time for hits and misses of the week. collin, first to you. this is a hit to houston, texas, which has proven itself to be a job creating juggernaut. houston was the first of the top ten metro areas to get back all the jobs it lost in the recession and now the bureau of labor statistics says it s gotten back 230% of the jobs it lost compared to 49% in chicago, 43% in los angeles. the reason is it s really business friendly policies, which made a lot of people want to move there. i think other cities could take their pointers from houston. all right. collin. jason? several members of congress recently sent a letter to the owner of the washington redskins and the commissioner of the nfl urging them to change the team s name, which they find derogatory and offensive. my first response to this was, doesn t congress have better things to do than spend time on this? then after a minute, i said, maybe this is what i want them spending their time on, this and steroids and baseball and
right now. it s not getting better. i don t think it can get particularly worse. but he wanted to get better so he could take back the house, gain those 17 seats in the house, push his agenda in the congress and congress has is becoming to a great extent, alienated from this white house. republicans are complaining after the charm offensive, they haven t heard from him. we re getting a flat line presidency. it may not be so good for him. it s probably not really great for the country either at five months in to have a presidency flat lining. paul: so far, only one poll shows he s down. the rest show him sticking at 50 or above in his approval rating. we will watch that carefully. still ahead, new national education standards have some conservatives seeing red. former new york city schools chancellor joe klein tells us why he s behind the common core next plan for small business lets you connect up to 25 devices on one easy to manage plan. that means your smartphone, her blackberry, h
the press corps won t care because it s fox news. because ultimately it will come out because they re obliged to explain this to the press within 90 days. the fact there was a controversy the administration says we did tell them after 90 days, not two years later, which is what we finally found out. they might well have. you recall this was 2010. in 2010, fox and the white house were in a real battle. there was a lot of tension between the two of them. i think unless they might have indeed unless the a.p. subpoenas had not created this synergy between these two things. together, the press is pretty upset. so this thing is operating at several levels. you got the press upset here. you got the republicans thinking to perhaps tag the administration with these scandals. then there is the legal issue of whether eric holder lied or didn t lie to congress of the that s going to be the most paul: what do you think on that point, the truthfulness to congress? i think he was untruthful
time spent screwing up our health care system. so a hit for congress. all right. dan? when pope francis chris was elevated to the papacy, some hoped they would do a more aggressive job of defending the church s interest. the u.n. human rights council in geneva this week, the representative of the vatican sternly condemned the murder of christians in the middle east and africa and it is an excellent sign if the pope is going to raise the visibility of this awful persecution. jason, i m afraid that i think that congress has the ability to multi task, do many things that bad at the same time. usually does. remember, if you have your own hit or miss, please send it to us. be sure to follow us on twitter. that s it for this week s show. thanks to my panel and to all of you for watching. i m paul gigot. hope to see you right here next week.
try 9/11 conspirators in new york and fast and furious and now you have this. the question and the big problem eric holder faces is on the democratic side. there are lots of democrats i talked to who are very unhappy with the way the justice department has handled these leak investigations. they re hold tlg fire. no democrat is coming out and saying eric holder should resign as have republicans. once you start hearing top democrats questioning the justice department, that s going to really affect eric holder s standing with congress. what we need to be looking at is how democrats continue to react. could have a big problem there if it continues to escalate. thanks very much. let s continue the conversation right now with george washington university law professor jonathan turley. also our cnn senior analyst