michael goodwin, robert zimmerman, ed roolins, also fox news contributors good to have you here. let's start with president's @%sessment. bleakest map for democrats, do you agree? >> look, whatever it started out to be his policies and his lack of popular popularity made it mk for democrats in many states, they should have held or picked up some seats, he has been a drag on him, once again it is never his fault but it is his fault. >> well, let's be realistic about this. this is a collect of states that president lost many of them by double digits. digits. lou: let's talk about virginia. where mark warner was supposed to win, ed gillespie was behind double digits two weeks ago now it appears to be a verypit tiggt battle. >> let see how it plays out. lou: we don't need to be reminded of protocol, i need you to answer the question. >> i am not accepting the instance analysis. lou: what was that. >> too closing to call. lou: would you like to -- >> i would like to see more votes come in. lou::we have a testy democrat on set with us, it may be more of a suggestion. >> my close to cal

pulitzer prize winner michael goodwin. michael, good to see you. former advisor to george w.lie, good to have you with us. gruber, a parade of evidence here. leslie, let me turn to you, it just absolutely. overwhelmingly proves that the democrats are delusional if they think they can lie about their relationship to this man and his relationship to obamacare. >> you know, and it's true. and i think there's very few media sources that are tying that knot of gruber back to the administration. the administration is doing anything it can to deflect that relationship. to say he was not part of the white house staff. to deny or look the other way at the 400,000 plus he was receiving in federal taxpayer dollars. the delusion to think it was not part of the development and the plan and the execution of obamacare is something that i don't think the media nor the american voters are ready to believe. lou: michael, i know you've seen this. this is randy writing in the new york times. randy saying this. if we could put it had it up here. there is no public will at work here. there is only

ashley: a lot to talk about, joining me now michael goodwin, and mercedes. are looking at live pictures from clayton, missouri tonight. prior to announcement of the grand jury decision coming up in over an hour now. michael, let's get to you first. how do you think this whole case has been handled? >> a travesty. i think that each of these cases, we have seen them over years, they turns on individual facts by nationalizing them, making them a symbol or letting them speak for all police minority relations is a huge disservice to both sides, the facts matter, and the facts of each case are for different from others, i think this is judged too much by what does it say about police minority relations nationaly, is it a judgment on all kinds of social ills? or what -- i think that is too much to put on a single case. ashley: mercedes? do you agree? >> yes, i think to add to that point, have you president of united states, staerp attorney l very voke will o vocal on this r case it skews facts and details of this case, for the city, the tension, the emotions involve

in fact one of my sons, michael goodwin is a history teacher and an english teacher. so we have talked about the importance of having history at that level be brought to kids. once you capture them then, for the rest of their lives they will love history. they may not become an historian. he has done a wonderful job in our town in concord. we have all those revolutionary war sites in the literary people alcott and thoreau and emerson. he has created this experiential semester long program or he takes the kids out to all the sites during the semester long programs and they become lovers of not only history but english, even math science and art because he shows how it all connects. education is the most important thing still in this country for opportunity when we worry about what's happening in the inner cities and only worry about the fact a lot of people don't have the same opportunities that they do even in other countries that they are not getting out of poverty. education is the key and that's only one piece of it to make people love in high school the subject yo

let's ask writer "new york new t writer, fox news contributor, michael goodwin. you were struck by the fact that things have gotten worse. you never thought that was going to be the case. >> well, when you look at those polls, there are a number of them and they all show basically the same thing. two to one, people think race relations under president obama have gotten worse instead of better. so you have 35, 40, 46 in one poll saying things are worse and as few as 18% in some polls saying things are better. so it's really a landslide in one direction in every poll. >> do you think it's because of horrific incidents, like the trayvon martin thing and the ferguson thing and the president's response? for example, president bush took a hit on race relations after katrina because so many african-americans were affected because the lower level neighborhoods were the ones flooded first. >> right. look, i think that it's very hard to pin everything on the president. but this president of course is unique in history. the first black president in the united states and i t