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Mary katharine ham editor-at-large of hot air.com and fox news contributor. peter mirijanian former advisor to the clinton-gore and gore-lieberman campaigns. when the president arrives at the white house to speak, he will have people behind him, ordinary americans who reached out to the white house and want their $2,000 middle class tax cut preserved. republicans are saying this is essentially a campaign stunt, a campaign appearance kind of event of the he won the election. he should get on the business of governing. what do you say? well, one quick observation, jon. i think what you re seeing, what i think is interesting the first social media presidency. this administration using technology and using social media to advance their agenda. but look, all presidents do this. george w. bush after his re-election famously said he has now the political capital he intend to use. so going to the public and ....
I don t think people are parsing this out betweenand republicans, frankly and if the republicans assume it s an antidemocratic year they re going to be in for a surprise. jon: rick, let s get your response to something else in that article. the survey results for showing a strong showing for republicans but they also show voters were far more frustrated with government in general than by an affinity for the gop. that s your take, rick? i think that s largely true and the republicans need to lay out a new agenda to move the economy forward. look, i think getting back to who s to blame for the decifit, george wish besto bush left office with $162 billion in decifit, barack obama has a $1.6 trillion decifit. that is ten times the decifit. the economy is not recovering. unless there are jobs by the way, peter mentioned creating jobs, last month, the people who entered into the work force are entering the work force at rate twice as much as people who as they came job credit, so ....
Soon. jon: front page story involving other polls in the wall street journal, it s right here, the lead paragraph, sentence in that piece, says republicans have slodfied support among voters who had drifted from the party in recent elections , putting the gop in the position for a strong comeback in november s midterm campaign. are republicans going to eat democrats lunch coming up? peter? i don t think so. i mean, i don t think the news is as gloomy as just described. those are great talking points, but i think there are a lot of positive indications in the economy that it s growing and yeah, the unemployment rate is very high, but there s a lot of people that reentered the work force are back engaged trying to get a job, which is why the numbers have stayed as high as they have. look, i think all incumbents are in trouble, i think there s a general sense of frustration, republicans, democrats. if you re an incumbent running this year, you ve got to watch your back. that s a rea ....
Station, and fly to go long island, they went out to long island where the search warrants were. now in philadelphia, they re joining the mix in cam deny, new jersey that a search may be going on there. a coordinated effort and thanks to fox we are able to bring it to you, now we ve got to nail down what they re finding. reporter: exactly. we ve soon the numbers change in terms of who was arrested and it is a fluid story, tim. i mean, we re, as you said, pulling it all together and hopefully we ll get a clearer picture in short order. thank you very much, back to you guys. jane: harris, tim, thanks. jon: before the break we asked you asked you who you think is more responsible for the size of america s decifit. we have a brand new fox news opinion dynamics poll out, it finds 51 percent say president bush, that s down two points from july, 27 percent say it is president obama. that number, also dropping since july. we re asking the same question of peter mirijanian, former adviser ....
Growth as obama does, or do we think that the private sector is a solution to economic growth which ronald reagan did back in 1980- 82 which i mentioned earlier, and i think it s the latter. we re going to see if we get a senate finance committee bill on financial reform which i think americans want as well. jon: peter, rick tyler, thank you both. thank you. thank you. gan jane we ve got the latest on the high school basketball team from illinois with its first shot in decades at a big turn men. they re now being told to stay home. all because of the new immigration law in arizona. thousands of miles away from them. and everyone on board this plane that crashed in tripoli was killed except the boy you see here, a nine-year-old boy from the netherlands. how in the worlddy survive? often we have seen this, children have been the lone survivors. was it more than just luck? ....