amended here some changes and now suddenly boom it's like the language is completely changed and john thune for example completely changed his rhetoric and now says no dice we can't do it at all so i'm just wondering you know when they told they all had sat down and had a meeting and everyone said sorry whatever you said last week we decided one hundred percent we're not going with this is that the tea party that's pulling strings i think it's a great thing when you have congressmen and it shows their willingness to compromise that they at the very beginning at the outset they said this looks good we're going to look into it we're going to take some time and then four days later they continue looking and saying this is there's some problems here and in fact i kind of wish that that was the thing that happened with health care that we had more time to give it consideration the specifics of the bill consideration because you know i mean you could be for the health care bill and know that there are huge problems with it that are only a consequence of it having been passed so quickly well there

he is going to most likely be replaced by john thune. jon kyl is 69. he will be replaced by the number 2 -- in the number of two position most likely by john cornyn. it could set up a team that is gender and more conservative. does that set up well for bipartisan cooperation? that is something we will see in the months and years to come. >> he said you have to do with the quarterback says. did you hear that he did not like the play is being called? >> i did not hear that. he said there were a few occasions when he does not. no one goes into the leadership without understanding that you are part of the team. you are a cocaptain. your responsibility and obligation is to satisfy your constituent senators and in his case tennesseeans. electionng to have an in a little over a year. without knowing who is going to win, the next republicans could be responding to the play is a republican president is calling. we do not have any idea what that might mean either. >> what does this mean for legislation? viewers know there is the deficit reduction committee workin

is up other republicans are trying to figure out a way to avoid this backlash public and senator john thune is biting the bullet in admitting his own party is wrong he told a local newspaper that the main message he received from his town meeting was don't cut my social security and medicare but most other republicans aren't ready to admit they're wrong and instead they resorted to ignoring their constituents like the fifty one percent of republicans who chose not to hold town hall meetings and all this month and just avoid their constituents altogether or others who are holding closed door corporate funded town hall meetings that charge constituents forty bucks to ask a prescreened softball question that's what congressman paul ryan and ben quayle among others are have been doing and then there's guys like congressman dan webster of florida who are resorting to creating wanted posters with pictures and personal details of people who dared to ask them about things like privatizing medicare and then passed out those wanted posters to other town hall attendees basically saying you know if you

bill: john thune told us democrats don't even support this proposal, that it's going nowhere. >> it'sin the water. thune is right. there is either a portion of democrats that think this plan should be a lot bigger or a portion of democrats that are in very tight races in bellwether states such as senator clare mccass kel who is not going to want to vote or tax krees in a recession. steny hoyer said, whoa, we can't raise taxes. it's the same thing president obama said, we can't raise taxes in a recession. bill: politics, bob? >> divide the classes? it's 3% versus 97%. that ain't exactly class warfare. this was a political speech yesterday. this was about firming up his base which is beginning to drift. also there was some talk about maybe somebody getting into a primary against him. that ends that by doing that. bill: andrea is right, then? it's all about politics. >> the on thing that will pass is whatever the super committee comes up with. the idea that you are going to have deficit reduction without taxing the top 3% of this country is absolutely insane. bill: thursday night we have

joining us senator john thune of south dakota. ready for tomorrow night's jobs speech? >> i am. >> greta: what do you want to hear? >> i want to hear something different than what the president said before. what he has said and doing hasn't been working. as you mentioned 9.1% unemployment rate. two million more unemployed today than when he took office. the debt has by 39% since he took office. gas prices doubled. health insurance rates up 19%. food stamp recipients up 41%. this is a bad economic record. his policies haven't worked many what i hope he comes out with are new ideas. i would like to see him declare a moratorium until his term in office ends on new regulations. that's what i heard the most about when i was traveling over the august break. i would like to hear him say we are going to reform the tax code and make our country more come -- competitive. that he's going to send trade agreements up to capitol hill. something he's been sitting on since he took office. those are all things that would help the economy going again. >> greta: it is bleaker. people talk

senator john thune, i've got to leave it there. republican from south dakota.talk with you. >> you, too, chuck. see you. >>> despite what you may be hearing and reading, president obama's base is not abandoning him. in fact, the latest poll number shows more americans are open to the white house's jobs plan. what's with all the doom and gloom on capitol hill? we'll ask our panel next. >>> first, the white house soup of the day. i believe yesterday was chicken noodle. so did they save the chicken and throw in chipotle spice and make is chicken tortilla? you're watching "the daily rundown." where'd ya go? there you are. there you go. [ female announcer ] you always went for the tall, dark, handsome types. so who'd have ever thought the love of your life... would be short and bald? having a baby changes everything. helps defends against occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas and bloating. with three strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. you had me at "probiotic." do you have an