they called it the real american jobs act, the real one. that's what they called it. just in case you were wondering. so let's take a look at what the republican american jobs act looks like. turns out the republican plan boils down to a few basic ideas. they want to gut regulations. they want to let wall street do whatever it wants. they want to drill more. and they want to repeal health care reform. that's their jobs plan. so let's do a little comparison here. the republican plan says that what's been standing in the way between us and full employment are laws that keep companies from polluting as much as they want. on the other hand, our plan puts teachers, construction workers, firefighters, and police officers back on the job.

their plan says the big problem we have is that we help to get 30 million americans health insurance. they figure we should throw those folks off the health insurance role. somehow that's going to help people find jobs. our plan says, we're better off if every small business and worker in america gets a tax cut. and that's what's in my jobs bill. their plan says we should go back to the good old days before the financial crisis when wall street was writing their own rules. they want to roll back all the reforms we put in place. our plan says, we need to make it easier for small businesses to grow and hire and push this economy forward. all right. so you've gotten a sense, you've got their plan and then we've

got my plan. my plan says we're going put teachers back in the classroom, construction workers back to work, rebuilding america, rebuilding our schools, tax cuts for small businesses, tax cuts for hiring veterans, tax cuts if you give your worker a raise. that's my plan. and then you've got their plan, which is let's is a dirtier air, d dirtier water, less people with health insurance. all right. so, so far at least i feel better about my plan. but -- but -- but let's admit, i'm a little biased. so remember those independent economists who said our plan would create jobs maybe as many as almost 2 million jobs, grow the economy by as much as 2%?

so one of the same economists that took a look at our plan took a look at the republican plan. and they said, well, this won't do much to help the economy in the short term, it could actually cost us jobs. we can actually lose jobs with their plan. so i'll let you decide, which plan is the real american jobs act? look -- i -- i appreciate -- i appreciate the four more years but right now i'm thinking about the next 13 months. because, yes, we've got an election coming up but that election is a long ways away. a lot of folks can't wait. a lot of folks are living paycheck to paycheck.

a lot of folks are living week to week. you've got kids right now who have lost their teachers because at the local level you ended up having layoffs. you've got bridges right now that are crumbling and deteriorating. so we don't have time to wait. we've got a choice right now, right now. look, i want to work with republicans on ways to create jobs right now. and where they've got a decent idea, i'm happy to work with them. just last week we passed a bipartisan trade agreement with korea that will allow us to sell more goods overseas and support almost 70,000 jobs here at home because my attitude is if we're buying hyundais and kias i want them buying fords and chevys.

so if they're serious about creating jobs i'm ready to go. i don't think anybody doubts that i have gone out of my way to try to find areas of cooperation with these republicans. in fact, some of you have been mad at me for try too hard to cooperate with them, haven't you? some of you -- i get some of your letters and e-mails. why are you cooperating with them all the time? because it can't be all about politics. sometimes we've got to try to actually get something done. so i'm eager to see them stand up with a serious approach to putting people back to work. it's time to focus less on satisfying some wing of the party and more on common sense ideas that we can take to put people to work right now and help the middle class and help

people get into the middle class because there are a bunch of folks who are hurting out there and have never gotten an opportunity. so, we're going to give members of congress another chance to step up to the plate and do the right thing. kay and i, we've decided, let's let them do the right thing one more time. we're going to give them another chance to do their jobs by looking after your jobs. so this week, i'm asking members of congress to vote -- what we're going to do is we're going to break up my jobs bill. maybe they just couldn't understand the whole thing all at once. so we're going to break it up into bite-size pieces so they can take a thoughtful approach to this legislature. so this week i'm going to ask members of congress to vote on one component of the plan, which is whether he should put

hundreds of thousands of teachers back in the classroom and cops back on the street and firefighters back to work. so members of congress will have a chance to decide what kind of future do our kids deserve. should we stand up for men and women who are often digging into their own pocket to buy school supplies? when we know that the education of our children is going to determine our future as a nation. they're going to have a chance to decide, do we want to make sure that we're looking after the men and women who protect our communities every day, our first responders, our firefighters, our police officers? and then after they've taken that vote, we're going to give members of congress a chance to vote on whether we're going to put construction workers back to work. should they be just sitting around while roads and bridges and runways fall apart or should we put them back to work doing

