things that both parties think perhaps agree on not so much it seems especially not if you are eric cantor the congressman decided that this was asked who was the absolute perfect opportunity for him to take a political stance to show the world just how serious he is about cutting frivolous spending you know frivolous spending on disaster stricken americans very very prevalent here now here's a congressman on fox news yesterday explaining his stance. in instances like this yes there's a federal role yes we're going to from the money we're just going to need to make sure there are savings elsewhere to continue to do so. now cantor is now calling for a huge cuts to thema as well as first responders programs to offset any additional disaster relief funds as an cutting. from disaster relief programs to fund disaster relief i don't really know how this works but apparently he does and the irony of cantor's demands didn't escape louisiana senator mary landrieu who asked rhetorically is it really makes sense to pay for response and reconstruction costs from athens asters by reducing our capacity

all right will the republican house majority leader eric cantor has officially chosen his next hostage unfortunately they're the victims of hurricane irene now with flooding as as high. nearly a foot in some areas the hurricane has left the state of vermont struggling in the worst natural disaster in more than a century in fact several towns still remain cut off from funding sorry from aid because the washed out roads and bridges are just blocking any efforts there and the storm did kill more than forty people along the eastern seaboard we can one in ten billion dollars in damages not to mention the fact that hurricane katrina is still fresh in everyone's mind so it would seem that funding for the disaster relief is one of those rare few things that both parties can perhaps agree on not so much it seems especially not if you are eric cantor the congressman decided that this disaster was the absolute perfect opportunity for him to take a political stance to show the world just how serious he is about cutting frivolous spending you know frivolous spending on disaster americans very very

i think you got a tiny fringe that eric cantor represents. >> what would you say to cantor tonight? >> i would say it's not just vermont that you're hurting. you are destroying the fabric of a nation. we are a nation that comes together in disaster. and you don't ignore people in vermont or in missouri who have been hit by an earthquake or a tornado or california that has its problems. we are a nation. don't sell us out, mr. cantor. don't make us a second-rate nation. we have got to significantly rebuild our infrastructure. we will be the laughing stocks of the world. if people think that when a community is devastated, this great nation doesn't have the resources to help that community rebuild. >> and next week the senate will be talking about funding for fema which is down to $800 million, the damage is into the billions. i know where you're going to be on that fight, senator. great to have you with us tonight. thanks for what you're doing and i appreciate your time visit ingwith our viewers tonight. now let's turn to jim moore, co-author of "bush's brains." why rick perry will ma

you said it was sinful for eric cantor, and i commend you for that. why did you say that?ll, i think it's shameful. we as a country come to the aid of everyone in the world. in fact, we're the 911 for the world. but if american citizens suffer a tornado or earthquake or a forest fire, we need to be there for them just like we would for anyone else. and as a beneficiary of the goodwill of this country, when katrina hit, and rocked our world down here, i just think it's wrong for me not to stand up and say, we -- you all helped us when we needed it and we should be there to help other americans. and if it takes republicans and democrats agreeing, you know and i know, that's not going to happen in a quick manner to help the people when they need it. >> and we're really seeing the country right now fight with finances. >> yes. >> and have we gotten to the point where we'll do anything to make the budget work? i mean, you've got a hurricane that's bearing down on the east coast the last few days, and we're talking about cuts to see if we're going to help our people. what's that

by any meshaler th meas in and twisted arms and changes the outcome of this debate. >> you heard eric cantora press conference in washington talking about the fact that they've won. >> exactly. i mean it is definitely, cantor and the entire leadership's interest at this point it get in and push the line that the tea party influence had a lot to do with this. again, in part, this is because from the view of the tea party, remember, this is a movement that is all about purity, and this is not the kind of structure of the deal that they wanted. so they could be really ticked off about this. >> michelle --. right now the leadership has to kind of push the notion they want it. >> stay there for a second. we're going it listen to john boehner again. one mohammed. >> -- signed into law to solve this debt crisis and help get the american people back to work. >> there we are, michelle. that was speaker john boehner saying he's getting the debt crisis behind him and wants to get on with creating jobs, and getting the economy going again. but is this deal going to make any difference to the economy? >>

