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Studio with us, peter and democratic pollster and cnn political contributor cornell belcher. great to have you with us. first to you, eric. this is your party. the issues the president is addressing this week. the nations economic future are mitt romneys strong suit. a businessman. hes got the biggest campaign team of formidable fund-raising machine. is this his nomination to lose? >> to a degree it is. everyone thought mitt romney would be the front runner here. the problem for mitt romney is h...

says the word jobs seven times in 2 1/2 minutes. the announcement comes as president obama faces the fiercest test yet of his leadship. new fights for president obama with congress over cutting spending and reducing the deficit. lets first go to our senior white house correspondent, ed henry. first of all today, the political news whats the white houses reaction that romney is officially running? >> reporter: they wont say anything for the record. in private they are excited about the ...

Spotlight-chasing candidates to whom the sensible american majority would never entrust a lemonade stand, much less nuclear weapons. >> hes right. >> who does he mean, mr. erickson? >> he started off the article mentions newt gingrich and mike huckabee in their forays in foreign policy, vis-a-vis president obamas upbringing in kenya and indonesia. sensible americans dont want to delve into birtherism. someone may come on to the horizon we dont see yet. i notice his bias for governors which i thi...

Martin and eric garrison. theyre here with me in washington. and in new york john avlon. so eric erickson, i want to put to you the question i just put to ms. yellen there. are conservatives, republicans, not always the same thing, are they happy with the field so far, or is there something missing? >> i think its too soon to tell. my sense is a lot of them sense there is something missing. the candidates who are out there right now arent necessarily seemingly the strongest candidates. theyre re...

how they operate moving forward. and they will be held accountable for whatever violence continues to take place there. >> lets take a closer look now at how the civil war is playing out in some of the days more dramatic images. libya, large in its land mass. but remember, as weve been telling you, the battle is really up here. these strategic coastal oil and gas producing. benghazi in the east controlled by opposition forces to gadhafi. some of the fiercest fighting on this day here i...

Forming a presidential exploratory committee. by the way, cnn learned gingrich will have company on thursday in atlanta. mitt romney in be in the city, too for private meetings. no big announcement expected. with us to discuss this and other stories, democratic cnn political contributor paul begala, republican strategist rich galen and eric erickson, editor in chief of redstate.com. rich, were going to you first because you worked for gingrich for years. hes had aspirations of this nature for a ...

Business. the governors people said were complying with that. it is open to people with legitimate business here. a few number of protesters, perhaps 40 or so, remain inside the capitol. there was a hearing this afternoon. seems that issue is still yet to be decided, jessica. >> all right. thank you very much, casey from wisconsin. joining us again here, paul, rich, and eric, to discuss all this. first lets go to a poll and eric, take a look at. this a cbs news/"new york times" poll out shows ...

heading for the waters off libya although for now he says its not to fight. >> well be enter the mediterranean shortly. it will provide us a capability for both emergency evacuations. >> moammar gadhafi is trying as hard as he can to hold onto power. pro-gadhafi troops tried and failed to retake a town neurotripoli currently under rebel control. and one of gadhafis sons tells cnn the government is trying to talk with the rebels, but the rebel leadership is in chaos. lets start with cnn...

Cornell belcher and correspondent dana bash. i know every american is counting down the days to the iowa caucus. it is important and interesting that we dont have any declared republican candidates yet but cnn has new polling out today. this is polling of only republicans now, who do republicans want to be their presidential nominee in 2012? lets show you the list. mike huckaby leads with 21%, sarah palin, 19%. romney, 18%. gingrich, 10%, paul, barbour, daniels, pawlenty, santorum into the singl...

the obama white house sent an urgent message too. vice president called his counterpart in egypt and im told the vice president of the united states complained that mubarak regime is not moving fast enough to implement democratic reforms. in a bit some important political news too but lets get state to the egypt political crisis. this man has a lot to do with giving a fresh jolt to the pro-democracy movement. why he is an executive helping the protesters organize online until his arres...