at center for american progress and editor in chief of think progress tell you why he was a guest on our show on monday night. it was deprogrammed this network if you could go to the funders and say stop funding this a then what does that accomplish while it stops these five individuals from operating and producing the propaganda that they are producing every day which then stops the cycle of people using it on fox news and. the washington times the national review radio our website like rush limbaugh and michael savage and politicians that's right it's the worst kept secret in down box new without spread a lot of phobia how many of these so-called experts on muslims and islam mentioned in this report often appear on their shows and that's why eric bolling is making up claims in quotes on air trying to spread it is support seems like a fair and balanced network for a family like it when they're being called out for what they do and that's why we're giving eric bolling tonight's tool time award. ok time for happy hour and joining me this evening is our key correspondent christine for

involved were they coming from how does it work we actually put out a report the center for american progress action fund recently called fear and basically it tracks seven large foundations and other donors that channel something like forty two million dollars a year in two books seminars tours for j.d. is usually right it's a multimillion dollar industry i mean there's people who make their it you know their entire livelihood based on pumping up this beer muslims in america shari'a law things that really you know have no sort of relationship to what's actually you know threatening this country and threatening american life of goods in the middle class but rather just you know almost racist sort of fear you know in russell court nine hundred fifty three the conservative mind the nice little book. of the modern conservative movement he identified the ten tenets of conservatism and one of them this is i'm paraphrasing from memory but he said conservatives understand that people are more highly motivated by emotions than by reason they recall a motive in logic. fear is certainly one of the most

english is not a primary language so what makes these countries attractive for our for math for american progress because americans these should be i mean american kids they should be pretty realistic they you may be thinking of of going around i mean this is introducing yourself to foreign cultures but kids think about how to have and to find a good job how to make money so why are they going about maybe the chinese example or want something else or your first question was about the global economy and the knowledge economy that's taking place outside of great britain that's taking place outside of france that is india that is china that is egypt and so americans are very conscious of the need to understand those places so i think that's why they're going to non more and more to nontraditional destinations and they ought to because that's where the global economic action is. in the most prestigious university rankings that we see and that we can take a look at the russian education looks quite merry ocker and it's very sad for the russians because we we are used to especially the people that were

alleged incident of plagiarism against the fellow named lee bang who worked for the center for american progressral think tank who tweeted himself, this is lee tweeting. "a lot of your story looks familiar because i had it first." those are serious allegations. the "new york times" ought to investigate. something tells me that they are not going to. >> rich, it begins in very first paragraph of the story. on the third floor of a gleaning office building overlooking a golf course. it goes on and on. well, the san diego union tribune shot the video afterwards there is no golf course. it overlooks a busy highway. how can the "new york times" be this irresponsible? this reporter wasn't careful enough. again, the thrust of the story is that issa is corrupt. if you put that on the front page and played it with a big headline, you have responsibility to take it back. >> the times public editor is now investigating. do you think it should be retraction of the story? >> i think they should retract specific things found to be wrong. you have to hand it to the times. they have a public editor and have some

in fact it was the center for american progress and think progress blog some i don't know maybe a month or so ago pointed out that there are twenty five states with democratic legislatures and governors that have increased taxes increase spending and seen their unemployment rate fall right and seen their g.d.p. grow and there are twenty four states with republican governors republican legislators that have cut spending cut taxes and seen their unemployment go up and seen their g.d.p. go down so and the net net since president obama became president there's been about five hundred thousand government jobs that have been laid off right my recollection of the math is right. if those government workers in those republican states had not been laid off right now unemployment would be to where we were sent and obama wouldn't be in this trouble he's right am i looking at a conspiracy here or at least a political strategy i mean you know it's republicans keep scapegoating public employees they keep making statements that government should shed more jobs that you know the state local and federal

