think it was the right decision. >> david gregory. >> good morning. >> i would like you to ask david axelrod> david, i've been looking through -- >> it feels like sunday, doesn't it? >> david, i've been looking through some polling analysis that indicates one of the problems that the president has is an image problem. and by that i mean people still don't have a clear sense of who he is, what he's for, what he's against. if you go back to 2004, carl rove said to the president if the conversation is the war on terror, the answer is president bush. and that ultimately is what won him the election. so what is the main attribute? what is the president's image that will ring true in voters' minds when they go to the polls? >> well, i think the image they'll have and what they have today is a guy who is earnestly working to solve what is the major problem facing our country, and that is how do we rebuild an economy, not just in the short run to create jobs, but in the long run create jobs to restore the middle class and the economic security that people have lost over -- not just the last three ye

listen to david axelrod. >> i think he came to office at a time of tremendous challenge for this countryd we had two wars. and, you know, someone said to me the other day, you know, his slogan should be "gm is alive and bin laden is dead." does that fit on a bumper sticker? >> well, look. i think obama has a great deal of accomplishment. he can go back and tell the american people the things that he was able to fix and the things that he would like to continue to work on in his next term. it's about vision, and i think the president will have that. >> that's not "morning in america." >> no, it's not -- >> it's truthful. >> the most telling thing, a republican has to win florida in order to win. either one of our front-runners is really in a dead heat with him? i think it's a weakness of him. >> ed rollins, billy tucker, donna brazile. >>> president obama rolled out the red carpet today for local news anchors. critics call it a political ploy. who got an invite? you might be surprised. that's tonight's truth next. pos taste great. but did you know they're good for you too? they're high in

keeps the president above the fray and the campaign will leave it to surrogates like strategist david axelrody. here is one that attacks romney. >> from the creator of running for office for pete's sake comes the story of two men trapped in one body. >> i will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose. the next step is to see if roev. wade overturns. >> okay. that's what you can expect to see from the dnc or from the president's surrogates, but not from the president himself. >> we have heard plenty of that from david axelrod. that seems to be the clear strategy. for better or worse, the elections are all about swing states and never more evident than now. >> states like virginia, north carolina, florida, just to name a few. they are all critical to his reelection. state by state for 270 electoral votes. the president has already done more key state visits and events in this year he goes back tomorrow to talk about an extension of the payroll tax cut. there is bipartisan support for that but he wants to t s ts to with tax on millionaires and that makes it a campaign issue. >> interesting

david axelrod. does it help or hurt him with voters? >> i think it helps him. you're quite right.he person following what gingrich is saying is mitt romney. romney is ignoring except the tiny comment about he is being a lifelong politician. he is saying i'm setting the record straight and talking about the distinctions. >> john dickerson, thank you. >>> brittin' faces a ki chaos there. >> the government says cutbacks are needed to prevent larger budget issues. charlie d'agata joins us from london with more on that. >> reporter: good morning. parts of the country have come to a stand still and organizers warn this is just the beginning. what we are seeing today some of the same kind of anger spreading throughout the europe, reaction to austerity packages and cutbacks and workers say they are the ones paying the biggest price. the biggest strike in a generation, 2 million people have walked out to protest changes in their retirement schemes. the measures mean they will have to work longer before retiring for a pension that will be worth a lot less. teachers abandoned schools. hospit

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look -- let me do my best david axelrod for a second.the president wants to help his short term numbers because it usually takes nine months for the initiatives to be felt on the ground i'd approved the keystone pipeline, open off shore drilling, those will help the president in the near term future and frankly, he doesn't want to do them. there's an -- >> if i'm -- if i'm david axelrod, that's what i would do. >> let me tell you something, ford, there you are politicizing the jobs speech and trying to use it to advance a conservative agenda about oh well, stick the pipeline in, do anything, off shore drilling. you have an agenda. i'm saying in terms of jobs, the american people are going to look and say well, wait a second, what about passing the jobs bill, what about putting in place a more infrastructure theme, why is that a bad idea, why are they blocking it. >> they're not necessarily blocking it, the house republicans keep put be forth their own solutions and the democrats choose not to take it up. at the end of the day, republican

