detail with great expertise short shortly. first, let's talk about what is going on in the jobless world and in the unemployment world. we have new numbers from president obama -- from the bureau of labor statistics saying it went down, it's down to 8.3% from 8.5% let's hear what the president had to say. >> the economy is growing stronger and the recovery is speeding up and we have to do everything in our power to keep it going. now is not the time for self inflicted wounds to our economy. now is the time for action. so i want to send a clear message to congress. do not slow down the recovery

that we are on. don't muck it up. keep it moving in the right direction. >> don't muck it up, perhaps he would have used sharper language were he not on television. ben i want to go to you first. what do you make of the president wrapping his arms around the positive numbers and also, if we are talking about veterans a proposal to create for jobs for veterans and the likelihood that it will pass congress. >> nothing will pass congress that he wants to pass. it's good news throughout the report though. you have the hourly work week going up, you have wages going up, that is a sign that the economy will keep growing. the decrease of the unemployment rate is due to people getting jobs. this is good news and he is on a glide path to 8% of

unemployment, which is the magic number. >> of course, that contradicts what the cbo report says, they say that the unemployment will be around 9%, that goiis going come back to haunt him. for him to say he is -- >> the fact of the matter is these are the best unemployment numbers for three years not the last 12. >> let look at the trend lines that is a good sag way to the graphics we have showing the deceasing unemployment rate. >> the cbo nine % number is based on a base lane under which unemployment numbers are not extended.

people are misunderstanding what the cbo number is, it's not a prediction that we are going to 9%, it's if we do nothing. >> a lot of the cbo numbers are predicated on ifs. i want to bring in a person that does not have a lot of ifs, but declaretive sentences. hello jim, thanks for coming to the program. >> how are you? >> i'm great, i'm great, we are happy to have you on the show. you had an article in the hometown paper yesterday saying that the outlook for the administration may be a little gloomier than we would think than based on the president's rhetoric today. tell me in terms of the number what the white house is looking at these days? >> there's three different pieces, the unemployment data, which no doubt was good for them. but when you look at thei itcbo

report, others, there's a good chance that if it in the mid-eights that was bad news for the white house. the white house feels if it at 8.5% or above, it will be hard if not impossible to win back independents. the other two important pieces are money and his performance in swing states. that gallup poll about three or four days ago that looked at the swing states, the 12 states that either party could realistically win, they are up for grabs, you have mitt romney in the middle of the nasty republican party, running even or beating the president in those states, that is bad news. you couple that with other data that shows his favorable rating in 2011 was lower in those states than it was in 2010, and we would have said that obama will clean republicans clocks

when it comes to fundraising. that is no longer clear to me. it seems that romney, the super pacs and those rich people that are funding these super pac, they can compete and maybe beat obama when it comes to fundraising. he had a good state of tunion speech and the numbers are wobbling month to month, the totality of those, those are reasons for pause and concern. >> jim, we certainly want to unpack those fundraising numbers more later on i want to focus on the swing voters and how the president is appealing to them. jonathan i want your thoughts on this. he is talking today about the veterans bill, it's not going to anywhere, but it's part of the white house strategy saying he is pro active and putting policy out there. regardless, he is still fighting. you i guess the question is though, if you are an independent voter, does it

resonate, are you listening anymore? is it a compelling argument? >> i don't know if swing voters think any of it is doa, we know it because we are living and breathing it every minute and ever day and hour. i think given what jim said, i agree with everything that jim said, i just wonder if republican voters watching the process and the zaneyness that is happening, will they entrust their family's economic security and future to someone who while they might be angry that the president has not been able to get the economy moving in the way they want it -- in the direction they want it to move in, are they going to go -- are they going to leave the guy they are with for someone they are just uncomfortable with and right now it's not clear to me that the republicans are going nominate a candidate who will resonate, connect with the

american people. >> you know i must be a resident alien here, i do not see the doa, i just don't get it. i believe the economy and unemployment numbers continuing to trend down, maybe not barrelli barrelling but going to a positive trend. the people are seeing this around them. i talked to people last night and they said building is up in my area and i can go to my grocery store and afford my food. people that are real, and saying how do i feel are looking at this information and saying it not bleak and it not 's not doa this president continues to be forceful, he will make progress. >> jim had great stats, the debt, he pointed out that according to the cbo report, if things keep going the way they are we will top $1 trillion in debt this year.

