>> but republicans say the grass is still only half empty. >> what i'm suggesting to you today is that we can do better. while the unemployment rate is down slightly, and a few more americans are at work, we still have millions americans that are looking for work. >> and mitt romney's poor mouthing, nevada, his latest defense for his poor choice of words and nuclear show down, what are the stakes for the u.s. and the world if israel attacks iran. we begin with breaking news today, under mounting public pressure the susan g. komen foundation, the leading breast cancer charity said they are reversing their decision to cut money to planned parenthood.

we want to apologize for the recent decisions that cast doubt on our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives. we do not want our mission marred or affected by politics. joining me now is barbara boxer, she has joined with our senators and objecting to the komen decisi decision yesterday. in looking at the wording from komen today, do you think it's a clear cut reversal or is it simply something to get past the immediate controversy? >> oh, i think it's a reversal and i'm very happy. and i think what happened today is that women's health triumphed over right-wing politics and the message here is very broad, it's not just about this huge issue, that by the way i thought you

did such an interesting interview with the ambassador yesterday which helped bring this about, i must say. health care should never be politicized from any side. i have to tell you that once we get past this, and this has past, you cannot believe what is going on in the congress today. there's almost hand to hand combat over the issue of birth control going on and i thought that was resolved in the '60s, we have to make sure that the fact that women have access to birth control stands. the speaker of the house has gotten involved and marco rubio has gotten involved and would drive a loophole in there. women's health is under attack and we are at battle here. >> let me play you a bit of the

interview, i was trying to press nancy brinker to the reason for this and some of it was of because of the so-called investigation cliff stearns. >> investigation is not the only issue, in 2010, we set about setting excellence in our groups, community and science grants putting metrics and outcomes and measures to them so we can translate all the science that we funded over 30 years. many of the grants we were doing with planned parenthood do not meet new standards of criteria for how we can measure our results and effectiveness in communities. >> senator boxer that whole issue was notably missing. that was noticeably missing from her explanation, the statement today. >> andrea, as i told your viewers yesterday, i was not born yesterday. and that was a trumped up

excuse. and, you know, you don't need a degree in medicine to know that you need to have a breast screening and by a qualified physician and then if there's something found in that clinical exam, you are referred for mammograms and other kinds of procedures to find out if it's a suspicious breast lump or something. so, all of that, that that said, it just seemed like she was reaching for reasons. the fact is political pressure -- look, again, it clear, political pressure on an organization coming from the far right wing that just don't believe this is a fact, that women should have, you know, the reproductive health care, a full range of reproductive health care, this is the 21st century and there are more and more

women not united states senate and we are so dedicated with our male colleagues to say we are not going to let this clock be turned back. we are just not going there and we are going to stand up for women health and i think when history is written on this, in the not too distant future, social media played a role. your spokes person said it was due to an investigation, we know it was a sham investigation, it was a witch hunt. you are doomed, that was not to be. >> senator barbara boxer, thank you very much, thank you for everything that you have done on this, and we will stay on it. jeffrey goldberg that has the komen documents that give the talking points on the defunding decision that was reversed and ruth of the washington post. jeff to you first. people on twitter and elsewhere are crediting you and the work

that you did on atlantic media in the last 24 hours with unearthing a lot of the detail. let's talk about the stated reasons and the hiring of contain karen handle, i take it all back to that as well. i keep wondering why susan g. komen who had done such, a job since 1982 of walking -- why would they hire this opponent of planned parenthood who had -- planned parenthood has been a partner of komens for decades. >> you can support komen and be against abortion, that is fine. >> right. >> it's my impression that when she came on, former governoral candidate who is against planned parenthood, when she came on they started moving this question and arguing this question, should we give money to planned parenthood. and what happened was, they

realized that they could not come out and say we are cutting planned parenthood because we disagree with their position on abortion. so they created a rule, any group that is under investigation cannot get money from us, but, of course, if you ask, they fund 2,000 organizations each yoear and on fit that bill. so they created fog to put them out of the picture. and now they are back in the picture. >> and you pushed through that. the bigger force for susan g. komen, many of us have been involved with the organization for years, now what given to the black eye to the pink ribbon? >> i will add to that, there's a lot of tarnish on the pink, this is an organization that had as good a brand as you can imagine, they own today color pink, you would see the marchers and you

would beep, now everyone will stop and think, am i on their side or are they on my side, how much of this is my views on abortion, they just really stepped in it, i think is the technical term. >> jeffrey in their effort to go back, they have access to the best brains and understand how politics work in washington. what should their next step be to try to reassure men and women, supporters on both sides, that they can pursue their research and treatment goals without being involved in politipoll tparticular -- politics? >> it's a tough one, they have threaded this narrow space, they have been a-political, and everyone, if you are against abortion or for choice, you are opposed to breast cancer. so what they have to do is remind people, hey, we are not an organization about abortion.