hearing from language similar to folks, david axelrod, what does it do for him?oes it help him or hurt him with vote snrz. >> you're right. the person following what gingrich said is mitt romney. romney is ignoring, essentially, except for that tiny little comment about romney being a life-long politician. what gingrich is doing is i'm just setting the record straight and talking about the distinctions between candidates which is perfectly fine for me to do and i don't think he'll be penalized by the conservatives who like him so much. >> john dickerson, always good to see you. >>> this morning britain faces potential chaos there because of a huge nationwide strike by public workers. >> they're striking because theirer angry about cutbacks. charlie d' agata has more. >> reporter: public workers say they're the ones paying the biggest price. in the biggest strike in a generation, 2 million people have walked out to protest changes in the retirement schemes. the measurements mean they have to work longer before retiring for a pension that is worth a lot less. hospi

you've got rush limbaugh trashing him, citing their locations and how close they live to david axelrod. the "wall street journal" is going after these women aggressively. it is a -- it is -- you talk about a scorched strategy, the right is going after any woman that speaks out against herman cain. and i've got to say in an unprecedented aggressive way. and you saw last night the crowd. i say unprecedented. actually, though, i'm sorry, i was there in the 1990s, the left did the same thing for bill clinton. >> as did the clinton campaign. >> as did -- and james carville. >> they're following the clinton play book on this. >> you see, i just did a rick perry, i just forgot. i was there at that little fire. and you're darn right. >> don't forget -- >> they trashed absolutely everybody. >> i think what was interesting was the crowd response last night because he was confronted about this. and take a look. >> here we're focusing on character and judgment. you've been a ceo. >> yes. >> you know that shareholders are reluctant to hire a ceo where there are character issues. why should the amer

happened to be a neighbor of president obama's political consultsant and current campaign strategy, david axelrod living in the same chicago high-rise but she has told fox news that even though she saw him at the jim she said that she never had any interaction with him at all. she is described as a republican and a chicago radio host said that she saw them both hugging at that time a month ago at that tea party event, so, now, in an hour and 15 minutes or so we await mr. cain's response to the explosive charges. >>shepard: thank you, eric. person stated long time football coach paterno was supposed to hold a news conference to address what is now growing scandal surrounding his former defensive coordinator sandusky and allegations he sexually abused eight boys many on penn state campus. now we have learned the press conference is not happening. the investigators say the abuse took place more than a decade ago and that some of the brings were as young as ten. police have said that paterno is not a target at all of their investigation and certainly in the focus. and the coach's son said that patern

this is the same building, happens to the same building david axelrod lives in.u know david axelrod. ever have any interaction with him. >> i saw him in the gym. everybody nods to each other. it is friendly building. i never had any interaction. >> i might add she is registered republican. >> what they say about you gloria, you have supported democrats in the past. this is political vendetta. what do you say to that? >> martha, a month or two ago in new york held a news conference with my client, attacked congressman anthony weiner, a democrat for inappropriate sexual texting done to my client. my client said he should resign. in the past i criticized president clinton for lying to the american people about the monica lewinsky issue. so whether, i am representing my client. i am a proud supporter of women's rights and of brave woman like sharon who stand up and break the silence and tell the truth. and that is, i don't care if the man is rich and powerful and famous, a politician. i don't care if he is democrat republican, libertarian or no got it party at all we

