get done. he harkened back to era of big government is over. this is enough to make you wonder maybe it was personal beef with the clintons but probably it runs deeper than that. in a rare public appearance and rare return to the capital, former president bush endorsed governor romney today. he said he welcomed support as welcomed his father. this leaves laura bush in doubt. thank you. jobs and the economy will certainly be the pivot points in the november election. tonight, senior white house foreign affairs correspondent wendell goler reports on where the president stands with the public right now.
welcome back to the ed show. here s where i m at. this is how i see it. president obama really did three things today. i think he showed leadership. it was a gutsy call. he fired up a progressive base, the younger base. but he also handed mitt romney, in my opinion, a real political gift. because religious conservatives who have reservations about mitt romney now have more reason than ever to support him because they can t substantiate president obama s position. here s romney today. i have the same view on marriage that i had when i was governor, and that i ve expressed many times. i believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. states are able to make decisions with regards to domestic partnership benefits, such as hospital visitation rights, benefits and so forth of various kinds can be determined state by state. but my view is that marriage itself is a relationship between a man and a woman and that s my
welcome back to the ed show. here s where i m at. this is how i see it. president obama really did three things today. i think he showed leadership. it was a gutsy call. he fired up a progressive base, the younger base. but he also handed mitt romney, in my opinion, a real political gift. because religious conservatives who have reservations about mitt romney now have more reason than ever to support him because they can t substantiate president obama s position. here s romney today. i have the same view on marriage that i had when i was governor, and that i ve expressed many times. i believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. states are able to make decisions with regards to domestic partnership benefits, such as hospital visitation rights, benefits and so forth of various kinds can be determined state by state. but my view is that marriage itself is a relationship between a man and a woman and that s my own preference. i know other people have differing views.
coordination with his campaign is underway, then tonight a big fund-raiser and that will be the beginning of romney s sort of tapping the big bucks in d.c. for the remainder of the campaign. as for newt gingrich, he actually mailed his supporters a departure video yesterday, and later this afternoon gingrich himself will withdraw from the race and formally suspend his campaign. gingrich has long pledged to support mitt romney in the end so even though a full-throated endorsement is not expected from beginning arrive of romney today, he ll eventually get around to it. romney has offered to share fundraising connections to help gingrich retire his $4 million in debt and gingrich wants to have an impact on the upcoming republican convention with a prime time speech and place at the convention and real voice in the republican party and romney has signaled his willingness for all of that to happen. so gingrich will be out by the end of the day, officially, after weeks of what has been in ma
manipulations in the oil markets without one sled of evidence. he has an entire administration to go after speculation or manipulation in the oil market. then they pick this student loan fight where there is no fight. the point i have been trying to make in the last couple of weeks is that the president is bigger than this. the presidency is important. america as big chag lengllengin fiscal challenges. he ought to be working with democrats and republicans on capitol hill to address the big issues that effect the american people. wouldn t it be nice if we could work together? an update reports that nut gingrich was meeting with mitt romney today. new chief spokesman hammond telling fox those reports are untrue and newt is not meeting with romney today. oo 37 minutes after the hour.