obama how she liked living in the white house. mrs. obama reportedly replied, "don't ask. it's hell. i can't stand it." both mrs. obama and mrs. bruni deny the first lady ever made the comment. mrs. obama does not like the depiction. >> i guess it's more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here, a strong woman and -- you know, but that's been an image that people have tried to paint of me since the day barack announced, that i'm some angry black woman. who can write about how i feel? who? what third person can tell me how i feel? >> question, is it normal, or abnormal, for there to be friction between the president's west wing staff and the first lady and her east wing staff? michelle. >> i have absolutely no idea, but what i will tell you, personal opinion, this first couple clearly this is a woman who loves her husband, she's fiercely protective of the presidency of her husband, of their children of her image. i would suspect there would be some friction between the east wing and the west wing, if people are not doing their jobs. >> look, mrs. reagan, quite

we have five trillion dollars of obama debt, new deficit debt, new debt from obama, more debt recession. >> three years and didn't fix it. >> sean: he called george bush unpatriotic and unpatriotic for accumulating $4 trillion in eight years. bill cunningham sewed this program mr. springer that barack obama who got you in trouble was unpatriotic and irresponsible, you would say? >> he is a great president and god bless him. i'm looking forward to the next four years when he is president again. having said that, obviously we are in a recession. obviously, we're in difficult economic times. ideally, it would be great if every american could have a job in the private secretary for, that would be perfect. in a capitalist system which we all three love and benefited very much from, in a capitalist system, every business tries to employ as few people as possible lowest benefits as possible. knowing that the government has to step in when people are unemployed. >> sean: bill, if we took the $5 trillion and he distributed it to the bottom 50% of how holds in america, tens of thousands of dollar

obama derangement syndrome is trickling down. remember this photo from last week with arizona governor jan brewer shoving her finger in the president's face? well, she said she felt threatened, but now brewer, you know what she is doing? fundraising off the picture. her pac website pro claims "i was telling him one more year" that is fwhoot she was telling the media. she told the media she felt threatened do people talk like that if they feel threatened? the republican party is creating an alternative reality to bash the president. they say untrue things about the president in a very tasteless manner, analogies to do what? fire up the base. but you see there is one thing about all this, not working on the majority of the american people. president obama's approval rating holy smokes, going up. recent washington post abc news poll shows president obama is now in 53% approval rating. highest approval rating since april of 2010. even right wing pollster rasmussen has president obama at 51% approval rating. these extreme attacks by r

but you see here is what obama did on the actual day that he signed it after backing off of the veto threat then he went forward and decided to insert into the signing a signing statement a promise a promise that isn't ministration won't allow this to apply to american citizens without trial first so what happened out there in the media world well people just started rejoicing obama defenders started blogging tweeting saying see obama does said that it doesn't apply to american citizens so it's all ok now i don't even know where to start in terms of what a foolish response that is all around but let's just make a few things very clear here no matter what obama does or doesn't do the indefinite military military detention including of american citizens well that part is already enshrined into law he signed the damn bill so even if his administration chooses not to interpret it in that way well then guess what that doesn't stop any future presidents from using it in the exact language that was written it so thanks a lot obama you might promise to be the good guy in this scenario but yo

beat obama? >> i am. santorum and i approve this message. >> you take out enemies wherever they are. newt gingrich was right. >> i stopped by the conservative principles that he outlined. >> the people in this room feel speaker gingrich is right and i do too. >> i agree with speaker gingrich. i do not think gov. romney's plan is particularly bold. >> newt gingrich was right. >> on "newsmakers" we will hear from the congressman on the results of the south carolina primary as well as what president obama is saying about congress and the future of the payroll tax cut. >> for more resources in the presidential race, use the campaign 2012 website to watch videos on the campaign trail to see what can it is have said on issues important to you, and read the latest from social media sites. [applause] >> republican presidential candidate newt gingrich spent time with reporters saying a vote for him would be the first step in electing the next conservative president. he was joined by his wife. he spoke for

