minnesota showed he can let loose a little on the colbert report last night. he explained his reasons for stepping out. why did you drop out after ames? i was out of money and came in third place behind michele bachmann and ron paul. i think that is enough for any one person to endure. right. wow. these candidates always look better after they re out of the race. remember those lyrics, freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. let s make some news. all right. is there someone you would like to endorse in the 2012 race? you. i m not running. i m more like sarah palin. i m a television personality. leave it to colbert to get the last word on that one. now to tomorrow night s big event. president obama s big jobs speech. last week republican representative joe walsh opted to boycott the speech deciding
remember, brian williams, and john harris, the man to my immediate left, will moderate the american presidential debate right here reagan presidential library and join us thursday for the president s big jobs speech at 7:00 p.m. eastern. speaking early before the nfl game. when we return, the stakes for the president and his big jobs speech. he can t just give remember the drug stores signs? sundries and notions? just the little things, usual suspects. it s time for him to go big. we all think. you are watching hardball only on msnbc. hey, check it out. she s using the mr. clean magic eraser bath scrubber. i ve heard of it, but i haven t seen one up close. what s the word around the sink? that it removes 3 times more soap scum per swipe, and it came from outer space. it is not from outer space! no, man, it s from outer space. they re aliens on an intergalactic cleanliness mission. they re here to clean up the universe. oh, the kitchen scrubbers are aliens, too? yeah, look at that
i think that the difficulty for perry and part of the test here is what kind of political skills does he really have in the form of a debate? what kind of competency does it look like he lass? this is where they have to be careful about appealing for the tea party sentiment, antigovernment sentiment and then thinking about what the heck do you do when you actually get in office when you got this kind of difficulty facing you? is he a credible president, good thought. david gregory, meet the press. howard fineman of everything, especially the huffington post, and us, and peggy noonan who is the real reason i read the wall street journal religiously and tribally every saturday morning. you write the best column of any newspaper. thank you. remember, brian williams, john harris will moderate the republican debate coming up here right down at the reagan library tonight 8:00 eastern. you have to watch on msnbc tonight. can t watch it anywhere else. watch it here. enjoy it. stick a
brooke, thanks very much. happening now, riveting new details, the rough draft about president obama s jobs speech. what we re learning about the plan he unveiled tomorrow night and whether he has new ideas that will sound either bold or timid. also, rick perry s first test on the presidential debate stage. he got a late ride into this race, but he s moving very quickly right now at the start of his presidential campaign. tonight, he has something, of course, to prove. plus, one of america s biggest malls prepares to be the target potentially of a terror attack. it s a valuable lesson in being ready for the worst ten years after 9/11. and get this, it costs next to nothing. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. we ll get to that in a moment. but we re just learning here at cnn that the former united states ambassador to the united nations bill richardson was scheduled to land just a little while ago in havana, cuba on a very
approve of the job this president is doing on the economy, that doesn t bode well for his reelection, does it? certainly this week is a pivot point, jon, for the president. he is dragging a terrible, terrible job approval rating, the nation has seemingly lost confidence in the president s ability to turn things around for an economy that continues to falter. we see the numbers on wall street today, we see the continued problems. the president has put a lot of weight on his own shoulders because on thursday he s going to give this big jobs speech. he s creating a level of expectations, he and his advisers are creating a level of expectations that may prove very, very difficult for the president to meet, given how little confidence voters are expressing in the president s ability to address the problem. jon: and i guess that s the rub. it doesn t seem like there are a lot of bullets left in the gun to try to fix this problem. well, and that s also the why you start to see the escal