we are about breast cancer. >> let me play nancy brinker to that point talking about the politics. >> i'm troubled that it been labeled as political. this is not a political decision. we operate from one set of of standards every day and it is to our mission. and if we do not advance and revise and make grants that meet the mission and bring real care to vulnerable populations we are not doing our job. >> it hard to put the genie back in t in the bottle, can they regain their footing? >> probably yes. it was predictable that they would reverse course so quickly. the good thing that you can say is that it did not happen -- too bad that it happened because they should have thought it

through, they were under pressure from both sides but did not consider the consequences, unanimous consenancy brinker wa but perhaps they reversed course quickly enough that they can undo a big piece of their damage. i hope so for the sake of breast cancer. >> up next, mayor bloomberg on his donation to planned parenthood and more on today's reversal by the komen foundation. plus, president obama's top economists weighing in on today's very good jobs' report and first here, a months worth of snow? 24 hours that is what residents in colorado are facing this hour. more ahead on "andrea mitchell reports." up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. the new spark card from capital one. spark miles gives me the most rewards

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the unemployment rate has fallen to 8.3% and that is the

lowest rate since february of wou 2009, we have the president of the economic advisers for the president. this is good news, but you have the speaker of the house, john boehner, let play his reaction. >> so the president really wants to get the economy moving again, really wants to improve his own chances for re-election, maybe he will pick up the phone and call senator reid and ask senate democrats to get off of their rear ends. >> well, can you respond to the senator and give us the take on the numbers that we saw today which were better than expectations. >> the report today was good news, i think because the numbers do bounce around from month to month, it's important to a step back, the economy suffered a great deal of damage

in the start of the recession and we are digging out of it and the data coming in, suggests that we are pointed in a good direction, i think the president's actions have helped. i think an important step to continue the momentum would be for the congress to extend the payroll tax cut as was said in the state of the union, to do it without drama or delay. >> do you have any real concerns given the cbo warnings this week that unemployment was going to bounce back up and that the economy will grow as a far slower place than previously expected and that the white house projects? >> the economy is certainly facing a lot of head winds. it's a direct result of the cris crisis, itself, we have seen

50,000 new construction jobs, which is encouraging and you have problems elsewhere in the world. you had shocks from asia and the concerns about financial crisis in europe. it important to have the extension in the payroll tax n cuts. >> when you look inside the numbers you see improvement on the manufacturing sector, and construction and retail, is there a particular area that surprised you? >> i had a little trouble hearing you because there was a piece of construction equipment moving behind me but i got the jist of your question. >> no stop in construction on the white house lawn, is there a area that is surprising? >> not surprising but what i would say is we are continuing

to see losses of local government jobs, in particular teachers, it was proposed in the american job act to fund schools to help retain teachers and help cities keep firefighters and policemen on the payroll. what we are seeing, partly related to the financial crisis and the loss of property tax revenue, that the local areas are having a lot of trouble, so, to continue to momentum i think providing more support for schools to retain teachers would be helpful. >> and you may have eluded to this, is there anything that keeps you up at night? an unforeseen circumstance that scares the heck out of you,gree france or the strait of hormuz, what would become a nightmare for you? >> recovery worldwide is fragile and we are connect globally.

it effects us, 20% of our eximportant e exports go to europe, we need to ensure against problems that might be down the road which, again, as i mentioned we get a lot of bang from the buck from extending unemployment benefits, people unemployed will go out and spend the money and that will increase demand here and longer term, we need to take steps so the economy is not so subject to the boom and bust cycle that we have seen before, and that is why the president built out a -- laid out a plan for strengthening manufacturing and developing more domestic energy and investing in the skills of the american workforce. >> dr. kruger, great to see you. thank you very much, the first of what i hope to be many interviews on our program. >> nice to be with you. >> and greg is the u.s. economics editor here at the table. greg, some interesting data inside the numbers for one

