to look at. they will run my prediction is a very negative campaign focused on narrow things like free government mandated birth control and student loans and how awful mitt romney is. i think the romney campaign what
bulges were noticed, there were fears it could collapse. if it did, it would release a 17-foot wave down towards louisiana, we re about 50 miles north of new orleans. that water would flow down the river, so there s real concern here about what it would do to people who live along that river. louisiana governor bobby jindal ordered an evacuation thursday of up to 60,000 people. they were given 90 minutes pretty much to leave, but right now efforts really working around the clock today as well. they re going to try and lower the levels here to prevent that dam, which has already been damaged, from corrupting and breaking up completely. back to you. alisyn: all right. steve harrigan, thanks so much for the update. americans are facing a surge in gas prices just in time for labor day weekend road trips. here s a lmp prices nationwide. residents of the states shown here are paying up to $3.80 for a gallon of regular gas. people living in these states face $3.92, and these unlucky
watermelon. i mean you are green on the outside like s solyndra, green taxpayer money and socialist red on the inside. it s odd that you would say watermelon. these days every word is said to be some kind of slur. there are fewer americans listen to me, alan, there are fewer americans working today than the day barack obama took the oath of office. he slowed the drop in jobs. this week 357,000 new americans filed for unemployment. alisyn: alan, is there a statute of limitations on how long a president can invoke or blame his predecessor? i don t buy the belief in the first place he s blaming bush. he s running a reelection campaign. he unlike mitt romney has actual policy ideas. we have known we lived with this president for four years. we know what his ideas are.
over the legality of a law that gave military families extra time, extra days to vote. well, now it appears a judge has issued a preliminary injunction in favor of that lawsuit temporarily saying that all voters will be afforded the option of casting their ballots in person during the three days leading up to election day. have you ever used the expression going dutch, or talked about holding down the fort ? then you had better pay attention to this new advice from that state department bureaucrat. you may be insulting your friends and colleagues with racially insensitive and/or sexist remarks without even knowing it. trace gallagher has more. reporter: according to the chief diversity officer, the man you just saw, john robinson, americans are pretty much offending each other every day without even knowing it. you mentioned the phrase hold down the fort?