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congress created this problem, and congress can fix it. sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get back to these invoices... which i'll do right after making your favorite pancakes. you know what? i'm going to tidy up your side of the office. i can't hear you because i'm also making you a smoothie. [ male announcer ] marriott hotels & resorts knows it's better for xerox to automate their global invoice process so they can focus on serving their customers. with xerox, you're ready for real business. at red lobster. there's so many choices. the guests love it. [ male announcer ] it's endless shrimp today at red lobster. as much as you like any way you like, like new sweet and spicy shrimp, all for $15.99. my name is angela trapp, and i sea food differently. >>> we start the second half of our show with stories we care about where we focus on our own reporting. we do the work and find the outfront five. first up housing. t
congress created this problem, and congress can fix it. sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get back to these invoices... which i'll do right after making your favorite pancakes. you know what? i'm going to tidy up your side of the office. i can't hear you because i'm also making you a smoothie. [ male announcer ] marriott hotels & resorts knows it's...
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but a handful of democrats in congress do not. >> some of you probably know that last month i sent congress a piece of legislation called the american jobs act. don't just applaud about it. vote for it. vote for it. and this is the bill that congress needs to pass. you should pass right away. you should pass it right away. pass this jobs bill. now, pass this bill. we need to pass this bill. i don't care if you're a republican or a democrat. this is not the republican jobs act. this is not called the democratic jobs act. this is the american jobs act. and everybody will be better off if we pass it. pass the jobs bill. they should pass it right away. i'm ready to sign a bill. i've got the pens all ready. >> but republicans quashed the bill in the house and blocked the senate version from proceeding. they attack the president for playing politics with jobs and waging class warfare because the bill is financed by taxes on the wealthy. harry reid breaks the bill into pieces still with a millionaire tax. although republicans can once again block it, reid said he'll continue to schedule these vote
but a handful of democrats in congress do not. >> some of you probably know that last month i sent congress a piece of legislation called the american jobs act. don't just applaud about it. vote for it. vote for it. and this is the bill that congress needs to pass. you should pass right away. you should pass it right away. pass this jobs bill. now, pass this bill. we need to pass this bill. i don't care if you're a republican or a democrat. this is not the republican jobs act. this is not...
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i understand why they're angry at congress. they look at the bailouts, they look at partisanship and the bickering that occurs, but we all got sent here by more than 50% of our constituents. this is another reason why i think it's so important that the super committee get this done. because if we get it done, nobody's going to like what gets done. this is, you know, this is stuff that's -- >> and you're looking for $4 trillion in cuts, which is about three times as much as the super committee has to come up with. >> but it's also the number that stabilizes the united states debt. if it's not $4 trillion, we'll be back next year or the year after doing this again. >> and it is the magic number, if you don't get that, the downgrades, they keep coming. >> maybe. >> thanks so much, congressman himes, good to see you, and appreciate it. john avalon, what do you think about the letter, what john boehner had to say, and what about tim ryan had to say? >> the letter is a major step in the right direction. you've got 100 members of the
i understand why they're angry at congress. they look at the bailouts, they look at partisanship and the bickering that occurs, but we all got sent here by more than 50% of our constituents. this is another reason why i think it's so important that the super committee get this done. because if we get it done, nobody's going to like what gets done. this is, you know, this is stuff that's -- >> and you're looking for $4 trillion in cuts, which is about three times as much as the super...
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i want you to send a message to congress that this is important. let them know. >> and this is the bill that congress needs to pass. >> you should pass right away. you should pass it right away. >> pass this jobs bill. >> now. pass this bill. we need to pass this bill. >> and everybody would be better off if we pass it. pass the jobs bill. >> they should pass it right away. i'm ready to sign a bill. i've got the pens all ready. >> there's president obama campaigning for the jobs bill that mitt romney says the president doesn't have. other candidates laid into governor romney for the health care reform he instituted in massachusetts. >> you've blown a hole in the budget up there and you've authored in obama care which is going to blow a hole in the budget of this country. >> well, actually, that's not true. a recent report in the "nungd journal of medicine" shows that employers, government and individuals, pay approximately the same proportion of health coverage costs after reform as they did before the law went into effect. the other hand, factchec
i want you to send a message to congress that this is important. let them know. >> and this is the bill that congress needs to pass. >> you should pass right away. you should pass it right away. >> pass this jobs bill. >> now. pass this bill. we need to pass this bill. >> and everybody would be better off if we pass it. pass the jobs bill. >> they should pass it right away. i'm ready to sign a bill. i've got the pens all ready. >> there's president...
