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Their families. we had need smart policy. i want to know who is it -- who is in our country, i want to make sure they have the appropriate background checks and make sure theyre appropriately giving back to the economy. newt of all the republican candidates is demonstrating that nuance. its not a surprise thats why hes going to florida, to be part of the republican hispanic coalition to speak before hispanic legislators. its that nuance that anyone will need to win. >> the presidents reelection ...

The south carolina primary could help mitt romney seal the deal in his bid to become the republican nominee and obama campaign is on the offense in a scathing new memo. president obamas reelection team has joineded chorus of attacks against romney for his time at bain capital saying, romney and his partners made hundreds of millions of dollars while taking companies to bankruptcy. joining me now is democratic congressman james clyburn of south carolina. good morning. glad to see you. >> thank yo...

Letting our infrastructure further deteriorate. >> reporter: now, the white house has been pretty adamant that the president is not going to officially start campaigning until there is a republican nominee. but at the same time, we have seen him start to draw sharp contrast between himself and republicans really at every chance he gets. and just this morning, a big announcement from the reelection team. they say they raised $68 million during the fourth quarter of last year compare that to mitt ...

One of them. mitt romney will focus on the other. washington." washington versus him. john hammond, let me ask you about this different blame game. populous from the beginning of our countrys history, politicians have blamed new york bankers, big east money. almost like apple pie going back to huk l berry finn. blame the big city. new york and the wealth. will it work this time for president obama running for reelection? >> i dont think president obama is has ever been a comfortable economic pop...

>> nbcs kristen welker joins me from the white house. kristen, money and lots of it is coming in. how does team obama versus the romney account stack up? >> reporter: well, thomas, good morning to you. as you mentioned, president obama, the dnc raised $68 million during the fourth quarter of last year. mitt romney raised $24 million. but its really tough to compare a sitting president to a republican candidate. if mitt romney does win the republican nomination, you will start to see those figure...

The presidents reelection team on the ground plans to treating the caucus as if it were uncontested. the magazine senior writer andrew romano wrote an article about the presidents reelection machine headquartered in chicago. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> in iowa alone, the president paid staff members eight offices and a dozen staffers and humans of volunteers. thats just part of the list of thing thaus named that is happening alone in iowa. >> we have all paid attention and...

Very secretive about talking about what it is they do that makes their ground game so strong. they like to talk about the intensity of support for the candidate and among the supporters. but in terms of tactics, and there arent a whole lot of new wrinkles but in terms of tactics or caucus captains they have, the ron paul campaign unlike other campaigns these days isnt talking about that stuff. they are playing their cards close. they are up at the top and dont want to tip off anybody as to what ...

Object vacation, his reelection team, they are keeping an eye squarely on iowa. this is new video of the presidents campaign office as his team crack crafts its own campaign strategy. doug is live with the president. >> reporter: what a contrast he is about to leave sunny hawaii and head back to washington, getting back to the political grind. now, the white house says the president is going to be spending a fair amount of time on the road in 2012. that will start away. next week he is making wh...

Together, it starts becoming a bigger concern and apparently driving all of this is the jobs picture. >> college age unemployment, that is 50 to 60 percent higher than it was in 2008. you know, youre looking at one in every six young people is unemployed. and a large number of the rest are underemployed, cant get their careers going. >> reporter: so all of those college campus events we saw in 2008, those folks that have moved on, those folks trying to work through the jobs picture right now, th...

Benefits? does that sort of discourage people from actually looking for work? and after that exchange yesterday, i had some people on twitter attacking me and suggesting i was suggesting people should not be getting unemployment benefits. i was not doing that at all. by was citing a study the presidents advisor put out a few months ago. one of the challenges he will face is people holding up the study his own economicked a advisor wrote just a few months ago. megyn: if you pay attention to the n...