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About an hour and 20 minutes from now. so, let's talk about it with karl rove the former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to george w. bush, also a fox news contributor. karl, the president started off by remin reminding us that the economic situation when he took office was the worst since the great depression. we have heard that before. does repetition help sink it in? >> it may help, it doesn't make it exactly right. we had much higher unemployment, we had much higher inflation and very high interest rates in 1981 when ronald reagan ep cam came into office. what americans are asking...

Before coming president he says if you want to know exactly what will happen when we pass the stimulus report you need to read this report. what it says is that unemployment today would be 5.7% and roughly 13 million more americans work than are actually working. that's what he promised the stimulus would do, and his problems are that it didn't live up to the hype. jon: he said one of the problems we're facing now is that state and local governments have to layoff a lot of workers or don't have the ability to hire more. isn't some of that the after effect of the stimulus, a lot of money got du...

waste of an all-star game. >> you've gotten seconds. >> it's flag football. that would be more entertaining. >> we'll see what else is coming up. state stay tight. >> we'll wait for that. all right. "starting point" this morning we're talk tath florida primary which, of course, is tomorrow. it could be a tiebreaker in the gop race for the nomination. you know there's been three contests with three different winners. santorum won iowa eventually, then it was mitt romney won new hampshire, then newt gingrich who won the state of south carolina. now florida, could end all there, couldn'...

The union. near the top of the remarks she said something about the stimulus that grabbed the attention of our fact checkers. >> after the $700 bm bailout, the trillion dollar stimulus and massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored washington to please stop spending money that we don't have. >> now, did you hear that? she said trillion dollar stimulus. that's false. according to the congressional budget office the price tag is $814 had billion, not a trillion. people do rounds up in washington but not by a couple of hundred billion dollars, guys. if you're wondering abo...

Bad and when asked about obama's handling of the economy, 44% approved. 48% disapproved. >> and, you know, that just tells us right there that the economy is essentially -- e the cement is poured around the economy that's number one issue and what is really a big problem another white house and for democrats, that are running for re-election, is that there is a giant disconnect between their rhetoric and the reality that people are feeling and there is all the empirical and anecdotal evidence, that suggest people are anxious about the state of the economy and angry at the way washington respon...