the next question is the president s handle of handling healthcare. not much change from april of 2010. how should the supreme court rule on the healthcare law? this is where it gets sticky. overturn the whole law, 38%. down a bit. uphold, constitutional, 30%. keep most of it and invalidate the mandate, 21%. a number of things to do. what are the thoughts for tomorrow? back with the panel. if you want to guess, my guess is they might invalidate the mandate. it would be like the conservatives thinking to say this is unconstitutional. yes, we are moving the mandate to create a mess but a mess that congress created in the first place. up to congress, not the supreme court, to fix it. that is a middle way for them. bret: wasn t there a
in the senate. the fact of the matter is that many of the republicans supported sb-1070 and they have supported other similar legislation in alabama, georgia, versions of it in utah, throughout the country, especially after the signing of 1070 in april of 2010. a lot of other states kind of piggy-backed some of the issues that sb-1070 discussed and inserted it into their states. some of the results have been disastrous for agriculture in georgia, in alabama, they ve seen agriculture be affected because quite frankly, it s very difficult to find a work force in some aspects of agriculture if normally you use the undocumented to work your fields. so back to mark s point, i think it s important that the 1070s of the world only exist because there is no immigration reform. there is no real movement of immigration reform.
they ll pack they ll get on every single slice. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re expecting a vote in the house of representatives. the house oversight committee at any moment now on whether to hold the attorney general of the united states, eric holder, in contempt of congress. at issue, his refusal to turn over documents about the botched gun-running sting operation called fast and furious. the republican-led panel going forward even after president obama today invoked executive privilege claiming the release of the documents would have in his words, significant damaging consequences. the attorney general has refused to cooperate offering to provide subpoenaed documents only if the committee agrees in advance to close the investigation. no investigator would ever agree to that. the likes of the committee chairman. he will call the role call momentarily. want to know if senior justice officials knew if the fast and furious program was flawed. fe
tonight. europe has been having financial troubles and they re creating a political problem for the person in the white house at this moment. that s right, shep. top officials here say the president is spending more and more of his time dialing up european leaders, trying to push them along especially after that g-8 summit he hosted at camp david where he was pushing them to take dramatic action to build a fire wall around europe so it didn t spread here. it now obviously is hurting economy and hurting re-election prospects. when you talk to people like larry sabato they say the president has little control over europe. not only is it a big risk, can he do almost nothing about it this is one of those difficult situations for a president where he just has to sit and hope for a change. and you look, put that on top of the fact that after last friday wants weak jobs report, the economy still is shaky here. it s shown in the latest fox poll out tonight. look at these numbers. right n
we are in a downturn is up to 42%. that s up pretty big from april of 2010. whether you call it recession or downturn, still a lot of people out there who don t feel like it s turned around at least for them, shep. shepard: we talked about the president and the lack of power over the situation in europe. he has more control here. he does. that s a mixed bag. because with europe, the president keeps saying i don t handle that those are the other leaders. we are trying to work with them. here the incumbent can often be held responsible if it s not going well. take a look at the other number. his job approval is at 49%. down from last year where it was 55. not down tremendously. disapproval up to 45. that s only a 4 point difference from last year in terms of disapproval. what he is trying to do is make the case things are getting better. did he that in the battleground state of nevada today. take a listen. the truth is the recovery seems stronger job growth than what happened durin