down, this is what eric cantor showed in the spirit of unity and bipartisanism. this is what he said -- >> what about in the obama plan, $35 billion for states so that they don't have to lay off teachers, police, firefighters? >> here we go again. this is the type of monies and these are the types of programs that the president advocated in the stimulus program. i think that the country understands washington doesn't create jobs. >> washington doesn't create jobs, richard. and the public understands it, and the stimulus program -- and i don't have enough time left in this segment to go back and show the graph of when the stimulus was there, how unemployment went down. but what is eric talk about? does he live in a parallel universe, richard? of course washington can create jobs. and protect jobs. >> he lives in a safe republican district. the problem is, what's going to happen in the senate for those senate republicans who need to

thousand people in portland oregon republicans are quite upset about this however this is what eric cantor had to sit. for one and increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupy wall street and the other cities across the country. and believe it or not some in this town actually condone the pitting of americans against americans pitting of americans against americans let's see pitting unionized workers against non-unionized workers pitting public sector workers against private sector workers are actually the other way around getting people who depend on government programs against so-called job creators isn't eric cantor the guy who is really guilty of this the fourth ranking house democrat john larson spoke with me a couple days ago actually and he said that this represents an arab spring in america i mean if the rhetoric of those who are now running to take at least co-opt the movement and you mentioned i know earlier that there are different forces that are trying to co-opt this movement and make it their own but if john larson one of the most powerful democrats in the country com

suddenly eric cantor is singing a different tune. are upset and they're justifiably frustrated. they're out of work. the economy is not moving. their sense of security for their future is not clear at all. people are afraid and i get it. really? do you get it, congressman? and it's just not cantor. other republicans including the presidential front runner are changing their tune about the occupy wall street movement. joining me tonight is mike papantonio host of the ring of fire radio show. great to have you with us. does eric cantor people are starting to worry about the political influence of this movement and it might be for real? >> they're worried about this message. and the message is stop the looting and start the prosecuting. because the people that these folks want prosecuted, the people in occupy wall street that want the prosecutions they want are the very people who are the money behind people like eric cantor and the money behind mitt romney. look, the message is clear, ed. it's a good message. the message is capitalism

he name drops eric cantor.the eloquence of an occupy wall street protester didn't fit fox's fair and balanced image so they cut what he said. when you hear what they cut, you'll know why. the exceptional take on occupy wall street is coming up. >>> we've had folks in congress who've said they shouldn't pass this bill because it would give me a win. so their thinking about the next election. give me a win? give me a break. that's why folks are fed up with washington. this isn't about giving me a win. this isn't about giving democrats or republicans a win. this is about giving america a win. >> that was president obama this afternoon just outside of dallas. again pushing congress to pass his jobs bill. along with some campaign style rhetoric, we heard the now familiar campaign style slogan. >> pass this bill. pass this bill. pass this bill. pass this bill. let's pass this bill. >> along with the pass this bill refrain, the president did something different today in texas. he didn't just talk about republican oppo

off track is eric cantor. he is saying i guess we have to get the wealthy people and encourage them to create jobs. after we've given them all the breaks. they just haven't done it. which just goes to show that their trickle down economic theory, it's never worked and it never will. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. which movement is stronger, the 99% movement on the tea party? text a for 99%, text b for the tea party. we'll bring you the results later on. joining me now is van jones, president and co-founder of rebuild the dream.com. van, good to have you with us tonight. does eric cantor have a clue how close the income gap is? >> he does. first of all, you said what's bigger than the tea party or occupy wall street 99% of the tea party base should be on occupy wall street as well. that sound you hear is the ice cracking all around the republican party. it is completely redrawing the boundaries. it has broken through in a big way in one month's time. >> what should the reaction of the

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republican house majority leader eric cantor stock which should have been president obama's americans jobs act yesterday saying there's no chance that the house of representatives will even bring the bill to the floor for consideration let along pass it as a majority of americans want despite the fact that numerous economists of so that the american jobs act will create millions of new american jobs eric cantor call the legislation unreasonable and so the house republicans instead will chop the president's proposal as in as just. cuts to federal programs that support poor middle income people or cut taxes on rich people and nothing else in response president obama said the stores. people don't have the luxury of waiting thirteen months to live and week to week some are living paycheck to paycheck some folks are living day to day they didn't really need it now they want congress to do what they were elected to do. congress to do. do your job congress instead of focusing on jobs house republicans are focusing on cutting federal health programs federal education programs and labor progra

