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. >>> we turn to cnbc's chief washington correspond john harwood. john, cain had been, as far as the pundits, they said he didn't have the organization, they said he didn't have the staying power. they went after the 9-9-9 tax plan and now this. and yet he remains at the top of the pack. has he been underestimated? >> reporter: yes. he certainly has been more durable, but as iowa and new hampshire draw closer, we're about to find out whether he is merely a curiosity candidate for a party playing the presidential field or somebody who can win real election when voters are serious. to do that, he has to beat candidates with more money, more organization, or both. >> what is the view from the white house for the president in his re-election bid? he would like to have a newly signed jobs bill clearly to take on the campaign trail with him. is he going to get that? >> reporter: odds are still decent he'll get something he can call a jobs bill, specifically an extension, perhaps an expansion of payroll tax cuts. speaker boehner said today his relationship

john harwood and dan bowles. i want to get into the substance. john, you tried to save him? >> i did, and i sympathized -- >> not in a -- you were trying to -- >> trying to give him the opportunity -- i wasn't sure whether, when he referred to the epa after another candidate prompted him, whether he had come up with a third one, and ask him and have him -- it was a remarkable moment that i sympathize with. all of us have brain freezes, though i've never seen dan do it, and you can start an answer and make three points, you make the first two and you say, where was i going with that? it's unfortunate for a candidate running for national office, especially one that came into the debate with people concerned he wasn't able to handle himself on a stage against barack obama, for example. >> dan, is it fair to use this process as part of the test for whether somebody is ready to be president? >> sure, debates are part of the process. they're not the only measure. >> are they part of the process of being president? >> that's what the perry folks are trying to beat on. you don't hav

john harwood, is that the answer that charles was lgojing for? >> no, it wasn't. cain has a point to some degree. you can't know what all the situations you're going to encounter, especially in foreign policy, when you become president. to some extent people are examining and scrutinizing candidates to get a sense of how their mind works, how they absorb information, how they can react in a crisis. but they do want, as ken mentioned, somebody who meets a minimum threshold of credibility, of experience, of gravitas to handle the issues in domestic policy and foreign policy. one of the struggles herman cain is having right now is this is major league baseball. it's not easy to do. there's a reason why people run for president sometimes more than once and do a lot better the second time than the first time. it's one of the reasons why mitt romney is in a good position in the race. >> richard wolf, you can't predict everything that comes to your desk as president, but you can predict 90% of what will come your way in the form of reporter questions as a candidate. like

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john harwood, i think, is one of the best, quite honestly.ut it doesn't go to the broader issue -- i'm not trying to indict john harwood, at all. quite the contrary. what i'm trying to say is this country is in deep doo-doo, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of folks running for president prepared to talk about it. >> i had a choice last night when i got home between watching the republican debates, which normally i would have done, or watching "the pianist" with adrien brody. it's the story of the polish jew who got stuck in the middle of the ghetto and lived to tell about it. a roman polanski movie, not exactly a thriller, but i watched that instead. this morning, i did watch the clips from the republican debate. time and time again, to karen's point, they didn't answer the question. two or three questions, i can't remember how many on italy, on greece, and none of them, none of those candidates, for the leader of the free world, would answer the question. and i bet you, maybe one of two of them only actually understood the issue. that's p

. >> chief washington correspondent john harwood joins us with our daily fix. and i should point out that gingrich says it is not amnesty, and that's one of the point of contentions there. do you think gingrich has moved too far in talking about finding a way to make people who have been here for a number of years legal. his staff said in the spin room afterwards that they're talking about a local option like a draft board where individual communities somehow would -- although it's federal immigration law would somehow come up with a way to let people they know in the community stay. i don't know how that works in the big city. have at it. >> first of all, in the spirit of herman cain, can i call you mitch? >> you can. in fact, a lot of people do call me mitch. only by special -- >> i doubt that newt gingrich hurt himself very much last night for a couple of reasons. first of all, unlike rick perry who came out with a statement that had a little insult in it for people who disagreed with him talked about you don't have a heart, newt gingrich didn't have that. s