thing, black unemployment really took a drop. i mean, it's been so high, 15% plus, let take a look at those numbers and also the effect on african american teenagers, the under employed and those that have just really been left untouched by the recovery. >> so african americans and teen anyone e a angers, the african american unemployment rate went high, it went up 7% or 8% points, double the population as a whole. it's good to see it is coming down, but it's well above prerecession levels with a lot of ground to make up there and that is true for the teenage unemployment rate. >> which has been mid 40%. >> somewhat less for the overall population. ? more than half of african american teenagers under employed. you tweeted today, these numbers

were good enough that you tweeted i'm beginning to wonder if the jobs issue will fade a bit as the number one election issue. >> do you feel it will fade? >> it seems that it will fade, when our polls go out, we find that 40% of people call it the number one issue, nothing else comes close. that said, as the economy gets better, what you may see is that while it does not turn into an asset for barack obama, it's a flow of information. people begin to think about other things and what might those other things be, could they be national security or domestic policy issues? i don't think that we should sugar coat this, the president is in a deep jobs hole. he may have dugout of that hole, just as bush did in 2004. >> greg, thank you so much. and up next, right here, new york mayor , michael bloomberg,

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at aarp.org/jointoday. more on breaking news about the komen foundations decision to reinstate grants to planned parenthood for health services, mayor mike bloomberg offered to use his personal wealth to help planned parenthood. he said that politics have no place in health care. joining us now, new york mayor mike bloomberg. thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> the twitterverse lit up after your comment. why did you come out so quickly in support of planned parenthood in the controversy? >> health care is at the top of the list of things that we have to worry about, i do not think that politics should enter into it. i don't know what got the komen

foundation to make the decision, i'm glad they reversed it. but the bottom line is that planned parenthood is an organization that was providing a great service, in terms of screening for breast cancer and they do other things as well, the basic purpose is planned parenthood and how you make sure that kids that don't want to get pregnant don't get pregnant and what to do if it does happen. and i thought, both the things that they work on should be supported. i've been a supporter of both planned parenthood and the susan g. komen foundation and here was a chance to make another investment in the future of the people that live in the country and in the world. >> you know social media is so important now, in the twittervers, sample tweets, wow, a politician takes a stand, and puts his money where his mouth is. and most of it just to completely over the top praising

you. >> that is nice to hear. >> that is not why you do things, but would you continue doe that itting a donating and what do you say to a lot of men and women who tell us that they are having second thought thoughts? >> i think you support both organizations. my challenge grant still stands, i got a great call this morning from the head of the teacher's union in new york city who is contributing $125,000, a friend of mine yesterday, e-mailed me that he was contributing $100,000. there's a lot of people that are out there understanding and this is just maybe a refresher to all of us that organizations like planned parenthood and the susan g. komen foundation do great work and it really important that the private sector kicks in and allows them to prevent disease and if, god forbid, something happens to find

treatment and a cure for people that are sick. >> live strong is putting up a $100,000 grant in answer to your challenge. >> another organization, live strong that i support, so nice to hear. >> one final thought on this, about the political campaign ahead as we have seen the house republicans in particular going after planned parenthood and making the abortion issue the issue, whereas they say cecil richards had said that they segregate their work and that breast health and completely apart from whatever controversy that exist about abortion services. so, do you think it's possible to separate the cancer and screening initiatives from the other initiatives in this campaign? >> i think it is, but i believe it's woman's right to chose and

i'm in favor of abortion, and i think it should be up to the woman and government should not get involved. i have no idea why the susan g. komen foundation did what they did or reversed it, i'm glad in the end that they came to the right decision, they'll continue to fund broplanned parenthood a i'll continue to support both organizations. and i encourage others to do it. >> there's a football game going on in i understandianapolis thi, you and the mayor from boston has teamed up and there's an organization called mayors against illegal guns and i guess you have purchased this ad, this is your ad for the super bowl. >> giants, patriots, ely, brady, we to not agree on much. >> we both support the second amendment and believe that

americans must do more to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. >> go to mayors against illegal guns.org, it the patriotic thing to do. >> you can make a giant difference in our country. >> i like the giant difference. what are you trying to accomplish here? >> number one, give tom an opportunity to show everyone he is a great mayor. in all fairness, tom was the spark behind the coalition of mayors. he started the whole thing and i've been lucky enough to work with him. what i think it really says is look, sports are fun, sports are something that entertains us, but guns kill people. we have a second amendment you have a right to have a gun, i support that. and states have the right to set their own laws that should apply within their states, but the bottom line is there are too many loopholes and federal laws

that let people buy guns when federal law says you should not. unfortunately the gun background check system has flaws in it. too many people sell guns privately and while they are not supposed to sell to those who could not pass a background check, they are not required to do one, and it would be easy to have gun dealers do that background check for them. we had a congress woman shot nine months ago, there about, gabby giffords, she is on her way to recovery but has a long way to go. if that does not make congress realize, everyone, even congress people are vulnerable here i don't know what will. 80% of all gun owners think we should have restrictions.

