benefit to go over the cliff. there is a push to how to get manage done. president of the united states is going on the campaign traill through a series of rallies. steve: to a tinker toy factory. brian: get yourself up to lincoln log jacks on the way home. gretchen: this is disconcerting once again. instid of members that we elect to congress to get things done for us. they can t sit in the room for a photoop and now back out on the campaign trial and people making youtube videos about what they think about the fiscal cliff. that s what the administration is asking people to do to convince members of congress to vote. what about saving that time and actually doing the job we elected you to do to sit in the room and get something done. steve: according to the president s side. he learned a valuable lesson
real? we have 23 million people struggling to find work. unemployment is above 8 percent and real unemployment is more like 15 percent. he said last summer would be the summer of recovery and a summer later and it is still worse. the private sector is doing just fine . we need more government. this is president obama s imaginary recovery. brian: yeah, he made a sixth stop yesterday and he said he also visited that cocky company. steve: come and get it. brian: that did not want to be a photoop for senator biden. and he went back there. gretchen: he introduced him at the rally. steve: i saw that live on fox news. brian: you have cable in your office? steve: i was at home.
campaign chose for its photoop? romney knows this is a problem for him. which is why tomorrow he ll try to make another pitch to the middle class. launching a bus tour through other key battle states. the problem for romney, he s already in a hole and it s getting deeper. the latest poll from reuters gave the president a seven-point lead over romney. 49% to 42%. a cnn poll also has him up by seven points. 52% to 45%. and now a fox poll has made the president ahead by nine points. the summer has not been kind to mitt romney, and it s only getting hotter. joining me now is bob shrum, democratic strategist who ran senator kennedy s campaign against romney back in 1994. he s writing in the daily beast
skim milk. brian: this is what happens when your wife goes to the olympics you have to shop yourself. i got to get the groceries. what a photoop. brian: he s got grand kid and they get juice boxes that don t aloww spillage. steve: we told you about it for months. first preview for the new cath rein bigelow movie. zero, dark 30 and all about the day bin laden was killed. here the first peek. you recognize that photo. no birth certificate or cell phone. he is a ghost. he s right in the inner
i m candidate crowley, and you re in the situation room. just coming in, a new snapshot capturing the big picture, a cnn lorcp poll shows support for president obama up slightly from last month 67 this new poll shows a five-point lead over romney, though still within a sampling error. the same poll shows a seven-point lead for the president over rick santorum. that is up only slightly from january. we want to bring in cnn s chief analyst gloria borger. so i look at this and think maybe a problem for mitt romney? absolutely a problem for mitt romney. as you pointed out, in january neck and neck. now president obama is up. what s mitt romney s calling card as he campaigns he electability? what do republican voters say they want in all those dpit polls we ve been taking and all those primaries? somebody who can beat president obama. he kind of loses that argument. it s early, this is good news for president obama. we should say it s february, these numbers can change. an