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Perilously close. barack obama is a personal friend of mine. he became my friend in the senate. but that does not mean i agree in any way with what hes doing or how hes doing it. i, quite frankly, think hes in a difficult position. hes put himself in it. and if he continues, i think were going to have another constitutional crisis in our country in terms of the presidency. >> is this latest iteration of the obama derangement syndrome as chris calls it? rick tyler is with the strategy group for m...

Should never have offered the impeachment conversation. is this the way its going to be till this presidency is over? >> i sure hope not. barack obama will be the president for the next three years. we need to get over it. we need to have an alternative vision so we can capture the majority in the senate, add more republicans to the house. youre only going to do that with a big broad vision that is articulated in a way that people allow do you did. until you do that, an anti-obama even calling i...

I do think the debt limit will be increased, though 70% of americans oppose it for good reason. not because we will fall in default, a scare tactic, but the dislocation that will be caused in the market. what needs to happen, when the debt limit is increased, serious spending cuts are done as part of it. more importantly, some type of mechanism to hold spending down in the future. a provision put in place to focus on spending, not deficit. along the line along what senator corker proposed. >> ja...

Markets in an absolutely downward spiral. thats why -- [ inaudible ] if i were the republican, id say cmon, im a budget nerd. thats where i started. it works. it was a bipartisan mechanism. we have done this before. we can do it again. >> jamie: let robert weigh in. equal time. robert? >> thanks. the interesting piece is if it doesnt pass, it wont pass because of a republican vote in the house of representatives. it will be contrary to the republican leadership articulated that they want it to p...

Shouldnt he comment on this? >> i think it would be good for the attorney general to talk about this. >> thanks very much. robert hoops, ron, good to see you. >> s that. >> programming note, tomorrow night, sunday geraldo rivera will interview malik zula shabazz on at large, right here on the fox news challenge. >> that ought to be interesting. new developments in the disappearance of that little oregon boy. local media reports out of portland saying police are tracing the timeline of kyrons ste...

Evidence that any voters were too scared to vote. >> we have it on tape. [ talking over each other ] >> wait a minute, those are not -- im sorry, you asked me to come on. those words are not mine. those belong to abigail thurston the republican member of the u.s. commission on civil rights. look, the commence sense standard on this, totally inappropriate. totally bad behavior, should not do it. the legal standard on this, lawyers can disagree, these lawyers, this republican member, they agreed w...

Memo in which a lawyer writes the following: nowhere do i see that we can show that either the party or malik shabazz suggested, counseled or endorsed the bringing or brandishing of weapons. robert, that is not true because shabazz went on national television immediately after the election and defended the actions thus an enforcement right there. at the very least -- >> after the fact. >> isnt that pretty strong evidence that you were encouraging and endorsing before the fact? >> look, the justi...

It. im asking whether you agree with the sentiment? >> no maam, i dont. >> just to be clear they were talking about the guy with a night stick who went on a rant in another location saying kill all crackers, kill their babies, meaning white people and their babies. joining us these two gentlemen for a fair and balanced debate. former communications deck for for former speak ter dennis hastert. former senior adviser to trent lott. robert hoops joins us former adviser to then senator biden and chr...

Candidates talked about what we wanted to do, voters picked us, particularly independent voters. jon: well, there was that rather extraordinary poll that just came out, i think, from rasmussen, robert, that said something like 61% of americans dont feel that the government is actually governing with their consent. that has to suggest that theres a real throw the bums out mentality underway among the voters right now. >> oh, theres no question about it, and as david just noted, change is good. ch...

The people need to see our commitment to enact a reform agenda. [applause] jon: robert hoops was an adviser to senator joe biden before he became vice president. also an adviser to chris dodd, the senator from connecticut. david is executive directer of gopac. robert, take on that question we just heard from eric cantor. he says, im sorry, the country is fed up with democrats. is it? >> i think the country is definitely fed up with washington. theres no question about that. and theyre fed up wit...