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There defending obama's health care legislation, but what i thought was really interesting, and this is the case -- i thought one of the things that somebody at the white house pointed out to me was with hillary clinton in 2008 and with john mccain, they both had this issue of having to untangle themselves from something that their base really, really hated. with hillary clinton it was the case of the war in iraq. with john mccain it was immigration. and mccain managed to get beyond that and win the primary, but this was a big issue for his base. and this is the problem for mitt romney right n...

This is -- the whole tea party was basically founded off of, you know, their opposition to the individual mandate, and that's going to be a huge problem for him. >> matt bai, let me ask you about president obama. slight bump because of the bin laden operation, still vulnerability because of the economy. we've got a sneak peek at politico, george washington university's battleground poll. the full poll will be available tomorrow. here's what we see this morning on re-election of the president. 30% definitely for. 29% consider. 38% definitely will not vote for. he's being dragged down some here,...

Hiring spree. we're talking about none other than mcdonald's. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange with more details and a check of the opening bell on wall street. but let's start with mcdonald's, because this is good news for all of those young people who are out of a job right now. >> oh, you said it, carol. mcdonald's says it's hiring 50,000 workers. here's the kicker, it's filling those jobs in one day. mark your calendar, it will happen on april 19th. they're looking for all types of positions. and this is really a good sign that we're seeing the job market improve. but it's al...

Those are two big problems for him. those are a couple big problems with the republican primary electorate. it's a weak field. he has people behind him who are very smart. one of his key strategists is john weaver, who ran john mccain's campaign back in 2000. he'll run him as a maverick kind of a candidate pep has a lot of money, a strong family fortune to draw off of, his own fortune. he could be a serious player coming in, trying to sneak in from the left if the rest of the field is fractured. >> halperin, is the obama relationship a major problem for him or will voters forget about that? >>...

To the military spokesman for the opposition. he said gadhafi's forces entered using around or having around 90 tanks. he says that the opposition managed to capture seven of those. they also managed to capture seven of gadhafi's soldiers, among them some senior officers. the military spokesman also telling us that on a building on the main road that gadhafi's forces entered off of, that they were using to fire artillery from, they found 13 men who were wearing military uniforms, their hands were bound behind their backs and they were shot execution style. the military believes they have no wa...