likely top three trillion dollars by the time they finally end if they ever do the center for american progress examine in what ways we could have spent that money instead of bombing the middle east and killing or displacing millions of people including over six thousand dead american soldiers turns out with bush's war money we could have instead given fifty nine million children health insurance every year for the last ten years where we could have sixty three million people to college for free every year for the last ten years or we could have hired one point six million elementary school teachers every year for the last ten years any one of those alternatives would have made our nation far wealthier and safer than the endless wars that george w. bush declared in the wake of nine eleven and tragically that barack obama continues today. and it's not just about the persistent u.s. military presence in iraq and afghanistan that have bankrupted the nation so about the endless drone strikes around the world from yemen to somalia to pakistan that have killed so many innocent people and leave muslim

and the lessons are just over seats there right here in the united states to the center for american progress has pointed out individual states have reacted differently to the recession with twenty four states choosing to cut spending and twenty five states choosing to increase spending and guess what happens pretty straightforward it's actually quite amazing this is the states that cut spending saw their economies shrink on average by nearly three percent they also saw on average a one percent point increase in their unemployment rate so in twenty four mostly republican states spending cuts lead to higher unemployment and lower economic output. on the other hand states that increased spending grew their economies and lowered unemployment on average states that increased spending so i have pointed increasing economic growth and a two tenths of a percent drop in their unemployment rate as in more jobs are created in the mostly democratic states and their economies perform better but none of us mattered to republicans in congress who demanded deep spending cuts and even held our economy hostage

there was pressure here from from the center for american progress but how it's a forty two million dollar a year industry it's become a major tool of so-called news to make their viewers afraid and so they're constantly check the t.v. and i was a go and what's going on they've created an other that they have sort of successfully basically demonized and it leaves the series writes the drone strikes and rights abuses human rights abuses you know pretty people in these horrible prisons that the banner writes about what for example we have had two and now the third consequence of nine eleven we are in two wars and arguably several others with two full blown wars frankly you're more likely to die from lightning than from a terrorist strike anyone went through the troubles with the ira i mean you had maggie thatcher was the then the prime minister of england they blew up number ten downing street the home of the right house you know they almost killed the prime minister the prime minister of italy eleanor actually was killed he was kidnapped and stuck in the back of a truck and by europe went t

according to the center for american progress of all nine supreme court justices remain consistent in their previous rule. then at least seven on the high court will favor the affordable care act then again the will rule in an election year and given that this is one of the most politicized supreme courts in our nation's history pretty much anything can happen but if republicans were hoping to use the supreme court's any decision for political advantage no one let romney know here's what he said about the individual mandate yesterday on the sean hannity really show. the idea for a health care plan by the heritage foundation a great conservative think tank helped out that i've told the truth but one of the very first people who came up with the idea of the individual mandate that years and years ago it was it would feed if they could serve it idea to say you know what people have responsibility to care for themselves if they can it's right the individual mandate which conservatives claim is unconstitutional was according to mitt romney a conservative idea so how conservatives try to sp

attorney policy analyst and blogger at the center for american progress in great to have you with us if you back thanks tom thanks for joining us first of all just to you know we kind of recap what's going on with rick perry there have been this kind of read you know jury mannering goes back basically to the founding of the republic. are there any serious efforts that are being made beyond things like enforcement actions by the department justice to stop. this this every ten year dance that goes on we'll see what changes the ten year dance has to go on to some extent because the reason why the redrawn every ten years is because of the census so you have to redraw all the districts that the districts are reasons lisa we should run faster into the problem is that you have this you have this game where whichever party is in power tries to draw the districts to maximize their own power for the next ten years and take it away from the other party and that's what's going on here is that the republicans control texas they are of course drawing their lines to try to get as much republican po

than fifty billion in large part apparently according to think progress in any way is are for american progress because they're aggressively trading in commodities futures probably a lot of those high frequency trading we don't know about you know reasonable gas. if a multi-billion dollar industry is risky and people who make in some cases one or two billion dollars a year are going to be impacted by this. wouldn't be make sure it doesn't happen i mean we're talking about two weeks income to what we an entire presidential campaign the interests here are pretty clear there are a lot of people making money off of activity that has no real social value to it it is that you've got the high frequency trading that would be most affected by these kinds of taxes that would be a tiny tax maybe zero point two five percent or so but on each trade and so that adds up for people who are trading every second or so and i think it's a it's an important time to take a critical look at these kinds of activities what is it really contributing to society and i think we're seeing huge momentum around this in europe

