with us today, joe klein, kasie hunt, helene cooper and major garrett. first up, the country is worried about the future, jobs aren't on the swup swing. europe is risking our retirement savings. big majority say we're on the wrong track. that story has been brewing for a while. what is new this week is that president obama and mitt romney are going at it over who is best qualified to deal with it. >> if your main argument is i know how to grow the economy is i know how to make a lot of money for investors, then you're missing what this job is about. >> the president's experience has been exclusively in politics and as a community organizer. both of those are fine areas of endeavor. right now we have an economy in trouble. chris: a new poll shows the country fears the problems are greater than the usual ups and downs of the business cycle. 2/3 say their children will not live as well as they have. looking inside those numbers. 72% of white women, a group that many believe is the most crucial swing group out there think their kids won't live as well. here

so he may not have won the week but he survived. >> an important psa about driving. >> kasie?ting ice cream sort of made my week. >> worth noting joe biden just said i don't blame people for voting for a felon over obama. people are tired referring to his results in the north carolina primary where he was almost beaten by a felon. >> i have to say mark zuckerberg and the thousand millionaires is created overnight. i wish i was one of them, but i'm not. >> i would like to friend some of those thousand new minted millionaires. >> would you wear a hoodie for mark zuckerberg for a million bucks. >> let's not get into what i would or wouldn't do for a million bucks. that's all for now. i'll see you back here monday at noon eastern/9:00 a.m. pacific when i'm joining by son of the vice president beau biden. till then you can find us on facebook.com/now alex. "andrea mitchell reports" is live from the global food summit in washington. happy friday, andrea. >> we're excited to be here at the global food summit. bono is coming on to talk about the global initiative to lift 50 million pe

aruin with an education add vo sass kasy group. >> school districts can't budget based on ballot passage of a ballot initiative whachl they do is just cut. right sf so it's like you give them a real cut. >> so in oakland this doesn't change anything for next school year, 2012, 2013. they are operating as if the tax measure were to fail. >> this year if the measure sail fails we'll be able to draw on a reserve fund but won't have that luxury in the following 2013-2014 school year. it's going to be a periluos time for us. >> if rejected he says he would cut $5.5 will billion to k 12 and 250 million to california state university. education represents 40% of the state general fund. stands to gain or lose a lot depending on whether the proposal passes and if that does not pass smrks will have to cut up to three weeks off the calendar year. the governor put it, it's a difficult budget. live in oakland abc 7 news. >> thank you. >> and there is oakland oikos university is now in jeopardy of losing acred daigs of its program. last month's shooting rampage left dead. the board placed oikos on pro

kasie hunt said campaign staff and volunteers tried to physically prevent reporters from approaching the rope line. press lead announced there will be no questions for the nominee today. a spokesperson said it was an error, but it suggest a campaign determined to keep the candidate on message which is no message. we have a senior writer from salon.com. and a campaign manager for mike huckabee in 2008. let met ask you something really important here. is it possible that the best evidence that this relentless almost state by state four corner offense on romney, and what he caused, is hurting him so much he dare not speak? >> the problem that i have with the idea that they think they can run the clock out on this is, is this is the major line of attack they used in 1994, and it's been obvious that it's copping. if the campaign has the thought we can keep it away from the press, this is a one day story. >> how can you not? all he does is brag about being a job creator. he certainly was not when he was 47th in the states. >> it's absolutely essential that they undermine romney's accountab

. >> bret: kasie? case it will take an act of congress to allow agency to make cuts as opposed to keeping it put together. there is an institution. americans are hung up on this idea that we have been getting the mail this way for how many decades now. i think it's in some way what is you saw with the auto bail-out we looked at the american cars, things that were attached to, element of that in this debate as well. >> we get packages from fedex and ups quicker than first class mail. that is for sure. obviously, what we did is privatize it. what you can do is sell postal franchises to companies like fedex, and ups. they will pay for it. why companies pay colleges to put the football games on television. help pay legacy cost. they make money. one complaint is if you prytize it, the companies can make any money on the world delivery. what are the most efficient companies? delivery companies. >> bret: quickly. north carolina is site of the democratic convention this year in charlotte. >> it's gone for obam