what's the response from speaker boehner? >> all we hear from the howers that be here in washington is more the same. >> you've got that right, mr. speaker. ed rendell and e.j. deon on republicans plans. meet willard mitt romney's foreign policy team. it looks a lot like team bush. >> i will devote myself to an american sentry. >> i don't think so, romney/bush. >>> in north carolina, how about the koch brothers billionaires are helping the rep resegregate public schools. parents are fighting back. tonight we will too. "politics nation" starts right now. >>> welcome to "politics nation." tonight's lead. help wanted now more than ever. new job numbers today are driving the point home hard. employers added 103,000 job last month. it's a positive step, but unemployment rate is still at 9.1%, and 14 million americans are still looking for work. to them, each day that congress doesn't pass the president's jobs plan is a day wasted. but reps are stuck in reverse. remember what president obama said at his news conference? >> here's a

is eric cantor playing the bad top what we will see as john boehner's good cop?>> no, they're on the same page as on this program. they're going to oppose it, but pick out pieces of it eventually and pass them. the big story, john, is you have even senate democrats opposing this jobs bill, when it comes up early next week in the senate. democrats will be hard-pressed to get even 50 votes for closure on this thing. what is astonishing is that president obama is to the left of where he was on election day 2010, which i thought no one would have expected. you have democrats on the verge of embracing this occupy wall street movement. on the misbegotten theateree ic day party. it was mainstream compared to these folks. read that are declaration of occupation of new york, where they say corporations are perpetuating colonialism around the world, poisoning the food supply, suppressing free speech. >> it's a paranoid marxism, poisons for the democratic party. >> okay. your thoughts? [everyone talking at once] >> richard, you're cherry picking those statements. >> read th

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boehner. mr.his is what the american people are saying, but you are choosing to disregard their voices. so, for john boehner to say republicans are listening to the american people is flat out dishonest, lyin' "psychotalk." >>> herman cain is already picking out his running mate. it's between the guy ohio wants to kill medicare and medicaid and voucher the program and the guy who wanted to kill the health care bill and make sure it was president obama's waterloo. >>> and michelle bachmann is losing ground in the gop field, so she is betting on a boost in the polls aftfter m meet egg with thee trumpsteter. momore on ththat comining up on "the ed show." ♪ we're centurylink... a new kind of broadband company committed to providing honest, personal service from real people... 5-year price-lock guarantees... consistently fast speeds... and more ways to customize your technology. ♪ and here's what we did today: supported nearly 3 million steady jobs across our country... ... scientists, technicians, eng

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we begin with this editorial tame for boehner and -- time for boehner and house republicans to bring obama to heel saying boehner is right congress can limit what presidents can do by denying the funds or limiting how the funds can be spent. it quotes political scientists who wrote in their book the basic symbols of the american political tradition congress has the ultimate weapon in any show down with either of the two branches of the federal government but the question is why are we just now hearing about this warning to obama nearly a year after voters restored boehner's party as majority status. that warning last week on the laura ingram show and the president we can't wait. spending a couple of days in western states, in colorado and nevada and california talking about a number of programs to help homeowners in trouble and student loans of people who may be facing default. the president talking about the executive orders to jump start the economy and help people who need help the most. >> the truth is we can no longer wait for congress to do its job. the middle class families wh

paul ryan and john boehner said no. who is behind this stance?this is not being provoked by the idea that the people want it, who is provoking kantor and boehner? >> this is a massive disconnect between the public and the parties in washington, particularly the republican party. the public wants policy makers to focus on creating jobs. in washington it's all about the deficit. there is an unholy alliance described with how the class rules in washington. the so-called cent rift deficit. they formed an unholy alliance with people like paul ryan who say they care about the deficit, about they want to cut taxes and spending and cut government. you have the situation now where we talk about the deficit and it's all about cutting spending and programs that help people, particularly low income americans as opposed to raising taxes on the wealthy and opposed to creating jobs. >> we were laughing earlier about herman cain's recommendation that the federal government be slashed by 10% and we calculated around 200,000 people losing their jobs. yet it doesn'