the work that america needs done? after that we'll give them a chance to decide whether unemployed americans should continue to struggle or whether we should give them the experience and support they need to get back in the workforce and build a better life. and we'll ask them to take a stand on whether we should ask people like me to pay a little more so middle class families and small businesses can pay a little less and end up creating the kinds of jobs we need in this economy. so those are the choices that members of congress are going to face in the coming weeks. and if they vote against these proposals again, like i said, maybe they just didn't understand the whole thing. so we're breaking up into pieces. if they vote against taking steps that we know will put americans back to work right now, right now. >> right now!

>> then they're not going to have to answer to me. they're going to have to toons you. they're going to have to come down to north carolina and tell kids why they can't have their teachers back. they're going to have to come down to north carolina and look those construction workers in the eye and tell them why they can't get to work doing the work that america needs done. they're going to have to come down here and explain to working families why their taxes are going up while the richest americans and largest corporations keep getting sweet deals in the tax code. they're going to have to come down and explain to you why they don't have an answer for how we're putting americans to work right now. >> right now! >> and if -- if they support the republican plan, if they support the republican plan, they'll have to explain to you why they would rather deny health care to millions of americans and let

corporations and banks write their own rules instead of supporting proposals that we know will create jobs right now. >> right now. >> so that's where all of you come in. some of these folks just aren't getting the message. so i need you to send them a message. i need you to make your voices heard. i need you to give congress a piece of your mind. these members of congress work for you. if they're not delivering, it's time to let them know. it's time to get on the phone and write a letter, tweet, pay a visit. tell your elected leaders to do the right thing. remind them what's at stake. putting people back to work, restoring economic security for middle class families and helping create a ladder for folks who aren't middle class to get into the middle class. rebuilding an economy where hard work is valued and responsibility is rewarded. building an economy that lasts

for the future of our children. if we want to actually lower the deficit and invest in our future, if we want the best roads and best bridges and best airports here in the united states, if we want to continue to invest in our technology and our basic science and research, so that we can continue to invent new drugs and make sure the new cars in the future are running on electricity are made right here in north carolina and made right here in america, if we want to do all those things, then we've got to step up. we've got to get to work. we've got to get busy right now. we can't do nothing. too many folks are hurting out there to do nothing. we need to act. right now. >> right now. >> we are not a people who sit by and do nothing when things aren't right. we're americans. if something's not working, we go out there and fix it. we stick with it until the problem is fixed. that's the spirit we need to muster, right now. >> right now. >> let's meet this moment.

let's get to work. let's show the world once again why the united states is the greatest country on earth. god bless you. god bless the united states. and thank you, asheville! thank you, north carolina! ♪ >> president obama there continuing his push for job growth and our nation refusing to give up on the key pieces of the $447 billion jobs bill. he says will be the next steps to revitalizing the u.s. economy. he's in a critical battleground state to sell his economic proposals against the backdrop of nationwide anger against corporate greed. nbc's kristen welker is live in asheville. this is just the first leg of this bus tour. why is the president chosen to visit these places? >> reporter: hi there, veronica. well, the president wants to highlight how his american jobs act would actually look if it were to get passed. so he spoke here from this airport hangar in asheville, north carolina, to make the case that this is an airport that

needs to be renovated. if the jobs act were passed it would actually be able to be renovated. a couple things i want to point out from the president's speech here today, veronica. he was heated up. he rarmped up his rhetoric basically taking a shot at congressional republicans every other sentence. compared his job act to their jobs act, essentially said that their jobs act is based on trying to scrap regulation, letting wall street do whatever it wants to do. i got a quick reaction from republican aide on the hill who essentially said that's not the case. that that misrepresents their jobs plan. so republicans firing back at those allegations already. but this is certainly the type of heated rhetoric that you're going to hear from the president. another interesting point about this speech, though, veronica. he spoke for the first time about breaking the jobs act into bits and pieces. it failed to pass the senate last week. in order for any of it to get passed through congress, that's what's going to have to happen.

the president focusing today on putting teachers back to work, first responders back to work. that's something that would cost about $35 billion. we don't know what will be proposed first. in fact, we're expecting harry reid later today to announce which part of the american jobs act he's going to put forth first. but president obama won north carolina and virginia back in 2008, the first time a democrat had won these two states in decades. republicans are hoping to win them back. so these are certainly the new battleground states of 2012. veronica? >> nbc's kristen welker. thank you. we're going to know much more on this in a moment with our panel. searching for answers in the horrifying chain reaction crash that killed two-time indy 500 winner dan wheldon. we'll share one of his final interviews before that fateful race. the month long occupy protest has spread to four continents. a global movement, but do they have a clear message?

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63% of americans support the jobs bill that i put forward, 100% of republicans in the senate voted against it. that doesn't make any sense, does it? >> no! >> no, it does not. >> president obama there speaking before an enthusiastic crowd just moment ace go in asheville, north carolina, pressing congress to pass these pieces of his jobs bill. let's go to bring in our panel to discuss the president and the gop field, msnbc analyst and former hnc chairman michael steel and jamal simmons, strategist and principle at the ray general group. let's listen to senator mccain from over the weekend. take a listen to this.

>> it's time the president came off the campaign trail, sat down and yeg negotiate and talked with us and see areas of common ground. >> come off the campaign trail. come off the campaign trail. pretty common line of attack from republicans right now. does he risk being seen as a campaigner who's not really focused on governing? >> you know, as my friends in the south would say, it's the stuck pig that squeals. i listen to the john mccain and all the other republicans who are complaining about the president out there among the people fight for his jobs plan, and it just says to me that he must be striking a nerve with these guys because they don't like the fact that 63% of the people if the country agree with him, they don't like the fact he's challenged the country, out galvanizing the american public on behalf of this plan. and sooner or later they're going to have to answer for to. they have to come up with a reason why they don't want to help firefighters, cops, and teachers and construction workers get back to work. >> let's bring you in here. we've heard from republicans there are things they agree with

on the president when it comes to his jobs plan. are they eager to compromise and move bipartisan legislation forward or are they thinking about this point that anything positive with the president's name on it is going to hurt them in 2012? >> i think that there is a genuine effort or desire at least to try to get something to move this agenda forward for both parties at this point because, yeah, 53% may like the plan here or there but the reality of it is a vast majority of americans are sick and tired of both parties and their failed leadership here. there is a lot the president said in this speech just now. and quite frankly, it doesn't matter whether he's on the campaign trail or the white house. the results are the same. for 2 1/2, 3 years, nothing has been done. where was the right now in spring of 2009, in the summer of 2 2010 when he was talking about something the summits on jobs and bringing all of these people to washington? not that complicated to put together a forward-thinking jobs plan. and so the reality of it is,

we're in campaign mode. it is what it is. but the fact remains for a lot of voters, folks got on the unemployment line this morning, some have been on that unemployment line for 2 1/2 years. and both parties have better wake up to the fact that come next year, everybody could be looking for a job. >> let's go ahead and hit the campaign trail for a second, jamal. we saw reports over the weekend of wall street shifting their money from the president to mitt romney. how much does this hurt a re-election campaign that's still bringing in a lot of money and is the wall street money abandoning the president is a a. good thing given the current climate of the occupy movement? >> well, a headline that says wall street money goes to mitt romney over obama is not bad for the president right now. a lot of democrats and people in the middle moderates are pretty upset with wall street and the increasing divide between most of the country and they're losing value, losing home wealth, losing stock market, 401(k) wealth. and the upper 1% to 5% who are

making more money during this recession. so that doesn't really hurt the president. what the president has to be to focused on, he raised from a million donors they got to this time, 250,000 people who had never given money to his campaign before. he's got to keep widening the base of donors so that more people are involved and more people have a stake in his victory and get back out there and really campaign the way he's doing now. >> all right. it's going to be interesting to see if he's able to do that. let's look a third quarter funding for these candidates. how much better do herman cain's numbers need to get to stay at the top of the polls? right now he's right there at the bottom. >> yeah. >> and the big numbers from rick perry, will that give him the time that he needs to refine his message and make a strong run? >> i think on the herman cain front he needs to have those numbers go up dramatically. he's got to see -- he's got to take all the cinergy that has

been galvanizing around him since the florida straw poll and turn it into cash. i mean, clearly, he also needs to turn it into organization. remember, this isn't a presidential candidate who is on a book tour. he's not exactly been hunkered down in the back woods of iowa or the neighborhoods of new hampshire, galvanizing supporters to get his name on the ballots in the states that are coming up, et cetera. so there's got to be a concerted effort to actually start running the campaign and raising the big cash they're going to need to sustain that kind of momentum he has right now. for perry, he's got a nice little cache of cash, now he's got to be able to turn that around and have it work for him in terms of his message. he's got to overcome some hurdles and perceptions created by the missteps of not only boar debate performance but some of the issues -- positions on the issues he's taken. those dollars can help him refine the message. but his situation is different. he's got the cash, and there's a limit to what it can do for him.

it's really about him and how he messages himself to the base right now. >> we're going to have to see what happens next. former rnc chairman michael steele, democratic strategist jamal simmons. big thank you to you both. a lot of questions raised today after the fiery crash that killed popular indy car driver dan wheldon, the reining indianapolis champion. he was killed in a horrifying 15-car pile-up during the beginning of the race sunday. now questions are being raised about the safety of the las vegas racetrack and whether too many cars were in the race in the first place. more now from nbc's george lewis who is in las vegas. >> reporter: veronica, veteran race drivers say they have never seen a pile-up quite as bad as this one. cars crashing and spinning. some hitting the wall in flames. dan wheldon's car flying through the air. just minutes into the race on the 12th lap of the cars hitting speeds of 230 miles an hour, the tires on two of the cars

touched, sending them out of control. >> oh, there we go. >> huge crash. >> go low! >> up in turn number two. >> multiple cars involved. >> oh, my. it looks like dan wheldon may be involved in it. >> reporter: wheldon had started the race at the back of the pack, part of a challenge to win $5 million if he got to the front and won. >> he moved up ten spots. is. >> reporter: he was jockeying for position when one of the out of control cars struck him sending his car flying through the air, tumbling end over end and into the wall of the raceway where it burst into flames. one of several race cars to catch fire in the 15-car pile-up. medics quickly airlifted wheldon to a trauma center but doctors there were unable to save his life. >> indy car is very sad to announce that dan wheldon has passed away from unsurvivable injury. our thoughts and prayers are with his family today. >> reporter: three other drivers were injured. wheldon's friends and racing

colleagues reacted to the news of his death in shock. >> he's a friend of all of ours. he will be missed and i just feel for his family. >> lost a -- one of my best friends, one of my greatest teammates. i don't know what to say. i think i'm getting old. i've been through too many of these already. >> reporter: officials decided not to continue the race. the cars did a five-lap tribute to wheldon as number of wheldon's car, 77, flashed on a pylon above the track. before the race in an interview with extra, wheldon talked about the hazards of his sport. >> some people look at it as one of those things that you can just do. but, you know, for me, you know, i take it very seriously. there's a lot of responsibility with that. you know, these indy cars travel at around the indianapolis motor speedway at speeds in excess of 230 miles an hour.

you know, they need to be safe. >> reporter: wheldon won the indianapolis 500 two times, in 2005 and again this year. 33 years old and originally from england, wheldon leaves behind a why and two young sons. and for the people in the racing world for whom risk-taking just goes along with the sport, this scene will haunt them for the rest of their lives. some drivers had expressed misgivings about running indy cars on an oval track like this at very high speeds, saying that when the cars get bunched up, the potential for deadly accidents is very high. and that played out here tragically on sunday. veronica? >> george lewis, thank you so much. we're going tva lot more on the death of dan wheldon coming my doctor told me calcium

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wall street movement is

exactly one month old today and nine alive in 900 cities worldwide. demonstrations are up to this weekend from south america to europe, asia, and australia. the movement's website has collected nearly $300,000 in donations. in rome, a peaceful march with tons of thousand of people turned violent when police say a small group of rioters began smashing shop windows and setting police vehicle on fire. hundreds of protesters were arrested across the united states including 175 people in chicago who refused to leave a public park. president obama gave the movement a shoutout and during his speech at the martin luther king memorial. >> if he were alive today i believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of wall street without demonizing all who work there. >> mara is following this story in new york, michelle franzen is in london and john yang is in london for us. let's go to mara where the

movement got its roots in downtown new york city. mara, what is it like there today on the one-month anniversary? >> reporter: they are marking the anniversary, they said they might get a cake. they are not planning any big event. they did put out a statement saying that while they are gratified about what has happened here they are not celebrating because there is still so much work to do. now, they continue to get support from all over the world. you mentioned the quash donations they've been getting in, $300,000 they say. but they also get donated supplies. dozens and dozens of shipments every single day, up to 400 boxes a day of things from everything to sleeping bags to pizza. supplies that they then use here to camp out. now, coming off a big weekend for the movement, probably the biggest weekend of events they've seen yet. a global day of protest here in new york. thousands gathered in times square for what they dubbed an occupation party. we also saw demonstrations and cities all over the country. and in terms of what they want to do next, which is the big question, we look at all that

they have accomplished over the last month and just raising issues to the national level and getting the amount of attention they've gotten and support, now the question is where do they go from here? i said, what's next? he said they have no plans to issue specific demands. they are just focused now on the expansion. making sure that their occupy movements in as many cities across the country as possible. >> mara, thank you. let's go ahead and head to chicago which had the most number of arrests this weekend here in the united states. nbc's john yang is there live. john, i understand more protests are planned for today, right? >> that's right, veronica. it's a fairly small information here. you can only see a dozen people here right now. the site is very symbolic just like wall street. here we've got the bank of america building that this intersection here in the downtown loop of chicago. straight ahead the chicago board of trade, the big futures and options exchange. across the street the federal

reserve bank of chicago. later today they expect to have a general assembly meeting. this is when everyone gets together to talk about what they're doing, make announcements, decide what they're doing. they will march around the loop this afternoon. and, of course, over the weekend, as you say, there were 175 arrests at grant park which is just down in that direction toward the lake, towards michigan avenue. it was people who were decided to have civil disobedience and chose to be arrested out of a group of about 1,000. only 175 chose to be arrested. veroni veronica? >> john yang, we do appreciate that. let's go ahead and take you across the pond to london. thousands poured into the streets outside st. paul's cathedr cathedral. michelle franzen is there. >> indefinitely, as we know now,

veronica. look behind me, 200 tents have been set up roughly here in front of st. paul's cathedral. this square occupying this space is nestled all around surrounded with the financial district here in london. very close to the london smokes which was the original december tags where protesters wanted to march over this past weekend. police had barricaded that area so they occupied this space instead. take a look to our left here. again, st. paul's cathedral. they have the okay from cathedral officials to stay in this space. that has helped them sort of reduce the tensions with police. but they also have to make sure that they do not also occupy the space in front and detour tourist going into the cathedral. this area a big draw for the people who just want to see the architecture of cathedral but also where princess diana married. >> michelle, thank you. and like you've seen now, these protests have gone global

but questions remain about whether it's over-arching goal can be achievable, ever be achiev achieved. yoin joining us live today is melissa harris-perry, professor of political science at tulane. melissa, i understand, in your upcoming column you're going to address this and you were skeptical about this movement and its effectiveness but now they've gone global. what do you think now? >> i am going to be talking about this a bit in my next nation piece trying to think about models of leadership and whether or not a movement which this has become, it started out demonstration but in the international reach now, this is a movement. and so the question is, does a movement require leadership? does a movement require a set of end goals? this is now a persistent movement, we're now a month in. when would it be time to leave, when would it be time to say wh we've achieved something? right now i've been largely won

over by the occupy movement in a sense that it's not clear to me that it's the occupiers themselves who have to answer those questions. this may be a time when think tanks and those who think of themselves as political leader vsz to do that work. >> let's talk about their strategy for a second. we know they're marching to the banks, bank of america, asking people to pull their money out, go to local banks, credit unions. they're getting stuff done now. what about long-term strategy? you're saying you don't necessarily know about a leader. but, i mean, how much longer can this movement sustain itself? >> well, potentially it could sustain himself for quite a long time. maybe best by not giving itself goals. to the extent they keep saying we're angry about equality. that's sustainable. when you start saying we want a, b, c, you start losing folks who on the want b and c but not a. the fact the anger itself may be sustainable. >> the bigger question is how does this government react? how do they craft policy around this? >> this is the really big

question. particularly now that it's a global movement, how would, for example, the u.s. congress impact based on a set of legislative goal or actions, something that could seem to quell something global. the answer seems to be that couldn't happen. there's not one bill that could pass as it was, for example, the civil rights movement. you could end seg regation on te montgomery buses. you could pass the '64 civil rights act or voting rights act, that's not what this is. this is obviously much more intense. part of question is, can we step up and have a set of goals that are about changing an economic system when right now there really isn't any other model for liberal democracies except domestic capitalism. >> who puts those goals together, you know? >> yes. exactly. and so part of it is trying to figure out where would this leadership come from? it's not going to be one big booming voice person on the mountain top. it's going to have to be a

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super committee. what is your biggest worry when it comes to this committee? who do you think it could eventually hurt the most? >> well, i think it's a bad deal. this committee, this super secret committee, does not have any transparent si. it takes away the power of the people who have been elected in their districts to go to washington and represent them. this super committee has the power to cut $1.5 trillion or, if they don't, an automatic trigger will kick in that will cut $1.2 trillion. we're not able to amend this bill. we don't have any real say on this bill. and, to tell you the truth, the republicans are not negotiating in good faith. they will not touch the oil and gas industry for cuts. they will not touch the financial services super committees -- super industries for cuts. they simply want to cut poor

people, that support for subsidies for low-income people and frail seniors, they want to cut that. they want to cut community development grants, they want to cut pell grants. so i don't see how they're going to come to any agreement and then automatically you're going have $1.2 trillion in cuts across the board kick in, and it's going to be devastating to working people. >> comment on that note. let's take a look at some unemployment numbers by race, african-americans hispanic, 16% is where the africa-american unemployment number stands. i wanted to ask you because this is a bill that's going to be voted on anyway. you can't trust the democrats on the super committee to trust the democrats. why not trust the democrats that are on that super committee? >> the fact of the matter is you have the leadership from both

houses on this super committee and basically the democrats who don't have numbers and the power to really stop this. so there should not be 12 members that are handpicked. it should be regular order of business by the congress of the united states to allow the members who have been elected by the people to have their input to make amendments, to have a voice and to be a part of the deba debate. and that has been taken away du representatives. >> congresswoman, i was on your website today and speaking of giving a voice to the american people, i notice that you're using social media to give people a voice. you're asking people to write to you via facebook and twitter. you're going to read the reaction on the house floor. you're asking people if they could write their own jobs plan. what would they want to do. why did you decide to take this

route and do you think it's going to be effective? >> i certainly do. i think that we should take every effort possible to include the people in what goes on in congress. we have this big jobs bill up. we're not getting a lot of traction on it. the senate has already decided that it's not going to take it up. we know that if all of these cuts, for example, go into effect, that we're going to lose more jobs. you're absolutely right about the unacceptable unemployment rates in the african-american community, in the latino community. a lot of people are going to be hurt. so people have something to say. they have ideas. the social media is a very important tool for communication. we're going to listen to people, we're going to help expose their ideas, we're going to try and have what the democracy should be about. that is inclusion and -- >> i'm going have to let you go. i'm really curious. do you think it's going to make a difference when you do this? >> absolutely.

absolutely. the people can make a difference. but we've got to let them in. they've got to be heard. they've got to be a part of the debate. >> all right. we do appreciate your time 2 today, congresswoman waters. >> thank you very much. shocking admission that the mother of 10-month-old baby lisa was drinking the night of the disappearance. ♪ ♪ ♪ when the things that you need ♪ ♪ come at just the right speed, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ medicine that can't wait legal briefs there by eight, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ ♪ freight for you, box for me box that keeps you healthy, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ ♪ saving time, cutting stress, when you use ups ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ gives you a 50% annual bonus!

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