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more like what they asked benjamin franklin at the end of the continental congress, what have you given us? a republic. you can keep it. what we have given the iraqi people is an opportunity to have a democratic government. can they keep it would depend upon the forces inside the government whether they can reconcile the differences between the sunni and the shia. all of this is unknown at this point, but frankly, coming back to the present decision, i would like to have seen 30,000 or 40,000 remain for a limited timeframe beyond the end of this year, but if i had to make a choice as to whether they could stay without the protection of the force's agreement. >> immunity. >> if they had no protection, i would take them out as soon as possible. >> i want to ask you, though, about this issue of paying, because it is a complicated question, and when i was in iraq covering the oil industr,y there was a lot of hesitancy among iraqis. not necessarily hate of america, but a real hesitancy to give oil contracts to american companies. whether it was based on animosity or just not wanting to look
more like what they asked benjamin franklin at the end of the continental congress, what have you given us? a republic. you can keep it. what we have given the iraqi people is an opportunity to have a democratic government. can they keep it would depend upon the forces inside the government whether they can reconcile the differences between the sunni and the shia. all of this is unknown at this point, but frankly, coming back to the present decision, i would like to have seen 30,000 or 40,000...
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i don't know about the other 1%. 84% of americans disapprove of congress. is this enough pressure on our elected leaders to get the job done? nancy is a former adviser to john mccain. jamal simmons is a democratic strategist. jamal, i have an e-mail here from an aide to a democratic member of the super committee saying, they did not leak the deal today. i'm referring of course to the leak that came of details of a democratic plan to cut up to $3 trillion, which was immediately shot down by republicans and threw a big bomb in the middle of this whole goal to get this done. what's going on here with the leaks do you think? >> clearly, one side or the other is positioning against each other. and this notion that what's interesting to me is this notion that you were going to get all these democrats in this committee and none of them would have voted for something like medicare, medicaid cuts, it looks like now those cuts are on the table as well as tax increases. so you've seen some of these democrats people thought were maybe too liberal to go along with somet
i don't know about the other 1%. 84% of americans disapprove of congress. is this enough pressure on our elected leaders to get the job done? nancy is a former adviser to john mccain. jamal simmons is a democratic strategist. jamal, i have an e-mail here from an aide to a democratic member of the super committee saying, they did not leak the deal today. i'm referring of course to the leak that came of details of a democratic plan to cut up to $3 trillion, which was immediately shot down by...
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. >> if congress does something, then i can't run against a do nothing congress. if congress does nothing, then it's not a matter of me running against them, i think the american people will run them out of town. >> democratic political strategist jamal simmons is in our washington bureau along with karen ready. do you think the president is right, he has found way to get the jobs bill with a tax increase, too? >> i think he does have it right. lining up for the republicans, either you are for the middle class or against the middle class. either you're defending millionaires or on the side of the working people. i think that will be something for republicans to have to wrestle with. i'm not sure i want to be on the side of defending wall street and millionaires in this kind of electoral environment. >> it was interesting, a cnn reporter ran into susan collins, a moderate republican in the halls today and said she didn't like this either which was interesting because she was moderate. will the republicans make this fail or is jamal right, to make it fail will be ta
. >> if congress does something, then i can't run against a do nothing congress. if congress does nothing, then it's not a matter of me running against them, i think the american people will run them out of town. >> democratic political strategist jamal simmons is in our washington bureau along with karen ready. do you think the president is right, he has found way to get the jobs bill with a tax increase, too? >> i think he does have it right. lining up for the republicans,...
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congress created this problem, and congress can fix it. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there when you need them. helping millions of americans over the centuries. the strength of a global financial leader. the heart of a one-to-one relationship. together for your future. ♪ >>> time now for the ridiculist. today we're adding anyone who decides to sneeze in this guy's classroom. he runs a pretty tight ship. he does not like disruptions in his classroom. to the point that he took points off students' grades because they said bless you when someone sneezed in class. before someone gets worked up about this, it has nothing to do with religion, it's about discipline. >> it doesn't have anything to do with religion. it's got to do with an interruption of class time. >> you may be wondering how much can a sneeze possibly interrupt class time. we're not talking about a little achoo followed by a simpl
congress created this problem, and congress can fix it. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there when you need them. helping millions of americans over the centuries. the strength of a global financial leader. the heart of a one-to-one relationship. together for your future. ♪ >>> time now for the ridiculist. today we're adding anyone who...
