break for hiring more workers and paying them higher wages. >> nbc's mike have a care wroe is at the white house tomorrow. good saturday to you, mike. >> good day to you, alex. >> what do republicans say in response? >> it is interesting, by any standard, the president was coming off a rough stretch there with bad economic numbers and tightening in the polls. there was a los by the democratic candidate in wisconsin at a special election. he's turned that around somewhat with that sudden announcement yesterday pleasing latino voters with conferring the deportation of young latinos who are here illegally. of course, several weeks ago there was also the stance of the change on gay marriage. the president has been taking care of a lot of core democratic constituencies, making them happy unor up until the election. it is coming down to the economy and that's why the president was focused in that in his weekly address. he talked about the to-do list and the republicans on capitol