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Credit for something that's already happened. i think the american people -- >> he is getting credit though. >> the american people see through it. he's the least popular new president in american history. >> that's true. there is a new gallup poll that shows 68% of americans say the u.s. economy is in good shape. they're optimistic about that piece. >> see, part of what's happening is democrats knew the economy was in better shape when president trump took over when he said we were in american carnage than the republicans are willing to admit. republicans acknowledged it on january 21st, the ...

Working, you can't grow the economy. >> all right. what would you do if you were in charge, giving the president some advice, two or three things that you think would help the economy at this point? >> the first thing i would do is end or suspend obamacare. this is having a very negative effect on employers hiring new workers. a lot of employers are keeping their workforce below 50 so these mandates and costs don't take effect. that's taking a real toll on workers, shannon. the other thing i would do is maybe look at a tax cut for businesses to incentivize them to hire. we have last week a pro...

Of course, that's the other big issue in this fiscal cliff standoff. we have team fox coverage. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. but first to ed henry at the white house. ed, it looks as if we are taking the plunge. >> it does, trace. but what i think the white house is hoping here tonight is that lawmakers are going to have some framework by midnight tonight that basically says votes as soon as tomorrow or maybe even in early wee hours, 1:00 a.m., 2:00 a.m. to start moving forward on this so at least the markets get the signal that they will retroactively make sure that the tax rates don...

Burden and coercion on states, but they've never actually said it happened, until now. by the way, chief justice roberts got two liberals on the court to sign on to that. an extraordinary opinion. >> rich lowry, you were not celebrating the chief justice this week with the liberals talking about his protection of the integrity of the court. but why is it wrong for the chief justice to have a view that in his capacity, his job should be to seek to find a way to uphold laws and not strike them down? >> well, really the hinge of the decision is a paragraph that goes exactly to that point where he...

They were nervous about because it would have shrunk the presidency. this is relief, not euphoria. >> rich lowry, more upside for the republicans or the president? >> well, it's a win for the president because as chuck says he mostly avoided something that would have been horrible. even if just the mandate struck down it would be embarrassing as the president supposed to be a student of the constitution, misses on this health care law being unconstitutional. if the whole thing would have been struck down it would have been a debacle. a year and a half spent on this and it all goes away. i do t...