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>> nice job, dave. >> donald, are you going to be doing that any time soon? >> i'm not so sure. doesn't look too good to me. >> i was talking about going shirtless. >> ok. >> shirtless, i love, right? shirtless i love. >> all right. >> can we move on now? >> mr. trump, donald, good to speak to you. good to see your picture in the lower right-hand corner of the screen there. gasoline prices, gasoline $3.80 national average today. on its way up $2 higher than when president obama took over. yet, today, president obama says it's his fault that there's increased oil production. which one is it? ga...

Can -- it sounds like the gas prices, the fact that that the current average is $3.80 a gallon is impacting the president's approval rating. i love the washington post abc polls, do you approve the way the president is handling the gas prices situation? disapproval up four points. this could be a serious issue coming into the election. >> yes, that is not going to happen fast, the reduction of depending on foreign oil. if iran boils over like it seems likely to do, you know, we could be seeing gas prices up another 50%, 75%. you know, it's a pretty high risk situation for obama right now. >> a...

$3.80. >> but does this president also look at both sides of the fence? in other words, when the economy is not doing so well, does he also take credit for that? or does he go back to something we just heard robert gibbs allude to as well. listen to this. >> the economic plans were warmed over, cut and paste from the past and there's a big gap between what i'm hearing from the american people as i travel around the country and what the president was delivering in this speech. >> to hear people struggling, working harder and harder just to get by. their wages and incomes have flat lined while b...

Recent price spike. and on the overall economy, 59% give the president the thumbs-down. cnbc's mandy drury here with what's moving your money. $3.80 is the national average. today the president is firing back. tell us about the new report. >> yeah, as you said, chris, gas prices are now a big factor in the presidential election. so the white house is trying to arm itself against election year attacks on the energy policies, which as you can imagine, republicans are using to blame for high gas prices. all eyes are on the president's blueprint for a secure energy future, which says essentially a...

Rate through the end of the year. that's the real issue. and i think the burden will be on the republican candidate not to give the president a pass on the economy like this for three years. >> kim, what are the politics of an economy in this kind of shape, running in the election? >> i think the risk here is that republicans simply decide that thr he' going to try it make this a referendum on the president, on the basis of the coaters like this, keeping a close eye on the unemployment rate, and long gas prices and the problem with na, the news begins to improve a little bit. he turns around a...