>> well, it's always tears from john boehner, whether they're crocodile or not.s point here. people need jobs. job numbers are coming out again. we are in the threshold of a crisis, and i think the president is right, we need to move now. all of the independent economists, as he said, are saying we're in danger of a double-dip recession. and i think that we have gone in a cycle now which seems that everyone wants to go right to the campaign. i think the president tried to bargain, he tried to cover the table. you would say he should have done it two years ago. whatever. he tried to. there was nothing there when mcconnell says we want to make this a one-term president. i think now we've got to see if anyone will break the cycle and try to do what is right for the american people and deal with this jobs bill. >> you know, the cycle really does need to be broken, and willie, you've got to say this about the president -- or we have been saying it for 2 1/2 years -- he needs to focus on jobs. what's so fascinating politically now is the president is finally -- and i w

speaker boehner's office according to smin spoke with didn't call into that phone call.briefed about this. i spoke to one of the officials within the gop on the hill who said speaker boehner's office is not interested in bickering about this. they want to drop the issue. both sides wanted to clarify that was the back and forth. president obama spoke with prime minister maliki and convened the conference call of all leadership and their aides. >> that included speaker boehner, but it was speaker boehner's team or colleagues who didn't manage to get on to that conference call. >> yes, exactly. >> the president said this decision that he made was that he shared with prime minister maliki. was this really about a conflict over agreeing to provide immunity for american personnel that they couldn't agree on? >> i can tell you that there has been wrangling for months over how exactly that this drawdown would occur. would they leave them to help with the transition. as you say, the iraqi parliament was making the point that they could not provide legal immunity for the troops wh

have the top two speaker banner -- having talked to john boehner at all? >> i have not spoken personally to john boehner. but i have spoken to congressman klein. and congressman mel laird -- miller. we have met with them. we have talked about a path for words and how we move this ahead. quite frankly, i think there is goodwill on all sides to get this bill moved through. hopefully, one good thing about the speaker is that he was on our committee, the education committee for years. he knows this issue very well. >> will the rally the house for the bill? >> my hope is that to he will look at our bill and if we can bring it up and the senate and succeed in the senate, i think that will instruct a lot of house members. >> having talked to senator alexander about getting his leadership to cooperate? one of the reasons why you stopped being in leadership was because he wanted to work on a bipartisan basis. an education bill was the top of this list. >> senator alexander came up with a very good idea on how we would handle this on the floor. i do not know if i am

boehner was attending an event there. the courage campaign posted the video. protesters tried to give boehner a petition to pass president obama's jobs bill. demonstrators also flew a plane with a sign reading gop jobs equals occupy golf course? a spokesman for boehner said the speaker is working to find bipartisan ways to create jobs. >>> people receiving social security will soon see a little extra money in their checks. the government is increasing benefits 3.5% in january, the first increase since 2009. however, some of the increase will be lost to higher medicare premiums, which are deducted from social security payments. the monthly payments average a little more than $1,000. >>> the cost to mail a letter is heading up. the cash strapped postal service is increasing the price of a first class stamp by a penny in january. that will make it 45 cents. the price increase takes effect january 22nd. in fiscal 2010 the postal service lost more than $8 billion. those pennies can add up. >> they really do. all right. it is time to get a check on the forecast. met

according to the account which was released by the speaker's office yesterday, that's rare, boehner, quote, respectfully challenged the president reportedly saying to obama, i want to make sure you have all the facts. boehner's office also says the speaker and the president have spoken about the republican jobs plan on several occasions and feels the president's characterization of their relationship and of republicans do nothing is unfair. >>> turning to the 2012 republican presidential race, texas governor rick perry travels to pittsburgh today. set to give his first major policy address. the focus of the speech will be on energy and jobs, but the event may offer a chance to refocus. the presidential campaign. worth of reserves underneath the land of america and that's how we're going to get america working again. it's the fastest way as the president of the united states, i don't have to ask congress, my first 100 days to open up the -- all the federal lands of the waters to pull back those regulations that are stifling and killing jobs today, and to rebuild the epa. >> perry went

