santorum, robert traynum and shira it uplet. i m going to begin with you, robert, david axelrod was on meet the press, and he slammed mitt romney on the economy. let s listen to what he said. this is the same case he made in the state of massachusetts, he said i m going to get the economy moving again. i m a businessman, i know how to create jobs. they went from 37th in nation in job creation. to 47th in the nation in job creation. so we ve tested the romney acumen when it comes to create jobs and he s found wanting. that massachusetts line of attack, is it going to work? he s looking back as opposed to looking forward. as you know, elections are all about the future and all about what you re going to do for me in the future. i think it s very interesting that david axelrod is talking about what the candidate promised in the past. if you take a look at that rhett rix. you could make the argument, okay, well president obama said when he was a senator and running for president, h
winds. and it may last until mid-week. meteorologist maria larosa from the weather channel has more on what we can expect. maria, hello. good day to you, alex. yeah this is going to be a very high-impact storm. so many levels, whether it s the rain and the wind and eventually for some of us, it will be the snow. let s start with the wind. i ll show you how that s going to be driving the rain and the moisture off the atlantic. and you can see the timing, how the heaviest rain will be pushing into philadelphia, new york, on into new york state. after midnight, towards tomorrow morning, you ll notice the snow beginning to expand. this our clipper system beginning to come in and supply the cold air and the snow could be coming down at one to two inches an hour in places like johnstown, up into buffalo as well. that snow continues to fall through monday afternoon as the rain ends from philadelphia to new york and into boston. by monday evening, still snowinç potentially from pi
their view time to cut bait and stop going for the big deficit reductions package they ve been talk about and find the easiest path forward to get the debt ceiling raised and worry about deficit reductions at another time. it seem like there was some enthusiasm and progress yesterday. but if the two sides are even further dug in, even further apart so to speak, why is the president still pushing for something big? reporter: well, there s the overt politics of it. he seems to be nominally winning. the republicans and public polls are doing less well and are getting more blame than the president in part because he s going for something big. but there s also just the simple fact that they have to figure out a way to get votes in the house of representatives to raise the debt ceiling. they can t get those votes with a simple effort too it and to raise the debt ceiling, they have to look for other avenues. now, this is where you mentioned that this is abnormal. outsiders look