republican senator lindy graham, and for analysis, "time" magazine's richard lowry, noon of the "wall street journal," and our or jan crawford and john dickerson. it's all ahead because this is "face the nation." >> schieffer: good morning, again. mitt romney got on a bus this weekend and began a tour of six battleground states. he's traveling mostly on the back roads. he is visiting new hampshire, pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, wisconsin, and iowa. we caught up with him in lebanon, pennsylvania governor, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks, bob. >> schieffer: we really appreciate it. i think we ought to just get right to the news. >> all right. >> schieffer: the president said friday the government will no longer seek to deport 800,000 illegal immigrants brought into this country by their parents. i think you said this is a short-term solution to a long-term problem. but would you repeal this order if you became president? >> well, let's step back and look at the issue. first of all, we have to secure the border. we need have an employment verification system to make sure that

martha: kristen powers is a daily beast columnist, richard lowry is also with us. kiss tin, how damaging its it? >> i think it's one of those things that probably would be better if it didn't hapb. th didn't happen. the republicans definitely jumped on it. the president i think was being so offhanded when he said that, and the question is, did he really think that the public sector was fine or was he saying as compared to the public's sector. white house's argument was we didn't mean they were fine overall, it was just sort of a comparison. i think it certainly would have been better if he hadn't said it. martha: how average stph-g. >> it wildo you feel. >> i think it will dog him until november. just because we've had positive numbers in the private sector, that it's doing fine, those numbers are anemic. we should be adding 300 jobs a jo if we were really cooking along, we are nowhere near that. he really has drunk the kool-aid and believes that local and state employment are an important driver of the effect, when we've lost i think since the beginning of our ses