bill-- was running in the high 80s for statehood. 80 anything in a gallup poll is eyebrow-raising. >narrator: yet a few powerful committee chairmen, mostly conservative southern democrats, kept the statehood bill bo

in the newsroom, anne makovec, kpix 5. >> according to the latest gallup poll just 36% of americans are in favor of air strikes on syria. president obama will address the nation tomorrow night. you can see that speech at 6:00 right here on kpix 5. >>> 4:40. lawrence karnow doing something we all love to do. >> sleeping in? [ laughter ] >> that's it. >> you get to sleep in until 2:00 in the morning. >> that's not sleeping in. >> it's not unless you're a raccoon and then you got a good night's sleep. >> but we digress. >>> let's talk about the conditions affecting that fire up at mount diablo. winds are a big factor and so is humidity and temperatures and we're at least getting a boost from the wind direction because right now they are fairly calm throughout the bay area. velocity is fairly low. near the fire in concord they are only out of the north about 3 miles an hour west-southwest at vallejo and calm elsewhere. of course, this will change during the day. futurecast winds show they are going to be picking up a little bit later in the day: they are not easterly winds from a dry direct

that brings us to the latest gallup poll that asks do you trust the media? say they don't trust the media at all. 44% say they do. and this is why people don't trust the media because it is a gotcha game these days. it's gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, slime slime slime, slam slam slam. and people get enough -- had enough of it. >> okay. so 44% of americans supposedly have confidence and trust in the mainstream media. that figure means absolutely nothing. you have to break it down into the different groups. and here's what gallup found. 60, 6-0% of democrats have confidence in the media duh, of course they do. the media reflects liberal democratic values and points of view. but only 37% of independence and only 33% of republicans have confidence in the media. those are the important numbers. 33% of republicans trust the media. 60% of democrats trust the media. those numbers ought to trouble the media. >> bill: well, i think the media has declined in media. the advent of the social media has led to that. where anything goes, no editing, do whatever you want. rumor be

. >> the latest gallup poll show most americans are against military action, showing a big differenceinions compared to previous u.s. intersyringeses. 36% surveyed said they support military action against the assad government. 51% were opposed. >> here to talk about this ramp up, thanks for being here, michael. you're a speech writer, president obama has a big speech coming up. >> they need to make a clear and comprehensive case. i think they need to focus on the moral case, to argue why it's important, why it strengthens u.s. security. i think they need to make clear that this is a limited engagement. this is not boots on the ground, not involvement in war, meant to punish. >> she said it would be limited strikes and boots would not be on the ground. do you just feel like the message is not getting through? >> i think they're always confusing the message a little bit. there are obvious political reasons for doing so. they want to talk about the threat to israel, that it may involve iran. i think it muddles the message. it may be more politically effective, but rachets up. it might b

new gallup poll shows less than half the country has confidence in the obama administration's ability to handle international and domestic issues. commentators feel that's true this week after the president's mishandling of the syria situation. >> whether there is a developing idea that the president not so good at foreign policy, number one. number two, whether this whole syrian crisis will just take more air out of whatever leverage he has for the future of his administration. >> these are the fruits of a completely incompetent, epically incompetent foreign policy, diplomacy by obama. >> if you're a supporter of the president, you should be critical of him. you're not doing him any favors by just sitting silently when he's screwing things up. >> most americans are realizing, finally realizing this country is losing power on almost all fronts. if that trend is not arrested and soon, that will be barak obama's legacy. >> ominous words from a great leader. bill o'reilly. >> oh, my gosh. [ laughter ] >> greg can't handle it. >> i'm going to throw up. >> please, not 'til after 6:00 o'clo

