dr. krueger. >> do you believe he will bring new ideas to the table? >> i believe he is an excellent economist and dynamic economist with a lot of experience and will be an important member of the economic team. >> on the president's job speech, he shared with us that it will be next week. what date will it be? >> we do not have a date to announce. i will repeat what the president said, that you can expect it next week. i don't have a date or location to give to you today. >> what is the reason for not telling us what is going to be? >> it could be that we have not finally decided. when we have an announcement, we will make it. >> debate? >> no debate. figuring out the best time and location. >> you don't know when -- >> actually, the decision has not been finally made. >> jay, does the white house at any more information or ideas on -- [unintelligible] >> we have no indication he has left libya. we are obviously working with thae tnc and our nato partners on that, but if we knew where he was, we would pass that information along to the opposition forc

dr. krueger that the president is adopting over any other. dr. kruger will be an important member of the economic team once he is confirmed. >> did the administration raise any ideas? orix i have not heard any -- >> i have not heard of anything either way. the president sets economic policy. he makes the decisions and he believes that dr. krueger will be an excellent member of the economic team. >> a question about irene, when the president was on his bus trip before the hurricane he was talking about government and politics. now that irene has happened, is he going to use the hurricane irene experience to bolster the role of government? >> i have not had that conversation with him. i do not know whether he will or not. i think his overall point, over and above any natural disaster, i think the government does things that are important to the american people, whether disaster relief or keeping our country save through our military the -- safe through our military or various other services. will be focused on recovering from the storm, responding

dr. alan krueger, if confirmed, he would head the council of economic advisers. he is no stranger to washington. he served one year as assistant secretary for economic policy and chief economist at the treasury department 2009. he was to economist at the labor department. he received a bachelor from cornell university and his ph.d. in economics from harvard university. we hear remarks now from dr. alan krueger during an address of the center for american progress from april last year. >> in the first decade of the 2000's it has been nothing short of dismal. there are 1 million fewer jobs than there were at the end of 1999. that compares with 22 million jobs added on that during the 1990's. it is tempting to blame the performance on the recession, the deep recession that occurred at in 2008/2009. however, even if you go back to the first eight years of the decade, look from the end of 1999 to the beginning of the recession, december 2007, the u.s. job market added only 7.5 million jobs. if you look over the first eight years of the 1990's, the u.s. stock market ad

krueger as head of his council of economic advisers. >>> and now the senator inhofe will endorse texas governor rick perry for president. >>> and dr.set to begin. >>> and today, we see nic robertson has tracked down to convicted terrorist of the lockerbie bombing. >>> libyan rebels pushing toward moammar gadhafi's hometown of sirte and nato forces have been bombing scud missiles ahead of the tension that has been announced as former members of the gadhafi regime have been added to the new rebel government. >>> he was sent back to libya to die. the terrorist known as the pan am bomber was dying of cancer. but now the president is defending his decision amid international outrage. and since the chaos in libya, we lost track of abdel best ali mohmed alma gras hi. and now in a cnn exclusive, nic robertson actually tracks down the convicted terrorist in libya on his death bed. >> reporter: we found abdel bassett megrahi in and up skasc apartment. this is where he has been living for the past couple of years. we will knock on the door to see if we can get any answer. hello? for 15 minutes or so, nothing. i'm not sure if they have heard m

alan krueger said in a paper he co-authored in 2002, it proves that unemployment benefits actually exacerbates jobless benefits. here to join us, former new mexico governor gary johnson is here, dr of the no labels women league and david webb is here, founder of the tea party 365 and radio talk show host. first off, governor, your feeling about a guy that you nominated going against the plan you're about to release. >> you know, as governor of new mexico, i actually vetoed legislation that was going to extend unemployment benefits believing, just believing that a person will deal with their problems when they have to as opposed to prolonging that. by extending unemployment benefits, it's my feeling that you were going to put off decision making that the sooner you made those decisions, the better and that was where you were going to take your life. it turns out studies will show the same thing. from a common sense standpoint, you know, when you're receiving unemployment benefits, the longer you receive those unemployment benefits, the longer you go without making those hard choices. >> as a psychologist, that's your forte. is it true if people have a cushion? there's no urgency?