if you exit from those strategies too soon, could you exacerbate the financial situation, the economic situation and send us into recession? and the really scary thing about that, i had one economist on the phone this morning who said if we were to slide back into recession, not everyone thinks we will, but if we did, there's really no policy response because congress would not spend the kind of money it did before on a stimulus, so it's really scary. >> and exactly why it's a perilous time and why the president is getting out of town and trying to find a friendly audience. thank you, savannah guthrie, looking forward to your report on "nightly news" and watch savannah and chuck weekday mornings at 9:00 eastern for "the daily rundown." up next here, bill clinton defending barack obama. just wait until you hear what he had to say. plus, new details on the suspected russian spy ring. with a kind of secrets were they really after? you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. 's const. why am i constipation? ...he's diarrhea. and our special fiber helps our probiotics