similar laws are now assessing how this ruling will affect their own enforcement. and with president obama and mitt romney only issuing statements reacting to the ruling, we are waiting to see if they have anything to say today on the campaign trail. let me bring in washington post columnist dana milbank and joy reed, managing editor of thegrio.com. good morning to both of you. you heard jan brewer call this a win. both sides are calling it a win s there a clear political advantage here? well, it is a split decision in the sense that they the supreme court struck down three provision and let stand one, albeit tenuously, and that may change later. so clearly, it is a lot better than the obama administration and the sort of pro-immigration folks had expected it to be, particularly from this court. so, jan brewer can declare victory but nobody is confusing her with some sort of a legal genius. yeah. but it severely weakens the arizona law and takes away a loot of its power. no
outsourcing, offshoring, it is not your typical political argument, is it? . chris, i think what you are hear here is president obama s message on bain and mitt romney s career, a bailout, the president is frying to fled a careful needle, telling the values romney has a businessman would translate to the job of president being t is a lot easier to say this guy outsourced jobs. he had taken quite a bit of criticism, as you well know, from everyone from coulderry booker to ed rendell, even diane stein stein said move on what is the idea here? why does the obama campaign think this is a winning argument? well, chris, the whole idea of private equity, the whole business and what it actually does is something of a mystery to voters but this a state like ohio, or a state like virginia, the idea of a u.s. company creating jobs overseas instead of creating them here, that is a lot easier to translate and the
lowest level since november. as for the consumer labor markets assessment, always mix bud income expectations fell, suggesting the consumer spending that kept the economy afloat just may not last. let me talk to you about facebook, facing more criticism today from users. what did they do now? you know, facebook has decided to replace the personal e-mail addresses on a user s profile page with a a @facebook.com e-mail address without consulting the user and also coincided with a decision by facebook to halt testing, temporarily, of a feature called find friends nearby that locate other facebook users in the vicinity and the minks a similar app, friendom accused facebook of stealing its idea. all kinds of problems with facebook seems to continue. keeping you busy. good to see you. seeing another round of attacks from mitt romney and bain capital s investments in jobs overseas. it was reported that governor
could go back to the court if this is enforced in a way that people feel violates their fourth amendment rights. if it starts to get accusations of racial profiling, is it a game changer? well, certainly that in a legal sense, that s what the courts are going to be looking out for. that is why arizona and the others have to interpret this very narrowly and be very careful about it. certainly as a political matter, you can see in mitt romney s reticence to combo, out and speak publicly about, they wants to keep this law at arm s length. you can sort of see the tide has shifted here a bit away from the immigration hard liners, both in terms of the court around in terms of what romney s been saying. well, he did issue a statement. he said, this has become a muddle, let me read more from the statement that he released that you talked about, dana. i would have preferred to see the supreme court give more latitude to the states, not less. but i wonder if nothing else, we talked about
check of more normal proportions, let s say. right. there s no question about that. humanly influential for someone like sheldon adeleson to drop all that money in a race, no doubt. i don t think at the end of the day the american public differentiates the super pacs versus the president s campaigns f obama runs a negative ad, they will is support barack obama for the most part and the same for romney s running a negative ad against obama. they will assume it is mitt romney. the voter thought is not paying attention to this all summer like we are has that much knowledge about how this thing works and they just assume it is just these negative, nasty campaigns or just a lot of money and i don t think there is a win or loser, i think it is kind of a wash. sometimes some people have money in some elections, sometimes they don t and this is the way it shakes out. governor, these super pacs and i think hogan may indeed