s.e., what about you? >> he's preparing for a couple of rough weeks ahead. the calendar is not on his side. l louisiana, mississippi, kansas, these are states he'll be lucky to come in second in, and certainly won't win. so hopefully he doesn't get desperate. that seems desperate to me, throwing that out there. that is not a disciplined campaign strategy. >> well, also, is math really the compelling issue? but casey, you're familiar with the -- you're a cracker jack campaign reporter. so, you know, tell us a little bit about what romney's strategy is thus far? i mean, we know what it's sort of been thus far, but i feel like this is part and parcel of the guy with the sort of expensive chocolate shoes that keep getting his foot in his mouth. wow, so many metaphors there. romney can't seem to get away from this sort of wooden, you know, privileged, romney speak, and this would seem to be reflective of that. >> keep in mind, i was at that briefing yesterday where they were laying this out. keep in mind, one of his central challenges has been convincing the part

>> proceed, s.e.. >> i apologize. >> let me just finish. to michael's point, this lie, this mythology about lowering the tax rate on the top income earners and the top hirerers, this started -- this is the birth of the tea party. if you ask someone why they became a tea party conservative, it's because british overspent as a republican. started bailing out the banks. if the bush administration had matched their tax cuts with lowered spending, we would have seen the results that a free market should have allowed. we haven't tried that great experiment yet. but if we did, then we'd all be seeing that lowering tax rates on these top income earners and hirers would actually have the growth benefits that we all project. >> i think when you couple it with the spending cuts that ezra outline that disproportionately affect the poor and the working class, in this particular time of economic duress, you could argue that now is not the time to let that experiment play out. but what do i know? >> when will we know, they n? >> ezra klein, thank you for

thank you again to ari, s.e., maggie and sam. that is all for now.u back here tomorrow at noon eastern. the new yorker's ryan liza will be one of our panelists so we'll look at what just happened this week. until then follow us on the good old twitter machine @now with alex. chris is up next for andrea mitchell. hello. >> hello, miss wagner. i'm looking up to figure out what it means. coming up, president obama calms on congress to end tax subsidies for big oil but it failed. what's next for health care. dan pfeiffer joins me. will preview the house votes on the democratic and republican versions of the budget. and senator joe manchin is here on how both parties are coming together, you heard that, coming together to help hire our vets. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every day we help students earn their bachelor's or master's degree for tomorrow's careers. this is your moment. let nothing stand i

easterly winds in annapolis kept the 60's.es down to look at these temperatures off the west. chicago at 81 degrees. a big temperature change over the past 24 hours. , highite and radar pressure to the east and north of us. it allows the potential for some dens fog. you may see a dense pall -- fog advisory, but nothing right now. our futurecast calls for a mix clouds and a chance for a stray showers. it will not amount to a whole lot. we will increase the chances 30% on monday. become a little bit more unstable. we are not expecting anything to become severe. here is our forecast for tonight. 45-53 for a nighttime low. winds out of the south. here is the extended outlook highs, whichaytime make it into the middle 70's. on wednesday and thursday, lows will hover 60 degrees. >> when have you seen a march like this? >> not often. those cherry blossoms will go crazy. crazy is march madness. they call it madness for a reason. everyone'sd up bracket. talk about starting the let's not off right, forget the ladies. >> the toyota sports desk brought to you by your local toyota dealer.

former governor of ohio, ted strickland, and new york daily news columnist, s.e. cob. i want to start with you, ann, could santorum and gingrich split voters and that actually work to romney's advantage in the south? >> well, potentially, but with respect to santorum, that clip you played of him earlier saying it is not about the math, it really is. even if, now look, i don't want to downplay the stakes here, it is important whoever wins in the south symbolically. for mitt romney a win in the south suggests he has agree geographic reach. in newt gingrich's favor, it could be a huge win for him. if santorum wins, he'll say i'm the alternative to romney. in the end, neither of the states will decide who the nominee is. it is just another series of states and it really is about the math. >> governor, over the weekend we saw santorum pull out of a very one-sided win in kansas. 51% of the vote there. mitt romney won a huge margin in wyoming with 44% of the vote. what do you make of the arguments with romney's delegate lead being virtually unbeatable. right now he leads 454

martin luther king and s.e. is also considered dangerous.>> let's keep it safe out there this morning and this time for traffic and weather. >> we are starting to slow down on 270. this is the picture of traffic at father hurley boulevard which is the beginning of the delay and we are clearing maryland to take you to a map and 81 in frederick county virginia, has an accident between clear broken winchester and the right side is getting by north and south on 81. this is virginia through springfield. unfortunately, delays are from potomac mills to the beltway. there was a car wreck at newington the that is moved on to the shoulder. >> we will see some warm air from the south over the next couple of days and our temperatures will be moving on up. this is a beautiful look of the sun rise over the district. this on a straight up above the washington monument. that is beautiful. what a beautiful shot. in fairfax is 25 degrees. we should stop at the naval academy in annapolis where it is 30 degrees with bright sunshine early on this cold tuesday mo

. >> goldman has a huge settlement with the s.e. krrk, right?eports talked about other deals. >> all right. hang on all of you. if they are so dreadful and they are so awful, why do so many people still use them? why do so many clients still go to them? they are not some blinded children walking into the garden of eden. >> so oh then back to matt on this. basically you appointed that goldman could be creepy and unethical and as richard points out and we know sometimes their clients can be creepy and unethical. should the rest of us care? >> i think we should care. if that's the defense of the bank, everybody knows that they are creepy and unethical, if that's as good as it gets, that speaks very poorly. >> even in the letter i felt like it was legalese. >> he said, i'm not saying anything illegal happened here. i'm just saying it was toxic. >> it is going to be a six month to six year to ten-year job to turn around a perception like that. if they started, you and i will be talking about the results of that. >> do you think they've started? do yo

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host of "now" every day at noon alex wagner and political columnist for the "new york daily news" miss s.ebama is at 41% job approval rating. that's down a full nine points from one month ago. that represents an all-time low for the president in this "the new york times" poll. on the question of foreign policy, only 40% approve of the job president obama is doing. that's down ten points and his lowest number in that category since before osama bin laden was killed in may. on the economy the president's approval drops to 39%, down five points from february. 54% disapprove of the president's handling of economic issues. gas prices continue to rise. 54% polled say the president could do more to control that number. 36% say gas prices are beyond the control of any president. let's just stop right there. governor rendell, what's going on, down nine points in a month? >> i think the first thing this teaches is us basically to ignore polls. polls make no rhyme or reason. what's happened in the last month to change people's opinion other than gas prices, what would change people's opinion? what's