join me in welcoming artur davis. >> thank you, todd, thank you ladies and gentlemen, thank you. rob, after the introduction, some of you are probably wondering why the heck i'm here. i'll tell you a little bit more about that. let me begin by thanking all of you for coming out today, and those joining us online and through television, we thank you for joining us. i did get the memo that you prefer the comments to be on the short side, only problem is, as someone who used to be an elected official, short may not mean to me what it does to you. perhaps to me, it means i have talked too long already, for me it means we have six minutes to go, we will try to create a happy medium around that. let me, you know, start out by saying one thing about where we are right now, heritage. i turned 45 years old this year. which by the way, i'm thankful to the gray hairs in the room for making me not the only old person who is here today. you know, i know people looking at this but there are a lot of incredibly young people sitting in the room right now, so i'm thankful for the gray hairs, i tu

we will begin with artur davis. his the former member of congress from alabama. he represented the seventh congressional district in alabama for eight years. as a democrat, he held leadership positions within the party and was one of the first members of congress to endorse barack obama in 2008. today, he has a different perspective on things as a result of some of the policies in theere pursued an aftermath of obama's election. please

it's probably one of artur davis' chief conditions. and republicans are willing to come to this the table. he sided with the republicans and wished the democrats would. >> we got to leave it right there. thanks for joining us. >>> not guilty on all six counts. not guilty. roger clemens, the baseball giant, the baseball great, accused of perjury, lying to congress about steroid use. the jury, a federal jury has now come back and said he is not guilty. not guilty on count one, obstruction of congress. not guilty on count two, false statements during deposition. not guilty on count three, false statements during deposition. not guilty on count four, false statements during deposition. not guilty on count five, perjury during a hearing. the congressional hearing. count six, not guilty on perjury during the hearing as well. not guilty all six counts. wow, what a dramatic development. i don't know about you, but a lot of people are probably going to be surprised. not guilty on august six counts. the federal proximate results failing kmeetly?

it's a great day, we are at the heritage foundation, and artur davis has found jesus and come to the republican party. not that we are right all the time. >> more than the other side. >> i did come from the oversight committee. i'll be brief and you can ask questions of both republicans in just a few minutes. it's amazing, this hearing we have done a series of hearing in our sub committee of the department of energy loan guarantee program. if you talk about what is wrong with government right now, it's stuff like this. 26 companies, 26 different projects got your tax dollars, loan guarantee, 22 of the 26, it's a $15 billion program, 22 of them had a credit rating of double b minus, which a fancy way of saying junk, but it's okay to put your tax dollars behind these companies. solyndra went bankrupt, it's amazing and we had another hearing today, we have e-mails, think about this, and the american people are figuring this out and again, it's why i'm very optimistic of what will happen in november. we have got e-mails from bright source is the best example. the ceo of bright source sen

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you have former congressman harold ford, artur davis the first outside who endorsed the president, and now defected to the republicans and a number of democrats are speaking out but bill clinton put a torpedo into the obama campaign. they doubled down on bain and on qualification and he just blew it to smithereens in the face of the disaster of the economic news. this is as bad as it gets and revenge is a dish served best cold. >>neil: is that what he is up to? he wanted president obama to lose? >>guest: i think president clinton is a man of many moods like muhammad ali, helps hip raise money and says the right things about obama but he can sting. this is in the first time he has drawn differences. his interest is hillary clinton in 2016, and there are many democrat would resents what the obama campaign did to the clinton campaign and no one more than probably those would love bill clinton because they feel the race card in clinton feels the race card was layed -- played on him from obama. bill clinton is not willing to abandon the centrist democratic party. >>neil: he says it all time

artur davis is not the only person in the obama camp in 2008 that has been in political migration. by harvard math that is probably flawed, 10 million americans or so have shifted camps. i brought these notes with me because i want to share with you a few moments some things that people have written me in the past several months. all of these quotes are from people who either identify themselves as democrats or people who said they voted for barack obama and do not identify with their party. this provides some clarity for why i am literally a pebble in an ocean of change. one lady wrote me "i figured out in the middle of the worst economy of my life how to start a business and make money. i just paid one-third of what i earned not to my kid goes to college savings are to my retirement but to the federal government. i and tired of being told i did not pay my fair share. another guy wrote me again -- this is a person who identified himself as an obama supporter four years ago. "his employer sent out a notice that it is shifting to a higher deductible health care plan that provides in

a man thought artur davis made an intelligent decision.he connecticut caller wanted to throw some conversation and you to vote or think about voting for somebody else and not mitt romney. my solution is to have everybody watch "final words" that was on book tv yesterday or go to the library and read the book, "fast and furious." that would explain what we're talking about this morning. the supreme court will make a decision no matter what. make a decision after what kind of administration we have. host: fast and furious, how does that look to play out? guest: there is a chance that the oversight committee could reach some kind of a court where the contempt vote is avoided. it looks like the die has been case on that issue -- the die has been cast. this looks like where they want to have. attorney general holder, they want to hold them in contempt for withholding documents about the oversight process. host: toby in nebraska. caller: yello. i made self-made independent man -- hello. i came down with a heart condition. i cannot get insurance