who came up with the idea about david axelrod's mustache. >> that was all of us -- the two of us. >>to explain it? >> well, you know, the definition is that the mustache, if -- you save the flavor when is you eat, so later on you can have the same flavors. >> exactly. >> apparently, there were different types of mustache. it's a learning process. >> there are other terms for it. >> sean: i don't know what it means. i'm in the dark. but i was born in 1940. >> but now you know. >> sean: i have to google it. this is another moment on the campaign trail. >> i wake up every morning thinking, help us all, if i can make it to the end of the day without being highly embarrassed, it will be a minor miracle. >> sean: one serious question. your dad comes under fire. your dad gets attacked. one by one. what's it like for you, you love your dad, obviously. he's been a governor, so you have been through some of it. but it's more scrutiny. >> this is a much bigger scale. but the important thing is that we are here together. we know what goes on in the home. that's the best you can do, going through

the e-mails they say they would like to see from duval patrick's office are interactions with david axelrodst. >> the three people that romney's chief of staff filed that public records request to the state. that came after the initial story where they were seeking information about duval patrick. they are both former duval patrick advisers too. you expect communication, but they are looking for more detail about these types of communications over president obama. >> your report had a lost requests and filings and it may turn up more. great report. thank you for joining us. mass evacuations in reno, nevada from a raging wildfire tops our look at stories about 9500 people have been forceed from homes in the path passion of this fire. so far 20 homes have been lost and several people have been sent to the hospital for smoke inhalation. high winds are mayking it tough to contain. hillary clinton will be the first secretary of state in 50 years to visit myanmar. the trip will help determine how serious the military ruled country is about democratic reform. you know it as burma as well. while mi

it is straight out of the obama playbook with david axelrod managing to produce, you know, sealed divorce first against obama's primary opponent when he was running for the senate and then his general election opponent, jack ryan. that's how he became president allowing him to run for president. and now you have the sexual harassment allegations against herman cain mysteriously coming out of chicago. they are dirty, dirty, campaigners. they have the mainstream media in tir back pocket. and the idea we pick the most right wing candidate without any concern about who is going to win is suicidal for the republican party. >> i'm going to devil into that in a second. i agree, i think it's a good admonition by governor christie. the differen this time is his words are falling flat. he now has a record. i think people are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, and forget about the media being in his pocket. that's going to continue. but he does have a record, and it's abysmal and i think he has to run on his record no matter how much money he spends demonizing his opponents. who you are s

comes out and said these allegations have been made and happens to live in the same apartment as david axelrodis a part of the obama administration, do they think the american people are stupid? this is outra outray outrageous. >> there's no proof. there are political connections in the case. in the case jay mentioned in particular, there's been no specific evidence given. he's contradicting the story. he said, she said, and at this particular point i don't see any evidence that convinces me that any of this took place. >> okay. well, i shockingly agree with jay about the fact that this was 15 years ago and then all of a sudden this stuff comes to light. there was no police report. there was no complaint filed back in the day. from what this woman has said, it was clearly not just a sexual harassment claim but there was battery here or some kind of crime that she is saying he committed. she never went to the police. however, sean. herman cain did this to himself. he's the one that put that noose around his neck and started tightening it as quickly as he could. >> sean: what does that mean? >>

people saying out loud, david axelrod saying that republicans may be trying to hurt the economy for politicalto get re-elected. it's hard to disagree with that. >> really hard. >> hard to disagree with the steam. >> absurdity. the president's statement encapsulates all the problems with jobs bill, stimulus, keynesian economics. all this built in is wrong. that's like asking pete to be seven feet tall. he's not built that way. it's not going to happen. you assume efficient, but congress isn't built that way. jobs right now, one thing about infrastructure, might be stimulative but doesn't do it now. president obama admitted we learned what shovel ready was. >> more to talk about than jobs, there's the super committee, really big structural things. >> there's things you can do, you could spend money on infrastructure. jobs won't be created right away. you agree they will be created. there's a lot you can do and has done in the past to get together. >> i want to talk about press next candidate newt beginning rch. he wants to attach a mandatory training requirement to all unemployment compensation