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all congress vote on each component part. you will see everybody forced to vote on the measure to re-employ unemployed teachers. whether people want to put construction workers back to work, rebuild schools and the idea here politically is for the white house to be able to say the president, to go on the road and effectively say house republicans, or congressional republicans have voted against each one of these measures that is so popular with american people and polls show they are popular and try to try tie them like an albatross around the neck of house republicans and make them unpopular and in the future tie them to whoever the 2012 republican candidate is. it is a political gamble but it's the president's move this winter. john? >> it is a political conversation. david, while 25 million americans are unemployed or under employed the speaker did speak to speaker boehner. the speaker said it is time for the president to stop the campaign and start listening. is that a valid point? or anything the president or the republi
all congress vote on each component part. you will see everybody forced to vote on the measure to re-employ unemployed teachers. whether people want to put construction workers back to work, rebuild schools and the idea here politically is for the white house to be able to say the president, to go on the road and effectively say house republicans, or congressional republicans have voted against each one of these measures that is so popular with american people and polls show they are popular...
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. >> i want you to send a message to congress that this is important. let them know. >> and this is the bill that congress needs to pass. >> you should pass it. pass this jobs bill now. pass this bill. we need to pass this bill. pass the jobs bill. we should pass it right away. i have the pens all ready. >> now, other candidates laid into governor romney for the health care reform ep introduced in massachusetts. >> you've blown a hole in the budget up there and offered in obama care which is going to blow a hole in this country. >> that's actually not true. employers, government and individuals pay approximately the same proportion of health care costs after reforms they did before the law went into effect. on the other hand, they found that the governor went too far when he said that the governor's insurance didn't play a part of his plan. some qualified for state covered medicaid. romney said they either got help or paid for it themselves. >> the problem is in the first place, several people up here, the quote business people, supported the t.a.r.p.,
. >> i want you to send a message to congress that this is important. let them know. >> and this is the bill that congress needs to pass. >> you should pass it. pass this jobs bill now. pass this bill. we need to pass this bill. pass the jobs bill. we should pass it right away. i have the pens all ready. >> now, other candidates laid into governor romney for the health care reform ep introduced in massachusetts. >> you've blown a hole in the budget up there and...
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poll shows 89% of americans say they distrust government to do the right thing and 84% disapprove of congress. we invited congressman ryan to come on the show and he declined. here to talk about it, former george w. bush spokesman, ari, you worked for a president who was criticized by the opposition side. at some point, democrats say at some point it's understandable that president obama would use the same rhetoric or tactics that republicans are using. >> when i was there, harry reid, democrat majority leader, called george w. bush a loser and a liar and al gore and john kerry called him unamerican. unpatriotic. you don't see the same vitriol against barack obama. when you go through those quotes, remember 1800. this is nothing. remember 1800. the election between jefferson and adams was far, far worse. it's part of the noise of american democracy. people don't like it. i think you have to keep it within bounds. a lot of those things are substantive disagreements. there's nothing wrong with that. >> there is no denying republicans have blocked votes for the president and appointments at pret
poll shows 89% of americans say they distrust government to do the right thing and 84% disapprove of congress. we invited congressman ryan to come on the show and he declined. here to talk about it, former george w. bush spokesman, ari, you worked for a president who was criticized by the opposition side. at some point, democrats say at some point it's understandable that president obama would use the same rhetoric or tactics that republicans are using. >> when i was there, harry reid,...
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. >> there's been a lot of fighting to day on congress about the jobs bill. republicans may be pushing it knowing it would fail. others saying it won't pass. how much you are willing to give on it as a sign that the bill itself wasn't a political push about it president, but a real effort to get something done? >> let me say, it is very important that congress do things to make the economy stronger now. we're not growing fast enough. we're very vulnerable to what is happening in europe. you're seeing growth slow around the world. unemployment is high in the united states. and overwhelming response we have is to do more now to strengthen the economy. now we put on the table a very smart, very strong, very powerful package. people may have better ideas. we have not seen a plan that would do nearly as much for the economy and be as effective in strengthening the economy that has any chance of passing. >> it's interesting. i want to put this up here of the strike team. an interesting that a lot of the guys have a lot of employees. some entrepreneurs. ten of them
. >> there's been a lot of fighting to day on congress about the jobs bill. republicans may be pushing it knowing it would fail. others saying it won't pass. how much you are willing to give on it as a sign that the bill itself wasn't a political push about it president, but a real effort to get something done? >> let me say, it is very important that congress do things to make the economy stronger now. we're not growing fast enough. we're very vulnerable to what is happening in...
