joining me now with more on today's political headlines, white house reporter david nakamura, good morning. >> hi, alex, how are you? >> i'm well. thank you for asking. you're talking about going after gop candidates. we're 14-ish months, closer to 13 out from the election. is the president in full campaign mode in is he going to be consistently weaving in his jabs at contenders now? >> absolutely. he's going around the country doing this jobs tour to promote his jobs package. make no mistake, a lot of it is politically aimed and motivated. you've seen him go to a number of states where his biggest republican rivals are based. this coming tuesday, he goes to texas. home of rick perry. last week he went up to the west coast to raise money for his campaign and he's first started this sort of line of criticism saying that as you just heard, that the republican candidates are not stepping up against the value kind of issues that he says americans stand for which is to boo, they're boo'ing this kind of statement from a gay soldier in iraq and he says, very strongly, a command ner chief needs to

dated -- david nakamura. >> thank you, mr. president. just following up on solyndra. giving out $80 billion of guaranteed loans and promising to save jobs in green energy and clean energy. direct and reports that only 3500 new jobs have been created in that industry. why has that industry been so slow to respond to the investment your administration has provided, and what you see going forward for how we move on? >> i think what has been true historic plea is that -- historic plea is that businesses that rely on new technologies, oftentimes is going to take a while before they take off. there's a lot of up-front investment to be made in research and capital and so forth. barriers for companies trying to break in. keep in mind, clean energy companies are competing against traditional energy companies. and traditional energy is still cheaper. in a lot of ways. the problem is, it is running out. is polluting. and we know demand is going to keep on increasing. we have to make these investments. that makes it more difficult for a lot of these companies to succeed. other co

dated -- david nakamura. >> thank you, mr. president. just following up on solyndra. giving out $80 billion of guaranteed loans and promising to save jobs in green energy and clean energy. direct and reports that only 3500 new jobs have been created in that industry. why has that industry been so slow to respond to the investment your administration has provided, and what you see going forward for how we move on? >> i think what has been true historic plea is that -- historic plea is that businesses that rely on new technologies, oftentimes is going to take a while before they take off. lot of up-front investment to be made in research and capital and so forth. barriers for companies trying to break in. keep in mind, clean energy companies are competing against traditional energy companies. and traditional energy is still cheaper. in a lot of ways. the problem is, it is running out. it is polluting. if we do not get a handle on it now, we're going to be facing china and india putting a billion new drivers on the road. the price of oil and coal going up. the impact on

ravens injury report...so lee evans out.haruki nakamura shutdown for probably another month with a knee injury. receiver david ben grubbs questionable..jets center nick mangold also questionable.receiver logan payne out for new york. the match-up everyone's waiting for...jets head coach rex ryan verse his former team. ryan spent 10 years in baltimore as a d-line coach and then coordinator. coordinator.it's no secret rex ryan wanted the job in 2008. instead the ravens went with john harbaugh.a year later... ryan to the jets..there were some bitter feelings... but also good memories...it's because of that past relationship....and a few former ravens on the jets roster....derrick mason, bart scott, and jim leonard....that the jets verse ravens has turned personal. . in boston...the 2 year postseason drought has caused red sox manager terry francona to step down...francona won 2 world series in his 8 years... but the red sox collapsed this season...they had a 9 game lead over the rays on september 1st and ended up missing the playoffs... francona said it was his decision to step down... that'll do it for this edi