military more lean and mean critics charge this new mission is no different from the one obama inherited from the bush era the u.s. will remain the world's policeman. and. to cross-talk washington's new military strategy i'm joined by matthew rothschild in madison he is the editor of the progressive magazine in los angeles we have christian whiten he is a principal with d.c. international advisory and a former state department senior adviser and in london we crossed to frank jackson he is feist president of uniting for peace all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's see what mr obama has in mind for the pentagon. in light of budgetary mandates passed by congress last year requiring reduction in overall defense spending president barack obama has announced a new strategic initiative for the american military in contrast to his predecessors the president's plan. no longer call for the u.s. to be able to fight two conventional wars simultaneously in different parts of the world and his vision for smaller more nimble military am

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obama makes recess points when congress isn't in recess. what would senator obama think about that? welcome to the journal, editorial report. i'm paul gigo it: one candidate lighter after michele bachmann's departure. the g.o.p. pac blanketed the state. and rick santorum hoping to capitalize on his iowa motor tumult and newt gingrich hoping for a comeback and mitt romney, the double digit lead in the polls there. joining the panel. this week, diary editor, jason riley, assistant editorial page editor, james freeman and dorothy rabinowitz and washington columnist, kim strassel. so, james, is rick santorum the most serious threat so far to mitt romney or not? >> he's a major threat. i think that santorum could win this thing and it hits romney's vulnerabilities. obviously we saw in iowa speaking to the values voters that santorum has the edge there and quickly pivoted to the economy and what you find is a better spending reform plan and better tax cutting plan than mr. romney and as we go to republican primaries and caucuses, that usually does well. >> kim, what about san form's weakn

obama gave us radical obama care that was based on romney care. obama's a liberal on social issues. romney once bragged he's even more liberal than ted kennedy on social issues. why would we ever vote for someone who's just like obama when we unite around rick santorum and beat obama. >> i'm rick santorum and i approved this message. >> e.j., i can't think of anything easier than writing anti-romney ads for conservative audiences. but romney is still standing and growing. how is this happening? >> i with wish i could imitate that voice in the ad. it's awesome. you know, i think the problem is, they all had to do all of this a lot earlier. and what you had in iowa was a kind of spontaneous unity among conservatives where they were watching this campaign, that relatively small number of people who vote in the caucuses pay a lot of attention to politics and around the middle of december, they decided that all these other conservatives had been discredited for one reason or another and started rallying to santorum. i think he is the logical guy, the only guy who can probably beat romney

between bush's policies and obama's. push bush's policy was to kill people. whatever. put them one time. for them information. to kill. kill him all over the world. one another is the targeting drone killing of anwar joachim an american born cleric u.s. drone strikes during obama's first two years in office exceeded the total carried out during bush's tenure president obama described a walky as the leader of external operations for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula human rights groups which voiced international opposition against the bush counterterrorism policies quickly condemned a walkie killing journalist jeremy scahill says obama's policies have drifted far from his political roots a president mccain doing the exact same thing that president obama is doing would have been done now. by a lot of liberals and so we're at one of those dangerous moments in u.s. history and we saw it a bit with clinton in the ninety's where a democrat who campaigned on a pledge to change the you know the country in the world has actually pushed a right wing agenda further forward than a

obama white house, you heard the book about mrs. obama. >> bill: tell me about who ousted daley? >> i think obama's team led by valerie jarret and said you are not visionary. we need the ship to run. >> bill: are you possible po he was ousted? >> reporter: he wanted to go back to chicago. he didn't like it because he was being undercut at every turn. they were thinking about making him chairman of the campaign. >> bill: so on the record, that daley was ousted but we don't know who is going to take his place. >> jack lew. he a budget guy. he a mechanic. you'll never hear his name. >> bill: i never heard daley's name. i knew he was there. he was announced coming on, did he ever do anything? no. jack lew, whoever that is. >> reporter: this is the time when they are reorienting toward the campaign. it was perfect to get hillary clinton in. they worry it's going to look like desperation. you know this is no drama obama, they don't want that. he is the most popular politician in america. i'm not joking. she is more popular among women than oprah winfrey. >> bill: 65% but how do you see