let's turn to cnbc's chief washington correspondent john harwood. john, not just the president's approval rating that's up here. almost as many more people are saying, yes, the president deserves to be re-elected and when given a choice between the president and republicans in congress on the question whom do you trust to handle the economy, more people now trust the president than congress. he's up seven points. they are down four. do these numbers indicate that the president's job message might actually be working? >> i think the president, craig, by going out and drawing sharp lines with republicans has allowed him to advance his message in ways that the inside game in washington when he's negotiating with leaders doesn't allow him to do. we saw when it came to that over the debt limit this summer that he did creep up numbers on some of the substantive issues at stake and some of his own numbers and then everything went south when the grand bargain blew up and the standard & poor's cut the american credit rating so i think the president, in additi

chris cillizza has the daily fix and also with us, cnbc's chief washington correspondent, john harwood, who co moderated the debate in michigan. first to you, john. you were there in the chair and you had a hostile audience. it was hard to follow up on the herman cain business, but let's talk about rick perry first. what was going through your mind? you sowned kind of shocked and some were sympathetic as perry grasped for the right words. >> i'm a human level, i'm sympathetic for him as someone who makes his living in front of a television camera as you do. i know it's happened to me, but of course, he's running for president. in the moment. it was confusing at first because he tried and then mitt romney offered the epa and he said, oh, yeah, the epa. so i had to clarify, is that the third agency and he said no, and when i asked him again, can you name it and he went through his notes and couldn't do it, it was painful and obviously something that was going to be very damaging to a candidate who needs new momentum and had been laboring under the idea that he might not be up to a nation

just about 20 minutes with cnbc moderator john harwood. he was right there in the middle of two of the nights's most memorable moments. he'll talk with me live coming up in just about 20 minutes. >>> the bottom of the hour, as you know, the opening bell will ring on wall street and all eyes on the potential reboubd from yesterday's big selloff. the dow lost nearly 400 points, but today the focus is on new jobless figures that are better than expected. alison kosik has more for us. how are things looking? >> kyra, things are looking a whole lot brighter than they did yesterday around this time. dow futures up 100 points and expect those bargain hunters to be out. they're going to pick up the beaten down stocks from yesterday. also new things are helping to move the market forward. we're hearing some talk of an emergency bank meeting on how to deal with the european bank crisis. they will continue to persist today. we also got some nice u.s. job market numbers. a nice surprise here. new jobless claims unexpectedly fell last week. it means we

. >> joining me now is cnbc's john harwood. he was one of the moderators last night. john, i've been waiting to talk to you because now we're over 12 hours after this. i was watching it at home last night. i thought you and the rest of the panel, maria did a fantastic job. last night perry saying afterwards in the spin room that he really stepped in it. this morning basically saying that again. so what was going through your mind during that exchange last night? because you went on to press him. and it seemed like you were trying to give him an out there. >> well, there was a moment of ambiguity, thomas, when mitt romney, i think, helpfully stepped up and mentioned the epa, and perry said yeah, the epa. and so i followed up by saying, look, is that the third one? because i couldn't tell whether we had buttoned up the matter. and then when he said it wasn't, he tried again. and couldn't come up with it. the other reaction that i had was sympathy for him because thomas, as you and i both know as people who make our living in front of cameras, we have brain freezes, we ma

i'm joined by cnbc chief washington correspondent john harwood.> let's start with pennsylvania. obviously a critical state. always is every year. and it went for obama in 2008. unemployment now just about at the national average. why would joe biden help here? >> reporter: pennsylvania's sort of joe biden's second home state, that is, he served the -- in the senate from delaware for decades. but there's a huge overlap between the media markets in pennsylvania and in delaware. he's very well-known, not to mention the fact that scranton's his hometown. and ultimately, joe biden is a connection to the kind of white working class voters that president obama has a hard time connecting with and that's one of the things that the administration and the obama re-election campaign is hoping to use him for. >> is that the thought in ohio, he'll be able to connect to white working class voters? >> reporter: absolutely. we all remember the difficulties that president obama had against hillary clinton in the 2008 primaries. ohio is a tougher state than pennsylv

