governor dean, let me quote you something from peggy noonan. she wrote in the "wall street journal--" and i'm quoting now-- she's talking about the president. she said the president has not only has nothing to say. he's actually become boring. how as a democrat would you respond to that? >> i think that's just silly. the fact of the matter is the united states is much better positioned in terms of our foreign security than we have been in a long time. osama bin laden is dead. we have our troops out of iraq. our troops are coming out of afghanistan. these are things that are important to the united states. secondly, there have been four million new jobs added since barack obama took over the presidency. now there's been some loss in the public sector, so the tea party people ought to be happy. in fact, government is shrinking. i think we've made some real progress. we have two thoughtful, sensible justices on the supreme court, no more right wing extreme people. we have a medical system, while more complex than i think would have been desirable,

capture them with internet explorer and a powerful dell pc. >>> we are back with bill keller, peggy noonaneeland and ross. peggy, what do you think of gay marriage, the issue, all the issues with women's health some is that going to be a big part of this election? it seems to have -- i think no one would have predicted that would have taken up the space it has already. gay marriage might have been somewhat unpredictable, but what's going on? >> i think the selection is mostly about the economy. i think at the end of the day, people are going to look, as i said, are we going in the right direction, more or less? do we have a path going so that if we keep on it and keep investing time in it, i think we'll wind up in a good place or not? i mean, i actually think it's that simple. i think all of the other issues will bubble up and come down and we'll see how it breaks, but it's an economic election. >> i think that's mostly right, but, you know, if it's a close election and it gets decided at the margins, the margin is that 15% or so of the voters who self-identify as moderate independents, an

i think you know, those kind of interviews with people like peggy noonan are great for him. they humanize him in a way and show he understands at saying i like to fire people is not going to win hearts and minds into we were talking earlier about the the high school accident. he should have said, yes, i did it, mistakes were made and pivoted off of it. so far, prior to this interview, you actually have never seen him willing to take responsibility or admit mistakes. if he can do this, i think he could definitely do better going into the general. >> you also saw in there when he's on the stump, he's so aware the next word he says could be a disaster. he's so buttoned up. and you can sort of see, us saw al gore get into this position in 2000, so afraid of tripping over that next word, it really limits their ability to connect. >> this is a lifelong in politics pattern for mitt romney. i can remember his first campaign in 1994 in pascucci, he talked about how he and his wife had gotten to know and explore massachusetts and seen it all from boston to worse city. there was a lot

jon: that is a question he asked peggy noonan.about it with jim pinkerton, contributing editor and writer for. alan colmes host of alcan combs radio show. there is another example we'll play, jim. but what do you see the sunday chat shows. >>> to be honest i see mostly liberal movement but not left-wing conspiracy but movement of people like bob schieffer and david gregory look, to the guest, don't you agree the republican is bunch of nuts. that is a planned assumption in the question frankly whether or not the reviewer, the pardon me, the person answering the question agrees with it or not the fact that the question says it raises issue in the minds of listen at home in the audience and i think that is kind of the goal. jon: i suppose alan does think the republican party is bunch of nuts. >> some them. just like some people on all sides are nuts but nobody we know, right? so, fairness and accuracy in reporting study show 70% of the guests between 2011 and february of this year were republicans. you've got, for example, the media

we'll ask peggy noonan about that and the latest controversy surrounding donald trump and president obama. >>> i'm ericka hill. an airliner makes an emergency landing and jurors at a trial are noted for wearing red. would they be headed for a miss montreal. >>> i'm gayle king. a new biography. walter cronkite takes an unprecedented look at his life and career. author douglas brinkley will stop by studio 57. >> first as we do every morning we look at today's eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. >>> and apparently they have found part of an engine. >>> an air canada flight was heading from toronto to japan when one of the engines just shut down. >>> police in toronto say that falling chunks of metal from the plane may have damaged at least four cars. >>> nothing i expected to happen today, having airplane debris fall through my windshield. >>> this could be mitt romney's big day at the texas primary. >> mitt romney gets set to clinch the gop nomination. >> some are thinking, really? i mean trump keeps bringing up this birther issue. >> i don't agree with all the people that support me and

