overturned that more and more doctors will reject patients who are covered by medicare. well . bill: do you see that as a reality? you know what i see right now? i see them all over the state, i see them all the over the country. i see businesses who aren t hiring because of this. i see doctors who aren t expanding. i see hospitals who are not expanding because they have funds to do so because they don t know what happen. small business owners are scared to hire people because of unknowns in the health care law. bill: when you see the report, the papers the white house filed with the supreme court, was that a warning to the justice do you think? i hope not because we saw how president obama s threats to justices played out last time. the fifth circuit certainly wanted nothing to do with them. when the president came out and said this was unprecedented and extraordinary. he was a constitutional law professor. this is not unprecedented and extraordinary. they have struck down 165
number before. that is the only reason why the unemployment rate actually came down to 8.1% because people are not in the workforce. that is why you ve got 8.1%. bill: come back to the other numbe only 115,000 jobs added. that is not good enough, is it? nowhere near good enough that is a very weak employment picture. the bottom line here, new job creation is nowhere near it should be if you really want an improving work place in america. what this really means the economy is again weakening. we showed 3% growth at end of last year. we re nowhere near that now. job creation isn t good enough. bill: politically how do you size up, 8.1% the big number for those not looking deeper into the actual numbers there? i have not yet gotten a report from the white house but i would imagine they would play up the dcline in the unemployment rate to 8.1% and say that progress is being made. that is, i presume what the white house will do with
car and replace gasoline. reporter: eventually. bill: that is happening in some cities is it not? reporter: there are some bus fleets in certain cities that are doing it. it s a conversion to the current internal combustion engine. not a huge conversion, maybe a couple of thousand dollars. the issue is getting the natural gas to the filling stations. 70% of new homes that are built are built with natural gas. you may be filling up your gas-fired vehicle at home a lot more, but once you get that infrastructure down honestly i think the price of gasoline will plummet if we were to embrace it. bill: you dealt with oil and gasoline for years. reporter: i did and natural gas as well. bill: you think natural gas is the next phase. reporter: it s the answer. we got breaking news a couple of minutes ago the transcanada pipeline is going to resubmit their permit request for a permit for the keystone pipeline. don t forget president obama said if they resubmitted that permit request th
close. if i go back last seven weeks, every single day president obama has been within two points of 45% mark. every day, mitt romney has been within three points in 46% mark. today in may the race is toss-up. where it goes from here will depend on events outside the campaign. are those numbers one day of phone calls or two or three? what is that, scott? we roll three days together for each of our reports. so we poll every single night and combine the last three today s together. bill: okay. just to make a point on this, those numbers have not varied very much. one day romney is up. one day obama is up, right? exactly right. again, it s early in the campaign season but america is politically divided. this campaign is going to be like trench warfare, world war i. bill: approval numbers now. here s the dead heat for you. approve, 49%. disapprove, 49%. that is what you find for the president, explain. that s right. again we track this every day. the president s job approval
we ve seen a pretty quick consolidation of the republican side. we ve seen conservatives move towards mitt romney even faster frankly than i expected they would. santorum s endorsement is effusive and serious and if he backs it up by doing campaign appearances maybe in states where he did well or had appeal to blue-collar voters, kind of voters mitt romney will need in november if he is to win that could be helpful. i m sort of skeptical this is going to be, certainly not going to be a game-changer at this point. martha: steve, thank you. good to see you. steve hayes. anytime. martha: catch special report tonight. bret baier will have closer look at former secretary of state condoleezza rice and possibility of running with romney. she is the next up. that is tonight at 6:00 p.m. eastern time only on the fox news channel. bill: rumors are out there, huh? martha: they sure are. bill: got a fox news alert right now. is keystone back? we re learning transcanada, the company out of the