joining me debbie wasserman schultz. congresswoman, good to have you with us tonight. >> thank you, ed. great to be with you. >> how do the republicans get away with this lying? they're banking on the american people being stupid what other conclusion with can we come to? >> you know, the further evidence is that here i am in south florida, and as much as i love being home with my constituents and my family, if the speaker and the republicans in the house are really serious about reaching a compromise with the president, why aren't we in session? why did they all vote to adjourn last week when democrats said we needed to stay in washington and hammer out a compromise? we've got eight days left, ed. the clock is ticking. and at the end of that eight days you're going to have 70,000 kids kicked off headstart. you're going to have cuts to education and health care. i was just at a community meeting in my district where i had constituents who were concerned about the cutback in hours that the irs offices locally have had. >>

congresswoman debby wasserman schultz, you are only a day or two away from the deadline.body meeting until march 1st. whey is the first time the president is going to get together the day the sequester hits. >> what i'm wondering and my constituents are wondering, why is it the leaders of the republican party in congress are not sitting down with our leadership to avoid these dramatic cuts. it is entirely within congress' power to replace the sequester with a balanced approach to deficit reduction. we don't need the president. the president has a proposal. it's on white house.gov or we can sit down like grown ups and make sure we generate revenue closing loopholes that protect the wealthiest of americans and make targeted spending cuts. it's how the american people want us to reduce the deficit. your poll show that is today. >> the nbc news/wall street journal poll shows attacks on both houses while republicans are certainly held in less high regard, that people are frustrated with both political parties with the whole mess. it's affecting the president's rating. he's sti

. >> let me bring in congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz from florida. good to see you, congresswoman, good morning. >> you too, chris. >> so the jobs snubs come out and not a surprise, the republicans taking this as an opportunity to take a shot at the president. let me read for you exactly what the national republican campaign committee tweeted. when will obama focus on jobs? sign the petition to tell the president to get to work. is it a fair criticism that the focus has been on other things, immigration, guns, cabinet appointments, and not enough on the economy? >> of course not. i mean -- you've just been talking for the last couple minutes about uncertainty. i think in spite of the fact that the republicans in the summer of 2011 were willing to go right to the -- to the edge of the abyss and engage in playing chicken with our economy, on that debt ceiling deal, and then have consistently done that all the way through 2013, we still have had 35 straight months of private sector job growth. 157,000 new private sector jobs in the jobs report today. yo

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elephant in the room of course obama didn't mention is address let's hear from representative debbie wasserman schultz when you asked her about it let's hear she had to say. that the president and the administration as the president indicated in his speech tonight are very careful to make sure that we observe all the laws that we respect the rights of. members the rights of all americans whether they're here in the united states or cross the. so you know previously when she was asked about the kill is she kind of denied its existence she said i don't even know what you're talking about i mean what do we hear her say you know they're going to follow legal parameters and follow human rights and all this stuff when they're using drones i mean it was kind of talking points here what did you take away from that and kind of seems like a lot of people are parenting there so you're talking point out of people don't want to talk negatively about the program or overall what i heard from people was that everyone in time tends to support the drover drone program but there's always types of stipulations that they

elephant in the room of course obama didn't mention is address let's hear from representative debbie wasserman schultz when you asked her about it let's hear she had to say. that the president and the administration as the president indicated in his speech tonight are very careful to make sure that we observe all the laws that we respect the rights and. not just the rights of all americans whether they're here in the united states or or across the. so you know previously when she was asked about the kill is she kind of denied its existence she said i don't even know what you're talking about i mean when we hear her say you know they're going to follow legal parameters and follow human rights and all this stuff when they're using drones i mean it was kind of parodied talking points here what do you take away from that kind of seems like a lot of people are apparently in there saying nothing right out of people don't want to and. talk negatively about the program course overall what i heard from people was that everyone in time tends to support the drover the drone program but there's always types of st

are even more transparent to the american people and to the work something congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz says is already happening the president keeps the consequential leadership of the intelligence committees as well as the leadership and the house and senate fully informed as he indicated tonight another issue that gets at the core of transparency in defense cybersecurity americans also face the rapidly growing threat from cyber attacks we cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our cup although all of the lawmakers are t. spoke to agree that something needs to be done in the realm of cyber security the question is how how can we balance a person's privacy but also balance our national security and economic interests when it comes to cyber technology it's not easy obviously and we're going to have to develop legislation that will attempt to do it and and with the understanding that nothing is perfect but no matter what law comes to pass one platform stands to be a functioning democracy we need a free internet an int