obama should be. with her reenforcing his instincts for the overall of health care and immigration laws casting herself as a foil to aide sz more intent on preserving seats and poll numbers numbers. should obama be more aggressive, more historically transformational president or do what is more practical, protect his power and get done what he can, why wouldn't they have these discussions? >> exactly. >> seems to be the most normal thing in the world. >> the most normal thing in the world, and i'm reading the book now, i haven't finished it, my feeling is i'm so glad she is there, she has his back, and honestly, i think she has our back. she is representing the higher ideals and the transformational goals and values that this president has, that can sometimes get lost in the day-to-day shuffle of politics. she is also a woman who had her own career who is now being kind of shuffled around and told to do this and that, stand there, that is disconcerting there. >> i only want her here, please sit here.

obama is a radical. we played that game four years ago it didn't get republicans elected. we played the game trying to tie president obama to bill ayers, reverend wright and saul alinsky. it didn't work last time. >> now with president obama being so devoted to big government, so devoted to income redistribution, income equality, then, see back then we didn't know what we were getting with the president. it was harder to make the case he was a radical or admired radicals. now it's easier to make that case. >> i disagree he is married to this idea. i believe the republicans have misstated that he wants equal outcomes. the president, the stimulus package you went through the numbers before, 40% of that were tax cuts. part of the reason the deficit has gone up that much 40% of the package republicans say they want. tax credits and tax cuts. this isn't big government. this is actually giving tax money back. that's 40% of what the president did in the stimulus package. >> bill: even president obama would admi

as the republicans tell it, it is about barack obama. he didn't get to the white house last week, they will tell you, he has been there three years and he has made things worse. the nastiness of this republican primary season is but a preview of what is to come. our system has its flaws, we don't find out much about issues but we do find out a lot about the candidates, their backgrounds, character and how they respond to pressure, good things to know about those seeking the most powerful office in the world, but the best part is, we get to make our choice for whatever reason we choose. whether they ever heard what he said or even know who he was i get the feeling a lot of people will be thinking the way kevin white thought, comparing the candidates, not to the almighty but to the alternative. kevin white was 82. back in a minute. i am mark sanchez with a message for women. this is the actual sound of my heartbeat. >> schieffer: and that's all the time we have today. thanks for watching this special one hour edition of face the nation, an

primera palabra genera controversial el tercer mensaje sobre el estado de la naciÓn del presidente obama. >> impuestos de la discordÍa, mitt romney revela centavo acento a skwe centavo lo que pagÓ >> el mÉxico no que se disputa el oscar como mejor actor. >> el aperitivo de esta noche de relaciones peligrosas la sÚper nueva novela de telemundo, la ediciÓn martes del noticiero telemundo comienza ya. en washington. washington. >> hola ¿quÉ tal? muy buenas tardes en donde reina la espera del tercer mensaje del presidente obama un discurso aÚn antes de escuchar no es controversia y se espera que el mandatario haga su discurso en las espaldas insistirÁ y reactivar la controversia. lori montenegro tiene todos los detalles. >> la economÍa y como reactivar buscando generar interÉs en la casa blanca divulgÓ lo que hablarÁ. >> en el informe serÁn los votantes por la falta de buenos empleo s y la situaciÓn financiera. >> durante el fin de semana obama daba un avance a los temas que invocarÍa y declaraba que presentarÁ un plan para que los estados unidos perdura y incluir a todos. >>

