angela mcglowan is a political analyst and doug schoen a former advisor to president clinton. >> goodo see you. >> and start with the president's sound bite and he's acknowledging there had been job growth, but acknowledging millions of people still out of work and so, doug, i'll start with you on this one. what is it that the president has to do or say in the next three months to convince the people to give him another chance and more time, that is. >> very good question, a delicate balance for the presidentment on the other hand he has to be optimistic, he has to talk about the progress, especially this year in job creation, but he also has to acknowledge reality and the reality is that our economic recovery, as governor romney said correctly, is at best tepid, if not worse and so the president is going to try to equivocate and ultimately do what he's been doing, trying to turn the focus on governor romney's perceived failings. >> is that going to be enough, doug? honestly, the point that the folks are getting tired of its youth, its youth. >> i understand that, and president obama'

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doug schoen is a form adviser to president clinton and pat caddell is a former pollster for presidentarter. you predicted the president could not relationship by running a constructive campaign. he would have to go there regular tough. the president says we have done nothing out of bounds. >> i think pat in my judgment has been vindicated. they have been running tough campaign commercials themselves. the super pac ad they could have disavowed. they didn't do that today. th effectively have accused governor romney of giving a guy cans -- a guy cancer. stephanie cutter called the governor a felon or said he committed a felony. that's way beyond anything i remember from my experience with bill clinton. we wouldn't have done anything like that. >> no sitting incumbent has ever this early in the campaign and to the intensity the obama white house and the president himself is doing in this campaign team to attack a challenger at this level. ever. it diminishes the white house. but the president going out today elevated the stakes because he is in real trouble of potentially being on a knife

we'll talk to doug schoen and pat caddell.k to them about what it could mean if the president's election campaign continues to ignore the calls and what they think about the reaction today from the white house. another fox news alert on troubling developments out of the middle east. israeli media says iran may be entering the zone of immunity. the point where an attack on its facility would be meaningless because they would have the know-how to build a bomb. reports are that iran is closer to obtaining nuclear weapons than the u.s. imagined. a top israeli official believes the situation with iran is more tense than what israel faced in the days leading unto the 1967 war which reconfigured the balance of power in israel's favor. a second report saying saudi arabia will intercept any jets trying to reach iran through saudi air space. also a report that the saudis used the u.s. that will eliminate one potential flight path. k.f. macfarland is host of fox news live. what do you make of the reports regarding the saudi air space? >>

author obama's america, unmaking america's dream and joined by doug schoen.f moments that are not teleprompted. we put a few of them together. let's take a look. >> spread the wealth around. >> cambridge police acted stupidly. >> the shuttle ready was not a as -- shovel ready was not as shovel ready as expected. >> private sector is doing fine. >> if you are successful somebody along the line gave you some help. >> if you have a business, you didn't build that. somebody made that happen. >> last election after this, i will convey to vladimir putin. >> what is that. he is saying to the russian president, look if i told the american people now what i intend to do now, they would not voted for me. let's wait until i am re-elected and real obama will come out. he saying he has a hidden agenda. >> sean: it seems it always happen when he goes off the prompter? >> he says unfortunate wrong, clearly so. but the russians are fighting us on syria, they are fighting us on iran and north korea. we're not, even though i think obama could be stronger on defense. he could b

doug schoen.ave you on. >> the president is leaving andrews air force base today president obama and we were wondering whether or not he might talk on his way to chicago, might talk about the new announcement. congressman paul ryan joining the ticket as the running mate. reporter there's ready to ask the question. but the president didn't take any questions at least not on that subject. we are following that side of it for you as well. what empact might the latest announcement have on our nation's business community? they have been close watchers of the recent healthcare reform as we all have been. particularly that community. healthcare reform that passed so on and so forth, what will they he think of congressman ryan joining governor romney on the presidential ticket? we'll take a look. stay close. [ male announcer ] this is anna, her long day teaching the perfect swing begins with back pain and a choice. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pa

