and president will focus on what we can do to help. as long as people are losing in the economy, america itself is not doing as well as it could be, and we hope republicans can join the president instead of trying to block him every step of the way. >> hold on. we're going to come back to you. wns again, waiting for the president of the united states. he'll be walking into the briefing room. running obviously a few minutes late. we'll hear from the president momentarily. jake tapper has been watching together with me. this new cnn poll has interesting numbers comparing where president obama is right now in the end of the fifth year of his presidency in his second term to where other two-term presidents recently were. the president now is at 41%, job approval number. that's the same number george w. bush was in, december of 200200. 41%. bill clinton at the same time was at 56% job approval. ronald regan in 1985 was at 63%. i'm sure when the president sees that he's in the same boat right