gallop is currently serving two years for the distribution of narcotics. he also has an open case for assault with a deadly weapon, to which he has pled not guilty. but his reputation at suffolk county stems from a prior conviction against an inmate during an earlier stay here. >> when he was sitting down i was like, maybe i could take the mirror off. i started playing with it and i learned how to take it apart. i ran into another kid's cell and stabbed him. >> the inmate was stabbed 19 times. >> myself and the staff responded. as we entered the unit, we observed the cell door was wide open. and when we got down there, he was inside the cell and stabbing the inmate that was inside the cell with a manufactured weapon that he had made. there was blood on the walls, on the floor. all over both inmates. >> the victim survived the attack. >> i believe that he enjoyed the notoriety that came behind what he had done. it sends a message to the staff as well as other inmates. >> i'm not the nastiest. i'm just a regular person like i said. you're going to hear from

. >> the gallop report, 40% say the economy is improving in the latest gallop poll, 56% say it's gettingworse. this poll is from february 26th. and that's before the gas prices started going up and it's now about 3.75 a gallon. am you right? that's one every big risks in this economy. >> they're not high-fiving in the white house. they realize this is a very fragile recovery. and if mitt romney wants to gain some traction on the economy, which i don't think he has, he ought to use these victory tuesday nights to deliver a compelling vision on the economy. his plan so far is less regulation, lower taxes. we basically tried that under bush. that hasn't worked. that's not enough. and so i think he really misses an opportunity here. and the president has to do a better job selling the fact that his -- the policies he put in place are beginning to pay off. and mark, a very respected spokesman, what is that -- >> i think you'll say mccain advisor next. [everyone talking at once] >> just baiting you when he laughs at you and you go right for the jugular. >> hands off my jugular! >> i'd like to

newt gingrich promises he can lower the price of gas to $2.50 a gallop. the president calls that promise phony. who is right? >> probably a little bit more on the president's side. $2.50 a gallon gas is a bit of a fantasy if you're thinking about it right now. i mean, it simply doesn't work. you name the things that would happen quickly or could happen quickly, they don't really work. you could lower gas prices developly by increasing the oil surprise. you certainly hear republicans call for that, but it wouldn't do anything in the short-term. this is way too big an oil market. as you know, the bulk of what makes up the price of gas is the price of oil. >> and it's all a lot of tradeoffs, too. certainly you don't want a depression so you can have $2.50 gas. >> right. >> i want to look at this. gallop polls can find the price at which consumers significantly change their behavior is $5.35. richard, no economic statistic more immediate than gas prices and consumers are feeling it. is this justified? >> yeah. i i think that gallop poll says 50% to 60% of us

so, rick, you think the gallop crowd is right?all street's optimistic about a couple hundred thousand new jobs and maybe a steady unemployment rate. do you think the gallop guy's right we'll jump to 9.1? >> in an apples to apples comparison, keep in mind that they're talking about i non-seasonally adjusted rate and if you look back at the mid-month move which moved higher, and you factor in the seasonalities, you're talking about a half a percent lower if you adjust it. the same is true for the government, actually. if you took that 8.3 last month and looked at that time nonseasonally adjusted it would move to 8.8. i think the long and short of it is is i do think the mid-month trend of moving higher is accurate and it goes along with the employment indices and the survey, but for me, the issue is the total amount of employ and the shrinkage that we've seen in the counting of the unemployed. why is jobs important, larry? things like tax revenues and of course, consumption and it's the amount of people working that is the metric th

talk about how the president has come back if you look at the latest job approval numbers, latest gallop numbers were 45 approve, 50 disapprove. he's still in that danger territory well below the job approval numbers of clinton when he was re-elected and reagan when he was re-elected in the mid 50s. >> what's your assessment of where the president is? >> the president was in the low 40s. in the low 40s several months ago, everyone said obama isn't going to win. now that he's ticked up between 45 and 50 approval ratings in various polls, he could win with another tick. if you look up around 70 plus on track, that's closing. things are moving in the right direction. when we worked in '96, we did a very similar thing. we declared the economy was coming back. obama declared the economy is coming back. people are looking at that. he's not saying that i think we're back to peace and prosperity the way we were at the end of 2000 but he is saying that my policies are beginning to work. >> it's almost like, whit, you see in our polling most recently that as americans feel more confident about the

have to load the money in here and gallop off back into central rochdale with it.

