now, this week i spoke with steven ratner. evers the man the president picked to be the czar that would save the auto industry. >> when i took the job, i wasn't at all sure we had a solution to it, but i finally convinced myself i couldn't make it any worse and therefore i'd give it a try. i did satisfy myself pretty early on it was an important role for the domestic u.s. auto industry. >> pretty incredible when you see where it is today, obviously ford leading that pack to be in better shape but they were in better shape then anyway. but to see what american carmakers have managed to come up with in the last few years with the government's help. kind of impressive. >> it's sad but it's true it took a crisis. the changes partly at the government's behest, partly themselves was due to the crisis. the president said to every constituency you have to sacrifice, creditors, suppliers, it took this kind of crisis to work. >> with the benefit of time, what would have done differently in those deals? >> i don't think there's a lot we

andrea tantaros, jim pinkerton, american conservative editor magazine and talk radio service, ellen ratner, i'm rick folbaum. fox news watch is on right now. ♪ . >> we're here on behalf of our people and that means that we conduct ourselves with-- with the utmost dignity and obviously, what's been reported doesn't match up with those standards, but again, i think i'll wait until the full investigation is completed before i pass final judgment. >> that of course the president reacting to the news about u.s. secret service agents. and the elite force, assigned to protect the president and his family caught up in a scandal, involving prostitutes and access to their hotel in colombia and of course, because the media loves salacious scandals, the story making big news as did the colombian escort who ignited the scandal and there she is. and what happens in colombia doesn't stay in colombia. >> and a sign of how the media operates now days, some of these evidenced here for both the gsa and secret service came from social media the wife of the gsa administrator posted photographs on google plus a

to go after these three speakers, charles duncan, a leap ratner, and bill mackovich. >> hello. i'm carol a courtney. i joined the of the weight recreation facility. i was able to afford access to recreational activities. on the secretarial southerly of under $20,000 per year. i have never been able to afford a home with an outdoor space in the city, but i have been able to afford this respite from dark in cramped city living -- living for my family. the developers' proposal is not the right solution for the residents in the roads of the city. it violates a 35 year city policy to rot -- not raise heights. it does a disservice to the community by the string outdoor recreation, access to residents who grew up with the first nation to the city. it does that keep or enhanced unique character of you take a ride or the city as a whole. it does not reconnect san francisco to the waterfront and put a wall that has all hard shaded and narrow edge along the waterfront, blocking views. why are we giving away this land? a community developer. why are we still entertaining the thought of acc

. >> financier steve ratner. >> that's what he is, steve ratner. >> what about vp?n. it's jeb bush. >> they have to talk. come on. somebody calls you. >> it'll be good. it'll be good. >> put florida in the column. romney is terrible in the south. that would be something. >> that would be something. it would pick back up our american democratic dynastic theme where a bush or clinton would be back on the ticket, thank god. >> there was a year. >> it's one cycle. >> one cycle where there hasn't been a bush or a clinton since 1980. >> what's the calculation for jeb bush if he wants to be president? he his mitt romney may lose, does this hurt him at all? >> no, no. right now it gets him out of the shadow of his older brother who, you know, jeb would have been the guy running for president in 2000 if he'd won in '94 against lawton chiles. and so it allows him, win or lose, to go out and prove that he's not his brother. >> you mentioned one of the great what ifs. it's like if ford had gotten on the ticket in 1980, what would have happened to the bush family. chiles hadn't

i have read steven ratner's book about the saving of the auto industry, which i have a particular interestide that book, it said that you were opposed to bailing out chrysler. so i want to give you an opportunity here on national tv to proclaim that you were dead wrong. >> well, look. i've been happy to be -- i try to -- i try to stay out of private advice i gave the president or in those things, i try to stay out of that. i didn't know the guy was writing a book while we war wr all making the decisions. but i will say this. the look, at that time they were very tough calls. the president was the gutsiest of anybody. and my fear at that time, as with some others was that if you tried to save too many people, you could endanger ford and g.m., and that chrysler might not have sufficient scale to survive. i'm happy to be proven wrong. anybody who had doubts they should be overjoyed that chrysler has made back enough money they were able to get financing and pay back the loan they got from the government. it's fabulous. >> well, you are an honest man. i appreciate you acknowledging that you we

mcfarland an analyst and ellen ratner of talk radio news service. us today. so the first topic, mitt rolz is he naive? >> totally naive. even k.t. will support me. he can't release national security transcripts? how does he compare it to tax returns. it blows my mind. >> every administration, single most secret documents are the ones that are transcripts of president's meeting with heads of states. we're only now declassifying now from nixon administration. he has a point. romney has point. that is credibility of obama and what is he saying to foreign leaders. what is he going to say after the election. i think he has the right point but not a great way to make the message. >> i think they are trying to do each side is trying to shape a narrative about the competitor. romney is going to be according to the obama supporters secretive rich guy who doesn't want to tell us how much he made and how he made it. for the republicans they want to shape obama as the guy as k.t. says who is going to give away the farm in the second term. look what he said when

