and spend full time campaigning. >> al sharpton, i know that you were sad this morning because john boehner's sad. he's shocked and stunned and deeply saddened that this president has given up on governing. you can probably talk about that tonight, maybe even have john boehner on your show. he's sad. are those crocodile tears? >> well, it's always tears from john boehner, whether they're crocodile or not, you'll have to watch at 6:00. but i think that clearly we are at a very serious point here. people need jobs. job numbers are coming out again. we are in the threshold of a crisis. and i think the president is right. we need to move now. all of the independent economists are saying we're in danger of a double-dip recession. and i think that we have gone in a cycle now which seems that everyone wants to go right to the campaign. i think the president tried to big bargain, tried to come to the table. you would say he should've done it two years ago, whatever, he tried to. there was nothing there when mcconnell says we want to make this a one-term president. i think now we've got to see if anyo

have the top two speaker banner -- having talked to john boehner at all? >> i have not spoken personally to john boehner. but i have spoken to congressman klein. and congressman mel laird -- miller. we have met with them. we have talked about a path for words and how we move this ahead. quite frankly, i think there is goodwill on all sides to get this bill moved through. hopefully, one good thing about the speaker is that he was on our committee, the education committee for years. he knows this issue very well. >> will the rally the house for the bill? >> my hope is that to he will look at our bill and if we can bring it up and the senate and succeed in the senate, i think that will instruct a lot of house members. >> having talked to senator alexander about getting his leadership to cooperate? one of the reasons why you stopped being in leadership was because he wanted to work on a bipartisan basis. an education bill was the top of this list. >> senator alexander came up with a very good idea on how we would handle this on the floor. i do not know if i am

. >> well, today the homework was due, john boehner. listen up. an economist that advises the federal reserve said republican proposals would have, quote, little immediate affect. and mark zandy, john mccain's former economic adviser says republican proposals, quote, won't mean much for the economy and job market in the next year. mr. boehner, your jobs ideas are getting a failing grade. but boehner's answer is that governments should do even less. >> americans continue to be left asking the question -- where are the jobs? it's high time we trust the american people to liberate our economy from the shackles of this government. >> now, joining me now is ed rendell, former dnc chairman and current nbc news political analyst and e.j. deon, columnist for "the washington post." his latest article argues that american politics reached a pivot point this week. thank you both for joining me tonight. >> good to be with you. >> let me say, e.j. and governor, before i go to you, i want to show us something. at lot of people say why do i keep talking presiden

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 the

what i would do is if i were trying to push inside, i would do exactly what john boehner is doing.ohn boehner has worked closely with mitch mcconnell -- it does take republicans and democrats in the senate to move an agenda. with harry reid, i would find common ground for us to put into place something that is less change and more stability. assurances to the american public and insurers about what they can count on until the election is over. today, people don't know what to count on. people are planning for the worst. small business cannot get loans and the lemming obama jobs bill -- we are expected to lose some 800,000 net jobs. that does not bode well for stability. >> veteran members are facing these intraparty challenges. what are you attributing that to end what is your approach at the committee? are you worried that some of these could add fall victim to a challenge elsewhere? >> what i am very aware of is that last cycle, we have a lot of organizations and people that helped us become the majority party. every single one of these organizations found common ground in lay a

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get a tiny morsel but what they're looking for other republicans as john boehner famously bragged after their last negotiations he said he got ninety eight percent of what he wanted democrats this is a losing strategy the american people don't want compromisers they want someone who sticks to their guns who believes in something and is willing to fight for it for example americans might have hated bush's policies or at least many americans but they like his swagger or at least his convictions are the appearance of the same was true of reagan and f.d.r. and harry truman you may have disagreed with them and a lot of people did vehemently. you always knew where they stood the american people have aggressively embraced the progressives have fought to bring to this nation over the last century from teddy roosevelt square deal to franklin roosevelt's new deal to lyndon johnson's great society seventy eight percent of americans oppose cutting medicare a program created by democrats seventy three percent of americans oppose cutting medicaid another program created by democrats sixty two percent

here's speaker of the house john boehner speaking at the values voters summit. here's who they shared the stage with. >> i believe we need a president that understands just as islam represents the greatest long range threat -- >> woo. woo. when all the republican presidential candidates in the republican congressional leadership do big national televised events like this, why is there this gentleman's understanding, right, with the beltway media that republicans who speak at the things shouldn't be viewed as sharing the event's agenda. they know what they're getting into. why do we make excuses for things like this? in the weeks leading up to the number one and number two republicans in the house speaking at the values voters thing, look at how they behaved. move forward with another effort to remove insurance coverage for abortion anywhere in the country. they tried to do this during the health reform debate and hijack health care reform to ban abortion for women who could not afford it without insurance. since they didn't get what they wanted at that time, rep

