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families. >> talking up some nut so extreme. >> said to speaker boehner. >> when is he going to take responsibility for something? >> the best way to avoid me acting on my own -- work with me to actually do something. >> doing something is better than doing nothing. i'm right there. door is always open. >> i'll go to them. i'll -- you know -- wash their car. walk their dogs. >> republicans continue to work tirelessly. >> good to have you with us tonight, thanks for watching, here the latest on immigration, after failing to pass a border bill on thursday, house republicans are expected to vote even more radical bills, two of them tonight. republicans had meetings all day today. a new border bill would stop
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president obama from taking executive actions similar to his 2012 deferred action on child arrivals. the program grants a.mnesty for children who come to the country without adult supervision and meet certain requirements. bill would also stop the program from processing new children after july 30th, 2014 just a couple of days ago. earlier today, congresswoman michele bachman said it was radical enough for her to support it. >> dealing with an issue american people care about more than any other, stopping the invasion of illegal foreign nationals in our country. we got to yes. we did it because the leadership sat down with the vote no coalition. we put our concerns on the table and this needs to be said. this bill is so different from the bill yesterday until today that we effectively gutted
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yesterday's bill. this is a brand-new bill. >> so the radicals are winning out, make no mistake about that. this is a symbolic vote. earlier today president obama made clear he would veto the draconian bill. >> house republicans as we speak are trying to pass the most extreme and unworkable versions of a bill that they already know is going nowhere. can't pass the senate and that if it were to pass the senate i would veto, they know it. they are not even trying to actually solve the problem. this is a message bill that they couldn't quite pull off yesterday so they made it more extreme to maybe pass it today. just so they can check a box before they are leaving town for a month. >> president obama went on to call out republicans for asking him to take executive action the day after suing him. >> house republicans suggested that since they don't expect to actually pass a bill that i can
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sign, that i actually should go ahead and act on my own to solve the problem. keep in mind that just a few days earlier they voted to sue me for acting on my own and then when they couldn't pass a bill yesterday, they put out a statement suggesting i should act on my own because they couldn't pass a bill. >> you wonder why americans across the country flat-out hate what's unfolding in washington, d.c. republicans have proven they are successful at one thing and only one thing alone, doing absolutely nothing. the latest poll shows 80% of americans disapprove the way congress is handling their job. this should be of no surprise, 113th congress is on track to be the least productive in american history. that's what you're paying for, folks. for anti-government republicans. this is what they want. republicans want you and me to
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lose faith in our government. they want washington, d.c. so dysfunctional americans, they want nothing to do with it. they won't pay attention to what's going on. on thursday, democratic leader nancy pelosi said current republican behavior in the house is unprecedented and congresswoman pelosi thinks they want americans to lose faith so they won't vote. >> this is something almost new in terms of abandoning the debate we've always had in our country, a healthy debate. if you're anti-governance, what you want people to do is not participate in the electoral process. the confusion, the negativity that em nates from here in a congressional year is one that is not conducive to people exercising their voting rights. >> the leader is exactly right for the democrats. republicans want you to hate washington, d.c. so you sit it out.
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you don't show up come november and don't vote. meanwhile, republicans say one thing and do another. the day after suing president obama, john boehner came out and said this. >> the month of august we'll continue to make the american people's priorities our priority. that means talking about our plan for jobs and the economy. and in september the house will focus on american solutions to help get people back to work, lower cost at home an restore opportunity for all americans. >> he never explains exactly what kind of bills they have passed in the house and sent over to the senate. let me tell you what they are. they got tax cuts for the wealthiest americans and tax cuts for corporations, everything the people don't want is what boehner has sent over to the senate. earlier today, president obama called out house republicans on doing the opposite. republicans are standing in the way of america's success. >> i've been pushing for common sense ideas like rebuilding
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infrastructure in ways that are sustained over many years and support millions of good jobs and help businesses compete. i've been advocating on behalf of raising the minimum wage and making it easier for working folks to pay off student loans. fair pay, paid leave, all of these policies have two things in common, all of them would help working families feel more stable and secure and all of them so far have been blocked or ignored by republicans in congress. >> so let's just take a look at how republicans plan to restore opportunity for all americans. reality check is this, their game plan is to destroy opportunity, i think for all americans, they don't care. here's the short list. president obama passes the affordable care act, provided health care for millions of americans and forget the polls, lives are being saved. house republicans, what have they done? voted 56 times to repeal it. every day we see the effects of climate change and document them
