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>>guest: i wish i could. look, that was the g.s.a. planning that next get away. look, i got a new acronym to describe congress "a.i.r.," arrogance, irresponsibility, and we are headed for a recession. how about that? they go on a five-week vacation and they keep kicking the can down the road. we are not in a recovery. these numbers prove it. you know that blip up in the stock market? you know and i know that is the stock market anticipating companies predicting they will make their quarterly pro...

>> johnathan wiseman has a story about this and the poll. we have seen this come and go. theres a point here to be made. voters are looking for someone they can feel attracted do and romney is plastic, formal. herman cain on the other hand is folksy and engaging. youre seeing a blip up. >> shepard: can he hold it? thats the question. >> i think thats the question given to michele bachmann and rick perry, how quickly they came. >> shepard: what happened to rick perry? >> he faded after the debate...

african-american voters. the president alluding to the employment crunch during his third annual back to school speech here in washington, d.c. >> more than 60% of the jobs in the next decade will require more than a high school diploma. more than 60%. thats the world that youre walking into. >> some black voters say the president has let them down when it comes to education and job creation. the obama campaign is trying to address those concerns as the election gets closer. lets turn ...

The month. its finishing up a solid trend over the last five months where you saw a blip up in unemployment rate today but overall the last five months the unemployment rate has fallen 0.8 of a point and we added more than a quarter million jobs per month over the last three months. i think the trend is definitely going the right way. >> we saw the gdp at last quarter was not as strong as it had been. gas prices a real drag on the economy. how concerned are you that this could dramatically slow ...

Over the coming year. thats nearly twice as high as it was just three months ago. steve liesman is cnbcs chief economic reporter. steve, whats the take-away out of all this? >> the take-away is how astonishing these results were. it floored me. we had this really interesting blip up, positive blip, in december, and then to see these numbers rocket down like this, i think the take-away is as follows. one of the things we saw was that peoples expectations for their wages have pretty much crashed. ...

Thes. the support among independents has plummeted. from 68% to 38%. what one factor do you attribute that to? >> the number one issue according to a recent poll is the federal debt. the second is terrorism. then health insurance costs. then unemployment. so the debt. its what were hearing over and over. thats whats hurting this administration. there are different elements of the obama coalition. he won independent voters by 8% in 2008 but that plummeting, a nearly 20% drop, that is not a subtle...