revenue. $1.5 trillion of it. republicans say it's a nonstarter. thanks, jack, for joining us. let's talk about the numbers. the president is proposing something that republicans say they won't even consider. the tax increases. where do you go from there? >> if you look at the package the president put out today, andrea, he put out a balanced package that hits the goal that we all agreed on in a way that's fair. it includes numerous proposals that are difficult on the spending side in terms of health care and other mandatory programs. in the debt bill we agree to discretionary cuts that put us back with the tightest discretionary spending since eisenhower was president. the challenge is to get the full job done and put us on a path where we're dealing with the debt and deficit so we get to a place where the deficit is truly sustainable and that means under 3%. our plan would get us to 2.3% of

the economy. i think that the challenge is now to work together to put together something balanced. there's a joint committee that has a goal of $1.5 trillion of deficit reduction. the president upped the bar. he said let's get the job done and get to a total of four counting spending cuts we agreed to. we think we should work together to get that done. >> the buffett rule, tax on millionaires, that doesn't raise that much money in the overall scheme of things. is that really a populous ploy to get the democratic base energized? >> at its core it's about fundamental fairness. we're talking about an array of policies here that will put burdens on federal workers and retirees from the military. on farmers through agriculture programs and health care in broad ways and it's just not fair to have a system where millionaires and billionaires pay taxes at a lower rate than people in middle class working

in the same firms. there's been a lot of discussion today about small business and entrepreneurs and people who take regular income are not that severely affected by this. this is really about hedge fund managers and others whose incomes are in the form of dividends and capital gains and the like. the president called for the buffett rule as part of comprehensive tax reform to reset where he are getting revenue from. he put out specifics that get you to the goal that he's set out. and we now want to work with congress to get that done. >> speaking of working with congress, the president says he will not sign an extension of the bush tax cuts which are due to expire at the end of 2012 to include the high earners but if he lets the entire bush tax cut expire, that would be in effect raising taxes on the middle class people he says he wants to protect. >> i think the president has made clear that he supports maintaining the tax cut for

middle class americans. he does not support keeping a tax cut in place for the very wealthiest. that's something we have some time to work our way through. this budget plan that the president sent to congress today is built on that principle. it would keep the tax cut for middle class americans and it would not extend it for people at the very top. that's what we think is the right and fair way to go. >> i know you were deputy secretary of state for the first part of the obama administration but you worked with all of these people and have been on deputies committees with them as well. what about the book that says that in brief the economic team, the obama economic team created a hostile workplace for the women? >> you know, i was as you noted on the foreign policy team for the first two years of this administration, working for a woman that i have great respect for and has broad respect in this white house and around the world.

my personal experience in this organization is working with women to get hard jobs done. >> what about fighting on the economic team? >> i'm part of the economic team working very well together. i have close relationship with secretary geithner and others. i think that we are tackling the hardest problems imaginable and we're doing it as a team. i think the work done in the first two years is critically important to stopping an economic slide reversing it. we're not at the level of growth that we need to be at. an enormous amount of important work was done by the president and his economic team. i was obviously not part of it in the first two years. they did a lot of very good work together. >> if the president got almost everything he wanted which we all concede will not happen, there will be compromise, what level do you think the unemployment rate could be down to by election time next year? >> i've never been big on

predicting how exactly things are going to go month to month in economic growth or unemployment rates. we know with certainty that if the actions the president proposed to congress are taken, the american jobs act, it will create jobs and create growth in our economy. that's why the president sent it to congress and said pass it. get it done. we have to do it. we have to do it now. the american people are expecting it to act to create jobs on this country. i think there's no doubt you look at the outside experts and they have ranges. some say a million and some say 2 million. it's meaningful impact in terms of number of jobs. we need to get it done now. >> very busy day at the white house. thanks. the deadlock in washington is also preventing progress on trade agreements. trade agreements that could create jobs. today the senate holds key votes that could clear the way for president obama to send congress three trade deals signed under

