senator and off -- imhoff, sang a different tune before the conference started. this support on the merits, but he works very closely on the bipartisan bill with senator boxer and he was not allowed -- about to let that get killed. i question the depth of senate support for really sticking with this. >> to the to the compromise situation, we talked about senator lugar's speech to this week. senator durbin was optimistic about finding a way to get along. do you agree? how strong an urge is there to compromise? >> to your fourth point about senator lugar, there have been discussions why they're trying to decide to why a person who spent 36 years in the senate could not win in a state for the democratic party did not even put up anyone to run against him. there was a debate that he voted from a farm and was staying in hotels. they felt it he had lost interest in their needs and with them. starting last congress with conservative members, they have opted for more establishment republicans and they will have a long internal debate. in order to get anything done, raisi

but republican senator jim imhoff of oklahoma came out and said in his opinion the president's trip was campaign related. heather back to you. >>> peter doocy live for us bright and early. >>> karl rove responding to us last night on "hannity"" taking issue with de pointes the president made. >> i looked at the president's speech. there are five points. couple are in conflict. he said the afghans are going to be in charge of fighting by next year. i hope so. the second problem is we are going to withdraw u.s. troops so they won't be in combat roles. we will have a responsible end. we need to keep flexible if they are not able to take on everything we have combat presence. i talked to people who are involved they are deeply concerned we are withdrawing too many people too quickly. the security gains in the southwest are going to be jeopardized and we are not going to be able to do the same kind of efforts in the east against the tal began and al qaeda. they announced taliban are brutal allies of the al qaeda. frankly the president takes a long-term cooperative agreement with iraqis the o

dorothy brizill and gary imhoff's home collapsed in flames and is a total loss.y weren't home when the fire started. >> live look outside now. a few storms rolled through earlier. any more on the way? sue palka in the weather center now. >> i'm glad you asked. we do have a bit more to keep an eye on. we'll start off with the good news that the nats were able to pull off this game, but let's show you radar down to our south. we have a smaller batch. this is nothing severe. we have to thank the earlier round of morning showers and storms that settled the atmosphere, but we do still have a little across the potomac. it might be headed towards you in leonardtown, calloway and st. mary's city, hollywood, you maybe getting in on that. i'm going over to sentinel radar because we're watching another round of showers and storms coming south out of pennsylvania. you'll be able to see that as we switch over to our max system here. this next batch will be coming out of maryland or out of pennsylvania and into maryland, if we can take the max weather system there? there we go

the guy who put this together is fred davis, who's the nephew of senator james imhoff, a very successful, very prominent republican ad man. so this is not just some fly-by-night. this is a 54-page detailed proposal. the more you read it, the more you should be offended if you're paying attention. >> it is a pretty amazing document just to take a look at it. you mentioned metro sexual black abe lincoln. let me give you a quote so you can get a feeling about what's in here. they talk about, the metro sexual black abe lincoln has emerged as a hyperpartisan, hyperliberal elitist politician with more than a bit of the trimner him. i don't know what a trimmer is but i know that that sentence is offensive. >> yes, absolutely it is. and i think some people were responding today about the cubs, whether or not they want to turn back in their cubs season tickets because of this. cancelling their accounts. i mean this has the kind of thing that really has the potential to blow over into a much bigger scandal both for joe ricketts and as i said, a pha, potentially hazardous advertisement for mitt rom