plus our political roundtable, with andrea mitchell and chuck todd.only here on "meet the press." >>> we're back. with our special broadcast from california, governor schwarzenegger, good morning. nice to come home to california. thank you for having us. >> absolutely. >> this has been a big week for you with your state of the state message and budget. 2010 begins a challenging place for a lot of states including california in this economy. do you feel like the worst is over? >> i think economically the worst is over. i see a comeback when it comes to job creation. we see also that homes are being sold again and that home sales are up. and i think tt very soon we'll see construction again and new homes and so on. but when it comes to the financial crisis that california is in, i think we are not out of the woods yet. as i said in my state of the state and in my budget speech, we still have a tough road ahead of us. and this year is one of those tough years. >> for the country as well, when you think not just about california but the country, and econo

andrea mitchell is chief foreign affairs correspondent at nbc news. and david ignatius is a "washington post" columnist. first up, president obama reminded the country this week that enemies of america are still very much a threat. >> we are at war. we are at war against al qaeda. a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9-11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people, and that is plotting to strike us again. chris: today we examine that threat with these four reporters who cover national security. we'll look at how al qaeda threatens us abroad as that new year's attack on our c.i.a. headquarters in afghanistan so tragically showe but first let's look at the threat of the next al qaeda attack here at home. david, if you're in charge of intelligence in this country and looking out at the world, what's the threat coming here? >> the threat is that this is a resourceful, adaptable enemy that learns from us. they study us. so if we start to block one avenue of entry, one kind of weapon, they turn to another. they come a us in diffe

his name was barely mentiond because of his wife being andrea mitchell, which i'm confused about how she can have a political show on a network program but you can't really discuss what happened to this country, and he's a great deal why what happened, happened. i think who should be replaced is just people like rahm emanuel. i think it would be great to have david to replace him as chief of staff, and geithner to be replaced. they have a bad decision. mr. bernanke deserves a chance. he hasn't been in there long enough to make a bad decision. so i think he just needs to have a chance to see what he can do. host: david has an op-ed in "the washington post" tomorrow, but we have an early advancer of it, and the headline says november doesn't need to be a nightmare for democrats. this is stemming from the oonts of this week. this is some of the recommendations that he has. he says, we still have much to do before november and time is running short. every race has unique characteristics, but there are few general things that democrats can do to strengthen our hand. he says, one, pass a m