break, the religion factor, is the country ready for a mormon nominee, we will examine that, and emanuel cleavercleaver. >>> i happen to believe that jesus christ is the son of god a and i understand that others have different views. >> that was mitt romney speaking friday about his religion beliefs, in 1960 americans decided yes they were ready for a catholic president and 50 years later are we ready for a mormon one. jim, i want to speak to you about this. mitt romney has said time and time again that jesus christ is his lord and savior, there was an article outlining the differences there's no holy trinity, there's a heavenly mother, there's previous beliefs in the mormon church including that individuals went to heaven and got planets named after them. do you think that south carolina voters are looking at romney's religion and thinking it's an issue or does this economy wipe out concerns that they have? >> i have a couple of thoughts that may be controversial, but let me put them out there. >> you love controversy. g >> i do. i have said on this show and others that i do not think that romn

we have congressman emanuel cleaver, also not with us yet. i understand he also had fled complications. a democrat from missouri and also the chairman of the congressional black caucus. former congressman j.c. watts is also with us this morning. we want to thank you. [applause] >> thank you. i just want to add my thanks to congressman west and all those to put this together and organized. i know this takes a lot of work and a lot of effort on behalf of a lot of people. so, thank you to all of those who were involved. i look forward to the dialogue and discussion this morning. >> i believe that the congressman west announced the questions that they do not know, which when they are going to get. that is why they are trying to be nice to me now. [laughter] octavia johnson from roanoke, virginia. thank you for joining us this morning. >> good morning. i too want to thank congressman west for allowing me to be here this morning. i believe it is -- it is important for us to be a leader within our community. keep the people informed as to our though

congressman allen w est discussion about conservatism -- congressman tim scott of south carolina and emanuel cleaver of missouri, former rnc chairman michael steele and former oklahoma congressman j.c. watts. live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c- span. >> mr. speaker, the president of the united states. >> tuesday night, president obama deliver since -- his state of the union address. live coverage begins at 8:00pm eastin, including the president's speech, a republican response from indiana governor mitch daniels, and your telephone calls. on c-span2, what to the president's speech along with tweets from members of congress, and more reaction from congressmen and senators. go online for live video and add your comments using facebook and twitter at c-span.org." >> this morning, kevin hassett from the american enterprise institute explains tax rates on private equity income earned by executives. then markham erickson, executive director of the open internet director of the open internet collision,

joining me is emanuel cleaver, democrat from missouri, and chairman of the congressional black caucus. mr. chairman, thanks foe coming on the show tonight. >> good to be with us. >> let me, mr. chairman, show you three things that make me become very disturbed that they're playing to a branch of this party that you and i have seen in milder forms before, some of which i named before you came on. if you listen to the same rick santorum. in january of last year, say this about president obama, and abortion that he brought in race. >> the question is, this is what barack obama didn't want answered -- is that human life? a person under the constitution? and barack obama says no. well, if that person, human life is not a person, i find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, no, we are going to decide who who are people and who are not people. >> i think he said black man that time. he might have said blah man. let's look at ron paul's newsletter, express, horribly bigoted ideas, saying if you've ever been robbed by a black teenage male, you know how unbelievably fleet of foot they ca

. >>> missouri congressman emanuel cleaver held as a hero for helping a woman he found in a ditch atof the road. he noticed her and waited with the woman until paramedics arrived. she thought she was going to die. >> she was in a ditch so there may have been people who drove by and didn't see her. i was fortunate enough to see her, cold. hopefully she's okay. if she is, then this is probably the best day of my year. >> he thought the first responders were the true heroes. we do not know the condition of the woman right now. >>> lawsuits are being filed against the cruise company that owned the "costa concordia." you kind of knew this was coming, didn't you? is ship hit rocks and rolled over two weeks ago. the company offers just over $14,000 for each of the survivors. the lawsuit is seeking 450 million bucks. >>> shipments of canadian orange juice aren't being allowed in the country after being tested for a fungicide legal in canada, but not the u.s. brazilian orange juice tested positive earlier this month. low levels aren't dangerous. they all came in below the danger levels. >>> l

performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] emanuel cleavercipants. michael steele, and j.c. watts. that is live tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. in his new year's message to the nation nicolas sarkozy talked about the future of france's economy. his speech comes less than 100 days before france's election. one week after standard and poor's downgraded the credit rating. in his speech, he said his government's economic policy would not be dictated by credit agencies. this is just over 45 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen congressman and congresswoman ladies and gentlemen i wanted to come here in a city and in a region that has represented for centuries the excellence of industrial and trade tradition in france. i wanted to wish a happy new year to business people in the second economic region in france. the unprecedented crisis distracting of france, europe, and the world forces us to look for new ideas. i would like to convince you ladies and gentlemen, fellow citizens that this new world which, with its new century's being born in fr