i understand she had to leave, debbie wasserman schultz, but i was always reassured to see her on television when i was worried about the outcome. i want to thank steve israel, who i think has been one of the most thoughtful people in the house and who proved once again that if you really want to be successful in the long run in this business, you have to be good politics and policy. you have to think about what we're going to do and how will affect people. i have the honor of campaigning for a lot of you in the last election. i am very excited about the new members. [applause] not only because if i were a member of this caucus, i would be in the minority, which i think is a good thing, but because the diversity extends far beyond the categories visible to the eye or that you can put in an adjective. there's so much difference here in terms of life experience and knowledge and understanding the various aspects of are extremely complex society that i think he'll have a real chance to do some phenomenally creative and effective things. a few years ago, a writer wrote an interesting book called

i thank debbie wasserman schultz. understand she had to leave but i was always reassured to see her on television when i was worried about the outcome and i want to thank steve israel who i think -- it's been for years and years, one of the most thoughtful people in the house and who proved, once again, without setting out to prove it, that if you really want to be successful in the long run in this business, you have to be good at politics and good at policy. you have to think about what we're going to do and how it's going to affect people. i had the honor of campaigning for a lot of you in the last election and i am very excited about the new members. not only -- not only -- not only because if i were a member of this caucus i would be in the minority, which i think is a good thing, but because of the diversity extends far beyond the categories visible to the eye or that you can put in an adjective. there's so much difference here in terms of life experience and knowledge and understanding various aspects of our ex

. >> i would like you to listen to your democratic colleague, debbie wasserman schultz on our air yesterdayblicans consider the sequester leverage. the looming shutdown leverage so they can get the spending cuts they want and protect the tax breaks they have been trying to protect for the wealthiest americans. >> do the democrats and president not also consider this leverage, the leverage to raise taxes? >> well, i don't look at it that way. think debbie is right, some republicans think it's leverage, but republicans don't want dramatic cuts on defense spending. i don't think they want what they have in front of us either, both of us are using it for political leverage to battle the other side. that won't solve the problem. >> i can ask you about the buzz of ashley judd running for senate. >> of course. >> she met with some pretty big democratic donors in the state. does she have what it takes to beat senator mitch mcconnell, the senate minority leader? >> absolutely. there is virtually no excitement at all about re-electing mitch mcconnell in the state. a state-wide poll recently shows 75%

debbie wasserman schultz, the democratic congresswoman from florida, had a 17-year-old woman with her who was herself a victim of gun violence. i think there are about 30 other democratic members who brought people with them, family members, victims, and so forth, people who were wearing those green ribbons. and when the president got up to speak in the chamber, i was there in the chamber too, ed, and it was very emotional. the thing took on the atmosphere of a revival meeting there at the end, the kind of call and response thing that even got speaker boehner up out of his seat and got most of the reluctant -- not all, but most of the reluctant republicans up out of their seats. now, you can't equate on a one-to-one basis the theatrics on the state of the union night. but the fact that it got the speaker up out of his chair is significant. >> is the sentiment on this issue too much for the republicans to ignore at this point? >> i think that you laid it out. the challenge for them is that this is really just the beginning. you know, the president is going to talk about these issues, i

>> well, i tell you, chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz has talked about this. she has talked about what we need to do to prepare for the future. and i know that those who are paying close attention are very aware of how unfairly representative the house currently is. >> in terms of what is about to happen and what we are on the self-imposed precipice of, jared, how -- when you said that damage has already been done and that more damage is coming. >> right. >> how much of it is reversible? and what would be the best way to reverse it? >> well, first of all, it would be great if policymakers would at least take a do no harm, a hippocratic oath. if i were pulling levers, i would implement job measures of the type the president introduced in the jobs act, the kind that congresswoman kaptur is constantly banging up there. i don't think that's very realistic right now. so my first argument could be to do no harm. just put these kinds of spending cuts off until the economy is firing on all cylinders again. now let me be precise. i'm not implying that this fiscal drag