you will. >> i'm voting for democrats. >> democrats. >> obama, all the way. >> obama. >> obama. i'm afraid this would happen. it's breaking my heart. >> obama. >> don't go breaking my heart. >> obama. >> obama. >> see, this is what i -- anybody here voting republican this year? we got one. we got a live one here. who you voting for? >> mitt romney. >> why? what's your reasons? >> i like his policies. >> how would you describe yourself? right of center, right wing, far right, somewhere near the middle, moderate? >> moderate. >> is mitt romney a moderate? >> tends to be, somewhat. >> is he willing to admit it? >> maybe, i hope. >> how come the other day when i asked if he could say, let them eat cake, i said, can you say that in french, governor, he said, yes, but i won't. why do you think he's afraid to speak french in understand. >> probably because he knows we won't understand what he's saying. >> why won't mitt romney speak french? >> because he doesn't want to speak too french. >> but if he doesn't speak french, does that means he's eli elitist? >> he thinks so. >> so he's sp

michelle obama angry? the first lady takes aim at her critics. >>> president obama tonight back home in chicago raising more money for his campaign's war chest. they believe a team obama more and more that he'll be spending all those millions against mitt romney. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin has been working her sources and joins us more on the president's emerging strategy. jess, one thing team obama has to be watching closely is all these attacks on mitt romney's tenure as ceo of bane capital. they came up in new hampshire. at least no evidence of impact there. what's the assessment of the obama team? >> well, my sources point to something you just said, john, which is that it came up in only the last 48 hours. and so they argue that that wasn't enough time to necessarily make a dent. maybe a convenient argument, but that's what they're saying. they believe that it will have a lasting impact on mitt romney going into the general election, and something that president obama can build

without michelle obama. the pattern i've always seen in my reporting is that she can-- to other people. and charlie, don't you think we're really going to see that in the 2012 campaign. >> rose: we continue this evening with wade davis, his book is called not silence. the great war, mall ory and the conquest of everests. >> the war became this template of their lives. and it was-- it was in the fiber of their being. and they carry odd i physically to the mountains. >> we conclude this evening with todd buchholz's book is called rush y you need and love the rat race. >> this journey that we're all in as noisy tas s as dangerous, as frustrating is a journey that has extended human life. a hundred years ago you wouldn't have seen there is a rat race a hundred years ago it was simpler. half the population lived on the farm, right. there was-- your cell phone wouldn't interrupt you during dinner, you wouldn't get stuck in traffic. but life expectancy, charlie was 48 years of age. 48 years of age in that simpler n

we all want to beat barack obama. and it's a-- >> and americans fear more than anything that barack obama get-- >> and if you find that's an issue, i would love to see gingrich debate him, it would be a clear line of demarcatio demarcation. and most the people would love to see them. lincoln douglas style debates. if he's not the nominee we don't get a chance to see that. the governor would expect the attacks on bain capital and his time there to come from president barack obama, and not republicans. it seems in the next week or so it's not going away as an issue and we had governor perry on and he doubled down with very harsh language tonight. will the governor respond to that. >> i think that people understand these are desperate attacks by people desperate to be in the white house. and he has a message what he forsees in the economy. are we going to be an entitlement society 0 are an opportunity society. >> sean: you know what i don't understand. i think there's justifiable anger at wall street and i really do and

. >> frank: who wants barack obama re-electd? why obama? >> because when i look at the republicans running, i don't see anybody that speaks to me. gingrich scares me when he talks about poor children working in their schools as janitors. he's just putting down all the poor people in this country-- >>> hey. i was washing dishes at 12. when did that become a bad thing? listen. is that any different from being a janitor? >> it's a work ethic. >> sean: they didn't have a dish washing machine. >> very few people in this country who are poor are lazy, they work every day and unfortunately, the economy's very bad. there is a way he could have been more constructive. i think the way he said it was inflammatory, derogatory and offensive. >> i agree with what you said. but going back on a notion and i agree with the way you were brought up because it was the way that i was brought up. half of everyone that is talk about this immigrants that have taken their gorks they don't want those jobs. be on one saturday of the fence. it is not, oh, well, i don'

