election, less than. mitt romney out of nowhere it seems, major address today on american foreign policy. take a listen. the president is fond of saying that the tide of war is receding. i want to believe him as much as anyone else. when we look at the middle east today, with iran closer than ever to nuclear weapons capability, with the conflict in syria threatening to destabilize the region and with violent extremists on the march, and with an american ambassador and three others dead, likely at the hands of al qaeda affiliates, it is clear that the risk of conflict in the region is higher now than when the president took office. so we ll hit the speech in depth here a lot on the middle east. but first, let me give you the big picture. as we mentioned, four weeks until the election, and we are seeing a possible shift in favor of mitt romney. check this out. this is what has happened since that debate last wednesday. this is gallup s daily tracking poll. a dead heat here
we begin with president obama out there on the campaign trail making the most of today s unexpected and potentially, potentially game changing numbers about jobs. with only 32 days to go before the election, the labor department announced employers created 114,000 jobs last month. just as important the numbers from july and august were revised upward to show the economy added 86,000 more jobs than we originally thought. september s unemployment rate fell from 8.1% down to 7.8%. it hasn t been this low since president obama was inaugurated. and out there on the campaign trail today he s taking full credit for the change. let s bring in our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin. she s getting reaction from the white house, from the campaign. the president s pretty happy about these numbers, isn t he? yes, wolf. but for the white house and the president, it s a balancing act. for the president, he s trying not to suggest that we re out of the woods yet, but he is usin
we begin with president obama out there on the campaign trail making the most of today s unexpected and potentially, potentially game changing numbers about jobs. with only 32 days to go before the election, the labor department announced employers created 114,000 jobs last month. just as important the numbers from july and august were revised upward to show the economy added 86,000 more jobs than we originally thought. september s unemployment rate fell from 8.1% down to 7.8%. it hasn t been this low since president obama was inaugurated. and out there on the campaign trail today he s taking full credit for the change. let s bring in our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin. she s getting reaction from the white house, from the campaign. the president s pretty happy about these numbers, isn t he? yes, wolf. but for the white house and the president, it s a balancing act. for the president, he s trying not to suggest that we re out of the woods yet, but he is usi
browning who was an election supervisor for 26 years recently told the miami herald quote, i didn t feel comfortable rolling this initiative out. something was telling me this wasn t going to fly. we didn t have our is dotted and ts crossed when i was there. i would not have sent this to the list of counties. and to the next florida secretary of state ken detzner. a funny thing is happening on the way to the purge we found out. joining me now judith brown dianis and susan booker. she s the supervisor of elections for palm beach county, florida. thanks for being here. thanks. miss booker, let me start with you. will you participate with the governor s plan to go through the voter rolls in your county? no, sir. we did not send out the letters
when non-u.s. citizens vote, it diminishes. for the record, the voter fraud in since 2000. there s been 178 allegations out of 37 million votes cast. i mean, this is really the epitome of a solution looking for a problem. that s right. americans should be outraged by this. that this governor is standing in the way of democracy. he is undermining our democracy trying to get people off the rolls at the last minute. and in fact, it s illegal. you can t suppress the vote this you know, you cannot suppress the vote first of all. then you cannot purge so closely to an election. and we know what this is about. this is about him doing it for partisan gain. susan, let me ask you the last question. what s the way forward? the standoff here, the justice department s involved.