this is dinnertime here. he doesn t sleep at all basically. will cain, cnn contributor and contributor to theblaze.com and roland martin, political analyst. 7:00 a.m. eastern and 6:00 a.m. in illinois. one of the most important primary, illinois, that s what we say always, 54 delegates at stake in the primary and the winner is expected to capture the bulk of the delegates. it will be the biggest haul since the georgia primary that happened earlier this month. mitt romney looking to pad his commanding lead in the delegate chase. rick santorum we spoke to the santorum campaign yesterday really hoping to burst governor romney s bubble and the two are going at each other in their own form of chicago style politics. listen. we re not going to be successful in replacing an economic lightweight with another economic lightweight. do you really believe this country wants to elect a wall street financier as president of the united states? do you think that s the kind of experie
downtick in unemployment, but things fundamentally really haven t changed. and the truth is, this president has no business having numbers that high and being so strong in the horse race for the re-election when the economy is this bad. so you can only conclude that there is something that is scaring them about the other side, and we have two things going on, which is the rise of newt gingrich, which is obviously terrifying to many voters in the middle, and also this unbelievable spectacle, i can t keep my eyes off of it, i ve been on the hill the last two days and it s an absolute circus up there. and voters must be saying, we can t possibly let these guys run the show. sam, does anyone come out of this thing looking good? reporter: i think the polls indicate that the president comes out looking good. let s take a very sober look at this. where we started was democrats wanted to tax millionaires to pay for this payroll tax cut. republicans said, no way, they didn t haven t want to
white house correspondent for the huffington post. gentleman, let me show you some data. there s good news for the president in terms of his overall approval rating, which is now up at 49%. that s five points higher than where it was last month, according to the new washington post /abc news poll. and part of the reason seems obvious, and that is this mess in washington over the payroll tax extension. look at these numbers from abc news and the washington post poll. when asked who they trust to better handle the issue of taxes, president obama now has a solid lead over congressional republicans. that s 46% to 41%. it s a big change from just two months ago when republicans had the upper hand over the president on that same issue. dana milbank, what do you make of it all? well, clearly, the improvement in the president s numbers, i think we can agree, is nothing really the president has done per se. yeah, there s been a slight downtick in unemployment, but things fundamentally re
sizable lead in a place like new hampshire. people shouldn t be sounding the warning bells yet. it s not over. he has to he has to he has to do well in new hampshire. if we see suddenly there s a downtick in his ratings in new hampshi hampshire, then we say oh, ring the alarm bells. but national polls really don t indicate much as far as the primaries go. but it does show some slippage and it has to concern them. i want to play something. i feel like this kind of encapsulated mitt romney s week. he did a couple of town halls. one of them got a little contentious. let s play that sound bite. you had your turn, madam. let me have mine. i ve let me have mine. listen, i ll give you the microphone in a moment. but let me complete. i m sorry, it s my turn. look, let me speak, then you get to speak. okay? first of all, the thing that always strikes me a little bit about romney is that awkwardness. let me complete. right. who says that? right. that s kind of a side bar. jus
endangering the lives of civilians who could be caught in the crossphile. jurlists, three being held after five days at the tripoli hotel. cnn s chaunce was one of them. steve jobs will step down. jobs is on his third medical leave of absence. he didn t mention his health problems directly but he said the time has come to resign. portions of the u.s. east coast are likely to be under a hurricane watch in just a few hours. hurricane irene is tearing through the bahamas right now with sustained winds at 160 miles an hour. it could hit the populated, northeast this weekend. those are the top stories. i m zain veer gee. world business today starts now. an ipod, a phone. are you getting it? the innovator steve jobs steps down as ceo of apple. we ll look at the company s future under new leadership. hello. i m andrew stevens in hng kong. and i m nina dos santos in london. you re watching world business today. captions by vitac www.vitac.com let s start with the ma