effect on the election. it is really sort of fixed right now on the economy, on jobs. that remains good news for romney so long as the jobs numbers sort of stay where they are. the president is hoping that the jobs picture improves but there is no indication that it will be that. so again, you know, barring some sort of external event, you look around the globe, there are a lot of hot spots where foreign policy could in fact become a major part of this election down the road. right now the things that are resonating with voters is all about the economy, the deficit and jobs. that is why the one issue sort of come up recently that has had legs is president obama s comment, you didn t build that. jenna: i see. republicans and mitt romney have been driving that message pretty hard last couple weeks. jenna: interesting to see all the things we ve covered last couple weeks, what is sticking the core issue you bring us back to which is jobs. tom, nice to have you as always. thanks very muc
jobs picture s always the biggest factor particularly looking at the election and going to mean shaping up. and we did take a look at that. jobless claims, morgan stanley and verizon came in lower than expected, actually morgan stanley lower and verizon with numbers in the fios editions weaker than expected so the stocks are down and looking at the markets opening up about 50 points higher and we ll see if the gains continue towards the opening bell. 50 points higher but the jobless claims above 375,000, that will give a lot of poise to 1600 p p avenue. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. promises, promises. they re easy to make but tough to keep. what does mitt romney really plan to do making it to the white house? we ll talk to the campaign next. plus, a straight talk express barrels in to the capital. john mccain takes to the floor and takes on a fellow republican, michelle bachmann.
accusation that the united states that the obama administration is being hypocrite kal about syria. you re going to want to hear what she has to say. and alarming news about what the drought across much of the midwest may do to the price of milk. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. my interview with john boehner coming up this hour. you re going to want to hear what the speaker of the house has to say on a whole range of issues, the presidential campaign, how he really feels about mitt romney, what he says about the president of the united states, where he agrees with the president and many issues where he strongly, strongly disagrees. what kind of relationship do they have? that interview coming up. but i want to get right to cnn s jim acosta. he s covering mitt romney today delivering some major messages of his own in this race for the white house. jim acosta is joining us from boston right now. what s going on on this day as far as the republican presid
we were back in 2007. with many forecasting slow growth and little change in the jobs picture, many see growing political peril for president obama. never been able to win an election since world war ii, with the unemployment rate higher than 7.4%. to do so, he would have to make history. reporter: alex, the economy is back front and center. everybody expects it to stay that way with a few side roads here and there. one of these super pacs aligned with affiliates, crossroads gps, announced yesterday they are going to have a $25 million ad buy in swing states attacking the president on those jobs numbers. okay, mike, thank you. big nuds here at msnbc, nbc latino.com launched this week. this week s office politics, i talked to the man in charge of it all, chris pena.
administration if we go to a romney administration. your answer? well the fact is that if we continue this pattern, we ran up $5 trillion in additional deficits in this past 3 1/2 years. you just can not continue to do that. that is a disaster. and for him to come forward now to say, well, we re going to work on new tax codes, et cetera and he has a whole plethora of things to put forth, five months before the election, is just desperation. and when you look at the economy now, i have to tell you, in my hometown in long island, nassau and suffolk county, mortgage foreclosures are going up, 50% in suffolk. 30% in nassau. you look throughout the country, the mortgage situation which have people falling behind in their payments, isn t going down, it is getting worse. when you look at the jobs picture, the fact of the matter is the unemployment