fox news digital politics editor, chris stirewalt, all in the conversation.oming right back. stay with us. lou: the president putting out four cornerstones for his view as to the response to a lack of jobs and, a almost stagnant economy. joining us with political perspective on this initiative by the president, his economic speech in illinois, former clinton visor doug schoen is with us in new york. in washington, genevieve wood, vice president of the heritage foundation. fox news digital politics editor chris stirewalt. chris, let's begin with you. your reaction? >> well, there was not much new that was in the speech. there was some gift to the republicans, thanking republicans willing to consider immigration but it was mostly attack in that area. and what it was, i think, was a frustrated president. you heard a lot of produce station from the president that his vision, his economic vision hasn't been brought to bear. that obama-nomics has not been embraced in a broader sense and he's frustrated with republicans. frustrated with washington. that they're not

power play chris stirewalt is here with insight. >> happy sunday. >> and to you as well.ys ago the president was placing a call to then president morsi. some thought that was a tacit endorsement of him as a legitimate world leader. the state department and white house says we are not taking any sides. should we or shouldn't we as this plays out? >> if you think american politics is terrible. egyptian politics is like 300,000 times worse. the sides are not wonderful. there are not a lot of wonderful choices for the president but we have to remember the context. when what was then called the arab spring began the president was a big proponent this is good he said, tunisia, libya, we helped nudge the arab spring forward in libya, helped depose momar ghadaffi there. people were going to have muslim theocracies for a period of time and they would give way and then we would have the new thing. morsi was in for less than a year and he was pretty serious about theocracy. now, we are back to where we were 45 years ago which is hey military is there a way to keep the nation of 90 m