Back in 2012. Wow. But we start tonight with president obama, throwing down the gauntlet to republicans for the mid term election. He got out of washington today and in a speech near his hometown of chicago, the president offered a reality check to rightwingers who have trashed his policies. Here are the facts. When i took offices, businesses were laying off 800,000 americans a month. Today our businesses are hiring 200,000 americans a month. [ applause ] the Unemployment Rate has come down from a high of 10 in 2009, to 6. 1 today. [ applause [ applause ] over the past four and a half years, our businesses have created ten million new jobs. This is the longest uninterrupted stretch of private job sector creation in our history. Think about that. And you dont have to applaud because im going to be giving you a lot of good statistics. [ laughter ] a whole lot of good statistics. Showing this economy is in better shape, thanks to the president s policies, and one area where thats particul