sam stein of the huffington post, margaret talev is white house correspondent for bloomberg news andavorite american with a british accent, msnbc political analyst, richard wolffe. president obama may want to send a thank you card to the romney campaign today. on the daily rundown this morning, romney's senior advisor appeared to veer off the gop script, agreeing with the president that the individual mandate portion of the affordable care act is not tax. >> the governor believes that what we put in place in massachusetts was a penalty, and he disagrees with the court's ruling that the mandate was a tax. but again -- >> he agrees with the president, he agrees with the president that it is not, he believes that you shouldn't call the tax penalty a tax, you should call it a penalty or a fee or a fine? >> that's correct. but the president also needs to be held accountable for his hypocritical, contradictory statements. >> richard wolffe, we talk a lot about moments in this cycle, perhaps being overblown, but this would seem to be an issue. here you have mitt romney's senior strategist s

or follow her on twitter at margaret talev, talev-a-l-e-vt-a-l-e-v. >> that's it. >> margaret, the jobsminutes from now. >> right. >> three minutes from now. what do you know? what do we expect? what's it all mean? >> the analyst predictions are it's going to stay about the same, about 8.2%. so it's, you know, does the great news? no. is it terrible news? no? does it matter between what happens now and the end of the summer in terms of the country but the president's prospects rise and fall to some extent. >> right. hopefully it ticks down. >> there is some debate. this is not about the good of the people. this is about the good of the president bur some debate about what pace is best for him and, you know, at what point are voters minds locked in about can where things are going. >> if he can get it under 8%. cory booker telling the president get away from bain capital. this isn't fair. campaign has continued to talk about bain capital. >> is a reason. isn't there? it seems to be a message that is resonating? president obama be. >> thirty seconds? >> what he is trying to do is make a d