from then on billy is bronco billy the outlaw with the heart of gold usually just a gallop ahead of the posse. billy had built a sizable movie house. in 1914 charles chaplin came to work for s & a for the handsome salary of $1,200 a week. bruce gates informs me that chaplin preferred this hotel on the main street where he could get some service. david keen of berkeley is writing a book on s & a studios he says bronco billy was a movie pioneer. >> at the heart he was a loner character. he didn't have lots of friends. knew pactly what he wanted on the set and didn't take anything from anybody. >> reporter: charles chaplin was really a shy man who compensated by performing on screen and off. >> he was always trying out his little tricks you know with his hat and his cane for any kind of crowd that was around niles and whether they wanted to see it or not. >> reporter: the 30 minute bronco billy films were successful so anderson didn't try to make a longer film but the movies were about to change. chaplin was ready for the change, in the tramp, he perfected his movie character. gave him the

a gallop over the weekend still had him at 49%. some other big polls have him at 41%.ome analysts think that has a lot to do with gas prices. >> tracy, thank you. >>> the american soldier accused of killing 16 afghan civilians could face execution if he is convicted. that service member arrested after the shooting spree on sunday will be tried under u.s. military legal code, which, in some cases, allows for the death penalty. the 38-year-old staff sergeant whose name has not been releas d ed trained as a sniper, he suffered a head injury in a vehicle accident in iraq. today, open fire on an afghan delegation which included two brothers visiting one of the two villages where the alleged killings took place. in washington state, for their own safety, the wife and two children of the soldiers suspected of the killings have been moved onto a military base. >> elsewhere, a special united nations meeting has so far failed to find a way to stop the violence in syria. secretary of state met with diplomats yesterday to talk about a potential cease fire. russia, syria's most pow

galloping gertie. whoop, let's look at this. look at this. in a slight gale one day-- whoop, i shouldn't say gale. when the cat was released on this bridge one day, look what happens here. there is an evidence of resonance. see those bushes moving around a little bit? a little bit of wind there, but let's stick to our cat theme. and there it goes. look at that. this is in real time, gang, scout's honor. this is not time lapse so speed it up. these are the real vibrations, real time. that bridge is resonating. and what's the cause of that resonance? that calico-colored cat. hmm, hmm, hmm. they sent to follow out there to kick the cat off the bridge, but the animal rights activist said, "no, let the cat "do its own thing. every creature has a right to do its own thing." uh, uh, uh. you look very carefully. in the middle of the picture, you can see the cat. cat's purring, making its paws go up and down, generating this terrible, terrible event. turns out this bridge was inadvertently uninsured. turns out the insurance premiums were unpaid by a c

. >> goes you know what gallop gives the point? over 9%. why is that? they measure it differently.they don't take. >> account seasonal adjustments and 8.3% is a very rosie way of looking at it if you -- >> you think -- you agree with mort that the bureau of labor statistics gives us that information is slanted and this seasonal adjustment has a lot of cushy stuff inside there we don't want to talk about? >> look, let me say one thing here. the 8.3% measures people who have actively applied for a job in the last four weeks. when you've had the average period of unemployment which is over six months, over sever months, that's a ridiculous standard on the base at which you look at unemployment. if you look in terms of number of people who have applied for job in the last six months, it's 15.1%. these are government numbers. and to that you have to add the people who have left the labor force which if that was adjustment, it would be 18%. so the numbers are much worse than they look. >> you want to give prediction? is that buried in there? >> no. i'm saving the rest of my prediction. m