. >> you did a whole column recently on gallup, and they had a bad year, and i think you were surprised that they were mea culpa? >> the thing that is instrumental in getting out of the weeds, the gallup voters were actually one point off. they developed a likely voter model based on seven or eight questions that historically had worked very well for predicting who was going to vote and this time it just sort of didn't. at the same time there were a lot of very, very talented republican pollsters who have a history of being right a whole lot, and suddenly they were wrong. what we started seeing -- what i was doing during the three months leading up to the presidential race was e-mailing back and forth for some of the top republican and democratic pollsters from either side and saying, ok, what are you seeing at this date? this date? this date? and i started seeing this huge great difference between what democratic pole centers -- pollsters were seeing and republican pollsters. and i'm not talking about the cheerleaders that think everybody is going to win, i'm talking about the pretty c

bill-- was running in the high 80s for statehood. 80 anything in a gallup poll is eyebrow-raising. >narrator: yet a few powerful committee chairmen, mostly conservative southern democrats, kept the statehood bill bottled up with no chance for a floor vote. the alaskans needed some kind of political dynamite to explode that logjam, or statehood would never burst free. as 1958 began, alaska's statehood delegation marked the anniversary of their arrival in washington, d.c. they still had no prospect for a vote on statehood. ernest gruening knew one of the keys would be the wily majority leader of the senate. >> we have a majority of members on both houses according to their statements to us. but lyndon johnson could achieve or kill statehood. he has never shown the slightest >> well, he was opposed to it because of the basic support he received from his southern brothers, who were at that time concerned primarily about segregation. >> johnson sincerely believed that in order to bring the south into the mainstream of the country's economic and political life and to allow a southerner to

according to gallup that's a record low. mike emanuel is live.saying about the showdown? >> senator reid took twitter and says, quote, obamacare is the law of the land and will remain so as long as barack obama is president and i am the senate majority leader. then a short time ago on the senate floor, talked about the stop gaap funding bill send -- sent over by the house that would defund obamacare. >> they're universal. ransom demand by house republicans in exchange to keep the government up is unworkable and unrealistic, president obama has been clear and i've been clear. any bull that defunds obama and his health care plan is dead on arrival in the senate. >> so you can expect there will be some procedural things going on between now and later this week, but late this week we expect there will be a vote on continuing to fund the government but we expect that the senate majority lead leader will strep out -- strip out the portion that says it will defund obamacare and then send it week in house. >> trace: what about conservatives leading this

. >>> according to a new gallup poll support for action abroad has decreased since prior engagement. only 36% favor military action in syria and 51% oppose. stay with us for the latest on this story. we'll have th president obama's address on tuesday. >>> today millions are still unbuild employed. the market is still on the mend. >> five years ago this month america and the world edged to the economic abyss. on september 7, 2008, warning sirens sounded when the government took over fannie mae and freddie mac. financial titans were macing big bets on the homing prices. one week later lehman brothers collapsed triggering a global freeze on credit followed by a government takeover by aig. overnight the recession became a global crisis. >> this is what brought us to the brink of collapse. >> all because we got a house we couldn't afford? >> congress was forced with one choice, bail out the very banks that led the economy into the mess with their risky behavior. but the carefully crafted bill to ask you the financial system went down in defeat with the house of representatives. >> the mot

according to a gallup poll, only 36% support military action, 51% are opposed. in our coverage of the war in syria continues in just a few minutes. we'll go live to washington for the latest on president obama's efforts to persuade congress to support syrian military strike. >>> brazil celebrates its independence, but protests are under way. demonstrators have been met by force, forc. >> reporter: people come out here to observe the parade to celebrate brazil's independence. earlier we saw tear gas to keep people away from the parade. many said they were going to fill the streets across the country in more than 140 cities, they're calling on the government for more social services and more spending on health and education and government here in brazil is trying to respond to the wishes of the very large and disparate movement but it does not some to stop people from filling the streets in these spontaneous moments where protesters are trying to grab attention of not just brazilians but the whole world to show the inequality in the country. thso far protesters sh

the latest gallup poll shows congressional rating ticked up to 19% from 14% in august. congress was not even in session. governor corbett says he will not accept funds for health care in his state. >>> and a political message on a billboard that reads obamacare may be hazardous to your health, but politically it doesn't work that well because people if new york will actually at the time savings of at least 50% under the affordable care act. >>> a controversial retweet sent out by an adviser to text governor rick perry called state senator wendy davis, quote, too stupid to be governor. texas testimonies responded saying davis is harvard law school graduate and the joke will be on republicans if their strategy is to offend every woman voter in texas. and that's your morning's dish of scrambled politics. >>> a lake turned into natural spectacle this wisconsin. two funnel clouds combined to make a massive water fun he will on lake michigan yesterday. though some witnesses reported seeing a sailboat disappear, the coast guard says there were no injuries. and now for a look a

