he s it s like he s still worried that the conservative base of the party is uneasy with him. that they will be united, i think, largely in their hatred for obama and desire to get obama out. but it s like he s saying, please like me. it s almost like what joe biden says to the to dead crowds when he speaks. just pretend you like me. just sit there and pretend you like me. jen, the it s funny watching both campaigns at times and watching the president yesterday at the commencement. was he doing swing voter outreach or base? is this a turn-out election more than it is a persuasion election? it s always a turn-out election. in some ways it s always a persuasi persuasion. is this more turn out than persuasion? i wouldn t say it s one more than the other. both campaigns are figuring out how they re going to get over the margin and get to 270 electoral votes. the obama campaign is always about expanding the base, expanding the group of people that are going to turn out. yester
combination. meantime, on the jpmorgan story, jamie dimon facing shareholders today as the bank is holding its annual meeting in tampa, florida. jpmorgan s board is backing dimon and the way he quickly apologized for the $2 billion trading loss and sought to fix the mistakes. this comes after the bank s chief investment officer resigned yesterday. and as you mentioned, president obama is saying the same type of error at a less stable bank may have prompted the government to have to step in. jp manageran s stock was down nearly 1% while financials paced the declines for the day. and also just want to touch quickly on facebook because it s hiking the price range for its ipo on high demand from investors. the company selling shares now for $34 to $38 each. and that could value facebook at as much as $102 billion. it s expected to price the ipo thursday night. it s going to trade on the nasdaq on friday. and also we did a cnbc ap poll finding that half of americans, they believe that faceb
laurel, maryland. his press secretary says he is in critical condition. obviously, he survived that assassination attempt. the daily flashback to 1972 when the controversial alabama governor george wallace was shot in laurel, maryland, while cam fairng the democratic presidential nomination. it left him permanently paralyzed below the waist and ended what was then his third attempt at the presidency. mitt romney hopes his economic message will win over independent voters. he wants conservatives to know they re still a big priority. his speech today highlights the candidate s push to show the base their positions are still crucial to his campaign. let s bring in robert costa, national review political reporter and contributor to cnbc s kudlow report. former obama administration deputy communications director jen sake and my partner, nbc s john yang, usually based out in chicago but we ve been tapping
states. he ll give you the same thing he gave us. nothing. he ll take it all. when the obama campaign s bain ad hit yesterday, the romney campaign responded almost immediately releasing an online video they called the american dream. it profiles what they believe is a bain success story, steel dynamics. mitt romney s private sector leadership team stepped in. building a dream with over 6,000 employees today. if it wasn t for a company like steel dynamic, this county wouldn t have a lot. a couple of things about the web video. bain is never said in the video. number two, there s another back story about steel dynamics. it got a lot more money via government incentives, taxpayer incentives than it did from bain capital. now bain capital, by the way, did release a statement yesterday defending the company. we understand that in a political campaign our exemplary 28-year record will be disported and complex business situations
reminding people it hasn t been implemented but then others going, i thought it was implemented and the same stuff is still going on. that s something the president has to remind voters of. that s right. and passing wall street reform, signing it into law is one of his biggest accomplishments and he needs to continue to remind voters, which he will, that he did that. it hasn t been fully implemented. he also needs to remind voters what s at stake. if romney is in office, if he s elected president, some of these rules may be rolled back and that s not what the american people want. let s gatalk about what s gog on in nebraska and this idea that want to be the which federal official appointed by president obama is a five-time jeopardy champion? the answer, richard cordray. he won more than $45,000 on the show in 1987. and it s power players week on jeopardy. we can finally reveal something we knew off the record for