with us now to react is doug schoen who was a pollster for bill clinton and current fox news contributor as well as maxwell democratic strategist. let me start with you. is this what the obama team is now reduced to that their economy is so bad that they are saying nothing -- by the way, check out the clinton economy 20 years ago. >> i don't think that's the proper frame. i think the proper frame here is that mitt romney's policies look almost exactly like george w. bush's policies. by using clinton in ad it's a tip of the hat to, look, bill clinton and obama have very similar visions for the economy. >> i don't think that that's true. i think that there is a huge schism in the democratic committee. maybe doug, you can answer this. between the bill clinton wing which is moderate, mainstream pragmatic democrats versus the obama wing of the democratic party which is purely i'd lodge coagulate. very very far to the left. does the comparison work? >> let me offer a practical distinction and then perhaps address the larger question. bill clinton worked for a balanced budget. he did negotiatio

lori rothman is here, and former clinton advisor doug schoen is here and on the floor of the exchangenicole petallides, straight to peter, what's the news on the projections for the economy and jobs? >> well, hey, stuart. the congressional budget office out with its latest forecast and it projects that the deficit will shrink to 640 billion dollars next year, from 1.1 trillion this year, and, but that assumes that the fiscal cliff here in washington actually happens at the end of the year. and that all of the bush tax cuts expire and all of those spending cuts mandated under last year's debt ceiling deal take effect and as a result, the cbo says that if that happens, the economy will fall into a significant recession next year, and contract by about 500 billion dollars in less government spending, and that would equal about 3% of gdp and that would send the unemployment rate back it up to 9%. and all of that assumes that congress does not act with the white house to make changes in current law. stuart. stuart: let me get this straight. are they saying a million fewer jobs if we go, a

doug schoen is a former adviser to president clinton, pat caddell was an adviser to jimmy carter.at, what did you think of the speech? >> i thought the speech was good. it wasn't great, about it was good. i can see the themes developing. they are trying to shift the party away from the party of being no, talk about the future. three or four different times last night he talked about what i believe is the moral test of our tribal religion of america which is you give your children better than you have. he didn't attack the president personally. he challenged him. that he hasn't been a leader which is important to the swing voters an also hit on the points of saying, you know, things aren't going to get better. what he cited was powerful. alisyn: doug, there were a few times when mitt romney seemed to get a little choked up when he talked about his family's history. do you think it makes democrats a little nervous to see mitt romney who they have depict as robotic seem more emotional? >> yes, i think this was an important step. that's right that the governor began to develop themes

for new york, pat caddell, fox news contributor, form pollster for president jimmy carter, and doug schoenutor and former pollster for bill clinton . the reference in ryan, we will stop medicare being looted as a piggy bank for obamacare, a clear reference to the president's diverting of $716 billion from medicare to obamacare, when democrats remain so gleeful at the pick of ryan, they thought they would win on medicare d they overlook the argument? >> the jury is still out. this past week, the first week of this ticket, the republicans were unified. every person on every show, they had the same message of the $716 billion raided. it was linked to the unpopular obamacare. for wednesday, the they of us would agree, i think, the romney ticket communications strategy was pretty good for a week. >>gregg: when you ask, pat, the president's plan for saving medicare, his own treasury secretary geithner said," we don't have a definitive solution to the program." >>pat: when fox came out with the show, showing he was talking and saying we should not demonize people, we should work together on this.

and doug schoen. thank you both for being here. pat, given wausau last night.robert gibbs come out and he said he thought people were angry and it was very, very strange. do you think he genuinely believes that or is that just messaging. and what do you think the real feeling is at the white house? >> i'm sure he prepared that line about two weeks ago, to say no matter what happened. if they are having a love-in here. what the democrats have to fear i believe is what governor christie did last night and artur davis to a lesser extent speaking to former obama voters. pardon my drum. what happened there was that he spoke -- doug and i have been arguing the need to get the big crowds to appeal to swing voters and independents. christy did that last night. he talked about truth. he elevated the republican party as something more than simply the party of no. he called on people for real leadership. i have the speech and i have line after line, i couldn't have written it better in terms of the arguments that doug and i have been making about the stakes in this electi