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on the program damaging nearly every corner of the earth, science in denial, denying republicans refuse to acknowledge climate change is real. there's not a scientist on the face of the eartha can convince them something is happening. republicans are owned by the oil lobby, that might have something to do with it. they push for more drilling and more pipelines at every opportunity that will only make the problem worse. 65% by the way of american roads are in less than good condition. you think we would do something about that? we only spend 55 billion hours in traffic every year but, wait a minute, there's one party out there refuses to even put a long-term infrastructure bill up for vote. they know it would pass. the latest example is republicans doing nothing on immigration. every single thing republicans do at this point in juncture is to make you lose faith in your government, to think that nothing can get done in
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washington, no minimum wage, no extension of unemployment insurance which we could have paid for, you name it. republicans are to kill it. they are going to kill everything they can. this is the republican view of progress. this is their template and game plan to make shurg you don't show up in november and make the change. think about this. over 90% of americans in the country wanted simple background checks after sandy hook and we couldn't get it because the lobby is so strong in washington. that has signatured everything else the rest of the way. if you can't get that, what are you going to get? not much except for radical talk. michele bachmann says the number one problem is immigration. no, it's not. the number one problem in the country is jobs and the republicans have done nothing to help this president or the democrats do anything to make sure our treasury is solvent and that there's fair taxation and jobs are being created. so instead, they would rather have bridges crumble.
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they would rather have school buses of kids go over bridges that are insufficient. that's the gamble they want to play. they want you to think it's all about bad government that's not getting it done. they want you to believe that it's government, it's america, we can't get it done and all because this black guy is in the white house. he's been the pron all along. this is how they are playing the game to the midterms. millions of americans have been affected by the recovery. the numbers out today, we'll talk more about it later in the show. millions have been affected by saving the automobile industry and millions of americans have been affected by health care change in this country. you will not go broke under obamacare if you get sick. that is a radical change. the insurance companies don't own you tote sally anymore. there's now competition and options for you. this is huge change but you never would know it. listen to the republicans or listening to the conservative
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media in this country fueled by hate and anger and want to know why americans are pissed off at washington, d.c.? don't tell me we can't rally around things. everybody was rooting for the soccer team. we know how to root for things that function, that at least have light at the end of the tunnel of functioning. but when you have an age of obstruction, led by mr. cantor who doesn't have the guts to stick it out all the way after his constituents put him in office in washington, that tells you everything you need to know about character of the republicans. >> it's almost as if they'll cheat to win. how can i say that? well, look at the gerrymandering. get your cell phones out. tonight's question, do republicans want americans to lose faith in the political process? text a for yes and b for no, to
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67622. we'll bring you the results later on in the show. for more let me bring in democrat strategist bob shrum tonight. good to have you with us, always. it appears their strategy is to make people hate government and have them not show up for the ball game so to speak. what's unfolding here and has it ever been done before? >> it's never been done quite at this level. these folks hate the government. they can't run the government. they want to run it down and want to destroy confidence. you're right, nancy pelosi is right, their whole script for the midterm is to try to discourage voters and get people to disengage and not turn out. they are being driven by the most extreme elements of their party on immigration, for example, by king and bachmann and ted cruz. and it's political suicide for them in the long term, like in 2016, they can't win the presidency doing this. they think in 2014 their bet is
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that young people, hispanics, single women won't turn out and vote for themselves in their interest and somehow or other they can prevail. when you listen to the list of issues the president mentioned, whether it's minimum wage or infrastructure, or it's tax reform, i actually think it's unfair to call this a do nothing congress. it's a zombie congress, driven by ideology, convinced somehow or other that it can discourage enough people from voting and rely on gerrymandering and cheating and by the way, they do cheat all the way from the 2000 election on the republican party cheated in this process. they are hoping that smout or other they can hold on and take the senate which will make things even worse. >> i harken back to our friends robert greenawalt, produced outfoxed, anniversary not long ago and the playbook has always been, say one thing, do another but keep repeating things over
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and over again and people believe what you're saying. boehner has said all along his priority is jobs and restoring opportunity. but he's done nothing to parallel that action whatsoever. so if it is to stall the government to get people to hate government and make sure nothing gets done on obama's watch, hasn't boehner in a jaded way been a successful speaker for what they wanted to accomplish? >> yes and no. he's successful in the sense he does feed the anti-government mood although people are figuring this out. you mentioned one poll at the top of the segment, this republican congress with a 7% approval rating. that's historically low. i think he's unsuccessful in a longer term sense. the republican party cannot survive as anti-woman, anti-hispanic, anti-young people and anti-jobs party, it won't work. you know what their idea of a