we have a graph, the center of american progress, that i brought along tonight.you'll see on it, they did something interesting. they looked at job creation over periods of time which had different top marginal tax rates. different top tax rates for the people the republicans call the job creators. what they found, i think, is essentially destroys this argument. the best years, the best years for job creation in this country actually had the highest marginal tax rates. the best five years from 1950, the -- >> the highest bar there is in the 75% to 80% top tax bracket. that's when you really saw job creation just roaring along. >> that little tiny red line, the little itty bitty one with the no job creation, that's where we are now. very, very low top marginal rate, very, very low job creation. i don't want to go too far. it's important to say we don't want extremely high marginal tax rates. they discourage work. we don't think tax hikes in general are a great thing for the economy. neither are spending cuts to things linsurance. we find taxes are not the driving

author and jennifer a former white house press secretary and now president of the center for american progressnd. >> dan, let's fact chieck the governor. said he said it was a state issue. >> he weighs right on one and wrong on the other. >> we'll give him half right. >> the interview took place in '07 right after a debate in new hampshire and we sat down for a web interview we were doing. i said, you talked about health care and what you had done in massachusetts but i didn't hear you say anything about taking the plan national if you were president. he said, no, absolutely not. it's a plan for the states. i believe states are the laboratories of democracy, the old cliche. but he was not pushing it as something he would try to do as president to implement for the country. >> michelle bernard, obviously, a rick perry video, rick perry is desperately trying to turn the story away from him. he's had a bad 96 hours, comes in the last week before a major fund-raising deadline. if you're the perry campaign, they believe health care still worse for romney than immigration for them. are they right? >

let's bring in jennifer palmieri, senior vice president of communications for the center for american progress. somebody who has been around the west wing. and kevin madden, republican strategist who served as the national press secretary for mitt romney's 2008 campaign. is not a paid romney person now but a supporter. >> probably wouldn't mind being in the west wing. >> we'll see. >> all right. jennifer, i want to start with you. you were in the clinton white house. you know what it's like when you have to have this communication with congress and you're trying to do a joint session speech that isn't a scheduled one a la the state of the union. your assessment on how the white house handled this? >> i think that weirdly in the end, i think dan pfeiffer is right, it's not like voters are going to care about this. i guess the one thing i would say is they probably should have anticipated that the press would have a big reaction to going the same night as the republican presidential debate even if they hadn't intended that, that there would be a lot of speculation about is this a political speec

. >> thank you, ian melhiser with the center of american progress. the way you characterize the lower court's decision in the eyewitness case they essentially said the police didn't do anything wrong and so that makes it okay. >> yes. >> the lower court said because the police officers did not orchestra that eyewitness id we did not have to engage in an analysis whether there was a due process violation. >> that strikes me as tragically wrong and here's why. every case i know of where the court has said the police didn't do anything wrong so we're not going to allow a remedy here. it's an exclusionary rule case and an exclusionary rule case is the nature of the case where we have evidence that we know is probative of the if the police find me marijuana healing they know i'm in possession of marijuana, the question here is evidence is probative in the first place and so it seems to me -- like it's a massive shift in our constitutional law if we're going to move towards saying that the purpose of a trial is no longer to assess probative evidence to det

action forum, and heather boucher is a senior economist with the liberal-leaning center for american progressployment and economic well being. good to have you both back with us again. thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: heather boucher, i'm going the start with you, first. what did you hear that you think can be effectiveç jobs, which is all the president was focused on tonight? >> so setting aside politics and whether or not he'll be able to get this passed through congress, i think the most effective pie, the pieces that earn the biggest bang for their buck are the investments in infrastructure and the extensions of the unemployment insurance program for the long-term unemployed. we know that over the great recession the extensions that we have done so far for benefits have kept about 1.6 million people in jobs each quarter because when you give money to people out of work, they spend that money in their communities and they keep other peoplejeñç jobs. so it not only helps those families, but it helps their communities and it helps job creation. that's what the president is trying to

