let's break down the numbers with david burks, hilyard lions senior vice president. rt with the postpaid wire countless subs up more than expected. they were expecting 350,000. it was over 36,000, that was good news, right? -- 36,000. >> that is real good. they came through on that front. encouraging on wire countless side. that is always the most important side, wire countless margins higher than expected looks like about 42%. consensus was 41.7 but that number might be a little weak because of strong smartphone sales. but the number held up better than we anticipated. cheryl: how important is the conference call going to be, david? there are some key strategic issues investors have with regards to expansion, europe, potential regulatory issues in the united states. what exactly are you looking for when we first hear from the cfo and ceo of the company? >> sure, no question, cheryl. we want to see if the company reaffirms their guidance. all year long they have been saying they expect revenues to increase more than 2% in earnings and to increase by 8%, thereaboutses,

burke and ben white. >> it was interesting, axelrod, very suddenly, david was trying to send a message. say, you're not doing enough. >> i agree. >> it's easier to see that from the outside. >> i completely agree. where i disagree, although axelrod had to say this, i think obama has to be very afraid. he's got two big problems. one is his credibility has been called into question and that is what undermined lbj in the 60s and it was a reference to katrina and the compence it issue is what clobbered george w. bush. it was katrina and the sense that the administration was incompetent in its response. >> it's never one issue. katie, bush was 39% at this point in time and at that time this was katrina on top of a whole bunch of things, but that was a tipping point for him, and he never recovered. the president is in a small window right now. he's got -- i think he set a deadline for his political future in november 30th, right? the website's got to get ready and that's about maybe when the public's patience runs out. >> look. this is a culmination of a number of issues reflected in the poll

david burton with the heritage foundation. the framers were influenced by more than one philosophical tradition. they were influenced by the natural rights tradition, by historical british tradition and the rights of englishmen as articulated by burke but also blackstone and the scottish enlightenment natural law tradition and to a lesser degree the natural law tradition of aquinas. my question to you is interpreting the constitution since the framers were influenced by several different and occasionally conflicting traditions how do you resolve the differences and what role do the differences between the traditions play in assessing the original meaning of the constitution? >> well, like justice clarence thomas, i take the view that the declaration of independence has relevance to the interpretation of the constitution. i know that is a controversial issue and many of my colleagues would exclude the declaration as not having anything to do with interpreting any of the bill of rights or whatever. and i take it from the description declarations some of which i quoted that these are principles that have recognizable parentage. i derive from those passages this story a few based on natural law heritage but again as i mentioned in my r