to the factor. i told a teenager that the other day. you can imagine i was greeted with -- thanks for watching. remember the spin stops right here. we are definitely looking out we are definitely looking out for you. closed captioning by closed captioning services, inc. >> sean: the anointed one calls for an unprecedented all-out assault on mitt romney. the former massachusetts governor is here to respond. >> we'll have a preview of thursday's debate. how will perry's possible announcement shake-up the iowa straw poll jerusalem >> day four of the london riots turns deadly. it is spreading across the u.k. sparking fears that kay cross could spread around the world -- that chaos could spread around the world. >> this week the obamamania media puts their liberal spin

treatment on the tea party. >> tea party members were digging in. some used the word hostage. >> sean: hannity starts right here, right now. the team of left wingers plotting the president's reelection campaign are turning to gop front-runner mitt romney. they are getting ready to wage an unprecedented smear campaign. the president's aides and advisers are plotting a ferocious personal assault on the former governor. who will join me in just a moment. one obama insider told politico that unless obama can run on accomplishments, he will have to kill romney. that must be the civil rhetoric the president called for a few months ago. the romney campaign is saying neither despicable threats nor president obama's billion dollar negative campaign will put americans back to work, save homes or restore hope governor romney's

campaign is about to face a challenge of its own right as texas governor perry reaps to announce his candidacy this weekend. perry is -- running just behind romney. joining me now mitt romney. governor, how are you? >> ter riff sean, hope you are doing -- terrific, sean. hope you are doing well. >> sean: i'm doing well. kill romney. what happened to hope, change and civil discourse thing? >> i guess they've gone out the window. you have to under, -- understand why. if the president were to run on his record he wouldn't stand a chance. 25 mill on out of work for stopped looking for work. home values going down. s&p just reduce our credit worthyness. the american people know the -- president's policies have fail. as a result the people of america could not consider

reelecting barack obama as president. so he's resorting to destroying the candidate who is going to run against him. i hope i'm that candidate. he's flailing and trying to find some way to hold on to his job. >> sean: i can't imagine a headline republican strategist, kill whoever. i can't imagine there not being frankly, a lot of outrage am i don't think there's been enough of it. -- if you were to win the nomination, are you ready for in fight? it sounds like this will be one of the most brutal presidential campaigns in history way is your strategy? how do you respond to stuff like this? >> of course you fight back. the president is going to go after every dimension of warfare he can think of, then of course you respond aggressively and point out not

personal failings, those are not relevant now. the american people want to know who can get this economy going again? you point out the president's failures. i don't think he's a bad person. i just think he's in way over his head. with people suffering in this country they recognize we need new leadership and a new direction. you bring home to people, this was the president who said if we allowed him to borrow 787 billion dollars for a stimulus he would hold unemployment below 8%. it hadn't been below 8% since. the record of failure is so stark you hammer him with that day in and day out. i think the american people are going to overlook personal attacks coming from his campaign many by the way, i suspect it is going to get ugly. my guess is you will see all sorts of things. the american people are going to look beyond it and say we want to know who can get jobs in this country and keep america strong. >> sean: is it just he's in

over his head or more complicated? he holds to that rigid ideology, black kwraeugs theology, rooted in social -- black liberation theology, rooted in social justice society, what do you think it is? >> i think the direction he would take us is wrong for america. almost every action he has taken has made it harder for entrepreneurs and businesses to expand employment or grow. you think of it piece by piece. his stimulus created 130 some odd thousand government jobs while he lost a million private sector jobs. obamacare, name any employer who thinks obamacare has made them decide to add more people? stacking the national labor relations board with labor stooges. that doesn't make it more likely for people to hire. dodd-fran the financial regulatory reform, 2,000 pages

of legislation related to financial services. banks pulled back their lending in part because of dodd-frank. everything he's done is exactly the opposite of what was needed to get this economy going. you go back to that wonderful statement by ronald reagan, that it is not the liberals are ignorant it is just an that what they know is wrong. >> sean: that's one of my favorites. i'll be in iowa tomorrow night. we'll be doing the program from the debate, post debate. we'll be doing the show from the iowa first friday we will be there for the straw poll saturday. why did you forego the straw poll? >> well, as you know i participateed four years ago. by virtue of doing so, made a lot of friends across the state. established a political structure which will help me in the caucuses coming up. some of the benefit i already was able to accrue based upon what happened last time around. i want to use my financial

