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Jenna: our next guest is warning the impact of super storm sandy could slow growth in this already weak economy to as little as 1% in the fourth quarter. it could also unleash a big, big spurt in spending as stricken areas start to rebuild. how do these thins come together. early estimates of property damage along the eastern seaboard are running as high as $20 billion and it could end up a lot higher than that. business losses could reach another 30 billion. you have a total loss of $50 billion in estimates wiped away from the economy. nearly 70% of the oil refineries along the east coast wer...

Nature of american capitalism, watch out for gingrich. a state college professor is a heck of an opponent for a constitutional lawyer. i'd gladly take the president on and put gingrich in my stead. >> jonathan, your thoughts? >> where to begin. look, i think the republican opponents whether it's going to be newt gingrich or whether it's going to be a mitt romney, the president is going to have a tough re-election campaign to begin with. the economy is still bad. he shouldn't be in as good a position as he is and the only reason why that is, is because well newt gingrich and mitt romney. they'r...

We woke up this morning in our hotel to a cascade of negative super pack funded ads. i'll just reverse the order starting with you, peter. how much of an asset to the obama campaign is the republican opposition and what could the republican opposition do to call the president out on the breach between the magical words of his speech and his speeches and the failure to address the bank restructuring trade agreements and the tax code? >> well, i think they need to get away from attacking each other and giving the president more ammunition coming down on romney for example and more saying, well l...

Street perspective and the wonderful confluence of events is that all of this neatly happens to happen last night in washington with the state of the union address and allows the president to basically give a campaign speech in the august house chamber. >> that is living if you're a politician i'm sure. peter, at the end of the day we all can endorse the president's rhetoric. i think we all fundamentally agree to not having two sets of rules, to having a culture of investment, to having a culture of equal opportunity. i have been very critical of the president for his failure to resolve bankin...

Up. on banking we still have the problem of banks too big to fail. i'll see if he keeps his promises if citi bank needs a bailout because it really is still too big to fail. we need to chop them down to size and that hasn't been done. on trade what he announced last night, a special task force, he really already has that. that's what the u.s. trade representative does. he simply has not gotten tough with china on currency. he's acknowledged it needs to be done and he hasn't got it done. the stuff on energy is blue sky. we'll be using petroleum for a very long time as we develop solar and wind....