Shovelready projects. Mr. Obama heads to new york. He will be about 25 miles up the hudson river from where were sitting right now to the visit the tappan cebridge. A major hudson River Crossing built 60 years soarly needs replacement. The bridge is set to cost nearly 4 billion. Joining us to the talk about the politics of all this, juan williams, fox news political analyst. Charlie hirt, is a columnist at the washington times. Six years into his term, juan, were getting another appeal for shovelready projects. Why did not this get done the first time around . Well, what you had was other projects that were, at the time, thought to be shovel ready. Of course what we later learned from Vice President biden they were not quite as ready as they thought in terms of immediate injection into the economy. Right now youre at a point where there is, from the Democratic White House perspective, need for additional stimulustype spending. Jon, as you know, that word stimulus is politically toxic these days. So you have republicans saying, look at the deficit, look at the spending, questioning whether or not the first round of spending actually had the results that they had hoped. Jon charlie, you know, i cross the bridge a fair amount. I live up in that general direction. If i want to go across that bridge in my car, costs me about 5 to six bucks, depending on time of day. Some trucks, tractortrailer rigs when they go across the thing have to spend 50 bucks. All that money gets collected by government. What happens to it . Well, obviously a good portion of it gets kind of wasted but anytime you have a politician who suddenly starts worrying about roads and potholes you know that theyre in trouble and thats what the case weve got now with president obama. But youre point is exactly right. Were, what, four years after the great stimulus plan and, with all these shovelready programs, that not only, did they not stimulate the economy very well, but, they also left a lost huge Infrastructure Projects undone. And it does raise important questions about all of that and so at this point i think it is largely politics but one thing i think is important to remember, four years ago democrats controlled the white house, they controlled both chambers of congress and they controlled the senate with a filibuster majority. They could have done anything they wanted to. They could have raised your taxes, as high as they wanted to and gotten away with it and they didnt do it. But now that theyre not, now that voters stripped them of control or at least some control in the senate, now they want to do, you know, even more of this stuff. I just think it is all kind of politics if you ask me. Jon some control on the house side i think you mean with the republican majority there. Yes. Jon juan, what about that . If jobs and economy are issue number one and they generally are in most polls, why has the president spent the bulk of his time trying to revamp how we pay for health care in this country . Well, it is not the case that he hasnt paid attention to jobs. It is that when you look at the jobs bill, when you look at infrastructure spending, it is all caught up in the paralysis that afflecks washington, d. C. Right now. As you saw yesterday, we cant even get an energy bill done without politics intervening. It wasnt a big energy bill. It was about basic, sort of Energy Efficiency steps that the government could take. So what you get when you look at Something Like the tapensee, why wasnt done earlier . There was a lot done earlier with stimulus spending. Contrary to the popular myth, there was a lot of restimulus to the economy, job production that came from it. But people really have now viewed that stimulus spendingsing as questionable. That is why it is politically toxic. That is why it is hard when you look at the bridge, when you look at money you spend, jon, when you go across, where does the money going, the money goes into maintaining declining structure rather than rebuilding and repairing it. Jon we have the graphic shows what it costs to get a car across the tapensee, there are different fees from different times of day. If you have an ez pass they call it in the northeast, you get a lower rate. That is a Million Dollars a day operation. The charlie, the other crazy thing, who builds a bridge with intended lifespan of 50 years . Thats what government did, 50 years, that ought to be long enough . I think you put your finger why there is such immense frustration in both parties especially among conservatives and tea party crowd. You know, government doesnt do things like this very well and the farther you get government away from people and taxpayers, the worse they are at executing very basic, simple things. You know, towns that pay for projects, rarely have this kind of problem. There is, rarely this kind of waste and abuse and theft that occurs at that level. But, the sort of liberal orthodoxy that president obama has embraced that the only good things that happen, the only decent things that happen, the only honest things that happen in government happen at the federal level, it is just crazy and were seeing that. Were sawing that throughout stimulus and we see that with obamacare and we see that now. Jon happily when they built the Brooklyn Bridge more than 150 years ago they decided they wanted the thing to last and it has. So far. Also, worth noting the president s going to be collecting some Campaign Money while he is in new york. So he will ask the taxpayer for some money and collect some Campaign Cash at 32,000dollar a one last quick, jon. That money youre paying goes to local and state government, much more than the federal government. The