en la florida, obama aventajarÍa a romney. >> en la florida, obama tendrÍa 52% el apoyo hispano. >> creo que la idea de que romney sea vicepresidente en mi boleta, serÍa algo que lo alejarÍa de la vida pÚblica durante un rato. >> yo sÍ lconsideraría, pero ahora no voy a pensar en eso. lo importante es ganar la nominaciÓn. >> la presencia de los dos principales candidatos a la nominaciÓn publicana materializan lo que din los analistas, es la realidad de la polÍtica actual. la importancia del voto hispano. >> quÉ opiniÓn tienen los electores hispanos acerca del trabajo de barack obama y el congreso? una encuesta de univisiÓn. vamos a conocer algunas cifras sde nuestra pampa interactiva. >> para saber adonde vamos, tenemos que saber en dÓnde estamos parados. el voto latino dependerÁ mucho de la opiniÓn que se tenga del actual gobierno. es muy contrastante. vamos ver cuÁl es la aprobaciÓn que le dan al presidente barack obama. >> a quien le atribuye la responsabilidad? a bush o obama? >> del contrae tambiÉn serÍa en cuanto a la percepciÓn que se tieneel congreso. ahÍ le v

americans fear obama's reelection. that's a pretty significant amount and a lot of people i'm hearing from twitter, e-mail and people i meet every day. they're fearful of another obama term, and all the damage that was done the first time. do you worry, are you concerned about the republicans coming together? at one point you said well, the republicans better listen to ron paul. i agree with ron paul on economic policy, totally disagree with him on foreign policy. do you think if you worry, are you concerned that there's too much damage being done here and that ultimately, the conservatives, tea party members, republicans alike, will unite and somebody won't run third party and the divide the anti-obama vote? >> no, historically we know that primaries are tough battles, especially contested aggressive g.o.p. battles and i think that's fine for the process. no, i'm not worried about afterwards, i know i'm going to put my heart and soul into helping uniform independents and reagan democrats and g.o.p. members to come tog

obama. the next one is -- it's anthony weiner, 227 goes to herman cain. >> bill: compilation of obama is a democrat and then they added up all the republicans and it was three to one. surely you know, linda. >> 600 people running for president. there is a lot of people to poke fun at. >> bill: someone watching television 18 hours a day as you are forced to do by "the new york post." compare george w. bush and the treatment he received from the comedians to barack obama. there is not even the same ballpark. >> wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. when there is so many republicans running. >> bill: no, just bush against obama. >> okay, bush against obama. no, i disagree. bush was a target. obama is a target. anyone is a target who is in the cat bird seat. >> bill: you think this year, 2012, all right, that barack obama is going to get mocked at the same level that whoever runs against him -- >> -- absolutely. i promise. >> bill: do you want to bet me on that? >> dinner. it will happen.

stop blaming obama. when obama stops taking credit for turning the economy around. >> why are we fooling around half measures. it's time for everyone to go on food stamps the government can make sure we're not eating more than our fair share. can you buy wine with it? >> you can buy anything you want. >> as long as you are willing to hit the black market first. >> did you know there is a direct core relations between our i.q.s and partisanship? more after this. ♪ ♪ you name it. i've tried it. but nothing helped me beat my back pain. then i tried salonpas. it's powerl relief that works at the site of pain and lasts up to 12 hours. salonpas. of how a shippingiant can befriend a forest may seem lie the stuff of fairy tales. but if you take aw the faces on the trees... take away the pixie dust. take away the singing animals, and the storybook narrator... [ man ] you're ft with more electric trucks. more recycled shipping materials... and a growing number of lower emissions planes... which still makes for