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 nal 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 meese keet, 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

john boehner two weeks ago in a speech here in d.c.aid he's looking at doing a six-year highway bill using the current gas tax coupled with revenue from offshore leasing of offshore drilling rights. i don't care what the pay fors are, but ronald reagan passed one, bill clinton passed one, george w. bush passed one. a six-year highway bill that's paid for -- >> i know, the problem is, eisenhower broke the interstate system back in the '50s. he wouldn't be sitting around pussyfooting like you guys, coming up with reasons you can't get it done. you say you're for infrastructure. let's get back to mr. mcdermott. we're using up his time. why don't the republicans, like this republican, like theiate jim oberstar works they bounced out of congress last year, why don't they support what they say? he says he's for building and fixing bridges and all but his leadership isn't pushing this bill. >> you're getting the good cop/bad cop experience here. he's the good cop who says, i want a six-year highway bill, and john boehner's the bad cop and say

." >> he almost did something like simpson-bowles with john boehner, and john boehner backed out. he had his consultants, his constituency, who said it now. -- said no. >> i am not an apologist for the white house, but he cannot do tax reform with one side. when you have somebody like grover norquist, with americans for tax reform, having every candidate signing a pledge that you will not increase revenues -- that is the position right now of the republicans. i don't in any way commend obama's lack of courage on this, but the position of the republicans, and gigi, is simply this, that anything that increases revenues is an acceptable. we are collecting 15% of gross domestic product in revenues and are spending 25%. if you cut it back to 21%, deficits and debt in perpetuity. it has to be done by both sides, and yes, the leadership has been lacking. >> you said it the republicans will not sign on. tom coburn is an extremely conservative republican. he was on that committee. in the bowles commission, you would have had $1.10 trillion stripped out of loopholes, but returned only $1 tr

it's one of the things the president discussed yesterday with house speaker john boehner. the republican speaker was called -- the president called him to congratulate him on three new free trade agreements with colombia, panama and south korea. that, the white house says, will create 250,000 jobs. south korea's president is here in the united states, big dinner at the white house last night. today he and president obama head to michigan to a plant that's making cars that were designed in south korea. it's the type of collaboration that both sides say they expect to create more jobs here in the united states. lynn? >> tracie potts for us in washington. thanks. >>> meanwhile democrats say republicans should be working on job creation instead of holding a hallow debate on abortion. this criticism comes following house approval last night of a bill that would make it illegal for federal funds to go to any health care plan that provides abortion services. the legislation passed mainly along a party line vote and has no chance of being brought before the democrat-led senate. >>

he said that he has not spoken to speaker john boehner. it is fascinating that there is a bipartisan legislation moving. senator harkin said he is not very hopeful on the super committee, but this could move at least to the senate. >> on the house side, are house republicans looking for something bipartisan that they can do? anything? >> they say they are. but what they're actually going to do -- they could feel the pressure from the senate. if the upper chamber clears this bill. >> the tricky thing here is that the house has now a larger group of tea party conservatives. he had a difficult time rallying some of his freshman members. that is, jon klein. we will have to wait and see. >> how do the two bills differ? senator harkin's bill and what house republicans have done. >> what the senate has done is created a very broad, 868-page bill, that tries to tackle everything that was broken in no child left behind. the house has tried a piecemeal strategy. so far they have three bills. only one is bipartisan and that has to do with charter sch

he started the controversy by claiming president obama playing golf with john boehner is like hitlergolfing with israeli presidential benjamin netanyahu. williams' statement, i have made my decision, me, my song, and all of my rowdy friends are out of here. >> and in just two days, the caps will renew their quest for lord stanley cup. you will look at how they're looking before the season opener against caroleen a. >>> first, a high school player in nevada has done something never done in the nfl. carson high place kicker austin pacheco hit a field-goal from 64 yards. believe it or not, the second longest in nevada state history. a 60-yarder in '85. the record in the nfl, 63 yards. ♪ think about it. with everything you do... it's nice to have a vehicle that can keep up with you. it's the chevy season of doing. now qualified buyers can get 0% apr for 60 months plus $1,000 cash allowance on the 2011 traverse, which offers 8-passenger seating and received a 5-star overall vehicle score for safety. get to your chevy dealer today and get that list done. you can choose your channel package

house speaker john boehner wants those deals passed, too. he says they could be finalized later this month. >> susie: strong sales of pickups and s.u.v.s helped american automakers drive home big sales gains in september. g.m. and chrysler both posted double-digit gains, with truck sales outpacing car sales. ford sales were up 9%. but things were much different for japan's biggest automakers. u.s. sales at toyota fell 17%, and honda's were off 8%. both of those big japanese automakers continue to rebuild from the march earthquake and tsunami disasters. meanwhile, the coast of northeastern japan remains decimated. the region accounts for only a fraction of japan's economy and population, but the billions of dollars spent on disaster recovery may lift the area out of a long-running slump. lucy craft reports. >> reporter: in tsunami- flattened cities, towns and villages on japans northern pacific coast, the worst of the debris has been cleared. as the cleanup crews wind down, a debate rages here in the northeast, and hundreds of miles south, in

