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president obama and his 2008 rival are at it again. senator john mccain is here for an exclusive interview. plus, it is lethal and highly effective, but is the president s drone war making more enemies than it kills? congresswoman lynn woolsey and congressman peter king join me. then the shifting campaign terrain with cnn s senior congressional correspondent, dana bash and michael shear of the new york times. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. to review the bidding, the president s last ten days include a bleak jobs report, off-message surrogates, a shellacking in the wisconsin recall, a $17 million fund-raising gap with mitt romney, and bipartisan outrage over security leaks. friday, the president held a news conference, pressing congress to pass his jobs bill, including more funding to states to ease layoffs of public workers. he noted 27 months of progress on jobs in the private sector. the private sector is doing fine. oops. it s an extra
i ve never had a problem finding work before. 5 million. that s the number of americans who have been out of work for more than six months. we put long-term unemployment in focus this morning. for many, jobless benefits are running out. we have some tips on how you can get back to work. and we have bravo s andy cohen. i talked to him about his new book, the six moments he d like to forget, the real scoop on the real housewives, and doing a shot with dan rather. goo morning, everyone. i m randy kaye. it is 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 on the west coast. thanks for starting your day with us. we start with new action right now in syria. a clash between rebel forces and the syrian military unfolding in the flashpoint city of homs. homs has been the anti-epicenter for the last 15 months. joining me now from beirut, lebanon, is cnn s arwa damon. i know you ve been to the area. tell us what we re seeing. reporter: yeah. it s some pretty intense video. this is a neighborhood
states. hello, alip looking at seven battleground states and how the rate compares today with when he took office. nevada and florida, unemployment rate is higher than the national average. nevada and colorado the rate is above what it was when president obama stepped into the white house. rest of the battleground states it s interesting. the jobs marks are improving. they had been improving since when the president president went into office, still improving, iowa, new hampshire, low unemployment levels. 5% in iowa. new hampshire, 5%. virginia, 5.6%. in ohio, with 18 electoral votes, much more than iowa and virginia combined, you ve seen a significant drop in the unemployment rate from 8.6% to 7.4% over the year. they went from 48th in the nation to higher than that. it s an interesting story, ohio, big auto manufacturing, big manufacturing base, and this is one of those places where mitt romney had said, don t have that auto bailout. my feeling is nobody wins without
outfront tonight is the economy, stupid. in a surprise news conference today the president blamed congress for keeping americans out of work. they left most of the jobs plan just sitting there, and in light of the head winds that we re facing right now, i urged them to reconsider because there are steps to take right now to put more people back to work. the president is angry that congress has not passed his jobs bill, which sat on the shelf since last fall. part of it did pass. the payroll tax cut extension and long-term unemployment insurance, but the president wants to pass the rest immediately and the price tag is $297 billion. his bill summary, which we obtained from the white house, says that money will go to things like preventing teacher layoffs, modernizing schools, building science labs for a total of $297 billion. does spending more add up? we wanted to know the answer to that question. we did the math on how much money taxpayers have spent on stimulus since