president obama says the good economy is getting back on track. manufacturing starting to come back here in ohio and all across the country. some of the biggest manufacturing jobs growth since the 1990 s. the only problem is those aren t the facts. we ll take a look at the numbers coming up. and the president may be going up against mitt romney but is it ann he should be keeping an eye on. early on, we heard what their strategy was, it was kill romney and it s like not when i m next to him, you better not. don t mess with ann and she has the scoop on his search for v.p. yeah, by the way, who killed caylee anthony really? one year after a jury found mother casey not guilty, casey s lawyer jose baez speaks out and writes about it. he has new evidence and a possible new suspect and he s here live this hour. fox & friends starts just about now. baby i got you yeah you re in just to see you here it is, thompson square is here. they re rehearsing this mornin
according to romney, not exactly. we ll get to his verbal gymnastics at the top of the program. meanwhile, president obama is on a bus tour through ohio and pennsylvania. can he make inroads among those working class voters? and speaking of those voters, how will they respond to the new reports of romney s extensive offshore bank accounts? does romney have an image problem? and a florida life guard loses his job for trying to help save a swimmer s life. we ll ask him what happened. and finally, what went wrong at this fourth of july celebration in san diego? all of the fireworks exploded at the same time making for a bombastic but brief display. we ll figure out what happened in the sideshow tonight. we begin with mitt romney calling the health care mandate a tax. michael steele is an msnbc political analyst and bob shrum is a democratic strategist. it took only a week but romney is now on board with other republicans when it comes to their attack line against the p
and that overall means that businesses have created 4.4 million new jobs over the past 28 months, including 500,000 new manufacturing jobs. that s a step in the right direction. as you might imagine, mitt romney came out swinging, calling the 8.2% jobless rate unacceptable. he blamed the president s policies for the stagnant economic recovery. we have seen the jobs report this morning and it is another kick in the gut to middle class families. there s a lot of misery in america today. and these numbers understate what people are feeling and the amount of pain which is occurring in middle class america. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker is traveling with the president. she joins us live this afternoon from pittsburgh. we didn t hear the president talk about the jobs report until about ten minutes in this morning, kristen. it will be very interesting to see how long he waits to talk about those numbers in pittsburgh. reporter: yeah, it s a good point, cr
there s been 3,000 heat records broken across the country. it s been a week since severe storms slammed the midwest and the mid atlantic regions. more than 500 homes and businesses are still without power from ohio to virginia. about half of those outages are in west virginia and even worse, new storm that came in yesterday afternoon have left more people in the dark there and also in tennessee, kentucky and in north carolina. a judge setting george zimmerman s bail at $1 million. that same judge blasting him for manipulating . even accusing him of hiding a second passport and trying to flee the country the first time that he was free on bail. right now, zimmerman s attorney says that there s enough money in his defense fund to post the required 10% of the bail. but he fears the bail bond company will not cough up the remaining 90% as is usually done. zimmerman charged with killing 17-year-old trayvon martin, something that he says he did in self-defense. we will have a li
don t be jerk. gregg: i m kind of exhausted from the 4th. you did celebrate it. hits geraldo s birthday. it s a big deal to a lot of people. as well it should be. i think it was something you were supposed to read out loud mr. burgundy. i know. i didn t feel it was going anywhere. it really wasn t, it was kind of a time killer. you were going to finish that? you said finish it or kill it or wav. i chose not to do it. gregg: are you going to suffer from this, do you know who, america. go away. let s welcome our guests. she hails from san diego, dana perino and one of my co-hosts on the five a. jamie weinstein. and indonesia he is considered a bib. bill schultz. and if he was a stick, he would be sticky. and comedian. happy independence day. that was yesterday. and he longs for the days when he earned much praise. today michael grin baum hitting new york to get residents to say no to it s soda ban petition. no, on the east coast we call carbonated be