we'll ask two people who held the position, ron nesson who held the position under gerald ford and dana perinothe four secretaries who serve under president george w. bush. delighted to have you both here. ron and dana, thank you for being a part of the show today. ron, start with you, you're coming to us from washington today. you had a unique background. you were the white house press corps for 12 years with nbc, he abruptly resigned after the pardon of nixon and looked to you for the job that had to be as thankless as any press secretary had been thrown into. what did you say first to president ford when you said, if i'm going to do this, this is what i have to know. >> that's a good question and i did have that conversation and as you say, i had covered the white house, both as a upi correspondent and as an nbc correspondent and i've seen good press secretaries and bad press seconds and the good press secretaries got their information firsthand. they could attend the meetings and met with the president every day, they heard the discussions, watched the decisions being made. they didn't hav

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brian: dana perino is the former press secretary for george w. bush. she is still with us. off, are you surprised democrat -- cia directors for democrat administration, republican administration all believe this is really troublesome? >> i'm not surprised given what i know about from my experience and also having talked to general hayden about this situation. i'm not surprised that they came to an agreement. it's a little surprising that they all would agree to sign a public letter to the president of the united states. i don't know whether they asked for a private meeting with him and then did the letter or just went ahead with the letter. i think that it would behoove president obama to listen to them. sounded like yesterday on the shows that he probably wasn't going to do so. what i found astounding in the "the washington post" article on saturday was that the attorney general, eric holder, had not even read the report that the career prosecutors had done in 2005. in which they declined to prosecute except for the one prosecution which ended up putting somebody behind bar

dana perino goes on the record, the former rock house press secretary. plus, everyone loves this the video. she throws the ball back after he caught a foul ball.  [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- greta: you know, it is not easy to sell people something they do not want. president obama, if you are watching, plug your ears on this one, and because here are the numbers. according to a new fox news poll, 46% of americans like our current system as opposed to the proposed plan. joining us now is former press secretary dana perino. >> thanks for having me. greta: those numbers would be unpleasant to hear at the white house tonight. >> those numbers are tracking with the other numbers. but i have heard that they do not believe the polls. when president bush believes -- had low approval ratings, the democrats believe them. how do they do something radical to try to change it? greta: hit they say they do not believe the polls, and using it tracks the other polls, maybe one group co

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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

more dana perino. onspiracy against president obama. when we come back, dana weighs in. steve: plus, president obama might have a lot of kids angry at him if he gets his way. why is he pushing for longer school days and shorter summer months coming up straight ahead. gretchen: president bill clinton asked if he believes there is a vast right-wick -- right-wing conspiracy against president obama. >> sure it is. it's as virulent as it was. they are saying things like when they accused me of murder and all that stuff they did -- fund mentally he and his team have a positive agenda for america. their agenda seems wanting him to fail. gretchen: if it's a right-wing conspiracy why are so many democrats against the president's health care plan. we're back with press secretary dana perino. i can hear you chuckling. take a crack at that question yourself. why are so many democrats against the health care plan and pundits who basically put obama in office. >> i would ask whether there was a vast left-wing conspir

as a communications expert, dana perino will talk was about the strategy behind that. megyn: the health care reform battle, shaking the confidence of consumers. according to a new poll for my bipartisan organization that supports health care reform -- from a bipartisan organization that supports health care reform, many americans are worried about how it will access health care. affordability dropped last month, the decline was greatest amongst senior citizens in -- senior citizens and young adults. 47% of those polled were worried about health care costs. bill: we heard at the end of the weekend on friday that the census bureau cut its ties to acorn, they are now taking action against a group, blocking it from being able to bid for federal grant money. to oppose it? seven senators voted no, ball democrats, except for bernie sanders from vermont. kristin gillibrand explained her vote by saying she found the actions of certain acorn workers of reprehensible, but added that thousands of new york families facing foreclosure depend on charitable organizations like acorn or

dana perino tells fox loyalty is a prized value. beware of the quiet guy in the room.ormer clinton aide james carville says of latimer, i think this tweeb r. dweeb needs to be glove slapped. finally, an upcoming book about bill clinton reveals a tale about boris yeltsin. usa today reports that mr. clinton says yeltsin's late-night drinking during a visit to washington in 1995 nearly created an international incident. quote, the russian president was staying at the blair house, the government guest quarters late at night, clinton told author taylor branch secret services found yeltsin clad only in his underwear standing alone on pennsylvania avenue and trying to hail a cab. he wanted a pizza, he told them, his words slurring. the justice department is getting involved in the burgeoning scandal over the community group acorn following the airing of embarrassing undercover videos. eric shawn has the latest blow to the embattled organization. >> now the justice department's inspector general is investigating acorn's efforts to get and use grant money from the department. t

dana perino steps down and two and a half hours later fox news comes around. >> even though i agree with that, howie, and i do agree with that. as a critic i've always admired her working for nixon, in the sense of being that close to history and look back through the fence at the press. >> she not only worked in the white house, she stayed with clemente with his years in exile. robin roberts, solid presence for "gm america," chris cuomo, this will have a big impact. >> the people i spoke to, though, i don't know think that big a problem for abc, and i don't know if she wants it. i absolutely don't, but a couple of people at abc and a couple of people outside abc say they have elizabeth vargas and she's in primetime, she's pulled in some numbers there. her journalistic chops were good enough that they once made her co-anchor and she's faced this thing as a mom and as a high-powered performer of having to make decisions which i think the audience like about her. she could be very good, kate snow also and cuomo. >> maybe not to abc news, but good morning america is a lot more important to

julie mennon is with us and the former white house press secretary, dana perino. that video is some of the most difficult video to watch. >> i can't watch it. and i think about the mom who, not only did she lose her son, but now has that video for everybody to watch and it becomes part of a political issue. my these go to her and everybody. sean: this kid, from all indications, a good student, an honor student. what are we to make -- what has happened that we see -- these instances come up periodsly. we've seen brawls at football games. you can go back to rodney king and some of the riots that have taken place. what has happened to these kids that they can take a board and beat some kid to death, kick him in the head, and act like that? what happened? >> well, that's exactly right. this is a terrible scourge on society, gang violence. but it's not a political issue. i don't think there's any political about it. this is a terrible tragedy and it has nothing to do with politics. sean: well, it's become political in this sense -- the president is going to convince th

former white house pre secretary and first time panelist dana perino, mara liasson of national publicsyndicated columnist charles krauthammer and juan williams, also from national public radio. so the president told the world's leaders this week what he said during the campaign, that he wants to engage with the global community. charles, what did the president have to show for his new policy? >> right up until now, he has nothing to show. i think he indulged himself in his speech at the general assembly, which started out as sort of adolescent utopianism and went downhill. he started out saying things like no nation can dominate another. he said no group of nations ought to be above others. what about the security council on which he sat the very next day? and then he said that no -- that alignments of nations rooted in the cleavages of the cold war are senseless. does that mean that nato is senseless, that our alliance with japan is senseless? what do our allies think when they hear that and when they hear as we saw in the clip, obama denigrating his own country and presenting himsel