the previous administration. andy card is part of a new task force to deal with u.s. trade and investment, bipartisan or nonpartisan task force i should say. putting on your other hat, your response to what we heard so far from the white house today on deficit reduction and job creation? >> well, i'm very troubled by the overhang tax increases they've talked about. that's not what america is looking for right now. we want to be able to grow ourselves out of this challenge that the economy is in and i think it's wrong to talk about allowing the bush tax cuts to expire right now the way they are talking about them. that's another debate. i'm interested in talking about creating more jobs in america by having a pro-america trade policy and i've been working with senator tom daschle, former majority leader of the democratic party, to put together a bipartisan or almost a nonpartisan plan for the administration to consider and for congress to respond to that

actually increases trade opportunities where jobs would be a primary result and so we want america to have a competitive trade environment. we want to take a look at policies that will allow us to be competitive and at the same time take a look at the realist realistic challenges of making sure we have jobs am america and we think we found a way to do it. >> how do you deal with conflict between democrats that want fixes for labor and the republicans who say that they won't approve the korea trade deal for instance, a huge trade deal with those changes for the labor force. >> i would invite them to take a look at the report done by the council of foreign relations tax force. it is different. it's not theoretical and not perfection and in the context of what the political climate is today and we think that it can make sense. we talk about the enforcement. we want the government to be pro-active enforcing our trade laws around the world. we also have called for strategic negotiations rather than cookie cutter approaches to

free trade. we want to focus on china and brazil and india with real job opportunities existing for american workers because we can service those economies and we want investment to come from countries like those back into the united states to create opportunities for jobs as well. this is a good comprehensive bipartisan almost nonpartisan recommendation. it includes a lot of people that come from different sides of the aisle and different aspects of our economy, labor included and management and we think this is a good plan and we hope that the president will pay attention to it. i would also like to see our tax policies be in the context of what's competitive with the rest of the world. as president obama has talked to the supercommittee to discuss taxes, we hope they will also discuss the ability of america to be competitive with the world when it comes to tax policy. >> what do you say to out of work labor union members, people across the rust belt, who feel

they got frankly -- what's the word to use? on television? that they really were treated unfairly in nafta. a bipartisan approach. former presidents and current president back then and we get past that net jobs were increased and that they perhaps lost their industries to mexico and other foreign competitors. >> we want america to be competitive with the rest of the world. we certainly don't want to become isolationist. many are moving forward with trade agreements. we haven't moved forward with the trade agreement in a long time. we call for common sense. cog we have to come up with a consensus that doesn't meet everyone's need but it does meet the need for pro-american trade agenda to create jobs and we think this can come to reality and in the context of tax

reform, now it's time for us to make sure our tax system allows for corporations and our workers to be competitive with the rest of the world. >> thanks so much, andy card. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you. >> good to see you. we want to hear what you think about the president's plan. should people earning a million dollars or more a year pay higher income tax rate than those earning less? and do you think the millionaires tax would help or hurt the economy. vote online at tv.msnbc.com. tweet us your thoughts @michetcl reports. and the palestinian showdown in the united nations has the white house scrambling. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. but with 24-hour zyrtec®, i get prescription strength relief from my worst allergy symptoms. so lily and i are back on the road again.

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>> michele bachmann is back in iowa trying to recapture her straw poll magic. it's been downhill since then. she continues to exploit the hpv issue against rick perry. >> it's very important that you never basically say anything that you can't back up. she's made what was very positive debate and the issue about perry to where it's now an issue about her and she needs to move on. >> would you like to see her as commander in chief? >> ed rollins served as bachmann's campaign manager until recently. to quote one of your favorite presidents, there you go again. >> ed rollins in a former presidential candidate as adviser to presidential candidate, what was it about michele bachmann that didn't

quite click? >> that had a lot to do with it. perry was governor of the largest republican state in the country today jumped in and drew from the same group of voters. you get on stage quickly and eight-week campaign when she won the straw poll which no one has ever done. a lot of people left on the wayside and there's a lot of attention to her and i think perry jumped in and took a lot of that attention with her. >> the attention she got was not healthy attention because she misstated things and took antidotes and the woman that came up to her after the debate in florida. what is it about her that isn't ready for prime time? >> part of coming out of the house of representatives is it's a different environment than running statewide as a governor

