listen, we re going to try out thank you, yes, we re up for an emmy award tonight. if i don t tell you about that tomorrow, don t bring it up. well, yeah. you know, i m just a little worried that what did oliver stone call you, the bald dome? the bald dome is going all the way. i m just quoting him, the bald dome. is that bald dome going to be able to get in the time warner tomorrow? you have to admit, that s going to be pretty big. this will always be a part of my life, the stakeout with ed henry. good to see you, my friend. ed henry at the white house. it is time now in case you didn t get enough politics out of ed, time for cnn equals politics update right now with two of my faifd guys, not as favorite as ed henry, but mark preston and deputy political editor paul steinhauser. he knows i love him. at the cnnpolitics.com desk. what s going on? ali, you take it away.
neck race right now between the democrat and republican of massachusetts. ali, again, if we re talking about in trouble in massachusetts it just shows you how bad it is for democrats potentially around the country. ali? it does show you there are lots and lots of interesting races here. everybody thinking that the midterms is what people don t way attention to. there are going to be interesting races. the two of you make it remarkable compelling to follow the details of this election. i must say to you. you guys are contenders. you ve made up for the we love ed henry at the top. we ll give you that. all right, mark, paul, thanks so much. stay attention to the key races and issues heading in. next cnn equals politics update, one hour away. we re serving up the other other white meat.
i haven t seen it yet. i know you re going to be disappointed in me in saying that. i was wondering how much you re saying a.j. hammer to ask oliver stone about your role. that was a good set-up conversation. yeah, that was good. you ve had a pretty exciting day. not the same as being in a movie. you were there when the president was signing the small biz tax cut. i m sure for you that was pretty exciting. that was pretty exciting for me, ali. i can see from this moment forward pretty much any accomplishment or any news event i cover, anything i succeed at or fail out is going to be measured about your movie role. i can deal with that. only on only until my next movie role. only until i thought you were going to say until i m in a movie. you skipped right past that and said only until your second role. that s good. i see how you think. in all seriousness, i think this will be helpful for small businesses. small business tax cuts. number two, maybe more
you start. i m just so hurt. ali, i don t know how we can approach that. if i m the second favorite guy, maybe i ll give you a second rate performance. let s talk about some news, ali. enough is enough. president obama, what does he think about rahm emanuel run for mayor? on nbc today he said that rahm is going to have to make a decision quickly about what he s going to do. is he going to run? is he not going to run? when asked by matt lauer of nbc would he endorse emanuel for mayor? the president stepped back and said, look, i think he would be an excellent mayor, but until he makes a decision i m not going to make a decision about how i m going to approach it. the president wait for rahm emanuel to pull the trigger first. ali, coming up your way in new york, two hours ago we had big news in the gubernatorial battle in new york city. come on and take a look. brand new on the ticker.
still going on for all intents and purposes. that s what the white house, that s how they re operating politically. the second number in the poll that they re also going to pay attention to in the white house is one basically asking do you think the president s policies have made the economy better. when you only have 36% say yes, it s made the situation better, 61% saying no, it has not made it better, this is the president s conundrum. he feels that it s going to take more time for these policies to take hold. does he have is it going to take longer than 36 days though? that s when the mid-term elections are coming. they re coming pretty fast. that s why the president has been down the road, four states this week. he s doing to be in new mexico tonight. iowa, wisconsin, as well as richmond, virginia. the next few days you re going to see him really amp this up, ali. speak about amping it up, nice job from you, my friend. good to see you again. well, you know, i don t know if it