gallup, pretty sure gassing your own people ain't hitting double digits either. of course assad's oral argument fails to persuade there are always threats. >> will there be attacks against american bases in the middle east if there is an air strike. >> you should expect everything. you should expect everything. >> jon: expect everything. (laughter) it's assad, he is threatening us or pitching a new tourism slogan. (laughter) dreams are attainable. syria, expect everything. for more on the assad interview-- (applause) >> we are joined by senior middle east corr cor aasif mandvi. thanks for joining us. (cheers and applause) >> jon: let me ask you this very little revealed in this interview. assad seems to be stonewalling. >> well wa, dow expect him to say, jon. yes, charlie, i gassed my own thoit xens. >> jon: are you going after his speech impediment. he has been going after his people for two years and all you have is the lisp. >> that's all i got. pretty grim story. plus you no he that's not how he really talks, right. >> jon: really, he faked a lisp? why would

a gallup poll released just today indicates that 73% of the people believe that alaska should be admitted against 6% who oppose it. there has been no great public debate on the matter of bringing these two territories into the union. also, the congress has not appeared to feel any sense of urgency about the matter. we have presented this report in the hope of starting a small argument about it. good night, and good luck. >> narrator: americans had accepted the moral case for statehood. all the lobbying, cajoling, and public relations work was paying off in congress, too, as key opponents seemed to soften. >> the votes were always there. the obstruction was to keep it from coming to the floor. i think by '57, '58, there was a genuine sense that territorial rule was wrong if america was to achieve a role of world leadership. and what worse example to the world than for the congress of the united states to prevent a statehood bill from being voted on? >> narrator: finally the statehood bill was slated for a floor vote in the house on may 28, 1958, and a young vic fischer was there to witness

. >> i want to put up a call of gallup polls. they're very revealing.ormally when a president give a speech to the nation, urging action, people rally behind it. just the opposite here. look at this. his speech made it worse, arguably. more people after the speech rallied against him show up the next one here. u.s. air strikes in syria. more people now are against it after the president's speech. >> right. and this is why what john is saying is so important. short-term, the tpresident was either going to lose the vote badly or pull the bill without even a vote. the russians knew they were on strong grand, so the deal they got, which doesn't even include an explicit guarantee if the deal isn't kept, and i don't think there's a person watching who believes the russians and syrians can be trusted. bottom line, the russians have won, the president looks weaker, and we are in a situation where the american people, as pat was saying, are losing any confidence in this president. >> who looks weaker, obama or boehner? >> it's hard to choose between the two of t

poll after poll, the most recent one released yesterday from gallup questioned adults nationwide. would you favor or oppose the u.s. taking military action against syria in 2 order to reduce that country's ability to use chemical weapons? 51% say no. this president definitely knows what the polls say. given that, what do you expect to hear from him tuesday night when he is scheduled to make a statement about it? >> honestly, i cannot make heads or tails of it. i don't know what he's after. i don't know what he's doing or thinking. it is one of the strangest things politically we have seen in a very long time. remember, as it stands right now, we have no idea with any certainty that bashir al assad actually gassed his own people. those are the claims made but we don't know that for sure. one thing that there is no doubt about, and that is that saddam hussein did gas his people in iraq. by the justification president obama is now using, that should mean the war in iraq was perfectly justified. it makes no sense, heather. there are very cynical arguments being made on the hill what p