debbie wasserman-schultz who, you know, i think she started out at age 33. i met her when she first started campaigning x i was astounded, actually, because she was making the rounds in d.c. talking to pacs, trying to get money, trying to establish herself as a viable candidate, and the meetings that she went to she had her newborn baby with her which i just loved. and she had the baby with her because she was breast-feeding, and she lived if florida, and she had to bring this baby with her, you know? she couldn't leave it at home. kathy mcmorris rogers 40 who's a republican from united states, we helped elect her a while ago, and she was 33, and she was just chosen as one of the top picks for gop leadership. so she's really going places. senator kirsten gillibrand is one of ours who every once in a while people talk about as a viable presidential candidate sometime in the future. and gabrielle giffords who everybody knows. and then this year we helped to elect chelsea gab ard who i believe is going to be one of the absolute superstars. she's been in office

with a recap of the state of the union address, we'll be talking with tim pawlenty, debbie wasserman schultz, chris van hollen and rob portman as well. can't wait to see you tomorrow. >>> now "the newsroom" with carol costello begins right now. >>> threat to the united states, north korea sending shock waves around the world this morning, testing the underground nuclear bomb half as pourlful werful as hiroshima. the united nations is calling emergency meetings. >>> michael ward, and kenneth williams. >> two men charged in the death of hadiya pendleton. the police saying confusion and chaos led to the shooting. >> michael ward has confessed and indicated that hadiya was not the intended target. in fact, the offenders had it all wrong. >> reporter: we're on the ground in chicago this morning. >>> also, gun lover, loud mouth rocker and now state of the union attendee. >> barack obama becomes the president in november again, i will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. >> reporter: remember that? nra board member ted nugent tonight sitting just feet away from victims of gun violence.

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. >> stephanie: debbie wasserman schultz said this yesterday. >> it is entirely within the purview ofo why didn't john boehner reaching out to harry reid sitting down with nancy pelosi, and mitch mcconnell and hammering out a compromise. >> stephanie: hello. >> yeah, i mean he -- john boehner telling the senate they need to get off their ass that's the pot calling the kettle black -- >> stephanie: or orange in his case. >> right. if you look at the legislative schedule in terms of what baner will allow to come to the floor for a vote it's meaningless. we can't even get the must-pass pieces of legislation done because boehner can't even get his caucus to support anything that would take care of the country's business. they are the party of no. compromise is a dirty word. they are not governing this country, and what i find highly ironic, these are the folks that are constantly harping about how we need certainty for businesses so they can plan their hiring and investing, and they are the folks who have been in charge the last two years, who have injected the most uncertainty into the e

joining us with perspective on the democratic agenda, florida congresswoman and dnc chair debbie wasserman schultzet. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> we talked about the big efforts he's trying to couple cities with manufacturing, trying to bring jobs back to people and the cities that have lost them. i just wonder what was new about last night? >> i was really proud of the president's speech, because it highlighted particularly when it came to the economy. some new bold initiatives that really need to -- really designed to move the needle. because there's been a lot of criticism, not just of the president, but of the republicans and washington in general, that, you know, same old same old tired proposals. the proposal to create manufacturing innovation institutes around the country, we have one in youngstown, ohio. the president proposed a the least 15, and 5 over the next couple of years. that's going to allow us to make the kind of investments to make sure we can make things in america again and revitalize some of the communities decimated by the fact that factories hav

directly or your staff can contact my deputy chief of staff, ann raider, signed sincerely, debbie wasserman schultz, member of congress. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the resignation is accepted. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until approximately guest: you get a much more secure border than you had in 2001 when we had the 9/11 attacks. you have better monitoring of who is come ago cross the borders. you have better patrolling. you have more obstacles to illegal immigration. that's what you're paying for as a taxpayer. >> as far as the various departments are concerned, what do they do, what specifically when it comes to border security, what is their role? >> the u.s. border patrol are the people on the front lines working the line, making sure that catching the people coming across illegally, stopping continue band and customs and border protection is a broader thing. they are running drones, they are running surveillance aircraft looking over the border. you have ice, you have immigration in customs enforcement. they are also looking at pe