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many voters are skeptical of health care reform and worried about federal spending. it s a recipe for democratic disaster in the midterms. what s a president to do? betweenow and november what i m going to remind the american people of is that the policies that we have put in place have moved us in the right direction. and the policies that the now are the exact policies that got us into this mess. but a n quinnipiac poll finds 60% of registered voters disapprove of the way congressional democrats are handling their jobs. still house majority leader steny hoyer has his game face on. our candidates are energized and not hanging their tails between their legs. they are confident. perhaps in some part because the same polling shows 59% of americans also disapprove of the way congressional republicans are doing their jobs.a co a conversation with congressman hoyer when we come back.
attacked, the answer is they have also seen in the last year the christmas day attempt, the times square attempt, zazi najibullah in new york on the a subways. and so i think people have a sense this may actually happen despite all the efforts and all the money we ve spent. this is a very determined enemy. and i think that s par.t of what s reflected in the poll. exactly. ist it justhat? we are talking about homegrown. so i think there was this sense, at least before the attacks in britain from british nationa, that, well, we re the land of the free, people lovbeing here, our citizens wouldn t turn on us. guess what? some of the scariest attempts have been the enemy within. we have to put it in perspective, though. although there has been an uptick in the number of whate would call homegrown cases, as an absolute percentage of the population here and even of the muslim population, it s very, very small. but we are a lge country and even a very small number of people, small percenta
least was inspiring to the christmas day bomber sorry, to the times square bomber and had also had ties with the christmas day plane hijacker? well, there s no doubt about the fact that symbolically bin laden is still in a class by himself. but i do think you make an important point. over the years we have eliminated or incapacited the operational leaders, and now, of course, we see replacement leaders coming up. taking out that level of leadership is a critical part of the strategy because they are the most experienced planners, they are the people who have the ability to put together the schemes and train and launch the attacks. so while we d all like to get bin laden,he fact is getting these operational leaders is a critical part of success. and al awlaki is on the internet. i mean, he s e-mailing people back and forth. why is this so difficult? he s on a list, apparently, that we want to go get him and yet
he s kind of, it seems to me, hiding in plain sighin some ways. that s right. s and that been true for years. al awlaki has been a target of the s. government over the last nine years, but he s smart. remember, when we take effective operational acti, most of those people were in unsettled areas.ay when you say hiding in plain sight in the middle of a city makes it much more operationally difficult. when you talk about bin laden, i d only add it s more than symbolic to me. he s used for recruitment, training, fund-raising and quite frankly the american people have a right to retribution. let s remember there were 3,000 americankilled, and there is really important sort of moral calculus here. i think both will remain at theo top of the target list. al awlaki, would you concede, is more dangerous at this point if you take away the symbolism, seems more dangerous, a more immediate threat than bin laden seems to be? well, he s certainly an active reciter and particularly his use of