. >> that was house speaker john boehner. he dismissed the president's remarks saying mr. obama is campaigning for re-election instead of carrying out his job as president. >>> ten years and counting. american forces invaded afghanistan. the start of the longest war in u.s. history. the initial goal was quickly achieved. the defeat of the taliban and the destruction of al qaeda training camps. two years later, everything changed. president george w. bush invaded iraq with many of the u.s. troops shifted from afghanistan to iraq. the taliban made a comeback. today, how much, there is an end in sight. president obama says most american troops will be withdrawn by the end of 2014. the toll of the nation's longest war, more than 1,70 troops killed, more than 14,000 wounded. >>> astronomers say a media shower expected to hit this weekend will be more like a meteor storm and that has nasa very concerned. jacqui jeras will explain why just ahead. >>> first, here is our quote of the day. if you were ever going to spend $39,000 on a bag, that's the bag you should buy. end quote. we

my democratic colleagues continue to fight -- >> so can the president accomplish anything with john boehner when he has the gavel in his hands? >> you know, ed, this is still a democracy. if your viewers and other viewers will say, look, we're not going to vote for you if you don't do the right thing, we talk about 400,000 jobs, but 280,000 of those jobs are teachers. imagine what happens when you have to have 60 students per teacher in a classroom. nobody's going to get educated. and that's the next work. that's our future workforce. we're killing off the seed that -- >> and you think -- >> -- that will strengthen the future -- >> and you think the american people will figure that out in the next year. i think they will, too. but i think they're awfully frustrated and beyond. congressman, great to have you with us, my friend. thank you. i appreciate your time. now let's turn to katrina van den heuvel, editor and publisher of "the nation" magazine. what do you think about this issue? jim moran -- or jim mcdermott telling me earlier today that there are members of the congress that think, yo

john boehner presides over a do-nothing congress.resident obama knows his leverage in this situation is with the american people and he made it clear again today. >> will congress do something? if congress does something i can't run against a do-nothing congress. if congress does nothing, than it is not a matter of me running against them. i think the american people will run them out of town because they are frustrated. and they know we need to do something big. something bold. >> you have to applaud the president for sticking with his message. let congress vote against his bill and explain it to their constituents as to why they oppose it. you see, here's the stickler. the president wants the wealthiest americans to pay just a little bit more to pay for this $447 billion jobs plan. of course the republicans want nothing to do with that. joining me tonight sirius xm talk show host joe madison. good to have you with us tonight. the strategy the president had at his press conference telling the senators, look, if you don't vote for it

everyone from vice president biden at 2 john boehner -- biden to john boehner.thinking of the national security decision making structure that he built, there has been some critique that you and runs held at the time essentially took over a process that was broken. there has been a lot of focus on the question, how do you get the structure right, but then who is president. when you have so many problems and players, can you talk about how ford did it in the decision making, how george w. bush did it. what is your friendly critique of the obama administration's decision making structure, does that matter? >> we spend a lot of time talking about structure. sometimes when we get into trouble -- for example, the reaction to 9/11 when we reorganized the whole intelligence community. i am not sure structure is the problem. there is the tendency to think we can move the boxes around on the chart, shift or transfer authority from one place to another the but i come back to something i mentioned earlier, i am convinced that what makes it work of the individuals and the r

noting that both proposals were supported by the white house john boehner the office released a statement reading assuming they are since doing something jobs there is no reason whatsoever for the white house to oppose it in fact we hope this bipartisan action compels the white house to work with us on further jobs legislation there is common ground to be found between us but getting more done will require a willing partner in the white house so if you're public and just flip the tables on the president or you can he still cannot i'm sorry karl frisch progressive strategist a partner with both white strategies as well as a syndicated columnist and joins me now i. didn't do it was too smart by half here at the republicans figured out a way to beat him at his own game or how they figure out this is nothing new for the republicans this is the republican congress they came into power saying that their only goal. in their new majority was to defeat president obama in two thousand and twelve this plays right into that deck of cards i mean we're basically playing the shell game and the republica

he walked up to john boehner here's a $4 trillion plan. let's go big.ke reagan who okay a deficit reduction deal of 2-1 spending cuts, he had 1-1 in the first one, we've seen every republican on stage at the debate saying they would walkway from a plan that would be 10-1. can you negotiate if one side says absolutely 1,000% the signature part of what you want to do we do not accept as a pre-condition of negotiations. >> not that i want to disagree with you at this time of day because it's very difficult to do that. have enough caffeine i system, as i can tell. >> let me give you another example. on thursday night in the major debt ceiling crisis, okay, there was a tentative agreement between john boehner, representing the republicans, and the president, to take $800 billion out of the tax code for all special privileges and use that to simplify the tax code. that was the preliminary agreement. the next morning the president comes into the meeting and says, i want another $40 0 billion at which point the deal craters. now, you could pick these things apa

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