resources and my time to get delegates. straw polls are nice but don't get you delegates. so i'm not going to participate in the straw polls anywhere in the country. these are states i'm going to compete in aggressively to get delegates we the real contest comes along. straw polls, had that experience, learned from it. we are going to try to get the nomination this time. >> sean: after this latest round of negotiations, compromise, the deal that came on the debt ceiling. you were public and critical. originally i know you did support cut, cap and balance. governor palin was critical of you for maybe not injecting yourself. she say she has a lot of respect for you. she wanted you to speak out more, as the debate was going on. maybe a little more forcefully. do you think that maybe publicly, as a candidate, were you holding back maybe you wanted to let washington work

this out? >> actually this is a critical issue, of course. government is on a road of fiscal irresponsibility which is threatening our future. as a result, i signed a pledge saying that i would not support raising the debt ceiling, unless we cut federal spending, cap federal spending as a percentage of the total economy and put in place a balanced budget amendment that's my position. i was asked about that. i continue to say i'm not going to sign up for the boehner deal or for the mcconnell deal or for the harry reid deal. i'm not going to comment on those deals. my position is, cut, cap and balance. that's my position throughout the process. >> sean: i'm sorry. is that your prescription now? look, every single year, this is about baseline budgeting, we are go to increase 8% a

year, another eight trillion in debt on top of the 16.7 we have on the books. the question is, connie mack has the opinion any plan, bring ing at 2011 levels, 1% every year for six years and two years of 18% sending of gdp historical average and we balance the budget in eight years. would you support something that radical? what would you support, cut, cap and balance? where do you go if you get the presidency? >> well, connie mack's idea sounds interesting. i haven't seen the specifics. but it sounds like the right steps, certainly. look, we've gone from government at all levels, federal, state and local level from being roughly 27% of our economy, that was during the kennedy years to today, 37% of our economy. the democrats say let us tax you more. let us take more of your economy. we are inches from no longer having a free economy.

i say, i'm not willing to keep government growing. i'm insistent that we cap the amount of government spending as a percentage of the total economy and balance our budget. those are principles that are critical. i'm going to fight for those things. if i'm president of the united states and if we have republicans in both houses and majority in both houses, you are going to see us finally draw a line on the growth of government. we cannot go on with government borrowing more and more and eating more and more into the future of america's economic vitality. i'm not going to allow that. >> sean: i want to pick that up and maybe get to some specifics. where you would cut if you had the opportunity. we'll have much more with governor romney after the break. plus, as economic uncertainty flares around the world, riots turn deadly in the u.k. what is motivating the violence? >> join us here tomorrow night for the republican primary debate from ames, iowa i'll be

there, the gop candidates will duke it out on stage in advance of saturday's straw poll. the debate begins at 9:00. then spin room, hannity right after the debate.

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>> sean: we continue with former massachusetts governor mitt romney. you can see him tomorrow night

on stage the republican primary debate happening here 9:00 eastern in ames, iowa. did you notice the president going after big business, big corporations, bill oil, people that create jobs and produce products and corporate jet owners. he's going to jet out to martha's vineyard one of the most expensive vacation spots in the country and spend 10 days in the middle of this financial collapse. your reaction? he's also going to be on a bus tour through -- he's also going to be on a bus tour through michigan and iowa this country is in crisis now. a lot of people fearful about the future. the stock market has been turbulent. the s&p downgrade says that america's credit is not worth what it was worth over our history. and the president ought to be in washington. i know everybody deserves a vacation.