and initially, boehner's office had no comment, but after this story brewed for a while today, boehner's office said it was committed to constructing a more permanent memorial in another location. in fact, speaker boehner met this morning with giffords' hus, captain mark kelly. "while we're finalizing the last few details and we're not ready to announce plans publicly at this point, any member of congress interested in this issue has had ample opportunity to discuss it with the speaker." the shooting in arizona in january was one of the worst moments for this country in recent memory. six people died, including gabe zimmerman. congresswoman giffords was severely wounded and is still recovering. the bipartisan support for her and the victims was overwhelming. so there shouldn't be any need to put pressure on the speaker's office. the memorial for the staffer gabe zimmerman should have already happened by now. >>> rick perry is going to skip some of those pesky debates because you know, debates are just full of words and sentences and all kinds of stuff like that. and a tea party group say

look at boehner. boehner, you're the speaker in your house at this point, certainly no choice of yours. >> at least for a short while. >> he talked about deregulation today. look at how he is trying to deregulate everything so we again expand this inequality. >> this is a federal regulatory onslaught like no one has seen. i don't want dirly air. i don't want dirty water. come on. it's about what makes sense in order for america to compete. >> now, we need to regulate, because we're trying to protect people. he calls this talking about dirty water and dirty air like it doesn't mean anything, and then when he makes these arguments about deregulation, jared, let me show you this graph of who did regulating and deregulating. mr. obama, president obama has done 5% fewer than president bush, so again they are saying things that are not true. that's why we come on every night, so the american people understand the difference between what is real and what is spent. >> look, the republican party, for a long ti

he said that he has not spoken to speaker john boehner. it is fascinating that there is a bipartisan legislation moving. senator harkin said he is not very hopeful on the super committee, but this could move at least to the senate. >> on the house side, are house republicans looking for something bipartisan that they can do? anything? >> they say they are. but what they're actually going to do -- they could feel the pressure from the senate. if the upper chamber clears this bill. >> the tricky thing here is that the house has now a larger group of tea party conservatives. he had a difficult time rallying some of his freshman members. that is, jon klein. we will have to wait and see. >> how do the two bills differ? senator harkin's bill and what house republicans have done. >> what the senate has done is created a very broad, 868-page bill, that tries to tackle everything that was broken in no child left behind. the house has tried a piecemeal strategy. so far they have three bills. only one is bipartisan and that has to do with charter sch

boehner, and you still say no. so putting all of that aside, and just accepting those as facts what i say tonight, do you need any more evidence, americans, as to who wants to move forward? do you need anymore evidence to come to a conclusion and render a judgment on who's stalling our economy? it is the republicans. the facts are the facts. how about a vote on a jobs package? you know what? it might not pass but let's least have the vote. i want to know what you think. tonight's question, are the republicans trying to sabotage the president's job bill. text a for yes and b for no. you can go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. >>> joining me tonight maxine waters and congressman mcdermott from washington. two representatives who have a habit of telling it like it is. congresswoman waters are the republicans trying to sabotage the jobs bill? what do you think. >> are you kidding? these are job killers these guys. they would rather try to undermine the president and not allow this jobs bill to come up for a vote than creat

let me ask you to react to speaker boehner's suggestion that the president of the united states couldviolating the constitution. do you agree? >> no, but i think it's a point that should be raised, because we in the house and the senate, we got our jurisdiction constitutionally very seriously. when we aren't doing anything, the president's movement should be favorably considered. the house is deadlocked. the senate is not moving because both of the house's republicans are not concerned with legislation and jobs and equity and fairness. they are concerned with defeating president obama. >> is getting this 3% withholding portion of the president's jobs bill a sign of good things? is this not a suggestion that there will be progress in the congress? >> i wish that i could tell you yes, but democrats and republicans knew that was a big mistake when we first did it. we all wanted to get rid of it and republicans will be republicans and so we have some concern as to how they are going to pay for the loss of revenue that we took. no, this bill was popular because it was so wrong from the beg

