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National level. >> it feels to me like the debate -- it swings between two places. there's cases like this where the outrage is so universal. this is why we need to death penalty. i can remember one in connecticut a few years ago, it was a mother and her two daughters were held hostage in their own house, torched for a day, the house burned down, they died inside. the father was at work. he survived that. that was in connecticut you watched public opinion jump like 30 points in favor of the death penalty. on the flip side you hear about somebody getting off death row who doesn't belong there. ...

>> why are they saying yes. >> take care of the people coming back -- >> i'm saying public opinion. >> it's a relatively new blip. they saw those beheadings over the summer and we'll see more people not wanting it and in kind of a blip up because what we saw recently. >> this is reactionary. it's got to be. this is how you react. >> james foley. saw the face of that guy -- >> would not sustain if we put a bunch more troops in. that number would come down. >> i was just reading about taking us into world war i. you screw us and we are ready to fight for a country that says it doesn't like war. ...

Or inclination to compromise. and if we get more gridlock, we're not going to get common ground on immigration reform legislation or even something that's likely to come up next week which is the keystone pipeline. so i think there may be a temporary blip up in the president's ratings as some of the base comes back but i don't really see with an economy that is still weak, where wages remain row and income ine -- remain low and income inequality is high, i don't see the president's numbers taking a decided turn for the better. leland: genevieve if we get this intransigency here who wins in thi...

Hiring people with that money. >> that is true. and next month when we get next -- december's unemployment report, you're going to see a blip up in number of jobs created because of what you're talking about. but in november, jobs were lost because of the hurricane, but not as many as to make up for a fundamentally underlying weak economy. >> brian: do you think that the number today will spur some real life -- real-time negotiation to avoid the recession that, we'll be looming beginning january, february? >> no, it will be a bad report. people will excuse it and say it's all sandy. they'll of...

Pursuing quote a feckless foreign policy. what does mean about that. next hour we'll ask him a lot more. stay tuned for more coming your way this morning. bill: oil hitting $100 a barrel as protests spread across the middle east amid all the unrest. that pushes the national average for a gallon of regular gas to $3.87. that is up 20 cents from a month ago. stuart varney from the fox business network joins me now. good to have you here. obviously there is a lot of pressure in this area. >> ben bernanke is driving this oil price spike just as much as the middle east. just yesterday afternoon ben...