the country bankrupt. but ethically, this administration, this president could be bankrupt because, as we tweeted about this this morning, and i said what can he get done in his first 100 days, someone wrote back, continue to enrich himself and his children as he s done for 93 days. supporters have been bamboozled, hoodwi hoodwinked. is that one of the bigger issues, facing these tentacles and business ties, self enrichment, making the emoluments clause. yes. he didn t listen to one of my avenues of getting out of this, and that is to thoroughly divest, like all past presidents have, from his business interests. you can t say my children are running my business and that s okay, because he still profits from everything in his businesses, both abroad and at home. as you say, there is the em mole yums clause of the constitution which basically say
plummeted down to 38 and 21% today. in 2001, only 7% had an unfavorable view of the gop. by the time bush led office. two wars, a huge tax cut that left the country bankrupt, left us where we are today and exits on a huge financial scandal which was partially in his creation, although you have to give credit for bank reregulation. i think the brand is really tarnished. also, the neags nation has moved to the left and his party that is going to nominate him has moved to the right. if you go to cpac, you won t see
head of the protection bureau. republicans oppose creating this watchdog agency and intend it to block anyone named to run it. and a u.s. markets rose earlier loss tows close mixed by the end of trading yesterday. right now u.s. stock futures for the dow, nasdaq, s&p 500 will point into a slightly lower open this morning. waiting important jobs data. could give us a nice hint about where things will go. soledad, back to you. all right. thanks, christine. appreciate it. it mitt romney is hitting the ground running in new hampshire. a big lead in the polls. picked up an endorse many from a man that knows a thing or would about winning primaries in this state. our message to the president barack obama is that you can run but up can t hide from your record macking this country bankrupt, from destroying our national security, and to making this nation one that we have to restore with mitt romney as president of the united states
good morning. welcome. i m soledad o brien. welcome to starting point. we are coming to you from manchester, new hampshire. we are coming to you live from the airport diner. five day ways from primary day here. our starting point this morning is something that you are bogey to hear on the combine trail today which is the future of the american military. just about four hours president obama will reveal his plan for a slimmed-down force that will no longer be fighting two full-blown ground wars. digging into the details and talking a lot about it this morning. also, mitt romney, does he have a tea party problem? they didn t go away in iowa but could new hampshire be different? we are going to ask the tea party favorite and romney supporter christine o donnell this morning. and despite the sparring back in 2008 in this very state, senator john mccain is now backing mitt romney. he is going to join thus morning to tell us why. then oops, we deported your teenage daughter. a fa
if we have to? indeed. professor peterson, romney romngot the endorsele. and senator mccain got quite fired up against the president. our message to president barack obama is, you can run but you can t hide from your record of making this country bankrupt, from destroying our national security. bankrupting our country and destroying our national security? really? wow. mr. mccain, that was your other homey george bush who did those things. i don t know if this endorsement means that much. who else is mccain going to endorse? some of the vitriol you hear in his voice is left over from 2008. i don t know what this endorsement necessarily means. who else could he endorse at this field? you know, one thing i would add to that as i ve been going in. new hampshire, this endorsement means a lot because new hampshire, we saw it obviously