romney a week and a half ago into about a week ago. since then romney has dropped in the polls. if you look at the clear politics average of polls, romney has gone from about leading boo i a point and now barack obama last i looked earlier today was up by 0.3, 0.4. usually what happens to momentum is a number of things happen that take the race away from where it fundamentally is. a very close race becomes a three or four-point lead for obama or two or three-point lead for romney. before the media registers this is of a real thing, we begin calling it momentum. whatever run of good luck or unusual news or a very bad debate was happening and distorting the fundamental nature of the race has ended and the race pulls back to where it was originally which is a very close election with a persistent lead for president obama in swing states. that s exactly what you re seeing here. so my advice to partisans is when people begin calling momentum on their candidate, be prepared for things to be
opportunities. they are not all the same. some of them are challenging. there is geopolitical risk. i m suggest we accept that risk. i m not talking about boots on the ground. i m talking about the cia, covert operations helping organizations gain it momentum they need. they want to establish a safe haven free zone in the northwestern part of syria that will turn into a political safe zone. if they think they can do it, they are not asking for our troops. er in asking for our weapons. megyn: what role what role does russia have in this? they seem to be one country that can exert influence over syria. we can t talk to iran. iran won t do it. but we can talk to russia. you raise the right point. russia is syria s principal ally. it has been supplying it with weapons and obstructing actions
taken from her home, found in a field, on life support. the family has made the decision to take her off life support. she is the 39th casualty now of friday s storms. president obama preparing for a face-to-face showdown this morning with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. on the table, how to handle iran and its nuclear program. and rush limbaugh stepping in it big time and the advertisers are dropping like flies, folks, bailing, because it just ain t right to call a law student a slut. why doesn t he get it? can the champion of the right overcome this or would this possibly become his imus moment. is it ever okay to call someone a slut? having been called a slut by one of my colleagues on the air, i would say it s not. so shut your cake hole, limbaugh. i came back to this nasty talk. and this little girl we ve been following. awful story. it s one of many we followed along the way following tornadoes. some of the pictures tend to look a lot the same.
unemployment drops to 8.6. that is the lowest level for unemployment in about three years. a big psychological headline, but a closer look. 120,000 jobs added last month really isn t great. frankly, that is barely enough to keep up with population growth, never mind put a dent in the 9 million jobs lost in the great recession. still, the president hopes that america will focus on the unemployment rate and he s also hoping he can get some of what this guy has. oh, that bill. he is the love of so many voters. recently some republicans have said bill clinton isn t sold on barack obama term two, but the two men appeared together at a green building event in washington today. i am thrilled that president clinton has been willing to take this on. as he pointed out, partly thanks to me, he s home alone too often. and this has been a passion for him for quite some time, so i am very grateful for his involvement. well, president obama needs all the bill he can get. bill clinton s
forum all week. i had a chance to sit down with the former president bill clinton for an extensive interview. part of it will air this hour. part in the next hour. i want you to stand by. only a few blocks away at the united nations, president obama s on a major diplomatic mission of his on and a number of critical issues are on the table. let s bring in jessica yellin. she s with me here at the clinton global initiative. a huge day today. maybe even a more important day for the president tomorrow. that s right. but first today, it was a major day of diplomacy for the president. today, he met with the new leaders of a post gadhafi libya. emphasized that the u.s. will be reopening its em bah sbassy in this week. the president also sat down with afghan president hamid karzai. the first time the two lead rs have met face to face since the administration announced it would start drawing down troops. also, the president has had a meeting with turkey s prime minister. now, histor