. >> that was president obama last night. but this is barack obama in september 2008. >> 30%, that's vegas, man. i'm not going with those odds. 15 i will pay. not 30. >> i didn't say we gold to 30. >> bill: tonight, a special report on your tax money and what the president wants to do with it. >> while florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, newt gingrich cashed in. >> when mitt romney invented government run health care, romney advisors helped barack obama. >> the slash and burn campaign in florida continues with romney and gingrich hammering each other on a daily basis. dick morris will predict what is going to happen in the sunshine state. >> grade president obama. >> cd minus. >> 0 point 2. >> jesse watters tries to get the folks to give the president a report card. >> did you vote for obama last time. >> did i vote for obama. >> do your parents know that? also tonight dennis miller on the super bowl. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioni

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obama in a funny kind of way. you talk about what a strong woman she is, about how strong their marriage is. yet the white house is acting... they don't seem to like it at all. are you surprised about their reaction? >> i am! they've done some strange things. they've anonymously accused me about lying about how many white house parties i've attended but they haven't challenged the central ten hes of the reporting. the book is really a narrative of arrival and adjustment, about these two people who were appealing to the nation in part because they were so fresh to political life. they come to washington and the white house and they're like strangers in a strange land. and it was reported in cooperation with the white house. it really tells the story of both their personal and political adjustment and their successes and their failures. >> schieffer: it was kind of interesting. mrs. obama did an interview with gayle king on our cbs "this morning" broadcast last week. she said she had read the book, did not intend to

one thing about barack obama, but on the national security issues obama is a guy that does not -- he likes the covert business and spy business. he doesn't like anybody to mess with him. >> dana: can i ask you something, though? >> bob: yes. >> dana: don't you think if president bush did this prosecution and aclu and someone like president obama in the previous position as democrat on the foreign relations committee would have criticized the bush administration for doing the same thing? >> bob: i don't think he would. nor would i. the idea, any kind of leak in classified information seems to be -- no matter what, whatever the reason for it. it didn't like waterboarding, i thought it was torture, too. but i wouldn't leak on it. it's an act of treason and dealt with. >> andrea: justice administration that also is going after c.i.a. officials. holder was prosecuting them. >> eric: very important. the important distinction to be made, early on in the obama administration, they went after them for enhanced interrogation. >> bob: obama stopped that, though. >> dana: an hour after you are r

barack obama 50%, newt gingrich 39%. in that same poll, it showed governor romney in a dead even tie with president obama. how do you make that electability argument in the face of those numbers? >> the same way ronald reagan did. ronald reagan in december of '79 was 30 points behind jimmy carter. and he made the case that the candidate with ideas, the candidate with conservative values, the candidate who could articulate and defend his position was in the end going to be the best candidate. the country decided he was right. i think if you look at newt.org and you look at all the things we've developed, i can go toe to toe with president obama on big things. there are big differences. you know, romney care and obama care were this far apart. a pretty big debate. i'm for dramatically lower taxes. the president is for much higher taxes. i'm for less regulation. the president's for more regulation. i'm for strength overseas to defend israel and to defend the united states. the president's for weakness overseas. i think you

i agree. >> sean: $5 trillion in obama debt. the economy's not getting better, unemployment is not getting better. isn't the big picture at the end of the process, you are going to unit? is that fair? >> absolutely. look, i would be fine in voting for any of the candidates on the stage tomorrow night. all of them will be superior-- >>> even ron paul? >> uh, you know, i believe h. remember who barack obama ran as the first time? he was the big anti-war -- he was going to gut everything, pull america out, pull america back. then he sat down and realized that, you know, if he was going to run for re-election, he couldn't, given the threats, do what we wanted to do. president obama in a second term as commander in chief, he said he was going to manage the decline of our military and focus all resources to grow the welfare state. this is a man who will do just as much damage to our military posture as ron paul would do. >> sean: last question. one of the things where i notice that the mitt romney -- john mccain did it yesterday, hit

