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In this case in the fox poll for sure over the past couple months governor romney held steady at 40 or 41. in fact the presidents numbers have fallen several points. they were 47 at one point several months ago. 45, just a couple points higher at one point. interesting his are falling steady and falling off as well. heres the thing. theyre both attacking a lot. they both want to make more ground up at that. i add another data point from the cbs "new york times" poll, president is lose on likeabi...

Investigations went as stronger again thm as they meet. >> these investigates come up from time to time. they have all kinds of people who protect the ceo from being anywhere near this. sheldon adelson is a fortune 500 company, but its his company. he owned a majority of the stock. he runs it -- what these e-mails show he has his hand on many, many aspects of this. thats unusual. dont see that very often. he obviously faces -- the investigators have to look at his actions in the context whaf wer...

I has part -- he support companies that helped to take some of our jobs, you know, out of this country. is that the guy you trust? thats part of why the administration and the campaign are working so hard to make this, begin, about -- >> really quick, rich. >> i think theres an issue about enthusiasm and if you look at just at one data point, the fund raising, recent fundraising shows the enthusiasm for the president maybe lagging some what somebody smarter than me said four years ago, the presi...

im in for brooke baldwin. we are watching the mikes. mitt romney is expected to step to the front, to the microphones and give what his campaign is calling a major speech on his plan to fix the economy. were told the republicans are planning to focus on the debt. well keep our eyes on that. the obama campaign is upping the tv antein the battleground states with a new attack ad that really takes aim at romneys record at bain capital. it features steelworkers who lost their jobs years af...

To 3 0,000. that was a bigger jump that had been anticipated. nothing monumental, but last friday, with the monthly jobs report from the government and the disappointing jobs gains we saw that time around, it has the market kind of second-guessing whether or not were actually going to be seeing some good numbers. now, everyone we talk to this morning said that this is, you know, certainly not something that you have to pay a whole lot of attention to. its only one data point, but this data point...

Number from march would be better. you know, what are your two cents? well do the number for a minute and go up to a different altitude. >> well, particularly disappointing was retail sales. those folks dropped a lot of employees indicating the consumer spending is slowing in march. thats bad news for growth going forward. the question is, do we rebound to 200,000? or is it down from here? theres some reason for pessimism and thats disconcerting. >> again, your two cents on this months data poin...

>> i understand. >> on this case. theres a lot of murkiness. and every data point is one piece of information that, you foe, the public can weigh in trying to assess what really happened here. >> okay. and not to be repetitive, but joy-ann, theres something strange about the call regarding trayvon martin when zimmerman, who the "orlando sentinel" has reported in 15 months called 46 times. i find it unusual that he doesnt say, hey, its george zimmerman from neighborhood watch. at no point in that...

Those are all african-americans. the other two dont involve suspicious activity by individuals. theres a dogfight, theres a garage door open, so you cant sort of make that comparison. look, it is true that in every instance where hes calling about individuals, they happen to be african-americans, but at least in the audio calls, hes not emphasizing that point, hes not make ing a point of it, the information always comes after its elicited by police. >> i understand that, but every time he picks ...

When he was picking up the trail of trayvon martin. so it does seem he was doing something that neighborhood watch said you shouldnt do, which is patrolling around like a police officer. >> michael isikoff, we show some b-roll right now of zimmerman at the police station that night. and you know there is this raging controversy online as to whether, when you enhance that, if you see a wound on the back of his head. frankly, i dont know if its outcome determinative if he does or doesnt have a wou...

Do have to recognize history to know that inflation, once it starts creeping up, boom, its on, with a vengeance. >> and thats what ben alluded to and dagen, the ability that ben bernanke said on more than one occasion, hes making it sound like a light switch. >> what does he do? >> and lets say he has to address it, the only way to address it, and hes on track on the amount of money youre throwing into the system or you can raise interest rates. >> my greatest fear theyll wait too long. but the ...