thompson, fred grandee, arnold schwarzenegger, p.t. barnum was the governor of bridgewater, connecticut. >> i saw some rumblings about donald trump. could he be governor of new york? >> highly unlikely. >> i think it would be a fascinating election to coverage. i'm excited for it. >> the senate could flip. >> panel, thank you. >>> straight ahead, 50 shades of confusion. americans from coast to coast running into problems as obama kicks in. and is your state the most frustrated or the least? >>> governor chris christie and his new jersey pal senator cory booker burning all twitter on this cold day. that's next.

success and then blame him for all of it and the american people i mean you know this is the old p.t. barnum thing nobody ever got or a.j. liebling to put in his quote book or look at nobody ever fail to get rich underestimating the intelligence of the american people they're just assuming people are going to blame the president and it turns out a lot of people are blaming the president but you want to. confuse because if the republicans try to block obama starting in two thousand and nine they did a pretty bad job the biggest peacetime spin to build in history with the eight are any of that near could be. recovery act obamacare had the first year before scott brown got sworn in to replace ted kennedy he had he had a period of time in a few months there were he actually had a year it was a little less than a year wasn't scott brown was elected in january of the next year or so but a year ok so he had about a year where he had a filibuster proof majority in the senate and he had the house when i'm with you and i think he should have been much more ambitious during the year but you know in ret

of them are former athletes, but we've had fred thompson, fred grandee, arnold schwarzenegger, p.t. barnum was the governor of bridgewater, connecticut. >> i saw some rumblings about donald trump. could he be governor of new york? >> highly unlikely. >> i think it would be a fascinating election to coverage. i'm excited for it. >> the senate could flip. >> panel, thank you. >>> straight ahead, 50 shades of confusion. americans from coast to coast running into problems as obama kicks in. and is your state the most frustrated or the least? >>> governor chris christie and his new jersey pal senator cory booker burning all twitter on this cold day. that's next. >>> okay, everyone. it's time to hash it out. >>> okay, everyone, it's time to hash it out. a garden state taking a snow day and as politicians taking to twitter. cory booker grabbing a shovel and tweeting, heading out in about an hour to shovel for seniors and others. if you're interested in joining, tweet back. senator booker always live tweeting tales of his shoveling outing. stopped to help a senior shovel out his car. turns out hfr

he controls the american news agenda and he's an unexplored subject and he's citizen cain meets p.t. barnumnetwork whose rating surpass rivals combined and it drives the agenda. >> he is a brilliant television executive, whether you're whatever your political affiliation. >> of course. >> you write about his desire to influence national politics and you quote him telling fox executives in 2010 i want to elect the next president. what did he do to try to make that happen? >> roger ailes has been influencing politics through three decades whether as a political consultant or tv news executive and he knows how to program television to drive a message. in the 2012 cycle with mitt romney, his strategy was rather than trying to build romney up it was an attack strategy over barack obama because he knew romney had lukewarm support amongst the conservative base and obama was a very ripe target and if you look at fox fuse programming throughout the last election cycle, he was driving that through the "fast and furious" scandal and benghazi and every day fox is driving that message which kept the bas