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>> he cant possibly hope to have a leg up. the fact is that if you look at any opinion polling, even in times when the presidents had difficulties over the economy, although thats getting better, people have given him enormous credit as commander in chief. they have huge trust in him to conduct this fight against terrorism. and romney himself i think -- you know, he was governor of massachusetts. hes relatively unschooled in foreign policy. he kind of makes it up as it goes along. the thing that...

Have a leg up. the fact is that if you look at any opinion polling, even in times when the presidents had difficulties over the economy, although thats getting better, people have given him enormous credit as commander in chief. they have huge trust in him to conduct this fight against terrorism. and romney himself i think -- you know, he was governor of massachusetts. hes relatively unschooled in foreign policy. he kind of makes it up as it goes along. the thing thats interesting about the pres...

Investigation ongoing? >> he hired a lawyer over the weekend to look into whether or not he should pursue criminal or civil charges and find out how it happened but in speaking to the capitol police who have jurisdiction over this sort of thing, there hasnt been a request for an investigation at this point. martha: all right, carl, thank you very much. carl cameron on capitol hill. right now, there are very serious new concerns over what has been called the arab spring, a new round of deadly r...

Lining! we like that. back to this now, white house press secretary jay carney is set to hold a briefing at the top of next hour. we expect that the white house is going to get some hard questions on the economy, on the housing numbers that we just talked about. were going to check on that, well bring you the latest out of the briefing, see what his responses are to housing and get thaw when it comes? in the meantime theres breaking news on the questions over whether new york congressman ant...

Inside listening and watching all of this. what can you tell us? >> there is no question today was a powerful day for the prosecution. we saw grandmother concerned about finding her granddaughter. who went to tremendous lengths to try to find out where caylee was. the prosecution is taking this case chronologically. starting with the certified letter regarding the car where george and cindy anthony retrieve the car and cindy says it smells like something died in the car. the prosecution qualifie...

Well have questions for him and see where the administration is post memorial day on our economy and moving forward from here. martha: well be watching. thank you very much. mikmike emanuel. we are expecting the economy will take center stage at that briefing. well bring you any news as it comes out of the briefing today. you can watch it streaming live on foxnews.com. so here is a question. how do people in this country feel about this question of raising the debt ceiling once again without any...

We not pulled out our ambassador, why do we not have defense to the opposition? its a couple of years ago, when the iranian people were up in protest and barack obama stood silent. this thing is not going to fix itself. if the arab spring is going to become an arab summer its going to require a clear foreign policy from the bin laden administration. martha: good to get your thoughts on t. thank you very much, mark thiessen in washington today. the state of california, we were talking about thi...

Country, presidential job rating and the generic ballot lon question. that is the least important of the three. those two numbers we just show, this right direction, wrong track and the presidential job rating, that just is -- thats your clue as to why republicans are so confident and democrats are so nervous about how november is going to look because these are going in the wrong direction. and think of it this way with president obama. for about nine months, when we have done this report every...

Welcome back to "hardball." we have a brand-new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll out tonight that tells a lot about how this country views president obama, congress and the two parties ahead of the november mid terms. chuck todd is nbc chus news political director and chief white house correspondent. chuck, lets take a look at president obamas job rating. americans are also feeling pessimistic about the general direction of the country. just 29% say the countrys headed in the right direction....

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