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Profits and stuff like that. fast forward to today. hes president. he could do something. zip! >> thats right. if you look at the summer of 2008, when george bush was president, it reached $4.11 a gallon. the media was all over president bush. it is your fault. youre not doing anything about it. they really just went to town on him. exact opposite today. the establishment media has not taken off on the price of gas. >> lets look at what it was under george w. bush. when he took office in january...

Benefit, once expansive, but once settled upon i said lets see if we can make this as good a program as we can to save money. well, we did. medicare prescription drug program has come in 40% under budget. i was not for and did not advocate for the comprehensive benefit, nor did advocate for it not being paid for, a lot of things in the bill set the template for reform which would save far more money than the expn expapgs of the benefit. those are the things when youre a congressman you have to m...

More years if he loses ohio? >> youd have to come up with something. >> how? >> youd have to pick up other states that if youre losing -- >> if you win florida you can win without ohio but it becomes a two or three electoral vote margin. the president has to win pennsylvania. >> florida is harder to get than ohio. why would that happen? lets get back to this, ohio. tim russert was brilliant at this figuring out the state that would matter the most. what do you think it is now? >> its -- i would ...

Of areas. >> oh, yeah, i think youre right. heres an interesting point and didnt want to trick you into this because, todd, youre smart about politics and youre almost as smart as i am, this thing about -- here we are talking about an election like this, like this. 50/50, 51/49, is it going to be like that? could it be a wipeout against the president if the economy stays stinking like this? i dont know. >> you can have elections very, very close in terms of a vote but still look like a wipe yout...

For no apparent accomplishment. whatever problems we have now pale in comparison to that. it really could have been one of those negative developments. this was a tough call. you know, the really tough calls in politics or life are 51/49s. theyre not 90/10s. this was a close call with enormous stakes. he deserves -- the troops obviously deserve all the credit for the implementation, but he deserves a lot of credit for making a very tough call. >> no doubt about it. >> hes getting it, hes getting...

We are back with our roundtable. bob woodward, the big ideas. >> first of all, its political survival for obama. >> thats the big idea. >> yes. that is the big idea and libya is a hard case. its one of these 51/49 cases. hes sitting here thinking, what do i have to worry about? and hes thinking about next year when hes running for reelection. he cant get that out of his mind, of course, and i dont think this is the reason he did it, but its in his mind. and he needs to be two things to run again...

We are back with our roundtable. bob woodward, the big ideas. >> first of all, its political survival for obama. >> thats the big idea. >> yes. that is the big idea and libya is a hard case. its one of these 51/49 cases. hes sitting here thinking, what do i have to worry about? and hes thinking about next year when hes running for reelection. he cant get that out of his mind, of course, and i dont think this is the reason he did it, but its in his mind. and he needs to be two things to run again...

Burritos. they went from 99 dozens to $1.49. the guy didnt like the price increase. luckily no one was hurt. while it was a bb gun he fired police found a semi-automatic rifle and pistol in his car. he was arrested and charged with two felony counts of aggravated assault and could face 20 years behind bars. >> bill maher ran out of humor so tried his old stand by, degrading a woman. his favorite target governor palin for something she didnt do. he used his show to mock governor palins intelligen...

The one on the beefy crunch burritos. they went from 99 dozens to $1.49. the guy didnt like the price increase. luckily no one was hurt. while it was a bb gun he fired police found a semi-automatic rifle and pistol in his car. he was arrested and charged with two felony counts of aggravated assault and could face 20 years behind bars. >> bill maher ran out of humor so tried his old stand by, degrading a woman. his favorite target governor palin for something she didnt do. he used his show to moc...

Some factories. prices at the pump are the on the rise. the average price of regular is up $1.49 to $3.12. and, finally, more than 100 million viewers watched the big game last night. or at least they watched the commercials. so how much did 30 seconds of prime super bowl ad time go for? well, this year a cool $3 million. the steelers rally fell short making green bay king of the football world once again. more come up on the packers pounding pittsburgh. youre watching "first look" on msnbc....