joining us is alexis glick and dana perino.ll, the fact that the president now has repackaged this, what? one dozen times? is this an admission of failure? incompetence? desperation? what do you think? >> they definitely have to reclaim the debate, but he was still responding to arguments from eight weeks ago, so how can you be claimed the debate if you are still arguing from the past? i am stunned because it seems to me that they called this joint session of congress before they knew what his policy was and before they knew what he would say. maybe tomorrow night, we are going to be totally shocked, and we will say, "oh, my gosh, why have we not been following along?" sean: they were talking about this trigger, and nancy pelosi was talking about it, and does that cover for the democrats to vote for the public option and give them some political cover? >> it is like a slap on the wrist if you are an insurance company. if you do not step up and meet the guidelines, x, y, z, then you're going to be penalized. i think what we need

all of that plus michael steele, alexis glick, dana perino. a busy hannity starts right now. sean: after his controversial statements and alliances were revealed, green jobs czar van jones was forced to step down late saturday night after midnight. it would be easy to dismiss jones' appointment as a fluke and assume his radical allegiances were accidentally overlooked by administration vetters. that is not the case. van jones signifies the radicalism of this administration and he was appointed to his position precisely because of his radical beliefs. now, the white house itself has testified to this fact. just last month senior obama advisor valerie jarrett told a crowd just how long she had been watching and admiring van jones. let's take a look. >> van jones, we were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the white house. we have been watching him for really for as long as he has been active out in oakland and all of the ways that he has -- creative ideas that he has. now we have captured that and we have all of that energy and enthusiasm in the white house. sean: all