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Polls suggest his job approval rating has never been lower, and disapproval, higher, at any other state of the union time, so this address is critical. republicans say the president has not delivered on a number of state of the union promises he's made in the past, including and most significantly, one to cut the budget decifit in half by the end of his first term. house speaker john boehner says he expects a political speech tonight, and as for the buffet rule, he calls that the politics of envy. jenna. jenna: we'll be watching this story, wendell, thank you very much. jon, we found out one m...

Enterprise that helped bring about the financial collapse. jon: of course these guys are fighting to be president of the united states, the man they want to replace is speaking tonight, so if you would be good enough to stick around, joe and karl, i want to ask you about the state of the union address in a moment. jenna is going to give us a preview. jenna: there's no doubt that happening now, the president is making final preparations for that big speech tonight. the white house says we can't expect to hearo we can expect to hear a lot about fair play and economic security. wendell goler is l...

Campaign mode. is that true joe? >> well, i think no state of the union address is full campaign mode. it is about the state of the country and laying out the ground work for the next year. but there's no doubt that that's political. we're in an election year here. and i do think the case of fairness for the middle class and fair tax code and cutting the loopholes, getting more tax fairness and job fairness for americans is important and jackta poses, it's not a coincidence against romney and his release today, too, the 13.9%. so there are political consequences to the speech, and how it's pro...

Testify that he was brought in to say here's the bright line between what you do as a citizen and lobbyist and we consistently for 12 years, running four small businesses, stayed away from lobbying precisely because i thought this kind of dem a.m.tory and false charges would be made. jon: let's get a debate. with us former howard dean campaign manager and fox news contributor joe it. rippe, former adviser and deputy chief of staff to george w. bush is karl rove, also a fox news contributor. so did we settle or did newt settle that lobbyist argument, karl? >> no. in fact, i thought this was the...

Response, which was to fly and float -- try and float after ito above it and say they were hiring me for my consulting advice. we'll see how it plays out but i thought it was an effective prosecution by romney and gingrich took the best course, which was try to float above it and try and act presidential. jon: joe, do you agree with the assessment it seemed to be a reversal, you had a fiery romney and calm beginning snrich. >> definitely. i think romney had one of his better debate performance. i don't know if that's because he has a new debate coach or because he's been sort of forced into th...