. >> lisa desjardins, i'm going to question one of the top economic advisers, gene sperling on this new report and other issues coming up later this hour, as well. lisa, thanks very much for that. >>> meanwhile, new poll numbers may mean more bad news for the governor of new jersey, chris christie. we'll have the latest on that front when we come back. ♪

you're moving to california, but what's next in the gene sperling story?> i know my credibility has been slightly weakened by delaying twice, but there's a logic to this which was, first, agreeing to stay past the state of the union and then past the budget. so march 4th is our budget. we'll be doing more rollout march 5th. and, yes, i think that is likely my last day. remember, i have an excellent successor who's just a fantastic guy, person. you couldn't, you know, dream of having a better successor and going through a greater transition than with job -- with somebody like jeff simes. >> how are you going to extricate from wanting to talk about what's in that document? i would imagine it'll be a strong poll to want to talk about it and explain it. >> well, i, obviously, have that opportunity on march 4th and march 5th, and then after that i guess i will be in that very, you know, really high perch of commentator. >> there you go. well, give us a quick preview of the budget. should we expect any surprises in here? is there going to be further deficit redu

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>> i would say the president and the department of labor, gene sperling, i really do think there werehe priorities. charles: do you feel is in a tug-of-war? both sides have different agendas does the business community think it might have changed the president's mind on anything? seven god is the gene sperling made a great poi just prior to the president's arrival in which he said if this is guided purely by politics this is not in the issue would take up because we are talking about long term of appointment which is not a political vendors so i do think there is the of this effort to focus on the issue he also commented that unemployment 6.seven per 7 percent nationally if long-term was back at the same level it would be 5.1% so it was to look very different just to get that segment back into the working population. charles: but when you look at an employee deal look at that? are you literally disappear redeem because they have an average job for them to. charles: months? event we don't discriminate and now we've fashioned but it example that was shared today there could be one dozen

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>> i spoke earlier today with gene sperling, the economic council. after this report was released, listen to what he told me. >> people who are working more than they want to simply for health care, some of them will have the option of working a little less and in terms of what the overall impact on jobs will be, i think you have to look at what the impact on productivity is because people are healthier, working harder, having less sick days. >> he's making the point that if you have health insurance you're going to be healthier because you'll be going to doctors. you're a physician. you understand that. >> it doesn't necessarily equate. now, good behavior, exercise, and diet may prevent illness. going to the doctor doesn't necessarily prevent illness. >> but it can prevent an illness if they can detect a serious illness in an early stage and deal with it, that's going to prolong your life. >> but if you look dollar per dollar and you spend more on health care, there are preventive illnesses but it's not dollar for dollar and often it isn't even corr

details of it yet we have national economic council director james sperling who is -- director gene sperlingho is joining us. us.k you for joining we are told that the president and house speaker boehner discussed trade authority. >> obviously, that can be an issue of legislative strategy. mac focuses on making sure we can get it done, get it done right in a way that is good for workers, good for jobs, supports the president's vision of an promotion that meets our larger goals. but i am not going to speculate on the exact timing. the core thing for us is is it going to begin for jobs? is it going to begin for workers? is it going to begin for exports? leadersthat you have like the new chairman, ron white and the ranking leader of the house sent 11, who for years i've been trying to find a way to have a progressive vision for our exports and our workers and our jobs. trade is tough. it has always been tough. but we have always found ways to make progress. i am not going to try to handicap they exact timing or tried to be the legislative strategist on this one. one issue that was not mentioned

the honorable gene sperling. mr. rick sperling. mr. dewar. [speaking french] ♪ >> the guest of honor has arrived, french president francois hollande greeted by the president and the first lady. this is the seventh state dinner were official visit for the obama administration. we will take you to the south lawn pavilion, a tent that is turned into a springlike display. first, we will take a look inside a state dinner as part of our coverage here on c-span2. we will tell you what it is like to be invited to these expose of affairs and will get the role of first ladies over the years. we will have a conversation with julianna smoot who serve in the obama administration. we want to begin with the perspective of james fallows. as a national correspondent, you have attended three state dinners. what are they like? >> they are interesting and fun. ach dinner, there was sprinkling of journalists, usually people who of some connection to the country are being invited. i've been to the ones for korea. for china recently and then for canada, because i a