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jobs bill is? another big tax cut for very wealthy people. they call it jobs and hope people will think it's jobs, that's not what it is. in a country increasingly concerned with income inequality, i would say boehner's short-term success is going to be a long-term failure. >> unpack what happened in the last 24 hours with ted cruz going over and yanking arms on the house side. now there's going to be two bills voted on. how do you see this? the tea party not enough to take over congress but certainly enough to make things miserable. >> well, i guess in a way they have taken over congress. ted cruz is more powerful than john boehner and more powerful than mitch mcconnell. gave us a government shutdown. in the last 24 hours he organized enough republicans that they wouldn't vote for even a bad border bill and came up with a bigots bill to destroy the future of the dreamers. it alienates hispanic voters and long-term disaster for
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republican party and he doesn't care, they don't care. the republican party is dominated in its primaries and in its core by a very angry remnant of americans who are r fewer yis about the change in composition and we're becoming a majority of minorities and as you suggested earlier, an african-american president of the united states. that's what i think happened. >> bob shrum, great to have you with us tonight. appreciate your time always. let me bring in miami-dade candidate for lieutenant governor in florida, annette, great to have you with us tonight. what damage do you think this has done? what message has this sent out over the last 24 hours about immigration and hassling going back on the conservative side? >> i think they are making a huge mistake. they think they are firing up the base and i think what they don't realize they are going to fire up us. because they tried this in 2012 with barack obama and said we weren't going to come out and we
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actually came out in many more numbers. in florida, for example, actually delivered more votes in 2012 than we did in 2008 when we were so excited about the historic election and electing our first african-american president. and look 2012, we took more votes. we're going to do that again this time. i believe that. i believe that in florida especially, we are going to come out and vote. we are afblgt affected by immigration and have a lot of hispanics that care about this. this is a do-nothing congress, which is why here in florida we have decided that charlie crist and i, when we get elected on inauguration day we're going to use the pen to enact first day of fairness, something much needed in florida. >> and annette, does this passion, is it going to play out in an off-year election? this -- i mean, historically this is not great for democrats,
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but it could be because the issues are so different. connect those two. >> i'll give you a perfect example. we put out i just told you about the first day of fairness information we put out. one of them is equal pay for equal work for women. and what do the republicans do? rick scott comes out with five men to say, you know what, this is outrageous. what's outrageous is you think women should make 83 cents on the dollar for every man for the same job. $10.10 an hour. that's what we want to pay for minimum wage. it's a liveable wage. this is all of the exact same stuff going on at the federal level going on at the state level in florida. we need a change. i believe our voters will come out because we know what we paid for in 2010 when we stayed home. we got terrible government at all levels. and we cannot do that this time. >> all right, annette taddeo, great to have you with us.
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voted on by you. >> the number three trender, personal foul. >> ray rice has spoken publicly. >> i made the biggest maisty of my life. >> first time since being suspended for two games for an altercation with his now wife. >> my actions were inexcusable and i have to live with the rest of my life. >> he owns up to his off the field actions. >> one thing i want to do today is apologize to my wife. >> ray rice got it right the second time. >> i still got kids out there that wear 27 jerseys and please don't make the mistake i did. >> ray rice understands the gravity of the situation. >> violence of any kind, especially man on woman is not right and shouldn't be tolerated. >> the number two trender, shark week. >> sharknado has wound to a new coast. >> let's go kill some sharks. >> setting records for sci-fi.
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>> we don't know what it says about the future of our republic that 4 million people watched it. >> there was such a ground swell of anticipation for sharknado, it almost broke the internet. >> it was a star-studded or person-studded cast. >> need a bigger boat. >> will there be a sharknado 3? sci-fi says it's happening. >> holy shark. >> homeward bound. >> the new york times called it one of the most stunning upsets in congressional history. >> you lose. >> not one of us should take for granted the awesome honor and responsibility we have to serve our fellow americans. >> cut short his congressional career. >> the republican congressman said he will resign from congress august the 18th. >> i'm out of here. >> he asked terry mccalliffe to hold a special election that co-insides with the general election. >> to make sure voters have a voice during the lame duck
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session of congress. >> it's been an honor and privilege to serve asth fz majority leader. >> whatever happened to serving out your time? he's pulling the palin. he says he now wants a special election so that the constituents in that district will have representation in the lame duck. what's wrong with him doing his job? >> you know, he can make $174,000 a year sitting in congress and doing nothing or make untold millions being a lobbyist. we know what this is about. he has to wait one year to become a lobbyist and this gives a head start. since he hates government waste so much he asked terry mcauliffe to allow the good people of virginia to pay for a special election. >> you know, terry is not going to do that. >> palin called him a quitter. >> that's right.
