may officially get behind him or will they? we have details meetings, planned ahead. and birds cause another scare in the sky. this is the second one this week. a flight with 54 people on board turns around after geese smack into the windshield. ew! and president obama slow jamming on student loans with jimmy fallon. now is not the time to make school more expensive for our young people. oh, yeah. the president going late night to grab some young voters. we ll have the highlights for you. he looks too serious in the background. mitt romney so close to the republican nomination now he can taste it. the former massachusetts goer sweeping to victory in the biggest day of the gop primary voting since super tuesday winning new york, connecticut, pennsylvania, rhode island and delaware. it seems inevitable he will clinch the nomination next month. last night he tore into president obama, promising a better america under his watch. because he has failed, he will run
blossomed. and first there was bountygate, now there s spygate. the general manager of the new orleans saints is being accused of bugging the superdome to listen in on visiting coaches. there s talk of criminal charges, but mickey loomis is saying the report is 1,0000 plu false. a police dog sent in to end a high speed chase. apparently he worked it out. that s some nice maneuvers. up first this morning a dramatic turnaround in the trayvon martin case. the sanford, florida city commission voted to reject the police commissioner s resignation. last month he was blasted for not arresting trayvon martin immediately after the shooting, but now they question the fairness of removing him. chief lee is paying for the sins of past police officers. the police chiefs. he s been here he has been in office ten months. how do you steer a boat that big, mr. mayor? how do you steer a boat in ten months to a complete turnaround? you don t. heated discussion, in the meantime the
falling since last year have jumped about 6% in the last three weeks. march sales of existing homes fell 2.6% and factory output slipped in march after rising in february. then there was this iffy forecast for europe from the managing director of the international monetary fund. we are seeing light recovery blowing in a spring wind, but we re seeing some dark clouds on the horizon. if, as the economy goes so goes the election, then it was a worrisome week for the president s re-election team. joining me now president obama s senior re-election strategist david axelrod. good to see you. good to be here again. let me show you and our viewers the nbc news/ wall street journal survey this week on who has good ideas to help the economy. and it said president obama 34%, romney, 40%. how do you account for that? i account for it by the fact that people don t know mitt romney very well yet. they see businessman. they hope he has new ideas. but, candy, i think here is the p
there at their convention how he would measure progress. he literally used these words, he said we measure progress differently than republicans, presumably, but it was the fact that he said we measure progress and then he described how it was he and his party measured progress, and i think it s interesting given the fact that he laid out what his report card would be to go back and score him on the very report card he laid out. he said, for instance, that we, the democrats measure progress by whether people have good jobs that can pay for mortgages. okay. we re three and a half years later and he has not yet created a single net new job in america where three and a half years later there were job losses and 93% of the people that lost jobs had been women. on the measure that he himself put in place, creating jobs where people could pay mortgages, he fails, and there was another measure that he laid out. he said in a setting where you were having progress, you could measure i
his life today. and the first secret service agents being forced out over a prostitution scandal in colombia. now one of the escorts is talking about a fight over her cash money. that s what she called it. the reason this whole story left the hotel. and rocker ted nugent has a date with the secret service to explain inflammatory comments he made about the president. and airport naked guy is now speaking. why he says that he doesn t regret taking off all his clothes at a security checkpoint. more on that one to come. new details on what happened in the secret service prostitution scandal in colombia. three of the 11 implicated agents are now out. one of them, a supervisor is being allowed to retire. another is being forced to leave the agency. and cnn has learned he plans to fight his dismissal. a third agent has resigned now. eight others remain on administrative leave with their security clearance revoked. they are accused of bringing prostitutes to their hotel in co