lot of pressure on the economy ever since a week ago today when the last round of bad numbers came out on jobs. and every day the european financial uncertainty continues. and so today, he came out before reporters in an attempt to calm the waters, but in a charged political season with the republicans running hard after his job, he declared the private sector is doing fine and then the other side pounced. it s where we begin tonight at the white house with our chief white house correspondent chuck todd. good evening. good evening, brian. the president has been struggling to get in front of this issue and show the public he s in touch with the growing concerns about the economy. that morning press conference was meant to calm the public, and insaid, what he said, those words you brought up, it set off a political firestorm. we created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months. over 800,000 just this year alone. the private sector is doing fine. the president wanted to ge