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but this is the guy that met secretly with his colleagues and thought up obstruction. this is the guy who said, no, it has been about him all along. >> all along. >> and i mean, he's number one. >> yeah. >> this underscores it's always been about sarah palin and her world and always been about eric cantor in his world. resigning from the house in the middle of vacation. how telling, isn't it? >> this is why he doesn't have a job anymore. the voters in the district know this is the truth. he wanted john boehner's job. eric cantor wanted to be speaker of the house for years. if othello is it orange instead of black. if my best friend wanted my job, i would spray tan my hangovers as well, it's the clearest sign yet, leaving for a number of reasons, it's a lame duck reason
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and not going to do anything. why stick around? it does give a head start on the lobbyist quest. even more so, i think that the most important thing about it, it proves that he was always just about eric cantor from the very beginning. he says i'm not going to go anything for a while. if you're not going to do anything, why are you leaving congress? what's the change? >> because it's all about him. it's always been all about him. all right, before we go, you know, this shark mania taking place out there sharknado, look, we've had shark excitement in the past. remember the '70s and "jaws", this is a modern day "jaws". >> no it is a great classic film built open a western premise. "sharknado" ironic is the new bad. it's cheap fun and stupid and junk food and it's goofy and it -- i'm sure sales went
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through the roof after it aired. i do want to add more thing, i want to pay a little tribute to him. by leaving his job early, he's finally doing what nobody else in the congress has been able to do, created one new job. >> good to have you with us tonight. >> tea party mouthpiece ben w carson, and his twisted message. lands in tonight's pretenders. the brightest minds in the economy battle it out over the state of the country. rapid response panel coming up next taking your questions, ask ed live here on "the ed show" stay with us. cadmium, mercury, lead. all on the periodic table.
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i said, well, it's catching a 10-pound walleye. look what happened last weekend. >> that is a huge walleye. whoa! whoa! that's what we're here for. yes, sir, great net job, john, there you go. wow. that is a big fish. that's a nice walleye. this is a kind of fishing we have at north country lodge. look at that baby. >> that's what fires me up. i think we'll go for the repeat this weekend. stick around, rapid response panel is next. i'm josh lip ton with your cnbc market wrap. stocks end lower this employment friday, dow is off 70 and s&p sheds 5 and nasdaq falls 17. the big story of the day, the
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economy adding 209,000 jobs in july, marking six straight months of job growth above the 200,000 level. the unemployment rate ticks slightly higher to 6.2%. in consumer products giant procter & gamble saw profits jump more than 30% this past quarter and shares rose 3% today. that's it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. from 2000 to 2011, on average 17 manufacturers a day shut down in america.
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welcome back. the numbers are out the july jobs report is out and even though the payroll gain was below expectations, it's far from disappointing. the new report from the bureau of labor statistics shows the united states economy added 198,000 private sector jobs and 11,000 public sector jobs. that totals out at 209,000 jobs
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added in the month of july overall. the unemployment rate did edge up slightly to 6.2%. and folks, i know it sounds counter intuitive, but this is actually, i believe, good news. because the rise in unemployment is mostly the result of more people joining the search. in july, the labor participation rate went up by a tenth of a percent, to 62.9%. the labor force grew by 329,000. which marks the third consecutive monthly increase. what's the bottom line here? the u.s. economy has now added over 200,000 jobs per month for six consecutive months. the late time this happened, back in 1997. july was the 5 3rd consecutive month of job growth in the country and longest streak on record. 2014 is currently on track to be the best year for u.s. job
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creation since 1999. some people will try to call this report disappointing, which is prove the overall landscape is improving and the standards have only gotten higher. despite these gains, some republicans say it's not enough. what do the experts say? our rapid response panel, david kay jorn johnson and professor of economics at the university of maryland, great to have you with us. peter, i remember you and i having conversations in green room in minneapolis, a little down in the mouth on the economy at the time, back in 2009. what has happened, peter? tell us from a conservative standpoint what has happened. how good and how bad is this economy? >> until now the obama recovery has been about the same pace as the bush recovery. if we suck the influence of a
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very cold winter, things are getting better. things are starting to thaw. we really haven't had the kind of jobs growth that we need but at least it's been stable. if we look at what happened between 1980 and 2000, it was much more rapid. but at least things are starting to get better. i think if we continue to recover, now the obama recovery will have a quicker pace than the bush recovery. it will be in the upper twos. it's not the 4% that we need but let's face it, things are getting better. i have to concede you that tonight. >> all right, please concede that these consecutive numbers of job growth in months has never been seen before as well, that's pretty good considering where we were. david, what's the best thing we can say about this economy tonight? >> david? maybe you can't hear me. i'll ask you, peter. what's the best thing that you can say about this economy tonight, with all of the
