you did, though, at the beginning of the segment, martin. what do you mean by that? flaccid, flabby. having watched every moment of it, it seemed to me that what the defense were attempting to do was sell the notion of one man being perpetually weak, though he had been in a gym for a year, against a young man who they were attempting to describe as a superfit athlete that they knew nothing about. you know what? bottom line is, how much does this matter? i mean, let s say he was superweak and wussy, right? when he s down, if he s down, if the jury believes he s down and trayvon martin s on top of him and he s incapable of fighting, first of all, perhaps he shouldn t have been following trayvon martin to begin with if he s not capable of fighting and we don t know how the fight started, but, secondly, is he in reasonable fear of imminent bodily injury or death? even if trayvon martin was superior fighter, had landed a couple of punches on him, you don t get to pull out a gun and
obama above it all, as self-disciplined, as never angry, as calm and cool. joe biden isn t running those same risks. everyone knows joe biden runs hot after 30 years in national politics. so he was much, much more aggressive and much more comfortable in going on the attack. that s traditionally been the role of the vice president, but i think we saw tonight why that s the case because he s not he has less to lose. i think it does have that s true in terms of the difference between the two candidates, but it does have an overall effect. yes. one of the things you saw after the such lop-sided results in the debate last week, you saw people on the right crowing, oh, obama era liberalism is wussy and can t stand up for itself and there s something wrong with democratic politics. a if you think that democratic politics right now are lethargic, well, joe biden just blew that out of the water. i also think he did something that was very wise. that is when he got to some major deci
overall effect. yes. one of the things you saw after the such lop-sided results in the debate last week, you saw people on the right crowing, oh, obama era liberalism is wussy and can t stand up for itself and there s something wrong with democratic politics. a if you think that democratic politics right now are lethargic, well, joe biden just bl blew that out of the water. i also think he did something that was very wise. that is when he got to some major decisions, he kept saying, i was in the room when the president did so and so. i was there. so he gave a lot of credit to the president as the guy that was there. i think that it really gave a
correlation, the more that guy s wife beats him up at home, taking out the garbage and the kids are punished by taking a lap. alisyn: oh, no. peter: oh, yeah, take it out on the kids. alisyn: and blame his wife, wow. peter: i m blaming him. his wife beats him up and then he beats up the kids, wrong. alisyn: wow. peter: i think it s wrong. stop making kids do laps. can we get some order in the court. peter: make the coach is the wussy, taking it out on the kids. i m not sure the answering. clayton: let us know. alisyn: a good lawyer. and the house oversight committee scheduled to hear from our leading security official as the u.s. consulate i m sorry at the u.s. consulate in libya and investigating the deadly terrorist attack that killed four americans, including our ambassador. peter: peter doocy is live in washington with the
costs more to fill up. 12 cents in a week. about 11% so far this year. we ve never seen gas prices this high so early in the season. usually you see gas prices going up into the spring and summer driving season. never so high so early. what goes into a gallon of gas? here s the breakdown according to the way the government looks at it. 12% of the price of gasoline are the taxes that we pay. 6% goes to distribution and marketing. 6% is refining. look at that, kyra, 76% is crude oil. crude oil is a price that is set in the global market that is a lot of different head winds and cross winds and when crude oil prices, gasoline prices rise, crude oil is above $108 a barrel. mostly because of this fear factor about iran but also because of, you know, consistent global demand for energy and oil, kyra. so you ve got the demand for oil, you ve got the arab spring, you have the fact that look what s happening here in the united states with regard to the economy. all of that combine