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Ladies and gentlemen, while only 42% approve of the job mr. obama is doing, historically hes not nearly the worst off. at their lows, ronald reagan was 35% approval to 42 for obama while bill clinton hit bottom at 37% in the months just before the republicans swept away democratic control of the congress in 1994. so historically pollster doug shown joins me. both clinton and reagan recovered spectacularly. it was their congressional colleagues who paid the price. can obama recover more specifica...

Unqualified, in over her head and not vetted its sarah palin so maybe she knows of what she speaks. the fifth word in that quote complacent, say a lot of things about barack obama, hes not complacent. a smarter and sharper critique is hes trying to do too much, too fast and spend too much too fast. complacent, to give her the benefit of the doubt. im sure she has no idea what that means. im sure somebody wrote it on her hand. >> now, now. i think its pretty obvious shes having a little fun. she ...

This was nothing but a firecracker. and keep in mind, iran would love to take an opportunity, if indeed this was an attack, to win some favor and sympathy for the president. but apparently theyre not doing this. can it inspire some more attacks? the biggest opposition that the president has is the green movement. this is the opposition movement that still insists the president tried to steal away -- did steal away the election last year. but this is a widely peaceful movement. so i doubt that th...

Grieving process. theres going to be crisis intervention there and crisis counseling to help these employees get through what happened yesterday. theres also going to be a special church service later today for family members and employees. but at the same time, we are getting a kind of, you know, fly on the wall perspective as to what exactly happened in the moments leading up to those gunshots that were fired inside the warehouse. and were getting this perspective from the ceo of the company, ...

Its anti immigrant to the latest wave of immigration. and in many cases, in this day and age, its hispanic. and youre taking what is essentially a problem of 12 million undocumented individuals and making it a problem for 45 million people, who are the latino community in this country. everybody is feeling the sting of this. thats the problem with this debate. while there may be merits in a hearing, substantively, very little historically is done on this. and, again, its more political fodder. >...

Themselves with the key persuadable voters in the mid term. >> shannon: how could it be a success if that link is made. in. >> if they could link them to the more radical aspects of what they do. when there is certain issues that happens someone writes the parody of the naacp letter they can say this is racist and therefore the republicans are racist. that is what they are trying to do. i think that they are speaking to a lot of serious issues and i dont think most of the people are like the peo...

Will not stand is wrong. its something that democrats and republicans can agree on. >> where are americans right now on how the obama administration handles domestic and foreign policy? >> they give foreign policies better rating than domestic policy only because domestic policy is so darn bad. that being said, theyve seen some weakness in our foreign policy and our response in the middle east and towards north korea and iran. this is a welcome good news politically and substantively. >> noelle,...

Of her old website on the internet and interest fearing with her fundraising. the reid camp has taken that site down but things are getting heated with all of us. steven haze is the senior writer of the standard, he joins me now. what do you make of this sharron angle story. is there much to this? >> well its an interesting trick by harry reid. if he wanted to highlight sharron angles change of positions or the fact that she is running as a general election candidate in a different way as she ra...

With iraq and afghanistan, obviously counterinsurgency, its about asking the military to accomplish objectives that arent the sorts of things we think about as military objectives, like cracking down on corruption in the afghan government. substantively, the problem with general mcchrystal and his aides talking smack about non-military people theyre supposed to be working with undercuts the whole idea of the strategy. do am babassador holbrooke, kar eikenberry, bear some responsibility for the l...

Block majority votes on every nominee and every significant piece of legislation, now including wall street reform. even though that doesnt get talked about anymore, dont lose sight of this. everybody keeps acting as though this is normal. its not, this is not normal. the constant ever present, always on filibuster has never happened before in the history of our country. this has never happened before in the history of the senate. how democrats will respond to the always-on filibuster in the cas...