gallup, new mexico -- that was a domestic thing.abbing in sonora, but he's on death row. bowie, arizona -- remember that town. if you like tex-mex, there is no place better. used to be an outback. guy that took it over did a bang-up job. here, you want to see what connects them all? of course. los angeles to phoenix, tucson to el paso, up to houston. flynn: it's the i-10. he's getting off the highway to find his victims. bingo. do you have any dna matches? [ telephone rings ] no law-enforcement agency's entered any dna into the national database on this guy. chief? agent howard. oh. thank you. pardon me. here she is. thanks. hey. you ready for more info on your el paso car? oh, fritzi, how can i thank you? wait until your dad and charlie leave, and i'll come up with something wholly inappropriate. mejores motors only sold one vintage red mustang in the last two years to a jeffrey webb of el paso who recently relocated to los angeles. faxing everything over to you right now. oh, fritzi, thank you so much. i'll see you tonight. tao: b

a reason gallup poll says one in five americans doesn't have enough money to buy food for themselves and their family. the future of the food stamp safety net is in questions. on inside story we'll unravel the politics of hunger, how to feed everyone in the land of plenty. we begin at a foot bank a short drive from the u.s. capitol. >> i just can't afford the prices. and that's one of the reasons why i thank god for places like this. you know? that i can come by and get nutrition food, you know, and a lot of it, you know what i mean? that will last me for a while. you know. if i had to go in the store to buy what i have here now, it will probably cost me $150, you know what i mean. and i just don't have it. i got $76 from food stamps, you know what i mean? and $76 in the grocery store don't go that far. >> 47 million americans rely on food stamps. officially known and is supplemental nutrition assistance plan. or snap. cutting $4 billion from food stamps over ten years. drippinstripping from the house, house republicans are pledging even dweeper cuts, $-- deeper cuts. republicans say

. >> i want to put up a call of gallup polls. they're very revealing.ormally when a president give a speech to the nation, urging action, people rally behind it. just the opposite here. look at this. his speech made it worse, arguably. more people after the speech rallied against him show up the next one here. u.s. air strikes in syria. more people now are against it after the president's speech. >> right. and this is why what john is saying is so important. short-term, the tpresident was either going to lose the vote even a vote. the russians knew they were on strong grand, so the deal they got, which doesn't even include an explicit guarantee if the deal isn't kept, and i don't think there's a person watching who believes the russians and syrians can be trusted. bottom line, the russians have won, the president looks weaker, and we are in a situation where the american people, as pat was saying, are losing any confidence in this president. >> who looks weaker, obama or boehner? >> it's hard to choose between the two of them, frankly. because the repub

> >well, gallup did some research a couple years ago and they found out very interesting statistics ont. first was, out of an organization of 100 people, 28% of the people in that building are going to be engaged. 54% are going to be disengaged. and 12% are going to be actively disengaged. > >almost meaning they're sabotaging what the company's trying to do. > >what that could mean is they're not planning on leaving. theyre probably planning on staying and taking some other people with them--- being toxic. > >so give us the three things that a company needs to be doing. > >the first thing is that satisfaction with the immediate supervisor has got to be solid. secondly, is a belief in senior leadership, and then finally what we found in our project was that there needs to be pride in the organization. > >why is that breaking down? what's changed over the years? > >well, there's a lot of different things that would fit into that. one thing would be that today's worker---a millenial under 30---is a little bit entitled so the research shows. so sometimes they could be looking to get engage

>> as i recall, when the martial plan was first proposed in the truman administration, the gallup poll found there was only 17% support for it. and there was a bipartisan coalition that went to work to turn that around. and they did. >> seems like another era, doesn't it, both parties working together to educate the american people to change their point of view, not just to poll and figure out how to appeal to them. it sounds pretty old fashioned. >> historically depressing a little bit. franklin roosevelt was one of the great communicators and ruthless communicators in american history. he did not persuade the american people to enter world war ii. it was pearl harbor that did that. it was deeply unpopular in 1940 to send u.s. troops abroad. and that does mean sometimes the president and the congress to be credible in the world like important regions in the middle east may have to defy their own constituents and say there are important national interests here and that need to be reinforced. >> yeah, but this was also a story about specifics. the american people were looking at the mid