relationships by seeking $12.3 million in program mattic increaskreecreases in continued the navajo gallop water project. we also plan to continue protecting indian country by seeking an additional $11 million in public safety funding. with that increase, $3.5 million will go towards hiring traditional tribal and affairs law enforcement personnel and 6.5 milli$6.5 million will pay increases. this request also supports the expansion of a highly successful pilot program launched in 2010 that saw a 35% reduction in violent crime for four reservations with high violent crime rates. the department also seeks an increase of $5.2 million for our edg education activities. 2 million for tribal grant support costs at 125 tribally controlled schools and residential facilities. to continue with the new energy frontier initiative, the 2013 budget request provides a total of 8.5 million to supportal development on tribal lands, and $6.2 million is provided for energy projects and the remaining thremain $2.5 million in support of leasing activities on the reservation. we did have to make some difficult c

. >> charlie gasperino, talking to the head of gallop, the people, they've crunched the numbers and i don't know if there's anything to it, but that it would have to get over $5. and i think, take it to $5.30 a gallon. and we had them on fox business. and were it to resonate. now, that seems like an arbitrary figure to me, what do i know. you get it up to there, it doesn't matter how much over. what do you make of it. to-- >> he's saying resonate from a political standpoint in terms of votes. i mean, in terms of the economy, you know, i think it's going to have an impact when it's above 4.50. >> i think it would have an immediate-- >> and here is the thing though, these jobs numbers are really good. i mean, i always thought this was going to happen last year. i mean, it's been a delayed a year. last year, going up to 2011, and going into 2010. looked like a recovery and it didn't, a lot of obamacare and businesses scared about higher taxes. it's a political problem for republicans. >> you can see this sustaining? >> i think so. >> mr. lashinsky. >> it's wonderful to hear's charlie's a

according to gallop, 72% of us favor tv coverage of this week's argument, so what is the problem? it's the court itself, largely shielded from the public's will and slow to change, the justices routinely turn down traditions to allow tv coverage. but americans deserve to see how they operate and it's hard to see how more transparency could be the bad thing. ladies and gentlemen of the court, it is time to let us in. anita? >> too late for this case, but we shall see. >>> with you ready for a little chilly night here? >> not really, but i think it's a reality check that we kind of have to -- very early. >> we're talking about a freeze warning, not record lows. only reason we're talking about a freeze warning is because the fruit trees have blossomed. that's the problem. that's what we're concerned about, especially in a place like thurmont and into the valley. this is wisconsin avenue. see the flags? they're still blowing. that is good news. if the winds keep up a little bit tonight, that will keep the temperatures from really plummeting. winds west/northwest at 22. pressure rising

. >>> gas prices jumped about half a meny yesterday making the national average $3.81 a gallop. >> untilnd rising prices are sure to be a huge issue in the upcoming general election. as ed henry reports, it is a problem impacting president obama's ratings. >> reporter: with pressure building on president obama over gasoline prices, energy secretary steven chu back pedaled on his 2008 claim it would be good to see higher prices to wean americans off fossil fuels. >> are you saying you no longer share the fruit that we need to figure out how to boost prices in america. >> i no longer share this view. in this economic, very slow but return that we need to -- we need to have these prices could well affect the comeback of our economy. >> reporter: white house aides say the president did not urge chu to backtrack and notteed the original comments were before he was in government. >> there has been an attempt, largely partisan attempt, to try to take comments like that and pretend that those are policy when the policy reflects the contrary. >> exxon is making $40 billion a year and we are makin

but to gallop through this grand terrain in the 1970s the cia estimated soviet defense spending at 6% of its gnp. this was clearly off base. the problem stemmed from the intelligence community hyping the overall size of the soviet economy, which low balled the defense burden. on the smaller than estimated economy. the intelligence community then deemed the soviet gnp half the size of the united states gnp, where actually it was one-third or less. what's been dubbed a bombshell what's been dubbed a bombshell exploded in may of 1976 when the cia recalibrated its ruble prices and costs and raised the approval of soviet defense spending i was then working as a special assistant. i was young and to tell you the truth not too special to the young and very special secretary of defense don rumsfeld. rumsfeld launched a veritable first strike against the then director of central intelligence, george herbert walker bush, for low balling even this number. while bush's cia estimated 11 to 13%, rumsfeld felt it was more like 13% to 15%. these two men, whose futures would hold even bigger jobs, had

