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>> laura: in the impact segment tonight, rising gas prices sinking president obama's poll numbers? as we said in the talking points memo, 65% of americans now disapprove of the way the president is handling the gas issue. joining us now from austin, texas, fox news contributor mary katharine ham and here with me in washington christian dorsey from the economic policy institute, a left-leaning think tank. >> great to see you. >> laura: good to see both of you. gas prices this was a shocker this "the washington post"-abc news poll came out today. the president stabilized approval ratings but thi...

>> laura: in the impact segment tonight, rising gas prices sinking president obama's poll numbers? as we said in the talking points memo, 65% of americans now disapprove of the way the president is handling the gas issue. joining us now from austin, texas, fox news contributor mary katharine ham and here with me in washington christian dorsey from the economic policy institute, a left-leaning think tank. >> great to see you. >> laura: good to see both of you. gas prices this was a shocker this "the washington post"-abc news poll came out today. the president stabilized approval ratings but thi...

States goes on the world gasoline market. it doesn't become ours. >> and it creates jobs in our country. >> canada can either sell its gas to the chinese, which they are going to do now or -- they are doing it. >> there's been more domestic energy production in the last two years than at any time in the last ten years. >> on private land. on federal land it's gone down. >> -- they are producing more energy. >> all i know is your crowd sold us into the war in iraq and the promise was cheap gas. now you can keep laughing about it all you want. that was the big argument. jobs, jobs, jobs. every t...

It doesn't become ours. >> and it creates jobs in our country. >> canada can either sell its gas to the chinese, which they are going to do now or -- they are doing it. >> there's been more domestic energy production in the last two years than at any time in the last ten years. >> on private land. on federal land it's gone down. >> -- they are producing more energy. >> all i know is your crowd sold us into the war in iraq and the promise was cheap gas. now you can keep laughing about it all you want. that was the big argument. jobs, jobs, jobs. every time there's a war in the middle east your ...

Another burst of momentum to have newt gingrich come back into maybe not a lead but some sort of surge to make him look like a factor again but here in ohio he is not getting much buzz now. >> you have been covering newt gingrich. is this newt jousting at the windmills or does this become a real campaign issue? >> well, that's the question. i mean, certainly the gas issue is a resonant one. all the polls say that it is so. we all fill our gas tanks and we are -- we all feel the pinch when the gas price goes up over $4 and approaches $5 a gallon. it is a pocketbook issue and i know that -- spea...