David Gergen

He went down 7 points in just one month in the CNN poll.

We'll also with David Gergen who thinks about the results coming up.

But you'd like to sort of nudge it along if you can.

Yes, it's a double standard.

The president ought to go back to where -- his original position, and have her go there and testify or just meet with the staff.

There is a hypocrisy here because the Democrats were pushing Harriet Myers... and they said there's no privilege. They have to come testify. Come on, guys, what's good for one is good for the other. That's a double standard.

The president ought to go back to where his original position and have her go there and testify or just meet with the staff.

It's nation-building-lite.

And what the president said was, no, I'm not going to do that. It's too open-ended.

I think it's relatively clear he has not achieved the unity in the country that he is seeking that he spoke of last night. People are still, you know, there's a lot of skepticism about it.

It's not pleasing anybody. It's got a very small number of people in the middle, but I do think it's -- I don't think it's appropriate to call it the true nation-building.

But very importantly for him and it has emerged now on Capitol Hill, that it looks like the Congress will support him, a majority will support him financially so it will give him permission to go ahead.

What the president said was, 'No, I'm not going to do that. It's too open ended. The country won't pay a -- spend a trillion dollars in Afghanistan. We're going to have to start pulling the plug.'

The public won't sustain, won't support an open-ended war and this worked out to be a logical time to begin the drawdown.

If you really want to rally people, one way or another you either get in or you get out.

Well, one of the greatest things the Republicans have going for them is this disaffection toward the Democrats.

The tea party people want to bring down some establishment-type Republicans in -- running for the Senate in places like Florida, and California, and Kentucky, and other states.

I think this has become so politicized, Tom.

I don't see either party really willing to do that.

The president may be in something of a no-win situation here. No matter what he does, he's going to make somebody unhappy, isn't he?

I think the Republicans have the potential, Tom, to have a very big year this coming fall, especially if unemployment remains high.

I do think that -- we all know that there is this populous surge in the country that shows up in tea parties and elsewhere. She's going to be the darling of that set.

It -- it -- this is very complex, Anderson. It's hard to know.

Yes, they did, Anderson. And it was -- it's been a very difficult choice for Nancy Pelosi to allow this.

Yes, they did, Anderson. And it was it -- it's been a very difficult choice for Nancy Pelosi to allow this.