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Jimmy carter on iran and the backlash was immediate. >> that was carter's great strength. carter was in charge of that situation. the american people had the yellow ribbons around the trees. everybody's rooting until it became a point that he didn't have a plan. and it was a horror. >> mark haleprin? >> see if nicolle agrees with me on this. but i saw in the president's performance yesterday something very reminiscent of our other post 9/11 president. dealing with these wars overseas, going after al qaeda. i thought president obama's attitude much like president bush's about howard dean, john ...

Settles out and we'll get a chance to go one-on-one, and we feel comfortable we're going to win this thing. >> welcome back to "morning joe," top of the hour. mark haleprin is with us. and joining the table we have financier "morning joe" economic analyst steve rattner. along with president and ceo of the national urban league, marc morial, good to have you both. >> great to see you guys. how y'all doing? >> it's a beautiful monday. >> it is a beautiful, beautiful monday. >> beautiful monday for the democrats. >> it is! and that is quite a segue. a beautiful morning for the democrats. hey, and...

>> president gave a pretty strong speech to apac yesterday talking about israel and iran. is the white house, the administration failing to do anything you'd like them to do right now on the issue of israel's security and making it clear where the united states stands versus iran? >> well, mark, i was at the speech yesterday and i appreciated the president's statement that he doesn't support a containment policy and doesn't support a nuclear iran. but what i think is going on right now, not only some of us here in this country are questioning where the resolve is. i've spoken with many allies ...

We're going to look ahead to a few super tuesday races. anyone want to talk about the polls? >> let's go ahead and do the -- do we have the head-to-head match-ups from the president in ohio and virginia? guys? let's go ahead and do those really quickly. >> in virginia, only mitt romney and ron paul are on the ballot. romney is leading 69% to 26%. a much closer race in ohio where we have a statistical tie between santorum and romney. romney has 34%, romney has 32%, followed by newt gingrich at 15%, and ron paul at 13%. >> okay. so those were the polls. and we'll see what happens in ohio. but, y...

These elections don't happen in isolation what people are thinking about. >> yeah, it's a great point. and mark haleprin, while the economy seemed to be improving, maybe that is causing some -- there are many that believe the economy's going to get worse. i personally don't. i think the numbers are stacking up in such a way that we're going to have the gathering momentum and maybe, maybe unemployment won't be in the sevens, but i don't think it's going to be in the nines. people talking about a double dip, personally i think they're wrong. i think the momentum is moving towards a slow, slow, s...