is this what she needs? is this the entre she s been waiting for? i don t think it is effective for this reason. kirsten gillibrand has been out front in the senate for the last several years on women s rights issues. she took on the army when no one else did on sexual harrisment. she gets a lot of credit for that. in this race it is a very hard sell when you have three other prominent women also running to say she s going to be the only one as president fighting for women s equality. i think she needs to go broader. i think she hasn t gone broad enough. i think this sort of attacking for old positions probably is not going to be particularly useful for her. wes, let s talk about this state, great state of michigan, we re in the great city of detroit. this is a state where the economy has gotten better under president trump. unemployment dropped from 5.4 to 4.1, gdp increased 8% in the trump presidency.
we re back. another rough day for mayor rob ford of toronto. the fourth largest city in north america which sits on the north shore of lake ontario. the admitted crack smoker announced today he s getting help from professionals but he s refusing to quit. he also spoke before city council but council members themselves turned their backs on him and told him to step out of office. yesterday in a symbolic vote, the council overwhelmbly approved measures to ask ford to take a leave of absence. that wasn t the worst of it. according to a new court document, the list of accusations extend to relations with prostitutes and assault against staff members. allegations the mayor says he didn t do. once more defending himself today in a suit of sexual
a lot of problems but not enough lawsuits ain t one of them. is he terrified by the possibility of fairness? does he imagine millions of women with sexual harrisment attorneys on speed dial itching to sue when a dollar for a man is cut by almost 25% before it is handed to a woman? with that we raise a glass to the mad men of mcconnell, kyle, borosso and feud and not forget speaker boehner who brushed off a letter from nancy pelosi who had the tumerity to suggest that the house cancel the recess next week to get down to work. the gall of it. not only do women make less than men, many of them work much harder, too. cheers. stay with us. the day s top lines are am coming up. the medicare debate continues in washington. .more talk on social security. .but washington isn t talking to the american people.
attempt, congresswoman gabrielle giffords i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first, an apparent shake-up in the republican race for the white house after a turbulent week that saw herman cain finding new allegations of sexual harassment and rick perry stumbling sadly in a debate. newt gingrich leaping towards the top of a pack in a stunni stunningcome back. jim acosta is watching the race for us as he always does. where do things stand right now? some candidates are stepping in it, newt gingrich is stepping it up. what s old is newt. he s back. it is a wide open race. consider campaign road kill over the summer, newt gingrich is peaking at just the right time. he is leaping ahead of herman cain in a new poll and falling within the margin of error for the lead in another poll from cbs. the former house speaker may be scoffing at his numbers. all of this effort to create a two-man race when it was perry and romney. reporter: he already has a new racer l
candidate for the republican nomination for the president, has been kind enough to join us in our studios in washington, d.c., and he s joining us live this morning after what was surely a very stressful and busy day yesterday. i do hope you got some sleep, and thank you for being with us. our viewers do thank you, too. thank you, robin, and it was a busy day but i survived. this is why it was a busy day, and we re going to talk about many issues, but let s start with what s at the top of the news. many people are asking, did you say something early yesterday about sexual allegations against you but something completely different hours later? let s watch as things happened yesterday. if the restaurant association did a settlement, i am i wasn t even aware of it and i hope it wasn t for much because nothing happened. so if there was a settlement, it was handled by some of the other officers that worked for me at the association, so the answer is absolutely not. i am un