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Get incumbents out of here and have to try something new. megyn: chris, you would think politically if you look at the chart with 275,000 jobs created in january and steady downward slide every month since, that the numbers would be far worse for barack obama and yet he is doing well. i mean he is beating mitt romney in a lot of polls on the national basis and swing state polls up until recently at least, he was ahead in most of those. there has been little change in that in the past week but but is this polarized country where we're split down the middle 50/50, and no matter what we see we're...

About health care in the election going forward, i mean is this going to be much of a factor? >> their campaign and all the correspondence we have seen, they want it to be about obama not necessarily health care. romney when he talks aboutcare, strengthens his conservative credentials, gone are the days of the massachusetts governor who actually enacted health care reform in the state of massachusetts, he was for a mandate. he was for tea party mitt romney and that's what i saw today in a lot of respects, him speaking in the way he did, in the manner he did, using the rhetoric he did, really d...

uncertainty. what are your sources telling you, how hard is it to break through? we had rumors before, what is fact and rumor? >> reporter: clear tough, especially because the debate over hosni mubarak's health has constantly been coming up in the course of thepast year and a half since he was ousted from power, similar protests in tahrir square, warnings that his health was deteriorating, and this as he was being brought on charges of corruption, as an accomplice to the deaths of hundreds of protesters in january and february of 2011. he was found guilty on most charges and acquitte...

president obama's dramatic change in immigration policy has most latino groups cheering and other groups chafing. they will not only stop deporting young immigrants, they will make those under 30 eligible for work permits. might call it the back door dream act, using executive power to do something congress considered but haven't passed because of conservative opposition. >> this is not amnesty, this is not immunity. this is not a path to citizenship. it's not a permanent fix. this is a temporary measure that let's us focus resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to...

I think there is a realism about how hard this is going to be. >> it's a base election. it's a about mostly driving your motivated voters. keeping that turnout really high. among the 8% of swing voters in seven or eight states, there is a risk before being off brand. there's a risk. they may be right, but they know that not having obama as uplifting positive optimistic, but they are running a risk there with one segment of the electorate that they need to win in the middle. in the middle with swing voters. >> we unfortunately have to go to a commercial break. it is worth noting that the 2008 r...