john engler joined us on the washington journal for about 45 minutes. >> we're back with john engler. the former governor of michigan. served from 1991 to 2003. currently the head of the business roundtable. president obama will be before your group tonight and talking to the nation's top ceos. what do you want to hear from him? >> he will come in and it will be off the record conversation. i think america's business leaders want to hear from the economy to get the economy moving for rapidly. what are some of the plans and decisions. we have some advice. we are ready to release tomorrow morning a taking action for america. a ceo plan for economic growth and job creation. i think like a lot of americans, ceos worry about a country where the unemployment rate has been above 8% the last three years and gdp is at 1.7. we need to pick up pace. we need to compete globally. these are many companies that are out competing and you are seeing faster growth rates around the world. we would like to see what we could do in the united states to keep up pace. >> on the competition front, what will t

. >> we have five minutes left with john engler. president obama speaking to the nation's ceos put together by the business roundtable. that will be closed to the press tonight. jim heinz has this to add to the conversation. is it a better idea to raise economic growth to buffett's taxes or lower his secretary's taxes? >> i would lower his secretary's taxes. first of all, we ought to tell mr. buffett and his secretary what their rates will be for a long time. we should get the tax code settled down and make it permanent. we ought to figure out what's it take to really be competitive? that is the thing. we are in spring training for baseball. everybody gets it. you want better players. people that can hit or pitch. you want them on your team. but we know what the rules of baseball are. now you need people who can play the game better than the other guy. i think tell us the rules of the game. we have people who can play better than the other guys. let's get this thing stabilized. one way to explain what is going on with taxes across t

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host: tom zeller joins us from new york, a senior reporter from the john engler." out with a new series, "breakdown: americans on the edge." what is it all about? guest: thanks. this is not entirely new territory for "the huffington post." we looked at dispatches from folks around the country. this particular series is our attempt to recognize that there is something more systemic happening in the economy. we really wanted to focus with a laser on folks who are either finding themselves in the middle class slipping down below the poverty line and those who have subsisted at or below the poverty line for a long time. so, part of that involves the recognition that we have -- and i do not think that these are controversial statistics -- but we have a growing in come gap. we have a fairly entrenched group of people who are on the very bottom rung of the economic ladder. we also are discovering, i think, that mobility in our culture, mobility in our economy is not quite as fluid as we would have liked to have thought it was. we are a bootstrapped country. we tend to bel

. >>> on "washington journal" tomorrow morning, the president of the business round table, john engler, looks at the president's speech to top ceos and tom zeller looks at america's poor and middle class and andrew weiss will discuss how the election of russian president vladimir putin will affect elections between the u.s. and russia. "washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >>> the conference continues tomorrow, live coverage starting at 8:35 a.m. eastern here on c-span3. >> there's a real anxiety within a substantial part of black america when confronting black americans who are successful in the wider society because there's this anxiety that to be successful, especially if you're in a predominantly white setting, to get the backing of white people, to get the trust of white people, what do you have to do to get that backing? what did you have to do to get that trust? what did you have to do to get that recognition? there's this fear that one of the things you had to do was to betray in some form your communit community. >> the fist sunday of every mon

. >>> on washington journal tomorrow morning, the president of the business round table john engler looks top ceos. "huffington post" reporter tom zeller looks at america's poor and middle class. and andrew weiss will discuss how the election of russian president vladimir putin will affect relations between the u.s. and russia. "washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >>> tomorrow, our live coverage of the american israel public affairs committee's annual conference continues. speakers include presidential candidates rick santorum, mitt romney and newt gingrich. live coverage starting at 8:35 a.m. eastern here on c-span3. >>> watch super tuesday election results tomorrow night on the c-span networks. and while you watch, use our second screen web page with your tablet or laptop computer to see result maps, social media posts from candidates and reporters and a public forum for your tweets and those of other viewers. you can also monitor our "mentioned on c-span" blog, where we'll be posting super tuesday programming information and news stories. use a laptop

coming up at this hour, a business roundtable president, john engler, on president obama is addressed to the nation ceos today. consul

." >> host: we are back with john engler, the former governor of michigan who served from 1991-2003, currently the head of the business roundtable. president obama will be before your kryptonite and talking to some of the nation's top ceos. what do you want to hear from him? >> guest: he will come in and be off the record, conversation. i think america's business leaders want to hear from the president what we can do to get the economy moving more rapidly, what are some of the plans, what are some of the decisions. we've got some advice. we are ready to release tomorrow morning taking action for america, a ceo plan for economic growth and job creation. i think like a lot of america's, ceos worry about a country with unemployment rate, up above 8% for three years. need to pick up the pace. we need to compete globally. so these are many, many companies that are out there competing and seemed much faster growth rates around the rest of the world. we would like to see what we can do in the united states to pick up the pace. >> host: on the competition front, and what with the business ro