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You had such a crush on david beckham. >> what woman doesn't have a crush on david beckham? and a crush on martin. a new report out today shows an imperfect economy is leading americans to buy more cars and trucks. last year americans purchased nearly 13 million cars and trucks. that's a 10% spike from 2010. industry analysts say easier credit and a desire to place aging vehicles is behind the surge. the momentum is expected to carry on into this year. phil covers the auto industry for cnbc and joins me live from chicago. is there one automaker that is standing above the rest at this time? >...

Aapocylpse. yeah, they may have gotten 65,000 jobs. there may have been some investments. there's nothing like a return that's serious in that kind of an argue. we threw a lot of money at this problem. the return remains to be seen. and the third point, which is important, is that we actually saw the experiment. the experiment was do we plow the money in or not? we didn't in ford. if you look at the best performing american car company, you look at the the one that has the brightest future, it's in ford, not the others. >> ford did get a $6 billion loan from the energy deeppartme to do some of...

The obama folks for the first year used to love to blame all their problems on president bush. even into this year they did. i think we're hearing less of that for the obvious reasons that president obama has been in office for a year and a half, and that only goes so far. at some point people perceive you're the guy in charge. you've been in charge for a year and a half. and you have to take owner ship of all these, all these central issues starting with the economy but also afghanistan and iraq as well. >> jonathan, quick comment from you as to how that will play into the midterm election. >...

Message will resonate. patti ann: pete, did you want to respond to any of those -- >> yeah, adam i don't think anyone in their right mind could say the economy is in a good place at all. if you look at where unemployment is, if you look at the trillions of dollars that have been spent by president obama on government take overs of various industries, not only wall street, but also healthcare, and this cap and trade bill that he's trying to push, which is going to cost the company trillions, and also then millions of jobs, it's a complete unmitigated disaster. and he needs to take ownership, an...