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-- a lot of scheduling conflicts. patti ann: all of the sudden people have a lot of other issues. thank you, doug schoen. >> thank you. bill: a nice location, plaza hotel. speaking of bailing, look what investors are doing on the market, the dow is tanking now, down about 200 points, coming back a bit above that now, we're only into trading for seven minutes, all 30 dow companies are not even open just yet. we're watching the markets overseas, too, a selloff there. yesterday we closed down 54 points but when the fed came out and said the economy is slowing, yeah, there's a recovery but it's sl...

Summer, but it was quite a winter? >> i do. my snow gear is still drying from the days in the snow. here is one of those better late than never moments, i guess. the new orleans saints finally getting their audience with president obama. they were at the white house this morning where the president congratulated them at a ceremony in the east proom. one of the perks that goes with winning a championship. it's taken a bit longer to make the trip because of scheduling conflicts. now, i don't know if this my idea of a perfect birthday but what's the president do do when the wife and girls are...

They were asked not to campaign. on your point about money, obama will raise by the time this election season is over more money for democrats than any candidate or any president in history, democrat or republican. he will also campaign in a lot of places. so to pick out roy barnes, i know roy barnes, if i were to tell roy as a political consultant what would i do, i'd say don't have him come in because the republicans will use that as a photo op. that's not news, it's politics. martha: we've seen that play in a couple of elections already where president obama was given the hug, and it didn't...

We'll hear from the chairman of the republican governor's association, a southern republican governor, haley barber, very popular and eyeing the white house bid and he was the former national committee chairman, when newt gingrich and company take the congress in nearly 50 years. since then haley barber has been a successful lobbyist and organizers and in the recent years, fairly well-respected and renowned governor in mississippi where he had to deal with the likes of the katrina disaster and other things and left himself with a reputation, politically and policy-wise a savvy and successful r...

It. uma: andrea, they are walking a fine line, on one hand they say they don't want to say no to the president, if he wants to come to their town but are also suggesting that his schedule is very busy, so they don't want to interfere with his plans, how do you read this? >> well, expect a lot of excuses going forward and you'll hear of scheduling conflicts and its a free country, the president can come visit but the members will not be able to make the meeting happened and we saw as bob said historically with president bush and the big difference here is, though, barack obama was supposed to b...