(laughter) you know who you are, eric cantor?'re like the one kid on the playground always just throwing the dozens all day about someone's mom. "your mom's so dumb she thinks food stamps are what you use to mail food." (laughter) "your mom's so ugly richard dawkins used her as proof of the non-existence of god!" (laughter) no, wait! (cheers and applause) i'm assuming he goes to a private school. and then when someone else on the playground finally comes back with "oh, yeah? well, your mom's so fat..." before they even finish cantor's like "whoa! uncool! i am very concerned about all this mother talk dividing our playground! and give me your lunch money, you need to have some skin in the game." we'll be right back. (cheers s (cheers and applause) >> jon: welcome back! unbelievable. hard to believe, the occupy wall street movement is one month old today. the next thing you know they'll be moving out and getting an encampment of their own! we sent john oliver to wall street to see if the 99% had room for one more. >> occupy wall st

if eric cantor were smart, he'd say i'll agree to this, this, and this, let's go. >> which is what he's done. eric has done that. he said i'm going to move this, this, and this. what i'm not going to do is i'm not going to raise taxes which kills jobs. in this fraj fragile economy, raising taxes is the worst thing you can do. >> john, how have lower taxes provided for job amplification in this country? they have had low taxes for years now. the jobs aren't there. >> the fact of the matter is senate democrats don't like the job increases the president has proposed. that's why senator reid has not stopped the idea. mitch mcconnell said, okay, let's bring this up for a vote. let's see if we've got the votes, mr. president. harry reid said, no, we're not going to do that. you know why? because senate democrats don't like the president's package. they don't like the tax increases because they know it's going to kill jobs. >> gentlemen, we've got to leave it there. good to see you both this morning. thank you. >>> right now the ntsb is about to give a briefing on that deadly crash on a helico

is eric cantor playing the bad top what we will see as john boehner's good cop?>> no, they're on the same page as on this program. they're going to oppose it, but pick out pieces of it eventually and pass them. the big story, john, is you have even senate democrats opposing this jobs bill, when it comes up early next week in the senate. democrats will be hard-pressed to get even 50 votes for closure on this thing. what is astonishing is that president obama is to the left of where he was on election day 2010, which i thought no one would have expected. you have democrats on the verge of embracing this occupy wall street movement. on the misbegotten theateree ic day party. it was mainstream compared to these folks. read that are declaration of occupation of new york, where they say corporations are perpetuating colonialism around the world, poisoning the food supply, suppressing free speech. >> it's a paranoid marxism, poisons for the democratic party. >> okay. your thoughts? [everyone talking at once] >> richard, you're cherry picking those statements. >> read th

good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> the president urged house majority leader eric cantor to put his jobs bill up for a vote so the entire country would know wherever member of the congress stands, but mr. cantor has already said that he won't do it. why? if over half the country wants the bill to be enacted, and why doesn't mr. cantor put the bill to the house? >> that's a good question. senator mcconnell said his job was to guarantee that barack obama was a one-term president. obviously, the job of any of us in the house or the senate is to try to help america succeed, and in fact, if there is going to be accountability when the president has a major bill, i think each one of us in congress should be willing to vote on us yes or no, and let voters hold us accountable. we can take a different point of view, but let's move on and say what we think and vote. mr. cantor is doubled down on the notion that if government is dysfunctional, which is not acting and it's not divided government but dysfunctional government, the disgust of what americans feel, it comes down on his electoral pro

same time yesterday in a back and forth between the white house and majority leader in the house eric cantor. >> i'd like mr. cantor to come down here to dallas and explain what exactly in this jobs bill does he not believe? n.? if y if you don't would that, at least put this jobs bill up for a vote to the entire country knows exactly where members of congress stand. >> well, even before the president had spoken those words about eric cantor, they telegraphed they were going to do it, cantor responded on twitter saying "while the president seems to be in full campaign mode we in the house are going to try to find areas of commonality to work for the people. in the senate, mitch mcconnell tried to stick up for eric cantor. he moved to call the president's bluff saying it will be a great idea to bring up the jobs bill for a vote immediately. harry reid called it a political stunt. he wasn't bringing up the jobs bill. he was attaching it to another bill. and so reid said democrats are scrambling to rewrite the paid fors in the jobs bill in order to bring some of the unconvinced members of his p

his jobs plan, wolf, we've seen it kind of step up over time and specifically, really targeting eric cantor today. you see this back and forth going on. cantor's office weighing in because the white house had released these remarks at a preview. a spokesman for the majority leader saying cantor has said the president will pass portions of the jobs bill in the next month. the president needs to understand his mi way or the highway approach isn't going to work in the house or democrat senate especially in light of his record on jobs. it certainly feels like quite a campaign back and forth. >> thanks very much. we're going to check in on what's going on in the east river of manhattan right now. much more coming up on a dramatic rescue operation that is now underway. we're watching what's going on. a helicopter has gone down in the east river. stand by. much more of the breaking news after this. we're also going off to seattle, washington, to update you. amanda knox and her family getting ready to land in the united states. we'll have coverage. let's get chinese. should we order panda blossom,