next a discussion on growing state economies with jim clifton, chairman and ceo of the gallop polling organization and the awe thr of the book "the coming jobs corp.." he talks about the need for less innovation and more entrepreneurship to grow small businesses and what the u.s. must do to be globally competitive. this is about 50 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. please take your speets. here's the hard part. if i could audience members to place please take your seats. governors, please take your seats. hey, mike. i had a delegation of your lead members on the flight coming in. yeah, they did. ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. i call this meeting to order as mga chair i would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the 2012 winter meeting. may i have a motion to adopt the rules of procedure for the meeting? is there a second? thank you. let me just explain one thing first before we vote. part of the rules requires that any governor who wants to submit a new policy or resolution for adoption, this meeting will need three-fourths vote to sus

when if it ok for a government or the media support and i galloped this week let's talk about that i don't think. i think that the government is that a serve the people of the media is there to report the news not make editorial direction on any of their reporting i don't think it's right they cannot say they support it but i think they can to different ways so if you support more subversive ways. that's probably what they do anyway right probably people are choosy about who is supporting their cause. absolutely their their people are too easily swayed from a proper candor is the people that want you to believe something bad one else caused by sheet people start their own personality and look at the own facts in the details make their own opinion that's what they should do and not just followed everybody else there's a pretty great principle in psychology that you start and finish where you are so you like what you like and you don't like the other guy for liking something different but that's just human nature but i mean that the principle of democracy it's unusual it's a kind of a

tell us it's time for america to let someone else run the world bank maybe someone from edge of galloping country do you want. to lead now i would i would believe that because i believe it does need to stay with us i think we should keep it. with the policies of the obama administration our financial industry is suffering greatly. and it's in question is sure that we remain. part of that was trying to find out what you guys think of obama's nominee to be the next president of the world we asked you for your predictions whether you think that he might actually change the tradition of being an american what's like most people just weren't really sure what the world bank or who the nominees were but thank you for your responses as usual and here's our next question for you earlier in the show we spoke about the impact of occupy wall street movement which has been declared all but dead by the media i'll think wires are promising a resurgence so do you think we're going to see an occupy wall street style american spring or the snow you think on facebook twitter and you tube and you know his re

and they made the comment that not only had you crossed the line on religious liberty, but you had galloped over it. i just have to ask you, madam secretary, did you all consult the department of justice before you made this decision? >> which decision are you referring to? >> religious liberty, the first amendment. >> which decision are you referring to? the promulgation -- >> the mandate to the catholic churches. i think you know what i'm talking about. >> we have consulted with a number of people. did we consult before we finalized the rule on prevention? >> yes, ma'am. >> with the department of justice, no, we did not. >> you did not. okay. thank you. my time is expired. i yield back. >> chair change the gentle lady. chair recognized the gentleman from pennsylvania, dr. murray for five minutes. >> thank you, madam secretary. i want to follow up on the religious freedom first amendment issue as well. if an employer is saying that he or she cannot find it in their conscience in terms of practicing their religion that they cannot pay for a plan or have a plan that allows for or requires pr

technically what you're saying differentiation but the spirit of this is that you're not supposed to gallop your clients eyes out if you require their head and you know who's on their neck but let me get back to this point about pension funds versus doctors ok for doctor gets involved goldman sachs broker the goldman sachs brokerages eyes out and ruined his life that's the doctor's responsibility but a pension fund manager is managing money for other people it's a third party transaction they have no idea what's going on in a lot of times we find out that these pension managers are in cahoots with these brokers on wall street and they're ripping these people off unmercifully in a way that's true through a third party so here you have third party institutionalized fraud now this is a this is a huge problem no baxi when i really see eye to eye on that point and i think to the fact that the regulations stay sickly state that you know an institution is on their own because. as they're smarter they should know better is not really taking into account the fact that the money that the institution

