Mark Hal Pert News Today

>> thats pretty good. anyway were back that was president obama today at the national prayer breakfast talking about his faith. hes also not shying way from a philosophical fight about what the government can do to help people. is president obama running himself? is he often running? now by msnbcs political analyst richard wolf and "time" magazines mark hal pert. its great to have you both. marks of course an msnbc political analyst. i want to start with rich and go to mark. you guys are the exp...

He finds very reluctant thing, which is to go personal and public. >> what do you think? do you think we should have a president explain his religion to people? >> thats what people expect. no, thats what people expect. >> mark, are you comfortable with it, where a president has to defensively or offensively talk about what he believes in terms of religion? >> if its what he believes in, then thats what the president does. anyone whos thinking of running for president against this guy should go ...

Accumulated averaging, rolling average, and the average just keeps getting better, mark. it seems to me a couple things -- i can think of three things. the stock market. when are the republicans who make the most money in the stock market going to say you know what, bush couldnt do this, this guy started off down near the drain and now hes up near the faucet, were pretty high up. this all happened because he must be doing something right. the unemployment rate is perhaps going to start inching d...

With men it does. theres this competitive thing. its patriotic. they like that. youre asking about the personal situation. you can never win a microeconomic argument because people dont believe what politicians tell them about their own economic situation. so jobs have to come back in the real world for these people. but as a broad political message, works much better with men than women. >> your thoughts on that. last thought from you, mark. the whole question -- we argue about this all the tim...