up in the culture that developed the internet in the world wide web the internet was militarily a gallup area and exceptionally hostile to anything commercial militantly it galloped area it was good and i was there that was completely the culture the idea of us with the internet was going to be a place where the hucksters the salesman the con artists were not invited everywhere else in american society you can marinate yourself in advertising commercialism and the market this is going to be where everyone's equals a public spirit of giving noncommercial nonprofit that was the whole the buy all new principle that's what got people so excited about the most right use during the course of the monthly magazine did a one hundred eighty degree turn it was little time it's have so became the center of the new economy vast fortunes were being created and the news media could barely contain themselves cheering on the new billionaires who were being created and i think that the main dysfunction of the system in which they live is a terrier ation of the fourth estate of course and i know that you'r

gallup has been doing this for a long time, for decades.of 2010. why is that important? two months before the midterm election which brought more republicans to congress than any election in the 20th century, this number is very significant. of republicans back ted cruise and his message as opposed to john mccain and mitt romney, mild mannered gop message, i think they have a chance to sweep in 2000 -- stuart: let's look at ted crews, r-texas on the senate floor, he has been there since 2:41, he is approaching 20 hours on the floor fighting to defund obamacare. he is a small government died. and very effective speaker. stuart: the judge is here. judge napolitano: go david. nothing i could say compares to the brilliant analysis david just gave. stuart: ted cruise is reporting himself and his leadership position in the republican party. i suggest it may be bad for the republican party in the sense that it is split. judge napolitano: i have a different view, go to ted go because the long treetops' the more people around the country, not in the

the gallup poll shows a third of small business owners say they have not hired workers because of the't have the government coming in there and discourage companies from hiring. it will have an effect on the wages. you simply don't want to see though wage increase. gerri: most recently with home health care workers, who have now extended minimum-wage and overtime pay, what you think of that? part of the reason that congress exempted these home care aides is because the work is often not very strenuous. they are staying with the person in their homes make sure that they don't have an accident. gerri: on some of these people family members as well? >> very often you have a senior citizen and the family would like to keep them out of an institution. they could provide these very basic necessities. but you could very quickly get up to 40 hours per week if you live with someone. so it can be a lot more expensive than specialized care, which is a lot more expensive for the government we want a lot more expensive, but also people, older folks like this, they want to stay in their houses. the

don't fight back how the us crushed youth resistance so it starts off with the two thousand and ten gallup poll where they ask americans do you think the social security system will be able to pay you a benefit when you retire among the eighteen to thirty four year olds max seventy six percent of them said no and yet they continue to pay their social security taxes every week every month out of their paycheck. goes there and they know it's taxation without representation because they'll never they believe receive that money back it's like a really bad version of crowdfunding so here you have millions of students who are paying into crowdfunding every time a program that will never exist so that's worse than even putting up five bucks to see a spike lee movie and getting your name on i.m.d.b. for nothing here they're loaded with debts from student debts and by the way many jobs in america even like a mcdonald's or a retail shop you need that degree to get those jobs because there are so many unemployed former college students people with degrees in fact two hundred eighty four thousand amer

>> gallup tracked this. why don't we ask the source?> i pulled the pew learn poll. >> okay. >> what you're arguing, and what democratic points are is that the rest of the world likes us more. how many countries do you think are in the world? >> there are over 180. >> between 194 and 195. >> yeah. >> this is based on 39, none of whom are people who are fighting and burning us in effigy. that's not true. >> all right. it's the pew poll, but let me say this, the united states is a symbol of prosperity and freedom in the world. that hasn't changed in the last 24 hours, two weeks or five years. we are and remain -- >> the fox news poll, throw that baby up again. >> yeah, let's -- >> go ahead. >> judge, i'm glad mark likes to cite pew. from a year ago -- excuse me, mark. in many middle eastern countries, the countries that president obama initially appealed to as president, the new beginning speech in cairo, they have a less opinion of the united states today than under george w. bush. >> i don't care what the rest of the world thinks, why do

