and lanny davis welcome into the war room. >> thanks, thanks for having me. >> michael: let's get rightof the news line. the boston bombings diverted the white house's time, energy and message away from the gun debate. how does it get back on track? should it even get back on track? >> it should, and you can do two things at the same time if you're president you can two three things at the same time. i think the white house message and message of your previous guest who i completely agree with on the merit on the background check is the wrong message. i think rather than talking about retribution retaliation and anger against these four democrats we ought to be persuading them with a different message which is what my book is about. the message that works is let people vote. you can take a position on the merits. don't attack motives the way most of us in politics tend to--instead of disagreeing we start to attack. that's what i heard your previous guest do. what is wrong here and mark bacchus is a friend of mine who he deeply respect. but i disagree, allow the vote. there are 70 votes

lanny davis on the big show today. >> lanny. >> stephanie: what did i say?y davis. he has a new book out. >> dealing with crises. and we have had many crises in america. >> stephanie: yeah, are dogs and cuts currently living together? what is happening? between the boston explosion, and the explosion in texas. >> i wonder if they called lanny davis? >> stephanie: he has a hot line right in his pants. we have the smartest kids in class as you know. >> we do. >> stephanie: there is a florist who is being sued in washington state because she refused to do flowers for a gay wedding. rick in canada says steph what if there were gay florists and they refused to serve straight christians. good point. steve says i'm not sure i understand the logic. how it is different from forcing a flower shop to sell to jews or blacks, anybody. this makes no sense. you are absolutely not allowed to discriminate. >> christians don't think it is discrimination, because they think being gay is a choice -- >> stephanie: well, i don't care. >> i'm just trying to give you -- >> stephani

lanny davis was his former white house special counsel and fox news contributor. d he joins us now. lanny, president clinton embraced things like welfare reform. he said the era of big government was over. he was trying to win a second term. president obama has already won a second term, so what's going on do you think? >> well, let's start to the fact he was speaking to principles he long articulated and welfare as we know it, was a program and an effort, way before you ran for the presidency to end and he also was in favor of a governor of arkansas about balancing the budget. so bill clinton acted on principle. that is what barack obama has done by talking about making a more accurate consumer price index. that is all we're talking about. and on that basis, the republican chairman of the republican campaign committee, greg walton, gets the hypocrite of the year award from this perspective at least and speaker boehner and congressman ryan and other conservatives must be embarrassed and should be asking him to resign because he is criticizing president obama for do