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the white house will get behind this effort by congress to have the republicans vote -- have all congress vote on each component. everybody is forced to vote on the measure to reemploy unemployed teachers, rebuild schools. the idea here, politically, john, is for the white house to go out on the road and effectively say house republicans or commission republicans have voted against each one of the measures that is so popular with the american people. try to tie them around the neck of house republicans and make house republicans unpopular and in the future, tie them to whoever the 2012 republican candidate is. it's a political gamble but it's the president's move this winter. john. >> it's a political conversation, david. 25 million americans unemployed or underemployed. the president spoke to speaker boehner today. the speaker says it's time to stop the campaign and start listening. is that a valid point? or is anything he does going to be labeled as campaigning in. >> it's time for both sides to stop campaigning for awhile. clearly, it's not just the jobs bill. what the politicians on w
the white house will get behind this effort by congress to have the republicans vote -- have all congress vote on each component. everybody is forced to vote on the measure to reemploy unemployed teachers, rebuild schools. the idea here, politically, john, is for the white house to go out on the road and effectively say house republicans or commission republicans have voted against each one of the measures that is so popular with the american people. try to tie them around the neck of house...
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congress created this problem, and congress can fix it. [ male announcer ] executor of efficiency. you can spot an amateur from a mile away... while going shoeless and metal-free in seconds. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle...and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. now this...will work. [ male announcer ] just like you, business pro. just like you. go national. go like a pro. >> they frankly were never supposed to be seen by the public. some of the most popular ones include the chevrolet sales convention musical. oh, yeah. the wendy's grill skill wrap. those are burgers. and the bank of america because presidential candidate herman cain has now officially joined past political pop stars like mike huckabee, howard dean, and, of course, bubba, in this just-released 1991 clip, the former godfathers pizza ceo dressed in a choir robe performs a pizza-themed version of john lennon's "imagine." and if you thought his 9-9-9 plan was catchy, wait until you hear this. imagine there's no pizza i
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. >>> now the big political questions, will it fly in congress and will president obama get a boost from the killing of moammar gadhafi? after all, in the past year alone, he's overseen the capture or deaths of several top terrorists including osama bin laden and anwar al awlaki from al qaeda and the overthrow of three dictators. here now to weigh in, cnn contributor david fromme, joining us from vancouver tonight and from washington, jen saki, former deputy communications director for the obama white house. great to have you with us. i want to start with the schumer-lee housing bill. it was a part of the proposal. do you think the obama white house is going to sign on? >> well, the most important thing we can be doing for the economy right now is considering every creative idea that was put out there and this is a good example of thinking outside of the box to get a creative look at what we can do and it doesn't add a dime for the deficit and it doesn't cost taxpayers a dime, so it is something that people will take a close look at. there's a lot that we need to do in the housing market
. >>> now the big political questions, will it fly in congress and will president obama get a boost from the killing of moammar gadhafi? after all, in the past year alone, he's overseen the capture or deaths of several top terrorists including osama bin laden and anwar al awlaki from al qaeda and the overthrow of three dictators. here now to weigh in, cnn contributor david fromme, joining us from vancouver tonight and from washington, jen saki, former deputy communications director for...
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right after 9/11 congress authorized the use of military force against al qaeda. that law is still in effect, it was the authorization for the war in iraq, for the war in afghanistan and as an active member of al qaeda, this guy is fair game under our laws. >> so if he was a member of another terrorist group, not al qaeda, would it still be legal? >> well, not under this use of force authorization. i mean, there are various findings. the president can issue what's called an intelligence finding relating to other people. this post-9/11 authorization only applies to al qaeda. but just to answer your broader question, i mean, this ban on assassinations is really pretty much irrelevant at this point. so many presidents since the '70s have directed -- whether it's ronald reagan trying to kill gadhafi or the post-9/11 al qaeda/osama bin laden. that law is technically still on the books, but presidents have long since figured out ways around it. >> president obama issued a presidential order two years ago to capture or kill awlaki basically putting him on the hit list. a
right after 9/11 congress authorized the use of military force against al qaeda. that law is still in effect, it was the authorization for the war in iraq, for the war in afghanistan and as an active member of al qaeda, this guy is fair game under our laws. >> so if he was a member of another terrorist group, not al qaeda, would it still be legal? >> well, not under this use of force authorization. i mean, there are various findings. the president can issue what's called an...
