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The caucus, you meet them socially, bump into them at lunch. do they understand the prospects as steve laid them out? >> i think the vast majority of them understand it doesn't help the economy or the country. we are struggling with recovery right now. as so many people are not working, my district was devastated by sandy. there's a lot of small businesses who haven't opened. there are a lot of people struggling to make ends meet. the last thing we need to do is revert back out of a struggling recovery to a down slope towards another recession or a depression. so i wholeheartedly agree that's ...

Americans don't have an opinion on this but president obama's approval rating has been on a down slope since his inaugural address. i think this is american's distrust and dislike of washington, d.c. and the difficulty obama had in the beginning of his second term. remember the irs scandal and benghazi and now to the nsa whistle blowers debate and then now we've got an immigration bill that's stuck in the senate, stuck in the house and americans remember washington isn't working. it's working worse than ever. >> we have to switch to another subject before we have to let you go here and that's ...

Whereas 52% think that the worst is yet to come. your thoughts, mary katherine? >> well, this is an interesting point. she's right, but yes, the collapse, the big collapse had not at that point. you could argue we're stronger than we were right after that point. if you look at these numbers, the 52-40 for the worst is yet to come, this is worse than 2011 although it is slightly better than 2009. so people are on the down slope here, not -- they're not feeling the recovery obama is telling us we're having. alisyn: julie, are we just now a nation of pessimists? >> are you surprised? we're lurchi...

That. by the time we get up there on friday, bobby v will feel 100 years old just like the ballpark. i love pedroia. there are other players. but seriously, don't say i guess he doesn't know how things work around here. we don't want them to work around there like they did last year. >> mike, do you think youkilis is slacking? >> no, no. i think he's -- i think he's really on the down slope. >> we're going to bring good luck on friday. >> i hope so. >> it's going to be fun. >> it is painful. you know, i said a couple of days ago, you go back to september. and earlier this week, the sox were li...

I've been saying it at every speech the quit distorting my words. if i see it, it's (bleep) >> that's republican presidential candidate rick santorum losing it on new york times reporter jeff zelaney claiming the reporter was twisting his words about romney. >> what he's trying to do is make a case to republican voters here and a common tactic for republican presidential candidates or democratic presidential candidates to try to use the media as a foil. he clearly knew the cameras were rolling here. >> jon: does santorum have a case? >> well, look, santorum has problems here, the use of the ex...