we cannot have that. president obama said three years ago if the economy is not fixed by the end of his administration he is in trouble. these independent voters and these swing states, if they do not have jobs and their neighbors don't have jobs and their house is still underwater, they are going to go with someone different. >> we have to go back. the counter to that argument is i put a bargain on the table and john boehner moved away. and these republicans i'm running against want to keep all the tax cuts for the wealthy that initialliy blew up the deficit. he does not care about the doa argument. we have a good economy and it would get better if these guys in washington would do something. >> jim, i want to take you in here, we have to go to break but

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just a few muns ago the president finished speaking about jobs and the economy, looking forward to what he hopes will be a bullish 2012. we have the wonderful jim with us, jim, we did not get to get you in in the last segment, but obama has a teflon piece of legislation, insofar -- maybe not teflon, it's magnetic, it's money for veterans to be first

respond responders. you would think the president, we know he is putting the message out here, why doesn't i take it and really fight for it. the assumption is it's just another piece of legislation that he is putting out there to show he is fighting for the middle class, if that message is resonating like it seems to be, why not make more of a fight around it? >> the reason that they are talking about it now is because they are going to. listen, everything in this town is done for politics. so you know, when people get ruffled feathers saying it politics everything is about that. what the white house wants to do is put republicans in the difficult position i think throughout this year on capitol hill on having to vote against measures that would be popular to specific segments whether it's hispanics or younger people or veterans.

they can find targeted ways of doing it because republicans are so controlled by the tea party, they are here to fight the growth of government, so they want to oppose most spending initiatives and that creates a nice political box for obama to put republicans in. >> and adding to that box, it's not that the president is proposing things that are popular with mom and apple pie, he is proposing things in the past that had bipartisan support that came from republicans. so it's not like he is pushing a crazy left wing agenda and congress is resisting him, he is pushing things that are spauupp on capitol hill. >> this is a poll tested idea and the optics of the news conference he had was beautiful. he was at a fire station and who can say no to veterans and

firefighters, this is a win-win situation. >> we were talking before the break, do you think that there's consensus 20 boehner aai -- bet and cantor? >> i would like to think, based on what we are hearing that boehner has to talk to cantor and say, sometimes you have to go along to get along. there has to be some of that or nothing gets accomplishe eed >> there's a big problem in the republican party that they do not have a clear leading voice right now, they have the republican primaries going on, and it an undecided contest, who comes from that will be the spokesm spok spo spokesman more the republican party. the house has a boehner/cantor dynamic and they are not sure what to do. there's not a clear narrative

voice coming from the republican party. >> another interesting component about the obama speech today, the presidency has become small in some ways, small compared to the first year in office. when they were talking with cap and trade and trying to save the economy and health care, and now they are talking about rifle shot pieces of legislation and his idea in the state of the union of having higher taxes on people making over a million dollars. that is not a transformative piece of legislation. looking like bill clinton. he ran into trouble and tried to find little pieces of legislation. >> that is strategy though, i want to echo your comments you are right. the president and administration are being more strategic of how they get through a republican driven congress that will not allow them affect change.

that is smart quite frankly at the end of the day, strategy for the election year, if he does not seize this moment, it's a miss opportunity for this president. >> and jim said it's not a big initiative like health care and obama care, it's a big bomb, and he does not -- >> well, some of us do not think it a big bomb, jim i want to get you back in here. in terms of fundraising, obama we have been hearing about a $1 billion war chest, but it's not necessarily that big or will get that big. catch on hand, obama has $30 million more than mitt romney i wonder to what degree he can build up the money making machine with this small war message? >> president obama was like we do not like the outside groups or super pacs and then they realize that donors like them

and now they want them to give money and donors are saying you were saying how evil it was to put money. and business men want to feed obama and putting in 5, 10, $20 million, when you take the coke brothers and super pacs and this web of wealthy people that romney knows, that's a lot of money. and finally business men are starting to put money back into the political system like they used to when soft money was allowed and for democrats that is troubling. because money does not buy an election but it helps. >> money does not hurt. the understatement of the hour. jim thank you for joining us, we look forward to more of your wisdom on future takes. >> be good, see you. >> the susan g. komen

