>> suarez: mario calvo-platero
and ken rogoff, gentlemen, thank
you both.
>> thank you.
>> ifill: now to 2012 politics--
president obama's busy
fundraising schedule appears
to be paying off.
the obama campaign announced
today that, combined with the
democratic national committee,
it raised $86 million over the
last three months.
that record-breaking total
leaves his republican
competitors in the dust.
as we reported last week, the
entire g.o.p. field combined
raised a total of $35 million-
$40 million.
here now to help us go inside
the numbers is "newshour"
political editor david chalian.
david, welcome back.
hui does the president's
fund-raising measure up?
>> well, you've got to call a
win a win.
it is a record-breaking number,
as you said, that $86 million.
but notice how the campaign is
putting it out there in this top
line.
they want to show that combined
dean see and obama campaign
number because those are the
kind of events-- combined
events-- that the president has