first here's an obama campaign attacking romney. is is the one my daughter focus group, we were watching nats/red sox. >> how did she rate it. >> i won't say. here is the obama ad against romney. >> it started like this. >> i speak the language of business. i know how jobs are created. >> but it ended like this. one of the worst economic records in the country. in 2008 barack obama said -- >> we can't mortgage our children's future on a mountain of debt. >> now he's adding 4 billion in debt every day. borrowing from china for his spending. every second growing our debt fasters than our economy. tell obama stop the spending. >> all right. that second one, that's a crossroads ad. kim, you talk about the obama ad. steve, you talk about the crossroads ad. >> the problem they have, it's somewhat effective except it was so long ago. the problem is this election is in the here and now. people are living in this economy now. they can talk about it, but after a while people just are living right now. the economy is not going to get better the

the obama campaign is trying to find a message that sticks.ked him on bain and didn't quite work. then attacked him on being governor of massachusetts and it didn't quite work. they are trying to find what attack will stick on mitt romney and they will have lots of opportunities to pick. a big challenge because no matter what happens it is the economy that is going to drive the message for the next five months, this is nothing else. >> chris: briefly juan, at this point we heard from the president and his people on friday. didn't happen quickly and not going to be solved overnight. it has been three and a half years. continue the policies. does he say stay the course or have to come up with some late correction? >> i don't think a late correction is believable. it would reek of deception. it has to be a mess thank says we are in the middle of stormy waters, don't change captains at this moment and remember exactly where we departed from. you know we were in bad situation and if you look at the economy in fact there has been an increase in job

you can't handle the truth. >> chris: the obama campaign's kress chris the obama campaign manager axelrodunning into problems. now, sometime for the sunday group. juan williams, republican strategist,&david brody of the christian broadcasting network. after 2008, the obama team had a representation as political mastermind but so far this campaign not so much. chip, as someone who has run campaigns how are they doing at the political fundamentals? >> the first week we saw a campaign based on hope and change and we got lip and -- hip and cool and now they are hapless and confused. they attacked bain and then attacked his time as governor. that got people confused. the axelrod press conference was a disaster of epic proportion and a month ago everyone thought obama would cruise they were the smartest guys in the room, but, now, we see they have real cracks and the romney campaign will try to take advantage of it. >>chris: another blonds -- blunder you may not have seen, on friday, the obama campaign decided on friday to release a video of the editor of a fashion magazine "vogue," saying cont

release the video of the editor of a fashion magazine vogue saying to people contribute to the obama campaign and you can come to a big exclusive dinner in new york that sarah jessica parker and i are hosting. take a look at this. >> we have our own reasons for supporting president obama and we he want to hear yours. please join us but don't be late. >> chris: don't be late. h this is on the day that we find out the economy created only 69,000 jobs. first of all, do you subscribe to chip's idea that the campaign is off to a shaky how big aif so but h1n1 a deal? >> that was hilarious. it looked like the romney campaign planted dr. evil in the house of obama and said on the day the grim job numbers come out let's have someone who wreaks of ornamental excess announce that the pesants have can a place at the table. just a mistake. a new phase in the campaign. governor romney is now the nominee. you have a contest in which there is a lot of mud being thrown by both sides to try to define the opponent early. what that means for the romney campaign is the to point to the economy and say we have econ

i think they're gearing up to try to defeat obama in this campaign. this is not the obama campaign. a separate campaign. this is all about scott walker. it's all about what scott walker has done to workers. what he's done to seniors, to the students. everybody from kindergarten through graduate school in this state. technical college system. what he's done to women in terms of denying them health care. it's all about him. it's not about president obama. we will deal with obama and romney after we deal with scott walker. and he's going down tomorrow. >> gwen moore, thanks for your time today and that singing wasn't too bad. the voice is there. it's strong. >>> george zimmerman back behind bars. his attorney wants to explain the false financial statements. but will the judge let him? plus, searching the wreckage. at least 153 people killed after a plane crashes in nigeria, but officials fear that number could be rising. dude you don't understand, this is my dad's car. look at the car! my dad's gonna kill me dude... [ male announcer ] the security of a 2012 iihs top safety pick. the vo

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does the obama campaign need a shake-up? some prominent suspects think so. and the latest in the education showdown in the president's hometown, pits the teachers union against his former right-hand man. ♪ >> welcome to the journal eeditorial report. i'm paul gigot. well, all eyes on the supreme court, where justices will rule this week on the constitutionality of president obama's affordable care act. so when are we likely to get a decision, how the white house and the g.o.p. likely to respond? let's ask wall street columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, joe rago and columnist kim strassel. dan, if the law is upheld, obviously, the status quo p prevails and we'll fight it out in the election. the interesting thing, politically and legally and everything, if some of the law is overturned, let's assume that part of the law, the mandate, and maybe some of the other regulations that go with it are overturned. how is the white house likely to respond to that. >> if that happens, the first things they need to do is attack the supreme court as they did the-- >