congress and the gallup polling, the highest -- in the gallup polling the highest in the year, went from 13% or 14% to 19 of 20. host: related to the reluctance to approve military strike in syria? guest: gallup said it happened to coincide. whether correlation, we don't know. of thes without for most time, which could be one thing that helped their approval ratings. they were back home rather than here. -- i don't think it is a surprise saying congress in particular -- you have bipartisan agreement in congress to fight another branch, isgress looks like it getting together and doing something. and their case, doing something very popular, which is opposing a syria strike. that does suggest -- well, we have to see what happens with the approval ratings, whether the president regains his political footing and whether congress returns to its regular and look likers you can't get anything done. but specifically on boehner, it is absolutely a test. three big test coming up. first, how he handles the continuing resolution and second, the deal on the debt limit. on the limit, he has long set a

those exchanges are a huge part of the president's health care law, but according to gallup, just 37ercent of americans are familiar with them. yes, the white house has had three and a half years to prepare for tomorrow. this with a law itself, a majority, 52%, simply opposed to it. why? well, take your choice. obamacareeis a gross expansion of government. obamacare will contribute to a shortage of more than 90,000 doctors by the end of this decade. at least 30 million americans are insured. remember when the president promised to cover most of the nation's 50 million uninsured? >> we are not a nation that excess nearly 46 million uninsured a man, women, and children. we are not an asian that lets hard-working families go without coverage. lou: obamacare also risk the economy with half a trillion in the tax hikes, $65 billion of those taxes are middle-class families, $27 billion of new taxes on drug companies, $20 billion of taxes on medical device makers. that makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? and the administration's response, they choose to dismiss all of the facts and evidence th

. >> this president, yet his numbers, he's under water but his gallup approval ratings still stay in0s. it seems he's invulnerable below that. >> i have this feeling when the american public realizes that he wanted to shake rouhani's hand -- >> he had a whole campaign. >> and he refused to shake his hand, what a humiliation for the president of the united states. >> you know how many news organizations had lots of language about an opening with iran. be white house was feeding the opening language to all of these reporters. there was no opening. there was no -- what was the other expression? the sideline meeting. the photo op. a discussion at the margins at the united nations. when you talk about you coin the amateur as the title for this administration, he's living up to it. >> he is. >> it's sad to watch. >> it's sad for us as americans to see our country humiliated. our country looked at as weak, and our enemies saying we can take advantage. putin who eats his lunch every day, the iranians who make fools of him. the syrian who is will now be in place forever and ever. >> the one t

>> gallup tracked this. why don't we ask the source?> i pulled the pew learn poll. >> okay. >> what you're arguing, and what democratic points are is that the rest of the world likes us more. how many countries do you think are in the world? >> there are over 180. >> between 194 and 195. >> yeah. >> this is based on 39, none of whom are people who are fighting and burning us in effigy. that's not true. >> all right. it's the pew poll, but let me say this, the united states is a symbol of prosperity and freedom in the world. that hasn't changed in the last 24 hours, two weeks or five years. we are and remain -- >> the fox news poll, throw that baby up again. >> yeah, let's -- >> go ahead. >> judge, i'm glad mark likes to cite pew. from a year ago -- excuse me, mark. in many middle eastern countries, the countries that president obama initially appealed to as president, the new beginning speech in cairo, they have a less opinion of the united states today than under george w. bush. >> i don't care what the rest of the world thinks, why do

>> gallup tracked this. why don't we ask the source?> i pulled the pew learn poll. >> okay. >> what you're arguing, and what democratic points are is that the rest of the world likes us more. how many countries do you think are in the world? >> there are over 180. >> between 194 and 195. >> yeah. >> this is based on 39, none of whom are people who are fighting and burning us in effigy. that's not true. >> all right. it's the pew poll, but let me say this, the united states is a symbol of prosperity and freedom in the world. that hasn't changed in the last 24 hours, two weeks or five years. we are and remain -- >> the fox news poll, throw that baby up again. >> yeah, let's -- >> go ahead. >> judge, i'm glad mark likes to cite pew. from a year ago -- excuse me, mark. in many middle eastern countries, the countries that president obama initially appealed to as president, the new beginning speech in cairo, they have a less opinion of the united states today than under george w. bush. >> i don't care what the rest of the world thinks, why do