and to john harwood's credit -- >> oh, fantastic. that he stayed with it. >> he stayed with it. he department allow it to be laughed off. i thought, boy, that was a great moment. but huntsman's ending moment, because i think he's, again, the sanest of the bunch, he said that he wants medical records computerized and streamlined so that patients will receive a more efficacious form of treatment. i think using the word "efficacious" at a republican debate, you're over! you're just over! that's the end of you. sadly. >> yeah. and it is over. they talked a little bit about the foreclosure crisis, the housing crisis in this country. the republican plan is, of course, both from ron paul and mitt romney, each end of that very narrow conservative spectrum that's out there. each end says, oh, you know, tough. you know, don't do a thing. let the market completely bottom out. let everybody lose their hopeless who has to lose their homes. there should be no intervention whatsoever. there shouldn't be any adjustments on those mortgages. just let

we're going to talk with cnbc's john harwood about what it was like during two employee moments last. rick perry's historic gaffe and other boos from the crowd. >>> plus, the other breaking story. this hour, serious new questions raised this morning on the penn state sex abuse scandal and the firing of coach joe paterno. >>> hi, everybody, good to have you with me. we have a busy hour. we get straight to it with breaking news.

and their chief washington stoernt our friend john harwood one of the moderators and he joins me from different than the other eight? >> chris, incredible focus on the economy. clearly the herman cain scandal has dominated the republican race in the last few days. we can't ignore big news in the race, but we've seen from our new nbc/"wall street journal" poll american people remain deepry troubleed by the state of the economy. they want answers and we'll go in real dipth to distinguish between these candidates and president barack obama. >> how much will we be able to see? format is so important in these debates. >> you never know which candidates will show up loaded for bear, want to engage with the others but there's going to be plenty of opportunity for anybody to engage with mitt romney, herman cain, nude gingrich, whatever. wide open. >> i can't wait. thank you so much. always good to see you, my friend, john harwood. >> you bet. >>> that wraps up this hour of "jansing and co." thomas roberts is up next. at bank of america, we're lending and investing in communities across the co

cnbc's john harwood is one of the moderators joining me live from rochester with a preview. >> hey, craigsame issues that you are hearing about in zuccotti park are going to come up in the debate. look at the nbc/"wall street journal" poll that we just came out with that showed three-fourths of americans believe the economic structure of this country is tilted to favor the wealthy. these are the kinds of issues that republican candidates will get an opportunity to address in our debate as well as the more topical stuff like we've been following this fast-moving herman cain story. >> all right, john harwood there from michigan. looking forward to the debate tomorrow night. thank you so much. thanks to you as well. live from zuccotti park. again, as i mentioned at the top of the hour, i had not been down here before. i imagine most of you have not seen one of these occupy wall street movements firsthand as well. if you live in new york city and you get an opportunity, i encourage you to come down and at least walk through. two things will happen. some of the stereotypes will be reinforced.

. >> i'm john harwood.candidates on the stage tonight e -- jon huntsman -- michele bachmann -- newt gingrich --