does. her entire political career is in one area of minnesota where she was elected to state senate and congress. it's a big arena. bottom line is there's a scrutiny by the media as you know having been on the campaign trail many times when all of a sudden you get up in 150 reporters asking you different things, sometimes you say things that are not appropriate and you shouldn't say and to a certain extent that's part of her history. >> "usa today" editorial today said bachmann was irresponsible to spread the fear of this vaccine. bachmann's nationally broadcast suggestion that a vaccine can cause mental retardation was irresponsible. standards for higher public figure are higher than i'm passing around something i heard from someone and higher from someone who wants to be president. >> the bottom line is she was sort of left out of the first part of the debate. had a good hit on perry and raised significant issues about executive overreach but unfortunately the next day or even that night when someone came up and told her this, she repeated a story. what we tried to do was vet

everything that was ever told her. we tried to put a system in play that if someone walks up with a go ahe good idea or concept it was vetted. >> let's look at the race now. it's a two-man race. how do you see it? >> by polls today which are just indicators of today. the two of them are strong candidates with strong organizations and the ability to raise money. i think michele if she somehow for some reason could win iowa than she could get another look. right now she's competing hard in iowa. she doesn't have ability or resources to go beyond that. iowa at this point in time where perry and romney can go into south carolina, arizona, and other places. >> what are perry's vulnerabilities? >> he's been a governor for ten years. there were a lot of things that went on and no accusations here

but bottom line is anyone that's been governor for a long time in a state with cronyism, you find deals that have been made. and that will be exposed in the course of the campaign either by us or certainly by the obama team if he gets that far. the other part of him he's got great strengths. a solid conservative. he's got the tea party base and i think to a certain extent his jumping in the race the day she won the straw poll took a lot of that glamour away from her. >> why in recent polling are so plane republicans not satisfied with the field and not happy with mitt romney. he's been running for so long? >> that's part of the drill. he got beat up badly in the last go-around last time. there was a flip-flop and a variety of things. i think at this point in time when you look at the same polls you look at people see him as a stronger candidate in the general election. republicans draw pretty hard lines and you've got to meet

certain litmus tests. he was a moderate republican when he ran for governor of massachusetts. he made evolution slow but sure to be a more conservative to try to fit the primary voter. >> ed rollins, i can never forget when maureen reagan ran for office and you said she was not the best candidate. >> she was not the best candidate. she ran and didn't do well. she was a great lady and as ronald reagan once said to me, when she wanted to be co-chairman of the committee which she was effective at, be glad i only have one child that wants to be in politics. >> i think michael is thinking about it. >> michael is a great conservative. >> thank you so much. great to see you. up next, republican power play in pennsylvania that could change the electoral map. the political briefing next on "andrea mitchell reports."

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pennsylvania out of play or making it a much more difficult or complicated state to fight in. >> this is what ed rendell former democrat national chairman had to say about it. >> this is not just a hair brain scheme that's being pushed by some legislator. he's on record saying he's for it that the philadelphia region has too much influence and our votes are disenfranchising people in other parts of the state. this is reprehensible and disgraceful. >> nobody can stop it except for republicans. republicans control the state. the republicans in house of representatives are unhappy because you will fight district by district. >> go into a congressional district and change it there. >> instead of driving turnout in philadelphia assume you'll win philadelphia and go to the senator of the state and western part of the state and try to win

those district by district and they will then vote against the congressman. they are worried. >> there are unintended consequences of this. the biggest is that we discovered a new way to mess with the others. they changed hands. maybe not in two years or four years. they go back and fort and it looks like at some point red state legislature will be in democratic hands and say look what they did in pennsylvania. let's take that state offline. there's a way in which you can chip away at the credibility of the presidential election system. >> only nebraska and main have that system. no major electoral vote state has it. do you foresee if pennsylvania were to go this way that michigan, ohio, florida, the other big battleground states that now have republican legislatures could pull the same thing? >> it's only valuable in a left leaning battleground state that goes for the democrat usually. if one of those states gets a republican legislature, absolutely. that's the kind of state you imagine will flip back to

democrats who will presumably flip it back at some point. you hear people talk about switching to a system where you win with a national popular vote which is pie in the sky but if this took off and you saw the system fall apart, that would become relevant. >> thank you so much. and up next, israel on israel. the democratic campaign chair on the u.n. vote and jobs plan. follow the show online and on twitter with hash tag michelle reports. man: looks great, hun... woman: ...and we're not real proud of this. man: no...we're not. woman: we...um... teen: have you guys seen captain stewie and lil' miss neptune? dad: did you look all over the place? under your desk? all around? teen: uh, they're fish, they live in a bowl. dad: what're gonna do? anncr: there's an easier way to save. anncr: there's an easier way to save. teen: whatever. ncr: 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance.

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virginia killing the pilot of the vintage aircraft in that show. 17-year prison sentence for convicted terrorism plotter has been thrown out. judges rule the punishment was too lenient and sent the case back for a new hearing. they were convicted of sending money and supplies to terrorist groups like al qaeda. >> trial starts for the second suspect connected with killing a connecticut woman and her two children in that horrific 2007 home invasion. his co-defendant was sentenced to death last year. former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn broke his silence for the first time since his arrest. he said it was a moral failure he would regret his whole life but not a criminal act. prosecutors said they had too many doubts about his accuser. >> will the plan that president obama announced today bring back

the political base? steve israel chairs the democratic national campaign committee and is with me now. it's populist in its appeal. buffett rule taken social security off the table. some would say it's a cop out. >> it's not a cop out. it's not populist. it's the right thing to do. these republican house members have to make a decision. they took an office to protect tax loopholes and protect rights of millionaires and be in a lower tax bracket or did they take an oath to protect and defend the middle class? those are stakes right now. these republicans have to make a choice of who they are fighting for and we'll hold them accountable for that choice every single day. >> is this a political issue or an attempt to do something about jobs and fix the economy. if there's no vote for it you are establishing a political issue going into an election campaign. >> the republicans have said no to everything that we have

proposed. we have to fight for the middle class. this is not a partisan issue. this is not a political strategy. this is the right thing to do. $3 trillion reduction in deficit in a fair and balanced way where we simply ask people to pay more than a million dollars to pay their fair share and making spending cuts and tightening our belt. the vast majority of people said that's what they want. they don't want the middle class to bear the sacrifice. they want it spread evenly. that's what the president and house democrats are fighting for and will continue to fight for. >> i can see the fairness issue. the fairness argument. in terms of deficit cutting, the millionaire tax will don't much in terms of cutting the deficit. argument is you go after the job creators. >> first of all, 1.5 trillion of the 3 trillion come from revenue enhan enhancements. democrats said we would support lowering the corporate tax rate

but we want to plug up the corporate tax loopholes. we can generate $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction simply by asking those millionaires to pay their fair share. the rest is a combination of efficiency and spending cuts. we're fighting for the american people. these republicans i feel every day will continue to fight to the death for people earning over $1 million and for corporate tax loopholes. >> getting to a real war because we're talking about the possibility of real conflict in the middle east spreading. israel is more and more isolated right now. historic allies are now as possibly a result of arab spring but changes in the region as well backing away from israel. this palestinian vote. what do you see as risk to the palestinian vote? they point out they've been waiting for years and that negotiations have not born fruit. >> i'm not chairman of the national democratic campaign

committee. this is something that republicans and democrats can agree on. every time the palestinian and arab world have shown up, israel made painful concessions. for palestinians to say they won't negotiate and rush to the united nations and it is dangerous. i asked a simple resolution in congress. any nation in the u.n. that votes to unilaterally recognize a palestinian state is subject to a cutoff of this foreign military financing. you can't come to congress and ask if the taxpayer can fund the sovereign countries and go to the united nations with the other hand and vote to recognize a palestinian state and undermine the most important strategic relationship.

