say you re right, chris is slightly whacked. which of course, everybody says about me. chris is, but that s part of his charm. we love him. yeah. this show has taken an interesting start. speaker, what i d love to talk about this morning, i guess right now the main battle seems to be over bain capital. you were critical of bain capital in the primary process. now the president is being critical of bain capital. how many voters do you think are really going to be swayed by that at the end of the year? come november. you know, i actually think ian kl ironically this will be a big vote loser for the president, but it gets him right in the middle of a job creating economic fight. when i listened to governor deval patrick, and when you really look at massachusetts, when romney left it was 4.7 unemployment rate, which if you had that now would be 5 1/2 million more americans at work. every time that the president is
this race aerblgs that s probably not a good thing for mitt romney in the long haul. jon: you ve had a couple of those late nights so far! we skwr in we have indeed. jon: i don t know whether to wish you a late night because it keeps things interesting or let you get to bed and get your beat sleep. we ll get it right, no matter what. we ll get it right! jon: that s what we like to hear. bret baier, thank you. sure. jenna: new numbers in the race for campaign cash. they show the president, president obama, rakeing in more dough than the republicans, collecting donations from 1.4 million paoefplt there s a potential weak spot in the fundraising effort, according to some reports, of those donations. only 11,000 are for $2000 or more. this lags way behind what president bush received at the same point in his reelection campaign. but the president is doing his best to catch up. last friday alone he collected more than 5 1/2 million dollars. jon: and ron paul is not
saturday in america s election headquarters. republicans in missouri holding their caucuses up for grabs 52 presidential delegates many santorum is the only candidate who has been campaigning in the show-me state here s there today. you recall he won the nonbinding primary. newt gingrich and ron paul have no events planned. mitt romney stumping in puerto rico and illinois, just ahead of that state s primary. heather: as the republican candidates fight to secure their party s if nation party s nomination president obama has been building up his campaign war chest. yesterday he attend five fundraisers in two states with tickets to some events costing more than $10,000 a piece. peter doocy has that story from washington. reporter: the president attended two fundraisers in chicago friday, three in atlanta for a total of five and 5 1/2 million dollars was the expected haul some of the
the unemployment rate is down, that correct. why is it down? in part because people are leaving the workforce. there are far fewer people working today than there were in 2011 before this recession began. in fact there are 5 1/2 million four jobs today, fewer people working than back in 2011. in any of those people start to come back into the labor force then the unemployment rate will go up. that whole picture is not factors into this forecast of lower unemployment rates down the road. that s one negative. the other one is you have got $4 a gallon gasoline. we don t know the effect of $4 gas on the unemployment rate down the road. also you have got china slowing down dramatically, europe is in recession and we don t know what impact that will have on america s unemployment rate. superficially a rosie picture
economy. transportation and warehousing increased by 50,000 jobs. retailers hired 28,000. manufacturing increased 23,000. and the construction sector added workers for the first time in december since 2006. in total, the u.s. economy added more than 1 1/2 million jobs last year. still, the economy needs to add even more jobs than this, over years, to fully recover from such a deep recession and one analyst says that scenario is far from guaranteed. i m hopeful that we ll continue to get good solid job numbers but there are things to be nervous about. european debt crisis continues to rage the ongoing foreclosure use sis, house decline prices remain a problem, we have the daunting fiscal issues we need to work there which could create problems this year. the labor department says there are more than 13 million americans still unemployed and broader measure of the unemployment rate, that includes part-time workers looking for a full-time job and those who have stopped looking all tog