dead heat race between her and trump. it will be that way in november. eric: couple new polls, pretty astounding, ed, basically dead heat. it is. key thing as always it is independents. can, he is, his attacks will not take any democrats away from her but certainly could soften up some independents and certainly reinforces republicans who had some question marks about trump, would he be viable candidate in the fall against someone like hillary clinton. this is a good testing ground. eric: it is on. joe and ed, happy new year. man, looking forward to a wild 2016. lea: another alleged new year s eve terror plot apparently foiled overseas. authorities even finding tools they planned to use in the attack. we ll have details on the alleged target. eric: bombshell we heard a few moments ago. prosecutors in pennsylvania charging for the first time bill cosby. we know he has been accused of all these sexual attacks? now they re trying to make a case involving one woman at a home in pennsylva
bill: rand paul releasing a video ahead of the formal announcement that will come tomorrow, tuesday. to fix washington, we can not have business as usual. congress should read every bill. [applause] congress should also live under the laws they have passed. if they won t listen we should limit all their terms and send the career politicians packing! [applause] bill: so there it is. ed rollins was ronald reagan s campaign manager in 1984. joe trippi was howard dean s campaign manager in 2004. both fox news contributors. monday with joe and ed. howly doing? i m doing fine. i hope you had a great easter weekend. rand paul what does he bring to the race? ed you start. he attracts young voters as his father did. he has great volunteer program. he is out of the mane stream a
went to jail. i think that may come back to haunt him. when you are giving advice it depends on the advice you were giving. joe and ed, a pleasure to talk to you both. good to be with you. about 11 minutes away from the next wave of runners who head out on their 26.2 miles and 11 minutes from happening now and jenna lee as a preview. we will continue your terrific coverage from boston and follow the marathon with live reports. and echoes of the cold war as we get a better idea of the policy. questions surface whether it is the race policy. and they are taking down plane seat sizes and two interesting
the question is who is the better leader and romney came off very well. and a lot of people have said in the last twelve hours or so, whenever it came back to economic issues, here s mr. romney on a balanced budget from last night. i ll get us on track to a balanced budget. the president s path will mean continuing decline in take-home pay. i want to make sure our take-home pay turns around and starts to grow. i want to make sure we get people off of food stamps not by cutting the program but by getting them good jobs. i was in a state where the legislature was 87% democrat. i learned to get along. we have to do that in washington. washington is broken. i know what it takes to get this country back and we will work with good democrats and good republicans to do that. okay. joe, how did he do on that? every time he got to the economy, that s his strong suit obviously. but look, i agree with ed, the
in the middle east and take advantage of the opportunity there and stem the tied of this violence. all right. senator d amato? he was great on that. he was absolutely great and he was right. because the president continually attacked him and made false charges. but i wish on foreign policy he would have said mr. president, you couldn t find time to meet with our most important ally in that region of the country, bb netanyahu, when he came to new york and you could do to tv shows and interviews but you couldn t meet with him? what kind of signal does that send to the arabic community? that would have been a haymaker. did he do anything to reverse the momentum, ed? that s what he needed to do because right now it s going to mit s favor. i still think it s in mit s favor. most people don t care about foreign policy because it s a crisis area the next four years. i think most people care about the economy and pitt got back on