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Megyn: all right. we re going to give dick a try. dick par harpootlian, let me ask you as a democrat if you can hear me, as a democrat, do you believe this president connects with voters the way bill clinton did? well, absolutely, i believe he connects with voters the way bill clinton did. and more importantly, i think brad s whistling in the dark. [laughter] every group i ve been in before in south carolina and north carolina s been enthusiastic about this president, they re going to turn out in droves, they re excited. by the way, we ended the war in iraq this year, that took us, you know, two years to get out of what george bush started. he s had tremendous foreign policy achievements, and on the domestic front if republicans would let him pass this jobs bill, we could put a million and a half people back to work immediately. but it seems to me the republicans are more concerned about stopping this president from getting reelected than putting people back to work. ....
Landslide in election, like republicans had in 2006 where the secretary had to change the secretary of defense as a result of the unhappiness with policies in iraq. if you have a landslide election in november, the president always has to find a sacrificial lam or two. the way in which he deflects the loss from him and i wouldn t be surprised if it was an advisor on the economy on a way to say it s not me. we will have a change. if the election is really a landslide, he will have to change. it s not something he would even hint at today before an election. bret: final word on this, judith. you think democrats, even moderate democrats would be encouraged by today s town hall? i think so. he definitely reiterated the themes they think will carry them through november. i think they are anticipating losses. how big will the losses be? it s whistling in the dark. ....
Landslide in election, like republicans had in 2006 where the secretary had to change the secretary of defense as a result of the unhappiness with policies in iraq. if you have a landslide election in november, the president always has to find a sacrificial lam or two. the way in which he deflects the loss from him and i wouldn t be surprised if it was an advisor on the economy on a way to say it s not me. we will have a change. if the election is really a landslide, he will have to change. it s not something he would even hint at today before an election. bret: final word on this, judith. you think democrats, even moderate democrats would be encouraged by today s town hall? i think so. he definitely reiterated the themes they think will carry them through november. i think they are anticipating losses. how big will the losses be? it s whistling in the dark. ....
I don t think it s kenneth meek or marco rubio. i think it s charlie crist. and rubio has, by becoming a champion of the right, put himself out as a very, very conservative candidate, and that s why he s held at cpac and that s why he s a tea party candidate. and they don t win in florida usually. but florida is a massive state with tons of media markets. and it is you know, they went for obama last time. so in general elections, you don t know. and primaries, very conservative. i don t listen. if anybody tells you they know who s going to win that race, if charlie jumps in as an independent, they re whistling in the dark. which is why charlie, willie, should consider politically running as an independent. sounds like he s going to. mike, i want to ask you about goldman sachs. they ve chosen an interesting attorney to help them navigate these latest fraud charges. tell us about it. ....
Harder for him to do exactly that? it seems to me that now he s going to have to be tougher than ever on russia and on putin in order to sort of stiff and those, so to speak. good question, martha. maybe it made it a little tougher but i think it still matters more what he does. one other thing i would mention, and this came up in the press conference, they talked about gas and oil and we know that russia is basically a gas station, an economy with one product and putin said it s very important that those prices don t plummet. why s it so important? if they plummet, russia is out of business. if we start exporting natural gas at a great rate, which we are beginning to do, that is a very tough measure and it will be hard for the president to do that and for american industry to do that and i suspect he will. i think putin is whistling in the dark hoping that maybe that nice talk will carry over into ....