during two of the primaries. this is a picture on the back of us with the obamas. the first time i had ever met the president. and she said, hey, mr. president, this is my husband, he is the new white house correspondent for nbc. i said, babe, it s okay. and we wrote just met the neighbors. conversation today at 12:00 noon. and peter shares some of the practical behind the scenes of working a grind like that which you may not have thought about. the campaign reaction to mitt romney s stunning loss on election night. straight ahead, the debt ceiling debate. what is the chance president obama will bypass congress and raise it himself? you re watching weekends with alex witt. from psoriatic arthritis hit, even the smallest things became difficult. i finally understood what serious joint pain is like. i talked to my rheumatologist and he prescribed enbrel. enbrel can help relieve pain, stiffness, and stop joint damage. enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections.
memorandum, which they use to create a website, which may be a first, they are trying to leave the impression on a daily basis that despite the stalemate with congress, he is trying to do something to address problems. and today we will see him sign that order. they are, of course, bringing in the press to make sure we can film him signing that order today. lisa myers, as always, thank you, my friend. reporter: thank you. well, despite spending little time in iowa, a new poll out from the des moines register shows herman cane and mitt romney with a healthy lead. anthony terrell follows the action for us in iowa and of course does some part-time duty covering the ron paul campaign when he s there as well. so, anthony, conventional wisdom says the two candidates that spend the most time in iowa, that do all of the organizing, have the best shot at winning and right now it s name recognition that has taken the cake here, cain and romney. you don t see them a lot out
settlement dealing with mr. cain. you understand how that sounds? yes, i do. jackie combs. well, i don t think a campaign manager s assurance ever assured anybody if they had any doubts that the story was true. it s going to have to have a better answer than that. dan, this is coming at a week when the des moines register poll saturday confirming what all. other polls are showing, that cain is becoming the romney alternative, this week his big d.c. rollout, establishment institution, not the anti-establishment, doing that meet and greet with members of congress tomorrow. all this sort of blows it up. absolutely. i think he biwill now spend the week defending himself against these accusations. i think what s interesting is when you look at the difference of what he said yesterday, the difference is the question is different. what mark block is saying is that herman cain says he has never sexually harassed anybody. but when asked by jonathan martin have you ever been
problem. they could never go to $3 trillion. if you get into the entitlements in this atmosphere, you re making yourself radio active. the institution is on trial. congress has a 9% approval rating and the institution has to deliver something. 1.5 i think is within the doable still. martin frost, what did you think of david plouffe going nuke clclear on mitt romney? i think he can do whatever he wants to. you don t think it s too early to be doing this? because there are some that have been whispering to me, hmm, saying basically, well, we re trying not to start the campaign too directly in the white house yet. i mean obviously it s you know it s a margin of error. this is a very tough race for president obama. he knows that. everybody around him knows that. if they re going to win, they re going to have to run hard and run early. tom, what did you think? he s designated hatchet man at this point. it s going to be a down and
dirty race. was it the right thing to do, wrong thing. you hit them hard, hit them early and i think it s going to come from all sides. when you re defending an unemployment rate of 9% you ve got to make it about the other person. exactly. i think obama can win but it s going to be very hard and it s very uphill. frost and davis, davis and frost, quite the monday morning. it is halloween, maybe there s a full moon tonight or something. anyway, thank you both. well, president obama will bypass congress today when he signs new rules dealing with prescription drug shortages. officials say the plan will order the fda to take steps to protect americans by preventing price gouging. it s another one of his we can t wait initiatives, supposed to spur the economy and create jobs, but will these things really make a difference? lisa myers, senior investigative correspondent. lisa, you ve been looking into this and we have all sorts of definitions we have about executive orders ve