joining us now from washington, mary katharine ham and juan williams. so, juan, i know you like the p bullishkind of towards his policies. do you personally believe he can wage an effective terror war? >> yes, i do. that's why i was disappointed to hear you talk about reluctant warrior and folly. in fact, bill, what the president is doing, according to the polls is widely supported by the american people. they may have doubts about, you know, will this be enough, but they support what he has done so are if a. what he is doing in terms of the air strikes no, boots on the ground, you know, creating a coalition, potentially having muslims fighting muslims, that's letter and verse what the american people want done. and the american people. >> did you ever hear -- >> -- reluctant warriors except to the extent we don't want to repeat the errors of 10 years ago and get locked intoybÑ some ancient dispute. >> as hume and i definitely pointed out, a lot of what the president said he wants to do, arming the syrian rebels is just foolishness, it's not going to ha

eric: mary katharine, juan just mentioned the optimism.usehold incomes since 2008, 36% say it's gone down. 42 per se it's gone up. yet the wt and the democratic party still seems to have this problem. >> i think americans are naturally optimistic. but there is a rational assessment of what's going none the economy. americans will not accept this is a new normal. they want something better than what we have right now. a note of caution to the gop is we noticed certainly in 2012, that the president can have bad numbers and people can think he's not doing a great job and not delivering on his promises and that doesn't necessarily mean the gop is going to be their alternative they are willing to vote for. i would caution people, you have got to go out there and make that case. but these numbers are looking worse and sometimes in cases worse than 2010 which was a good case for the gop. eric: 57% are optimistic. 38% pessimistic. it's gone down since october 2012. how do you think that will impact what happens 52 day from now. >> we are in the st

do you think that's true, mary katharine?look, i think i would add something to your talking points, something that really has hit close to home literally for the president is which is we got this news today i think from "the washington post breaking discreet service stories about how the guy who ran across the lawn got to the white house beyond the limits. you are looking at the most concentrated most arguably. >> well protected. >> protected area and they can't even concentrate on that successfully. that gives me pause. >> that is just an incompetency if it's true on the part of certain agents. >> how widespread is that incompetency? >> but, juan, the american people are starting to say to themselves and the polls prove, this we don't believe the commander and chief is tough enough to defend us. last word, juan, 30 seconds. i don't think that's real. i think what people are saying is i think i saw a poll like this today bill, they say he is a dub. i think is he a dub. i don't think he wants to go to war. he predicated his w

. >> joining us now from washington mary katharine ham and juan williams both fox news analysts.ink romney is running, juan? >> i don't think there is any way is he going to run but sure downdz like it. the reality is last time around in 12 he had trouble energizing the g.o.p. base. why had you low turnout republican voters and tea party people who remember him as the governor of, you know, the commonwealth of liberal massachusetts with healthcare reform and anti-co-legislation. so, i don't see and even if you look directly at the polls, right now hillary clinton would hold likef9] percentage point lead over mitt romney. >> romney is a known he can raise the money. let me ask you this, juan. why would you get up at 7:30 on a sunday morning to talk to wallace, all right? if why? if he is not running, why bother? i agree. he thinks somehow there is something in there. but you know what? he would be playing to the democrats'(8ltÑ playbook. >> i don't believe that different world than it was, all right, mary katherine, is he running northern? >> i would say no as well. he probably ha

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mary katharine hamm was with us when the summit was just getting started back in 2011. she was with us via skype last year. i think it was a historic first. the first official western conservative summit baby got into this world. as part of the next conservative generation. baby is at home now with dad, 11 months old. i'm glad you're with us in person. who is winning the fight on the right? >> thank you for having me. thank you for allowing me to skype in last year. i would have brought in my daughter, but frankly she is a lot more quiet -- was a lot more quiet last year than now. it is an honor to be with you guys, who do so much work and wage this fight in ways that are big and small all the time. it's really cool to be here with you, who i have heard so much about for years. to meet you in person is a blast. to echo a couple things you said, yes, the media is interested in our fight. that's part of the issue, and playing into that that is something we need to be wary of, especially when things get so ugly, as in mississippi. a brief example, a friend of mine who does