jim pinkerton, contributing editor the american conservative magazine. and former president of the women's media center jehmu greene. i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. ♪ . now the bad news is your approval rating is 41%, but the good news you're three times better than congress. they are he' at 13 (laughter) >> so, i mean, if you're grading on a curve, you're killing, killing. >> jon: the most powerful man in the world taking time from his busy west coast swing sharing yucks with comedian jay leno and his trip like the the past two bus tours an effort to win support for the jobs plan and garner popular press. we told you the pew research study release add study looking the past five months and negative coverage for mr. obama outweighed positive 4-1 on that period. on the heels of that the president announces the end of the iraq war. the full pullout of troops of the plan to try to get more americans who are underwater in their mortgages to be able to keep their homes and a plan to let students walk away from or at least handle more of their

jim pinkerton, the competitive magazine and most of the alan colmes show on news radio, alan colmes, i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. ♪ >> what do i have to do short of suicide to convince people i'm the not running. i'm not running for president. i'm not going. a zero chance i will. i don't want to run for president. >> you feel in your heart you have no business running. >> i'm not arrogant enough as one year as governor and seven years as united states attorney i run for president. >> the heart felt message you gave me also is not a reason to do it. that reason has to reside inside me. >> jon: asked and answered is he running? and moves us to the next topic, is he running? and more specifically, jim, are the media pushing him? he can issue all the denials he wants to and the speculative stories still pop up. >> i think the media are desperate for him to run. >> jon: why? >> two reasons, one, they love the adventure of it all, the more the merrier. as i've said for several weeks, there's a strain within the mainstream media has had it with obama and wants somebody, th

and cal thomas, jim pinkerton, contributing editor, the american magazine. and host of the alan colmes show, alan colmes. i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. >> now, we knew from the start that the loan guarantee program was going to entail some risk my definition. if it was a risk-free proposition, then we wouldn't have to worry about it, but the overall portfolio has been successful. it has allowed us to help companies, for example, start advanced battery manufacturing here in the united states. it's helped create jobs. there were going to be some companies that did not work out, solyndra was one of them. he's indicated, but he was not aware what was happening in fast and furious, certainly, i was not. and i think both he and i would have been very unhappy if somebody had suggested that guns were allowed to pass through that could have been prevented by the united states of america. >> that's president obama holding another news conference this week. he called it to push his jobs bill and a new sur tax on millionaires, when it ka came time for q

syndicated columnist cal thomas, jim pinkerton, the american conservative magazine and talk radio news host ellen ratner, fox news watch begins right now. ♪ >> well, republicans seeking the g.o.p. nomination and an opportunity to take the oval office from the current president, and yet again this week, going head to head on issues related to our u.s. economy. the debate produced by bloomberg television. >> this is the first for bloomberg, how did they do? >> i thought that the debate was okay. it was the coverage of the debate that was really quite jaw dropping at times. >> really? >> yes, i mean, i was astounded, first of all, ron paul, no mention of him almost anywhere, one article in msnbc and no one talks about the spin room afterwards and what their particular people were saying about them and apparently, like anti-everybody. and so, i felt the coverage and i also thought the pre-coverage and post coverage of a candidate cain was minor at best and i thought they reduced him and i thought this idea of calling him pizzaman. >> we wi'll get to that in justa moment. and hard to know h

national review editor rich lawrie, jim pinkerton editor american conservative magazine and daily bees columnist kirsten powers. i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. president obama on his three-day campaign for jobs bus tour this week, making stops in north carolina and virginia. trying to build public support for his 447 billion dollar jobs bill. the president criticized for the taxpayer money he's spending on the trips which look and sound an awful lot like campaign stops. >> it is clearly campaigning and i must say, again, i've never seen an uglier bus than the canadian one he's travelling around on a canadian bus touting american jobs. >> jon: that's john mccain who knows something about presidential campaigns and buses, but does he have a point? i mean, judy, are the media asking these questions? if republicans were taking these same trips, they would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, wouldn't they? >> look, this is always going to be an issue, it was an issue the last time it came up. it's going to continue to be an issue and it's an appropriate issue because the

let's get into it with jim pinkerton. he worked in the white house under president reagan. is a pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter. kirsten powers is columnist for "the daily beast". they are fox news contributors and will join me on "news watch" tomorrow. we'll talk about what we'll be talking about tomorrow. jim, solyndra doesn't seem to be getting any better for the administration although perhaps the energy secretary will clear up some of the misconceptions about this scandal? >> it is possible. this is one scandal i think the mainstream media have been covering pretty energyicly. pretty easy to grass in terms of the basic intention that is the taxpayers are out $500 billion. i must say the larger context is even more disturbing and that is that secretary chu will have to confront. and that is that the whole $38 billion of this loan program, entire 38 billion, not just 500 million of solyndra seems to be jeopardized if energy prices where they are now. the whole plot was to count on energy prices being roughly double what they are today. to make any of these