but this is a time of crisis. the president should be in washington working to get this economy going. he should begin by admitting that a lot of things have not worked. he should reverse course on something like obamacare. it is going to cost the american people a trillion over this decade and more down the road. it has to be eliminated. >> sean: let me ask you about the downgrade. s&p warned this would happen unless they had a deal that saved four trillion. i don't care go it was cut, cap and balance, that would have prevented the downgrade. they said there was a better than 50% chance this would happen. now there's going to be a banking committee investigation into this. how bad is this, when america -- this has not happened since 1917, never happened before in history. then they blame the tea party whose plans they call them terrorists, would have prevented the downgrade. what is your reaction to all

of that? >> no question that the people in this country that are concerned about the growth of government had they been able to have their way in washington, we would not had seen an s&p done grade. if people like myself had -- had said we go to cut, cap, have a balanced budget. if we were to be successful in that kind of policy. had john mccain or i had been president, we would have been able to put forward a plan that convinced people around the world that we are credit worthy. frankly, washington under president obama has not had the leadership it needs to deal with our economic woes. frankly, to deal with our woes at the governmental level. it doesn't make sense to continue to spend massively more than we take in as a nation. >> sean: we have going around the world right now in london, u.k., spain, portugal, greece, israel, there's a demand for more government and entitlement mentality has taken over. it seems that this ought to be

a warning to america that while we are headed down this road, this may be our future. when you look at what is happening in these countries, do you think we could turn on this program or fox news and find out it is happening around the world -- i mean happening here in america is happening around the world? >> it breaks your heart to see it happening around the world. to know that homes, businesses and livelihoods and lives are being lost in the u.k., hooligans and demonstrators and protesters, and thugs, it is an outrage. at a time like this you hope for a stable leadership and parents at home teaching their kids. you are right, we've created an entitlement mentality that government is going to take care of us that is not the reality. the reality is the people of america take care of ourselves. we belief if personal responsibility. this view that we should have government start running our lives, tell us what we can do, what kind of health care, how much of our money we coop.

that leads to the kind of violence and entitlement mentality that i think is at the root of a lot of people's frustrations today. >> sean: when i look at this video, i'm thinking this is america's future, if we don't get a hold of -- a lot of this is about, in a lot of these countries, about necessary austerity measures after they spent too much. america is has spent -- we have a 1.65 trillion dollar deficit this year, we pen too much. at some point we have to have the same austerity measures. why would we think we would have any different result than these others countries? >> we could have of course have pockets of people who respond in ways that are reprehensible. but by and large the american people are a very patriotic people. as long as you have leaders that will tell the truth and lead with integrity and who now how to lead america in integrity and convincingly describe a position and vision for america of greatness, then

americans i think will stand behind that leadership and our country. and keep america the great economic and moral engine that it has been in the world. right now, we are not seeing a lot of that kind of leadership in washington and from the white house. >> sean: governor we will see you tomorrow night. thanks for being with us. >> thanks sean. >> sean: coming up, riots in the u.k. have turned deadly. prime minister cameron is giving his police forces the green light to stop the unrest. we'll have an update. that and more coming up. thanks to the venture card from capital one, we get double miles on every purchase, so me and the boys earned a trip to dc twice as fast! oh hi! we get double miles every time we use our card.

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>> sean: the united kingdom is on alert tonight violence has spread beyond the confines of london and has turned deadly. in the city of birmingham three men were kill in a hit-and-run after they took to the streets in an attempt to deter the rioters. prime minister cameron has called on parliament to return from summer holiday for an emergency session tomorrow. >> the situation, continued violence is not acceptable and it will be stopped. we will not put up with this in our country. we will not allow a culture of

fear to exist on our streets. full contingency planning is going ahead. whatever resources the police need, they will get. whatever tactics the police feel they need to employ, they will have legal backing to do so. we will do whatever is necessary to restore law and order on to our streets. >> sean: we are finding out what is motivating those wreaking havoc. they say all of this is happening because of rich people and they want to show the police and rich people that they can do what they want. sky news reporter mark stone confronted some of these low lives in his hometown. take a look at these. >> reporter: these are a couple of people have appeared to have been at it. i live here i'm astounded at what you are doing. >> we are getting our taxes back. >> reporter: what do you mean by that? >> we pay taxes.