. >>> mitt romney wraps up the gop nomination today so we'll ask peeingy noonan peggy noonan about that and the controversy. >>> a jet makes an emergency landing after dropping red hot debris to the ground below and jurors at the john edwards trial get noticed for wearing red. could that case be headed toward a mistrial? >>> i'm gayle king. when i see you at 8:00 a new biography of cbs news legend walter cronkite looks at his career. >> we begin with today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> breaking news in northern italy where an earthquake is causing buildings to collapse. >> italy is rocked by another deadly earthquake. centered 25 miles northwest of bologna in northern italy. >>> an air canada flight was heading from toronto to japan when one of the engines just shut down. >> police in toronto say that falling chunks of metal from the plane may have damaged at least four cars. >> not something i expected to happen today having airplane debris fall. >> this could be mitt romney's big day at the texas primary. he could get the delegates he needs to become the gop presidential

. >> romney talked with peggy noonan. here is an excerpt from the conversation, it's his own mistake -- it's my own mistakes that make me want to kick myself in the seat of my pants. i like to be able to fire pe people, i have to think about what i say in a full sentence, and a phrase, gosh we want you to be spontaneous, if you say anything in the wrong order you will be sorry. besides sticking to the script, what else do you think mitt romney learned from that bruising primary battle? >> basically that one, the bain attack won't work and that is why they keep using his background as a business person. and just to chris' point earlier the reason they focus on that instead of being governor, being a business person pulls off the chart compared to being in government. when you do a referendum on the sitting president, you want to come out as the outside government type. >> that is it? do you not think the romney campaign will talk up his years as governor? >> i think they will use it at certain points but right now since he

it's something that mitt romney in an interview with peggy noonan said he regretted. the sense that he is an out of touch guy who likes firing people and thinks corporations are people. >> i don't think that resonates the way a lot of my friends on the left hope it does in terms of what. >> mitt romney said this, not me. >> i know what mitt romney said there, but i do not think to your point, john, that they consider that to be the death knell for them that thereromney hating the rich. there's no difference between a donald trump fund-raiser or meg whitman than what we've seen the president do in his fund-raising over the last few weeks, as well. >> but you guys, take out the money. it's the birther argument. come on. what is the real reason to stand with donald trump and to release your own birth certificate? he knows that there is a segment of the population that agrees with that argument, and they're taking no chances and want to make sure they keep that part of the base happy while they try to get the middle, as well. there's no other reason to be standing with do

peggy noonan saying the senate needs grown-ups. the entire american government.rine, what's going on? >> just go down the list. we're talking about campaign financer or the student loan comment. the rules in the senate are done so you need 60 votes to get something out of committee. that's ludicrous. all these driven by far right and rarely, these days, left idiologs. unless you combat those rule changes to create that fairer and more level playing field on which we can have great id yoe logical battles, then you might as well throw our constitutional republic out the window. >> you know, i think a lot of people share that sentiment. yet, the republican party, or its most active wing, especially in the house, has doubled down on a tactic of, you know, championing those who are furthest right. the mourdock-lugar race -- >> that's winning at expense of the republic. >> it's also winning at expense of their own party. mourdoch is currently tied in the latest polls. dick lugar is 20 points ahead. this is suicidal. the irony is the great tactician and strategist for t

good news is he is starting to do more interviews and will talk to wall street journal columnist peggy noonan. he hasn't bone the sunday shows. let's go to the obama side. press secretary jay carney, who wrote that the rate of federal spending increase under barack obama has been lower than although predecessors in the oval office since dwight eisenhower, and carney said do not buy into the bs that you hear. to the contrary. doing so is a sign of sloth and lazyness. are you slothful? >> not more than usual. i don't know what that level is. here again is what drives people crazy. they want the media to say no, jay carney is wrong or, yes, jay carney is right. there are all sorts of things now like fact checking things from newspapers, like the washington post and others, who try to arrive at a -- >> are you a columnist, and you can say whatever you want. if you are a strit reporter or editing reporter as you are now, is that the role of the press is that this guy is lying. >> i think that the white house is asking for was to not listen to the other side's point of view, which is never going to