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foundation battling cancer was this a public relations nightmare for the susan g. komen? >> it was quite confusing for the cancer community and the result now is that more and more women will get the services that they need. from our organization's standpoint that is what matters most, women in need are served regardless of who is providing that critical crucial service to them. >> i want to read to our audience and the panel the statement from nancy brinker. we want to apologize to the american public for recent decisions that cast doubt on our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives. we will amend the criteria to make clear that the disquali disqualifyidisqualif disqualifying criteria -- it a long statement.

>> or 100 we were wrong. >> we made a really bad mistake here. that is what they were saying. >> if we look at the larger battle as far as planned parenthood and the services they provide, there has been movement on the part of congress to see where the funding comes from. does this under cut the movement? >> if anything this helps planned parenthood. i am in the minority, i think that komen, based on the original reason for it, in terms of the investigation, i think they have a right to pull funding. with the questions surrounding it and the people that give money to komen, i run in the race for the cure and i want my money to go to women that are getting breast care and breast cancer treatment. i do not want it to go to an organization that conducts abortions. so from that standpoint i can understand why they made that decision. but given the overall pr

nightmare. it's not worth it. >> remember the meeting in the green room, i said i would not nod in agreement with you. but i'll tell you in all honesty is that i think it a brilliant move, i'm a nonprofit professional, that is what i do, so the komen foundation from my standpoint has reacted quickly when it could have been a disaster i'm proud of the fact that they stepped forward and disappointed that they did not think more strategically about it out of the gate. >> one of the things that was most remarkable, doug, was the speed and magnitude of the public outcry, you had the twitter post, sorry, the tweets and facebook postings and folks like michael bloomberg getting involved and donating to planned parenthood to make up for the funds lost. were you surprised of the level of support or outrage? >> you know, i think that obviously we live in a different day and age now and social media

has transform today way we communicate and made it totally transparent. people are passionate about health care and 15 years ago, when lance armstrong started our organization it was specifically to provide resources to people in need and those are the people that spoke out and actually today, i would like to just mention that we are proud and humbled to join our good friend and partner, mayor bloomberg in announcing a $100,000 grant to their cancer fund for providing these screenings to women in need that are crucial. >> that definitely qualifies as breaking news, live strong making a $100,000 challenge grant to planned parenthood. you said that people were

enthusiastic about women's health care and cancer hits home, but in many ways, it was putting politics in the area of health care and it's something we are seeing a lot of debate about, i think the questions about planned parenthood have arisen because of the affordable care act, folks to right and left, the issue of politics in the doctor's office is powerful and here is a clear example of politics being interviroduced i arena that it has not been before. >> was that for doug? >> sure. >> the need is so great, and i think you are right. whether it cancer or broader needs. we as an organization does not believe that a person deserves to died because of the resources

they have. this bigger than politics it's be people's lives day in and day out, our filter is, is this good for people in need and will it help them and if the answer is yes, then we have to stand up and support those initiatives. >> i wonder though, you talk about politics not entering into medical decision making. abortion is a very political issue, i don't think that the pro life argument is getting enough air time, people that believe abortion is the taking of a human life have a legitimate point of view and they very much support breast cancer research but do not want their money going to an organization that supports abortions, what is on wrong or evil about that? >> it n's not wrong or evil. you can take your money someplace he wielse if we disag. politics did draw this decision. somehow it had an impact. and we all know that because we

are relatively intelligent individuals. >> at the end of the day though, the head of planned parenthood says that this should not be dictated by politics we have 72% of americans saying they do not want their dollars to fund abortions and cecil richards said it should not be involved in politics, when half a billion dollars ofincome comes from politicians you have the right to say that. for her to say the funds are not mixed. >> your argument is that funds are -- >> then she is breaking the law then. >> that is exactly right. >> that is where we are having an investigation to determine exactly how the money is being spent. >> alice, i would say that this idea that there was an investigation, yesterday on "andrea mitchell reports," it's one guy saying i have an issue with this organization and i'm going pull -- i'm going to make it -- and then sort of the komen

