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Elected president obama told america that if congress approved his plan to borrow nearly $1 trillion, he would hold unemployment below 8%. it hasn't been below 8% since. this week he's been trying to take a bow for 8.3% unemployment, not so fast, mr. president. this is the 36th straight month with unemployment above the red line your own administration drew, and if you take into account all of the people who are struggling for work or just stopped looking, the real unemployment rate is over 15%. mr. president, america has also had enough of your kind of help. >> top of the hour, welcome back t...

Jobs a month to adding 250,000 a month is not a turn around. now, has it turned around enough? no. but you've actually seen the unemployment numbers begin to dip again in many communities that needed it. this has been the biggest dip in unemployment, and i think we're headed in the right direction. the question is whether it will continue. and romney's argument because i think he will be the nominee is going to have to be that he could do an even better -- >> we could've done better. >> he's going to have to lay out how he would've done that. >> mark haleprin, one of two things can happen here...

I'm happy for the guy. >> two super bowls, wins at the age of 65. the better part of a decade defending his job and hearing he's got to be thrown out. this was as recently as a month ago. they were calling for his job a month ago and now he'll be in the hall of fame and be recognized as one of the great coaches of all times of the giants. >> the hug at the end too. he and belichick -- >> yeah. >> belichick's not warm to a lot of people. but you can tell there's great respect between those two guys. >> no, that's not how he handles rex ryan, for example. a lot of respect. it was a great game. >...

Solutions. i'm trying to draw people into politics, not carpet bomb them out of it. we just have a fundamental disagreement about the responsibility somebody running for president should have to the american people. >> and so -- let's talk about mitt romney, mark haleprin, who everybody keeps beating up and he deserves to be beaten up for a lot of stupid things he says. but as far as just performance goes, these people keep winning. they just keep winning. nevada, yes, a lot of mormons in nevada, we've heard that, but he's been organizing that state for four years. a huge win in florida that n...

Started. >> mark haleprin, the question is out of florida. and we've been talking a lot about the negative ads. but newt also hurt himself with two debates. he had two flat debate performances in a row. i think all of us that have followed these guys can understand how you can have one flat debate performance because it is such a brutal process, but expecting to come back that second time, and he was just as flat, just as bad. what are you hearing? what happened? >> he's clearly tired, and part of what february's going to be about for him is getting better rested. politicians make mistakes whe...