. >> david axelrod, obama's chief political strategist used the same exact phraseology that mitt romney has no core. what do you make of that line of attack, karl. >> first of all i don't think it's smart on the part of owe bottom that campaign what they are snaggle the guy they are afraid of is romney. this is laughable. senator obama ran a campaign ad called government run health care extreme and came into office and passed obama care. they attacked the debt under george w. bush as being too big and then came in and have run up deficits, annual deficits that are 10 times as large. they for closing gitmo and now for keeping open. against military tribunals now for military tribunals. they said we shouldn't raise taxes in a recession. now trying to raise taxes. never raise taxes on people that make less than $250,000 a year. obama care they raise taxes on anybody in america who buys an insurance policy. anybody who goes to apt. who anybody who buys drugs. anybody who uses a medical device and every college kid who gets a guaranteed federal student loan pace more because of obama care. a

david axelrod, president obama's long-time political consultant and current chief campaign strategist. turns out they both lived in the same tony, chicago high rise on different floors. she told fox news that she saw axelrod at the gym and while everybody in the building was friendly, she never had any interaction with him. she also saw cain in person just last month when she attended a tea party event in chicago. witness amy jacobson chicago radio host said when they saw each other they hugged. at his news conference cain says he didn't know her and can't recall ever meeting her, shepard? >> shepard: voters all across the nation are voting today in many states weighing in on key issues, including a very big and controversial initiative in the state of mississippi that would effectively make abortion illegal and many forms of birth control illegal. live in the magnolia state. plus, a change at the white house. one that has people talking. we'll see why things are a little bit different at the west wing. as we hear from the journalists of fox news on this tuesday fox report. [ male ann

and i don't think it's part of some machiavellian strategy engineered by david axelrod to lift up newt gingrich. i think that would be giving both the white house and clinton far too much credit. >> it would give their love affair too much credit too. what do you think, jennifer,'s going on here? we all know newt is smart. he reminds me of a basketball player from the '60s years ago. he came in the game and got ten shots in a row, then lose the ball. he was a streak shooter that would throw away the ball. >> right. >> howard knows what i'm -- go ahead. your thoughts? >> it's funny, because i think bill clinton is partly putting the white house on notice. because i think there is a tendency to underestimate newt gingrich. in 1994, when he brought in the contract with america and the mister republican house in 40 years, he basically did that under the radar. people were surprised on election day in '94 when republicans took the house. and he did it and he organized it and he led and he created the conservative movement that followed reagan's years, that we now live in. so i think there a

the truth is it's becoming more of a provocative question but people are saying it out loud, david axelrodicans may be trying to hurt the economy for political purposes so they can get re-elected. it's hard to disagree with that in certain examples. >> really hard. >> >> hard to disagree with the steam. >> absurdity. the president's statement right there encapsulates all the problems with his jobs bill, fiscal stimulus, keynesian economics. all the assumptions built into it is wrong. that's like asking pete to be seven feet tall. he's not built that way. it's not going to happen. congress cannot -- you assume efficient, but congress isn't built that way. what more, going to make jobs right now, one thing about infrastructure, might be stimulative but doesn't do it now. president obama admitted we learned what shovel ready was. >> will, look, more than just a jobs bill. frankly there's the super committee, like really big structural things that congress is going to have to agree on. >> congress is built that way, you could spend money on infrastructure. jobs won't be created right away. you

. >> david axelrod likes to say that presidential campaigns are mries of the soul. and they believe that when the mri of mitt romney's soul is taken there will be little there to see. they believe over time two things will happen to mitt romney if he is the nominee. one is people will find him unlikeable and principles pald and t other is they will find his policies a return to the bush era economic policies that got into us this mess in the first place. that applied with $80 million in negative ads, those two messages, they are-- . >> rose: -- more money than romney. >> my sense currently on balance, both sides will have the old thing. both sides will have so much money and enough money. there is a 12 state campaign, not a 50 state campaign. in those 12 states there will be saturation of everything you want to spend money on, not just tv and radio ads but direct mail and people going door to door. i don't think the money will matter. it did for years ago. the president's campaign outspent senator mccain. >> rose: and they had different money too. they kept going ba