. >> i did not hear him when the party members or spitting on of congress. ,'s accused eric cantor and republicans of putting windows at the capitol and encouraging the behavior of the tea party. -- nancy pelosi accused eric cantor. >>> at least 24 people died yesterday in cairo, egypt after tax.rch and many christians are angry with as a weaksee from the country's military council. >>> a medical examiner's report to be released economy in what police are calling a murder-suicide. on saturday the bodies of a man and woman were found inside westbard avenue in bethesda. o'toole and artin u, livesacy v silver spring. >> one-party left a note behind. >> not much is known about , but the woman of a d.c. area . couple attended church together last week. it has been here since fromarists went missing our apartment on hartford's street in southeast. yesterday friends outside the apartment building for provincial. mother valencia says she until she finds her daughter. they plan to hold a monthly bring attention to our daughter's disappearance. metro stations remain closed for a major track or.

for better and for worse eric cantor was supposed to give a speech to the income inequality and he thought that it was going to be a control audience you panel wanted and say no anybody is welcome and the occupy wall street folks showed up or said that they were going to all of a sudden out of time eric cantor turns and runs so isn't this what a real grassroots movement looks like and i thought republican party really frightened because there's no koch brothers behind it we have just one minute are you kidding i mean these are hundred kind of like a lease here not by d.c. kind of disoriented people in the streets don't really know what oriented yet they don't even even sure what they're supporting i. i've been down and i'm not but i pretty clear this is not a grassroots movement be able probably definite hating on different areas if you read the new york post the residents of new york are complaining about that rupert murdoch's publication probably dog somebody that was there it's it was it was they were putting on a con council meeting where people were complaining about it in their local

i guess to eric cantor 300 empty seats feels like this. the poor have been working out. next story. >> so today i can report that as promised, the rest of our troops in iraq will come home by the end of the year. after nearly nine years, america's war in iraq will be over. >> jon: it's over. find me... ( cheers and applause ) wooo! yes. it's over. it's finally over. oh, man. let me tell you this. woo-hooo. >> they either failed to do it by virtue of ineptitude or they decided that it wasn't that important politically or otherwise. >> this was a failure by the obama administration to close the deal. >> i think it's a serious mistake. >> the president has been a failure when it comes to foreign policy. >> jon: bringing soldiers home. then they're going to come and take our jobs. yeah, what is obama doing pulling our troops out of iraq by the end of the year 2011. who's stupid idea was that? >> we're here at the request of the iraqi government, the elected government. there are certain benchmarks that will be met such as troops out of the cities by june of '09. then there's

it isn't working, and it's republicans' fault, not my fault. >> and of course, it is eric cantor that many on the inside say really blew up the budget talks. it was he who held the speaker, john boehner's feet to the fire. cantor has hit back at president obama on twitter, tweeting out, "while the president seems to be in full campaign mode, we in the house are going to try and find areas of commonality to work for the people." of course, "commonality" is a subjective phrase. one person's commonality is another person's obstructionism, as far as the white house is concerned. and rick perry really produced some big numbers, the third quarter fund-raising, $17 million. that shows that even though he can't seem to get through the debates and has become sort of a target of comedians on "snl" and elsewhere, "the daily show," he has produced dollars that are deadly serious. >> yes. andrea, what i think this gets rick perry is a second look. $17 million, we expect, and i think we strongly suspect, that this is going to be the most that anyone raises. mitt romney, a lot of numbers out there,