ellen ratner is bureau chief of talk radio shoes service. nice to talk to you both. they have to pub what size these pictures. >> of course they didn't. they made editorial judgement. i'm a little bit afraid did i cat not of anybody but i don't like to cause trouble. "l.a. times" did this after talking to the pentagon many times. also the one fact really got me this particular group of soldiers, this company, was sent back to afghanistan. this happened two years ago. so they were not actually, they published these because they're afraid of unit cohesion issues and that was safety of these people that was editorial decision they made. rick: matthew, would the washington free beacon publish these pictures. >> not at all. it would put soldiers at risk. the obama administration were worried publishing these were endanger troops lives. we seen the pattern of alleged malpractice of part of american soldiers causing riots into afghanistan. this is feeding into that river of hate. it was a horrible decision on the part of the "l.a. times". rick: ellen, these were terrorists.

ellen ratner. cal thomas is syndicated columnist. both are fox news contributors.ellen, this fifth circuit judge in washington, d.c. didn't seem to take kindly what the president said about the power of the judiciary. there seems to be this collective yawn from the media. >> well, you know i felt like both the president's clarification yesterday was not covered by the media in this rousing speech kind of stuff that we saw, but i also felt like the judge's comments and particularly his specific remarks about how many pages it should be was also not covered. it was on drudge. it was on huffington. it showed up in some newspapers and cbs, et cetera but wasn't really explained and i think cal is probably will agree with me on that. all of this was buried. jon: does seem to be a fairly monumental examination of the proper role of the three branches of our government here, cal and i would i this that it would be getting a little more ink? >> i would too, jon. ellen is right, i do agree up to a point but look, the media have a lot invested in this president. they sold him

in fact, steve ratner and the team were in the process of killing it and we argued at general motors the first volt was shown at the detroit automobile show in january of 2007. last i checked obama was elected in 2008. and the federal tax credit of $7,500 was instituted under the bush administration. so it bothers me when conservative news outlets don't get their facts straight. >> i mean, you've seen the headlines. gm estimated they've sold 6,000 volts so far. that means the subsidy is 250,000 per volt. that's not the amount of government money that went in to develop it? >> absolutely not. >> okay. >> joe -- >> go ahead. >> you're looking at this problem from a pure market perspective and the reality is there is no free market for oil. the market for oil is controlled by a cartel, opec. they own 80% to 90% of the reserves in the world. they produce about 42%. last year the united states sent $328 billion offshore to buy imported petroleum the cost for the average family went up from $1,700 in 2001 to $4,000 last year. we spent 60% of our balance of payments on imported petroleum. >

i'm telling you his record, and steve ratner will say this and a lot of other wall street people willnothing short of remarkable but he wasn't trying to be cutesie. he wasn't doing standup in salt lake. he was trying to save the olympics. >> that gets back to the point where he's now got to define himself for the american public. you say he's a member of 1%. he certainly is a member of the 1% but there might be a pocket out there in this country of people, voters who are willing to listen to a guy who stops apologizing for how much money he's made and instead says look, i've made a lot of money in my life. i want you to make money. i know how to help you make money. i know how to get this economy back on. i know how to get the gas prices down. i know how to deal with the regulations that have so flummuxed and angered wall street, wrongly, by the way, i know how to get this done. i'm the guy. >> we have to stop painting the. the as the county organizer as the guy who saved the auto industry, a guy who got the terrorist bush couldn't get. this man accomplished a lot. you may like him, n

. >> ratner thought i was like older than 49 because he said, forever 49, huh?at did you learn? >> since luke took mine and you took mine, alex, i will say that paul ryan and david axelrod on the show tomorrow, should be a good day. >> sharing a danish. >> happy birthday. >> going to be great. old guy. >> i am very, very old. >> cranky. >> so, luke, what are you working on on the hill right now? >> its it is a recess but when we come back, we are going to dive right back into the discussion we have had all along which is more possibly bipartisan jobs act, going do about this transportation bill been continued on for only 16 more days. >> we loved having you here. >> a pleasure. >> thank you so much. >> way too early tomorrow morning and on wednesday. >> don't you love that? >> fantastic. very good. mark halperin, try this with you, if it is way too early, what time is it? >> "morning joe." but right now, time for birthday chuck. >> birthday to birthday. >> boy, i remember being in college a birthday chu