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And/or kill them. the pakistani government supposedly our ally, chooses not to do that. so we are handcuffed to an ally that is not an ally in fighting in afghanistan. that is a bad, bad recipe for anything, never mind a war. >> it's a complicated relationship. >> let me just say, these documents stop at the beginning of 2009, i believe, and to the credit of the -- to the credit of the obama administration, i think the pakistani army has invaded the swat valley and they drove the taliban out of there, or they drove their adversaries out of there. they moved into south waziristan. they are figh...

An unpopular former president that just preceded you, and we know bush still polls poorly. >> does he? >> in our polls. >> because we've seen some of these polls that say he and obama are all about, you know -- >> no, but if you look at our fave/unfave, it hasn't budged. he's sitting at 29% favorable and 50% unfavorable rating. that tells you, the public is still receptive to the anti- -- they believe the anti-bush message. now, whether that translates into a pro-obama vote, that's another story. >> certainly we have polls that we've seen that show that people are not happy with the direction ...

I think that's going to affect the politics of 2012. i don't see the president now doing anything along those lines. chuck probably -- >> an october surprise? >> i don't see this. there were three things that happened in '94, '96, and '06 where you already had anger, people upset about certain issues when it comes to the battle for the congress. and then some sort of ethics issue popped up in october. in '06 it was mark foley and some other ethical issues. in '96 it was the democratic fund-raising campaign scandal which cost democrats their opportunity to win back the house, if you recall. you...

Release of all those documents. white house press secretary robert gibbs rejected the idea that the documents reveal anything fundamentally new about the war effort, and condemned the leak as a breach of federal law. >> whenever you have the potential for names and for operations and for programs to be out there in the public domain, that it, besides being against the law, has the potential to be very harmful to those that are in our military. those that are cooperating with our military. and those that are working to keep us safe. >> all right. that question also talked about on capitol hill....

>> no one says you're going to get under 9% unemployment. i think there's potential bad news coming, economic news. i also think, joe, that deficit number, if it comes out at the end of the fiscal year, october 1 that comes out, october 15th, you know, 1.4 trillion dollars, second one in a row, that underscores the message these guys are spending us right into bankruptcy. >> i've got another october 15th date that matters. that is the october 15th, a lot of businesses will get their first bills on health insurance. there's some speculation some of these health insurance companies, because they...