the honorable gene sperling. mr. rick sperling. greet french president hollande is her life coverage of the state visit continues. [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and so the guest of honor has arrived. french president francois hollande greeted by the president of first lady from the north entrance of the white house. this is the seventh state dinner or official visit for the obama administration the first of the second term and later we will take you to the south on pavilion. it has turned into a springlike display of french culture and flowers and arts. but first we will take a look inside the state dinner as part of our coverage here on c-span2's. we will tell you what it's like to be invited to one of these exclusives upstairs and get some background on the role of first lady's over the years and we will have a conversation with former white house social secretary giuliana smoot who served in the obama administration. as we continue to look at the scene from the portico entrance of the white

talking first to cnbc this morning is gene sperling the director of the national economic council in at job. gene, it's good to have you back. good morning. >> well, good morning. >> we've been hearing for a long time about these manufacturing hubs about a year ago the president made this pledge to create them. what are they going to do and what will they do for the economy? >> well, what they do is they take important areas of manufacturing technology where we know it's cutting e inting e. we know it's important for the competitiveness, but we also know that no one company has the incentive to do it alone, so what happens is we put out a competition that brings together universities, big companies, small businesses, and they come together in kind of create an ecosystem, a hub, where they work on the advanced manufacturing technologies together. and what's particularly beautiful about it is when you create these kind of hubs rather than creating a situation where people decide they want to leave and outsource, more people want to be part of that network. they want to be part of the su

gene sperling, outgoing director, known as an ids that could jeff zients is not necessary -- known asids guy. -- ideas guy. jeff zients is not necessarily like that. tim geithner says that jeff zients is somebody who does not just talk about stuff, he gets stuff done. >> julianna, any failures on his resume? >> you really have to dig kind of deep, betty. as i mentioned, he did bring major league baseball to washington, d.c. he helped convince the major league baseball that even though off i-95, there was enough room to have the nationals, or what would become the nationals, the montrÉal expos, here in the nation's capital. his investor group made a bid to own the team but lost to that bit but it went to a single family instead of an investor group. i talked to steve case for this story, also, and he said it is probably better that way. he is serving this country and is in this post as nec director instead of owning a major league baseball team. >> what is the role of the nec director? >> the role is somebody who can take disparate views and bring them together and flesh out ideas and

sudden we cannot believe the cbo, the unbiased scorekeeper on capitol hill and jay carney and gene sperlingan want to put different spins on this. it is nothing but more bad news for obamacare. the very fact that 1 million less people are signed up now they may predicted, how much worse can it get? dennis: why is the office coming out with these projections only now? when we knew three years ago that obamacare would apply to any company with more than 50 employees, you urge companies, incidentally you lower some people to 29 hours. why does the cbo, with these projections. >> i do not think that they really realize. i think that they tried to do a good job. they are trying to do the right thing. it is a moving target, unfortunately. in this case, clearly, for somebody to say it is a good thing that people do not have to work because they can get the health insurance without working , they can simply stay home and spend more time with kids and get we the taxpayer to pay for 60: seventy that 80% of the health insurance premium rather than stay on the job, what will that do to the economy that

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. >> today, gene sperling will discuss the obama administration's economic agenda and the plan to raise the minimum wage. you can see this event hosted by politico starting at 8:30 a.m. eastern here on c-span2. >> the beauty of america is that in this country we have the ability to write the script of her own life. we are in a sense in the driving seat of our own future. and our biggest decisions in life are made by. america creates the sense of possibility. and out of that you could become an activist, a king and organizer. in a sense what are you doing? you are living off the great capitalist explosion of wealth that you didn't even create. >> so many strawman setup it's hard to know where to begin. nobody said america is the most terrible place. but there are couple of assertions that you to take on faith that are astonishing up with the idea that america, america's great invention was wealth creation. not based on facts at all. what about the entire continent ?-que?-que x that was a theft. that doesn't mean -- [applause] 90% of the residents who live here were murdered. that was a p

. >> in washington, national economic council director gene sperling said down with ben white to discusshe economy and jobs. here is what he had to say. >> we are at another moment in the economy where we will see it decelerate again? or should we be hopeful? we just had a crummy winter? >> a lot of people are in the same place. they look at the fundamentals. they see a certain amount of momentum. like we that it looks will not have the self-inflicted wound of the threat of a shutdown will be good. i think many people saw good enough news about the longer-term. it affected policies that the fed. three solid,out underlying trends. i think it is most likely that a lot of the -- what we have seen has been weather-related. but we have a responsibility to look. everybody's tried to figure out how much was weather related. i would be cautiously optimistic that the general motion that there are positive trends in the economy, even during this period, we have seen unemployment at 6.6%. the last jobs number was not as , it waswe would like hi 143,000. what is frustrating for us and the president,