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. >> i had, leader, eric cantor on today, i said look, he was going on and on about how bad unemployment is. i said obviously we've got to extend the unemployment benefits, right? he said no, we've got to help small business. we'ring about to get a retail collapse. >> he said, helped unemployed? >> that doesn't make sense. let's take it back from the theory to reality. if we hear that a company in south philly will hire 500 people, every clothing store, everything would be booming down there. it's no going to happen. but it would be job creation if boeing doubled its contract with air force planes, that would be great news this in seattle. in houston, it's space, in the southwest, west virginia, it's bobby byrd, it was jack murtha in johnstown, pennsylvania. why do people have this disconnect. they know that the government creates jobs, every time in our life, we know that world war ii saved us economically. all our experience is that the government crease jobs and you hear eric cantor with this religious notion of some kind that somehow this belief in small business means the government

>> i have, i had eric cantor on today. look, obviously you're going to extend the unemployment, right, i said? no. huh? i mean, we are about to have a retail collapse in this country if we don't get some people to have these unemployment benefits. on the one hand, he's talking we got to help the unemployed. then he's like what are you kidding? help the unemployed. >> doesn't make sense. back from the theory to reality. if we hear that they're going to reopen and hire 500,000 new people, everybody in south philly would go crazy. this is dynamite. small business, everybody, all the places, every clothing store, everything would be booming down there. it's not going to happen, but it would be job creation. if boeing doubled its contract with air force planes, that would be great news in seattle and somewhere elsewhere they're operating. in houston it's space. in the south, west virginia, it was bobby bird. it was jack murtha in johnstown, pennsylvania. why do people have a disconnect? they know the government creates jobs. ev

but the republicans in the house didn't care it passed that anyway welcome to john boehner eric cantor's world and now they're flying home on their campaign donors private jets before a compromise funding bill with out anti-union language can be negotiated with the senate so now four thousand f.a.a. workers are furloughed without pay over two and a half billion dollars worth of airport construction projects are on a whole leaving somewhere between sixty and one hundred thousand mostly unionised construction workers out of a job so much for asking where the jobs are. not only that the federal government is losing out on two hundred million dollars a week in uncollected taxes on airline tickets as a result of the partial f.a.a. shutdown and so in a sense it will be at least another five weeks before this is resolved and you can do the math on just how expensive this little republican vacation is so much for caring about deficit reduction transportation secretary ray la hood went on t.v. this morning to speak out against these antics. congress should pass a bill today and since seventy thou

we need our politicians to not play politics with the delivery of resources, and eric cantor ought tose majority leader be saying to the american people about this? what should he be saying? >> he should be saying, we are here, we are with you. do what lbj did in a time of crisis. he showed up with a bullhorn and he barked out his compassion and his identification with the vulnerable of this nation. eric cantor should be saying, we will do everything that we can to leverage the resources that you, the people, have invested in us by paying your taxes and we'll turn to those service to you without playing politics. that's what a great leader, that's where a visionary leader, that's what a responsible leader would do. >> even in the time of potential absolute disaster, the crasness of this people just absolutely is abound.

do you think eric cantor and house republicans are going to reap a kind of political whirl wind behind this? >> well, i hope they recant, in other words, cantor has made this statement, i know he's repeated it again or his staff said he means it, but i'm hoping both republicans and democrats from the areas impacted by hurricane irene will simply step up and say this is not acceptable. again, it's a question of not getting the relief out, because if you don't do this quickly and do some kind of emergency it's going to be distressful for the states and towns and people. you're talking fema, grants and loans for individuals and small businesses, you're talking about money that goes to localities to pay for police and fire and rescue workers. i mean, it just doesn't make any sense to treat this as, you know, as if you would treat something that you can, you know, sit around and argue over for months and years. that's not the way we do business. that's not what the federal government's role is, so i'm hopeful that cooler heads prevail, i guess, is the best way to put it. >> sure, and repres