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but you'd have to have two thirds of both houses of congress and three quarters of the states to get that done. conservatives aren't good at stemming the tide of this. are we going to introduce a national sales tax in addition to an income tax then a business tax, and then if republicans lose control of the wrong or white house, it could go up from there? >> if the federal government suddenly getting 18 to 20% less money, meaning one in five dollars essentially disappears, already we see these guys paralyzed dealing with spending and deficits and priorities. what would they do then? >> here's what's interesting. herman cain talks about state's rights. if you enact his sales tax, that doesn't mean you totally remove the sales taxes that you see right now in cities, counties and states. and so you're talking about his 9% sales tax plus what you're already paying in the states. it's not like the state governments are going to say, oh, sure, herman cain, great, we'll just give more revenue away. he is not even calculating that particular aspect. but he keeps saying, oh, no, the numbers b
but you'd have to have two thirds of both houses of congress and three quarters of the states to get that done. conservatives aren't good at stemming the tide of this. are we going to introduce a national sales tax in addition to an income tax then a business tax, and then if republicans lose control of the wrong or white house, it could go up from there? >> if the federal government suddenly getting 18 to 20% less money, meaning one in five dollars essentially disappears, already we see...
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congress created this problem, and congress can fix it. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a huge breakthrough. that's good for our country's energy security and our economy. your core competency is...competency. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle...and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. i'm getting an upgrade. [ male announcer ] as you wish, business pro. as you wish. go national. go like a pro. now through january earn a free day with every two rentals. find out more at nationalcar.com. i just signed the whole family up for unlimited mobile to mobile minutes. you're kidding. no. where's that money coming from,
congress created this problem, and congress can fix it. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a huge breakthrough. that's good for our country's energy security and...
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schiff doesn't understand is that the reason we're not occupying congress or d.c. right now is because the congressmen and the senators are the employees of wall street. they work for wall street. they're funded by wall street. and they do the bidding of wall street and k street, which is the lobbying arm of wall street. so we're kind of tired of going and dealing with the middleman, or the servant. we'd rather go to the big house and take it there. because that's really where the problem is. it is with capitalism. it is with corporate america. capitalism right now -- and it's important to define a word in its present form. just like you wouldn't define the word "marriage" as a woman has to get permission from her father in order to marry. but that was the definition 100 or 200 years ago. so let's not use the old definition. when we say capitalism, we're talking about 2011. 2011 capitalism is an evil system set up to benefit the few at the expense of the many. that's what's happened. and that's what people are so tired of. which is too bad for the capitalists. beca
schiff doesn't understand is that the reason we're not occupying congress or d.c. right now is because the congressmen and the senators are the employees of wall street. they work for wall street. they're funded by wall street. and they do the bidding of wall street and k street, which is the lobbying arm of wall street. so we're kind of tired of going and dealing with the middleman, or the servant. we'd rather go to the big house and take it there. because that's really where the problem is....
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he can do this without congress. but to be fair to the administration as well, fannie and freddie don't report to the administration. that's who oversees this nor do the banks. it has taken them a while, fannie and freddie, to agree to these rules and taken the economy getting worse and worse and worse for all the parties to come together to agree to this as well. >> ali, is that why it took so long? fannie and freddie not agreeing to the rules? >> and the banks. jessica points it out that the banks don't report to the administration, nor does fannie and freddie. if they'd been smart about this, the banks themselves more than 2 1/2 years ago before we heard that clip from president obama would are said, let's do everything we can to keep these people in their homes because the alternative is they're out of their homes and we're stuck with this inventory of houses with prices continuing to go down. that's the situation that banks are in. the administration when president obama said 7 to 9 million families, and even ba
he can do this without congress. but to be fair to the administration as well, fannie and freddie don't report to the administration. that's who oversees this nor do the banks. it has taken them a while, fannie and freddie, to agree to these rules and taken the economy getting worse and worse and worse for all the parties to come together to agree to this as well. >> ali, is that why it took so long? fannie and freddie not agreeing to the rules? >> and the banks. jessica points it...