what you also see you look at the gallop polling on liberal conservatives or moderate.servative numbers have gone up. a lot of independent vote is becoming slight employer conservatives. doesn't mean it's a lock down for republicans. republicans win in 2008 they voted like democrats. >> does this mean we are more alike than different. more people are becoming independent. they are moving more to the center? >> it's a paradox. the campaigns are so negative and now super pack almost unlimited because you don't have to put your name behind the negativity as you are driving people away from the party toward independents. doesn't mean they are unified they are turned off by the system. they allow the candidates to attack each other with impunity without holding each other responsible for it. >> barack obama got 62 percent of the independent vote john mccain 44 percent. can obama win the independent vote? >> obama is falling mostly short among independents. when i looked at the last gallup poll you had 50 percent of americans who disapproved of barack obama's job he was doing

>> you look at the voters who are paying close attention to this issue according to the gallop. 78%.ipeline. that is going to have a significant overlap with the population of voters in the country. that is why the white house is concerned. the president is going and doing photo opportunities which is what they are. in an effort to reband himself. he is trying to pretend he hasn't been who he has been in the first three years of his presidency. what is interesting to me is to notice that the application on the left increasing. environmentalists are worried about the president. they think it's setting the stage for a full-scale reversal on keystone, which is unlikely. he is looking for approval from people who rejected it in the first place. >> i am shaking my head in agreement. he can't have it both ways. republican voters will realize how disingenuous this is or the left wing base will say we don't trust you anymore. >> bret: talk about the green energy policies. out on a radio show talking about a solyndra. the solar company panel company that failed. take a listen to this. >> we w

. >> reporter: a gallop poll found 70% support for medical marijuana and even in liberal d.c., some residents are skeptical. >> i don't think they should do this. that is giving everyone a reason to do it. >> reporter: under the d.c. health department's timetable, cultivators are named tomorrow. the dispensaries are named in early june, the first possible sales of medical marijuana in d.c. realistically could occur may be as soon as august, laura. >> thank you. >> a new study shows the link between obesity and cancer might be growing. the number of new cancer case decreased because fewer people are smoking. other cancers are on the rise due to obesity and a lack of exercise. brenda edwards, the associate director of the surveillance research program at the national cancer institute joins us now. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> what sort of cancers are up? >> reporter: we have many cancers, thyroid cancer, melanoma and focus on the cancerring going up, which evidence shows a relationship with either excess weight or physical inactivity, including things like colorectal can

. >> the last time everyone in the media got up on their high horses and galloped off in all directionsas the duke lacrosse case and everybody was wrong. >> donna, we'll learn a lot more from these tapes. grand jury is looking at this right now. one thing that we have heard for the 911 operator said to george zimmerman, you don't have to do that. >> george is right on the law. the problem with the law is that stand your ground is that you often end up in the ground in a case of an innocent person like trayvon martin and in the case of george zimmerman, you end up doing things that perhaps you would not have done. neighborhood -- i belong to a neighborhood watch. we don't carry pistols or guns. we try to protect the street, we try to protect the neighborhood. we don't profile people. but this is of course awakened some wounds, some wounds that go back generations. where young, black boys were told at a very early age, i heard my mom, the talk is of course watch yourself, be careful of your surroundings. you're stopped by the cops protect yourself, act with humility. in trayvon's case, he

