joining us, gretchen hamel, executive director of public notice.ms, fox news political analyst. juan, this was just a battle between, i shouldn't say just, a battle, vigorous one, fought over many, many months, between congress and the attorney general but now because the president has invoked executive privilege he is sucked into it. what is the political implication in an election year? >> well obviously it doesn't look good for the white house. this is i think the intent of darrell issa, the chairman of the committee all along. i think this was and is a tremendously large fishing expedition. i analgize it to moby dick he is looking for something, anywhere in this case. despite the lack of evidence of any wrongdoing. >> you think his motive was to get into the white house somehow? >> i think it was totally political. gregg: really? >> if you look at the facts of the case, and we just heard a rescitation of some of those facts from the committee, it largely involves that letter which had false information from justice about whether or not weapons

gretchen hamel says you have to give voters a new game plan. gretchen, good to have you.ypical view of a challenger in any race, with an incumbent overseeing a dicey economy is just make people aware how dicey it is and stand back and let the bomb slide. you say it won't be enough. why? >> i don't think it will be enough. this election has to be about a referendum on president obama. that is normally what the presidential elections are about, especially with the sitting incumbent president. is it a referendum on his record or a choice? if this becomes a choice, it doesn't look good for mitt romney. so he needs to make this a referendum on the president. having said that, the american people right now want to hear solutions. they want to hear he can work with the other side and he can bring this economy back from the brink of basically collapse we're looking at now and offer some real bold solutions. >> neil: let's talk about what you think some of the solutions are. he has outlined some things, tax cuts, extending and you argue he has to bullet them one-by-one. the first