describing that grand bargain with president obama and eastern this afternoon after the market dropped, eric cantor house republican leader, put positive a letter, with all the tub beaux lance a lot of pressure on congress to compromise on tax increases on us, the republicans, to compromise on tax increases. i ask you to resist that pressure. that's what president obama is facing, and unilaterally, michael steele said, follow me or get out of the way. we're not china. he doesn't have the power to implement a debt reduction plan. >> back to you in a minute, melissa. let me propose something. the president has one card to say. come out and say here's my plan pap radical problem facing us now. i have a solution. here's my job solution. 1 million jobs. come out with a way to develop that in a short-term deal with the cyclical problem. the long-term problem of debt, come out with his own $4 trillion plan. he said he has one. tell us what it is, including entitlements and defense. lay it on the table. this is what the country has to do. this is what i want to do, put on more pressure on republicans. what

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blew it up very very interesting i'm sure if eric cantor were watching him be very pleased to hear that right now. you know in his speech today that president obama was doing anything but celebrating but he did sort of theme to want to make sure that his base knew that he was still fighting for them i want to play a little bit about what he said and i will talk about it and since you can't close the deficit with just spending cuts we'll need a balanced approach where everything's on the tape yes that means making some adjustments to protect health care programs like medicare so they're there for future generations it also means reforming our tax code so that the wealthiest americans and biggest corporations pay their fair share. and it means getting rid of taxpayer subsidies to oil and gas companies and tax loopholes that help billionaires pay a lower tax rate then teachers and nurses all right so it sounds a little bit like we're seeing candidate obama reemerge and making sure that you know his base his supporters know that he's still on their side he's in full blown campaign mode righ

"eric cantor -- federal hurricane disaster relief would have to be offset by spending cuts. a spokesman said that the response would be balanced by spending cuts elsewhere in government. has consistently said that federal funds for disaster relief must be offset with spending cuts.' predicted help from the federal government might not be quick in coming" -- that's what it says, might not be quick in coming. we would like to hear from you and your thoughts about the appropriate federal role and natural disasters of this type and what we've learned from past lessons, and we welcome your calls, tweets and emails. jonathan allen is on the phone with us from "politico," a regular voice with us. august is typically been a time when congress has gone on to listen to and the concerns of constituents, and that ties in with our question about the federal government's role. what have you been learning about congress' direction with the public during this particular congressional break? guest: it depends a lot of a member of congress and the type of constituent that shows up at their ev

the problem is that the position that eric cantor took was that they were willing to risk the defaulttion's credit. the president was not willing to risk that default. in the account that you mentioned it says when democrats met with the president, i believe in may of this year, he basically said to them, i can't look you in the eye and say that i'm not going to blink because i'm not willing to risk the credit of the country. this is a unique situation. i don't know quite how we go forward. it reminds me -- it's called the crazy man theory. when nixon was in the white house and negotiating with the north vietnamese. he told his national security adviser let them think i'm crazy, that i might go nuclear. i think we know this president is not going to go nuclear. in a way that's a disadvantage in his dealing with the folks on capitol hill. >> short of using the crazy man philosophy here do you see something the president could have done to handle this more effectively? >> i think there were a couple of moments along the way or maybe at least one when the gang of six came out in the sena

president obama dismissed eric cantors by saying i won. he had a democratic congress and got everything he wanted. what have the republicans done this year? they have insisted that the president set up a political battle. he had the votes in november to get his debt ceiling. he wanted the republicans to have ownership . he waited until the republican house and trying to jam them. republicans said we want deficit reduction before we increase the debt ceiling. they got it and the president signed it. the republicans passed a budget the demdeps haven't. republicans passed a slew of job creating the democrats haven't . the president sits here and lectures us about how we need to take action. what is his action? he has yet to put pen to paper and issue a job's plan that lasts nine months and don't complain about the lack of regidity. >> someone who turned a record surplus in a dev and it and got us in a war we shouldn't be n the american people are not ready to hear from you. >> i appreciate the insults, bill. but the fact of the matter is, you

. ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ after the republican meeting the speaker's number two, majority leader eric cantorunited and strong. >> we just had a very good conference. the leaders are rallying around the speaker's plan. >> reporter: he has to get other >> we are doing well. freshmen if his bill it going to survive. we caught up with freshman kristi noem of south dakota in the house cafeteria. >> you go home to south dakota. what do you tell them because you know how disgusted and angry americans all seem right now? >> they are. we tell them that this is the fight that they sent us here for. you know, there are 87 new freshmen that came, and we came to change the way that washington, d.c. does business. i would love to tell them i'm working at it. >> compromise sometimes means compromise. >> it's not just compromise. it's common ground. >> reporter: she's due in the speaker's office later today. she'll be looking for common ground. he will be looking for her vote. among the chandeliers and the priceless works of art, for all the talk of reform from the newcomers around here, changing an institu

>> i have, i had eric cantor on today. look, yobbously going on and on how bad unemployment is. ob yoesly extend unemployment. no. huh? i mean, we are about to have a retail collapse in this country if we don't get some people to have these unemployment benefits. he's talking we got to help the unep ployed. what are you kidding? help the unemployed. >> doesn't make sense. back from the theory to reality. if we hear that they're going to reopen and hire 500,000 new people, everybody in south ffelly were go crazy. everybody, all the places, every clothing store, everything would be booming down there. it's not going to happen, but it would be job creation. if boeing doubled its contract with plane, greats news in seattle. in houston it's space. in the south, west virginia, bobby bird, the jack murtha in johnstown, pennsylvania. why do people have a disconnect jt they know the government creates jobs. every nim our life from world war ii, economically, all our experience locally and historically the government creates jobs and eric cantor, a religious notion of some kind that someh

meanwhile, eric cantor said, quote, the president remains out of touch on these tough economic issues. today only the president urged both parties to come together and get the people back to work. >> what i want the american people and our partners around the world to know, is this. we are going to get through this. things will get better. and we're going to get there together. >> in the last few weeks, we have showed you how republican policies got us into this hole. the question is, will the american people trust the same failed gop agenda to dilg us out. joining me now, is msnbc, political analyst, richard wolffe and former rnc chair michael steele. richard, will voters really trust republicans to get the economy moving, that the republicans in my judgment, was the ones that got the economy where it is today? >> well, a statement of the obvious for starters. this is obviously the president's weak spot. it effects real people with a real political impact. if you look at the polls. see the numbers out of the poll this beek, there is a big gap between how much people trust the preside

one is eric cantor's worried that the grown-ups will take over.there will be pressure on the people to raise taxes as part of a solution. you're also saying there are people who are already grown-ups, i recognize people like boehner would like to save the american people from collapse. what's the president do given those two facts? back to melissa. given that information, there are republican hess can reach a concern by the crazies on the right reflected in the smart thinking by eric cantor they're exposed as having been too radical? how can he take advantage of that? >> two thing. first, you saw him respond to the criticism he face and you haven't laid out your plan. he said today he was going to lay out for specifics and he's done. i would not expect, even though there are democratic economist whose agree with you, we ought to have a major jobs program. but the other thing the president can do is to sharpen the contrast between the visions of the two parties. remember, the reason that republicans won't deal on taxes is because they want to reduc

ram. ♪ >>> it looks like eric cantor provided us with summer beach reading.ditorial in "the washington post" today filled with the same old, tired republican rhetoric, less regulation, left spending, less taxes. but here's the kicker. can'tor accuses of president of engaging in class warfare. here are my cliff notes on this deal. eric cantor, majority leader in the house, member of the republican party who oversaw one of the biggest redistributions of wealth ever in this country from the middle class to the rich. this is the guy who defends tax cuts for the job creators who haven't delivered? who defends tax breaks for big oil, who fought against the consumer protection agency, less regulation on the bank who brought this country to near economic collapse? cantor who fights against unemployment benefits, social security, medicare, medicaid, health care reform, the lot. the guy who fights for the ending of workers' rights through collective bargaining, who introduced no bills in the house in eight months that would deal with job creation? this is the guy we sh

