bret: president obama leaving the white house tonight bound for france and the g-20 summit. this is the greek debt deal. the euro zone deal is in trouble it appears. we ll see if they can salvage that. meantime, the federal reserve chairman ben bernanke up on capitol hill today painted a dire picture of the u.s. economy. downgrading the forecast the fed did for 2012. original estimates from 7.8% to 8.2% unemployment next year. now worsened to a range of 8.5-8.7%. back with the panel. 8.7, that is still pretty good. it s better than we are now. a lot of people thought it would stay at 9%. when you are as bad as we are now going in the right direction is what the white house wants to hear. but that is still terrible. and i don t think bret: thanks for the clarification. it s still horrendous. i don t think that any president since fdr run for re-election with unemployment even that high.
bret: president obama leaving the white house tonight bound for france and the g-20 summit. this is the greek debt deal. the euro zone deal is in trouble it appears. we ll see if they can salvage that. meantime, the federal reserve chairman ben bernanke up on capitol hill today painted a dire picture of the u.s. economy. downgrading the forecast the fed did for 2012. original estimates from 7.8% to 8.2% unemployment next year. now worsened to a range of 8.5-8.7%. back with the panel. 8.7, that is still pretty good. it s better than we are now. a lot of people thought it would stay at 9%. when you are as bad as we are now going in the right direction is what the white house wants to hear. but that is still terrible. and i don t think bret: thanks for the clarification. it s still horrendous. i don t think that any president since fdr run for re-election with unemployment even that high.