i do not think that the founding fathers wanted people walking around with assault rifles in their hands. i don't think that the founding fathers meant for those on the no-fly list should be able to buy a gun. it does not make sense, since 1968 when martin luther king, jr., 4,000 americans have been killed with illegal guns -- more guns than people in america. it's only america that has this problem. a couple of third world countries you go around the world and they say, what are you people thinking, you can sit on a door step and get shot. a kid that doesn't know how to handle a weapon and does not know why to value life goes and shoots a weapon. we had officers that were killed, a few woeeks ago i this to tell parents that their child

was of dead and i went to the hospital, and luckily the bullet that entered the cop's head did not hit his skull, it could have. looks like he will okay, thank god. i have thought, if congress had to go to the hospitals and look the parents or the siblings or the children in the eye and say, your loved one is not going to ever come back again, maybe they would look at it differently. gun owners and the public, 80% plus say let put in real checks and make sure that the database that holds the information to say whether or not you have a criminal record or a mental problem is up to date, make sure everyone obeys the law and does what law requires of having a background check before you sell them a gun, we would be safer off and the second is amendment

would not be violated one bit. >> mayor mike bloomberg, a powerful statement and thank you very much. and a powerful commercial for the super bowl and we will all be watching you, i'm sure, as the giants proceed. >> if you pardon me, go giants. >> i know you were born in boston, so i'll not remind people of it. we will demer of chris christie saying that they have something to do with new jersey. >> chris christie will root for the giants just as i am. >> up next, the political briefing up here, romney heading west where his mormon faith is a plus. [ male announcer ] juice drink too watery? ♪ feel the power my young friend. mmm! [ male announcer ] for excellent fruit and veggie nutrition...

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mitt romney's mormon faith could be a draw back in the

south but it's his key to winning in the west. his mormon firewall is the title of the politico article today. alex, we are talking about the states, not only in utah, but nevada, arizona, and california, where there are larger mormon residen resident it a key for him. >> 20% of caucus participants and 95% of them voted for romney. it would have been his entire victory margin, we will see this weekend, the first showing of what happens when he is competing on turf that is more favorable to him, and over the next month, the states are more mormon friendly than we have seen so far in other states or michigan, a state where his

father was governor and he grew up. >> thank you very much, we will be watching the returns tomorrow. and this program has given a lot of time to the organization for autism. what has been overlooked is the military families, those children that have been diagnosed with autism and how under served they are. we have the vice president of autism speaks and rachel is an army wife and a child of two. they learned their child has autism while her husband was on tour in afghanistan. he is back home safe and sound, thank goodness. rachel to you, this is a gap in the military health system, talk

about what it means to you as a mother and wife taking care of a child and having to deal with all of the medical challenges? >> sure, my daughter was diagnosed while my husband was of serving in afghanistan, he was under fire most of the time that he was there. it was a very difficult phone call to tell him from several thousand miles away that his daughter did in fact have autism. but i think what was more difficult were the months that followed while he was still there when i found out how little as much as are available to our military families and that moved me to take action to see that our families get better treatment for autism. >> i know you have house sponsorship and you are working on the senate piece of it. what does the legislation accomplish? >> it's a simple change, clarifies the type of coverage that is available to families that serve in the military.

some pafamilies can access it b it's only available to people on active duty. which is a big factor because many families who have served for many years when it comes time for them to decide whether they should stay in or retire, they are po they are forced to stay in to get the services. these families do not have coverage in the person in the military does end up leaving the military. >> and in fact, military families move a lot. you cannot decide whether to start treatment and therapy in a particular place, because you do not know that you'll be able to have the coverage when you move. >> exactly. and that bill fixes one area of the continuing of care. if we can get that accessibility that whether they are on the move or their suppose is

deployed, it a huge advantage to the family that is now living in crisis, because they cannot access the care that they need. >> we hear so much at every level about the need to stand by our military families and i think the american spirit is there, but a small percentage of america is servingstatus and in how does that feel to have people talk about it and not delivering? >> for my family, we are so proud to serve, my husband has been in for 25 years, he is highly decorated. he has earned several army commendation medals, service awards, 25 years, he would love to retire. but he can't because if he retires he loses what little autism care is available to active duty members and we are trying fix that. >> we thank you for your service.

him for his service. >> thank you. >> and peter thank you for what autism speaks does. >> thank you andrea. >> we will follow-up thank you. leon panetta warning that there could be a strike against iran. [ male announcer ] what's the beat that moves your heart? how about the beat of a healthy heart? campbell's healthy request soup is delicious, and earned this heart, for being heart healthy. ♪ feel the beat? it's amazing what soup can do.

