lars keeps talking about and a lot of people on the right will say the president is anti-business and wants to take it robinhood versus the romneyhood. but the reality is when you continue to have bush tax breaks, credits, whatever you want to call them and you say we need those because these private sector ceos are the ones that create the wealth and invest in this country and create the jobs but they haven t. when we didn t have the binds, the shackles on business as you paint the picture that it don t believe is entirely true of the president and we saw quite frankly not in bandage during the george w. bush administration, yet we saw the unemployment rate go up after he took office and once the president took office and continued to go up temporarily. then you also have those out there saying wait a minute. you had no binds, you had the bush tax credits and you still
triple digit temperatures across the west. and the winds haven t kicked up most of these fires so you don t have the trifecta. if the winds do come it makes it that much worse. the firefighters are concerned about what they are facing the next couple months as they march on into summer and the conditions get drier. megyn: there is a major development today in the george zimmerman trayvon martin case. defense attorneys say they will not be using what some argue is their best chance to get their defendant off. president obama calling for what he termed as a return to an america in which prosperity is shared. we ll show you the fallout in just a bit. everybody is so pinched that business is bad for everybody. i think when you spread the wealth around it s good for us.
bachmann s top staffers. ed rollins, a familiar presence on the show, stepping back to what is called an advisory role citing health concerns and david pulenski is leaving the campaign entirely. the two had, quote, strategic differences on the path forward. politico saying it is unclear who will take either man s place. joining us are james carville and ari fleischer who can be reached on twitte twitter @arifleischer. james, what do you make of the shakeup? it s possible ed rollins could have health issues here. that s not outside the realm of possibility. he had some health issues before. sometimes people just say that. also the differences in campaigns happen. it would be early to call this significant. it may be but probably more to find out before i deem it as something significant yet. ari, if it is health, that s one thing. if it s not, could this also be the growing pains of a campaign? campaigns start off one way, often evolve into something else. yeah. this oft
even get back to it. it s moving probably 8, 10 miles an hour across the ground. so, you know, god help us. that s all. that s all we can do right now. [ sirens ] a whole different story in the east. remnants of tropical storm lee sweeping through the area. the storm left one person dead in mississippi, knocking out power to thousands all across the south. stocks deep in the red. the dow fell more than 250 points just after the opening bell. right now still hanging down. new concerns about europe s debt cries and the global economy weighing on investors. u.s. stocks plunged friday after a disappointing report showed no growth in jobs in august. two convoys of libyans allegedly loyal to gadhafi have fled to niger. a source says six high-ranking libyan officials were in one of those convoys. still no sign of gadhafi themselves. nato officials say it s to keep the libyan people safe an not to target the regime leaders. it s the first dahl day of the new job for general pet
claims for care never given. and a teenager is out of the hospital after ea hen az friend were struck by lightning. a third teenager is still hospitalized with serious burns. people in the northeast are bracing for severe storms as the first nor easter of the season is expected to hit later tonight. winds of up to 40 miles per hour, hail and heavy rain will will batter much of the east coast. bad weather hit d.c. and virginia with strong thunderstorms pounding the nation s capitol. we turn to samantha moore from the weather channel with more details on the storm. what s the update, samantha? it s just starting to get going, tamron, this morning and into the afternoon hours. as we head towards friday, conditions will worsen as our area of low pressure develops along the coast here. it will affect all our big east coast cities. philly into new york city as we head late into the evening. you can see the winds are picking up off the coast. the winds haven t gotten going yet. we re go