do, i mean this with all my heart. we can t wait another four years to 2016. and i i really implore you to as a citizen of this country to please, sir, to reconsider. i hear exactly what you re saying and i feel the passion with which you say it. and it touches me. because i could tell you, i m just a kid from jersey who feels like i m the luckiest guy in the world to have the opportunity that i have to be the governor of my state. that heart felt message you gave me is also not a reason for me to do it. that reason has to reside inside me. and so that s what i ve said all along. is i know without ever having met president reagan that he must have felt deeply in his heart that he was called to that moment to lead our country. and so my answer to you is just this. i thank you for what you re saying and i take it in and i m listening to every word of it and feeling it too. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s wednesday, september 28th. live look at time square.
paul: welcome to the the journal editorial report. i m paul gigot. more bad news for the fragile economic recovery this week. as the unemployment rate rose to 9.1%. employers hired only 54,000 new workers in may. the fewest in eight months. home prices also fell for the eighth straight month. to levels last seen in 2002. and retail sales slowed in may. as consumers struggling with higher gas and food prices spent less on discretionary items like clothing and home goods. joining the panel, wall street journal assistant editorial page editor james freeman. washington columnist kim strassel. senior economics writer steve moore. so steve, how do you read these numbers this week? which were uniformly bad. are we heading into maybe a double dip? first of all, you look at the employment numbers and we need to create three times as many jobs just to keep the unemployment rate where it is. these were really glum numbers. by the way, they re reflected in almost every other
chris: former businessman herman cain sits down for a 2012 one on one interview only on fox news sunday . then, mounting debt, an economy stuck in neutral and no signs of progress on capitol hill. we ll get a read on what kind of deal the dwo gop will accept when we are joined by the gop s top republican, mitch mcconnell. plus, the president lays out his vision for a new middle east. but alienates israel. we ll have the sunday pab panef the obama plan will help or hurt the peace process, all right now on fox news sunday . chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. early sunday morning we learned indiana governor mitch daniels a favorite of many establishment conservatives will not enter the 2012 republican race for president. daniels cited family considerations in making his decision. but on saturday in atlanta, her are man cain, the former ceo of goodfathers pizza made it official he is running for the gop presidential nomination. as part of our continuing ser
chris: former businessman herman cain sits down for a 2012 one on one interview only on fox news sunday . then, mounting debt, an economy stuck in neutral and no signs of progress on capitol hill. we ll get a read on what kind of deal the dwo gop will accept when we are joined by the gop s top republican, mitch mcconnell. plus, the president lays out his vision for a new middle east. but alienates israel. we ll have the sunday pab panef the obama plan will help or hurt the peace process, all right now on fox news sunday . chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. early sunday morning we learned indiana governor mitch daniels a favorite of many establishment conservatives will not enter the 2012 republican race for president. daniels cited family considerations in making his decision. but on saturday in atlanta, her are man cain, the former ceo of goodfathers pizza made it official he is running for the gop presidential nomination. as part of our continuing ser
then, mounting debt, an economy stuck in neutral and no signs of progress on capitol hill. we ll get a read on what kind of deal the g.o.p. will accept when we are joined by the g.o.p. s top republican, mitch mcconnell. plus, the president lays out his vision for a new middle east, but alienates israel. we ll ask our sunday panel if the obama plan will help or hurt the peace process, all, right now, on fox news sunday. chris: and, hello, again from fox news in washington. early sunday morning, we learned indiana governor mitch daniels, a favorite of many establishment conservatives, will not enter the 2012 republican race for president. he cited family considerations in making his decision. but, on saturday, in atlanta, herman cain, the former ceo of godfather s pizza, made it official, he is running for the g.o.p. presidential nomination. as part of our continuing series, 2012, one-on-one we are joined by mr. cain for his first interview since becoming a candidate and, wel