. >> a new gallop poll thinks that president obama and congress should take immediate action to keep prices from going higher. they could top $4 a gallon by memorial day. if that happens, 28% of people would have to make major changes in their highways and some significant cutbacks in spending. >>> on this day in 1977, gunmen stormed three buildings in washington taking dozens of people hostage. one the former mayor, marion barry coming up. we'll talk to him live about the hostage crisis. age crisis. . >>> that was bob barnard talking about spring being in the air. also, find out why the solar storm appears to be more potent than originally thought. gary. >>> and pretty nice this afternoon, shawn. cooler and we did have some good sunshine now. what about the weekend? is it going to stay cold or are we in for a warm-up coming our way? let's look at it and talk about the evening forecast. that is all coming when we come back. fox 5 news at 5 will continue.   . >> 35 years ago today, the district was introduced to homegrown terrorism. and a group of hanathasy men. karen gray houston h

now that is galloping into debt. we have to do something about it. those figures from the united states treasury. paul ryan is attempting to address the debt problem. bill: how many is that for the past minute? >> i wasn't required to do math of course. bill: that is a lot of cash. stuart, thank you. i know you talk a lot about this on varney and company today. thank you, stuart. here's martha. martha: let's put this number into context. talking about astronomical numbers so hang with me, folks. the u.s. budget deficit is projected to $1.2 trillion in fiscal 2012. the current budget deficit projection is $93 billion more than was forecast just two months ago. the u.s. government will run a trillion dollar deficit for a fourth consecutive year. these are numbers the likes of which the u.s. economy has never ever seen. bill: congressman ryan officially unveiling budget later today. 10:30 a.m. eastern time. we'll have his comments live as soon as they get underway. streaming live on foxnews.com. why some are saying this plan is christmas in march for de

the latest gallop shows mitt romney now up by 11 points even though rick santorum had a very strong leado. it's' a crucial state. santorum going from a seven point lead a week ago to a four point lead. technically that is all a statistical tie. kevin dewine is the chairman of the ohio republican party. thanks for joining us. nice to see you this morning. welcome to the panel. let's look at this a little more closely at the national polls. really it's showing momentum. when you look at something like that and you see mitt romney winning by 11 points and really gaining eight points and at the same time rick santorum is losing ten points, what do you credit these changes to? >> well, i think it's -- let's talk about what's going on in ohio. what you're seeing is a very fluid race. in michigan last week governor romney was down by double digits and yet he pulled out a three point win tuesday night. i think you're seeing the same sort of thing going on here in ohio. senator santorum had a significant lead. that is closing as the campaigns have focused their time and energy on the great buckey

it is galloping at a whopping 18 miles an hour.rd, in case you're curious, is 13 miles per hour. that was set back in 1989. so this little guy was born from darpa's maximum mobility or mp3 program. the program was made to learn just how far we can push robotics, and while this was running on a treadmill, a free running prototype is made to test later this year. >>> if you are a member of the military, the security line at the airport is about to get a lot faster for you. they're going to roll out a pre-check lane in d.c. if all goes well, 35 airports will have them so all active duty and military troops are eligible for that. >>> i want to talk briefly about the big meeting at the white house today between benjamin netanyahu and president obama. i just read your blog on the commercial break. >> what did you think? >> i think you're skeptical of anything happening. you said they're talking too much. >> if sisrael is really serious about bombing iran, they wouldn't be talking about it. they would just do it. remember when they bombed

gingrich propertiers, gallop survey said 40% would pick romney.ould gingrich disappearing help santorum or help neither of them. romney pulls ahead in illinois. that pertained not to him but the economy which he improving. gingrich, i got ideas. big ideas. ideas that pay off. >> everywhere we went yesterday people said, you have to stay in the race. you have to talk about big solutions like $2.50 gasoline. >> just charge it to your credit line to tiffany's. promising $2.50 gasoline. >> the next time you hear a politician promising to bring down oil prices, understand it's b.s. >> last night on fox. >> i like alternative energy. i would rather have alternative president. >> good line. >> so for your protection. this morning on fox. >> he keeps on talking about alternative energy. the real thing we need is an alternative president. >> they say you would be stunned if you knew what the government thinks the patriot act let's it do. senators wyden and you udall simmer down under section 215. total recall, the g.o.p. loses it's majority in the wisconsi