>> reporter: are you proud of what you are doing? >> [ inaudible ] >> reporter: she said she is getting her taxes back. >> sean: joining me with analysis of all of this kirsten powers and from the fox business network, sandra smith is back. you are not going to like what i have to say. we disagree politically here if you look at the u.k. and comments being made by people about the rich, class warfare, taxes, all of this stuff. if you look at greece, spain, portugal and other parts of europe, i say this is in part, a result of failed liberal policies. in other words, a welfare state out of control, promises that can't be fulfilled. this is what happens. i would argue if america keeps on this path, this violence we see on the screen, we are going to see here. >> i think it is possible we will see this kind of violence in the united states, it will be much worse because these

ki weapons. i think it is a result of inequality between rich and poor. it is not about social welfare. it is about the fact the u.k. and the united states have this astronomical difference between the rich and the poor. when you have that kind of difference, this is the kind of stuff -- >> we should spread that wealth, et cetera, it set . with with respect to your opinion i'm disgusted. every time i hear comments like this woman. have you seen the things they are asking for? for the right to housing. they are asking for free education from the age of three on up. it is unreasonable. the fact they are acting the way they are, without peaceful protest, they should be punished. >> sean: you are making my case this is an entitlement mentality. we are going to give you health care, housing, transportation, 15% of americans are on food stamps.

kirsten. we are going to be 25 trillion in debt, because we cannot fulfill these promises this is coming to america. >> it is not because people need an education. that is one of the complaints they've raised the cost of tuition in the u.k. and it is too expensive. i think people are entitled to an education. there's nothing wrong with that. by the way -- >> sean: and they are entitled to health care, daycare. >> i wouldn't go all that way. there is something really disgusting about cameron being in tuscany when is going on. the same for obama going to martha's vineyard. when your country is falling apart you shouldn't be in some snotty place with your rich friends. >> sean: going to take a private jet and hang out with billionaires. >> the average age of these rioters in the u.k., 18 to 22. how much in taxes are they really paying?

>> sean: nothing! >> they don't have a job and they want these things g to another country. >> sean: look at this, my grandparents came from ireland at the turn of the last they entered america, broke. they had no -- no money, not a dime. they worked their fingers to the bone and they were happy because of freedom. it is even happening in israel, spain, portugal, greece, france, great britain also in america this is the great debate the cradle to grave society is unsustainable low -- levin's book says, liberty, tyranny. >> same is true of my grandparents they didn't go to college but they got good jobs. they worked for the state department and had health care. that was a different economy. you do need an a college education. >> sean: there's education available for anybody this country that wants it. the same in england.

what has happened we have conditioned people to look to the government to be their and for every problem they have and take zero responsibility. >> we are building an entitlement nation by the day because of our government and administration in power now they are building the average american to be more dependent daily. finding a job, buying food, going to school. they are building us to be more dependent on the government than we ever have before. that is coming to a head. >> sean: half the country in america does not pay federal income taxes. does not contribute a penny to federal income tax. hang on. 15% of americans are on food stamps, just shy of 50 million people. are they going to elect people that say you have to be more response age for your own life or the -- responsible for your own life or the care take there's give them what they want. >> or people who spend trillions on wars --

>> sean: like obama >> i think the government lives off of me. i didn't want to pay for those wars, i didn't want to go to iraq. >> sean: 3,000 americans were murdered and slaughtered. >> never had to do with iraq. >> sean: we are never going to agree. is this coming to america? i say yes. you think the violence is coming to america? >> we are already seeing it pop up a little in pennsylvania, right? >> sean: that's true. >> on a smaller level. it is down the road. not immediate. but if we continue on the track we are right now, where people think they are entitled to a house. they are entitled to food and education and not have to work hard to get to that point, they aring -- it is going to turn violent. >> sean: it is coming, no doubt. if it doesn't happen within a decade, i will be shocked. >> i hope not. >> sean: i hope not is right. >> sean: our weekly round-up

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>> we put the pictures up. there were two or three others. one picture of her praying which we rejected because we thought that seemed -- there was another picture of her sitting sideways. i thought in that picture she looked extremely strange. actually of the pictures we picked one that we thought did capture the intensity. >> sean: there's a million pictures of michelle bachmann. they picked the worst picture. queen of rage. where were they when anointed one was hanging out with ayers, and wright? double standard? >> i don't know what is worse the reaction or the lie in that statement. sean hannity, there's not a person in the face of this earth who looks at that picture and says she looks more presidential which is what tina brown said. that was done to make her look crazy. it has -- it has backfired so

