Eliot speaks with Breitbart.com and BigGovernment.com publisher Andrew Breitbart, who broke the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal,  the same conservative blooger who jumped on stage before the congressman's press conference on Monday, June 6.

Breitbart says he doesn't want to be the arbiter in the  decision about whether or not Rep. Weiner should resign, but says he is now doing damage to the Democratic Party.  According to Breitbart, Weiner never should have put himself in the position where he could have been blackmailed or compromised by the women he was sexting with.

Howard Kurtz, Host of CNN Reliable Sources and Washington Bureau Chief for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, predicts that Rep. Anthony Weiner will likely leave office by the end of the week, that his crime was lying to the media and the American people, and that the "yuck factor" makes it difficult to empathize with him.

Middle East expert Fouad Ajami says the current regime in Syria had successfully hid under the radar, under the veneer of years of successful public relations campaigning. But now the Syrian people and the world have truly seen the deception and cruelty of the Syrian leadership.

Ajami is professor of Middle East Studies at The Johns Hopkins University, The School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow of The Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Eliot speaks with Glenn Grothman, (R-West Bend), Assistant Majority Leader of the Wisconsin State Senate, about the "Walkerville" tent city in Madison, Wisconsin, where activists and others have camped out since last Saturday, protesting the policies of Gov. Scott Walker.

Grothman says demonstrations are just part of the character of Madison and ultimately, the GOP-sponsored bill that cuts the budget and changes public sector workers' rights will pass.

CLICK HERE to read our OFF-SET interview with two tent city demonstrators.

Today's Number of the Day is 48 percent.

In a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Wednesday, 48 percent of people questioned say they approve of how the president is handling his duties in the White House. That means, obviously, his approval rating has dropped below 50 percent. And that’s down down six points from late May.

The Osama bin Laden bump is now officially gone. We're back to "It's the economy, stupid" as the driver of things political.  At least for the moment.

And, according to the national poll, a growing number of Americans worry that the U.S. is likely to slip into another Great Depression within the next 12 months. Not another recession, but a Depression. People are worried about the economy generally, and also unemployment, gas prices and the federal deficit.

But according to the poll, three-quarters of all Americans say they approve of him personally, including a plurality of Republicans. FULL POST

Four months after tens of thousands descended on the Wisconsin state capitol, progressives have a new home in what they're calling Walkerville. The Madisontent city is named in honor - or, more accurately, in defiance - of Gov. Scott Walker, who became an icon for conservatives and lightning rod for liberals after he pushed through a controversial new collective bargaining law earlier this year.

David Boetcher, one of Walkerville's coordinators, said the aim is to recapture the spirit of Hoovervilles, the shanty towns that popped up and were named to tweak President Herbert Hoover's perceived inaction in the Great Depression's early years. Since Saturday night's kick-off, about 80 tents have sprung up in and aroundState Street in Madison, with a handful of people sticking it out throughout, but mostly fresh rounds of activists rotating through on a daily basis.

The budget is expected to be debated by the full Legislature soon, and the tent city occupants expect their numbers to swell into the thousands this weekend.

CLICK HERE to read the CNN.com story.

We’ll cover many sides of the issues involved. Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin Republican state senator, is scheduled to appear In The Arena on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 8 pm ET, along with Kim Sprecher, a teacher and an animal nurse. Plus, Peter Rickman, a leader of the Teaching Assistants Association at the University of Wisconsin. He’s also the organizer of Walkerville and the tent city’s "mayor."

ONLY ON THE BLOG: Answering today’s OFF-SET questions is Aongus O’Murchadha, a grad student in physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  He’s from Ireland and been living in Wisconsin for six years. We also spoke with Jim (who prefers that we only use his first name.) He’s been permanently unemployed for two years, but says he has worked in a variety of service industry jobs and as unskilled labor. Jim’s lived in Wisconsin almost his whole life.

How long have you been at the tent city?

Jim: I’ve been here since Saturday. I’m sleeping here.

Aongus: Every day since it began on Saturday. I haven’t been living here, but spending time with people, and helping them out with activities and events that they are doing. There was a large protest on Monday of about 1,000 people. They stopped at a bank to protest its role in the bank bailout and inWalker’s election campaign. There also have been a number of town hall-style meetings. FULL POST

DEMS OSTRACIZE WEINER; CONSERVATIVES HAD WEINER EARLY WARNING SYSTEM –  - Democratic leaders in Congress turned their backs Tuesday on embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner a day after the New York Democrat admitted to improper sexually-tinged communications with women and lying about it. "I wish there was some way I could defend him, but I can't," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, told reporters. Asked what he would say if Weiner sought advice, Reid smiled and responded: "I'd tell him to call someone else."

Meanwhile, three months before Representative Anthony D. Weiner sent a photo from his Twitter account to a 21-year-old Washington State college student named Gennette Cordova, a small group of determined, self-described conservatives were warning young women on Twitter, including Ms. Cordova, to be wary of him, The New York Times reports.

Calling themselves the #bornfreecrew on Twitter, members of the group closely monitored those whom Mr. Weiner was following, taking it upon themselves to contact young women they believed to be “schoolgirls,” and urging them publicly to stay away from him, according to an analysis of posts on Twitter’s public stream.  FULL POST