people here you see are not french. they re foreigners, mostly from saudi arabia and other countries and you see them shopping at the french fashion houses and they will easily afford a $200 fine. martha: thank you, greg burke, in paris today. we re getting new reaction from comments that president obama made on the skyrocketing price of gasoline. he did an interview with abc news and the president said $4 a gallon gas was tough on families, but said, we were able to pass tax cuts that helped to buffer some of that strain on families. so the total amount of tax cuts we passed will probably be higher than the additional gas costs. those are the calculations of
minutes. martha: they are all very close. they will be living at the family residence. clarence house is putting out information by tweeting like the rest of us. reporter: it s interesting. the royal family has a twitter page. so this morning at about 11:00, clarence house, the page, they tweeted that kate middleton is not going to be staying overnight the night before the wedding at clarence house like diana did. she ll be staying at at gorian hotel. there is nothing going on outside right now. but it literally made the web site for the gorian hotel crash within minutes of doing that tweet. martha: can you manage how many people are going to be trying to get into the gorian hotel. it should be a royal member of
shoulder these i assume he s saying, the hike in gas prices. he s saying, we gave money back to them to make it easier on them. there is no surprise. once we saw the middle east start to change, to alter, we knew that gas would go up. martha: i hear you. i m questioning the political spin here. there is no spin. that s what i m trying to say. what we re trying to do at some point, you have to take your medicine. there you go. martha: mark, back to you. rob is exposing the liberal view, you have to take your medicine. energy secretary in 2008 said we need to get gasoline up to european levels, $10 a gallon.
they have been loud and vocal as well. but the tea party may get more attention next week. we hear michele bachmann will be here. than mitt romney will attend. the political season has gun in new hampshire. martha: how about this? president president obama s outgoing ambassador to china is considering a run as a republican. but something surfaced that s getting attention. handwritten letters that mr. huntsman penned to the commander-in-chief raising questions about why he s not campaigning for obama. he said you are a remarkable leader and he underlined the word remarkable. saying its has been a great
people don t feel like the economy is turning around. with it s cost you $75 to fill up your car with gasoline, you think the country is going to the wrong direction. then when you remember that the man obama picked as energy secretary said in 2008, won t it be great if americans paid for gasoline what the europeans paid for gasoline? then you start adding these things and you say, wait a minute, maybe now is the time for change. martha: you are touching on the sentiment of this peggy noonan piece. she claims over the past couple years, the longer he has been in the more support he has lost. she picks through the groups, hispanics and blacks he s losing support and acts board he appears to be losing support. in terms of winning elections republicans would have to couple