much. even the nationalors of women have denounced her. -- the national organization of women have denounced her. "newsweek" once upon a time was a real magazine. it went bankrupt. it was sold for a dollar to some left wing internet rag the daily beast run by tina brown this is not serious journalism any more. they've got the name but this is a when it comes to a brand. >> sean: it should be transparent. this doesn't pass the smell test her pathetic explanation. you are right. the three big networks blaming the tea party instead of president downgrade for what happened with s&p. >> president obama returned from camp david sunday leaving his democrats to place blame for the downgrade on tea party republicans. >> there were republicans and democrats who said tea party members, a lot conservatives

were digging in and some used the word hostage, holding the process hostage because they would not raise any taxes at all. >> let's face it, the tea party successfully used default as a weapon, publicly bringing us to the brink of catastrophe, before pulling back. politicians have shown a willingness to gamble with the nation's economy. >> sean: does anybody doubt watching this -- by the way the tea party plan was watered down for them, cut, cap and balance that meant the standard by s&p and moody's that would have prevented a downgrade. they didn't listen to the tea party. >> the -- to say that the tea party is responsible for this is like saying that the betty ford clinic is responsible for alcoholism. it makes no rational sense. we were downgraded because of out of control spending.

the tea party movement was created because of the out of control spending. it didn't exist when obama started his spending. how can you blame them for his spending? this is the left that is going to reach for every straw they can at this point. it is absolutely ludicrous. all these reporters who are picking up on john kerry's talking points and running on them, christiane amanpour needs to put that obama sticker on. >> sean: i said in 2008, journalism is dead, it is dead. i will also say even this election year, even though there's minor critical reporting now, they will be the press secretaries for obama and the biggest contributors. >> one more quick point on this. the media ignored cut, cap and balance. and then dismissed it. i was the only piece of

legislation that would have averted a downgrade of the united states credit rating, the only piece. >> sean: john kerry, i voted for the 87 billion before i voted it is instructing the media to be more slanted against conservatives, more biased. watch this. >> i say this to you politely, the media in america has a bigger responsibility than it is exercising today. the media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion because somebody asserts it or because somebody s -- says something which everybody knows is not factual it doesn't deserve the same credit has a legitimate idea of everything that you do. america is losing any sense of what is real. >> sean: we'll just what? we'll put them in jail? shut them down? silence them? the only reasonable person is

john kerry who got rejected outright in his election to be president. >> come on. >> sean: the loser. >> you and i talked about this. this is left wing censorship of conservative thought. this is orwellian. they did it with the gay rights movement when they said you could only have one position. they did it with global warming. you could only haveép one position. now you have this left winger saying on the tea party thing the media shouldn't be reporting what the -- the pea party position. can you imagine the -- can you imagine if senator demint said the media shouldn't report the congressional black caucus position on something? every media outlet in america would thousands this man for censorship. yet, there's been silence with what john kerry did. -- >> sean: your job is too easy. they don't even make it hard. you don't have to dig all you

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>> sean: tonight on our great, great american panel. president and ceo of western skies forum now candidate for mayor of aurora colorado, ryan frazier is back . penny nance joins us again. fox news legal analyst i'm trying to convert him, he's still a democrat, peter johnson, jr. is here. stock market rollercoaster, dow plunging, downgrade. i think we have hit a tipping point. i any people on the periphery were giving president obama the benefit of the doubt. this seems to be the point where i don't know, he's going to have a difficult time

recovering. >> there is a tipping point the perception it is a one-term presidency. read maureen dowd "new york times" today saying the president hasn't led and we don't feel like we are being led in country. center, right, left. there's disappointment in where we are in this country. a lot of fingers are pointing at the president. in a calm way, they are saying we gave him a shot, we gave him a chance, it is not working out. >> sean: a lot of people ignored the warning signs, background, association, lack of leadership and experience. the most telling number, sean hannity is a conservative. independents are leaving him in droves. even a third of democrats want him challenged now. >> because they understand how their government affects their lives. and elections have consequences. i just talked to the owner of the salon i go to in virginia.

