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Elected president obama told america that if congress approved his plan to borrow nearly $1 trillion, he would hold unemployment below 8%. it hasnt been below 8% since. this week hes been trying to take a bow for 8.3% unemployment, not so fast, mr. president. this is the 36th straight month with unemployment above the red line your own administration drew, and if you take into account all of the people who are struggling for work or just stopped looking, the real unemployment rate is over 15%. m...

Jobs a month to adding 250,000 a month is not a turn around. now, has it turned around enough? no. but youve actually seen the unemployment numbers begin to dip again in many communities that needed it. this has been the biggest dip in unemployment, and i think were headed in the right direction. the question is whether it will continue. and romneys argument because i think he will be the nominee is going to have to be that he could do an even better -- >> we couldve done better. >> hes going to...

Im happy for the guy. >> two super bowls, wins at the age of 65. the better part of a decade defending his job and hearing hes got to be thrown out. this was as recently as a month ago. they were calling for his job a month ago and now hell be in the hall of fame and be recognized as one of the great coaches of all times of the giants. >> the hug at the end too. he and belichick -- >> yeah. >> belichicks not warm to a lot of people. but you can tell theres great respect between those two guys. >...

Solutions. im trying to draw people into politics, not carpet bomb them out of it. we just have a fundamental disagreement about the responsibility somebody running for president should have to the american people. >> and so -- lets talk about mitt romney, mark haleprin, who everybody keeps beating up and he deserves to be beaten up for a lot of stupid things he says. but as far as just performance goes, these people keep winning. they just keep winning. nevada, yes, a lot of mormons in nevada, ...

Started. >> mark haleprin, the question is out of florida. and weve been talking a lot about the negative ads. but newt also hurt himself with two debates. he had two flat debate performances in a row. i think all of us that have followed these guys can understand how you can have one flat debate performance because it is such a brutal process, but expecting to come back that second time, and he was just as flat, just as bad. what are you hearing? what happened? >> hes clearly tired, and part of...

President. and i would say to him now, mr. president, you cannot sing your way past a disaster of your presidency. >> mitt romney won the florida primary yesterday with 46% of the vote easily outpacing newt gingrich. gingrich took 32% followed by rick santorum at 13% and ron paul who did not campaign in florida at 7%. welcome back to "morning joe," everyone, top of the hour, mark haleprin and donny deutsch are still with us. and joining the table, the editor of "newsweek," tina brown is with us....

>> i agree with you -- >> and this "wall street journal" editorial, as a matter of math, if you look at his policies and project them out ore ten years, the "wall street journal" is dead right. you can talk about -- you can talk about oh, what barack obama inherited. and ill be the first to say george w. bush had a miserable record on fiscal restraint. >> during better economic times for this country. >> but barack obama has projected a ten-year deficit and a ten-year debt that will cripple the ...

Deficits do matter. >> look at europe. >> we have to balance an approach to job growth with also the approach to slowing down the massive deficits that we keep accumulating. >> all right. from the "wall street journal," mark haleprin, listen to this, $5 trillion and change, this is the papers editorial. about $1.25 trillion, cuts come from the automatic reductions that congress and mr. obama agreed to last year. but wait, more than half of those cuts will come from the military budget and even d...

97-0, thats hard to do, well see what he sends up in a couple of weeks. but looks like the president as he did in the state of the union address is choosing to ignore the fiscal problem because it doesnt make good politics for him. >> mark haleprin? >> newt gingrich says hes going to fight all the way to the convention, what standard do you think speaker gingrich should use to decide when to get out of the race? if to get out of the race at all? >> my sense is hes going to stay in, and i think r...

They went from tearing each other apart -- >> to just ignoring, to not even knowing the other was there. >> talking about the president. no, its -- this is about how it looked in florida this past week. heres a cover of newsweek about the gladiators. they, mika, these two guys just tore each other from limb to limb and there are a lot of republicans worried that its going to damage the party in the long run. >> it was ugly. and i think were going to have mitt romney on the show this morning. and...