familiar with with my theory routinely but it's very evident that it working had three of the american good progress over russia plays a fairly enjoyed. i'm just going by saturday's game in a play completely australians down trying to fifty points but you feel like a massive moral victory for the beds which number of me don't see nelson new zealand. i'll be back with a number of days in a couple of hours but don't forget to check out our youtube channel which is an artsy sport news your comments are more than welcome thanks for watching. from. from. them. very first verses of the bible that all human beings are created but sentimental came in god's image and it doesn't say just jews or god used. sixty to seventy percent of what i did as a comment so when you have to play territories listen to what the turds doing what we call making our presence so we go out should some bozo they hear a knock on some doors run to the other corner and hit another house or religion and nationalism or not is judaism have been a part of the problem they've been part of what leads to. bloodshed if you want to bomb guys o

host: i have statistics from the center for american progress. these are numbers from 2010 and it tells us that tax revenues $2.2 billion while tax expenditures -- guest: within the tax code, there are many provisions that do not have anything to do with the fair and equitable collection to run the government. it is a spending purpose. we call those tax expenditures because the purpose is more like the purpose of the government expenditure than anything having to do with the tax system. we just happen to implement it through our tax system. it does not make any difference whether the government since you a tax -- a check to help pay your mortgage or reduces the tax. what the statistics point out is that the tax expenditures have grown and grown. we are at a level of a trillion dollars. it is eating into the revenue we collect. host: i would also like to show you the irs charts of 2011 individual income-tax rates. the tax rate is 10%. the next level is a 15%. 25%, 28%. those making $174,000 are taxed at 32%. those are the published tax rates. what

today we start with possible progress. americans have been frustrated about gridlock in washington, but last night congress got something done. senate lawmakers avoided a weekend session of congress and a costly repeat of this summer's partial faa shutdown. nbc's tracie potts joins us live from washington with details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. now we head into the weekend not having to worry about a partial shut down or thousands of jobs at risk. washington exhibits what seems to be the spirit of cooperation. >> for the betterment of the country. >> absolutely. >> that's what we're here for. >> reporter: 36 senators, democrats and republicans, say enough. >> we feel it's time to check our political hats at the door and to step up and do what is the right thing for the american people. >> reporter: they're urging the deficit super committee to go big and reduce the deficit by almost twice as much as they have to. that spirit of cooperation spilled over into the senate where one republican -- >> the bill is p

ian melheiser with the center for american progress. a question for professor jones, the way you characterize the lower court's decision in the eyewitness case is they essentially said the police didn't do anything wrong and that makes it ok? >> yes, the full court said because the police officers did not orchestrate that eyewitness i.d., we don't have to engage in an analysis of whether or there was a due process violation. >> that strikes me as tragically wrong and here's why, every case i know of where the court has said the police didn't do anything wrong so we're not going to allow a remedy here, is an exclusionary rule case. and an exclusionary rule case is the nature of the case is we have evidence that we know is probative of the truth, if police find me with marijuana illegally, they know i'm in possession of marijuana. the question here is that -- is whether or not the evidence is probative in the first place. and so it seems to me as a massive shift in our constitutional wall if we're going to move towards saying the purpose

and the chief operating officer for the center for american progress and former senior advisor in thek you, shannon. >> shannon: you lost the battle at the lower court. how do you plan to change the judge's minds in this appeal. >> in the court of appeals it is a whole different round. two conservative appointees and one more on the left of center. i think these are falling close to idealogiccal lines but not always. we had a republican judge went against the position we advocated in the sixth circuit and a democratic judge went with us in the 11th. this is the necessary stop for what will ultimately be decided by the supreme court of the united states. it looks like our case out of the district of columbia and the 11th circuit cases are the two lead cases right now. i suspect those will be the two granted review. it will be the supreme court that ultimately decides it. we will focus on the constitution issue which is the unconstitutionality of the individual mandate. this is a stop on the way to the supreme court. >> shannon: so folks understand where we are atf this point, some upho