foundation hiding behind something that could end up revealing nothing, this investigation. >> how wong is it to say that we do not want our money to support the taking of human life? >> it's a congressman that has problem with this and has polarized the issue to the point that it has damaged the organization. >> the komen foundation said they do not want their funds comi comingeled -- >> we are talking about guilt. the concept that someone in congress says i'm launching an investigation and it has serious consequences for a health provider and the komen made a decision on thin air. >> they could base it on

something other than that. they could say we are a prolife group and our leaders are prolife, we do not want our funds to go there, what is wrong with that? >> there are reports that things that went wrong at planned parenthood, and the congressman that is doing the investigation has staffers that have worked there and they told about over billing and things like that. the bottom line is, let's investigate it and remove all guilt and more forward. >> innocent until proven guilty. >> the whole thing about the controversy, it happened and komen foundation dealt with it and got it out of their way. hopefully they can save their brand and identity and mission. but, you know the komen foundation is supposed to be politically savvy and cream of the crop of how to raise money and how to work the system and

how could they make such a mistake? >> it's questionable. we did not get you to weigh in on mccarthyism, thank you for joining the conversation. >> thank you. and the silver lining in all of this, is that more and more people are now focused to reality which is there are so many under served women and population that need services and we need more organizations to serve that population. >> and we are happy to hear about your $100,000 challenge gra grant thank you, doug. andrea mitchell will have more on this live at the top of the hour. after the break, donald trump brings his act to vegas is a millionaire's endorsement what mitt romney needs right now, we will discuss that and some of the key issues being ignored in the silver state nevadaia can befriend a forest

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i can tell you that people wanted my endorsement and when you were up at eight and nine candidates most of them wanted my endorsement and you saw what happened today and the hoopla >> the strangest show in vegas this week, donald trump and mitt romney appearing together for one day only and just for seven minutes. um, i ask you guys, endorsements are usually things you want, did romney get duped by the donald? >> is it good for romney? >> yes. >> no. he has to stand on stage with a multi-milli

multi-milli multi-millionaire, the optics were all wrong, completely wrong if mitt romney had his choice, he said there are things that you do not think would happen, this is one of them. you could hear him saying like, mommy please, why did this happen? >> you would think the endorsement would have been predicated on we have to do some kind of media hit together. >> he said very clearly when the donald was going to host the debate, i'm not going to contribu contribute to the clown show or whatever and took a stand on politics being a serious thing and i'm a serious man and now he is going to show up for this ridiculous endorsement for a guy that was a birther. >> he is still trying to convince conservatives that he is one of them, he is trying to convince conservatives to trust him. >> by going to a to a casino?

>> he accepted the endorsement of christine o'donnell. >> they are two different faces of wealth. where we have trump, who is more out there and -- >> a little more? >> just a little bit. >> new money. >> none of the candidates would have turned down a trump endorsement and i am sure that the deal was for them to do a joint media endorsement, all the candidates wanted it. and the good thing from romney's standpoint is trump will be able to pull some weight in vegas in nevada and he has gone, and done his hope work and he will be a surrogate for him in terms of what he can do for china and opec and creating jobs. he is looking at it for what he can certainly do, nevada, not time to do a whole lot. none of the candidates would have turned that down. >> a person talking about china policy, i want huntsman who was

the endorsement not trump. >> anyone would have accepted the endorsement, but it seems to me and maybe it because i'm not a republican, that this is periphery noise, i'm still waiting for what you will do for the country. >> i want to bring in a, we have talked about peggy a bit on the show, she hit mitt romney hard in the wall street journal this morning saying why doesn't the establishment not like mitt romney? they fear he will not win. they get the feeling he is reciting lines, they are not sure he has a meaning or mandate and his insides are unknown to themmi them, they do not know what is in there. that is shown in relief, chris christie is one, donald trump, you know what is inside chris christie and donald trump, but this issue, again, that romney

