reason for them to vote against. so obviously, this doesn t happen in a vacuum. the president and his policies are very much at issue in these races. but interestingly, the vice president is more popular, probably in some of these rallies with the democratic base than the president. yeah, you know. this is something that goes back to campaign t2008. there were places and settings where they thought vice president biden was a great candidate. he has that kind of folksy delivery. he s got the working-class roots which he s happy to play up. so you know, they want to use all of the players of the administration strategically, as i said. we re going to see the first lady out there doing some campaigning. democrats were hoping for that for a long time. we re going to see her step up her political activities. i know you ve got to go inside for the briefing. join savannah and chuck weekday mornings at 9:00 eastern for the daily rundown.
if you exit from those strategies too soon, could you exacerbate the financial situation, the economic situation and send us into recession? and the really scary thing about that, i had one economist on the phone this morning who said if we were to slide back into recession, not everyone thinks we will, but if we did, there s really no policy response because congress would not spend the kind of money it did before on a stimulus, so it s really scary. and exactly why it s a perilous time and why the president is getting out of town and trying to find a friendly audience. thank you, savannah guthrie, looking forward to your report on nightly news and watch savannah and chuck weekday mornings at 9:00 eastern for the daily rundown. up next here, bill clinton defending barack obama. just wait until you hear what he had to say. plus, new details on the suspected russian spy ring. with a kind of secrets were they really after? you re watching andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc.