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as we speak, so within 20 years, china eclipses us as the financial juggernaut of the world, carlos gutierrezate to about 5% of out years, they must be making low assumptions about u.s. growth rate, but this is a wake-up call we have to be thinking about the future, for some reason, the report talks about a governnnce gap. i think we have a political crisis that stems from the fact that we can't seem to -- to look forward, we're always solving yesterday's problem or today's crisis, but we have to start looking to the future, we have an immigration system that dates back to the '50s we're not opening new trademmrket. you know we're just -- our energy we could have energy independence by 2020, we should be running full speed ahead. neil: this administration said they are addressing and looking at at future, and looking at solar and green technologies that chinese are buying up. including some rescued and supported by us, china buys its way into the technologies, even copies, and buys our companies that are doing it but if we don't show the same for every or, our government, -- fervor, our gover

joining me now is carlos gutierrez, former commerce secretary under george w. bush and adviser to mitt romney. secretary gutierrez, thanks for joining us this morning. >> pleasure, thank you. >> we've heard from republicans about what needs to change, immigration and taxes, abortion. they talk about needing to reach out to voters, but i need you to put some meat on that bone for me. what does reaching out mean? does that mean a softening of a position? does that mean a changing of position, abandonment? what's there? >> well, it needs to start with articulating a position, and, you know, we have been and we need to strengthen our position as the party of individual empowerment, of growth, of prosperity, of individual opportunity, of small business, of less intrusive government, lower taxes, let people keep more of their money so they can continue to grow. >> so you think the problem is that during the election that the -- the points were not articulated properly? i mean, some would say that they heard the points but just disagree. >> there were some things that

carlos gutierrez, a former secretary in congress for the bush administration started a group.g to be something where a year ago we saw republican presidential candidates using immigration as a wedge issue to separate conservatives. two or three years from now, they will be talking about how they value the contributions of naturalized americans. it's going to be a shift in the party. >> we know that 280 of the profit-making fortune 500 countries paid only 18.7% of taxes despite the fact their tax rate was 35%. we know that 26 states are going to continue to cut education spending, which requires them to pay and we know that at least 1.6 million children are going to lose beginning in the fall of 2013 if we don't do something. >> important reminder there. thanks to the american prospect, fergus from the yankee institute and maya wi lee with the center for social inclusion. thanks for getting up. chris will be back next weekend saturday and sunday at 8:00 p.m. his guests will include oliver stone and his movie series. next is melissa harris-perry. first ever book back in laughter

i'm carlos gutierrez with jim cramer, david faber and melissa lee. questions remain about the internals. europe is reacting to a miss on german industrial production and some reports at least that some ecb members favored a rate cut yesterday. our road map will go like this. that puzzling jobs number beating virtually every wall street estimate as the labor department says sandy had only a minimal effect. is it true a clean number and what are conspiracy theorists saying. >>> a comment hastings made last july. what does it say about s.e.c. rules and whether they are out of date. >> mcdonald's will post same store sales on monday gets an upgrade to buy taking the forecast to a street high after surveying franchisees. we begin with november jobs number. 146,000 nonfarm jobs added last month above forecast of 80,000. october and september payrolls were revised lower. unemployment rate fell by 0.2 to 7.7. that's the lowest in four years. the dip occurring mostly because more people stopped looking for work and were not counted as unemployed. as for hurri

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