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Romney as a flip-flopper. they re doing a lot of the behind the scenes work right now, trying to get ready to be in high gear when there is a nominee. president obama probably won t enter the fray completely until we have an actual republican nominee, but what you will see is what we ve seen lately which is the president hitting the road quite a bit, hammering his message which is essentially that he has a very different vision for repairing and restoring the economy than he believes republicans have. kristen, talk about the behind-the-scenes energy here. obviously, there is some sort of halo effect for the pay cut extension and the victory there. there is also criticism comes from the base. matt damon, the actor, hitting back saying this is not enough. what are you seeing? reporter: it s interesting. i definitely think the payroll tax cut fight is giving the obama administration a little bit of a bounce because it s saying, look, the president can ....
and at 3:00, we ll talk to general russell honore. plus fredricka s interview with tiger woods. i m alina cho. see you in one hour. your money starts right now. i m ali velshi. no economic issue is more important to americans than jobs. here is the latest. we had a jobs report come out for the month of august, no new jobs were created in america in august. the unemployment rate, which was 9.1% before we got into this remains at 9.1%. stubbornly high. the number of unemployed people in america officially is 14 million people. the situation is getting dire. but i want to give you a bigger perspective. it s hard to live in the moment and make decisions. let s go back to the beginning of 2009. that s when president obama first took office. we were losing in excess of 700,000 jobs in the month that he first took office. through 2009, things looked to get substantially better. according to experts, the recession ended in 2009. 2010, boy, we were building in the beginning ....