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anorpanel includes ele clift, armstrong williams, and lot professor, paul butler. we'll take your calls a you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" on c-span. >> during his weekly address, president obama discusses jobs and the economy and to the importance of the u.s. export-import bank. reince priebus, chairman of the republican national committee, has a republic in response and talks about government spending and the republican agenda. >> hi, everybody. nearly six years after the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes, our businesses have added nearly 10 million new jobs over the past 53 months. that's the longest streak of private-sector job creation in our history. and we're in a six-month streak with our economy creating at least 200,000 new jobs each month -- the first time that's happened since 1997. thanks to the decisions we made to rescue and rebuild our economy, and your hard work and resilience, america is leading again. areas like manufacturing, energy, technology, and autos are all booming. and here's the thing. we'