what i would do is if i were trying to push inside, i would do exactly what john boehner is doing.ohn boehner has worked closely with mitch mcconnell -- it does take republicans and democrats in the senate to move an agenda. with harry reid, i would find common ground for us to put into place something that is less change and more stability. assurances to the american public and insurers about what they can count on until the election is over. today, people don't know what to count on. people are planning for the worst. small business cannot get loans and the lemming obama jobs bill -- we are expected to lose some 800,000 net jobs. that does not bode well for stability. >> veteran members are facing these intraparty challenges. what are you attributing that to end what is your approach at the committee? are you worried that some of these could add fall victim to a challenge elsewhere? >> what i am very aware of is that last cycle, we have a lot of organizations and people that helped us become the majority party. every single one of these organizations found common ground in lay a

speaking yesterday, speaker boehner noted the difficulty in achieving what he calls fiscal sanity in washington. >>> i can tell you that these 12 members, democrats and republicans, have continued to work very diligently trying to come to some agreement. i can just say that, you know, having been through these discussions with the president all year and the senate leadership all year, the reluctance to do what we know has to be done continues to mystify me. this is not rocket science. >> speaker boehner added that entitlement changes were a key really to getting the deficit under control. you saw some of those in the democratic proposal but the tax increases are the problem. the supercommittee has until november 23rd to reach an agreement. >>> if you are among the occupy wall street protesters in downtown oakland on tuesday night, this is what you might have seen. >> that's new video posted on youtube of riot police firing tear gas canisters on the demonstrators. police say they responded only after being hilt by rocks and other objects. one man, an iraq war veteran, scott olson who

get a tiny morsel but what they're looking for other republicans as john boehner famously bragged after their last negotiations he said he got ninety eight percent of what he wanted democrats this is a losing strategy the american people don't want compromisers they want someone who sticks to their guns who believes in something and is willing to fight for it for example americans might have hated bush's policies or at least many americans but they like his swagger or at least his convictions are the appearance of the same was true of reagan and f.d.r. and harry truman you may have disagreed with them and a lot of people did vehemently. you always knew where they stood the american people have aggressively embraced the progressives have fought to bring to this nation over the last century from teddy roosevelt square deal to franklin roosevelt's new deal to lyndon johnson's great society seventy eight percent of americans oppose cutting medicare a program created by democrats seventy three percent of americans oppose cutting medicaid another program created by democrats sixty two percent

john boehner presides over a do-nothing congress.resident obama knows his leverage in this situation is with the american people and he made it clear again today. >> will congress do something? if congress does something i can't run against a do-nothing congress. if congress does nothing, than it is not a matter of me running against them. i think the american people will run them out of town because they are frustrated. and they know we need to do something big. something bold. >> you have to applaud the president for sticking with his message. let congress vote against his bill and explain it to their constituents as to why they oppose it. you see, here's the stickler. the president wants the wealthiest americans to pay just a little bit more to pay for this $447 billion jobs plan. of course the republicans want nothing to do with that. joining me tonight sirius xm talk show host joe madison. good to have you with us tonight. the strategy the president had at his press conference telling the senators, look, if you don't vote for it

boehner takes time out to say the president has given up on the country. here to help us sort it out, msnbc's ed schultz, host of the ed show. >> martin, good to be with you. >> this was an aggressive and assertive president fronting up to the republicans, telling them to explain why they won't support this jobs bill. were you impressed? >> i was. i think the president, piece by piece, week after week, is laying the case out to the american people. well, what i did months ago was offer up a huge package for protests he's seen spreading across the country? >> i don't think it's hurt him. i was impressed with the president today. he didn't try to politically capitalize on it. he characterized what he thought the people were going through based on what he's seen in the coverage and went as far as to say they're frustrated but then he talked about the injustices that have taken place and the moral injustice that is have taken place in wall street and in our financial sector. but also pointing out they may not have done anything legal. it's deregulation that br

