for friday are still going to be front and center on the campaign trail at least for mitt romney. with aneenic job creation in the neighborhood of 80,000 jobs created last month and unemployment rate stuck at 8 percent the president will argue the president failed to deliver his promises to rebuild the economy. he is acting as if he s not the president. the american people are going to hold accountable the president of the united states for the current state and condition of this country. i don t think a whole lot of people were cheering when the fireworks were going off we were excited about this country but we were also not excited about what has happened for the last four years. i don t think people are begging for another four years of this misery. democrats meantime tried to go to another topic using web ads to question mitt romney s overseas investment. as far as the economy is concerned they are taking credit for at least some progress. i think like president obama
struck it s just a rebuke to a sitting president that s symbolical, i think in that way, that will be hurtful to his chances. the next item has to do with the remaking of mitt romney as we get into the general election. we ve seen lots of examples of this. romney as we ve seen is playing practical jokes with the press corps, going on the campaign bus, having a little fun. he s baking cakes, his sons are appearing on conan. we have kind of a recasting of his image a little bit. the next item i want to get some comment on. there are his sons on conan this week. the next item has to do with fund-raising and i want andrea to weigh in. mitt romney has a commanding lead from last month in terms of how much he is raising. he s become so prolific in this area. why does it matter? it matters because these television ads, web ads, the organization, it matters hugely. and president obama, barack obama as a candidate ran circles around john mccain, who abided
this were a rebuke to a sitting president it s symbolically in that way it would be hurtful to his chances. next item has to do with the remaking of mitt romney as we get into the general election. we ve seen lots of examples of this. romney as we learned from rock center is out there playing practical jokes on the press corps, going on to the campaign bus, having a little bit of fun. you know, not only, you know, baking cakes, his sons are appearing on conan, we have kind of a recasting of his image a little bit. the next item i want to get some comment there, his son on conan this week, the next item has to do with fund-raising and i want to get andrea to weigh in on this. the reality is that mitt romney has a pretty commanding lead from last month in terms of how much he is raising. he has become so prolific in this area. why does it matter? it matters because the television ads, these web ads, the whole organization, it matters hugely, and you know, president obama, barack obam
welcome back to morning joe. some happy, happy cheerful web ads to get you started on this monday morning. we have nicolle wallace to help you out as well. mark halperin is here joining us on set, editor of the new yorker david remnick, the latest issue involving a piece looking at what a second term of barack obama s administration might be like. but we have to start by having no spoiler alerts, we re all talking about mad men. i did not see it last night. too late for me. i m going to watch it today when i get home. did everybody see it last night? i did. i m going to watch it today. david, you saw it last night? oh, yeah. bafo? pretty dam good. really good. i ll tell you, the last and we all agree on this, last three weeks of mad men have been nothing short of extraordinary television, right? outrageously good. yeah. i thought last night s episode i don t want to spoil
charge briefed the top four intelligence committee leaders on a rash of leaks. i spoke with one of those leaders, house intelligence committee chairman mike rogers just last hour. last month rogers said that the administration s chest thumping led to leaking information about the foiled bomb plot in yemen and kind of talking about how the chest thumping was not helping and he said raised a lot of questions but rogers seemed to back away from blaming political motivations in my interview. take a listen. i think politics is irrespective of the fact that someone that had access to information narrowly protected found that they for whatever reason leaked it which is a crime and they should be punished with a crime to the severe essex tent of the law. the investigation obviously continues. i want to bring in senior congressional correspondent dana bash yoin joining me live. there was a very unusual press conference right afterwards. very unusual. you know as well as i do, yo