democrat. then never too late to talk vp stakes in election 2012. with dana dash and jeff zeleny the new york times. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. a new cnn/orc poll shows president obama s job approval rating is over 50% for the first time since last june, but americans are worried about rising gas prices, and in an election year, when americans worry, politicians act. the president wants congress to end tax breaks for big oil. it s time they got by without more help from taxpayers, who are already having a tough enough time paying the bills and filling up their gas tank. it will never get by congressional republicans. joining me now from louisville, kentucky, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. thank you for joining us. senator, i want to talk to you about gas prices. i know that you have suggested that this seems like a weird political move for the president to be making, that you don t think it will be popular. and i want to show our
people saw what lewis had to say. that epitomized where our team was at. there was a great sense, there s disappointment certainly, you re never going to forget. you ll always have been there. the sen of peace that i had personally, the sense of peace that our team had with effort is something that s hard to describe. it surpasses all understanding. that s what you re grateful for and our guys recognize that. tony, your primary rival through all the years was the patriots. is bill belichick the best coach you ever went against? a lot of great coaches. i d have to put him up there, though. i m not going to put him with my coach, coach knoll. of our contemporaries. contemporaries and practicing and playing against and counteracting what they did. he s exceptional. he has a great ability to use talent in guys and put them in the right place and be the best that they can be. you see so many guys go there.
make change. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the republican debate stage tomorrow night is going to feature donald trump, now flanked on one side by his latest and perhaps greatest primary rival, texas senator ted cruz. a new bloomberg politics/des moines register poll shows cruz breaking away in iowa less than two months from the caucuses, for the first time up ten points ahead of trump. our new nbc news/ wall street journal poll shows the cruz surge up 12 points nationally among republican voters, closing in on the front-runner. both candidates will have a lot of work to do if either were to win the republican nomination. our poll shows hillary clinton still with a commanding ten-point lead over donald trump and winning a closer contest
back, because you can just see, you know, the obama campaign gleefully playing up this quote five months from now when it s romney versus obama, where they can say, listen, even rick santorum, his primary rival, said that obama would be preferable to mitt romney. and it s just, you know, it s a classic santorum sort of foot in the mouth unnecessary error moment where he didn t need to go that far. he just went there. let s look at exactly what he said. obviously, the next test is tomorrow in louisiana s presidential primary. and mitt romney, by the way, got an endorsement from a key conservative in the republican party, jim demint of south carolina. he told reporters on capitol hill this. i can tell conservatives from my perspective that i m not only comfort with romney, i m excited about the possibility of him possibly beating our nominee. wow. oh. i think we all need to look at this presidential primary and encourage the candidates to do a little self reflection here. what s go