federal government is trying to help out local and state governments. Its a difficult situation for jon as he tries to drive across that bridge and paying out of his head. That is crazy. Jon i can afford it. I take the tappan instead of George Washington bridge which costs twice as much. I digress. Charlie hirt, juan williams, thank you both. Jenna right now, Veterans Affairs employees in several states are under investigation after reports of long wait times for medical care were deliberately concealed. This as the secretary of Veterans Affairs prepares to testify before a Senate Committee tomorrow about the growing scandal over substandard care across the country. Certainly has been big news as of late. National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin is live at pentagon with more on this jennifer, what do we expect to hear from the va secretary tomorrow . Reporter i would expect him to outline what he is doing to get to the bottom of the current crisis. He has order ad facetoface audit at more than 800 va facilities across the country but numerous whistleblowers say, va officials like shinseki have known about these specific complaints for months, if not years. Each article, or each new material that i received i purposely sent to those different gentlemen with a backup copy, just so that they can say, oh, i never knew this, or i never knew that. Every time they say, i dont know this, or i dont know that, somebody else dies. Reporter debra draper of the Government Accountability office is expected to testify tomorrow as well. Here is what she said in march. Va medical centers do not always provide timely care and in some cases these delays have resulted in harm to veterans. Reporter expect explosive testimony tomorrow on the hill, jenna. Jenna jennifer, how many states are now affected by the scandal . Reporter well at least five. Earlier this week at town hall meeting in arizona with senator john mccain vet reins and their families told of their experience with the va. My father died august 8th, 2013, waiting for care. Delayed care, aid and assistance. When i was on the fifth floor in august of 2012, somehow i contracted mrsa in one of my eyes, in my left eye. I went to the nurses they just said, oh, it is nothing, it is nothing. I kept telling no, there is something wrong. They looked at it and diagnosed it which she shouldnt have done. She is not a doctor. Reporter that man says he ended up going blind in one eye because of poor va care. Jenna obviously more on this today and tomorrow. Jennifer, thank you. Well russia now retaliating for u. S. Sanctions over ukraine, this time in space. Moscow is announcing that as of 2020, it will no longer participate in the the International Space station. That almost certainly means the space station experiment will end. Phil keating is live in miami with more. Huge news here. The International Space station, what, has six years left, phil . Reporter yeah, almost certainly that it will be the case if russia does deliver on this threat announced yesterday. 13 years old, 100 billion invested, 15 participating nations but in all practical senses without russias cooperation, the space station as we know it dies. Nasa budgets about 3 billion every year funding the space station and all the science up there. The u. S. Wants to keep it going and alive until at least 2024 but the russian side has the thrusters that keep it in orbit and property attitude. The u. S. Side controls the solar a ray, i. E. , the power source. It takes both nations to keep it operational. Nasa reaction, quote, cautious. Ongoing operations on iss continue on normal basis of the we havent received any official notification from the government of russia on changeses in space cooperation at this point. You as astronauts rely on russians to get up to the space station. That contract is good through 2017 and not affected by the movers from moscow yesterday. Phil keating in miami. Just unbelievable that that thing potentially could just burn up but well see, six years is long time away i guess. Thanks, phil. Jenna from outer space to under the water, an underwater attack caught on video. Well show you the full thing coming up. What triggered this assault and what sort of charges could the attacker face since it was under the water instead of on land. Dramatic new twist in the blade runner murder trial and what a judge ruled that Oscar Pistorius must do. Desperate search for survivors as a explosion traps hundreds of desperate miners underground. A latest in a live report next. Translator fellows who work with me were gone just like that, making me so sad and heartbroken. Human lives were so easily taken away. Ef . Try dulcolax laxative tablets. Dulcolax is comfortcoated for gentle, overnight relief. Dulcolax. Predictable overnight relief you can count on. Jenna right now some new information on a few stories were following across the country today. An update on a story we brought you yesterday out of chicago. Chicagos two main airports returning to normal after smoke at a nearby radar facility stopped all flights in and out of the windy city for hours. Evacuation ordered lift in san diego after two wildfires forced thousands of residents to flee their homes. The fires are calming down as winds diminished there. No reports of damaged homes or injuries luckily. Ohio Appeals Court upholding a lower occur ruling that a deadbeat dad can be ordered not to have anymore kids until he play pays his back child support. A judge ordered Austin Taylor not to have anymore children while on probation for next five years. Said the order would be lifted in taylor paid nearly 100,000dollars in overdue support for his four children. Jon to a desperate race against time now in turkey where rescue crews are trying to reach survivors after an explosion at a coal mine trapped hundreds of miners underground. More than 230 people confirmed dead now. Crews estimate there may be more than 100 people still inside. Leland vittert is following the story live from our Mideast Bureau in jerusalem. What is the latest on the rescue, leland . Jon, there is not much good news coming out of turkey right now. In the words of an official on the ground there, hopes are diminishing when it comes to the rescue operation. It has been just about 12 hours since they pulled anyone out of that wreckage alive. The wreckage underground there, from that coal mine and this really is a daunting rescue effort that is underway. 