because peggy noonan doesn't like it. see, he was outed -- look -- >> he moved, sold his house, moved to d.c. he was the ultimate washington insider, and it just got -- i don't know. it was a tea party-backed gop -- >> he was a bipartisan guy. >> i want to tell you my comments on that. we had arthur brooks on yesterday. analysts say the race was in a conservative state. it illustrates animosity toward many incumbents buchl arthur made a point yesterday to bill bradley and to others, bipartisanship just means doing what the other party wants basically, at this point. in other words, the guys that went in, didn't want to raise taxes and do certain thing, bipartisanship means we're going to do all the things that you were elected not do. so being bipartisan -- >> bipartisanship means we're doing what we want to do. and they're not going to do it. >> they're at a standstill, which we're at now. >> that's because we're at 15% revenue 25r revenue, 25% spending. let's work on the 25 first. >> you have to be willing to do both. t

. >> keep in mind, richard lugar who it was just this past week peggy noonan in the pages of the "wall street journal" said, you know what? let's return him. we know he's been there a long time but he's sober and responsible adult. and washington needs more sober and responsible adults. but at the end of the day, you know, members of the tea party, a lot of conservatives said you know what? it's those sober and responsible adults who ran us into the ditch when it comes to the debt where we're spending way more than we're taking in. >> what were they upset about? they were upset he voted for the wall street bailout. they were upset that he reached across the aisle in his 36 years in the senate. and so now, it's really a message for the future. if you are orrin hatch sitting in utah right now who has also been a senator for quite sometime, you must be wondering if you will also have the fate of dick lugar now after you see what happened. is the tea party now making a comeback? that's the question of the morning. >> we are experiencing deep political divisions in our society right now. an

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. >> here to look at the race, author and wall street journal columnist peggy noonan and bill bradleyfor president in 2000. his new book is called "we can all do better." welcome. great to see you. this neck is race and neck, dead even? >> yes, everybody says it is and for the first time in a while, i think they're right. >> even in the most important states, decisive states it seems to be dead even. who will determine this? independents? >> i think independents are a big role. i think also the black turnout will be important and the hispanic turnout will be important. i think that also how people feel about the two candidates, once they get to know them even better, because i think the fundamental question somebody asks when they vote for president is, who do i trust with my life? who do i trust with my job? and who has a view of life remotely similar to my own? >> you saw what biden said, the vice president said about same-sex marriage. he's gone further than the president has. will that become an issue? >> i hope not because that's not the real issue. the real issue is what's happe

jenna: donna, in "the wall street journal" today mitt romney was quoted in peggy noonan's piece and asked about the game of politics. he says i like competition. i think the game is like a sport for old guys. i think the president might take issue with that. the president isn't quite as old as mitt romney. neither of them are that old. donna, why, is there a double-standard where mitt romney can go out and say whatever he wants about the competition, the game of politics but the president can't? is the that appropriate because getting back to the issue of the president being the president and that's just the breaks when you're the president you have to behave differently than a regular politician? >> well i think the president is behaving differently than a regular politician and i like to just point out that when the president went to washington he did intend to commit to being a transformational leader. then he ran smack into the partisanship that surrounds washington politics. i mean, when you think about precedents that have been upended, it was phenomenal that the former vice preside

. >> what was the famous peggy noonan line, when i'm not a good talker and a quiet man. >> i hear thes that kind of approach that '88 acceptance speech of the first president bush is like a model for how you take the fact -- i was lucky. i'm a person of means. just lay that out and say, but i understand what you're going through. that's one of the two core problems, i think, that the obama re-election has. the other one being that he's lost his stature as the transitional candidate to play the normal game. that poll number, that almost 3 out of 4 americans think he switched on gay marriage for political reasons, that tells you more than any horse race number what his problem is. he's no longer seen as a guy that changes things, and that may not be his fault. it's a powerful vulnerability that romney has the potential to exploit, the potential. >> jim cramer, there also is a question when americans go into a voting booth, do they think barack obama is going to understand how to turn the economy around? we're talking about joe biden connecting, hillary clinton obviously did great in you