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Has president obama's approval rating at or about 50%, despite controversies that some have said are the toughest of his presidency. joining me is ed rendell and chip saltzman. governor, do these approval numbers make sense to you? >> sure. it's basically democrats rallying around the president and again it's a symptom of the republicans overplaying their hand, trying to turn it into a partisan issue, trying to place blame directly on the president when there's no evidence to support that. it's a little bit of both. it's the same percentage that voted for him in november. >> okay. chip, you lo...

Going to come out, andrea. but we will know in a couple of hours, members are voting now of the national council, 1400-member strong. this is not the same proposal that the scouts first floated in january. back then they signaled that after decades of fighting to preserve their ban on gay scouts and scout leaders, they were willing to accept a change in which local scout units could decide the issue for themselves. well that didn't go over very well. because people who wanted to keep the ban thought it was a bad idea. and people who wanted to get rid of the ban thought it was a bad, too, to al...

Hospitals? >> i think you nailed it. i think we are just to the point where this thing is starting to settle into a rhythm and people that were affected are able to do more accurate reporting and we're able to consolidate those numbers better. >> well michael thompson, thanks so much for taking the time. i know you're out there working on this horrible recovery. and we thank you for everything you're doing. thanks for checking in. >> thank you, mrs. mitchell and thank you for the attention you gave us in oklahoma. >> you bet, we'll stay on it. today is likely also decision day for the boy scou...

2007 and 2008 and when i was elected in 2008, i said we need to close guantanamo. i continue to believe that we've got to close guantanamo. >> in his speech, coming up shortly, the president is expected to revive his stalled effort to close guantanamo by working to lift the congressional ban on transferring detainees to places like yemen. and reappointing a high-level state department official in charge of reducing the prison population. joining me is the "miami herald"'s carol rosenberg and former assistant secretary of state, rowley. >> carol you've been relentless on keeping on top of the g...

Drones them like the use of drones. i think it keep americans out of harm's way. >> it was 64% positive to only 12% negative back in february. >> this is a speech for a longer term. it goes to some of the fundamental thing he ran about in 2008. it goes to a promise he made in this year's state of the union address to do more to explain and defend and joif and limit and restrict and also to deal with guantanamo bay. americans aren't, it is not a big political issue in this country. it is huge around the world. >> it is a big issue for our diplomats. thanks so much for being with us today. and t...