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and what did jan brewer have to do with this photo, critics are saying she is trying to be the next scott walker and what they mean by that next. >> the u.s. is growing concerned about the iran/israel situation. jeffr jeffrey, you have done reporting on that. a lot of this took off after david ignatious suggested that israel is moving closer to the red line of attack. we should point out that the israel ambassador was kbgoing t be here and jerusalem said that no one is supposed to talk about it right now because of the

things written about it. >> there are israelies talking about it >> it's clear that israel is thinking about it differently, and it's the defense minister, he has been to the states and the head of musad meeting with the republican committees and they are saying we are serious, we have different red lines and we see a window opening. >> but, remember, and this is not to say that it not going to happen, but remember, we have been through this for a year and a half or more, i wrote about a year ago that it seemed likely that they were going to do it. i maintain that it's likely they will do it but things happen. we had, after that bump, we had the virus that crippled the centri centrifuges so things can happen. i do not think that the prime minister of israel has decide

what had to do yet. i could not think a decision has been made. the biggest issue, the biggest thing holding them back is not the technical issue, it not can we destroy anything, it's how the americans will react. >> that is why there were so many meeting here in washington, and there are willflevels and l. >> and there were meetings in telaviv >> there's a point that israel is trying to drag us into it by suggesting that they are prepared to do it and the other point is that there's pressure being built by the israel and american suggestions by what leon panetta said, for europe to be tougher on sanctions and tougher on china. what is happening is that china is buying less oil from iran and that is putting pressure and

saudi is moving in. >> the question is, you can flip and say, israel is saying we will do this so you do not have to. >> we will do your dirty work. >> we will do what needs to be done and you do not have to. >> there could be tremendous fall out for the u.s. >> let me point out clapper's testimony that the united states is more vulnerable to attack because of the alleged plot against ambassador of saudi arabia on american soil, right here in fact at a favorite wa r watering hole. it that israel is better defended against an iranian counter attack than the united states because of our far flung diplomats and embassies. >> this is the difficult thing. for israel and the united

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♪ which means that the next 24 hours will be dominated by the super bowl. fans are getting ready for the big game. we've seen the ads. a few have been leaked. craig melvin has the best assignment anywhere. joining us from indianapolis,

the site of super bowl xlvi. this will be great matchup. >> reporter: on paper it should be a fantastic matchup. you have squads that the last nine times they faced each other, 9-4, 4-5. this should be a fantastic football matchup. one of the things we have discovered is that the super bowl has very little to do with the actual game. 300,000 people will descends over the next few days. 72,000 will fit inside lucas oil stadium. you have a lot of folks roaming the trestreet. they have been taking in the sites and sounds and enjoying the hoosier hospitality. >> the ticket price themselves, this is an expensive bid. >> reporter: the super bowl has

become an event for the 1%. 1967 the first year the super bowl football championship came, afternoon price $9. this year it's about00 the average. >> craig, having been born and raised in new york city, what can i say? we are a giants family. nbc as well is home of super bowl xlvi. have great time. don't miss the giants taking on the patriots this sunday. kickoff is at 6:30 eastern on nbc. you may have noticed that i'm wearing red today joining all of the men and women across the country showing our support for the american heart association national wear red day. it's for women's heart health. heart disease is the number one killer in america. we're trying to raise awareness

of this very important cause. thanks so all of you. tamron hall is wearing red. have a great weekend. we know how important women's health is. it becomes part of the dialogue we saw today with the komen reversal. you look beautiful in your red. i'm sorry to say the patriots are going to win. >> i thought you were a texas girl. what's going on? >> i'll explain later. we have following big breaking news in the fear battle over women's health. one headline refers to it as komen sense. they have caved to the pressure apologizing now saying it will not pull funding from planned parenthood. we'll get the latest reaction. that includes new words from n

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