it's not just boehner, cantor and mitch, it's ryan, romney and rick.er] they're all singing from the same hymnals, they say this southern delaware. social security, quote, a ponzi scheme, a monstrous lie to this generation, end of quote. i might be repeating that 6,000 times in florida. [laughter] medicare, quote: the equivalent of getting taken for a ride. voucherrize it. foreclosures. you just heard romney. he said, quote: don't try to stop the foreclosure process, let it run its course and hit the bottom. he wasn't raised in my neighborhood. he didn't -- i'm serious. i think they just don't know the people i grew up with. i think they just don't know what the american people are going through. and the guy you know well, governor scott -- >> boo! >> deep cuts in education, voter suppression, arizona-style immigration law, to to $2.4 for high-speed rail. the list goes on and be on. and what your governor is doing here is exactly what republicans want to do with the entire nation. and that's not hyperbole. not a joke. and on foreign policy they want to

. >> if senator mcconnell or speaker boehner say to me, you know what? we want to get some infrastructure built in this country, i'll be right there. we'll be ready to go. if they are willing to renew the payroll tax as we worked on together in december, i'll be ready to go. >> but the relationship is hardly sunny after the president and boehner spoke on the phone yesterday. the speaker's office decided to release a statement about the phone call. quote, after they discussed trade, the speaker brought up the president's remarks today about, quote, not having yet seen a republican plan for job creation. and respectfully challenged the president's assertion. quote, i want to make sure you have all the facts the speaker told the president. one way to look at this? the president has hit a nerve a little bit. the other thing we should note yesterday john mccain and rand paul decided to unveil their own version of a jobs plan, plenty of stuff in there that democrats would never agree to when it comes for instance to the balanced budget amendment but having som

this tax increase was dismissed by speaker boehner and barack obama.s trying to garner positive media attention. both sides are far away. >> thank you very much for the live report. we'll check in with you on the talks as they hopefully move ahead. >>> now to michael jackson's doctors where defense attorneys are questioning one of the last two witnesses. addiction specialist robert waldman has been testifying that jackson was probably addicted to sedatives. at times he was combative with the prosecution. take a look. >> have you ever had someone come to you and you have had an opportunity to review their prior care. have you had that happen? >> what do you mean by review their prior care? >> however you want to interpret it. >> you are asking the question. >> court instruct the witness to answer the question. >> would you like it reasked? >> i would like to reasked. >> i said there were two more questions. where are things right now? >> he is still on the stand. next comes another medical witness. that should be it for the defense's case. as you heard,

that's speaker boehner. he just stepped to the microphone. >> i trust the american people to liberate our economy from the shackles of this government. bill: a day after the speaker went out and pretty much blasted the white house saying the path has ended governing and started campaigning for 2012. eric cantor will be there as well. the results will be interesting. we'll have more on that program. martha: it's sad that the president abdicated leadership. we are just getting a look at something new which is a first major step in terms of movement on the president's healthcare law. an advisor to the white house releasing guidelines for a federally approved health insurance plan. the states can open new insurance markets. any insurance sold in these markets will have to meet the federal standards that cover mental health services, something small businesses say will make those plans basically unaffordable. bill: happy birthday, by the way. martha: you are 15 now. me, too. bill: we are going to get our driver's

you see speaker boehner believes it is okay to pull everyone out and others do not believe that.re do you stand? >>guest: we would like to see the end of the engagement in a part way. we have invested a lot of money, unfortunately likes and sacrifice my american soldiers to bring stability to iraq. my fear is in the pull out is too fast iran and the surrogates will take over and create havoc. do we need a reminder of what a bad group of people the iranian government is? that is what the conditions are being created. the concern of iraq not getting immunity but i hope we work hard to figure out a way, figure a role, in terms of providing security. as this stands we will have less soldiers in iraq than in honduras. that does not make sense. >>trace: what happens if this does go south? is there a plan (b)? what is your assessment? >>guest: if it goes south there is nothing at that point to do if we are not engaged. to reengage after it goes south is terrible and iran feels cornered with syria in trouble. without syria iran is limited with the damage they can do. the dictators in the