joined by angela kelly, center for american progress, with us in a moment, te-- terry goreman, rhoders for immigration and law enforcement. angie, we'll start with you on this. one of the issues here is that it went through this education board, so the people of rhode island did not get to voice their opinion on this and the poll necessary rhode island, according to the providence journal, show they're very much against it. >> well, that's correct. that is a process that rhode island, you know, has gone through. certainly the board of governors are experts, professionals, they're looking out for the well being of all rhode island residents, and look, they've gone down the course that has a track record, as you indicated. there are a dozen states with over ten years experience that have provided in-state tuition rates to undocumented residents. so we know what the consequences are, and quite frankly, they're favorable. this is what we know when you provide in-state rates for undocumented residents. one is that it doesn't hurt the university. in fact, you're having qualified students e

russia and your or asia -- eurasia and sam charap who is the associate director at the center for american progress he is increasingly recognized as an emerging but already major experts on russia and of its space. let me say that this is, clearly, a very difficult issue because if you look at the u.s./russian relations during last several years, particularly since president obama came to office, there was significant progress in some areas. i am not sure that there was enough progress to say that we have achieved a lasting breakthrough. and it is quite clear that there are a number of issues, serious disagreements remain. and that is particularly true regarding u.s./russian interaction in the -- [inaudible] space where we have, clearly, different perspectives. many of us believe different interests, and it is also quite clear that neither russia, nor the united states quite controls the situation. we have a number of countries in that region who dared to have their own interests and increasingly to act on the basis of what they believe the interests, and sometimes moscow and washington are not jus

. >>> and we ghee begin with possible progress. americans have been frustrated about gridlock in washington, but last night congress actually got something done. senate lawmakers reached a deal to avoid both a weekend session of congress and a costly repeat of the partial faa shutdown. our tracie potts joins us from washington. >> reporter: good morning. that means we head into the weekend without thousands of jobs on the line as we feared as we saw last summer, the result of what may be a new spirit of cooperation here in washington. >> for the betterment of the country. that's what we're here for. thank you. >> reporter: 36 senators, democrats and republicans, say enough. >> we feel that it's time to check our political hats at the door and to step up and do what is the right thing for the american people. >> reporter: they're urging the deficit super committee to go big and reduce the deficit by almost twice as much as they have to. that spirit of cooperation spilled over into the senate where one republican -- >> the bill is passed. >> r

. >> his death along with osama bin laden's earlier this year seems to suggest the american military is making progress in the so-called war against terror. what has changed from before? is it better intelligence perhaps? >> well, there is a number of things. number one, a true presence on the ground helps generate intelligence that is used to go after these guys. there has been an increase in intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance assets in the region. also an increase in special forces in the region as well as the kaye presence. all of this -- as well as the c.i.a. presence. i think we'll continue to see that going forward but as we have sfreen al qaeda and other groups in the past 10 years, they are resilient, it is going to take a sustained effort to really deprathe grade these networks. >> more than 2 million people are suffering from diseases linked to flooding because of the torrential rain. hundreds of villages have disappeared and some areas of pakistan will remain flooded for at least six months. >> british prime minister david cameron and the french president, nicolas sarkozy, received

, california women's agenda, policy for analysis on trade and health, central american resource network, chinese progressive association, city college board of trustees, the clergy in lady united for economic justice, the coalition on homelessness, community housing partnership, san francisco de labor program and women's collective, the employment law center. the health access, health care for american now, homeless prenatal, jobs for justice, latina breast cancer agency, league of young voters, mission economic development agency commission house and devoted corp., national employment law project, national physician alliance, people organized to win and get -- when employment rights, people organizing for environmental rights, private work, a progressive workers alliance, san francisco building, trades council, the medical society, the labor council, sci you tend to one, as sciu, unite your local to come a women's community clinic, young workers united, and the building construction trades council. that tells you the broad coalition that is behind this effort. i want to make two points in response to a cou

indeed, the death, along with osama bin laden's earlier this year, seems to suggest the american military is making progress in the so-called war against terror. what's changed from before? is it intelligence perhaps? >> well, there's a number of things. number one, a true presence underground helps generate intelligence that is used to go after these guys. there's been a tremendous increase in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets in the region, as we sort of wound down from iraq. a lot of assets have transferred over to afghanistan. but also, an increase in special forces presence in the region, as well as the c.i.a. presence. all of this really helps to generate better intelligence and better execution of these sorts of raids. see that going forward, but as we've seen from al qaeda and other groups in the past 10 years, they are resilient, and it's really going to take, i think, some sustained effort in order to really degrade these networks. >> and you think they're going to be doing a lot more in intelligence ahead of troop withdrawals from afghanistan? >> well, i think we'll continue a

