tumbling down after that. edwards, of course, accused of using campaign money to try to cover this whole messy thing up back in 2010. young said he helped him to do just that. elizabeth was tracking his cell phone use because she had known about previous affairs. she tracked his cell phone use, so he started using my cell phone to make and receive phone calls from rielle. martha: ugly, right? so the trial is a fall from grace to be sure. look at that, back in 2004. this is a man who could have been vice president of the united states. there he was with john kerry in a huge victorious moment for them. rich lowry s new column says that edwards, though, may have been, quote, slimey, but he s not a criminal. let s talk about it. rich lowry, editor of the national review and fox news crib to, alan coomes is host of the alan coomes radio show. good to have you here. rich, interesting piece which basically says you don t think that he could be convicted of anything, but
it just goes on there, this, as well as two other towns that border turkey. we understand that president bashar assad s regime will hold talks with turkey s prime minister. two were killed last night but at least 10,000 people are believed to have lost their lives in syria s five-month-old uprising. bill: about 15 minutes before the hour now. it was three days since the downgrade when president obama talked about it publicly for the first time monday. what about the pep talk, did it work? the markets as you see on the screen taking a steady plunge after his comments were complete. rich lowry, national review editor, fox news crib to, mary ann marsh, former adviser to senator john kerry and democratic strategist. how are you two doing! you guys were all over it
bill: it was back in february of 09, the president telling nbc s matt lauer the economy was his to fix, quote f. i don t have this one in three years, there s going to be a one term proposition. that was then, now two years later the issue is back in another nbc interview: have you ever thought to yourself that maybe one term was enough? [laughter] well, i m sure there are days where i say that one term is enough. what keeps me going is a belief that the work that we started in 2009 is not yet complete. bill: meanwhile, dallas latest polling shows 44 percent of those asked say they d vote for a republican candidate over president obama. some head winds here but a terrific panel now, kirsten powers, new york post khr upl nis, fox news crib to, and karen hennrity, the
that man in question violated any sex offender laws. wilmington, ohio. we re going to have some days where things aren t going as well as we d like, there are going to be some sometimes where we re surprised with better economic data than we expected, we are on the path of a recovery, but it s got to accelerate. alisyn: the economy has to accelerate like a lam bore eni or we re in trouble, that s the conclusion of many economists. president obama downplaying the series of negative reports out last week, but veteran politico s say his next term hinges on how he handles the economy now. bob beckel worked in the quarter white house, a fox news crib to, andrea tan tantaros works for the daily news, also a fox news contributor. andrea, let me start with you, there s an op-ed in the wall street journal in which the economist argues that the economy is much worse than we ve been led to believe. how do you think the president is tackling that?
martha: that looks like the deal that republicans are willing to propose, they have a plan that will cut $5 billion from this year s budget. here s white house chief of staff bill daley. we saw that clip moments ago. let s hear the whole thing now. the old saying where s the beef, let s see exactly the cuts they re talking about and see whether the american people believe that those such cuts, albeit we all agree there must be cuts to this government, and again, you re going to see this president lay out a very substantial cut already, the freeze, that amounts to $400 billion over ten years. martha: all righty. bob beckel is with me in the studio, he worked in president carter s white house, also a fox news crib to, kevin madden is former national press secretary to mitt romney s presidential campaign. gentlemen, welcome, good to be here with you in d.c. this morning. a lot of talk about billions of dollars, this republican proposal, 55 billion t sounds, bob, that what we re hearing