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♪ or their new product tanked? ♪ or not? what if they embrace new technology instead? ♪ imagine a company's future with the future of trading. company profile. a research tool on thinkorswim. from td ameritrade. welcome back to "the lead." in the politics lead now, the white house not exactly ending the year on a high note. a new poll from the "washington post"/abc news puts the president at the worst public approval rating of his presidency, 43%. oh, what a difference a year makes. last december in the weeks before his second inaugural, the same poll had him at 54%. it's an 11 point s...

A pew research center survey finds just 41% of those polled approve of the president's job performance. that is a 14% point slide since december. now, the poll also shows people aren't convinced the economic recovery is that rosy. 65% say they disapprove of the way the president is handling that. >> so let's unpack some of the poll numbers and look into them. and the botched obama carrollout with the political experts. we have maria cardona, democratic analyst, and rahim salem, also a contributor to the "national review." good to have you both here this morning. we learned last week -- we lear...

React predictably, be another bloodbath. here is what president obama had to say earlier. >> the markets will rise apes fall. this is the united states of america. no matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a triple-a country. >> eric: no mr. obama, mr. obama, that 600-point downdraft was on the heels of a 500-point drubbing last thursday and whopping 2,000 point slide in just a few days. the market is screaming for help. obamanomics is failing. the president is clean out of ideas. dana, president obama keeps pointing the finger saying he inherited a bad economy, ...

filming this right now. seriously, the ceiling, look. oh, my god. oh, my god. >> these guys made it out alive but four people were killed. we will show you just how bad the damage was. shelling heard from a roof top. street fighting breaks out in the airport in yemen's capital. flights canceled and there is new concerns of a coming civil war. google says hundreds of personal g mail accounts have been hacked. they blame a giant fishing operation based in china. the sputtering u.s. economy and the creeping fear that things are only going to get worse, that grim outlook sent wall ...

To ask yourself, the market has been discounting a lot of improvement that hasn't evidenced itself. >> make your decision on the fundamentals rather than emotion. >> the dow jones industrial average down almost 500 points. if you think that sounds bad you should have tuned in 40 minutes ago when sweat was dripping down the faces of a lot of folks as they watched a nearly 1,000 point slide in a matter of minutes. let's go to wendell goler at the white house. reaction there? >> well, greg, the white house is very reluctant to react to the daily movements of the stark, let alone the minute-by-min...