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Holman and erin mcpike. good afternoon to both of you. i want to start with this consumer confidence number. two-thirds of this economy, essentially folks going out buying stuff. it's up, up pretty significant here. first time, 4 1/2 years, gas prices. no one's talking as much about them. james, what might these numbers mean for the obama campaign and the romney campaign? >> well, craig, the economy is going to determine the outcome of this election, unquestionably. but there's some bad economic numbers too. jobs have not been coming back at the pace the administration would hope for, obviousl...

To the airport, and to our destination. and i got all the bags there, except for one. >> hers. >> no. all the kids' stuff that she had spent a week packing. >> so they scramble and try and get, you know, the bag, and they are buying stuff and sweating bullets trying to fix their vacation. >> what does dan say to campbell? >> you know what he does? he says, this is a teachable moment. you know what we should learn? we should spread the stuff out so the kids' stuff isn't all in one bag. >> which is not illogical. >> dan, dan -- >> because if you lose the one bag -- >> dan -- >> you don't know ho...

Day, don't forget to buy stuff, america might be the driving force behind the world's economy speaking of buying stuff but our next guest says the world might not need us, america anymore. >> and tim tebow scoring yet again, this time with an invitation to a military ball. >> tim tebow, will you be my date to the 2012 military ball, my first ever military ball here in shreveport, louisiana in april? i would be the luckiest and happiest girl if you were to say yes. >> so cute. so did tebow answer that young woman? she'll join us live. just 20 minutes away. >> we'll see if she does. >> i bet you...

Police departments don't want to be in the action business and they may not be that good at it. when they have a dirt bike, motorcycle, or lawnmower now two departments across the country are giving those items to this place, property room.com. they catalogue everything, photograph it, test it, make sure it works and put it up for action starting at a dollar, and people are buying it, jenna. jenna: what happens if john is like wait a minute, that is my lawnmower. jon: i've been burglarized a couple of times. >> is that his light bar? jenna: i don't know. if you see something that is actually y...

Jobs with the stock market the last few weeks, we probably don't need a whole lot more government. you want the government to pick up the slack, but the private sector is coming back right now and the government can slowly get out of the way now. out after recession and i can i think it's worth noting that we had a lot of stuff in the bad parts, it wasn't all brilliant stuff, but at this point. we don't need a whole other round of anything necessarily. >> business cycle, toby? >> cycle. gosh, call me an old-fashioned person here, but what happens with the the business cycle is demand becomes l...