important in making this all work reasonably well. i should point out, i think you said i was chief economic advisor. i wasn t. i was just an advisor on the campaign. we just like inflating titles around here. separating himself from john mccain there. no, no, that wasn t my intent. doug have have a problem with this. speaking to the romney question, let s play a little bit of sound as romney does his delicate ballet around the issue of quantitative easing and the fed. this is from his interview on sunday with bob schieffer. let s take a listen. politicians in office want to do everything they can just before an election to try and temporarily boost something but the potential threat down the road of inflation is something which we have to be aware of, and at the last qe 2, the last monetary stimulus did not put americans back to work, did not raise our home values. what s wrong with our economy is that our government has been warring against small, middle and large businesse
championship. lebron james. the whole team. lebron james. doesn t everyone just think lebron james is the heat? good morning, everyone. nice to have you with us on this very, very early start. i m ashleigh banfield. i m zoraida sambolin. let s get started here. let s start with the developing news this morning out of egypt about the health of former president hosni mubarak. we re getting conflicting reports about his actual condition. a state news agency is reporting the 84-year-old is clinically dead. but his lawyer says that he is in a coma. the military says mubarak s condition is critical. but that he is, indeed, still alive. all this confusion coming at a very critical time for egypt. thousands gathering overnight in cairo s tahrir square to protest the military leaders who were supposed to oversee the transition to democracy. instead, they are grabbing more power. ivan watson is live in cairo. ivan, what is the latest on mubarak s condition? reporter: the late
we ll go forward, no, i want to hear from santorum and why it is that he is in citizen sist tent repealing obamacare and, romney care and and stosantorum and, io continue to hear from ron paul, how as the nation spends itself into oblivion we ll become slaves to other countries and we have to quit experimenting through qe-2 and now 3 and need to understand that the set-to-gdp ratio now 100%, how that will bankrupt our country. i want to hear more from newt about the reagan revolution he was a part of and how it shook up the establishment back then and how it can do that again. and that is what we need and i want to hear more from mitt romney, about not being ashamed of his personal financial wealth
we ll go forward, no, i want to hear from santorum and why it is that he is in citizen sist tent repealing obamacare and, romney care and and stosantorum and, io continue to hear from ron paul, how as the nation spends itself into oblivion we ll become slaves to other countries and we have to quit experimenting through qe-2 and now 3 and need to understand that the set-to-gdp ratio now 100%, how that will bankrupt our country. i want to hear more from newt about the reagan revolution he was a part of and how it shook up the establishment back then and how it can do that again. and that is what we need and i want to hear more from mitt romney, about not being ashamed of his personal financial wealth
government now. we used to talk about ipos, new companies, innovation. now open up the business section of a newspaper, story of stimulus, bail-out, intervention. the effort from the fed if you love qe 1 and qe 2, you ll like operation twist. the market hasn t liked it, the economy hasn t liked it. we re on tap for more of the same. it seems that things have changed in how we operate. i know you think maybe it s funny but watching the markets is making everybody sick at home. i think it s funny because those guys are all vultures. they don t care whether the market, who is stimulating or not stimulating. they are traders, betting on the moment. not long-term investors. long-term on wall street while i get a cup of coffee. it doesn t have that kind of a meaning down there i don t think if they re whining they re whine because they re sellish. that is all. cheryl: you cover the u.s. economy out of washington and you see politicians more