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of course. megyn: but let me, let's just go through it because it's not just this jim messina letter that he wrote to try to get president obama's supporters to think ill of the koch brothers. back in 2010 there were ads released in the leadup to the midterm elections glsh the new halliburton. remember? megyn: but then it went on, henry waxman wanted to subpoena them on what role, if any, they had in the keystone oil pipeline, they said we have no role, why are you looking at this? and austan goolsbee came out and made a statement about their taxes that led to a congressional investigation, and they, there was a question about whether their taxes had been looked into. and now this. it's been a pattern. >> yeah. the full force of the u.s. goth will be brought -- government will be brought down on you if you dare to question and if you have a platform and if you've done well, if you have money, watch out. of that's the message here. and what i'm saying is remember what happened during the health care debate.
democrats tried to push through a law that they didn't see as being connected to people getting back to work. it's a problem for the president. megyn: maybe i'm wrong, but i would have guessed many in the white house would have thought people would be over it by now because the way they phased the law in was to make all the benefits kick in and the bad stuff to kick in after the election. but the voters in the swing states seem to be saying we are not over it. >> it's even worse than those numbers would suggest. the swing voters in those swing states tend to be more conservative. if we are talking about 56%, 57% against the bill, the swing voters are 65%, 67 per. those are the voters the president must get to be reelected. the on thing he has going for himself are the republicans. they are creating a situation where the focus is moving away
to do the math saying $3,000 over three years of law school for birth control is a lot of birth control. they mentioned that condoms are about a buck a piece and other birth control, megyn, so the question is they wonder exactly what's going on at georgetown law school. when do they study, was the response many said. megyn: it's like -- i'm not saying another word. i'm leaving it to scrimmy fallon. -- jimmy fallon. thanks, trace. we're taking your thoughts, though, kelly@foxnews.com or follow me on twitter. love to hear from you. new fallout from israel's comments on the threat from iran. it's now saying if it has to strike iran, it will not tell the united states ahead of time. what happened when we questioned the white house on that. and the defense secretary says our military is drowning in debt, so why are some of our most dangerous detainees -- i mentioned it a moment ago -- getting brand new soccer field? wait until you hear how much you paid for it.
most important, i want to get the families the kind of answers they deserve. megyn: you mentioned jaime zapata. our viewers might know about "operation fast & furious." the botched gun-running sting where we let the guns walk into mexico. the drug cartels got add hold of them and one of them up at the murder scene our border agent. zapata's death, you said that's a separate gun-running sting that led to yet another american border patrol agent being murdered. >> he's actually an i.c.e. agent. you are right. this is where the weapons appear to have included a knowing purchaser -- straw per and transfer agent, known and yet not interdictd. what the american people have a
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had their lawyer write a letter a couple weeks ago, now they personally are writing to the president saying, knock it off. >> yeah. ted olson who wrote the letter on behalf of the koch brothers pointed out, look, we used to talk about the enemies' list, how disturbing that is in a representative democracy that the executive branch would seek on its own whim and its own whimsy to just pick out one or two individuals and spread untruths, falsehoods about them in an attempt to shift blame on an issue like gas prices -- that's going to be a big one in november -- and also perhaps to discourage others from getting involved this the political debate. now, i would imagine in the koch -- if koch brothers became suddenly supportive of the president, we wouldn't see those letters. megyn: they write the implication in this sort of attack is obvious; dare to criticize the president's policies and you will be singled out and personally maligned by
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coffee. how toss it wind up that she doesn't drink it? >> from what i understand, i'm going to call them co-conspirators. they floated by knocking down on the floor the coffee. i don't know what happened to the cupcake because i don't think we have those facts. one of the three foiled this plan to cause injury or death to this school teacher. that's what's been reported. megyn: one has second thoughts and throws the coffee away. but all three -- do we know if they have been suspend or expelled? >> there are varying reports. but either way the students have been removed from the school, and that's why there has been such an uproar. it's been months ago and apparently one of the parents of the child who foiled this plan was out there saying my child saved this teacher. megyn: after he tried to kill her. that is worth the bragging what.
field. it has some interesting specifications. they built a habit trail so they can travel from the detention camp to the super rec facility without having to be escorted by the military. we were told one of the reasons they wanted to build the soccer field is it encourages the detainees to follow the rules. they also felt it was in keeping with the number of detainees who like this communal style living. but what they were not able to answer is who signed off on this project, especially with the money involved, whether that was a local decision at guantanamo bay. or if it had to be signed off on in washington, d.c. megyn: everyone here is slack jawed. that's how unbelievable.
shift at abu ghraib prison, it was george bush and donald rumsfeld's fought. well, who do you see among the media now saying this is the president's fault? his defense secretary, a bad call was made by a military commander to instead of sending these backs back to langley to be analyzed for whatever content they might have in those messages, they were thrown in a trash dump. now, that was an innocent mistake and an unintentional slight to the religion. by the president coming out and saying we're wrong, we apologize, we're sorry and not just once, he did it twice, and he called the second one a severe apology, whatever that means. i didn't go to harvard, so i don't understand what a severe apology is. he's the commander this chief, why isn't he being called on this? megyn: leslie, another point we're hearing from some including rush limbaugh is when you have repeated apologies and you know folks on the right believe president obama is, they call him a serial apologist,