economy. now is the time for action. so i want to send a clear message for congress. do not slow down the recovery that we re on. don t muck it up. keep it moving in the right direction. steven moore is an editorial writer with the wall street journal. steven, the president s message don t muck it up. your message is to the voters and you re saying the worst thing they could do for the economy is four more years of president obama. why do you see president obama as a particular threat to this recovery? well, first of all, i agree with you the economy is picking up. we re just getting week after week signs of a stronger economy. manufacturing has picked up. we got some good unemployment insurance claims this week which suggests we might get another bump down in the unemployment rate so i agree with you. we re seeing some really nice signs of recovery right now. what i question whether it s durable, whether it s sustainable. and i keep looking at what could happen on janu
it s the conservative political action conference in washington, d.c. i ve got you there live right now. this is the vamp up, folks, to the big delegate leader, mitt romney. if you want to be the republican nominee for president, you d better have your game face on when you come to cpac. and you better have cpac on your side, some say. there is a caveat to that. i ll get to that in a moment. any second now, as i said, we re expecting mitt romney, who s going to make his case from that podium to this audience. a critical audience. core conservatives in that audience. and the message he wants to deliver, i am your core conservative leader. and i ve got a message for you. we re following those comments live as he shakes the hand of the interviewer or the look at that. perfect timing. mitt romney takes the podium. let s listen in live as he gets ready to sell his conservative message and his record in massachusetts. wow, thank you, please. thank you! thank you. please. wo
administration could put out a compromise for catholics today. dan lothian is at the white house. dan, what exactly are you hearing? reporter: that s right, i m hearing that a compromise or an accommodation as they like to call it here, i m hearing this from a senior administration official, will likely be announced today. we re trying to get more details but it will likely be some kind of a balance whereby women do have access to contraceptive coverage but on the other hand you will have these organizations, religious affiliated organizations will not have to directly provide that coverage. it s unclear whether this will be enough to ease the concerns of these religious organizations and others who really were looking for a reversal of this policy. what s clear though is there s been a lot of pressure on this white house over the last couple of weeks, not only from the catholics and other religious groups, but also from lawmakers up on capitol hill. republicans. the republ
the other states are still finding fighting for better turns and those other states are pretty important. peter barnes from the 20 bgs fox business network joins us. reporter: that s absolutely right, big foreclosure states like california and florida are not part of this deal yet, and sources say getting them into the deal will be important to getting the banks themselves to agree to a final deal and in getting a lot more money into the settlement for struggling homeowners. now, the attorneys general have been reviewing a deal of up to $25 billion by the nation s five top mortgage lenders and servicer, including bank of america and wells fargo, in the robo signing scandal and investigation into the bank lending and servicing practices. sources close to the negotiations say the deal would provide up to $17 billion for reducing principal and providing similar benefits for hundred of thousands of struggling homeowners facing foreclosure. another 5 billion would go to pay fines and pe
i suspected u.s. drone strike in southern yemen on monday night. security officials say american missiles struck a province near the areas taken over by militant group. u.s. republican presidential candidate newt gingrich is blaming what he calls dishonest campaign ads by opponent mitt romney for his poor performance in the poor with the florida primary hours away, romney surged ahead of gingrich by 14 points. united nations nuclear experts say japanese regulators need to improve their plans for dealing with severe accidents. they ve been studying the stress tests that tokyo ordered after the fukushima daiichi. whether the plants themselves are safe. those are the headlines from cnn. the world news leader. i m zain verjee and world business today starts now. good morning to you from cnn london. i m nina does santos. i m andrew stephens. welcome to world business today. it s tuesday january 31st. the e.u. has all but sealed the fiscal future of the eurozone. greece h