400 rescuers, they have to trek about a quarter of a mile into the coal mine and pull each victim out by hand and theyre having to do that as theyre fighting some very dangerous gases that have built up there in that mine since the fire and explosion yesterday that occurred. Evidently some kind of Power Distribution panel there was an explosion, then a large fire there and obviously well over 200 people are now confirmed dead. This happened right at shift change there in the mine. So there was a much greater number of people, seven hundred plus people there inside of the mine at the time of this. Obviously that has complicated the rescue effort and as the fact that there is no power inside of the mine. They cant use the elevators and those kind of things. There were a number of cheers went out when they brought out some folks who were alive on this, a number who were very badly injured but overnight there was scenes in the hospital with great despair and anguish on faces of family members as they gathered not only at the hospitals but also the mine to try to get any word on their loved ones. It is coming hour by hour, there seems to be more bad news than certainly good news. There are now reports that there are angry mobs that have gathered in various places and chanting various slogans against the Prime Minister there, who has gone to the mine, inspecting and talking about the rescue effort. There is a lot of anger about family of miners about the type of Safety Equipment that was there, type of inspections, those kind of things. They say there is not being done to save their loafed ones. Back to you. Jon what a story. Leland vittert from jerusalem. Back to you. Jenna a terrifying scene as a man driving a stolen truck crashes right into a television station. We brought you the breaking news yesterday during our show as it was happening. What happened truly inside and what police are saying about the suspect. The full story just ahead. Midterm election cycles kicking into high gear as im sure youre aware. One analyst says high voter dissatisfaction could spark deja vu this november. Wall street journals gerald seib weighs in just ahead. When folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. But the energy bp produces up here creates Something Else as well jobs all over america. Engineering and innovation jobs. Advanced Safety Systems technology. Shipping and manufacturing. Across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. When we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. Thats not a coincidence. Its one more part of our commitment to america. 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Jon im told, im told the glass is very thick. Jenna well see. As primary season gets into high gear, new analysis what we might expect with elections in november. Wall street journal gerald seib writes in his column, political mood direction of the country, ratings of the incumbent president s Economic Performance and hopes for outcome of the economics, feelings are uncannily before october 2010, just before the democrats lost six senate seats and whopping 63 house seats, ceding house control to republicans. Joining me jerry seib, executive editor of the wall street journal. What is your big takeaway from what youre seeing in the polling . Look, i think the country is kind of in the same place it was in 2010, as you suggest, which is to say there is awful lot of economic insecurity out there. There is not a feeling the country is moving in the right direction. That never works well for the party. Incumbent president. That is what the democrats went through in 2010. They have to be worried what the lay of the land looks like right now. There are important caveats. Were still six months out from the election. This is may, not october. Well see what happens. Second, the democrats ace in the hole for years now the republicans are no more popular, and a lot less popular overall, 25 in our surveys said they had positive feelings about republicans. Jenna why do you think it is, jerry, feelings gone more negative so the republicans havent made up that difference . I not in favor of democrats but i wont vote in favor the republicans, why do you think that is happening. There is not zerosum game. There is disgruntlement with the system in general. That is democrats, republicans. That has to be concerned for republicans. The fact that democrats are down does not mean republicans go up. Weve seen that for several years. The other thing to keep in mind, the really important race this is fall are races for senate seats. Particularly the republican quest to take six seats away from the democrats so they win control of the senate. Those, those races tend to be campaigns unto themselves. Theyre not as influenced by the National Mood as house races are. They tend to be more influenced by quality of the campaigns and candidates insid