today the world is asking what happens next. i m wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our special our viewers through our special coverage of kim jong il s death. we re covering all the angles of this developing story. we have reporters across the world from beijing to the pentagon, to london, to the white house and beyond. instability in the region is a major worry right now. stan grant is in beijing and is joining us now live. stan, just a couple of hours ago we learned north korea test fired a short-range missile. what s the reaction in china, which obviously has the closest of relations with north korea? reporter: no reaction to that report of the short-range missile being fired. we know that north korea has these and has carried out these types of test firings before. out of south korea there have been reports that they don t see this as having been a hostile act towards south korea or anything related to that. however, this once again leads to the uncertai
but because they are not moving anything. we are grid locked in a way we ve never been grid locked. that strikes me as a not only fairly potent argument but a true one, yet they don t really make it. they don t seem to an an interest or an attention to fight with congress. jonathan, have they not made that argument because, in effect, the president has been locked into doing some kind of business with congress at every stage, meaning he was trapped in a tax rate negotiation with them last year, then he got trapped into not trapped into, it was his job. he was in a deficit reduction and debt ceiling negotiation with them and so when you re negotiating with them, u you can t be condemning them. they have another one coming up, a few big negotiations coming up. is there a moment he can just say i m going to go out there, i m going to talk about these people the way ezra is saying i
53% say it has too much influence over the economy. only 20% say not enough. democrats are evenly divided in the question, republicans are not affiliated, and, you know, have way too much power for the federal government. gregg: an old cliche but a true one, many people, when it gets into the poll station and they pull the lever, they are really voting their wallet and their lives, and, how they feel about their lives, and you measured that and what did you find. 61% of americans say their own life is good for excellent and that is the good news and, when they think back to the golden his years, 64% say they were pretty good as well and when they get into the voting booth, 32% believe the country is heading in the right direction and, 63% are angry at the policies of the government. so, a big gap between their personal lives and what they are seeing in the political world. gregg: all right, scott rasmuss rasmussen, as always, good to see you, thanks very much. great to see yo
all right, that means david axelrod, basically said that after the murder of the ambassador, they were going to tamp the story down so it didn t intrude on their narrative that the obama administration had decimated al-qaeda. so they ordered dr. rice, the ambassador to the u.n., to go out on the sunday shows and say that the stimulus for the murder was a video rather than a planned terrorist attack, which the am bass tore did. she followed orders. she was a good soldier. now it s all caught up to them. am i wrong? i think you re absolutely right. in science there is a principle which means that the simplest explanation for any physical phenomenon is most likely the true one. this is the clearest and most simple explanation for why a complete whopper was told to