did an interviews with nbc news and said, look if i don t get this turned around in three and a half years it s going to be a one-term proposition. what they are doing last night and doing tonight is move the goal post a bit, shake this up and say actually it s going to take two terms to get this done. we are hearing little dribbles and hints that maybe the president will have some new policy tonight. but i m also being cautioned that it s not going to be some grand new economic plan. we saw his jobs act last fall. instead it might be some tin erring around the edges. he wants to lout his vision tonight his top aides say for the next four years and focus a lot lesson the last four years. obviously if he frames it that way it s a much better case for him against mitt romney, megyn. megyn: it was not as he hoped it would be. they hoped to be outdoors this evening in front of 75,000 people. they will be indoors in front of 20,000. henry thank you. new fallout today over a very controversi
about a point 1 above the national average, 9.4%, and the electoral votes are 15. the third stop is the state of florida. florida, help me out here. come on, florida. well, it s not popping up there. but i can tell you that florida has an unemployment rate of 8.6%, and 29 electorial votes. the final stop is the state of illinois, electoral votes 18 out of 270, and the unemployment rate there is a whooping 7.2%. meanwhile president obama is holding meetings at the white house before attending a couple of fundraisers in washington. chief white house correspondented henry is live in the briefing room. reporter: good to see you, gregg, what is interesting is you re talking about the unemployment in some of those swing states and we get word this morning that the head of
congress not to try to undue this legislation that he is so proud of having passed, and yet at same time he points out that he didn t do it because he knew it would be politically popular, obviously the president has been reading the polls and knows that most americans do not like the way that healthcare has been imposed upon them, the healthcare law, and it has actually grown less popular as it has gone along. our chief white house correspondented henry join correspondented henry joins us more with more reaction. reporter: i think you put your finger on it with the president trying to stop this effort by mitt romney and republicans and the hill saying that they now will move to repeal this law. the president saying, let s not refight the battles that we ve had for the last two years. you re right also to note that he wants to frame this as him doing the right thing, it s not about politics, because he s taking a beating on the politics. who would have thought with a conservative lea
from the bench in the joint decent. it is something that is fascinating to watch. the court always looking at the specific issues one by one, each case is different, but this one has such a massive ramification, politically and around the country. bill: and it s going to give you plenty of material to talk about tonight on special report. reporter: definitely. jon: bret baier thank you. jenna: we are minutes away from the president s injuries reaction to the supreme court decision that upholds his healthcare law pretty much in its entirety. there is an important part that we ll get to a little later on in the program and talk about hopefully with senator lee coming up about the medicaid expansion. in the meantime, as far as the president goes he is going to speak in about ten minutes in the east room of the white house. that is important because it s the same place that he signed the bill into law about two years ago. chief white house correspondented henry is live at white house.
atf but with the cooperation of the department of justice. moments ago white house press secretary jay carney fielded questions about the fast and furious investigation and efforts to reach a last-minute deal between the justice department and the house oversight committee. i don t have any meetings, new meetings to preview for you, or read out to you, but i think to say we haven t been doing everything we can is ridiculous given that the attorney general asked for a meeting with the chairman and got one in an effort to resolve this. senior white house officials as well as justice department officials met with committee staffers yesterday in an effort to resolve this. megyn: chief white house correspondented henry is just out of the briefing with an update. reporter: the bottom line is that jay carney would not commit to whether or not there are white house officials meeting today with house republicans to try to work all this out at the