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arguments out there, if you were in the classroom with university of maryland, what would you tell your students, what's the best thing out there? >> maybe if i was in the oval fs office and president was asking what's the best thing i could say i would point to manufacturing jobs growth. we're experiencing a renaissance in manufacturing. i wish we had more of it. part of the problem we have is the manufacturing we're getting is extraordinarily high tech from the point of view of production. it doesn't require a lot of workers, but now we're starting to get jobs growth in the mid 20,000s, not 100,000 i would like and you would like, but that is better. america is becoming more competitive. it's becoming smarter and smarter. what worries me most and this is a challenge no matter where you sit on the idealogical spectrum, we're not creating enough jobs for ordinary people, the people who really are happy with high school education or couple of years of community college.
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we simply have to do better by them. >> well, i've had conversations here in the midwest with people on that, the tech schools, they don't seem to be getting students that they used to get. as kids come out of high school, don't want to work very hard. i don't know if it's a work ethic issue or not or want to go the professional route, but when it comes to skilled labor and skilled positions, it seems it's hard to find good people and you know, folks that go into those kind of jobs can end up making six figures if their career within the first ten years of work. it is a changing economy. i want to focus in on what you just said about the manufacturing sector being high tech. are we going to see more of this? have the traditional manufacturing -- the traditional manufacturing sector, has that left america? when you look at the number of factories we've seen closed and number of jobs shipped overseas, what's your take on that?
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what's the future of that sector? >> it couldn't be more positive, middle tech, not making t-shirts and making automotive parts and rear axle assemblies could be much more positive, replacement parts in the auto sector if we did something about the currency issue with china. both bush and obama administrations have been reluctant to do the kind of things i have recommends and paul krugman on the right and left have recommended. they haven't been willing to discuss those things. we could do better in the medium tech areas. with regard to the skill schools, schools for kids out of high school where they learn a trade, the real problem is we've sold everybody on this notion you have to go to college to be successful and all kinds of paths to success. you know, we're getting a lot of people coming to college that really -- i don't want to say they are not smart enough, what are you inclined to do? not everybody wants to sit around and do abstract thinking all the time. i grew up in a blue collar
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neighborhood. the guy beside me became a machinist and liked to work with his hands and made a good living because he was happy doing it and got into that. today that is discouraged. where i went to high school, if you wanted that track, we'll show you how to make a good living that way. >> well, that job that you just described, i had a conversation with a gentleman that owns a number of car dealers in the midwest just last week. these high tech technicians in the car industry that pay 80 to $85,000 a year, they can't find people. they -- >> i know. >> do you agree with me on that? do you hear that as well? >> i have several friends who own dealerships at my club and hear the same thing from them. if you know anything about fixing a car -- i've been in conversation continuously through the crisis with ford, if you know anything about cars
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today, they require a lot of brains to fix. this is not work for dumb people. it just happens to be people who like to work with machinery and work with their hands. but it requires a reasonable amount of training, a year or two. it's not just tinkering anymore and not intuitive. it's really a shame but young people need to be encouraged. here's where i think -- want to ask me something the president can do that's not idealogical, go to the high schools and talking about why it's a good thing to do those kinds of jobs. >> well, it is a good thing to do those kinds of jobs. i think it would be beneficial. i think it would be beneficial if the congress could get together on a jobs package, make we could try infrastructure and bring people back into that part of the economy. david kay johnson as well, we've got our tech problems squared away. what's the best thing you see about this economy right now? >> we're continuing to get job growth. and we will continue to have that and it would happen a lot
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faster if we have the government investing in the future. that's the single most important thing holding us back that we're not putting to work with things we need to do, particularly fixing up infrastructure. that would make job growth take off. >> take off, give us a number. what would we be seeing? adding 300 or 400,000 jobs a month? >> there's plenty of slack out there, we could add 400,000 jobs a month until we get to where we should be. we're behind about 7 million jobs. and it's entirely in my view a function of austerity that has not worked. it's why overall we're worse off now than we were in the year 2000. >> uh-huh. so moving forward, if we don't have a congress that wants to invest in anything, is this maybe as good as it gets? >> well, it should accelerate somewhat, we should see the
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economy as more people and minimum wage raised in various places and people coming back into the workforce, the growth should accelerate some but not nearly to the degree it should. we used to come out recessions like this and now it's like this because it's the government holding back the economy. >> all right, great to have both of you with us tonight. the numbers out there are good, no doubt. the all-stars of immigration debate. keep it here, we're back. vo: this is the summer. the summer of this. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. where memories will be forged into the sand. and then hung on a wall for years to come. get out there, with over 50,000 hotels at $150 dollars or less. expedia. find yours.
