good morning, it s thursday, april 19th, 2012. mitt romney is spending his week on a tour of the battleground state that is will be crucial to this election. the message summed up. the fall election to be a referendum on what he calls the president s failing economic policy. hees the guy to right the ship. even if you like barack obama, we can t afford barack obama. it s time to get someone that will get the economy going and put the american people back to work. in north carolina, romney offered what the campaign said was a prebuttle that won t happen until september in charlotte. delivering a point-by-point rebuttal on promises obama made to revive the economy. what you won t hear at that convention is that for the last 38 months unemployment has been above 8%. there have been 50,000 more jobs lost this year in north carolina. more than twice that fit in that stadium. romney is trying to capitalize on polling. the cbs poll had a third of voters saying the economy is
even if you like barack obama, we can t afford barack obama. it s time to get someone that will get the economy going and put the american people back to work. in north carolina, romney offered what the campaign said was a prebuttle that won t happen until september in charlotte. delivering a point-by-point rebuttal on promises obama made to revive the economy. what you won t hear at that convention is that for the last 38 months unemployment has been above 8%. there have been 50,000 more jobs lost this year in north carolina. more than twice that fit in that stadium. romney is trying to capitalize on polling. the cbs poll had a third of voters saying the economy is improving. many are falling behind financially and concerned about paying their mortgages. half say the next generation will be worse off. our poll will be released tonight. we have detail ons a number of points. the republican talking point has been the white house failed to deliver on holding unemploymen
issue. so the american is still the best in the world. mr. secretary, we have to leave it there. thank you for being with us. we appreciate your time. thank you. chris holly. chris, we just talked to the secretary, talked about copenhagen and the effort the obama administration is going to put forth. what did you hear? they re sending five cabinet members, including secretary chu and two senior white house officials over there to make the case that, even without the legislation having been enacted yet, the united states is acting aggressively to reduce emissions across a broad set of fronts. what will the secretary s role be at copenhagen? he s been eached as selling the message on energy efficiency and renewable energy initiates that the united states is taking. ininitiatives. there s $80 billion in the stimulus bill dedicated to renewables. he s going to make the case that even in the absence of legislation, this spending will reduce u.s. emissions. and joe