republicans like eric cantor saying not so fast. you can't be raising taxes in the middle of this very weak, weak recovery right now. and so push back i'm hearing from republicans. look if they want to take them back. big savings and deficit reduction. you have to dig deeper into medicare, medicaid, maybe social security to extract the savings. if you are taking taxes off the table. where are you going to get the money from, shep? many of the presidential president's opponents. he has not come forward with specifics. today the people you would normally see defending him have come out to say something similar but with a different spinel. had the president had some specifics on the table, i would cut here, i would cut here. i would cut here. he might have had a better voice in the fight. i won der if the president is going to take a more hands on approach as we move forward. >> well, you know, it's a good question. we have actually seen him though going all the way back to the health care reform bill. he faced the same criticism as yo

dick army's rhetoric in the koch brothers rhetoric and that's what's being put and to an extent eric cantor is about a lot of power in this is you know just mentioned their message that these people are scrambling laded gulleys their message that leading up to the two thousand and ten election that's friends late into action here in washington i'm wondering what you think if the. aggressive they're looking at this and they're saying you know people even last of the average moderate liberal saying you know what maybe we should learn from this maybe we should mobilize and make sure the twenty twelve the house looks a little different in terms of the elections is there anything like that happening a mobilization it's happening hugely and there have been huge demonstrations all over the country that haven't been covered so much by the mainstream media you've covered some of them but by and large they haven't seen van jones has you when he rolled out the rebuild the dream dot com the first nationwide means more than twice as many people show up for more than twice as many meetings as the cheaper

eric cantor may reject it out of hand.d then the business community will have less claim against president obama and maybe take more seriously the obligation to start hiring and do something to spark the economy. >> you work on wall street. is this good news? >> it's good news for main street. businesses in the country, small, medium and big, they can plan for the future. eric cantor is playing politics. he's a friend, but he knows he's playing politics. this is a positive thing. i'm interested in seeing the fine print. anyone in business complaining about e.p. and the labor, overregular laying, this is a positive thing. if i were eric cantor, i would go through this and see what needs to be done, take it to virginia, your republican caucus go home tell big, small, medium business this is what they are doing. this is where obama ought to get out and make the case, republicans don't want to help. they want to stand in the way and defeat me and democrats. i'm trying to create jobs. this is the first step. >> he needs to cont

signed grover norquist's pledge to never raise taxes in any way, including by closing loopholes, eric cantor reminded republicans to stick to the norquist position today, sending a memo to his caucus reading in part, "i firmly believe we can find bipartisan agreements on savings that can be agreed to without tax increases. i believe this is what we must demand from the joint committee as it begins its work." >>> joining me now, democrat from illinois, congresswoman jan schakowsky, thanks for joining me tonight, congresswoman. >> thank you, lawrence. >> is eric cantor right, is it possible to, as he put it, find a bipartisan agreement? that means you, congresswoman, a bipartisan agreement on savings from mandatory programs that can be agreed to without tax increases? >> there's no way. if we don't put the millionaires and billionaires and the corporations that aren't paying any taxes or getting breaks to put our jobs overseas or the oil companies and we go after entitlement programs, social security, medicare, medicaid, you know, if this doesn't bring people to the streets, i don't know what

is going to be an area where federal money needs to be spent and of course with the threat take eric cantor for example. but in instances like this yes there's a federal role yes we're going to fund the money we're just going to need to make sure that there are savings elsewhere to continue to do so. oh you need to make sure that there are savings elsewhere to continue to do so how come i get the feeling that those savings are going to come from other much needed programs per se i don't know education health care unemployment benefits that's right because we have a military industrial complex that controls washington and that always wins and they always win because we have an important media that refuses to call out our lawmakers on this problem so i'm a volunteer to point to some areas and the bloated security defense budget where savings could be found so that americans can recover from hurricane irene from the storms in joplin or even from hurricane katrina it's been six years today since she hit there still a lot of work to be done in new orleans now example number one according to the