. >> that's what the first anti-obama mitt romney ad of the general election campaign quoted the president as saying. if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose. here's what president obama actually said. >> senator mccain's campaign actually said, and i quote, if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose. >> that's not politics. that -- that's a lie. he was quoting somebody else. he was reading somebody else's words in order to criticize them and mitt romney in his camp edited the sound to make it seem like it was something that president obama said for himself. that is not just standard political slime. that is an outright schoolyard lie. and it's kind of crazy to think that you would get away with that, right? when the ad first came out in november, the initial response, even in the beltway is this must be a mistake. they have to correct it, right? but, no. mitt romney meant it. the ad is still up, still running at his youtube page. they never corrected it even after they got caught. and when mr. romney was asked about why his first ad was blatantly lying lik

so, kim, what do you make of this liberal angst about the obama campaign, is it warranted? >> well, it comes out of watching the obama campaign the past couple of months which have been all over the place. first they said the economy was getting better then it wasn't as bad as it might have been and went after romney and bain capital and handling of massachusetts and the the war on women and student loans and throwing everything they have to try to get something to stick without much traction. last week, the president came out with an attempt at a reboot. when he laid out the two visions forward, or the terrible one that belongs to romney. and this interestingly has begun to calm some nerves out there among the democratic base and among the political community. because in part, they realize that this may be the best opportunity he has. if he can't talk about his record and the economy, but he can try to make this a referendum on mitt romney. >> bill, is this pivot, likely to work? what's the-- >> it's likely to work, it's probably wise. look, you mentioned liberal angst and

. >> it was much more, people had, they correctly viewed the obama campaign as being a campaign that was more positive than it was negative, they still did a lot of negative things but the positive but was the big template,. >> right this campaign is going to be much more contrast, negative, disqualification of romney, because there is not that much that the country -- that you can make an easy sell to the country, they are going to say as joe biden put it so well, the auto industry is still alive and osama bin laden is dead. >> rose: economics and politics when we continue. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. captioning sponsored by >> as a chef, we are always committed to our suppliers, those farmers, those fishermen. for me it is really about building this extraordinary community, american express is passionate about the same thing. they are one of those partners that help guide you, whether it is finding new customers or a new location for my next restaurant. and we all come together, by restaurants, by partners, and the community, amazing things happen. to me

became controversial and when i saw it i didn't think there was anything out of tune with the obama campaign. the media had to tell me how out outrageous it was. let's listen to what bill clinton said about the problems that president obama has faced as president. >> and he's had to get all this done while people as recently as last week were still saying he wasn't born in america. he's had to get all this done with a house of representatives that had one of the tea party members claim that 78 to 81 members of the democratic caucus were members of the communist party and neither the presidential nominee or any of the leaders rebuked him for saying that. this is not the 1950s. at least. mccarthy could skate on the fact that there was one or two living communists walking around. nobody's seen a communist in over a decade. >> anna marie, that's the bill clinton that the obama campaign wants out there? >> yeah. i was listen doing that thinking exactly. that's bill clinton at his best. that's him communicating in a very real way. some things that people kind of think but want to hear from someone

but is the romney campaign in danger of allowing the obama campaign to set the image in stone of mitt romney in these battleground states? >> well, there's always a danger of that, lawrence, for sure. i think what the romney campaign is counting on is that -- that they're not actually going to get outspent in october and they're not going to get outspent for the rest of this year. i think if you think about the romney fund-raising apparatus, they're raising a lot of money and catching up rather quickly to the president. and as everyone has talked about for weeks now, the super pacs on the republican side are going to have a lot more money than the democratic side. mitt romney will probably, by the end of this the, have a financial advantage. and they're counting on that. but i do think, you know, these numbers that we've seen show that for all of the worries that a lot of democrats have had over the past three or four weeks, and, you know, you'll remember back in 2008, david plouffe, the president's campaign manager then, used to talk about and dismiss democratic bedwetters who would