bill: the chairman of the black caucus, emanuel cleaver says the black community would be marching one lack of jobs if the president were white. quote, the point i was making is that black people hold the president in such highest team that they would not dare march on the white house even though unemployment is at 15% and higher, and if there was a white president we would do that because we've had white presidents since george washington. the reverend jesse jackson here to reablg react to all this. good morning, reverend, how are you. >> fine, thank you. bill: what do you make of that statement. >> black people have a great investment in president obama. there is great pain. i any in the factor apart from the affection is you're not born here, you're not a christian, you're a muslim, or you're a liar, i mean these attacks have also had a fact in making people pull ranks out of fear. bill: what the missouri congressman is talking about the economy. look at these numbers, you talk about fear or great pain. that was your phrase. unemployment for african-americans 15.8%. if you're 20 ye

we're joined by democratic congressman emanuel cleaver of missouri and republican congresswoman marshaurn from tennessee. before i get to what's on your plates as you move forward with the work, let's get to the review. and i got to warn you ahead of time it's not very good. if you look at this cnn/orc poll that talks about how congress is handling its job, the approval rating is 11%. this is literally the lowest in the history of cnn polling on this issue. explain this number to me. why don't you start, congresswoman blackburn? >> thank you, soledad. i think that what we are seeing is people are just frustrated with the fact that washington cannot seem to get things done. a great example of this is the house has passed over 30 bills that are jobs related bills. many of these are with a bipartisan vote of support. and they are sitting in the senate waiting for action and they are not being taken up. and the economy is just really struggling. people are struggling with jobs. they want to see some action on these issues. they want the spending to be cut back. they want the size of govern

i would like to introduce emanuel cleaver, who has joined us. he is from the great state of missouri and the chairman of the congressional black caucus. you are perfectly on time. in the next round of questions i have one for you. >> congressman scott said something very interesting that i agree with. it is a sales and marketing strategy that we have to overcome. it is a question of propaganda. thank god we have a literary legacy of douglas's writings. the things that we are talking about, he experienced of this and he wrote about it. he gave us solutions. that is why his life had to be steady. he was born below poverty. he did not even on his own body. but in his writings, he talked about his slave masters who told him, do not make plans for the future. i will take care of you. he is talking about the role of the federal government as not to provide for us. the role of the national government is true protect us. -- is to protect us. with that providing for us and not protecting us, that is where it comes to personal responsibility. you cannot p

i would also like to thank our congressional black caucus chair, emanuel cleaver,, his leadership is making such a different in this country. the right to vote is our most fundamental right that guarantees and preserving all -- preserves all other rights. when americans lose the right to vote, that endangers their ability to defend against first attacks. the assault on voters' rights continues in 2012. in this election year a coordinated campaign designed to block access to the polls to tens of millions of americans threatens to undermine our democracy and change election jut comes. it's no secret which communities these are designed to disenfranchise, chose of color, students, poverty-stricken families and the disailed. the -- those who are pushing anti-voting laws know what they are doing. they saw the election results of 2008 with the surge of participation from americans who had never voted before, they see the rising tide of americans who seek to change their -- change their country by doing their basic civic duty on election day. instead of embasing change, they are desperately

so i have introduced legislation along with my friend from missouri, emanuel cleaver, to have legislation that will do three things. first of all, it will take this memorial that you see in the back, the world war i d.c. memorial, at the time this photograph was taken it was in a state of disrepair, it's since been repaired by the national park service, which oversees the memorial, take this memorial, honor the d.c. vets, and expand it to include and make it the district of columbia and national world war i memorial. maybe even give more recognition to the people of d.c. who built the memorial, the school children who collected money so that it could be built many years ago. but make it a memorial for all who served in the world war i. the second thing it would do is also designate the liberty memorial in kansas city as the world war i museum. which would be in kansas city, missouri. you see it is the museum in the united states that honors and recognizes the history of world war i. and in the third thing this bill would do is set up a commission so that america can commemorate world war

we have congressman emanuel cleaver, also not with us yet.tand he also had fled -- flight complications. a democrat from missouri and also the chairman of the congressional black caucus. we hope that he will be able to join us as well. former congressman j.c. watts is also with us this morning. we want to thank you. [applause] >> thank you. i just want to add my thanks to congressman west and all those to put this together and organized. i know this takes a lot of work and a lot of effort on behalf of a lot of people. so, thank you to all of those who were involved. i look forward to the dialogue and discussion this morning. >> i believe that the congressman west announced the questions that they do not know, which when they are going to get. that is why they are trying to be nice to me now. [laughter] octavia johnson from roanoke, virginia. thank you for joining us this morning. >> good morning. i too want to thank congressman west for allowing me to be here this morning. i believe it is -- it is important for us to be a leader within our co