. >> when there would be the gene sperling three in the white house. would you serve under the hilary clinton administration? >> you know, right now i am more focused on my flight to la after i leave and what's going to happen in the next few years obviously i would always be loyal and supportive of president clinton and hillary clinton, but that is a long way off. >> just a couple of quick questions before we go you have a patent reform debate where you're going to talk about some of the things the administration could do but this is an issue on the reformed to come up from capitol hill to do anything real in terms of the problem? >> yes. we are trying to do what we can administratively. the president and i will talk about the administrative actions and on things like how we can get more information to the small street -- main street businesses so they are not settling because theselling becg threatened for bonus cases we are going to talk about things like ensuring there is enough transparency of its other contenthe patentcontrols can't e complicated

. >> national economic council director gene sperling says he is cautiously optimistic about the u.s. economy. in an interview yesterday, mr. sperling previewed president obama's 2015 budget priorities and disagreed with the cbo assessment that a minimum wage hike would lead to job losses. politico chief economic reporter ben white interviewed mr. sperling, who leaves his job in early march. this is just under an hour. [applause] >> good morning, sir, thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> first question, is march 5th really your last day at the white house, and tell us about what you're dooring next. i know you're moving to california but what its next in your story? >> i know my credibility has been slightly weakened by delaying twice, but there's a logic to this, which was first agreeing to stay past the state of the union and then pass the budget. so march 4th is our product. we'll be doing the rollout march 5th, and i think that is likely my last day. remember, i have an excellent successor who is just a fantastic, guy, person, you couldn't dream of having a better successo

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the national economic council director gene sperling with the white house defended president obama'sn to raise the minimum wage, this according to "hill" article, also another said on tuesday after the report came out that economists would arrive at different conclusions than the cbo. i want to take our viewers to the "christian science monitor" morning breakfast on wednesday which cbo director doug on the door was talking about -- doug elmendorf was talking about criticism his report his face and he offered his respon se. [video clip] >> i want to be clear that our outlook is completely consistent with the latest thinking in the economics profession. up to report that were released last month, very large numbers of studies, as you know, they reach a range of conclusions, and the studies all have strengths and weaknesses. the long methodological appendix to our reports, we talk about characteristics of studies that made them more or less compelling in our view. but a balanced reading of the sets of research studies in this anea led us to conclude that increase in the minimum wage wou

we all know the big economic adviser gene sperling on "morning joe" this morning, put it up on the screenthis is not an area where they have expertise, it seems once again dissenting voices aren't very popular. but this is america. dissenting voices will continue to voice their dissent, because they've read the operating instructions for the united states of america, and it's their right. back to you. >> one of the great things about our country, rick, thanks a lot. >>> when we come back opentable struggling this year. the stock down more than 5% so far, but will the company's big bet on mobile pay off? the ceo will join us live after the break for that exclusive. we'll be right back. scottrade. i can always call or stop by my local office. they're nearby and ready to help. so when i have questions, i can talk to someone who knows exactly how i trade. because i don't trade like everybody. i trade like me. that's why i'm with scottrade. announcer: ranked highest in investor satisfaction with self-directed services by j.d. power and associates. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent

obama's national economic council director, gene spurling, says the next budget is intended to help economic growth and includes deficit savings proposals. mr. sperling also spoke about the health of the u.s. economy at an event posted by politico on thursday. >> are we at another spring moment in the economy where we'll see it decelerate again this year or should we be hopeful for the years of the year and it's been a crumby winter and it will be better in the spring. >> i think a lot of people are in the same place, which i think they look at the fundments and see a certain amount of momentum. i think the fact that it looks like we won't have the self-inflicted wound of a threat of a default or government shutdown will be good for certainty. i think that obviously i think many people saw good enough news about the longer term that it affected policies at the fed, affected other people's transportation transservings. those weren't on treasure things. those were on solid underlying trends. so it's likely that a lot of what we have seen is more weather-related. but we all have responsibility to look. i think everybody is trying to figure out how much