move now. we talked to doug schoen, democratic pollster about this, and here s what he had to say: i don t see it as panic, i see it as a president who sees his numbers dwindling by the day, trying to rally the troops and to suggest that if you stay loyal to me, i ll stay loyal to you. reporter: now, the president has two fund-raisers here in colorado, before he moves on to nevada, one private and one public, martha. martha: alicia acuna, thank you very much, interesting developments in these mid-term elections. we re going to be watching them closely. bill: we talked about a jobs number earlier in the hour, the stock market is yawning about this sucker right now, the dow is now at 10347. in a moment here, the conservative political action conference kicking off minutes from now in washington, suspected presidential hopefuls will be on hand but the first speaker at the podium, not this gentleman, but the next one may surprise you. we re live in washington for
don t want to cut spending, so what gives? what gives is the market is going to say in the economy s subpar performances, we re going to get growth but not what brings unemployment back to 4 percent as we had a decade ago. so reality of events just as happened in the late 1970s when things just got worse and worse, the american people set enough, you see a good example of it in new jersey where the new governor there has proposed a dramatic spending cut, the legislature is up in arms about it but he s got the power and the public backing to do it. people know there s a big problem out there. bill: here s the danger if we don t reverse course. let me make sure i got this right, okay? if we don t cut down on the debt, the standard of living drops, that would be a first in american society, going way back, hundreds of years, inflation is a real fear, makes our personal savings worth less, higher interest rates, stagnant wages, fewer jobs, that is not a pretty picture. do i have this rig
no arrogant people need apply. all right, well, some say she s sort of become a poster girl for whole some and healthy body images. how whole some is that there? okay, cristina hendricks is proving you don t have to be rail thin to make the pages of a magazine, gracing the cover of new york magazine decked out in lingerie, she s pretty whole some, don t youing don t you think, bill? bill: i think you make an excellent point. martha: designers are saying they re looking for average sized woman, age 10-16 out there, size zeros still sporting couture on the catwalk. is that ever going to change fashion editors this week got together to discuss the topic. is this really ever going to change? they re always going to be a zero, right? it s going to be tough to make serious changes. look, the guest to be a skinny minny on the catwalk has been going on for a very
saying he wants to continue his questions for the remaining two. martha: and a few days away from president obama s health care summit, republicans as you remember, were challenged to come to that summit, and presents their alternative reform plan to get their ideas on the table but it turns out that it could be democrats who are scrambling to come to the table, with a plan, of their own. bill: we ll check that out and, you want to tackle the national debt. martha: sure, thank you. bill: it is mountain high, like mt. everest and the president set to announce a new plan and we ll hear that later this hour, stand by on that, and. martha: later, going to vegas, baby! and a stump speech in sin city, why he may be one of the few people in history to get a cold shoulder on the strip. nobody gets a cold shoulder there. ñ
country because nobody wants to have excess inventory, right? you bring it right down to the basic level and your spending power is being eroded. martha: right. inflation takes away your buying power with your dollar. that s what s happening. martha: all right stuart varney, thank you very much, as always, stu, good to see you. bill: as i mentioned, steve forbes is up in a matter of minutes for that. maybe he ll cheer us up, maybe not! in a moment, martha, frightening tapes in the moments before two planes almost collided, you ll hear what happened on board a southwest flight that had passengers screaming and sent a flight attendant into the hospital. the rest of that story, three minutes away here. martha: we ve seen our fair share in the country of athlete scandals. tomorrow is a big day in this one, folks. tiger woods is expected for the first time to break his silence. but will a mea culpa really save his image? that s next.