congress and the gallup polling, the highest -- in the gallup polling the highest in the year, went frome in syria? guest: gallup said it happened to coincide. whether correlation, we don't know. congress without for most of the time, which could be one thing that helped their approval ratings. they were back home rather than here. i son't -- i don't think it is a surprise saying congress in particular -- you have bipartisan agreement in congress to fight another branch, congress looks like it is getting together and doing something. and their case, doing something very popular, which is opposing a syria strike. that does suggest -- well, we have to see what happens with the approval ratings, whether the president regains his political footing and whether congress returns to its regular low teen numbers and look like you can't get anything done. but specifically on boehner, it is absolutely a test. three big test coming up. first, how he handles the continuing resolution and second, the deal on the debt limit. on the limit, he has long set a dollar of spending cuts for every dollar of de

. >> late us gallup poll shows most americans are against military action in syria.a difference in opinion compared to previous interventions, only 33% support, 51% were opposed. earlier i spoke with michael cohen a foreign policy fellow at the century foundation. i asked him what president obama should say in his speech to americans on tuesday. >> i think he needs to focus on the moral case to argue why upholding this norm about use of chemical weapons is important, why it strengthens u.s. security and i think he also needs to make clear that this is a limited engagement, does not mean boots on the ground, or punish or deter assad from using chemical weapons again. >> he said boots would not be on the ground, do you feel the message is not getting through? >> i think they're confusing the message a little bit. there are obviously political reasons too, they want to talk to the threat to israel, the potential that this might involve iran, you have seen that threat mongering going on, in some ways it may be more politically effective but it tends to ratchet up the rhe

a new gallup poll shows 6 in 10 americans believe that government is too powerful, 32% say that governmentght amount of power, 7% say too little. 7%? a beginning. joining ni now a team, fox news correspondent or -- monta controly. what do you make of a country that right now, finds record levels of tax ache not only at this state level but local level, we're talking $100 billion a quarter. >> this is bipartisan-nonpartisan upset, country upset. it has a lot to do with how people view the government, people feel out of control, and set upon by the people they elected office. >> where is that 7%? >> who are they? >> do you call them fais fascis. >> they live under rocks i think. >> it is striking to find that the so many people say they have too much power. lou: why don't the republicans talk about that very issue? >> they should be, this is their topic, they are supposedly the party of limited government, fiscal responsibility, we've seen very little languaging on that. lou: let's show senator cruz still talking to the floor of u.s. senate about issues with obamacare. 1.8 trillion dollars t

. >> look at the polls about the size and scope and influence of government gallup bigger than it's ever it. >> i think one of the things is people don't like the push for delay. debbie wasserman-schultz says not everything about obamacare is sacred. maybe that showed the crack in the dam. maybe the delay was possible. a for effort. where do we go from here? if all the outcomes are true, you have obamacare in the position you don't have the delay feed. one of the biggest things i think they could do, i think i had this wrong a couple months ago the congressional exemption for obamacare is something the republicans could deal with, and david vitter and a few others. they're so worried about it they don't allow it to have a vote and start to use personal attacks about the past. >> this is what i don't understand. the house was sort of shamed into doing this because they tried their parliamentary trick. i think you're right, the party is divided. if the republican party doesn't stand up here and unite on this as a bold different alternative to democrats, as far as i'm concerned, there's not

as he needs one democrats seem to be abandoning him, a gallup poll reflects that is president's aperspectivalg -- approval rating among democrats will always be high it is averages 78% this month, after being above 80% for two years, still high but not a good trend for the president or the democrats. election victories are usually influenced by money. but there against the news is not good for democrats, democratic par still has more than $18 million in debt from last year's election. by comparison, the republicans are debt-free, no debt. and in addition to that republicans have history and odds on their side, house is already firmly, and republican control. -- in republican control, history suggests they will remain in control. opposition party, get this, in midterm elections historically picked up on average 27 seats, if they do, that they could potentially have a tremendous advantage of more than 50 seats in the house of representatives. in the senate democrats like to be in more trouble. republicans need to gain 6 seats next year and the same number of democrats who look to face tough rac