she is a small business owner, un20 employs -- under 20 employs. she said i'm in trouble. i need to hire more people but i'm scared to death of obamacare. i don't know what taxes i'm going to owe. the question is, do i keep the people i've got? i can hire more people. >> sean: i know a lot of people in business struggling the same way if i walked into a salon they would say we can't help you, get out. ryan? >> from colorado to new york, i think there's a real question of competence. a lack of competence amongst the consumer, investor that under lies our struggling economy. a lot of things i'm hearing is they want their government at all lefts to live within their means. balance their -- all levels to live within their means, balance their budget. and provide a regulatory and tax environment that allows

business to have the confidence to invest to spur the economy. >> sean: let me go back to these riots. this is in london. you have athens, greece, portugal, spain, even israel now is dealing with, you know -- any time there are austerity measures imposed, because they can't sustain the growth, this seems to be over time, almost the guaranteed result. i'm saying, i think this is coming to america, unless we change course. >> when you create a culture of entitlement. when you create a culture of give-aways. a culture by which people say, i'm born to have this. then when there is fiscal time fast require that those things be pulled back, then there is a human component. and it erupts in this way. we are seeing that. we are also seeing terrible interracial violence. you are seeing an economical

cue here. people are saying, no this is -- this is mine, i want it, i'll take it back. >> crime at its core, this is crime, is a moral problem, not just an economic problem. crime went down during the great depression. we are reaping the harvest of the past 25 years of -- >> sean: that was a different time. >> keeping religion out of public square. >> sean: my father and mother grew up in the depression. >> what was different? >> sean: they didn't have the entitlement mentality. >> not just that. we were more of a religious people at that time. >> sean: there's been a decline in values, no doubt. we'll continue with more, right after the break.

>> sean: we continue. the great decline, put up the polls here. 70% of americans believe the u.s. is headed in the wrong direction. 74% say the economy is getting worse. u.s. outlook, wrong direction, 70%. u.s. view of the economic, expectations low, 74% think the city going to get worse. presidential approval, the lowest in five months, 43%. and you can see disapprove,

56%. ryan, can the -- by the way, gallup has him at 40. >> i read somewhere, some guy call it a crisis of confidence. folks have a real concern about the direction of the country. and have every reason to be concerned about the leadership they are seeing out of washington. i will say this, i don't think it is too late. i do hope that more and more folks get involved and make sure their voice is heard. we are resilient in america. i believe prosperity is possible with the right leadership, policies and the type of vision that inspires confidence. >> sean: you are spurring a thought in me. we are watching the rioting in europe. the peaceful protesting that has gone in america has come from people that want less government. less spending. they are excoriated by government, called terrorists and racist, for saying these

are our first principles. >> one of the problems, we are seeing it elevated in england. we are seeing it here in rhetoric. to call people who you disagree with terrorists. to call people waging jihad. to put their names on the internet saying they are head of news organizations and conservative organizations and somehow something they are doing is worse than terrorism. that they want to do violence to this country. that creates a climate of fear. what we need is what has been said before, we need a climate of confidence in this country. frankly, i was praying for the president the other day as i waited for him to come out. i said i hope he says something that inspires us here in america to go forward in a positive way. >> sean: i assume were you disappointed? >> i was terribly disappointed. i was sad. it depressed the heck out of me and a lot of americans.

these numbers are disturbing numbers this is our future. >> sean: this is billions of dollars of wealth evaporating. >> it is not about the president, it is about us. >> sean: the public servant. >> i agree that people are afraid. people know we are a hurting country. i joined with 40,000 other people last saturday in a prayer rally called the response. >> sean: this is the one that was criticized? >> it was criticized it was governor berry sponsoring and -- governor perry sponsoring and other organizations. most americans under sthaoerpbsd power on our knees. we are -- understand, there's power on our knees. we believe there are better times ahead. >> sean: this brings us to wisconsin where 31 million dollars, a lot of union money spent to get rid of the

republican senator that supported scott walker's reforms, they didn't win. >> in 2008, president obama won wisconsin by 13.9%. i think the most recent elections with the gop holding on to those senate seats says a lot about the current state of the country and wisconsin. if you think about it, i believe people are sending a clear message. they want their government to learn to put spending under control. >> sean: it is simple. >> when you talk about the tipping point and we talk about the importance of religion and prayer there is a great awakening in this country. there's an awakening as to the decisions that we've made. and the decisions we need to be making. not only in the spiritual sense, but in the political sense and the civic sense. this great awakening is happening everyday. >> sean: can obama recover? >> no, but we need america to recover. >> i don't think so. >>