, and eric cantor was proposing cuts to the u.s. geological survey, the national weather service, which, of course, tracks tsunamis, and the reactor sits under cantor's district, right by the epicenter of the earthquake today. based on this, would you expect legislation to be able to move through congress more quickly that someone like congressman cantor will get it now that the earth was literally moving near his reactor? >> not at all, i think the greater likelihood is they'll move forward saying we must have long guarantees so they can build more nuclear power plants without incorporating the safety measures necessary in order to actually deal with what has happened at fukushima, what happened in new zealand, what is happening here today in virginia and washington, d.c. there is something out there, and when we -- when we prepare, we cannot prepare for an earthquake that happened only in the last ten or 20 years. we have to look at these areas back 100 years and even further and then build in the extra measure of safety, but the n

doesn't that put eric cantor on the spot as majority leader in the house? >> no question, and if he's honest, he'll say we do need to invest in our infrastructure, one of the most conservative members of the senate, do you remember during the debate jim inhofe and barbara boxer tried to triple infrastructure spending in the original stimulus, unfortunately it was beaten back, but there is republican support for infrastructure spending, and what we would have to do, look, specific projects, you're right, people love specific projects because they can say yeah, i get that, we need that, and we can do that in the short run, but in the long run, and i've seen it when you do your promos standing at the base of the hoover dam, we've got to do big things with the american infrastructure, can't be done in six months or a year, but if we committed ourselves to a decade-long program, that's going to produce millions of jobs, not just for one year or 18 months, but for ten years straight, and it will revitalize american manufacturing and get this economy back working.

eric cantor announced the propose tald of the republicans. what is it? -- republicans are trying to beat the president to the punch. what is the republican house plan on jobs? >> greta, before i get to that, let me touch on the last clip in regard to this gentleman from princeton that is coming onboard with the obama administration the council of economic advisers. if he is going to recommend a consumption tax the senate should confirm him 100% and let's get this guy onboard. we've been waiting for the fair tax for a long time. i say oo-rah! if he going to do that. >> greta: i guess he has your vote. >> if that's what he is going to do. as far as our jobs program as eric cantor announced today, earlier today, that as we go back and he set a schedule for this, back in february i think february 11th, we passed house resolution 72, requiring each of our committee chairpersons in the house to look at different rules and regulations of agencies under their jurisdiction that needed to be either reformed or repealed. they have done a fantastic job. i'm on the c

. >>> the president talked about jobs, sarah palin talked about mitt romney and eric cantor, took a we stance for millionaires and billionaires. >> i'm encouraging the congress to take it with utmost seriousness. >> the president les to talk about millionaires, billionaires, and t owners. >> the president tries to govern while congress refuses to work. >> the debt ceiling crisis over the last month, i think, has had an unnecessary negative impact on the economy. >> the shift from talking about debt ceiling. >> he's making a pivot. >> jobs, jobs, jobs. >> a mugging. you don't talk about what happed. >> you talk about the shiny balls of. >> the washington players are already drawing lines in the sand about the next round of deficit reduction. >> now is not the time for us to be considering tax hikes. >> back to our regularly scheduled ogramming. >> this has been a mess. >> it's a bad deal but it's a done deal. >> this plan is 2000 sacred cows strapped together by a time bomb. >> former senator alan simpson found a way to compromise, he joins me. >> smoking more than i believed in the wds