seems to have in terms of resonance and it's said that it will be a huge task to reform the tax code, and there's a feeling that he is not up to the job by establishment republicans. >> that is because romney was over here eight year ago and today is on over here, not just on one issue or one sort of seeming peripheral issue but core issues that speak to your character. one minute you are pro gay rights and the next you are not, one minute you are prochoice and the next minute you are prolife, one minute you are a little soft on being pro guns and then i've been a lifelong member of the nra, he has changed his position on too many issues. and for many mainstream republicans they think who is this guy and where is he given all the challenges facing the

country. is anchored in a place where we can see where he stands. >> i think you are not being fair, i saw a year ago that he was the candidate. it does not surprise me that he is ahead. unless they bring someone out on the floor in the convention -- >> we do not know where newt gingrich will be at convention time. we will talk about that after the break.

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gears grinding and in a state of melt down, those are actually headlines. we ha we have been talking about mitt romney is this the gingrich death march or can he rebound >> no seriously, i think it's a death march. >> i don't think that he is giving up. >> and those same headlines we were reading when he went on his trip to greece. never -- anyone who under estimates him is doing it at their own peril. this is not the end. >> i want to go on record that i agree with you alice. >> i appreciate that. >> but, it worth noting that he did, he abruptlililily -- abrup cancelled a photo op and he did

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>> even after a beating in florida, >> we will be at the convention in the august. >> newt gingrich is still grasping and ignoring the wisdom of mitt romney four years ago. >> if i fight on in my campaign all the way to the convention, it will make it easier for the democrats to win. >> his future has been determined. >> this seen in indiana jones, so close to grabbing the hole grail, that is newt. >> all this is going to happen two hours after the inaugural address, before we get to go to the balls that night. >> he can learn one thing from newt, romney can. >> i'm not going to compete with obama -- >> [ singing ] >>. ♪ above the fruited plains >> sometimes keeping your mouth

shut can be to your advantage >> i'm not concerned about the very poor. >> as the field continues to the silver state all bets are on. >> the don, the donald himself. >> could he pull a total fake out and put his chips on romney. >> laky luck is a fickel mistress and politics is a gamblers game. and when you are playing high stakes poker you never know who your true friends arity. >> who am i going to endorse? the people! i can be comfortable with mitt romney. when i was talking about us needing a business ceo, i was talking about me. >> it's time now as it is before primaries and caucuses for us to make a wager on the race.

the reports are showing that mitt romney could walk away with the nevada caucus, i ask you my dear panel, hwhen we look at th also rans in the race, i look to ron paul and newt gingrich who look like they are staying in it for a while. i'm asking us to place bets on who is in this thing longer? newt gingrich or ron paul and for how long? jonathan, take it away. >> okay. i'm going all in, they are all going to tampa. >> they are all going to ---er they are both going to tampa? >> yes. they are both going to tampa. >> would you include santorum in that? >> no. that was a separate wager for another time. >> you think that ron paul says? >> he stays in because he has a real movement behind had him im they want to see him go far and newt gingrich has a deep pocket sugar daddy from vegas who if he and his wife are angry enough can write another check and keep

it going. >> alice? >> i think that romney will do well in nevada, but we have a long road ahead. agree, gingrich has money, ron paul has the organization, got off the phone with the santorum camp, they are in it until super tuesday, my money is on all four. >> you wiall four going to the . >> i'm putting all my money and your money, all four going to tamp a >> this is the most boring wager. >> gingrich is not going to sample tampa, i'll put everything else that i own on the fact that ron paul will be running for president until we have all long left the earth and gone back to the gold standard, ron paul is never getting out of a race, he will be 1,000 years old and running for the presidential

race. >> i'm putting my money on ron paul going until 2016, he can live off the land. everyone loves a good ranch cracker or whatever he puts in his cookbooks. thank you panel, that is all for us here at "now "i'll see you back here monday at noon eastern and frank rooney and ary and joan will be here. you can follow us on the good old twitter machine, "andrea mitchell reports" is next. hello and greetings to you andrea? >> hi, have a great weekend, a al alex, we have a lot of breaking news. susan g. komen has backed down but donations to planned parenthood has surged and they are getting another big check, new york city mayor mike bloomberg is joining us to tell us why and he will explain his

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