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that. this week the immigration debate has brought out the worst of the worst in the party. it's really fallen to new lows. >> we have thousands of pounds of marijuana coming across the border. it is on the backs of young people that fit the very demographic that are in some of these facilities now. >> they did tell us that 100% of the girls coming out of guatemala were on birth control. >> they said they want to turn america blue and if you bring in hundreds of thousands or millions of people and give them the ability to vote -- >> the advertisement that has been such a huge magnet that's caused these families to give their daughters birth control pills and send them down a rape path all the way to mexico. >> it's president obama's lawyers who are not going to allow them to ask for an i. dchlt. so go vote or you're going to lose your benl fits. that drives people to vote and it ensures republicans don't ever get elected again.
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>> joining me tonight, lionel, new york television commentary and let me tell you preview news decoder. >> it sounds like a death trap, a bad springsteen cover trap. it's a suicide baby we're born to run. at the great don cornelius said, ed, how did we get so far? what are they talking about? >> no one know as what they're talking about. first of all, there's laws on the books that forces this country to deal with these young kids who are being smuggled into the country. the congress won't do anything. >> they're already here. how exactly are we going to either remove those who are already here. by the way, ed, i don't want to suggest xenaphobia racism. we're talking about basically mexicans, which i get it. now we have the ebola scare
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thrown in here. my question is if we were to snap our fingers right now in every undocumented illegal alien here today were to vanish, do you know what would happen to tin fra structure alone in terms of commerce. that's number one. number two, we're talking about, what, the 2,000-mile border? what kind of a fence or wall or divider are we talking about? and dare i say if we were to build it, dwho you think would be doing the construction for the very site? i mean it is insoluble. i don't mean to make light of it, though it may seem like i am. but it's beyond my pay grade here today, but the rhetoric, ed. michele bachmann was talking about kids being sold or turned over for medical experimentation. i don't want to go over the historical antecedents to that.
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>> it's inconceivable. right ring radio has also been taken over with the immigration talk, here it is, the anti-immigration talk. >> i'm gravely concerned because i don't think we're going to win the immigration debate, i really don't. >> a convert trojan horse invasion where you incrementally transfer the population of one country, say mexico and central america, china, russia, all these countries who have violated immigration laws in masses and millions, transfer those people into the hose country being the united states. >> not only people with potentially terrorist activities, but also very dangerous weaponsen are going to cross our board in addition to very dangerous drugs, and also life-threatening dioceses, potentially including ebola and other diseases like that. >> why do i think michele's
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statement is that everyone's last name is bachmann. glenn beck we have to win a battle. >> glenn says, we have a problem, houston, we have a problem. michele, you're killing me with this. not only the mexicans but the russians, chinese, all of them ebola-laden, weaponized, drug-toting, drug trafficking, people who hate our country, terrorists all coming over. and here's the question. right now, i'd say terrific. what do we do? don't tell me about the feds. something tells me, ed, that in our level of electronic sophistication, a fence ain't going to necessarily cut it. what exactly is their solution? i'm waiting. >> we will answer that question next week. lionel, always great to have you with us on the friday edition of
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the ed show. >> god bless you. >> you bet. that is "the ed show." appreciate your time. i'm ed. "politics nation" right now. >> right now they're breaking the new gop immigration plan with a vote set for later tonight. it comes after the gop's embarrassing implosion yesterday that developed into chaos and infighting. in a surprise news conference late today the president called out house republicans for holding this sham vote while refusing to address the real issue. >> house republicans as we speak are trying to pass the most extreme and unworkable versions of a bill that they already know is going
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