>> they say that it only makes the situation more complicated. >> i disagree on this issue. i think that we have shown repeatedly a patience with negotiations and with the process. we've supported the palestinian authority in interest of negotiating with israel and now they are pulling the plugs on negotiations. you pull the plug, you shouldn't get the cash. >> hasn't israel taken steps that the president and others have been very critical of because they have basically cut off many of the options for a final settlement. >> israel has consistently said to the leadership of the palestinian authority that if you have a difference with us on settlements, negotiate. if you have a difference with us on building permits, negotiate. if you have a difference with us on any of these issues, negotiate. the response from the palestinian authority is we will not negotiate. we'll bypass negotiations and run to united nations and do something that's dangerous and won't result in statehood. if the palestinian authority

wanted statehood. they would negotiate with israel. they're going to united nations on a symbolic press release. >> they say they have seen decades and decades of negotiations and nothing brought them closer to a state. >> every country that's ever negotiated with israel has come to a fair conclusion and fair settlement in those negotiations. palestinian authority can't say that negotiations won't work if they're not willing to show up and try to make them work. >> congressman israel, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> despite soaring unemployment, companies are jumping at the chance to hire new workers if they can find the right people for the job. matthew bishop is writes for economist magazine and wrote "road from ruin." matthew, great to see you. what do you thinks needs to be done and how does that match with what the president is proposing? >> we need to do a lot. we need to recognize the labor

market is suffering from a lack of demand so there needs to be a stimulus but also there's real long-term competitive issues facing america that many of its people are not qualified now to fight effectively for jobs against the chinese or the indians or germans so you have to overhaul the education system, overhaul the tax system and not just a political gesture like announcements we've had today. >> in what way could you overhaul the educational system for instance? we'll be focusing intensively on education nation as we gear up for next week. are we talking about at the college level, high school level? >> i think it's really from the k through 12 and the college level. there's a basic lack of skills around math and science and technology for people who are coming up and many people don't even graduate from their high school. so that problem has to be attacked very aggressively but

also there's a more pressing problem which is that many of america's companies are posting vacancies at the moment for skilled jobs that they can't fill in chemistry work and software and so forth. it's a real shortage of people that have basic skills and the college system does not seem to attend to what the wishes and needs of the market are and there needs to be much more focus as there is in germany on producing people who have the right skills that business wants to hire and you bring down the vacancy rate. it's a crime that america has a record unemployment rate and yet it also has high unfilled vacancies posted. >> is there a way where companies can bring new people on and make them apprentices or part-time workers or have some kind of training, corporate training program that provides the experience that they need? >> i would like to see more leadership from business on this. it's great how the boss of starbucks said he'll stop paying

contributions to politicians until they sort out of deficit crisis but also that he and starbucks will hire more people because something needs to be done to start triggering recovery and i think there's a number of firms now very strong financially that could actually be putting more money into working with community colleges and so forth to actually train people to fill those vacancies that they have. a little bit more long-term vision and leadership needed from business. >> one of the things about the corporate situation is that people sit on profits and not hiring and there's a lot of uncertainty out there and a lot of this has to do with europe, an area you know so well with the climate still so cloudy for the euro zone and what's happening in europe, is that partly freezing what's happening here. >> i think it is a bit. there is this sense that europe could go horribly wrong. we hope the euro zone will survive and default will be avoided. the mood on wall street is as bad as i've seen it since summer

of 2008 for lehman brothers collapse that we fell into this great depression risk environment and so we are worried at the moment in business and i think you're starting to see that people are reluctant to hire whereas once you actually fell confident that banking problems are put behind us that europe was on a path to growth again, you would see firms more willing to hire. there's a lot of domestic issues here. there's a lack of confidence in president obama and whether he has plans and strategy to get economy growing again and i feel this fighting in congress where two parties don't really seem to be able to come up with a plan that is in any way credible that makes business and the rest of us rather depressed and take risks that are involved in hiring. >> thank you very much matthew bishop, the economist. two prominent political families are mourning the loss of daughters both at the age of 51.

kara kennedy died friday of an apparent heart attack after working out at a d.c. health club. she had bravelily fought lung cancer since 2002 which was first deemed inpoperable. she leaves two teenage children. her mother, joan kennedy, and younger brothers edward kennedy. >> and eleanor mondale was an entertainment report and radio personality before being diagnosed in 2005. she was a constant presence on the campaign trail with her father when he ran against ronald reagan in 1994. she's survived by her husband and two brothers.