right now gallop says the favorability rating for the nominee, likely, mitt romney is 39%. at this point in the race in 2008, john mccain was at 56%. at this point in the race in 2000, george w. bush at 58%. poor little bob dole in 1996 was at 49%, and that was worrying everyone. mitt romney's 10 points below that. if you like republicans screw stuff up, this long drawn out process of trying to pick a nominee has been fun to much wave. has this been more than a comedy of errors for the republicans? is there a way they could turn the primary process and mess it has been this year to their advantage? for the general election? joining us steve kornacki with salon.com, nice to see you. >> sure, you too. >> is there any way for the republicans to turn what i think has been a long, drawn out primary mess to their advantage? is there a way this works for them? >> i guess the good news that comes out of this at least looking like right now the republican nominee is not going to be named rick santorum, newt gingrich, ron paul or rick perry. they will get the most electable or least

we have mission gallop to buildingbuild ing democracy it is time to come home. >> i think governor barbourrge are right in saying that the president is not communicating to the public a clear strategy for what we're doing over the next two years. we have made a commitment with our nato allies. we'll stay in afghanistan until the end of 2014, there is a timetable for the withdrawal. the argument that you would make is that if we pull the plug and rush out, we almost guarantee a civil war returning to afghanistan, a partition that would be very ragged and developments that would be contrary to our interest. the president somehow has to sell this proposition that we're not fighting for a victory to plant the flag and say we won it, we're fighting for a degree of stability and civility in this dangerous place. what i think, if the president is going to make the case he has do it better and more clearer. >> a few years from now, the basic asymmetry will prevail. which is, sooner or later we're coming home and the taliban are home. >> day are home, i mean, i go there pretty often and i what hear

gallop has it at 49%. we had him in our nbc/wall street poll at 49%.the washington poll/abc news poll that showed him at 46% and going down, he's taken a hit in the last few days, and partly that's clearly a result of gas prices, which is very much in the news and very much in people's pocketbooks. and the president has got a vulnerability there and has a vulnerability on the economy broadly, that's one of the reasons he could be bringing this trade case against china. he's getting pressure from mitt romney on the republican side about getting tougher on china, which has been kind of a boogieman in u.s. politics, so the president is trying to step up to show the american people he's tough. yesterday he was on the defensive on gas prices. >> let me talk to you about that. the president said 54% of those in the new poll say the president can do more to control prices, but here's what he did have to say yesterday. >> i think the american people understand that we don't have a silver bullet when it comes to gas prices, but they are hurting right now. it's

gallop has shown that the gingrich vote would be between romney and santorum.to 1144. at this point if newt gets out, it's fine with us. which is a big difference. >> it's also true, gloria, that this is one of the first states in which santorum has had a true one-on-one shot at mitt romney. and to have his numbers this far behind on a true one on one in a major industrial state is -- i think is a psychological blow here. >> here's the reason why. you have about a quarter of the voters that are independents. and romney has won half of those independent voters. that's good news for the romney campaign. they've been losing ground with independents during this process. but they seem to have brought them in in this open primary. >> we're anticipating hearing from rick santorum possibly within this hour. if you were rick santorum and anticipating losing tonight in illinois, would you come out and speak before the results so that you don't have to dwell on the negativity? >> i think if i were rick santorum i'd go and speak and start talking about louisiana. head down

gasoline prices have shot up 32 cents a gallop, that's 9.3%, just since february 1st. markets, of course, ending the day weaker after china cult that growth expectation for the economy. what does it mean for the market he is going forward and how do you want to be invested, particularly with the news out of europe this week? list top what market expert laz la ber reinny said on cnbc this morning. >> people still worry about europe, up 17, 18%. and again, i'm on old market guy, i want to see what is going on in the market. remember, simon, as i have of the said, the negative case is always more articulate, always more rational and always more reasonable, because we see it. market is looking ahead and i contend that a lot of the stocks are telling us something is a possibility. >> okay. we bring back richard bernstein right here on set. also joining the conversation is an andi goldberg, executive direct we are jpmorgan, good to see you both what is your take on what laszlo ber reinny said, 17,000 on the dow jones industrial average, just under 13,000. >> i'm not sure abo