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also, right on cue, good-old eric cantor has said that president obama's american jobs bill is dead on arrival. well, that's an original idea from him. what else is new? the president's on the road, of course, out there doing what we at "hardball" have been saying he should be doing and is doing, pushing a jobs bill and urging america to build, baby, build. and here's a way to destroy a successful career. pretty reliable one, too, by the way. refer to the president of the united states as hitler. that's what hank williams jr. did. he's the guy who sings "are you ready for some football?" every monday night. well, just another example of the relentless out of right field accusations we here call obama derangement syndrome. let me finish tonight with what's now left for the republicans after chris christie has said, thanks but no thanks. we start with christie's announcement today by himself. howard fineman is "the huffington post" editorial director, and john heilemann is "new york" magazine's national political columnist. thank you, gentleman. no means no. he's out. he took a veiled sw

today john boehner and eric cantor shot down any hope, any hope whatsoever, of the house voting on the american jobs plan. >> the problem is the policies promoted by this administration that are sending a signal that we are not open for business in america. >> i think we made it clear when the president presented his plan that we were going to go through his plan, try to find those areas where we could find common ground. nobody gets everything they want. i don't get everything i want and i think the president understands the legislative process. >> the tan man and cantor spent the last nine months yelling where are the jobs now all they do is whine about the president's plan. today president obama hammered the republicans and named names during a speech in mesquite, texas. he went in to rick perry's backyard and nailed eric cantor for picking his jobs bill apart. >> the republican majority leader in congress, eric cantor, said that right now he won't even let this jobs bill have a vote in the house of representatives. i mean what's the problem? do they not have the time? they just had

he wants to bring up eric cantor and john boeoehner.>> you are our glamour girl. while he is in glamorous florida, you will be in glamorous scranton. you have already been talking to you in leaders. what are you hearing from them? >> just like every other american, they are worried about the economy. i inherited a lot of dissatisfaction with the jobs plan, the idea -- i am hearing a lot of dissatisfaction with the jobs plan, the idea that he has not done enough. they realize republicans are not working with the president, but they say he could be more forceful. scranton were big hillary clinton supporters. there was never a lot of enthusiasm for the president in scranton. looking at them now, a lot of them are saying they wished him of the clinton would run this time around, which is not going to happen. >> peter, we got our monthly jobs report, and i have to give you credit. forecasters had expected adding 65,000 jobs. you predicted 80,000. it came in at 103,000. what is your take? >> it is better than last month, but it is more like a

>> i wouldike eric cantor to come down here to dallas and say what exactly is in this jobs bill that he does not bieve in. >> president bush's is jobs plan and takes aim at his opponents by nam-- the president pushes his jobs plan. >> people are angry. >> anger over the economy sparked demonstrations as we observe another anniversary in the afghanistan war. >> i don't see this war bng one or loss in the next severaler year i thk it will continue. >> welcome to "inside washington." i'm mark shields. gordon peterson has the week off. this week new jerersey gov. chris christie went from an objbject to tense republican n desire to e big one that got away. >> the people sen me to trenton to get a job done and i am just not prepared to walk away. i know not everyone agrees with my decision. but my loyalty to this state is what i is. >> chris do not -chris christiead company, sarah palin. how does this do well's for wall change things fofor the 22 race? charles krauthammer i do not think there was any chancef chris christie coming in. he came out o of the only conclusion he could have. had

and when eric cantor does that, he shows his true stripes. >> thank you so much. i'm with you, by the way. i think you're a great senator. thank you, senator sherrod brown, ohio. >> thank you, chris. i appreciate that. >>> michael mulgrew join us right now from the protest site in downtown. mr. malgrew, i like where you are and i like the fact you're on the show tonight. let's talk about the left, the positive left, who want to make this a better country. i'm not talking anarchy, i'm talking people that really want good reform, structural change, in the right kind of way. more equality in this country. what can get done if labor can get in bed with the people on the streets there? >> well, people here at occupy wall street are clear, this is not a political movement, this is a social movement. and myself and some of my colleagues, we're here to say, just do what you're doing and keep it moving. because this is a discussion that we believe this country needs to have. and as you walk through this park, you hear all of their different ideas, but the main thing, the m

what if there's a nonchristian like eric cantor, the republican leader in the house of representativesewish. could he support a jewish republican conservative like eric cantor if he were running against an evangelical christian. >> wolf has another question for you. that is because a lot of people have talked about eric cantor as a potential presidential or vice presidential nominee, would you hold his faith against him, the fact he is a jew? would you be okay with seeing a jewish person in the white house? >> no, i don't think it ought to be held against him. given the preference of having a christian versus a nonchristian, it was john jay said we should prefer and select christians as our leaders. we need to remember this. in 2008, 30 million evangelical christians sat at home and didn't vote. barack obama won by ten million votes. whether you like it or not, mitt romney will not energize evangelical christians. the fact is -- >> not everybody b agrees. tony perkins says that's not the case. >> i understand that, but people don't always tell the truth to pollsters. what they say to a