. >> we had a hijack in progress. >> american 11 was now a confirmed hijacking and heading straight for mike mccormick was in charge of the faa new york center. >> had you death with a potential hijacking before? >> no. it was the first time. brand new event for me. this is the air traffic control room, mike mccormick sprinted to the floor and went directly to an already crowded screen displaying the air space where the plane was headed. area b. >> heading southbound, i knew it would be area b., so i could be with the controllers and the supervisors and look at the radar. >> you wanted to see that plane. >> absolutely. >> went back and forth between radar screens looking at the activity as it took place and take appropriate actions and make the right decisions. >> with flight 11 not responding, controllers turned to other eyes in the sky. asking other pilots if they could spot the american airlines jet. one of the crews responding >> one of those planes that you contacted was a united plane? >> yes. united was one of the aircraft that we asked to help identify american. >> united 175 ha

. >> we had a hijack in progress. >> american 11 was now a confirmed hijacking and heading straight for new york, where mike mccormick was in charge for the faa's new york center. >> huh dealt with even a potential hijacking before? >> no. that was absolutely the first time. it was a brand-new event for me. >> this is the air traffic operation at new york center. it's the largest control room in the united states. >> mike mccormick sprinted to the floor of new york's air traffic control and went directly to an already crowded screen displaying the air space where the plane was headed. area b. >> altitude and in fact they're turning southbound. i knew that it was going to be area b, so i could be with the controllers and with the supervisors and look at the radar display. >> you wanted to see that plane? >> absolutely. walked up into the radar screens right in here and went back and forth between the radar screens looking at the activity as it took place and taking appropriate actions and make the right decisions. >> with flight 11 not responding, controllers turned to other eyes in the

and do you think americans that have been hit so hard in the middle class are willing to go even farther? >> i really like the speech tonight, and it did reflect what we in the progressivecaucus heard all summer as well. those undermined what i think was a great speech. they close corporate loopholes, asking the military to do more to get americans back to work, to say we have to take it out of medicare and medicaid i thought was unfortunate. i don't think it will play well. at the same time, he started a national debate. i think it is important to reform medicare by allowing medicare part d to negotiate for drug prices, which is something that the va does now. perhaps there are some savings there. >> what did you hear that really impressed you, congressman cleaver, when it comes to putting americans back to work? the word infrastructure was not in the speech tonight. but there was a lot of talk about redoing schools, 35,000 schools, making sure veterans had an opportunity to get a job when they came home, what about all of that? what did you hear? what was most appealing when it came to creating jobs. >> the president was very targeted in his method of addressing unemp

here's what matt miller, a senior fellow at the center for american progress 45d to say in the "washingtonost." what do you think about his first point that your group won't succeed without a major advertising campaign which means wealthy contributors? or the other option that someone steps forward with his or her money? guest: i think you're picking from what you want to read from that column. there's some good things in that column. i think the field that ripe and the electorate wants more choice is what's going to allow this to come forward. ultimately none of this works if there's not an appetite for it. everything that we've seen and evidence that we have shows the american people want something like this. as to your point that this can only suck seize if we had a third billion dollar campaign, we are not the we heemyutsdz of the republican and democratic party. we have definitely the david against gol eye yatsdz. we're removing a significant barrier to entry with ballot access and just like you look at the media entry right now. barriers have been removed. any american with a laptop

