and if you re interested in learning more, i highly recommend the new book victory. in the wake of the disappointing jobs reports, the houses has redoubled its efforts to wage against the president than pass efforts to help the sluggish recovery. there will be a vote to repeal the affordable care act, a vote to take away health care insurance from throat with preexisting conditions and kick those 22 to 26 off of their parent health insurance. today, a coalition of activists from a broad swath will be crashing a swank party in the hamptons at the southampton new york home of right-wing billionaire david coke, a fund-raiser. it s rude, but peaceful, purposeful disruption of the ordinary rituals of influence that define our political system are necessary to jar us from complacency. a strange, embarrassing feature, that kissing the hands of
investors into panic as the dough plunges over 100 points. why the numbers didn t add up for wall street. a rescue from a hot car. it s not what you think. how an unexpected hitchhiker got stuck. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. it s 7:00 on the east coast. thanks for waking up with us. we begin in afghanistan. secretary of state hillary clinton carried a message on partnership to work with afghanistan well beyond the planned troop pull out. afghanistan is now designated a major non-nato ally. the u.s. will keep up defense, security and economic relations with afghanistan even after the withdrawal. i am pleased to announce today that president obama has officially designated afghanistan as a major non-nato ally of the united states. we see this as a powerful symbol of our commitment to afghanistan s future. afghanistan joins nations like japan and australia on the non-nato list. shortly after the anuncement, clinton and karzai left for japan for a meeting of in
investors price that in to stocks they want to know and price in bad news on the president. if you look at the gallup tracking poll that started april 16, romney was leading 47-45 at that point. today, after months of bad news, three consecutive bad jobs reports, ibaka is leading 48-44. that was a surge that started before the supreme court decision. this is not a supreme court bump. real clear politics shows that the obama was plus three then and obama is plus three now. the big question is should romney broaden the argument and make it bigger, talk more about losing the mesh dream? talk more about america that today that is not like the america we knew in the past? should he broaden the message to include healthcare and debt and deficit and entitlement reform? i think he should. they have been resistant. john: what is your position on that. bill kristol hammers romney as johnny one note on the economy. he needs to broaden it out.
one of mr. obama s main campaign themes he pulled the economy out of a recession but governor mitt romney said the president is hitting the road with no new ideas on the economy and his policies clearly failed to put americans back to work. talk about it with bob cusack, the managing editor of the hill. is that going to be the debate the next week and perhaps, bob, more into the summer? yeah, i think so. this election will be about the economy and debates will play a big factor. president obama had a good week on supreme court, on health care and on immigration but this is a disappointing jobs report. back-to-back disappointing jobs reports. republicans interestingly not wanting to talk about health care because that has split them since the supreme court ruled. they re pouncing and reminding everybody president obama said, and private sector is doing just fine. jon: last month, that was his response to the jobs numbers. he probably is not going to go off message and make that kind
when it s 69,000 last month, 88,000 this month, unemployment flat for about six months, around 8.2%. you know, but he s also trying to blame washington and say, look, there s a stalemate here. i d like to do more, but because of congress, we re unable to. you know, one of the things i enjoyed this morning in first read, the numbers breakdown. you know, explain this for folks who are watching at home. because politically we hear these numbers and think one thing and folks watching and listening might think another thing. break it down for us, politically, what might 82,000 mean versus 150,000? well, look, the thing is here, when you watch kind of how the coverage, what happens with the coverage after these jobs reports come out, for a couple years you watch this, and what everybody says is essentially about 150,000 jobs a month is what s needed to bring the