but barack obama. >> sean: let me ask this. speaking of barack obama. the campaign has been aggressive. an argument can be made maybe it's making some people uncomfortable. end up being a good process because it will be billion dollars that will be waged against you. it will be a billion dollars against the republicans. you want dirty air and dirty water and kids and autism and elderly defending themselves. that is what they said already. i guess, if you get the nomination are you willing to go against president obama. bill ayers fair game. is it just the economy or foreign policy or some of his background that was ignored in 2008 is that legitimate? >> i think anything that is truthful about a is legitimate to discuss in a campaign. there is no question, president obama has a lot of explaining to do. he has failed the american people. he didn't turn the economy around. he didn't get us more safe from iran. he has failed. i will point that out day in and day out. i'm afraid president obama will do what he's been doing is dissenting from the truth and i

not obama. mcgain and obama jettisonned their campaigns. they helped us try to pass some emergency measures to stop the hemorrhaging. and this president stopped the hemorrhaging and for the last 22 months we've been having private sector job growth, and if we should continue, i think will he get us to where we ought to be. >> i want to show you another figure that we had in the poll, and the question was has the government paid enough, too much, or about right, attention to the needs of blacks, and other minorities? among blacks, 77% say the government has not paid enough attention to the needs of african-americans and other minorities. you still have under the first african-american president three years into his presidency an unemployment rate twice that of whites. is that a hard sell for you? >> no. >> can you explain that? >> no. we don't still have that. we are there many some instances for the first time. the fact of the matter is unemployment for african-americans started to go up dramatically during the bush administration. it went

calling the unprecedented measures a blight on obama's legacy. testify as long range missile during naval drills in the persian gulf and says it's prepared to hit back if it's attack this comes as western nations plan to impose further sanctions targeting its all oil and financial sector.

relentlessly attack president obama. the "washington post" reports republican operatives have compiled a video library of everything the president has said. they plan to use his own words against him, with particular emphasis on the quote from in february 2009 where president obama talks about fixing the economy. >> if i don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition. >> today in des moines, iowa, well, it appeared mitt romney has already gotten onboard with the republican playbook. >> i've looked at some of the tapes on youtube of president obama, then-candidate obama going across iowa campaigning. and i've listened to some of the promises and i've looked at the performance. and there's a pretty big gap between what he promised and what he performed. this president's failed. he went on the "today" show shortly after being inaugurated and he said, if i can't get this economy turned around in three years, i'll be looking at a one-term proposition. i'm here to collect. >> if romney wan

mitt romney's message that barack obama is in over his head. will romney retool this argument if the jobs situations keeps improving? >> i think he'll have to fit improves dramatically. he'll stick with it as long as he can. >> still works. they predicted 8%. economists expects it will bump up before it comes down again. >> yes, i think he'll make that same argument. he's betting on the facts that the mood of the country is still pretty depressed. i do think at some point he's going to have to be careful of this idea that he's laid off a lot of people in his own record. >> he's going to stick to that argument because that's the only rationale that romney has for his candidacy, whatever the numbers are. chris: he's a one-trick pony? >> it's a good trick in a bad economy. chris: well said. thanks for a great round table. john heilemann, andrea mitchell, nia-malika henderson, and howard fineman. that's the show from new hampshire. thanks for watching. we'll see you again next week. [captioning made possible by nbc universal]

obama won it last night. florida which votes fourth on the republican side, viewed as one of the states. most republicans think they'll get indiana back. virginia and north carolina, two states obama carried that were long republican states, they'll be in tossup territory this year. so will colorado. nevada has the highest unemployment in the country. let's put that in that category. that leaves president obama at 247. republicans would argue pennsylvania is a tossup, too. maybe wisconsin, possibly michigan. let's just play it conservative here. this leaves obama short of what he needs to win re-election. what if the republicans take colorado. suppose the republicans take florida. let's give for the sake of argument the republicans ohio, tough, tough. let's see what happens. let's say new hampshire goes republican. that's possible, if mitt romney's the nominee. what do you get here? let's flip a coin. i'll give obama virginia and the republicans north carolina. what do we have now? 260 to 266. look at that. h