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i'm tamron hall. coming up at 2:00 p.m. eastern time, republicans say president obama's deficit cutting plan is dead on arrival and call it class warfare. democratic congressman james clyburn will join me live with what democrats are saying and what they plan to do next and a georgia pardon board is reviewing the case of james davis. a last-minute appeal in the midst of new developments. plus, this is not a movie. a six-ton satellite, the size of a bus, is expected to come crashing to earth in a matter of days. not a joke and not a movie. what's going on there? we have a live report. >> six months ago today the united states and nato began military operations in libya. rebels have taken major cities including the capital of tripoli but are fighting gadhafi forces.

elsewhere in the region violence escalated in yemen. thousands of protesters and military defectors stormed the streets after the president suggested he would not relinquish power after all despite claims to the contrary. abbas is in new york to formally request the u.s. security council recognize palestinian statehood. a move opposed by the u.s., israel and others. david joins me now. so much going on. u.n. week. traffic madness. and this. palestinian and israeli showdown. the palestinians say they waited long enough. decades. have seen no progress. they have deadlocked talks. they want statehood, the u.s., israel and others say that statehood can only be negotiated and that this security council

resolution will give false hope to the palestinians. how will they bridge this divide? >> the u.s. is isolated on this issue and middle east has changed since you talked about perception in the middle east which is israel is not giving ground and interesting to see what reaction is to abbas' arrival. he called for peaceful protests when the general assembly opens abbas' call for that and palestinians are trying to take control of the arab spring in the palestinian territories and here in the u.n. >> we talked before that fallback position for palestinians if they agree to negotiations and offers are being made, we have fast track peace talks with the deadline which is a more symbolic gesture but has real teeth in that they could then declare air rights over the west bank and they

could have laws of the sea off gaza and they could take israel to the world court. >> they do have votes it looks like that requires two-thirds of the general assembly. the change middle east is that turkey has been very aggressive. the president recently traveled to egypt and brought 200 businessmen and one day signed billion dollars of contracts in egypt talking about axis of democracy in the middle east between egypt and turkey the region's two largest countries. turkey's economy is growing quickly and the go tell to pressure israelis. the u.s. doesn't have the strong men that will tamp down protests around the region so it's very interesting time. it's all very dynamic. it will be interesting to see what happens. >> today hillary clinton met with the turkish foreign minister and asked them not to shot the door on israel. they have kicked the israel ambassador out.

diplomat tensions arising over the u.n.'s report on last year's engagement at sea. so turkey is major player and the u.s. needs turkey within nato and for access to the rest of the region and defensive moves throughout the region. quickly on iran, ahmadinejad is heading this way as we speak and the hikers are still the two hikers are still in jail despite his promises last week to ann curry and to others they would be released within days. this is really a power struggle going on in iran. >> a power struggle within iran. an appalling case. ahmadinejad realized that. two years these young men are held in the

which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours. opinion writer, jonathan cape heart joins us. hi, jonathan. what are you looking at? we swapped places here. >> europe and new york. the president is going up to new york later this afternoon for the un general assembly. before that gets started, she going to a fund-raiser there in new york for the democratic national committee and i think we are going to be talking about this tomorrow. usually in those settings before admiring and familiar audiences, the president lets his hair down if you will, in talking about the differences between him and republicans and the obstacles and challenges he faces for

reelection. given what he said today in the rose garden with the reduction plan, on top of the jobs bill speech he gave in congress, we could see the continuation of the feisty president obama we saw in the rose garden this afternoon and tomorrow the president goes about being the leader of the free world at the un general assembly descend on new york and tie up the streets in gridlock. i hope you are prepared for that. >> i'm not sure i 78 prepared for that. it is a week that new yorkers love to hate. that does it for us. for this edition of andre mitchell reports, joe lieberman on the repeal of don't ask, don't tell. eugene robinson. my colleague tameron hall has what's next. >> in our next hour, republicans are calling president obama's

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