the top economic adviser, she is leaving now on her statement to the national press core, chair of the white house council of economic advisers. she had no idea how bad the economic collapse would be. she still doesn t understand exactly why it was so bad. the response of the collapse was inadequate and she doesn t have much of an idea about how to fix things. reporter: she is not there any more, is she. megyn: that is not encouraging -rpblgts she is not there any more. megyn: you make it sound like she is ancient history. reporter: you beat her up because she said 8% now you want to say all of a sudden she knows what she is talking about. megyn: she apparently doesn t. reporter: this is a political issue. the indicators are headed in the right direction. private jobs are coming back, housing prices up, stock market up. megyn: housing prices up? reporter: yes from over a year ago. megyn: the response to that is because there was a mortgage advantage program that now is no longe
record. reporter: hopefully we are headed in the right direction. you have to look at the trend and the economic indicators. megyn: you re ignoring my trends that i m citing, like the sales of existing homes down 27% in july. the sales of new homes down 12%. reporter: prices are up over a year ago. megyn: they say that is temporary because of the mortgage advantage they gave first time home buyers, which is over. reporter: the same they that say that are the same they that say stuff that doesn t turn out to be true. the trend is in the right direction. we ll diagram that sentence in just a moment. megyn: have a great weekend. the body count in mexico s drug war near the u.s. border is exploding. no one seems safe from the crosshairs. is the violence now coming to america? and you ve got to love her, i mean, you ve got to love the stories about her, i know some people don t but this one is just too price lee. could paris hilton s twitter account lead to her undoing in