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john harwood is one of the moderators. >> everyone is frustrated, anxious about the future thinking washington doesn't have the solutions. >> reporter: students want reassurance. >> a hope to graduate, have a degree and get a job. >> i don't think we need to hear about herman cain's sexual liaison. >> reporter: but it will come up. he called his main acue sor -- karen says she'll do a news conference of other cain accusers. >> i will and i encourage the other woman who have not come forward to please do so. >> reporter: a potential disaster for cain. >> it will be unpleasant. we can dread that moment. >> reporter: tonight is a moment for cain to talk 9-9-9. for romney to point out he was a successful businessman. for perry to talk up jobs. for the rest of the field to showcase ideas on how to put america back to work. the less it focuses on sexual allegations the better it will be. from rochester, michigan, i'm steve handelsman, news 4. >>> here is a live look now at the big board on wall street this afternoon where stocks have plummeted today over the euro zone debt crisis. the dow jones is o

john harwood is one of the moderators. >> everyone is frustrated, fearful, anxious about the future thinkinghington doesn't have solutions to get the economy going again. >> reporter: students want reassurance. >> build up hope to graduate with a degree and get a job. >> i don't care about herman cain's sexual liaisons. >> reporter: he called his acue sor -- she says she'll do a news conference if other cain accusers appear with her. >> i will and i encourage the other women who have not come forward to do so. >> reporter: a potential disaster for cain. >> it will be unpleasant. we dread that moment. >> reporter: tonight is the night for cain to talk 9-9-9. for romney to say he, too, was a successful businessman. for perry to talk up jobs and the rest to showcase their ideas on how to put america back to work. senior republicans figure the less this focuses on sexual harassment, the better it will be for all the republican candidates. live from michigan, i'm steve handelsman, news 4. back to you. >> thank you. >>> souvenirs and cell phones may become a bit more scarce. it's because of a new

this hour, maryland governor martin o'malley and virginia governor, cnbc's maria bartiromo and john harwoodck on the forecast. bill? >> good morning, mika. the big weather story of the day and maybe even the week or month is the super storm affecting alaska. just heard in the nome area, they had a storm surge about 6 to 7 feet high. their seas were only 5 feet high. so we know that the water and waves were overlapping. that's on the western coast of alaska. that's where the worst of the storm was heading. once again, it's intense and just huge. 1,500 miles across. that's over half the size of our lower 48 just to give you an idea of how big a storm and how historical of a storm it is. we have our own storm to deal with in chicago. producing some now in northern portions of missouri up through iowa where the roads were a little treacherous outside of des moines. one more beautiful day from boston all the way down to d.c. someone's going to have a chance at 70 degrees and near record warmth. west coast, no the bad, slight chance of showers in seattle. and dallas, much cooler and windy, temper

. >> this issue can come up during the cnbc debate last week when john harwood asked newt gingrich whate did or his firm or he as a consultant to earn $300,000. let me play that tape for you. >> your firm was paid $300,000 in 2006. what did you do for that money? >> are you asking me? >> yes. >> i offered them advice precisely what they didn't do. when they walked in and said to me we are making loans to people with no credit history and have no record of paying back anything but that's what the government wants us to do. i said to them at the time this is a bubble. this is insane. this is impossible. >> i guess you can take from that it all would have been fine if they would have listened to newt. >> i think he is saying that, too. he will have to answer that question a little bit furter. that's the kind of money i'm talking about. $300,000 to go newt gingrich to tell people something they should already know what are they doing with the money they already have. maybe shea should pause and do something for the american people, my con stit wents who are in pain. >> thank you very much.

. >> what he said to john harwood last week during the debate is he was advising them to do the rightthing, giving them good advice. this is what gingrich said in 2008 when the issue came up. >> today you have the power of fannie mae and freddie mac had so many politicians beholden to them and nobody was going to check them. they got away with things that were bologna. it's a tragedy. >> i don't see him disclosing he was one of the recipients of the largess from freddie mac. >> it's cliche to say he's been around a while. but this is why being around politics for so long, being a pundit. after gingrich left congress he's spent time as a pundit. it comes back to bite you. i guarantee you that's not the only clip that has newt gingrich speaking about fannie mae and freddie mac without disclosing his payments there. look, we knew it from the beginning before newt gingrich's campaign imploded over the summer and has revivified.ç newt indianai newt inc., books, movies, everything. we knew that was his big problem. he has ties to so many things. when they are parsed out in a newspaper stor