. >>> virginia senator jim webb has been grappling with all of these issues.for joining us from the hill. alan simpson says $4 trillion for the supercommittee to come up with if the real problems that we face down the road are going to be dealt with, not immediately but in terms of phasing in these cuts. is that even possible, given the current climate in congress? >> we're obviously going to have some pretty strong debates on where taxes would be and where cuts would come from. i do not believe we should be increasing ordinary earned income taxes on any level. i think there are places for us to be able to get money from changing things like capital gains tax and the loopholes and those sorts of things that have existed in our tax code, but the number one reality that we're facing here is you cannot bring more jobs. you can't do these things without growing our economy, and we can't grow our economy unless we have greater capital investment, and there are a lot of reasons we're not getting the capital right now. one is business people are uneasy about the futu

martha: before i let you go i want to and you among your fellow senators, jim webb and mary landrieu against the bill as well. are democrats in the senate, starting to leave from the president? >> i think they will and they'll leave on particularly energy issues and the regulatory issues. a lot of these senators are in states where jobs are being killed directly by regulations. and, this is something that would be easy to stop, but the president is just so controlled by labor unions and radical environmentists, that he cannot act in good faith on behalf of the american people. so, republicans and democrats are likely to come together on alternative job ideas and it will be to roll back some of the policies of this president. martha: very interesting if they come together and the president is outside of that discussion. senator jim demint, it is always good to get your in sight, sir, thank you so much for coming today. good to see you, the author of the book "great american awakening." bill: 20 minutes past the hour, a republican just won new york's 9th congressional district. why is

jim webb of virginia called the president's plans for how to pay for it terrible.th reaction, fox news contributor, deals with beckel everyday monica crowley. and sandra smith. good to see you. you know what i've been going through. >> i feel your pain. >> sean: i love bob. we played the tape, he said calamity, catastrophe, if we don't pass the stimulus. same rhetoric, different bill, more spending, higher taxes, same old, same old. >> remember when he was trying to get obama care through he used the same language. we are all going to die. the country is going bankrupt unless we pass this bill. this is why it is so jarring for people who are disappointed in this president in his presidency. when he ran in 2008 this guy built his image and campaign on the idea of hope and change. he has governed as a fear monger. he has tried to sell every policy he has rammed through based on fear. >> sean: everybody knows there is no way this bill, in its entirety is going to pass. the it is not going to pass with the republican house. >> we are starting to get results now of the

how about mary landreau and senator jim webb who is not running for reelection told politico last week that the president's ideas for how to pay for his jobs plan were, terrible, we shouldn't increase taxes on ordinary people, there are other ways to get there. mr. webb, i have a great deal of respect for you as a senator from virginia. but we're not talking about ordinary people. we are talking about 450,000 americans who are millionaires that have had the breaks for the last ten years, that have had the breaks for the last 30 years if you look at the income graph as to where the money's going in our society. ordinary people? no. that would be extraordinary. coming up, we'll talk to a democrat from the house and from the senate and see where they stand on the president's plan to put americans back to work. stay with us. [ junior ] i played professional basketball for 12 years. today i own 165 wendy's restaurants. and i get my financing from ge capital. but i also get stuff that goes way beyond banking. we not only lend people money, we help them save it. [ junior ] ge engineers found

means of moving forward, how important is it that senator bob casey, democratic senator ostensibly, jim webb, mary landrieu, other democrats are complaining about the jobs act in public to the press by name including complaining about the president's perceived motives on the jobs act? >> i thought those -- i thought those quotes were really shocking that were in the "new york times." and i think they were shocking for a few reasons. one, tom carper in delaware had this quote where he basically parroted a completely ahistorical, empirically ignorant and economically ignorant theory of the case in which we have to have long-range deficit reduction in order -- that's what a real jobs bill looks like. i mean, that is what extreme right-wing senators say. here is a democrat from a safe state of delaware saying that kind of thing. it is craziness. and the only reason i think he's saying it is because they believe it. they all believe, they have all bought this big lie of the fact that long-term deficit reduction is actually what is going to get the economy going in the short term. and there is ess

senator jim webb said in reaction to the -- of course he's not running for re-election, but senator webb said we shouldn't increase taxes, there are other ways to get there. so disagreeing with that. and senator mary landrieu said that offset is not going to fly, she know that maybe it's just for his election, which i hope isn't the case. so he's got skepticism on both sides. >> and of course he's about to compound his problem when he announces how he wants to do long term deficit reduction by talking about entitlement cuts perhaps in social security and certainly medicare and medicaid. so right now he's not pleasing anybody and rather than building a coalition either on the left or in the center, he's losing people senators from the right, but also liberal members from the left. >> thanks so much. good to see you. >>> and up next, msnbc's rachel maddow live with us here in the studio and the strange but true tale of "don't ask, don't tell." a new peek at the new documentary before the repeal goes in to effect. this is apdree a mitchell reports. . [ venus ] what are they doing to stufy?