. >>> tonight, a just-released nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows the obama campaign's swing state offensive on mitt romney is working. among registered voters nationally, president obama ads mitt romney 47 to 44%, just a three-point margin of error, and that's within the margin of error in that poll. in the swing states, though, where the campaigns have been focusing their ads and the speeches, president obama has a much bigger lead. he leads by eight points, 50 to 42%. on favorability nationally, 48% of respondents have positive feelings toward the president, only 38% have negative feelings towards the president. 33% have positive feelings toward mitt romney and 39% have negative feelings. in the swing states, president obama's favorability is virtually the same, but mitt romney's favorability drops. 30% have positive feelings towards mitt romney, 41% have negative feelings. the polls were conducted as "the washington post" ran this headline. "romney's bain capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas." today president obama and vice president biden brought that message

is the obama campaign in a tough spot? this is "special report." ♪ ♪ >> bret: good evening. et baier. president obama has another deficit to contend with. despite rampant fundraising appeal, the obama re-election campaign is spending quite a bit more than it's raising. on top of that, the democratic convention was forced to move to a more modest venue for the opening day. chief washington correspondent ed henry looks at what is happening. as president obama took his two-day fundraising tour down south -- >> hello, atlanta. >> a couple hundred miles up the road in charlotte, woes for the democratic national convention piling up. faced with $27 million fundraising shortfall, the host committee today pulled the plug on using the charlotte motor speedway for the big labor day kickoff. raising more questions about whether a lack of enthusiasm will prevent the president from again carrying a key battleground like north carolina. >> number one, a bad economy makes raising large sums of money more difficult. number two, it's no secret the president is not as popular in many parts of

he criticized the obama campaign for focusing on his time at bane capital. and so the aobama campaign is saying, fine. we wasnon't talk about bane capital. let's talk about what you were like as a governor? i know that's what the obama campaign is trying to do now. i saw the ad that the obama folks put out today. i saw the written press materials saying this was their obama campaign message today. but anybody who just went to hear david axelrod talk about it in boston today instead did not hear any of that. instead, what they heard was this. >> where are the jobs? where are the jobs? where are the jobs? >> you can't handle the truth, my friends. that's the problem. you can handle the truth, then quiet down. >> that was not an organic grassroots spontaneous pro romney crowd there yelling at david axelrod. they were blowing bubbles. they were just doing the chanting together and the screaming. it wasn't an organic thing that happened. it wouldn't in boston. the romney campaign actually admits that it sent those people down there from the campaign to drown out d

president obama's campaign lawyer is a guy named bob bower. fox news that he was the lawyer for this woman, dana jill simpson, after karl rove went on fox news last week and made this weird allegation out of the blue, president obama's campaign lawyer wrote a letter to karl rove which we have. the letter says i have never represented dana jill simpson nor had anything to do with your allegations. i have never met ms. simpson or talked to her on the phone or crossed her path in any way. the identity of her lawyer is public record, a lawyer i have never met, but whom you can find through the search engine of your choice. you can google who the lawyer was. we spoke with the lawyer. we asked her about the weird thing we heard on fox news about bob bower, and she said, quote, bob bower was toty unknown to everybody down here. there were a lot of other lawyers on the periphery, but he was nowhere to be seen. he was not involved in any way nor was his firm. i think karl rove is delusional. i think leers lying. we contacted mr. rove's office today to

that is not an obama campaign bumper sticker. >> it's not an upbeat message. ink one of the things that this points to that is interesting is that the obama administration doesn't have any reliable top tier surrogate at all. they try to trot out david axelrod, which was a disaster. just today before the latest thing, npr was out thing clin top as obama's number one surrogate. now obama number one surrogate undermines them again. joe biden is not entirely reliable speaker. clin top may bar more reliable than biden but that is saying godzilla is slightly more destructive than king kong. not reliable guy to count on. this administration has nobody else to put forward to do attack dog stuff without fearing they will destroy his message in some way. >> bret: a.b. finally, he played a factor here in wisconsin. the former president. campaigning for mayor barrett. barrett welcomed that. a big event. how much do you think the obama campaign deploys it in the future? >> it will be interesting after today to see what the obama campaign does about the message of the tax cu

president obama's campaign is recruiting thousands of lawyers to handle disputes that may pop up from now until election day. the campaign says it's particularly concerned about new voter i.d. laws. republicans also have legal teams but the level of legal support on the other side is unrivaled. an already tense situation revol offing around the fast and furious scandal has escalated in the final days before congressional showdown. the white house and congress see executive privilege very differently. the limits of that privilege could have an impact on the fate of attorney general eric holder. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has more. >> it was business as usual today for attorney general eric holder who attended event with the boys and girls club ahead of thursday's contempt of congress vote. house oversight chairman darrell issa wrote this letter to the president who claimed executive privilege over justice documents. issa asked if mr. obama or the senior advisors were managing operation "fast and furious" and fall-out from it, including a false letter in february 201