. >> reporter: those serving here say they wish americans could see firsthand the progress they've made. ten years ago, this was a grassy field filled with old soviet tanks and land mines. today, this was built for the afghans so eventually, they can take responsibility for their own security. master sergeant gregory keel says he hopes americans get enough time here to see the mission through. >> our family, we never have to worry about that, but just the support of the american people. i hope they can stick with us. we have to stay the course. >> reporter: ten years after 9/11, america is more secure. but the mission here is unfinished. nbc news, kabul. >> when "nbc nightly news" continues this saturday, the legacy of 9/11. how are our lives changed in the last decade and later, witnesses to history. sewing together a patch work of stories to make sure we never forget. >>> the changing landscape behind me is vivid testament to our nation's resilience. we took a staggering blow and got back on our feet. still, at times, it seems nothing has been the same since. for months later, we aske

americans don't think mr. obama has made any real progress fixing the economy. and americans are divided about whether his bill will actually create any new jobs, despite the president's claims. >> this jobs bill will put unemployed construction workers back to work rebuilding our schools and our roads and our bridges. >> reporter: still, when asked about specific proposals in the president's plan, most americans seemed to like them. 81% think it's a good idea to cut taxes for small businesses. 80% agree america should spend more money on infrastructure like schools and bridges. 56% like the idea of a payroll tax cut. and just over half think providing money to state governments so they can avoid layoffs is a good idea. finally, most americans would like to see both tax increases and spending cuts to lower the deficit. 56% support increasing taxes on households making over $250,000. >> we'll make sure that everybody pays their fair share, including those of us who've been incredibly fortunate and blessed in this country. >> reporter: most of these numbers are bad

>> we've made tremendous progress in the war against cancer, but we haven't won yet. >> reporter: dr. judy garber heads the american association for cancer research which published today's progress report. over the last 30 years, death rates for all cancer dropped by 22% for men and 14% for women, resulting in almost 900,000 fewer deaths in the u.s. >> we have a greater than 90% survival rate for breast cancer and cervix cancers caught early. for colon cancers caught early the cure rate is almost 100%. >> reporter: the biggest advance is understanding all cancers are not the same and each one has to be treated differently. >> cancer is probably 200 diseases, not one disease. and we can cure cancer, we just can't cure all cancer. >> reporter: the report highlights the success of targeted therapies, attacking cancer cells based on their specific genetic makeup. 40 years ago, this was science fiction. drugs like herceptin used for breast cancer target proteins on the surface of the cell. gleevec works inside the cell to block cancer's growth and has revolutionized the treatment of one type of leukemia. avastin shuts d

if you look at the center for american progress they will tell you that gdp growth would rise by $1.5trillion over the next decade if we had an immigration reform. even in this difficult economy, economy you refer to so many people who are unemployed, they they are our whole sectors of our economy which are critical, that cannot find an american worker who was willing to do that work. and that work is not only critical for the services they produce but they actually give the underpinnings are the higher paying jobs so that taking care of the hotel room leaves the hotel manager, leaves the con sierra, leaves the restaurant chef and all of those higher paying jobs the ability to attract people to go there so that you know, in the seafood industry, those who are working the ships and the work of -- the list goes on and on. talk to farmers in this country. new jersey, people don't think of it as the garden state. that is not only our name, we have significant farming interest. i talk to new jersey farmers who tell me senator you have got to get the emma gration rob him resolve because we

and do you think americans that have been hit so hard in the middle class are willing to go even farther? >> i really like the speech tonight, and it did reflect what we in the progressiveheard all summer as well. those undermined what i think was a great speech. they close corporate loopholes, asking the military to do more to get americans back to work, to say we have to take it out of medicare and medicaid i thought was unfortunate. i don't think it will play well. at the same time, he started a national debate. i think it is important to reform medicare by allowing medicare part d to negotiate for drug prices, which is something that the va does now. perhaps there are some savings there. >> what did you hear that really impressed you, congressman cleaver, when it comes to putting americans back to work? the word infrastructure was not in the speech tonight. but there was a lot of talk about redoing schools, 35,000 schools, making sure veterans had an opportunity to get a job when they came home, what about all of that? what did you hear? what was most appealing when it came to creating jobs. >> the president was very targeted in his method of addressing unemployment