get to our campaign insiders, pat caddell is a former pollster for president jimmy carter, and doug schoen pollster for bill clinton, and former republican congressman john budget -- leboutillier, of new york, is us with. i have a list of names i will run by you that americans will see in prime time. marco rubio, senator from florida. chris christie, governor of new jersey, and of course, paul ryan, the republican from wisconsin. pat, the idea of the segment was to figure out who will emerge as a potential leader down the road but not one of you agrees with anyone on this list. all three you believe this is mitt romney's convention, and he needs to define it on his terms. pat, what does he take out of the convention? what is his objective? >>pat: if we remember someone from the convention, that means romney has lost because that is the only speech who get as boost the next election, if someone wins everyone forgets. he has to move this to a state of urgency, he has to offer a vision, and he has to serve the doubts people have which is in his grasp. if he can do that at this convention, he

and pat caddell of fox news, and former pollster for president jimmy carter and doug schoen former pollsterhe was extolling the verse -- virtues of the numbers. facility pat he has to but it is very tepid. the unemployment last has ticked up. people are very pessimistic. they think they are less well-off than four years ago and he has to run a campaign the last 95 days which is a tough order. he has to find what good news he can. >>gregg: the numbers should hurt the president. >>pat: we will get into the polls but the numbers are mixed because he is getting, we have more people leaving the workforce. we have the unemployment ticking up. but the numbers are bad. this is a problem the president has kept the initiative in the campaign. >>john: governor romney is watching us because his campaign this week has begun do change, and they are on a specific positive message about what he is going to do about the economy both on the stump and in commercials. that is what we have been saying for months. with the bad economy. public will look for him to be the one to fix it if he can sell that. he has

doug schoen, former pollster to president bill clinton. both are fox news contributors.ca, let me give you the first crack at this. is she right? >> apparently according to stephanie cutter is it is morning in america. the problem it is untrue. look, by every economic measure, the reagan recovery is far outpacing what we now call the obama recovery but it is not really a recovery. i think we're going to need a recovery from the recovery. look in the first 37 months of the reagan recovery we had a net gain of 9.8 million new jobs. in the first 37 months of the obama recovery, we have a net gain of 2.7 new jobs. also when you look month by month, we had one month last year we had zero net new jobs created. one month in the reagan recovery we had 1.1 million new jobs created. martha: monica, jump in for one second. i want to pull up numbers to back up exactly what you're saying. let's pull that up. excuse me for jumping in. i want to show people the number on the screen. this is the period discussed here. brought up a 27-month period. may 2010 and july 2012 where we are rig

doug schoen is a form pollster to president bill clinton. thank you for joining us.s is one of those stories, ambassador bolton. clearly the author wants to sell the books. it's an explosive accusation because the president time and time again takes a lot of credit for carrying out and for having the courage to carry out that osama bin laden mission. what do you make of all of this ambassador bolton? >> i have no idea whether any of it is true or not. you have to guard against the temptation to say, i knew what was going on, you knew it was all political. the president's overall record for three and a half years is that he is a weak and inattentive leader when it comes to national security whose decision are far more infused with political considerations than is praoel i prudent. s really prudent. if this book is mildly accurate it fits this picture. i think it's something to worry about and it's a legitimate issue to talk about. martha: you know the dynamics of the clinton and you were there during a similar moment when the decision was made not to go after osama bi

monica crowley, radio talk show host, doug schoen former advisor to president clinton. fox news contributors. good morning to both of you. >> morning. >> good morning. bill: we backed ourselves in a corner here, didn't we, monica. >> we did. bill: graham voted against the whole budget control act. he did not think it was a very good idea. if you heard before the commercial break he said both sides are to blame. where are you on this? >> good nor senator graham and pointing out the truth and being intellectually honest about his own party. good for him voting against this hot mess of a budget deal. both sides decided they would kick the can down the road and institute in the future, the future is now but institute some cuts that were ostensibly supposed to be painful to both sides, right? domestic cuts and defense cuts. however we now know that those domestic cuts are never going to come to pass because the democrats are not going to allow them to come to pass. so now the republican leadership is desperately trying to save the defense cuts. defense cuts, by the way that