we have two corrects, jim webb, a democrat out of virginia said, "we should not increase taxes on ordinary income, there are other ways to get there." a democrat talking that way. martha: and talk about this: look at what mary landrieu is saying from louisiana, she's a democrat as well, of course and comes from the energy producing state of louisiana, where she's none too happy about the plan to help pay for the $447 billion bill by using basically -- relieving tax and oil subsidies from producers in those commodities in her state. and she says that is not the way to go. hers her quote: "that offset is not going to fly and he should know that. maybe it is just for his election, which i hope is not the case. those are pretty song words. bill: two of the lawmakers, too and we have a list of a dozen, a dozen senators on the senate side alone, 11 of whom are democrats and one independent, joe lieberman have different issues with the jobs plan, either it is too conservative or too liberal and they are going through it now and rand paul is a tea party member on the senate side, who was with us l

and he's got a leading democratic senator from virginia, jim webb, saying the president's plan is terriblea surprise to me. >> which is in complete contrast because you heard the president say that there were items in his proposal that both democrats and republicans had backed and now he's got members of his own party who are saying we don't necessarily like this, then republicans, too, saying we've got to craft our own plan. >> well, that's right. kay hagen in north carolina, democratic senator, said yesterday when the president was there that bif vote for it has to be a plan both democrats and republicans to support. that's a difficult thing. the president has to work to generate the enthusiasm. boehner has a smaller task, that is to put a bridge out there to make the republicans look like they have something, an alternative. then presumably their candidates for president will pick up that banner. but for now pressure is on the white house, frankly, today to generate that public enthusiasm that's going to be so important to get congress to act. >> david gergen, thanks so much, from massa

jim webb introduces the co- chairs at this hourlong news conference. [indistinct conversation] >> good morning. i am co-chair with my partner, chris shays, who is -- he and i will handle the initial parts of this briefing. each commissioner will also participate. first, i would like to introduce senator webb from the state of virginia. he is one of the two conferences, why we are today -- two cosponsors, why we are here today. we are grateful for senator webb's support, we are grateful that senator what is your day to provide his comments. i look forward to his comments, as you do. senator webb? >> it is a pleasure to be able to come here today and to thank all the members of this commission for the work that they have done on on this issue. this is the way that congressional commissions should work, bipartisan, high energy, comprised of a highly qualified people who are brought in for a specific period of time. this is a sunsetted commission, which is why you are having the out-briefing today, and will continue to maintain a very high-profile careers

senator jim webb who, by the way, is retiring, a democrat says we should not increase taxes on ordinary income and you have senator ben nelson says tax increases have to -- have to take a back seat to cutting spending. senator mary landrew and another said this proposal he brought forward would be counterproductive. >> forgot chuck schumer. >> chuck schumer of all people says millionaire, $250,000 in new york is a lot different than $250,000 in mississippi. you're a lot richer there than you are here. >> if you make over $100,000 a year, your group pays 75% of the income tax. these are the numbers. the millionaires, they want to tax millionaires at a higher rate. right now, anyone making over a million dollars pays a 28 1/2% rate. if you bring that up to the highest rate, 35%, 7% or so, you only generate $41 billion a year. $41 billion. we have a trillion and a half dollar deficit a year. it's a drop in the bucket. >> but see, it's a great populist proposal. that's what this whole thing comes down to but was there some, you know, fibbing going on in this whole buffet rule. i was screami

wartime contracting was created by legislation sponsored by senator claire mccaskill and senator jim webb to investigate our reconstruction efforts in iraq and afghanistan. last month the commission issued its final, and i would say to me, very disturbing report. because it says that at least 31 billion and maybe as much as $60 billion have been squandered in waste, fraud and abuse in iraq and afghanistan over the past ten years. and those are, obviously, 31 to 60 billion taxpayer dollars. i supported the wars in iraq and afghanistan, i still do. i support the aggressive rebuilding efforts in both these nations, and i still do. but, but -- and, of course, i believe that the ultimate waste of money and of the service and sacrifice made by our men and women in uniform would be to walk away and let iraq and afghanistan fall back into the hands of dictators and/or islamic fanatics. but that's not only no excuse, but even more reason why i'm so upset by the findings of the commission which are, basically, how sloppy and irresponsible so much of the spending was. some of the examples that parti

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wartime contracting was created by legislation sponsored by senator claire mccaskill and senator jim webb to investigate our reconstruction efforts in iraq and afghanistan. last month the commission issued its final, and i would say to me, very disturbing report. because it says that at least 31 billion and maybe as much as $60 billion have been squandered in waste, fraud and abuse in iraq and afghanistan over the past ten years. and those are, obviously, 31 to 60 billion taxpayer dollars. i supported the wars in iraq and afghanistan, i still do. i support the aggressive rebuilding efforts in both these nations, and i still do. but, but -- and, of course, i believe that the ultimate waste of money and of the service and sacrifice made by our men and women in uniform would be to walk away and let iraq and afghanistan fall back into the hands of dictators and/or islamic fanatics. but that's not only no excuse, but even more reason why i'm so upset by the findings of the commission which are, basically, how sloppy and irresponsible so much of the spending was. some of the examples that parti