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Interesting to hear mark melman, the democratic strategist talk as openly as he did about the democratic issues on the economy. >> i know mark. i was wondering, you know, when his phone was ringing, rahm emanuel on line one. "mark, youre not supposed to say that." a big problem. perceptions are bad. to pick up where charles said, economy rallied strongly in the fourth quarter, it was up in the first quarter. 2.7 or something in second quarter. its going to be revised down. >> bret: under two. >>...

Cutting taxes for small businesses and providing more federal loans to small businesses. the president said thats the kind of job creation activity that the american public are clamoring for and there ought to be some bipartisan agreement he said the reason there isnt is republicans continue to obstruct something that the president said ought to have bipartisan support. heres a little bit of what the president said on the south lawn before departing for here and marthas vineyard. >> i recognize ...

>> bret: bill, it was interesting to hear mark melman, the democratic strategist talk as openly as he did about the democratic issues on the economy. >> i know mark. i was wondering, you know, when his phone was ringing, rahm emanuel on line one. "mark, youre not supposed to say that." a big problem. perceptions are bad. to pick up where charles said, economy rallied strongly in the fourth quarter, it was up in the first quarter. 2.7 or something in second quarter. its going to be revised down. ...

Want to give him the keys. thats not going to work. 18 months in you own it and if you had a policy at the beginning, like reagan with the tax cuts, he bought it as well. and they were hurt badly, the republicans in the mid-term election. 82, as a result of a weak economy. because he owned that economy. i think what is really interesting is that there is in politics by mid-summer, people perception of the economy is fixed and it carries to the election day. even the numbers between now and then ...

Mexico is still on hold today as a team of scientists and engineers tries to figure out the best way to kill the leak for good. the governments point man for this oil disaster says the decision could come in the next couple of days. this as louisiana fishermen kick off white shrimping season for the first time since the oil spill began. and there is a lot of uncertainty, frankly. the shrimpers waiting to see what impact some 200 million gallons of oil might have on their industry. >> i say two c...

These floods hit when pakistans notorious monsoon rains started coming down a couple of weeks ago and for a 48-hour period they didnt stop. over the past couple of weeks, parts of pakistan have received as much rain as they received in an entire year. and the results have been catastrophic. entire villages under water, more than 1,300 people killed, 15 million people impacted, many left homeless without food or clean water. anderson? >> if you want to see how you can help the organizations worki...

Million people impacted, many left homeless without food or clean water. anderson? >> if you want to see how you can help the organizations working in pakistan, go to cnn.com/impact. reza will continue to report from pakistan next week. well be right back with more on how kids see race and what you as parents can do to help shape their perceptions. host: could switching to geico really save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance? is having a snowball fight with pitching great randy johnson...

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The karzai government. i think its an accumulation of this understandable pessimism. i think the public is correct that its going to be a tough, tough job. and thats why this mission of discussing afghanistan that general petraeus is going to start this weekend is so important. >> jamie, i want to put up two other numbers. this may explain, that may give us the answer it definitely was wikileaks. because look at this. perceptions. americans perceptions of afghanistan versus pakistan. now neither...

Pakistan before december 2009. >> well, yeah. the wikileaks seemed to confirm for many people because the document was classified. somehow it appears to people to have more authenticity than something thats not classified. the previous knowledge that some pakistani intelligence officials may have been collaborating with the taliban has been out there for a while but having this secret stamp on the charge gave it increased credibility, and i think people were rightly outraged that some country th...