pollsters would say let s see if he the country will feel like it s getting better on the economy for three straight polls and they couldn t do it for the longest period of time. now you have the combination of you see the jobs reports, the stock market is up, and in a weird way. yeah. i have this i think the european disaster if you will economically what s going on over there is having a weirdly positive effect. you know what? things aren t as bad as it is over there. we re in relatively good shape. so you throw all of that together and that is just slowly elevated. isn t the greece situation getting better? they seem to be coming to resolution but it makes doing business with america again not so bad. let s talk about reality and perception. major, is it the way you see it the same way that it is that reality has changed the perception? nah voters are smart, they can pay attention? the only bad number i saw last night is when i filled my gas tank coming home. right.
strategy here? i guess you can say it is graceful retreat. the president s popularity has been going up along with the improvement in the jobs reports, the general consumer confidence looking at the economy, republicans realize they were going to look entrenched like they were trying to slow down the economy, look like they were denying tax cuts to tens of millions of hard-working americans and just decided principles are one thing, politics is more important in the election year. let s just cut our loss now and move on to fight about something else. given the fact it is not paid for, and we know what that means to conservatives in the party, is there general agreement, though? are the republicans going to do infighting on this or is it done? well, sure, you can never say anything is done, particularly in the house republican caucus just because there are so many conservatives, particularly freshman conservatives, who don t really answer to anybody,
private sector added 110,000 jobs in october. and president obama makes a new push for money to fix the nation s roads and bridges in a speech this hour. he ll call on congress to pass the transportation component of his jobs bill. which includes money for infrastructure. the president will use a bridge in washington s georgetown area as a backdrop and we ll take you there live. the speech is set for 11:25 eastern time. and we have new pictures today of a jetliner s dramatic emergency landing in poland. earlier video showed it from a side angle. here, you can see the plane coming in, with no landing gear at all. somehow the pilot manages to steer it onto the runway on its belly. no one on the flight from newark, new jersey to warsaw was injured. one of the presidential candidates, herman cain s accusers may speak out about her allegations of sexual harassment. her attorney says the key is getting the national restaurant association, where the complaint was filed, to wai
how our financial system works. here the president wants to say, look, i m on the side of the mid e8 class here. i want more fairness in our country. the republicans want to take you backward. joining me now to talk about how the jobs report is playing out in washington, nbc s kristen walker at the white house this afternoon. kristen, positive spin for the report seems to be it could have been worse. how s the white house playing this one? reporter: that s absolutely right, craig. hi there. the white house never makes too much of any of these jobs reports. essentially today they re coming out and saying, look, this is a step in the right direction although clearly a lot more needs to be done. this is not enough growth. but there are according to economists some positive things in this report. 103,000 jobs added. but that stubborn unemployment rate still stuck at 9.1%. but we saw growth in the healthcare sector, the construction sector, although manufacturing did dip which is
us. less than an hour after this mornings s job report was leased, the president s republican opponents came out swinging. mitt romney led the charge. we stand at a threshold of profound economic misery as a nation. four more years of the same extremely misguided policies could be disastrous. matt mcdonald is an economic strategist and a partner with the republican aligned firm hamilton place strategies. matt, thank you for joining me. i rely on your wisdom about jobs reports. you make me sound smart on the economy. this is not the report the obama administration wanted. we saw lots of republican candidates have come out with this isn t enough. the thing i m fascinated with politics just ano isn t usually enough at the president level. do republican candidates need to go beyond president obama s doing poorly look at this job s report? i think we re in a different