this was the message from eric cantor. >> jim, the most important thing we can do for somebody who's unemployed is see if we can get them a job. that's what needs to be the focus. for too long in washington we've been worried about pumping up stimulus moneys and unemployment benefits. to a certain extent you have states in which you can get unemployment for almost two years and i think those people on unemployment benefits would rather have a job. that's where our focus needs to be. >> focus needs to be on shooting ourselves in the foot. also those lazy unemployed people. maybe we should shoot them on the foot too and get them hopping. white house cannot make a magic wand to make the economy go and the things the government can do are not things the president can wave a magic wand. eric cantor is signaling republicans will try to block even the baseline minimum stuff to not make things worse than they already are. so in that context, getting really granular today, the president announced a jobs return. >> a new returning heros tax credit for companies who hire returning veterans. i'm

however, what we saw last week with this earthquake rumble on the east coast, we saw eric cantor come out and say i live in a district in virginia that was affected by the quake and i'm all for giving folks aid there, but only if you cut in other areas, given that the state of our -- given the state of our american budget now. is that the debate that's going to shape up in washington? >> well, clearly, we're out of money. we have an enormous decifit. so it might help if we actually did cut somewhere else. there are 18,000 federal programs, surely some of them could take a nick. but going back a little to your beach home question, of course people bear the risk of living on the beach and of course, they're going to pay costs, but the question is, shouldn't they pay the full cost? and that's what the federal insurance program is all about. it's basically giving cut rates, subsidized insurance to people, and maybe that's what we want to do, but a lot of the rest of us aren't getting those kind of insurance breaks. bill: that is true. just, by the way, you had a virginia art quake, which

this was the message from eric cantor. >> jim, the most important thing we can do for somebody who'smployed is see if we can get them a job. that's what needs to be the focus. for too long in washington we've been worried about pumping up stimulus moneys and unemployment benefits. to a certain extent you have states in which you can get unemployment for almost two years and i think those people on unemployment benefits would rather have a job. that's where our focus needs to be. >> focus needs to be on shooting ourselves in the foot. also those lazy unemployed people. maybe we should shoot them on the foot too and get them hopping. white house cannot make a magic wand to make the economy go and the things the government can do are not things the president can wave a magic wand. eric cantor is signaling republicans will try to block even the baseline minimum stuff to not make things worse than they already are. so in that context, getting really granular today, the president announced a jobs return. >> a new returning heros tax credit for companies who hire returni ining veterans. we'

this really angered me -- i'm reading a statement by eric cantor, and i know that i shouldn't researchhings, because it's only going to make me get into another kind of frame of mind, but eric cantor wrote -- obama policies fueled by efforts to incite class war fare. when you are protecting loopholes for corporations, tax cuts for the rich, and saying people should not have an extension on cutting payroll tax, i mean, if that isn't their saying there should be protection for certain class and not for the working class, i don't know what is. i mean, how do we keep hearing this blame the other side for what is inadvertent will be being advocated for some of the policies they're fighting for? >> you've hit the nate on the head. the republicans aren't just defining it, they're defining class warfare by protecting millionaires, billionaires and corporations. the reality is we need people back to work. the republicans have been in schiavo now, holding the majority since january, and haven't created any jobs in this economy. you've got to think at some point or another, they're not hearing th

by the way, doesn't eric cantor sound like gomeer pyle.? seriously? doesn't he?what do you sound like, bob? >> bob: recovering drunk. which is what i am. i give mitch mcconnell credit. he held back and played it smart and came in at the end. the other winners clearly are eric's pals, millionaire and billionaires. >> andrea: eric? >> eric: obama won by default. he stepped back and let the process take place. his crep tryst left decided -- centrist left allowed him to get through the election to win. tea party won and lost. they won because they changed the debath and changed dialogue but they still are raising the debt ceiling. it will be harder, hard-pressed to get the tea parties to vote for the final deal in that respect they lost. harry reid is a loser. he was important for five minutes in the whole process. >> andrea: to bob's point, tea party took the president and drug him kicking and screaming to the middle. don't think he will jump up and down and take credit for this in the election. >> kimberly: here is the problem. where was the president's plan? every